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Tensions between Iran and the United States intensified in the days following the killing of the Iranian military leader Qasem Soleimani by the United States.

WGBH Reporter Adam Reilly and Joanna Weiss of Experience Magazine joined Boston Public Radio to talk national and local politics.

Two owners of local sustainable business ventures joined Boston Public Radio for our weekly news quiz.

The CNN analyst offered her take on Thursday’s killing of Qassem Soleimani.

On Friday, Beat the Press host Emily Rooney shared her list of predictions for 2020.

Former governor and presidential candidate Deval Patrick said that slain Iranian Maj. Gen. Qaseem Soleimani deserved “the worst" on Friday.

Today:Live Music Friday with Boston Lyric Opera, ahead of a free pop-up "Street Stage" show in Roxbury this weekend, in partnership with Hibernian Hall.And later in the show, the Globe’s Marcela Garcia discusses private equity’s hold on the pet industry.

What influences you in your daily life? Celebrities, influencers, late night show hosts? We opened the lines to discuss. It was Live Music Friday with the Boston Lyric Opera, ahead of a free pop-up "Street Stage" show in Roxbury this weekend. Bradley Vernatter, CEO and General Director of BLO, Haris Lefteri, creative director of Hibernian Hall, and musicians Angela Yam, Brett Hodgdon and Cornell Coley.GBH's Callie Crossley discussed the Tim Walz & JD Vance debate, and the call to bring back speeding tickets if we really want safer roads.Marcela Garcia, associate editor and columnist for the Boston Globe, discussed the private equity coming for your cats & dogs. NAACP's Michael Curry discussed how DEI pushback is coming to medical care, and the legislature moving on maternal health.Naturalist and author Sy Montgomery discussed how two mules sold at auction are actually endangered Przewalksi's horses (the last remaining truly wild horses on earth). We ended the show by talking about summer jobs and the memories that came from them with listeners.

Today:Andrea Cabral fills in for Margery. We talk with Imari Paris Jeffries of Embrace Boston about the politics of hope, and a need to fundamentally change our political habits – if you want to start eating better, you’ve got to stop buying potato chips.And, we subject you all to the New England jingles that live rent free in our brains. Who even gets those cars for kids? And what about Wachusett?

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