Do you listen to the melody or the lyrics? How often is there a deeper meaning beneath the surface of a song?

Entry Points Radio explores the hidden meaning behind some songs you know and some you thought you knew!

The Week 6 playlists come loaded with hidden histories: Buffalo Springfield's "For What It's Worth" turns out to have nothing to do with Vietnam, Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA" is a protest song dressed in a flag-waving costume, and Eartha Kitt gets her due as the woman whose White House comments about Vietnam made Lady Bird Johnson cry costing her years of success. Richie also dives into a Civil War battlefield detour to Manassas, a Madeline Albright pin-collection tribute via Herbie Hancock's "Maiden Voyage," and a heartfelt callback to the guitar audition song that got him into his high school's Jesus Christ Superstar pit band.

Kate's list is a global tour de force — from Ugandan collaborators Joseph Imanzi and spoken-word artist Sabir Mitch, to Zambian rapper Sampa the Great, Nigerian Afrobeats via Simi's "Duduke," Punjabi legend Satinder Sartaj, and a gorgeous early-music/kora mashup from Constantinople. She also dives into the difficulty processing the youth protests in India, navigating arts funding optics, the honor of a friendship, and wrestling with what it means to matter in a world that keeps telling you fame is the only kind of impact that counts.

All against the backdrop of a chaotic week around the world...and the only explanation is a weasel stuck in the super collider.

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Think of it as a mixtape with a passport...

Produced and Edited by Kate Bass and Richard Steighner

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