The Wake Up

On Wednesday, Martha’s Vineyard officials were caught off guard when a plane of 50 migrants, almost all of them from Venezuela, arrived on the island from Florida. The people on the plane said they were told they’d been told they were going to Boston, where they could find work. But those were false promises. Paris and Jeremy talk about what’s next.

What does a black hole sound like? Like a surprisingly loud void, like a thousand demons screaming in your ear, like something exciting – unlike Plymouth Rock, our fine state’s most underwhelming tourist attraction and school field trip destination.

Paris and Jeremy recap President Biden’s visit to Boston and his speech about a cancer moonshot. Paris shares her experience donating her stem cells to her father, a leukemia survivor. And we try out the iPhone’s new iMessage functions, like editing and un-sending texts — do they work?

President Joe Biden is in Boston today, talking about his administration’s efforts to reduce cancer death rates by half in the next 25 years. And it’s always infrastructure week here – Paris and Jeremy talk about how the Orange Line shutdown is affecting traffic, and what traffic does to our health. Plus, which Emmy nominees have a Massachusetts connection?

As we mourn the passing of Queen Elizabeth II, Paris and Jeremy take a look back at her historic visit to Boston in 1976 and the amazingly long line of pets she owned.  There’ll be a full moon tonight and we’ve got a few tips for taking a great photo.  And big happenings out in Springfield if you’re a basketball fan.

Day one for students in the Boston Public School system has the memories flooding back for Paris and Jeremy in this morning’s Wake-Up.  And a popular children’s show is eyeing a reboot, but we admit we didn’t understand much about it the first time it aired.

Sure the Wake-Up is chock-full of Massachusetts primary election results and reactions from last night and this morning, including what seemed like a bank heist down in Barnstable… but the real news we’re excited about involves a pair of sea turtles being saved by the fine folks at the New England Aquarium.

Paris and Jeremy break down primary election day, and despite the rainy weather, Paris is live on the scene throughout Boston checking in on the polls.  Plus what would it take to get you to spend the night in a (very famous) haunted house?

Wrapping up the week with the end of Allston Christmas and the continuing saga of Storrow Drive, where the annual tradition of destroying rental trucks on our roadways continued yesterday.  And as the morning weather starts to change, which ‘cold’ word would you use to describe it?

The Federal Transit Administration’s report about safety issues at the MBTA is out today. Paris and Jeremy also talk to listeners about their best-ever Allston Christmas finds, and get advice they have for people looking for discarded treasures on the street. The No. 1 Allston Christmas tip? Don’t take your moving truck to Storrow Drive.