BPR Full Show: Whale Whale Whale, Look What We Have Here

Today on Boston Public Radio:

We kick things off by opening phone lines to talk with callers about the latest trend of people quitting their jobs in a moment of post-vaccine clarity.

Emerald Necklace Conservancy president Karen Mauney-Brodek talks about how the pandemic has changed our relationship with public spaces, and previewed the summer events that The Emerald Necklace Conservancy has to offer.

GBH reporters Saraya Wintersmith and Adam Reilly discuss the state of Boston’s crowded mayoral race.

Boston Globe business columnist Shirley Leung talks about her recently-published “working mother's manifesto,” a call to employers about the once-in-a-generation opportunity the pandemic has provided to course-correct how we work, and to make things more equitable – particularly for working mothers.

The Revs. Irene Monroe and Emmett G. Price III, hosts of the ‘All Rev’d Up’ podcast, weigh in on controversy surrounding the 2021 Boston Pride parade, a reckoning at this year's Southern Baptist Convention, and teenager Darnella Frazier’s Pulitzer citation for her video documenting the killing of George Floyd.

Jamie Gahlon discusses the 10-year anniversary of HowlRound Theatre Commons, an online platform for theater makers. Gahlon is co-founder and president of HowlRound Theatre Commons.

We close Monday's show by getting your theories on the story about a Cape Cod lobster fisherman who claims he was nearly swallowed by a humpback whale.