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We're talking to Boots Riley about his distinctive storytelling and how it centers his hometown. His new movie is "I Love Boosters."
❓Have you seen the movie? What are your thoughts? Have you ever worked in a retail fashion job, or in the fashion industry, what was it like?
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We're talking to science writer @shaylalove.bsky.social about how climate change is affecting microbes and how a warming planet might be making microorganisms mutate in a concerning and even deadly way.
❓What questions do you have about how climate change affects microbes?
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🎙️At 10 AM on @kqedforum.bsky.social Catherine Breed will join me to talk about how she plans in July to start to swim along the coast of California, from the Oregon border to the Mexican one. If she succeeds, swimming about 5 hours a day for 3-4 months, she'll be the first to have done this thing.
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Some say religious life is on the upswing as some younger Americans flock to Christianity. We're talking to religion reporters and a church leader about what is driving this shift, and what its lasting impacts could be.
❓What’s your relationship with religion? Do you practice?
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We're talking to former U.S. Secretary of the Interior and candidate for New Mexico governor @debhaalandnm.bsky.social about her reflections on the eve of America's 250th as a civil servant and why she still defends the Democratic Party.
❓What are your Qs for Deb Haaland?
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We're talking to longtime tech journalist @jsweber.bsky.social about his new book, "City on Edge," which offers a sweeping history of San Francisco's tech industry — its unprecedented successes and its devasting consequences.
❓What do you want to ask Jonathan Weber?
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We're talking to @thr.com's Steven Zeitchik and @wgawest.bsky.social's Peter Murrieta about the use of A.I. in filmmaking and the impacts that's having on audiences, filmmakers and an artform built on human storytelling.
❓Do you work in Hollywood? How is AI affecting your job?
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Cigarettes are cool again...especially with Gen Z. We're talking to @kevinbtruong.bsky.social, @degenpener.bsky.social and @ucsfmedicine.bsky.social's Pamela Ling about how glamorization complicates the public health conversation.
❓Have you seen an uptick in smoking?
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We're talking to Ben Lerner about novels’ long history of documenting human relationships with technology, and his own expanding definition of fiction.
❓What have you observed about how the phone has changed the lives of generations around you — your kids, your parents?
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We're talking to ultra-endurance athlete Catherine Breed about how she's preparing for her latest and most audacious challenge — swimming the entire 900-mile coastline of California, from the top of the to the Mexico border.
❓Have you trained for a physical feat? How did it go?
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We talk to religion reporters and a church leader about what may be driving this shift, and what its lasting impacts could be.
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We’ll talk with Shayla Love about her New Yorker article, “Our Warming Planet Is a Petri Dish for New and Deadly Microbes.”
We talk with Haaland about her reflections on the eve of America's 250th as a civil servant, and why she still defends the Democratic Party. Her new memoir is "A Voice Like Mine."
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We talk to Boots Riley about his distinctive storytelling and how it centers his hometown in his new movie, "I Love Boosters."
We talk about the rapidly growing use of A.I. in filmmaking and the impacts that's having on audiences, industry professionals and an artform built on human storytelling.
www.kqed.org
We explore the return of smoking's coolness, and how the glamorization of cigarettes complicates the public health conversation around nicotine.
