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The Flixbus is promising better bus service for an affordable price.

Should young football players be allowed to tackle, when research shows repeated hits cause long-term brain damage?

A new law in California guarantees free meals to public school students.

Inaugural poet Richard Blanco gave Jim and Margery a crash course in poetry.

TV guru Bob Thompson previewed the week in entertainment.

In his latest special report for The Boston Globe, Nestor Ramos looks into how the Cape is changing in the face of climate change.

We opened the lines to hear how you were braving the bomb cyclone winter storm. Plus, Elizabeth Warren, Andrea Cabral, Carlie Sennott, Alex Beam, and Congressman Mike Capuano. (Full Show 1/04)

Donald Trump sent out a tweet last night in which he bragged about the size of his nuclear button compared to Kim Jong Un's. We opened the lines to hear to get your thoughts about Trump tweet and his decision to taunt North Korea. Plus, NECN's Sue O'Connell, National security expert Juliette Kayyem, food writer Corby Kummer, and Law expert Renne Landers. (Full Show 1/3/18)

With a record-setting cold front continuing to freeze out the country, we opened the lines to hear how you have been dealing with the cold. Plus, our political roundtable, medical ethicist Art Caplan, Nancy Koehn and the Carol Rose from the ACLU. (Full Show 1/2/18)

We're on tape today, replaying some of our favorite conversations, which include: - Ron Chernow joins Jim and Margery to talk about his latest biography GRANT. - Harvard Business School's Michael Norton discusses his latest research, which looks at what is more valuable to people, saving money of saving time - author Karl Ove Knaussgard discusses his latest book,Autumn - Patti Smith discusses why she considers herself a writer above all of the other talents she’s known for. It’s the subject of her new memoir Devotion (Why I Write). - Salman Rushdie discusses his new novel, The Golden House—Set against the backdrop of current American culture and politics, it’s a modern epic of loss and reinvention— - Sy Montgomery and Elizabeth Marshall Thomas discuss their new book Tamed and Untamed: Close Encounters of the Animal Kind.

If you can never get a seat at Boston’s wildly popular restaurant Myers and Chang—Myers and Chang can now come to you by way of a great new cookbook, Myers + Chang At Home. Chef Joanne Chang joins Jim and Margery to talk about it. We open up the lines and ask you about the turkeys who have been taking over parts of Massachusetts. Adam Gopnick joins Jim and Margery to regale us with tales of trying to make it New York City, it’s the subject of his new memoir, At the Stranger's Gate: Arrivals in New York. Microsoft exec turned experimental chef Nathan Myhrvold about his latest cookbook—a 50 pound exploration and explanation of bread, Modernist Bread, The Art and Science Jacques Pepin and his granddaughter Shorey join Jim and Margery to talk about their latest collaboration, A Grandfather's Lesson: In the Kitchen With Shorey