The Wake Up

Paris remembers WILD Radio, a Boston institution for many years on the AM airwaves, and their inseparable bond with the band New Edition.  She speaks with former station director Elroy Smith.  Plus Jeremy checks in with Sarah G. Vincent, a film critic and writer for Boston Movie News, Awards Watch, and In Between Drafts, for a deeper dive on this summer's popcorn flicks.

Paris Alston continues our Wake Up Well series and is joined by mental health advocate and founder of Purespark Niesha Deed and our digital producer Gal Tziperman Lotan to let our listeners weigh in on how they start their day the right way.  Plus GBH's Craig Lemoult gets you ready for the Paris Olympics with a look at the US's best hope for a medal in the event of Sabre. 

Calefaction. Filipendulous. Contrafactum. Do you know the meanings and origins of GBH's Edgar B. Herwick III's trivia vocabulary words? Play along to find out.

Senator Elizabeth Warren has endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris' presidential bid, and she joined Paris to tell her why. She also spoke about a potential campaign finance challenge and whether she'd be interested in being her running mate. (Spoiler alert: No.)

What's next in the 2024 election? Paris and Jeremy speak with GBH's Adam Reilly and UMass Boston politics Prof. Erin O'Brien about how we got here, what's next, and what to expect in the Democratic National Convention.

Local writer Nick Basbanes and a colleague have filed a class-action lawsuit against Chat GPT and Microsoft over using  their published works without permission.  Basbanes believes the chatbot might be taking and using his work to fuel its AI, and has done so without any sort of permission or compensation.

It's summer, which means sharks are getting extra attention. GBH meteorologist Dave Epstein and Megan Winton, research scientist with the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy, talk about how warming waters affect sharks and what humans need to know about them.

In Boston’s wealthier and whiter neighborhoods, people looking to go for dinner and a drink have plenty of options. In neighborhoods where there are more people of color, sit-down restaurants with a liquor license are much harder to come by. There's a bill to change that --- and Nick Korn, a partner and researcher with Offsite, an organization that develops training for the restaurant industry, joins Paris to talk about it.

How hot is it? Pretty hot, GBH Meteorologist Dave Epstein said, but it's the humidity that will ultimately get you. He joins Paris and Jeremy, who is back from parental leave, to discuss.

Increasing extremism and political violence are raising red flags for UMass Lowell security studies Prof. Arie Perliger, an expert on extremism. He joins Jeremy to discuss what the weekend shooting of former President Donald Trump means now.