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Each week, guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: the show Bel-Air, the video game Thank Goodness You’re Here, and a podcast episode about sweat.

As Major League Baseball heads into the second half of its season, Pop Culture Happy Hour's Linda Holmes marvels at just how routinely pleasing and comforting it is to watch a game.

Can pets in prison create healing? Uncuffed goes inside a special dog training program at Solano, and shares what it’s like to do time with a four-legged companion.

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Transcripts are available within a week of the episode coming out, at www.kalw.org/podcast/uncuffed

Earlier this year, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced an ambitious goal to transform San Quentin State Prison. His plans for the new San Quentin Rehabilitation Center focus on rehabilitation, job training, and improved relationships between staff and residents. The governor hopes that the changes at San Quentin will spread across California prisons.

We're kicking off the third season of Uncuffed with a story about an unlikely step toward that culture change, involving nets, sweatbands, and paddles.

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Longtime Trump ally Steve Bannon is expected to seek a stay of the judge's order, which could delay his prison surrender date.

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer asks independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont why progressive lawmakers want President Biden to stay on the Democratic presidential ticket.

The WNBA star, who is six feet, nine inches, says she felt like a zoo animal in prison. "The guards would literally come open up the little peep hole, look in, and then I would hear them laughing."

A flexible film bristling with tiny sensors could make surgery safer for patients with a brain tumor or severe epilepsy.

The City of Hayward is switching from at-large-based elections to district-based city council elections.

Senegal's youngest ever president has been sworn-in after a dramatic prison to presidential palace rise to power.

New research says climate change has caused toxic metal pollution to double in some Colorado rivers and mountain streams. It's complicating efforts to clean up abandoned mining sites.

Each week, guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: The novels All Fours and Catalina, and the song "Mikolton (Dat’s My Dawg)."