Coming up on today's show:
- With the governor's plans for reorganizing the MTA leadership not gaining legislative approval before her departure date at the end of the week, Sarah Feinberg, interim president of New York City Transit, talks about the agency's future and its role in the region's pandemic recovery.
- Moritz Kraemer, Branco Weiss Research Fellow in Oxford's department of zoology, and Krutika Kuppalli, MD, infectious disease and global health specialist and assistant professor of Medicine at the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Medical University of South Carolina, discusses how the current COVID-19 variants are spreading and what might be around the corner.
- After an uncharacteristic vault performance earlier this week, Olympic gymnast Simone Biles withdrew from the team final and today's individual all-around competitions at the Tokyo Olympics to focus on her mental well-being. Candace Buckner, reporter focusing on the intersection of race, gender and diversity issues in the world of sports for The Washington Post, breaks down the intersectional pressures Biles is under in the Games and what this means for Team USA with next week's individual events still ahead. Plus, she helps take listener calls about the unique mental health challenges facing BIPOC athletes.
- Jon Burlingame, music journalist who writes regularly for Variety, music-and-TV theme expert and host of "For Scores" podcast, discusses how Isaac Hayes's 1971 album "Shaft" was shaped by its time and has influenced music, and culture, for generations to come.
Transcripts are posted to the individual segment pages as soon as they are available.
