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1.17.25 Faith-filled quarterbacks, 2025 family-friendly movies, and honoring “Mr. Baseball”
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Myrna Brown
Good morning. Today on Culture Friday, expressions of faith among leaders of the nation's top offenses and the would be leader of our nation's defense.
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Nick Eicher
And a defense of the faith on America's top podcast. John Stonestreet is standing by to talk about that and more. And, and you're the leader of, uh, Earth.
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Kristen Flavin
Hear that everyone? It's the leader of Earth.
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Nick Eicher
Uh, new movies for kids, arts and cult Amateur editor Colin Garbarino has a review. Later, losing a baseball icon. We revisit the highlight reel.
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Myrna Brown
It's Friday, January 17th. This is the world and everything in it from listener supported World Radio. I'm Myrna Brown.
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Nick Eicher
And I'm Nick Eicher. Good morning.
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Myrna Brown
It's time for the news. Here's Kristen Flavin.
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Kristen Flavin
Deal or no deal? The Gaza ceasefire agreement announced on Wednesday seemed in danger last night. Then early this morning, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that a deal had been reached to release the hostages held in Gaza. Israel said Hamas had been trying to change the terms yet again, creating a last minute crisis just days before the ceasefire was set to take effect. Israeli government spokesman David Mentzer There remains disagreement.
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David Mentzer
Some things which we thought were agreed have been changed.
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Kristen Flavin
That announced deal would require the release of more than 30 hostages held by Hamas. In turn, Israel would release hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, including militants and many accused of crimes. The US Government, which helped negotiate that deal, is downplaying the hold up. Secretary of State Tony Blinken.
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Tony Blinken
I fully expect that implementation will begin as we said on Sunday. Look, it's not exactly surprising that in.
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Doug Burgum
A process, in a negotiation that has been this challenging and this fraught, you.
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Tony Blinken
May get a loose end. We're tying up that loose end as we speak.
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Kristen Flavin
It's widely hoped that the ceasefire, if implemented, will halt 15 months of bloodshed. Meantime in Jerusalem, dueling demonstrations. Israeli protesters blocked a highway in protest of the announced ceasefire deal, saying it means effectively surrendering to Hamas. But others are angry about the holdup. In finalizing the deal. Many friends and family members of the hostages still held in Gaza held their own rally blocking streets in Tel Aviv. They're demanding that the Israeli government get the deal done and bring the hostages home. On Capitol Hill, good morning and welcome.
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Tony Blinken
To the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
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Kristen Flavin
Thursday was the busiest day so far in Senate hearing rooms as lawmakers question President Elect Trump's cabinet picks. Interior Secretary nominee Doug Burgum told the Energy and Natural Resources Committee that he's all in on Donald Trump's kitchen sink approach to energy. He warned that America could soon have an energy crisis.
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Bob Uecker
Electricity is at the brink. Our grid is at a point where it could go completely unstable. We could be just months away from having skyrocketing prices for Americans.
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Kristen Flavin
Burgum said America needs a wide range of energy sources, including ramping up production of fossil fuels. Democrat lawmakers pushed back, raising concerns about the environment and climate change. But Burgum said he'd work to find a balance between protecting lands and tapping into resources needed to fuel the economy and national security. Meanwhile, members of the Senate Judiciary Committee grilled Attorney General nominee Pam Bondi for a second day. Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and I'm questioning.
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David Mentzer
You right now about whether you will enforce an enemy's list that he announced publicly on television.
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Tony Blinken
Oh, Senator, I'm sorry. There will never be an enemies list within the Department of Justice. Thank you.
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Kristen Flavin
Senators also questioned Trump's pick for EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin. And they held hearings for secretary nominees Scott Turner for Housing and Urban Development, Scott Besant for Treasury, and Kristi Noem for Homeland Security. Even as firefighters continue to battle blazes in the Los Angeles area, authorities are already looking ahead. Louisiana County Public Works Director Mark Pastraya says large areas of now scorched and barren land puts residents at greater risk of flooding.
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Nick Eicher
Flooding I have to give everyone an early warning that we do expect the.
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Bob Uecker
Window to open for rain in the later part of this month.
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Nick Eicher
And so we are already pre deploying the labor forces into the area to make sure that the flood control system is ready as well as our street system is ready again as much as possible.
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Kristen Flavin
Meantime, other officials are planning for the hazardous task of cleaning up and removing debris, some of which may be toxic. The fires have destroyed thousands of homes and other structures and have killed at least 27 people. The International nonprofit Open Doors has released its annual persecution watch list, identifying the most dangerous nations in the world for Christians. World's Christina Grube reports the report reveals.
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Christina Grube
That more than 380 million Christians across the world are facing persecution. That's roughly one out of every seven believers. Using grassroots data and eyewitness reports, the group once again named North Korea as the most perilous country for Christians, followed by Somalia and Yemen. Researchers said sub Saharan Africa is the most violent region for Christians due to Islamic extremist groups growing in power. The report also found that over 7,000 Christian churches and homes were attacked within the last year and nearly 4,500 Christians were killed for their faith. For world I'm Christina Grub.
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Kristen Flavin
And I'm Kristin Flavin. Straight ahead, Apologetics and podcasting on Culture Friday. Plus a preview of some of the kids movies coming out this year. This Is the World and Everything in it.
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Myrna Brown
It's Friday, the 17th of January. Glad to have you along for today's edition of the World and Everything In It. Good morning, I'm Myrna Brown.
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Nick Eicher
And I'm Nick Iker. It's Culture Friday. And joining us now, John Stonestreet, the president of the Colson center and host of the Breakpoint Podcast. John, good morning.
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Tony Blinken
Good morning.
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Nick Eicher
Well, the college football national championship Monday night is going to be featuring two starting quarterbacks who are known for their outspoken Christian faith. Will Howard is quarterback for Ohio State. Sorry about that. The Ohio State University. And Riley Leonard, quarterback for Notre Dame. Will Howard first here, then Riley Leonard.
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Colin Garbarino
First of all, God is good and.
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Tony Blinken
I gotta give all the thanks to my Lord and savior, Jesus Christ. And man, we wouldn't be here without these guys right in front of me, this coach right beside me. I love this place, man. I'm so glad I decided to come here. I'm just blessed, man. This is unbelievable.
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Kristen Flavin
I looked up and said, Jesus, whatever.
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Nick Eicher
Your will is for my life, I trust it 100%. And I know this offense and this team trust in Jesus and his plan for the season. Hey, if you are not an Irish fan or a Buckeyes fan, I think we can just root for some pretty exciting post game interviews, at least. Pretty exciting, isn't it, John?
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Tony Blinken
It is exciting and it's exciting to see these public expressions of faith and not to make this too much about the, you know, the actual game itself, but it's probably good for Notre Dame. They're doing a bit of praying. It looks like they may need it. That's my, that's my hot take for the evening. And next week we'll find out if I was, I was right or wrong. Look, this is a trend that a lot of people have been noticing for a while now and it actually started with coaches. I first really, I think tuned into this maybe seven or eight years ago. I caught the pre game show of college football national championship game. Clemson, Alabama and Davo Sweeney was talking about just their culture at Clemson. And player after player after player started talking about how they thought about each other as a team. And they used the word love a lot. And it wasn't like, oh, I love these guys in the way that athletes usually talk about it. It was that they have intentionally built a culture around the idea that the greatest of these is love. And of course, thrown in here were biblical references. Here and there you're seeing this not just in college football, but in the NFL, the arguably one of the great rookie quarterback seasons that we've seen in our lifetime, by the Redskins quarterback Jaden Daniels, unapologetic about his faith and thanking not only the Lord, but the Lord Jesus Christ. I think it's interesting, too that we're getting more airtime for this. It used to be that networks were seemingly instructed to cut this off as soon as possible. And it seems to have a little bit more airtime and good it should, if you look at what motivates and drives these players. So it is a very important development when you see so many other aspects of culture, particularly academic culture, has been going secular, where we've lost even the Christian part of Christian colleges over the last several decades, at least Christian moral beliefs or Christian convictions. And to see here in the area of sports, it just seems to be an exception to this, this rule. And, you know, the last thing I'll say is, you know, you could say praise God, thanks for the Christians that God has put in these places.
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Nick Eicher
You know, John, speaking of Christians, God has put in key places. I do wonder what you thought of the same sort of conspicuous use of the name of Jesus by the nominee for defense secretary. Pete Hegseth. Quite a story arc there. Drunkenness, divorce, serial infidelity. Now, he says that's all behind him. He's repentant, he's received forgiveness, and he's giving glory to Christ publicly like that. But is it possible that the politics around the nomination kind of muddies the public witness waters here? I mean, it's one thing to say if you love Notre Dame, for example. Well, good on that Ohio State qb. He's a great guy. I just don't see Democrats rallying around Hegseth in any way. What do you say about that?
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Tony Blinken
Well, the politics certainly makes it messy. And I think that there is a level of tone deafness, particularly in the position that he's nominated for, from those on the political left, being so out of touch, you know, with reality and then suddenly playing the morality card on the nominee. There's something, you know, frustrating about that. And we have a challenge, a challenge of what does it mean to be forgiven. I appreciated that he thanked that God had worked in the life of his wife to forgive him. Look, sin is messy. Sin messes up a lot of things. But that's what we think Jesus does. So I want to be hopeful, certainly. And I think that we do have, don't we, right now in a culture so dominated by sexual brokenness in so many levels. The question of what does restoration look like? You know, when can a pastor be returned? When can a leader be returned? When can a public figure be returned? And it's. It's important to note, too, that that's a question that goes back to very first persecutions where the church had to wrestle with, what do you do with those who actually succumb to the pressure to renounce Christ or to at least claim the Roman gods, and then came back later repentant, saying, I shouldn't have done that. This is not exactly the same thing, but forgiveness is such a. And grace is such a scandalous, essential part of the gospel that I guess at some level it makes sense that we would have to wrestle with it to this degree, because sin is that bad and grace is that brilliant.
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Myrna Brown
Well, John, I'm sure you have heard the recent conversation between Joe Rogan and Christian apologist Wesley Huff. Here's a quick clip of Huff responding to Rogan's question about Jesus as a moral example.
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David Mentzer
Because the law is like a mirror. It shows you how dirty you are. But his critique is he's like, you guys are trying to clean yourself with a mirror. That's stupid. It's just gonna. If anything, it's gonna make you more messy, like, get in the shower. The law is not what cleans you. The law is what reveals that you're dirty. And so in that sense, I think, you know, if Jesus is a moral example, it actually misses what I think Jesus actually said about what his purpose was in that you can't do enough to actually live up to the standard that God holds you to. And so if you keep striving, you're actually gonna wear yourself out and be exhausted like atheists. I didn't say you did, Joe.
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Myrna Brown
A lot of them go crazy now. World opinions contributor Bethel McGrew thinks that conversation signals kind of a tactical shift in how apologists make their case. So, John, what do you think? Is this the new age in apologetics?
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Tony Blinken
I always hear it's a new age and apologetics because of this, or a new age of apologetics because of that. And certainly there are certain cultural moments either where certain existential questions rise to the top of the apologetic to do list. I think, for example, that'll be the case as we try to deal with the great suffering that we've seen in California from the wildfires. The problem of evil is always right there. And at times it moves from the second or third question that people have to the first question. That people have, and we have to have that sort of flexibility. There's been plenty of people that have announced the end of apologetics because, you know, people don't think rationally anymore. Logical arguments don't work. And then you look at this and what do you see? Joe Rogan in this pursuit of truth, asking rational questions, seemingly interested in things that are logical and also open. Which this gets into the difference between evidential apologetics and presuppositional apologetics to some degree. But, you know, he's actually open to supernatural explanations for natural phenomenon. And this is something too, that we have seen more and more of, right. When we talk about the fascination with the supernatural, both good and bad. Roger Ayres been writing about this. So kind of the preemptive dismissal of anything supernatural that maybe characterized the new atheist era, that seems to have changed. So I think there's a lot we can learn. But most of all, I think it was just a commitment to being faithful to what is true and to the full scope of what is true from a Christian worldview, which is a view of all of reality and also the specific claims which people might think are irrational or bizarre or weird. You got to be willing to do it all. There's not one right approach, and all the other ones are wrong. And then lastly, let's keep in mind too, that apologetics is about case making for non believers, and it's also about bolstering the faith of believers. It's a strange dynamic right now because if there is a difficult question or challenge to the gospel, it has been thoroughly answered. I don't know very many that haven't. And yet the number of churches that won't touch that stuff because they say it's too hard, no one's interested. What ends up happening is I meet these people like this who say, well, I've been in church my whole life and I've never heard anyone answer the problem of evil. So therefore there's no real compelling answer to the problem of evil. And I just want to tell them, look, this is the golden age of answers right now. And part of this is I think people being really surprised that the answers are really there and the answers are really compelling. I say all that and I still want to say Wesley Huff did a great job in this podcast across the board. He dealt with a real life situation which sparked the invitation. And he answered very specific claims. And he also made a positive case for things like the truthfulness of scripture and the resurrection. Good for him.
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Nick Eicher
John, I like that when you said that golden age of answers. But really, wasn't that extraordinary to sustain that for three straight hours on the Rogan podcast, no commercial breaks? You know, you really. You really have to tip your cap, don't you?
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Tony Blinken
Well, look, and that should tell you that all the hot takes about social media and new communication techniques. Do you remember? I mean, I'm old enough to remember because it was like five years ago when we were all told that no one thinks longer than a tweet anymore. And it wasn't six months after I first heard that that someone introduced me to the. Gosh, what is that? History podcast where the guy sits there and talks for three hours about World War I. And I listened to it and was absolutely captivated. And Joe Rogan has figured out how to be the most popular media platform on the planet by doing this. And I think it's helpful to go back to what do we know about the human condition? God's placed eternity in our hearts. We're made in the image and likeness of God. We have the ability to think. But that ability has also fallen. When we start with those assumptions, then you can actually, I think, carry out a conversation and an argument. You can be truthful and loving at the same time. You know, and we know that not because we've seen that many great examples of it lately, but we know that because that's what actually the Bible tells us to do. So part of this is, where do we get our information about the human condition?
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Myrna Brown
Hey, John, a few minutes back, you mentioned the fires in California. You know, we live in a fallen world, so should we consider there may be moral evil as well as natural evil at work here? I mean, how do we think biblically about the tragedy of the devastation in California?
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Tony Blinken
Well, there's going to be a lot more than I can address here, but one of the things we can realize is that we do live in a fallen world. And a fallen world is a place that is often hostile to those who were tasked by God to care for it. But those who were tasked by God to care for the world are also fallen. And that means they can make bad decisions, even with good intentions. Sometimes they make bad decisions out of bad intentions. And for anybody who wants to put all of this either on the natural world, as if humans are just part of the natural world and a victim of the natural world, and there's nothing we can do about it, or those who want to put it all at the hands of. Of human action, are going to have an insufficient explanation, because both of those things are part of a Christian worldview and should be part of the framework we bring to understand. We also, first and foremost, I think as Christians should bring the framework that this is devastating. And it's devastating because lives have been lost and lives have been upended. And that tells you about the kind of creatures that humans are that should not, for example, be preempted by political disagreement. What we need to do is bring the whole testimony to bear. I will say that Christians do have the most holistic, robust framework for understanding evil in the world, whether that is an act of what might be called natural evil or moral evil where human decisions are involved, or as is in many cases, and probably this one, some mix of both of those things, natural and moral evil. Atheism can't explain why this bothers us so much. New Agey thought can't explain the real evil that exists. The Eastern religions that say it's just an illusion, well, great. Doesn't feel like an illusion to those who are in Pasadena right now. So I think Christians do have the best explanatory mechanisms to bring to bear here. And we also have the responsibility because what we believe to be true to bring that to bear and to be ready to give an answer. And thankfully there are great resources. Apparently one of those is, you know, is Wesley Huff. So look up his YouTube channel and you can probably have some good answers too.
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Nick Eicher
John Stonestreet is president of the Colson Center. He's host of the Breakpoint podcast. And John, thank you so much.
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Tony Blinken
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Doug Burgum
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Nick Eicher
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Tony Blinken
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Nick Eicher
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Myrna Brown
Today is Friday, January 17th. Thank you for turning to World Radio to help start your day. Good morning. I'm Myrna Brown.
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Nick Eicher
And I'm Nick Iker. Coming next on the World and everything in it, a preview of movies for kids and families debuting in 2025. 2024 was supposed to be a really terrible year for the entertainment business with writers and actors strikes. There weren't as many movies in the pipeline as are typical and analysts predicted poor profits for both studios and theater owners. But as it turned out, the fears were overblown and what saved Hollywood's bottom line surprised people.
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Kristen Flavin
Orange.
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Tony Blinken
Who made the console orange?
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Doug Burgum
Do I look orange?
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Nick Eicher
I didn't touch it Orange is not.
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Tony Blinken
My color, not me.
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Colin Garbarino
Hello everybody.
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Myrna Brown
Inside Out 2 kicked things off as the highest grossing film of the year, and four of the other five top films were family oriented, three of those animated. So will the family movie genre be able to continue the hot streak? Arts and Culture editor Colin Garbarino has a preview of some upcoming family films that seem promising.
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Colin Garbarino
A new installment in a berry charming franchise arrives next month when Paddington in Peru debuts on Valentine's day. Paddington and Paddington 2 are both excellent movies, so I'm excited to see what happens when Paddington and the Brown family leave London to visit Paddington's Aunt Lucy in darkest Peru.
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Doug Burgum
Pa Ting tun Paddington Sorry.
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Colin Garbarino
Even though the franchise has a new director, fans in the uk, where the film's already come out, are giving it a thumbs up. In March, moviegoers will get a live action remake of the original Disney princess Snow White, but I'm feeling pretty skeptical about this new adaptation. It's been delayed by a year and it's been the source of controversy from the very beginning. Some fans didn't appreciate Disney's casting of Latina actress Rachel Zegler in the title role. Then Zegler didn't endear herself to fans of the 1937 cartoon when she disparaged it in an interview.
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Nick Eicher
There is a big focus on her.
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Christina Grube
Love story with a guy who literally stalks weird weird. So we didn't do that this time.
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Colin Garbarino
There was even a kerfuffle over how Disney would depict the dwarfs. The studio has opted for animated dwarfs with big heads. To be honest, they're a little grotesque. We'll have to see if this adaptation finds an audience. I think two other live action adaptations of animated classics will have a better shot of drawing crowds. In May, Disney will release Lilo and Stitch, and in June, DreamWorks will release how to Train youn Dragon. Dad, I can't kill Dragons. Lilo and Stitch debuted in 2002 and how to Train youn Dragon in 2010, and interestingly, both of the films were the products of the same creative team, Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois. It's probably a good sign for the remakes that Sanders decided to once again supply the voice work for the Blue Koala. Like alien, Stitch and DeBlois agreed to direct the new version of how to Train youn Dragon. These sequels and remakes that blend live action with computer generated effects will get plenty of attention this year, but there are also a few animated family movies that might be worthwhile. After taking the box office crown in 2024 with its inside out sequel Pixar seems to be back on track. Lately the studio has been alternating fresh ideas with franchise films. So this June we'll get Elio, a movie about an 11 year old boy who gets mistakenly picked up by space aliens who think he's Earth's ambassad to the rest of the universe. Sounds like a fun idea.
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Myrna Brown
I am Questa, Leader of GoM Helix, Leader of Voluminum, and you're the leader of Earth. Hear that everyone?
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Kristen Flavin
It's the leader of Earth.
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Colin Garbarino
Uh oh. I hope Pixar resists the temptation to slip in a political agenda. Studios think fresh ideas are risky, so we're also getting a couple of sequels to some recent kids films. In the fall, Disney will release Zootopia 2. It's hard to believe it's been eight years since the original came out. I thought the movie's worldview was a little muddled, but I still found it enjoyable. In this new adventure, the optimistic bunny cop Judy once again teams up with the rascally fox Nick to solve a crime. And not to be outdone in the animal caper genre, Dreamworks will be offering The Bad Guys 2. The original movie told the story of how a group of villainous animals led by the Big Bad Wolf turned over a new leaf.
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Nick Eicher
Now that we've had some time to.
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Tony Blinken
Get acquainted, not so scary now, are we?
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Nick Eicher
Webz hit it.
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Colin Garbarino
In this new installment, the so called bad Guys get dragged into another caper by a criminal gang known as the Bad Girls. The first movie was probably my favorite animated film of 2022, so I'm looking forward to this one. Of course, I haven't seen any of these films yet, so I'm not recommending any of them. But. But the list looks promising. Maybe Hollywood is finally getting the message that the path to profitability lies in making movies that families can enjoy together. I'm Colin Garbarino. Feeling alright? I'm not feeling too good myself.
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Kristen Flavin
Yeah.
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Colin Garbarino
You feeling all right?
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Myrna Brown
Today is Friday, January 17th. Good morning, this is the world and everything in it. From listener supported world radio. I'm Myrna Brown.
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Nick Eicher
And I'm Nick Eichert. Finally today, Major League Baseball said goodbye this week to a man known as Mr. Baseball. Now that's quite a nickname for a man who by his own admission was a decidedly forgettable baseball player and never even coached or managed in the big leagues.
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Myrna Brown
World's Kent Covington now on the career of an unlikely baseball legend.
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Doug Burgum
By big league standards, Bob Uecker was not much of a hitter. He was no gold glove Catcher either. And he certainly was not quick on the base paths, but he was as quick witted as they come. In 2003, he told a crowd in Cooperstown, New York.
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Bob Uecker
I remember Gene Walk doing things to me at Philadelphia. I'd be sitting there and he'd say, grab a bat and stop this rally. Send me up there without a bat and tell me to try for a walk.
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Doug Burgum
In the baseball world. Hall of Famer Yogi Berra may be the king of memorable quotes, but Bob Uecker definitely at least deserves honorable mention. He once remarked, I led the league and go get em next time. And as he once put it, I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don't even get printed.200 lifetime batting average.
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Bob Uecker
In the major leagues, which tied me with another sports grade averaging.200 or better for a 10 year period. Don Carter, one of our top bowlers.
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Doug Burgum
Whatever he lacked in athletic ability, he made up for it with personality. So it came as a surprise to no one when he traded the dugout for the broadcasting booth. And nearly a decade after he broke into the big leagues with his hometown Milwaukee Braves, the Milwaukee brewers hired Uecker as their play by play man in 1971.
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Bob Uecker
I remember working first with Milo Hamilton and Ernie Johnson, and I was all fired up about that too, until I found out that my portion of the broadcast was being used to jam Radio Free Europe. And I picked up a microphone one day and my mic had no cord on it. So I was talking to nobody.
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Doug Burgum
For any Entertainer in the 1970s or 80s, there was no, no more coveted seat than the armchair directly to the right stage right, that is of Johnny Carson's Tonight show coffee mug. And Bob was a regular in that chair. During one appearance in 1986, he recalled the year that his Cardinals team won the World Series 22 years earlier.
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Bob Uecker
It's not the money thing that is so important to players. It's the, the ring, the championship ring. And the following year, this is a World Series ring here. And the, the following year when they have the award ceremonies at the ballpark, each player receives their ring. And when they threw mine in the grass in left field, it was.
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Nick Eicher
Such.
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Bob Uecker
A, such a thrill. Obviously you found. I found it about the fourth inning.
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Nick Eicher
Yeah.
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Doug Burgum
Euchre went on to, to an acting career in the 80s and 90s, including numerous commercials.
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Bob Uecker
These fans know I drink light because it's less filling and it tastes great. Good seats, huh? You're in the wrong seat, buddy.
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Tony Blinken
Come on.
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Doug Burgum
And he played father and sports writer George Owens on the ABC sitcom Mr. Belvedere. He also appeared on the big screen in several movies, including his role as a sportscaster in the 1989 Comedy Major.
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Bob Uecker
League Vaughn into the Wind Up. In his first offering, Just a Bit Outside, he tried to corner and miss ball four. Ball eight.
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Doug Burgum
But in that 2003 address in Cooperstown, where he was honored with an award for broadcasting excellence, Uecker made clear that even though his career included an unlikely Hollywood twist, when it came to what he truly loved to do, number one.
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Bob Uecker
Has always been baseball. For me, no matter what else I ever do, baseball was the only way I wanted to go.
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Doug Burgum
And that is why they called him Mr. Baseball. Bob Uecker was 90 years old.
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Nick Eicher
All right, time now to say thank you to the team members who helped to put the program together this week. We will recognize them in alphabetical order. Hunter Baker, David Bonson, Myrna Brown, Rachel Cole Boyle, Kristen Flavin, Colin Garbarino, Brad Littlejohn, Carolina Lumeta, Lindsay Mast, Mary Muncie, Onise Adua, Addie Offrens, Emma Purley, Mary Reichardt and Cal Thomas. Thanks also to our breaking news team, that fount of baseball knowledge, Kent Covington along with Lindy Langdon, Lauren Canterbury, Josh Schumacher and Christina Grub. And thanks to the guys who stay up late. And you know why they do? Because it doesn't matter if it's quarter past three in the morning in the east, they get it there. Johnny Franklin, Carl Peetz and Ben Jaiker.
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Myrna Brown
Harrison Waters is Washington producer, Paul Butler executive producer and Les Sillers editor in chief. The world and everything in it comes to you from World Radio. World's mission is biblically objective journalism that is informs, educates and inspires the Bible Records employees. Grumbling to the master of the house about their pay, he replied to one of them, friend, I am doing you no wrong. Did you not agree with me for a denarius, take what belongs to you and go. I choose to give to this last worker as I give to you. Verses 13 and 14 of Matthew, chapter 20. Be sure to worship with your brothers and sisters in Christ in church on the Lord's day. And Lord willing, we'll meet you right back here on Monday. Go now in grace and peace.
- [35:27]
Tony Blinken
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