Boston Public Radio Podcast

This is the “Best of Boston Public Radio,” a new daily podcast from GBH featuring our favorite conversations from our 3 hour radio show, in under 40 minutes. Today: Lobster diver Michael Packard wants to clear some things up. In 2021, when he made a media frenzy for his encounter with a whale, he wasn’t swallowed, despite the headlines ... he was just "mouthed" by the thing. It wasn't his first near-death experience, and we think it may not be the last. Packard is the center of Boston Globe reporter David Abel’s latest film: “In The Whale,” it premieres at the Provincetown Film Festival Friday, June 16. We speak with them both. Then, navigating the business world as an openly queer person comes with backlash in today’s society, even here in liberal Massachusetts. We speak with Grace Moreno, Executive Director of the Massachusetts LGBT Chamber of Commerce, and small business owner Isa Wang, founder of Gamut Pins, a company that makes pins educating people about pronouns and gender identities.