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Guest DJ Walt Remondini with WUKY's Joe Conkwright.PLAYLIST – August 5, 2023Willie Nile – “Expect Change” – 2021Heather Nova – “Virus of the Mind” – 2001Bruce Springsteen – “Ghosts” – 2020The Heavy Heavy – “Miles and Miles” – 2022Chuck Prophet – “Post-War Cinematic Dead Man Blues” – 2017The Rolling Stones – “Loving Cup” – 1972Liz Phair – “6’1”” – 1993Grace Potter & The Nocturnals – “Only Love” – 2010Alejandro Escovedo – “Pyramid of Tears” – 1992Will Hoge – “Better Off (Now that You’re Gone)” – Wire 2003Marshall Crenshaw – “Someplace Where Love Can’t Find Me” – 1989Lucinda Williams – “Honey Bee” – 2008First Aid Kit – “Turning Onto You” – 2022Barbaro – “Barbaro” – 2020

Joan Steidl, who recently retired, shares her reinvention takeaways. She has a podcast about confronting the generational divide, takes comedy workshops and went back to college to study journalism.

A new report from Uber, covering 2017 and 2018, says the claims range from unwanted touching and kissing to rape. Also, 19 people were killed in physical assaults during or soon after an Uber ride.

NPR's Shannon Bond talks with Malian guitarist Vieux Farka Toure, known as "the Hendrix of the Sahara," about his new album.

The last two names of the six U.S. soldiers killed in a Kuwait attack have been released by the Pentagon, and they are from California and Iowa. They died Sunday when a drone hit a command center in Port Shuaiba, Kuwait.

The British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is fighting to save his job. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to political commentator Rafael Behr about whether the U.K. is becoming ungovernable.

A National Retail Federation survey says 20 percent of parents plan to buy toys from the film Frozen for their daughters. As for boys, Legos are the most popular toy this holiday season.

Morgan McGarvey has won election to a key congressional district in and around Kentucky’s largest city, keeping the Louisville-area 3rd District as the lone Democrat-held House seat in the Bluegrass State.

Simone Popperl is an editor for NPR's Morning Edition and Up First. She joined the network in March 2019, and since then has pitched and edited stories on everything from the legacy of burn pits in Iraq, to never-ending "infrastructure week," to California towns grappling with climate change, to American alpine skier Mikaela Shiffrin's ascendance to the top of her sport. She led Noel King's reporting on the early days of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, Steve Inskeep's reporting from swing states in the lead up to the 2020 Presidential Election, and Leila Fadel's field reporting from Kentucky on the end of Roe v. Wade.