We take listener calls with Dr. Cassandra Pierre, acting hospital epidemiologist and an infectious diseases physician at Boston Medical Center, and Dr. Helen Boucher, infectious disease physician at Tufts Medical Center and interim dean of the Tufts University School of Medicine.

Plus, are you feeling lucky? Today is the first drawing for Massachusetts VaxMillions lottery, and one vaccinated Massachusetts resident will be walking away with one million dollars.

Acting Boston Mayor Kim Janey joins us as part of our ongoing series, "Monday with the Mayor."

We take listener calls in our Friday Week in Review.

A look at an Olympics happening in the middle of the pandemic.

Plus, we check in with a local correspondent about the Olympic opening ceremonies in Tokyo.

All this summer, we're inviting the major candidates officially running for governor to make their case on the show. Today we hear from State Senator Sonia Chang-Diaz. Later, we check-in with WBUR senior political correspondent Anthony Brooks on the state of the race.

Plus, can talking to strangers really be a good thing?

We take listener calls with Joe Keohane, a Boston-born journalist and author of the new book "The Power Of Strangers: The Benefits Of Connecting In A Suspicious World." He argues that there might just be a cure for many of our social ills: talking to strangers.

The Massachusetts House is debating a bill that would legalize sports betting in the state. We hear more about the proposal from WBUR senior reporter Steve Brown and Victor Matheson, a professor of economics and accounting at Holy Cross.