VB in the Middle

After receiving a "Dad Jokes" pun book from the folks at "The Comedy Studio" in Cambridge, Lightning flipped through it realizing to her surprise that she was very amused by some of these Dad puns. She put together her top 5 from the book and recited them back to us on air by trying not to laugh...she didn't get very far until she started cracking up. Take a listen!

In Central, MA some high schools are considering doing away with gender specific graduation color caps and gowns. They find it non inclusive for those who might not identify with either color in addition to how women are associate with the softer color and students should be able to choose which color they'd like. We discuss if this is even an issue and why some are 1) making it an issue and 2) pushing for change.

Parkland student who was number two in his class had his Harvard acceptance letter rescinded and now he speaks out about it to media outlets. He even clapped back a little saying Harvard itself was founded by slave owners and yet the institution has changed and so has he in the past couple years. We bring in iHeart's Reggie, who used to work for Harvard University and hear his perspective on the matter.

The state of New York has passed a law that allows illegal immigrants in this country, the right to a driver's license. Despite the fact that they broke federal immigration laws, they will still be legally allowed to receive a driver's license the same way anyone else would in the state of New York. Is this a good or bad idea by NY?

Today's Topics: We have guest Sue Brady stop by for the first hour to chat with us about President Trump's exclusive interview with ABC where he stopped the interview because Mick Mulvaney coughed over his answer. Additionally in the same interview, POTUS Trump was asked about UFOs. Today marks the 25th anniversary of the O.J. Bronco Chase & O.J. has officially joined Twitter. We talk to one of the writers of the new Showtime series "City on a Hill", Michele McPhee about her experience working on this series that is set in Boston! A new story emerges about how Parkland student Kyle Kashuv had his acceptance rescinded by Harvard after past racial comments from him emerge. Then we talk to Rick Jenkins and Sasha Purpura about their event for charity at The Comedy Studio in Cambridge where dads held a competition for the best puns! We talk about it all!

Parkland student and survivor, Kyle Kashuv applied to Harvard, was accepted, and now received a letter of them having rescinded his acceptance after learning about racial tweets and messages he said when he was 16 years old. Kashuv did acknowledge those tweets, apologized and said he was a very different person then and the Parkland tragedy put him in a very dark place but he has since changed. Harvard received his letter and acknowledged that but still has rescinded his acceptance. We discuss.

Guests Rick Jenkins, who is a comedian and the owner of "The Comedy Studio" in Cambridge & Sasha Purpura, the Executive Director of "Food For Free", an organization devoted to bringing healthy food to the community that needs it in situations where the food would otherwise go to waste, come in to talk to VB about their charity event that happened on Father's Day that was a Dads' Puns Competition to benefit Food For Free. They shared their best puns, and more about the success of the event! They left smiles in the studio for sure!

Today marks the 25th anniversary of the Bronco chase with O.J. Simpson and the police. We talk to iHeart's Reggie about O.J. and his thoughts on how O.J. was found not guilty by a jury. In addition O.J. has now created a Twitter account...will you follow him?

President Trump was having an interview with ABC in the Oval Office when his Chief of Staff, Mick Mulvaney ended up sneezing in the background. The president stopped the interview and expressed his dissatisfaction over the cough and had ABC do the take over again. We play back the exchange and talk about it with our Guest Sue Brady.

One of the writers of the brand new show "City on a Hill" that is airing on Showtime right now, Michele McPhee, talks to VB about this new series set in Boston and what it's like filming this show to reflect what really happened! She took a break from filming to chat with us live from the set!