The Brian Lehrer Show
Summary: Newsmakers meet New Yorkers as host Brian Lehrer and his guests take on the issues dominating conversation in New York and around the world. This daily program from WNYC Studios cuts through the usual talk radio punditry and brings a smart, humane approach to the day's events and what matters most in local and national politics, our own communities and our lives. WNYC Studios is a listener-supported producer of other leading podcasts including Radiolab, On the Media, Snap Judgment, Death, Sex & Money, Nancy, Here’s the Thing with Alec Baldwin and many others. © WNYC Studios
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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio takes calls from listeners and discusses this week in NYC, including student mental health, re-opening small businesses and how to make sure your heating system is sufficient this winter.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio takes calls from listeners and discusses this week in NYC, including whether any state and local assistance is coming from D.C. & how to hold bad cops accountable.
Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them. Face Mask Best Practices (First) | West Farms 10460: A Community Health Profile (Starts at 26:19) | The Ethics of Owl-Watching (Starts at 58:45) If you don't subscribe to the Brian Lehrer Show on iTunes, you can do that here.
Ahead of Valentine's Day weekend, Lisa Bonos, dating and relationships writer for The Washington Post, joins to take calls from listeners on how their relationships have changed nearly one year into the pandemic.
Preet Bharara, former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, host of the CAFE podcast Stay Tuned and Doing Justice, based on his book Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law (Knopf, 2019), offers analysis of the second impeachment trial of former president Donald Trump and a check-in on how Biden's Justice Department is coming together.
New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson talks about the City Council's police reform proposals being formally introduced today.
Indoor dining in New York City is set to return at 25% capacity on February 12th. Caroline Chen, health care reporter for ProPublica, talks about the science of indoor transmission and takes calls from restaurant workers on how they feel about going back. Prepandemic restaurant worker here.Opening indoor dining just before Valentine's Day? Have NY policymakers displayed a more transparent and craven disregard for human life in favor of short-term capitalist gain?This is a joke. Indoor dining is unconscionable. — Mᴀx (@maxtastrophe) February 11, 2021
Elie Honig, CNN legal analyst and host of the CAFE daily impeachment podcast Third Degree, talks about the ongoing Senate impeachment trial of former president Donald Trump, including how new evidence presented by House managers yesterday changes what we know about the Capitol insurrection.
Diana Hernandez, associate professor of sociomedical sciences at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, and Sybil Hodgson, M.D., physician and medical director of the Montefiore Medical Group West Farms Family Practice, discuss the community health profile of the West Farms section of the Bronx and the health toll of the pandemic in the neighborhood. @BrianLehrer we want a city council person who will fight for Black maternal health to end the crisis in NYC where a Black birthing person is 8-12x more likely to die than white counterpart. Orgs to know @AncientSong7 doula services Ashe Birthing Services community fund — getboober (@getboober) February 11, 2021 Ask the guests how car culture contributes to these conditions, and disinvestment in @NYCParks and street tree plantings and park development contributes to high PM2.5 levels and toxic air. #CongestionPricing. No more free parking. NO, poor folks do not own cars. — Peg Bundy (@aGreenQueenNYC) February 11, 2021 Great to hear about the work being done by fellow Xavier Univ. of LA alum, Dr. Sybil Hodgson. Strong work! - Challon Perry, MD — Challon Perry (@speedracerX008) February 11, 2021 @BrianLehrer Thank you to the current color. I am so sick of people slagging off the Bronx and making it seem like we are just a borough of depressed fat asthmatic animals there is more to us than Riverdale that is cultured — Jaybee (@blackzelig) February 11, 2021
The pandemic has drawn more interest to NYC's birds, especially this winter's owls. With (socially-distanced) crowds gathering each evening in Central Park to catch sight of a rarely-seen-there snowy owl, Kaitlyn Parkins, senior conservation biologist at NYC Audubon, offers guidance on how to participate without causing harm to the birds. Plus, making birding more inclusive and a listener shares an owl call.
The medical community is debating on whether to use all COVID-19 vaccine doses on hand or hold back those for second shots. Jonathan Cohn, senior national correspondent at HuffPost and author of the forthcoming book The Ten Year War: Obamacare and the Unfinished Crusade for Universal Coverage (St. Martin's Press, 2021), breaks down each side of the argument.
Stephanie Schriock, outgoing president of EMILY’s List and the author of Run to Win: Lessons in Leadership for Women Changing the World (Dutton, 2021), talks about her new book (with a forward by Vice President Harris) and shares what she's learned about getting women elected to office.
Ari Melber, chief legal correspondent for MSNBC and host of "The Beat with Ari Melber", joins to preview the Senate impeachment trial of former president Donald Trump, and offers legal and political analysis.
Jayne Morgan, M.D., cardiologist and clinical director of the Covid Task Force for Piedmont Healthcare in Atlanta, breaks down the science of vaccines, what side effects some are experiencing after their second doses, and takes listener questions.
