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1.24.25 Culture Friday on gender and masculinity, 2025 blockbuster movies, and Listener Feedback
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Mary Reichert
Good morning, male and female, the ERA executive orders on gender and what it means to speak to power with respect.
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Myrna Brown
That's all ahead on Culture Friday with Katie McCoy. Also, we preview a few likely blockbuster films of 2025.
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Katie McCoy
I have to admit, I'm still getting.
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Myrna Brown
Used to the new look and your listener feedb.
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Mary Reichert
It's Friday, January 24th. This is the world and everything in it from listener supported World Radio. I'm Mary Reichert.
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Myrna Brown
And I'm Myrna Brown. Good morning.
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Mary Reichert
Time now for the news with Kent Covington.
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Kent Covington
President Trump welcomed reporters into the Oval Office again on Thursday with another stack of executive orders piled on the Resolute desk. One of those orders will declassify federal records related to a trio of major assassinations in the 1960s.
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Katie McCoy
That's a big one, huh? A lot of people are waiting for this for a long, for years, for decades.
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Kent Covington
That order pertains to the killings of President John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. And everything will be revealed. Most of the records related to President Kennedy's assassination were previously declassified. And pro life groups are celebrating another order the president signed on Thursday.
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Katie McCoy
Next we have a set of pardons.
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Seth Trout
For peaceful pro life protesters who were prosecuted by the Biden administration for exercising.
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Katie McCoy
Their First Amendment rights. They should not have been prosecuted. This is a great honor to sign this.
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Kent Covington
The president's order pardons 23 pro life demonstrators who are prosecuted under the federal FACE Act. That is a Clinton era law that makes it a federal crime to obstruct the entrances or operations of an abortion facility. That news comes ahead of today's annual March for Life rally in the nation's capital. President Trump is expected to address the crowd in a video message. Meanwhile at the Capitol.
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Katie McCoy
On this vote, the yeas are 217 and the nays are 204, with one answering present. The bill is passed.
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Kent Covington
The House passed the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act. As the name indicates, the bill mandates that any infant who survives an attempted abortion must receive immediate medical attention. But the bill will almost certainly perish in the Senate, where Republicans lack the 60 votes needed to break a filibuster. Democrats already struck down a similar companion bill earlier this week. Meanwhile, in the Senate chamber, senators voted on President Trump's nominee to lead the CIA, John Ratcliffe.
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Katie McCoy
The yeas are 74. The nays are 25. The nomination is confirmed.
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Kent Covington
Ratcliffe served as Director of National Intelligence during Trump's first term. He's also a former member of Congress. The Senate also advanced the nomination of Defense Secretary designate Pete Hegseth. That vote was largely down party lines with two Republicans opposed. A final confirmation vote for Hegseth is expected today. President Trump, after signing those executive orders Thursday, reacted to news that a federal judge had temporarily blocked an order that he signed earlier in the week. The order in question seeks to reinterpret birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment.
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Katie McCoy
Obviously, we'll appeal it. They put it before a certain judge in Seattle, I guess. Right. And there's no surprises with that judge.
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Kent Covington
Under the president's order, a child born to a mother in the country illegally would not necessarily be considered a US citizen. More than 20 states sued over that order. Washington State Attorney General Nick Brown.
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Katie McCoy
I think what the order today reinforces.
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Seth Trout
Is that no one individual, not only.
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Mark Ruda
Not even the president of the United States, can simply erase what it means to amend the Constitution and the process therein.
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Kent Covington
U.S. district Judge John Kunauer issued the ruling. The case is one of five pending lawsuits over that executive order. President Trump says he is pressing the leaders of OPEC to lower the global cost of oil. That is to help put pressure on Moscow to end the war in Ukraine as Russia's economy depends heavily on oil revenue. And Trump added, I really would like.
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Katie McCoy
To be able to meet with President Putin soon and get that war ended.
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Kent Covington
But NATO Secretary General Mark Ruda says the west must be careful not to be overly anxious to end it.
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Katie McCoy
If we get a bad deal, it.
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Gavin Newsom
Would only mean that we will see.
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Myrna Brown
The president of Russia high fiving with.
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Kent Covington
The leaders of North Korea, Iran and.
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Katie McCoy
China and we cannot accept it.
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Kent Covington
Ruda said the cost of ending the war on Russia's terms would be even greater than the present wages of the war itself. As firefighters continue to battle wildfires raging across California, Governor Gavin Newsom says more money is headed their way with that.
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Katie McCoy
I'm honored. Thank you. To sign these two bills appropriating two and a half billion dollars, effective immediately, to the communities impacted by these wildfires.
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Kent Covington
Newsom signed the bill allocating state money for disaster aid on Thursday. The funds come as wildfires have already killed at least 28 people and burned more than 40,000 acres in southern California. I'm Kent Covington. And Straightight ahead, Katie McCoy is back for Culture Friday. Plus, your listener feedback for the month of January. This is the WORLD and everything in It.
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Mary Reichert
It is Friday, the 24th of January. So glad to have you along for today's edition of THE WORLD and Everything in It. Good morning. I'm Mary Reichardt.
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Myrna Brown
And I'm Myrna Brown. It's Culture Friday. And joining us now is speaker and author Katie McCoy. Good morning, Katie.
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Gavin Newsom
Good morning, Mary and Myrna. When is the last time it was just us girls? This is fun.
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Mary Reichert
It's been a while. It's been a while. And I'm so glad that it's just us girls, because I want to ask you about Andrew Tate. He's got a huge following among young men. He promotes riches and misogyny and sexual immorality. Now, of course, this is a problem. And writing for World Opinions, Pastor Seth Trout argues that Tate's appeal is rooted in the universal allure of sin. Young men are drawn to the false promises of power and rebellion that Tate represents. He is a digital echo, if you will, of people like Hugh Hefner. Trout says Christians have to offer a better vision of masculinity that's rooted in the gospel of self conquest, self control, and Christlike service. So my question for you, Katie, is how can the church combat distorted visions of masculinity like Tate's?
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Gavin Newsom
Andrew Tate, what an evolution. Because he started out as being kind of this counterformational influence on the feminization of men that we saw throughout society so pervasively, and he was really a backlash to that. If I could summarize it, I think what we see is on both of those extremes, you have men trying to pattern and define themselves according to their relationship to power rather than the relationship to their Creator and who God designed them to be. There was a wonderful quote by Pastor John Tyson up in New York City. I'm going to paraphrase it, but he said that male strength as God designed it, is a gift to the world. And it is this Christian vision that our strength, our abilities, they are always to be in service to someone else rather than self gratifying for our own pleasure, for our own power. And what a stark contrast that is to the perspective of masculinity. That is the biblical vision of it, the self restraint for the sake of another. And I hope that we see more and more men talk about a biblical vision of what it means to be a man from those perspectives of character and who God created them to be, not from the perspective of power and how they use it to dominate others.
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Mary Reichert
I had a follow up to that. I've got a young man in my family, and he tells me it's very difficult to find young women who are looking for masculine men, that they want their feminist ideals to be front and center in the relationship. What do you think about that?
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Gavin Newsom
You know, the rise of Andrew Tate's is in some ways a backlash to a backlash to a backlash that goes all the way back to the sexual revolution. We can trace a lot of things back to that seismic moment in the 1960s. And among them is how women have themselves disconnected their sense of purpose from their creator, disconnecting who they are from God's created design for women and how women are to relate to men. So it's sad, but true. We need a real revival not only of what it means to be men and women, but what it means to be human and with that humanity, that embodied humanity, how we relate to one another as male and female.
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Myrna Brown
Katie, let's talk about the last minute declaration by former President Biden that the Equal Rights Amendment passed. What are your thoughts on that?
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Gavin Newsom
Okay, Myrna, so I love how you said that the declaration, because that's exactly what it was. And when I heard that, I thought, you know, there's two big ironies here. The first is that part of the rhetoric that we heard from the outgoing Biden administration was this deep concern for democracy. Well, for all the concern for democracy, he effectively declared by fiat an amendment to the Constitution that has failed to pass for the last 50 years. And if you go back and look at the Equal Rights Amendment, it started back in the 1970s, it failed to be ratified by the states by a 3/4 majority of the states which our Constitution requires. And in the last several years, it's been in the news in part because Ruth Bader Ginsburg said, you got to start over. You didn't make it. We didn't get the three states over the finish line in time. So begin again. And what was so fascinating to me is since that has happened, we have had another irony to the era, and that is the language. When you look at the language, it is protecting people on the basis of sex, meaning biological sex. Well, that is terribly out of fashion in our world today. We talk about biological sex is not as important or is at least as important as gender identity. So the idea that we would have an amendment protecting people on the basis of their biological sex seems to fly in the face of a lot of gender related conversations that we have today. Ironically, from the same sector of society that is promoting the ERA and as.
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Myrna Brown
We speak of gender. I'd like to know how President Trump's declaration that there are only two genders, male and female, how that hit you, especially as the author of a book about what it means to be a woman.
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Gavin Newsom
Well, President Trump's executive order is exactly correct. That biological sex, the fact of our biological sex is different than one's self perception of gender identity. What struck me was two things. First of all, it's a very welcome change. The former Biden administration housed RachelRichard Levine, the former Assistant secretary for Health and Human Services, who pushed quite a few different aspects of the gender ideology agenda. Among them, that puberty blockers were safe, medically necessary, and life saving. Interestingly, in contrast to the Biden administration's own Food and Drug Administration, which said that they had major risks. So on the one hand, this is a very welcome change, but I wonder how this is going to play in the courts, because of course, if you remember the recent case before the Supreme Court, and it was Supreme Court Justice Gorsuch who conflated gender with biological sex. So I think this is a good step towards common sense. We've heard that. But the larger cultural issue is how this relates to values versus laws. Now, our laws do and should reflect our values. But as we can certainly see from issues like abortion, a lot of times there is a huge disconnect between the laws that are on the books and the values that are espoused by a nation's citizens. Laws are important, but it is only one component of larger cultural change. Cultural change happens when we change ideas, when we change beliefs. That is much more arduous and long term than the signing of an executive order.
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Mary Reichert
So, Katie, I want to ask you this as a follow up as well. You use the terms gender and sex, meaning biological sex. Are those two the same thing or are they not?
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Gavin Newsom
They should be considered the same thing. And one of the things that I talk about in my own writing is that, categorically speaking, in the definition of it, sex refers to our biology and gender refers to how we express and understand that. Now, up until about 20 years ago, in our cultural vernacular, sex and gender were interchangeable concepts. One of the things, though, that happened with that Supreme Court case is that they became divided concepts. But not only that, not only were they divided and completely separated from each other, but Supreme Court Justice Gorsuch made them equal and distinct categories of discrimination. So in other words, he placed gender identity on the same sphere as one's race, one's biological sex, and one's religious identity. So they should be interchangeable. We should use them interchangeably. But in our cultural vernacular today, we have made them not only two distinct concepts, but two completely disconnected concepts.
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Mary Reichert
I would love to shout that to the mountains. Okay, I have one more question, Katie, and I gotta get your take on this. What did you think of Bishop Marion Buddy, who told President Trump to have mercy upon immigrants in the gender ideology crowd, saying that they fear for their lives. This was at the National Cathedral prayer service for the inauguration. Now, mercy is a fine and good message, but it didn't really go over well with many people. What did you think?
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Gavin Newsom
No, no, it didn't go over well. My first thought was, what a massive cringe. Not only a cringe to listen to it, but I thought, oh, good grief, how disrespectful to be lecturing and preaching at world leaders that are just having to sit there and take it. It was completely inappropriate. She would have been far better served and her issues would likely have gained at least somewhat of a hearing had she done it in a gracious way of talk him privately. And instead, she leveraged her position and her platform in a way that I think was unbecoming of the role that she has. You know, Mary, this also brings up that question whenever we talk about ministry and people in some type of priestly or pastoral position and Christian nationalism, can we go there today? Because, you know, when you hear people talk about political issues like abortion and use their platform to talk about those issues in front of world leaders, well, that's a bridge too far, however, to our larger cultural conversation, talking about immigrants and LGBT people specifically from a very decided partisan vantage point that tends to get a pass. And I think it speaks to the larger conversation that we're having as a country of what is the role of religious leaders speaking into political issues.
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Myrna Brown
Katie McCoy, author and speaker. Thanks for joining us, Katie.
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Gavin Newsom
Always great to be with you.
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Kent Covington
Additional support comes from Chosengen Ministry Outfitting Family Discipleship through resources such as the Discipleship Parenting podcast, more@chosengenministry.org and from Pensacola Christian College Academic Excellence Biblical Worldview affordable cost go pcci.edu.world today is Friday, January 24th.
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Mary Reichert
Thank you for turning to World Radio to help start your day. Good morning. I'm Mary Reichert.
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Myrna Brown
And I'm Myrna Brown. Coming next on THE WORLD and everything in it, a preview of what to expect in theaters this year. Last week, arts and culture editor Colin Garberino gave us a rundown of upcoming kids and family films. Today, he's back to talk about some blockbuster hopefuls for grown ups.
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Mark Ruda
Five years ago, Disney's Marvel Studios looked like Hollywood's unstoppable force. And its Avengers franchise was smashing box office records. Like a big green Hulk, the Marvel Cinematic Universe's 34 films have grossed more money in ticket sales than any other franchise. But Once the Infinity Saga wrapped up in 2019, the studio struggled to keep audiences locked into its sprawling storyline. After the Marvels flopped in 2023, Disney yanked most of its MCU films from the 2024 schedule to retool the franchise. Now, in 2025, Marvel's back, releasing a full slate with three new movies. But will the new direction bring back audiences? First up, Captain Brave New World hits theaters on Valentine's Day. Don't expect to see Chris Evans as Steve Rogers in this film. Anthony Mackie plays Sam Wilson, the new Captain America who used to be known as Falcon Wilson.
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Katie McCoy
Thanks for coming in. Thank you for the invite, sir. I have to admit, I'm still getting used to the new look. They said lose the mustache or lose the election.
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Mark Ruda
In this installment, Harrison Ford joins the MCU to take over the role of Thaddeus Thunderbolt Ross from the recently deceased William Hurt. The new Captain America will have to find out who's really behind an international incident, and the new Thaddeus Ross will become the Red Hulk. I was a little disappointed with Mackie's Disney plus series, so I'm keeping my expectations low for this movie. Marvel's May installment looks to be a more lighthearted entry. Thunderbolts brings together the franchise's second tier antiheroes as a covert ops team sent on missions for the US Government. We'll get Florence Pugh's Black Widow, Yelena Sebastian, Stan's Bucky Barnes, David Harborough's Red Guardian, and Wyatt Russell's Captain America wannabe US Agent.
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Myrna Brown
Pretty ludicrous coming from the dime store. Captain America.
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Colin Garbarino
I'll have you know it's actually the official Captain America.
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Katie McCoy
So, yeah, yeah, for like two seconds.
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Mark Ruda
This movie looks promising to me because it's clearly not taking itself seriously. But the real test for Marvel's future rests with its summer release, the Fantastic Four. First Steps the Fantastic Four is one of the marquee titles for Marvel Comics, but each film adaptation of the series has been a disaster. We've had three Fantastic Four films in the last 20 years, and each was worse than the last. Marvel's trying something new this time, going back to the team's 1960s roots. Using a retro futurist design, director Matt Shockman claims you won't need to know anything about the other three dozen movies in the MCU to enjoy the film. So if the movie's good, maybe it can give the franchise a fresh start. Speaking of fresh starts, Warner Bros. Newly rebooted DC Universe gets underway in July with a brand new take on Superman. The movie is simply titled Superman and it's written and directed by James Gunn, the guy responsible for the Guardians of the Galaxy movies. Superman stars David Corenswet as the man of Steel. Pre publicity materials say Supes will embark on a journey to reconcile his Kryptonian heritage with his human upbringing. I don't expect the same brooding melancholy that afflicted other recent depictions of Superman. James Gunn is known for his irreverent humor, and in this film he's even included Superman's super powered puppy crypto. So what else is coming out besides superhero movies? Lots of sequels. I'm looking forward to seeing Mission Impossible the final reckoning, the eighth installment of the almost 30 year old series of movies. The last Mission Impossible movie underperformed at the box office, so Tom Cruise has a lot riding on this film. In fact, Final Reckoning cost an eye watering $400 million, making it one of the most expensive movies ever made. This is one of my favorite franchises, but I'm pretty sure it will be impossible for the studio to break even on this film. We're also getting installments to a couple of other beloved mega franchises. In the summer, Universal Pictures will release a standalone sequel to the Jurassic World trilogy called Jurassic World Rebirth that makes seven films for the Jurassic park franchise. This one stars Scarlett Johansson as a covert operation expert. Sounds like a familiar role. And just before Christmas, the third Avatar movie comes out. Fire and Ash introduces the Ash people, a less peaceful group of Na'vi. And if you're a Gen Xer interested in pure 80s nostalgia, a new Karate Kid movie starring Jackie Chan and Ralph Macchio comes out this spring. There's also a Naked Gun remake starring Liam Neeson this summer and a neutron movie in the fall. If you're looking for a crowd pleasing popcorn movie based on an original idea, you might be out of luck. But there are a couple of potential options. Lovers of disaster movies might want to check out Last Breath, which comes out next month. It's based on a true story about deep sea divers who must pull off an impossible rescue in the spring Warfare releases. That one is a heart pounding real time film written and directed by an Iraq War veteran based on the memories of people who were there then. This summer we get an original sports drama in F1 when Brad Pitt plays a Formula 1 driver who comes out of retirement. Hollywood might be short on new ideas, but it sounds like there will be plenty of thrills on the big screen in 2025. I'm Colin Garbarino.
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Myrna Brown
Today is Friday, January 24th good morning. This is the World and everything in it from listener supported World Radio. I'm Myrna Brown.
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Mary Reichert
And I'm Mary Reichert. Time now for Listener Feedback. We begin with a correction this morning during our January 2nd newscast. We apparently had the recently reopened French Cathedral on our minds when we reported on the Sugar bowl delay. We mentioned the two schools, Georgia and Notre Dame instead of Notre Dame, and a few of you got a big laugh out of that.
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Myrna Brown
Speaking of mispronunciations, over the last year we've gotten a lot of emails from listeners informing us that we are mispronouncing the first name of President Jimmy Carter's wife. Here's a recent example from our reporting.
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Gavin Newsom
James Earl Carter Jr. Was born near the tiny south Georgia town of Plains in October 1924. The ambitious younger Carter graduated from the U.S. navy Naval Academy in 1946 and married Rosalind Smith the same year.
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Myrna Brown
That prompted one listener to write in saying, I'm a big fan of Lindsay, but it was grating to hear her mispronounce Mrs. Carter's name when she passed a few months ago and now again at Jimmy's passing. I'm a big fan and love all you do. I felt a duty to call this out as it seems no one caught it last time.
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Mary Reichert
Well, we are sorry you found it grating, but we'd like to go straight to the horse's mouth, so to speak. For our response, here's a short montage of Jimmy Carter over the years pronouncing his wife's name.
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Katie McCoy
I was cruising around Plains and saw Rosen on the front steps of the Methodist Church. Rosen joined the church after we came home from the Navy. I approached the decisions very carefully because I knew it affected him, particularly Rosalynn.
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Mary Reichert
So if you are one of the many people who thought her name is pronounced Rosalynn, don't feel so badly. It's been a perennial problem for decades. In fact, not everyone on our staff gets it right. The official word on how to pronounce her name was included in Jimmy Carter's biography, titled His Very Best by Jonathan Alter. Alter writes, and here's the reasoning. The next year, on August 18, 1927, Allie gave birth to their first child, Eleanor Rosalind Smith, who was named for her matern grandmother, Rosa, which is why her name is pronounced Rosalynn and not Rosalynn. So hopefully this settles the debate once and for all.
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Myrna Brown
Hopefully. Now for a few listener comments on recent segments. The story that got the most response this month was from associate correspondent Rachel Coyle and her profile of a woman who lost her life saving in an online scam. Listener Valerie Wright had this to say.
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Valerie Wright
Rachel Coyle did a great job with this subject. It isn't a glamorous story, but one that needs to be told. As a senior citizen who has saved my entire adult life for retirement, I would be devastated to have lost my money the way Connie did. Anyone is vulnerable to this type of scam. I will be more vigilant while using my computer going forward. Well done. I have shared this with my friends and they agree with me. Many, including me, are interested in hearing a follow up story to the original podcast. Any chance that will happen? I am fairly new to the world and everything in it, but I thoroughly enjoy it.
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Myrna Brown
Many of the emails inquired about a follow up story. While there's nothing new to report in Connie's case, we will keep our ears open for other related stories that can help others avoid being taken advantage of.
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Mary Reichert
All right. Another segment that got a lot of attention this month was Adi Ofrin's story on H1B visas. The report prompted businessman Jason Woodward to leave us this voicemail about his experience.
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Seth Trout
It was refreshing to hear a balanced discussion on this important topic that is often overlooked in broader immigration conversations. As a manufacturing executive with over 20 years of operational leadership experience, I would typically prefer to hire US Citizens for certain roles given the simplicity and lower costs involved. However, finding manufacturing engineers who are not only technically qualified but also willing to spend time on the plant floor solving hands on problems and positively engaging with the workforce is often challenging and sometimes not possible. Through the H1B program, I've had the privilege of hiring several engineers who perform this type of work with excellence. These individuals brought critical technical expertise, a collaborative spirit and a problem solving mindset that significantly strengthened our organization and positively impacted our teams. I also appreciated Nikita's story, especially her faith journey and her trust in God's sovereignty. It's a reminder that H1B recipients are not just contributors to the economy, but individuals who are made in God's image with unique stories, aspirations and the potential to make a lasting impact.
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Myrna Brown
We also received a lot of email this month regarding our two part Double Take series on Syria from reporter Caleb Welty. Listener Beverly Ulmer Roberts left us this message.
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Beverly Ulmer Roberts
I was inspired by the story of the Syrian woman who returned to her home country to tell others about Jesus. My father came to Florida from Syria as an infant with his parents and several aunts and uncles because as Catholics, they could not prosper in their home country. I thank God every day that I am an American My heart breaks when I hear of the chaos in the old country where I likely have family members. I pray for courage to tell Muslims here in Texas about the love of Jesus.
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Myrna Brown
Susan Jones from Indianapolis, Indiana also wrote to us after that episode. She writes, the astounding coverage of the harrowing, courageous adventures inside Syria deserves some kind of award winning status. Thanks for our front row access and thank God everybody involved lived to tell us about it. And we couldn't agree more. We prayed hard for Caleb while he was there.
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Mary Reichert
And speaking of double take, before we go, DoubleTake producer and World's new editor in chief is here with an opportunity for you to tell us more about your thoughts on what we do here. Les, thanks for being here.
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Colin Garbarino
Hey Mary, Myrna, it is great to be here.
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Mary Reichert
Well, one of the things you're doing in your new role is getting to know our staff, but you also want to meet our listeners and our readers. So to that end, tell us about next month's focus group meetings.
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Colin Garbarino
So yeah, so we're going to be holding a series of focus groups next month from February 11th to 14th, we'll be holding two an evening and we are looking forward people who are willing to come to an online video conference call and to tell us what they think of us.
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Myrna Brown
And Les, who are you hoping will participate in these focus groups?
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Colin Garbarino
We're looking for our regular readers and listeners. We really want to hear from you. We really want to know how we can serve you better, but we also really want to hear from you if you only read or listen to us occasionally. We want to serve the widest group of people that we possibly can. And so we want to hear from a wide variety of people. We want to hear from people who listen to the podcast, read the website, read the magazine to hear from as many people as we can.
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Myrna Brown
And how do people sign up?
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Colin Garbarino
You can go straight to wng.org focus groups. We'll also have a link on the homepage of our website, wng.org and finally.
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Mary Reichert
Les, I must ask, why should listeners participate in these focus groups?
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Colin Garbarino
At World News Group, we believe that our job is to help you see the world clearly so you can live rightly and for us to fulfill the calling that God has for us to help you see the world clearly, we need to hear from so we can understand you. We can understand your needs. We can understand how you read and listen to our stories, our articles, our commentaries. We need to hear from you. And we need to know how we.
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Mary Reichert
Can serve you better, see clearly and live rightly. Love it Les Sillers is World's editor in chief. The address for signing up for these focus groups is wng.org focusgroups all one word. We'll put a link to that in our transcript today. Les, thanks so much for doing this. We're looking forward to hearing what listeners have to say.
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Colin Garbarino
You know what? I'm really looking forward to it, too.
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Mary Reichert
And thank you to everyone who wrote and called in this month. We're grateful for the time that you take to listen every day and thank you for your feedback.
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Myrna Brown
Yes, thank you. And that's this month's listener feedback.
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Mary Reichert
Well, it's time to say thanks to the team members who helped put the program together this week. David Bonson, Maria Baer, John Wilsey, Carolina Lumeta, Jenny Ruff, Daniel Darling, Leo Braceno, Onise Odua, Janie B. Chaney, Travis Kercher, Lindsay Mast, Mary Muncie, Cal Thomas, Katie McCoy and Colin Garbarino. Thanks also to our breaking news team, Kent Covington, Lindy Langdon, Lauren Canterbury, Josh Schumacher and Christina Grube. And thanks to the guys who stay up late to get the program to you early. Johnny Franklin, Carl Peetz and Ben Jeiker.
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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 informs, educates and inspires the Bible records. The angels said to the women, do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus, who was crucified. He is not here, for he has risen, as he said. Come see the place where he lay. Then go quickly and tell his disciples that he has risen from the dead. And behold, he is going before you to Galilee. There you will see him. See, I have told you so. They departed quickly from tomb with fear and great joy and ran to tell his disciples verses 5 through 8 of Matthew 28. Remember, it's important to worship with your brothers and sisters in Christ in church on the Lord's day, gathering together as the scripture says to do. And Lord willing, we'll meet you right back here on Monday. Go now in grace, in peace.