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2.27.26 Colorado’s proposal to legalize prostitution, a short film portraying Christ’s sacrifice, and feedback from listeners
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Myrna Brown
Good morning. California Governor Gavin Newsom. And the joke that did not land I'm like you.
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Nick Eicher
I'm no better than you. You know, I'm a 960sat guy. That and what got you moments like it. Reveal John Stonestreet standing by for Culture Friday. Also today, two filmmakers explain how the image of a fallen redwood helped them to tell the story of the cr.
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Jeremy Spears
And I was like, I have one more thing to show you. So I showed him this new idea and got to that image and he just flipped out.
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Nick Eicher
And listener feedback for February.
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Myrna Brown
It's Friday, February 27th. 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 Iger. Good morning.
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Myrna Brown
Up next, Kate Covington with today's news.
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Kent Covington
In Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the next round of peace talks with Russia will likely be held in Abu Dhabi early next month. Special envoy Steve Witkoff and unofficial envoy Jared Kushner met with Ukrainian officials on Thursday. Those talks focused on post war reconstruction. Witkoff said he's hoping for good news in the coming weeks. And Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters that only the United States can help broker peace in Ukraine. The United nations isn't going to do it. France isn't going to do it. The EU isn't going to do it. The Russians won't even speak to them. Meanwhile, more of the same in Ukraine. Authorities say at least 10 people were injured yesterday after yet another overnight Russian airstrike on the southern city of Zaporizhzhia. American and Iranian negotiators wrapped up indirect nuclear talks in Geneva Thursday without a deal. World's Harrison Waters has more negotiators from
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Jeremy Spears
the Sultanate of Oman shuttled back and forth between American and Iranian diplomats trying to bring both sides to agreement on issues like sanctions relief and uranium enrichment. Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Arachi told state media there was good progress after several hours of intense negotiation, but did not specify ahead of the talks. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he wasn't expecting much to change.
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Kent Covington
Iran refuses, refuses to talk about the
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Nathan Engelhardt
ballistic missiles to us or to anyone.
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Kent Covington
And that's a big problem.
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Jeremy Spears
Meanwhile, a second US Carrier strike group will soon reach the coast of Israel, putting additional pressure on Iran. Another round of talks between nuclear technicians is scheduled for Monday in Vienna.
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John Stonestreet
Reporting for WORLD I'm Harrison Waters.
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Kent Covington
Former President Bill Clinton will testify behind closed doors to lawmakers today about ties to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testified before the House Oversight Committee on Thursday. Neither are accused of wrongdoing. Hillary Clinton testified that she has no information about Epstein's crimes and does not recall meeting him, but Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer says he's not convinced.
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John Stonestreet
Well, that's funny because Epstein was in the White House 16 times while Bill Clinton was was president and then Bill
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Jeremy Spears
Clinton flew on his plane 27 times
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John Stonestreet
post presidency as well as Ghislaine Maxwell
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Nick Eicher
was at a front row seat at Chelsea Clinton's wedding.
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Kent Covington
The testimony was videotaped, but it remains unclear if that footage will be made public. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz is blasting the Trump administration over its announcement that it is halting more than a quarter of a billion dollars in Medicaid funding to the state. Vice President J.D. vance said the freeze will be enforced until Minnesota takes its obligations seriously when it comes to fighting fraud. And Vance again said on Thursday that
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John Stonestreet
is a scandal and it's something that Joe Biden and congressional Democrats promoted with their open border, encouraged it and funded it.
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Kent Covington
That comes after alleged fraudulent business practices by some Somali immigrants in the state. But the Democratic governor called the move, his words, part of an illegal and unprecedented retribution campaign by the Trump administration.
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John Stonestreet
Did you hear in there what specific steps they were going to take to stop the fraud or what the specific fraud they were talking about? They're using it as a general term in this and they're not serious.
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Kent Covington
Walz also argues that hundreds of thousands of people in Minnesota will lose access to health care because of this action. But administration officials say that's not so, that it will not have a major short term impact and that funds will be released as the state steps up anti fraud measures. A federal judge has rejected a request to block construction of a new White House Ballroom. World's Kristen Flavin has that story.
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Arsenio Orteza
U.S. district Judge Richard Leon ruled that a preservation group was unlikely to succeed on the merits of its bid to halt President Trump's construction project. The new ballroom is being built where the now demolished east wing of the White House once stood. The group wanted the court to put a hold on the project until it undergoes multiple independent reviews and wins approval from Congress. The White house says the $400 million project is being funded by private donations rather than taxpayer dollars. For World, I'm Kristen Flavin.
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Kent Covington
In a major turnaround, it looks like Paramount may have won the bidding war for Warner Bros. Discovery. Netflix is declining to raise its offer to buy the studio and streaming business. After Paramount raised its offer, Warner's board announced that the Skydance owned Paramount's offer was superior to the agreement it had previously struck with Netflix. Unlike Netflix's bid, Paramount wants all of Warner's operations, including legacy cable networks like CNN and Discovery. That would put CNN under the same roof as Paramount's CBS and combine two major Hollywood studios. I'm Kent Covington. And straight ahead, Johnstone street is here for Culture Friday. Plus a gospel centered animated feature that's up for an Academy Award. This is the WORLD and Everything in It.
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Nick Eicher
It's Friday, February 27th. Glad to have you along for today's edition of the and Everything In It. Good morning. I'm Nick Iger.
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Myrna Brown
And I'm Myrna Brown. Joining us now is John Stonestreet, president of the Colson center and host of the Breakpoint Podcast. Good morning, John.
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John Stonestreet
Good morning.
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Myrna Brown
Well, John, Colorado is considering a bill, SB 26 097, that would make it the second state in the country, along with Nevada, to legalize the world's oldest profession. Now, John, you live in Colorado. You've seen weed legalized, doctor assisted suicide embraced. And now instead of calling prostitution prostitution, lawmakers want to rename it adult commercial sexual activity and then make it legal. Does it feel as icky as it sounds? I mean, just a descent into the, as the Bible says, the miry bog, the pit of destruction.
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John Stonestreet
That should be the new, you know, nomenclatures that we substitute for these states. If they're going to substitute adult commercial sexual activity for prostitution, we should do the pit of destruction for Colorado. We've been on a roll, you know, and it's, it's, it's funny, as I travel around, usually people from California are always like, well, at least you're not California. I was like, there are so many ways that I wish I was Californ Colorado has been on a, a direct trajectory. The four lawmakers who proposed this legislation in Colorado to legalize prostitution are millennials. It's like clockwork, honestly, that we're seeing this more and more and more. And the way that this is argued in justice terms, despite all the evidence to the contrary, the evidence that legalizing prostitution actually increases the trafficking of human beings, that it actually leads to other destructive behaviors, and that it specifically has negative implications for children, for the protection of children, none of that gets in the way. And what's happened is these folks tend to go unchecked in the Colorado legislature. And so they can basically throw out things that are absurd, that are insane, that are not good and call it good, that are not just and call it just. And frankly, the story of what happened to Colorado is Not that we became more progressive. It was that libertarians were actually used by the progressives to create a legislative super majority in a sense that really cannot be kind of reined in or stopped. And of course, it's all based on the ideas of the sexual revolution. So, yeah, listen, we're not in the ballpark of most other states anymore. And the reason is, is we've embraced a vision, a vision of life in the world. A vision that was sold in the name of libertarian freedom, but requires the state as a nanny to basically create and protect our ability to have no one ever tell us anything that we do is ever wrong.
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Nick Eicher
You know, John, I don't think I misunderstand libertarian philosophy, but I think what may have happened in your state is that people got confused between libertinism and libertarianism. Because when you expand libertinism, you necessarily get bigger government. You just do. You have to have more government because of all of the social destruction that follows libertinism.
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John Stonestreet
You have to for two reasons. Number one is that you still have a moral citizenry or some aspect of a moral citizenry that doesn't want this kind of thing. And so you have to have a state that actually then tramples on their rights. This is the same thing that happened with same sex marriage. It happened before we had same sex marriage. In the case of Jack Phillips, here's somebody that just didn't want to participate. And so you have to have a big state that actually enforces his participation. But you're right on the other side of things too. And we've absolutely seen that in terms of the legalization of marijuana, that there's a lot of buyers remorse, of police officers, of educational professionals, of city leaders, because it's let so many other things out of the bag. And you have to have a big state back it up. Because if you think that freedom has no boundaries, if you think that personal, the personal choice to do whatever you want, no matter what community you're a citizen of, should be a guarantee of the state. That is the way to have a more intrusive, invasive and bigger state. The libertarians were used in this whole process. And I moved here right when this was starting. I've seen the whole thing happen. And it's just another thing to add to the legalization of pot, the legalization of Dr. Death and the legalization of magic mushrooms. I mean, we can go down the protection of drag shows for kids. We can go down the line.
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Myrna Brown
You started your response to this question talking about California. So let's Go there for just a second. California Governor Gavin Newsom had a flub. Let's listen to a little of what he had to say while on stage with Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens.
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John Stonestreet
I'm not, you know, I'm not trying to impress you.
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Nick Eicher
I'm just trying to impress upon you.
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Kent Covington
I'm like you.
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John Stonestreet
I'm no better than you.
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Nick Eicher
You know, I'm a 960sat guy. And, you know, and I'm not trying to offend anyone.
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Kent Covington
You know, trying to act all there
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John Stonestreet
if you got 940. But literally a 960sat guy. I cannot. You've never seen me read a speech because I cannot read a speech.
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Myrna Brown
Rapper songwriter Nicki Minaj's response is classic. Let me just read a little of what she posted on X. His way of bonding with black people is to tell them how stupid he is and that he can't read. And then she goes on. Do you want to know the craziest part of this footage that will haunt him forever? He's literally slowing his speech down and talking, talking in a sporadic cadence as if they're children. He's not just saying it. He didn't misspeak. He believes it. Do you just love it? Black people Now, John, it sounds to me like a mashup of identity politics and critical theory. What do you think?
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John Stonestreet
Yeah, look, I think that I'm wary and weary of the games that happen on both the left and the right to catch each other in racist speak. Obviously, there was the whole thing recently with the president and the meme that was posted through the Truth Social account and at the same time of a meme that historically is just horrible and unjustifiable and how it got there and all that. There's all kinds of stories. And, you know, you have the left that immediately wants us to think the worst of that, and then you have the right that immediately wants us to think the worst of this. The problem here is not just, you know, whether he misspoke. And it was a statement taken out of context. And in the larger context, it looks better. But there is the tyranny of low expectations, as Thomas Sowell put it, that inflicts the left. And the way that the left understands poverty, the way that the left understands class struggle, it's in the water of the left. And it's not just in policies where we want to do handouts instead of hand ups. It goes back in the water of embracing a Darwinian understanding of the human person. And because it's based on a fundamental understanding of the Human person that's disconnected from the image of God. And so it just gets in the water. I think now, you know, what did Newsom mean? There's just so many examples of this, of people trying to be cool. I chalk this more up, you know, to the nerd who shows up on the football team and he's like, I don't always get good grades. I'm thinking of that one line from the sandlot, you know, where he's like, I gotta be once, you know, trying to be cool. And it just doesn't. It just doesn't land. I don't know what his intentions were. Nicki Minaj has her right to read this, but there is a history of what Thomas Sowell called the tyranny of low expectations. And it's rooted in a bad anthropology, and it pops up. I don't want to justify one on the altar of the other or play gotcha on either side, but it is important to know that history because it's a history that has been reflected in these events. Even more tragically, it's a history that is reflected in the history of Planned Parenthood, which, of course, has had a direct impact black communities in a horrific way. And the numbers there, in my mind, are unjustifiable, no matter what worldview you have.
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Nick Eicher
Well, you know, John, I'd like to keep talking about gotcha moments, you know, because sometimes I think gotcha moments are illustrative. It is as though on the night of the State of the Union, or the afternoon of it, President Trump sent his people out to the House floor and laid out a bunch of rakes on the Democratic side and then was planning during the speech to say, hey, guys, careful. Don't step on the rakes. And then, just to spite him, the Democrats proceeded to step on every available rake.
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John Stonestreet
That's a pretty good analogy.
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Nick Eicher
Well, I'm glad you liked it, because I did work on it a little bit. But, you know, here's the story that I'm talking about, and I know you remember this. The President introduced Sage Blair and her mother and told the story of how this young girl at age 14, was treated by the school district as a boy, hiding this disclosure from the parents, not allowing them to reg custody until just an enormous fight was put up. Now, it does have a happy ending. Sage is now a student at Liberty University. She got a full free ride. She is living as God intended, as a girl. The president, during his speech, concluded, surely we can all agree that no state should be allowed to do this. We must ban this Immediately or translate it into politics. Guys, don't step on this rake. Honor this family. But then when not one single Democrat stood up in agreement with a very sensible proposition, the President said, these people are crazy. They are just crazy. Did you have the same kind of response?
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John Stonestreet
This was the most moving part of the State of the Union by far. There were a lot of gotcha moments where the President did pretty well. It's a remarkable thing to see truth win, but this was a remarkable moment to see such wonderful personal redemption up close and personal reconciliation between this woman and her mother, justice on a national stage where the truth is told, when she had been lied to. The fact that she's a student at Liberty University right now. What a wonderful story of what God can do to someone whose life is broken. That's what I want to highlight in all this. I appreciate the President doing this. I appreciate the clarity of. Here's where the parties stand on this, in case anyone is still wondering. And I'll get to that in a second. But I just want to celebrate the fact that God can restore and redeem and renew lives. I don't want to get over this because we were told. We were told just a few years ago that Sage didn't exist. And see, anybody who spoke out against this whole transgender ideology was accused of stupid things like erasing trans people. And what really happened was we were told that, oh, no, there was no one being forced. There was no one being talked into this minor. This wasn't happening to minors. Except that it was, and we knew it was. And we had the insurance data curated to actually prove it. And we have yet another story. And there are many others. There's the Chloe Coles of the world and others who also are wonderful stories of redemption. And now these are individuals that have a life returned to them. And I also want to celebrate their moms in particular. Yes, their dads, too. But, man, there were a lot of moms that went along with it. Thankfully, everybody right now is admitting they're wrong. Vanderbilt, this past week, the center of the whole issue with Matt Walsh, remember that? And the Tennessee legislature. Vanderbilt's out not only with minors, but also with adults. They're just not going to do it anymore. And that's just the latest. We could talk about hhs, we could talk about Tavistock, we could talk about all kinds of different examples of this. So the unraveling is going to be interesting and there's going to be moments for us to smile and to say, I told you so. But, man, let's not please, let's not forget these young women, especially those who have found restoration and redemption in Christ. And as Christians, we should point to that and celebrate that and hold those folks up and thank the Lord for his grace.
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Myrna Brown
All right. John Stonestreet is president of the Colson center and host of the Breakpoint Podcast. Excited to see you next week, John, at our staff retreat.
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Nick Eicher
Right location, top secret.
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Myrna Brown
So next Culture Friday is in person. Can't wait to see you.
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John Stonestreet
Looking forward to seeing both of you all as well.
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Jeremy Spears
Thanks.
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John Stonestreet
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John Stonestreet
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Nick Eicher
Today is Friday, February 27th. Thank you for turning to world Radio to help start your day. Good morning, I'm Nick Iger.
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Myrna Brown
And I'm Myrna Brown. Coming next on the World and everything in it, the story behind a story. There's a new film with an Academy Award nomination for best animated short film. And before that, it caught a lot of attention while making the rounds at film festivals around the country last year. It's a beautiful silent film called Forever Green, animated to look like a wood carved world. And it tells an allegorical story of an orphaned bear cub who meets and finds a home with a fatherly pine tree. The bear develops a desire for trash which ultimately leads him into danger. It's a story about redemption, hope and our need for a savior.
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Nick Eicher
And it's one that began in the mind of director Nathan Engelhardt. He said it started as an adaptation of a classic Christian folktale called the Tale of Three Trees. Engelhardt eventually asked friend and fellow director Jeremy Spears to help him figure it out. Jeremy's a story guy. World recently spoke with the directors of Forever Green and learned how the story came together. The first voice you hear is Jeremy's.
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Jeremy Spears
So I, I took what he had been, he had been working on for a couple of years. And so I went off for about two weeks and just researched trees and, and I was looking at kind of all the things that had already been done, trying to see if there's something that maybe we've missed and pulled it all apart and then reassembled it again. And I put it on a board, a storyboard, we call it, and I just pinned everything up. But in that process, I have a long history of going to the Sequoia redwoods. We live here in California. So I have a lot of memories of kind of walking across these 100 foot long, you know, or longer trees that have fallen in the forest. And I came across this image of one of those trees falling across a divide, and there was a waterfall behind it. And it literally was this lightning moment. And I just thought, my goodness, I see what this could be. That giant fallen tree could be representative of what Christ did for us. And that there could be this character who. That the tree does that for, that could give it the path of escape from fire. And so. And it was based on. There's a Bible tract image that has. It has two sides and it looks like this. So it's got like two sides to it. It's like a divide, and then there's like the cross of Christ is in between and it bridges the divide. So there's this. This really simple Bible tract image that, you know, we've seen before. And. And it was that. And I was like, how cool would that be to. To pitch this to Nathan as just an alternate idea? And. And again, it was completely. Yeah, it was just like a whole different thing. So I actually went down that. It was the day before I was going to pitch him this. I went down to his office and I looked. I. I walk in his door and on his desk is this image. So the next day he's up in my office, I'm pitching these ideas. And he liked the first one. He was like, okay, that's cool. Those are some nice ideas. And I was like, I have one more thing to show you. And so I showed him this new idea and I got to that image and he just flipped out. And he said that he had been having a conversation the week before with a coworker and he was explaining his faith. And he was trying to explain it in an easy enough way. And he goes, oh, here, let me just draw it. And so he drew this. Drew this, John?
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Nathan Engelhardt
Yeah, he said the. We were. I was witnessing to the guy and he said, why the cross? Like, he was understanding, like, why did the cross have to be. And. And that's where I made that image where the sinner divides you and then the bridge. And he was like, oh, it was just like something that clicked for him pretty quickly and then had a great conversation after that. But I think what was so like confirming about this situation was that I was really struggling at that moment about whether we should even, you know, have films or stories that depict Jesus. Maybe this sounds silly to some people, but I, you know, I had never really thought about that. Should we have God's word on allegory or on fantasy? You know, these are just things that were like, you know, I was wrestling with. And it got to the point where I was like, lord, even if you give Jeremy a completely different idea, just let me know that it's from you and what. You know what I mean? And so when I had written this, drew that down, it was also a way of just confirming in our hearts that this was the new direction and that we should go for it 100% as only God can confirm. And so I ran up on that little story sketch. Cause he didn't have the vertical line. It was just like the bridge. And I quickly drew in the vertical line for the cross part. And then it was like, that was it. That was sealed right there.
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Jeremy Spears
And you know, Nathan and I, we kind of geek out about this. The fact that we can have a creative endeavor like this and we can talk about the creator, you know, so it's like. And that's what we're doing right now. It's like we've created a thing that now it's a discussion point. It's a thing that we can kind of begin with. And then who knows where this will go.
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Myrna Brown
We put a link to the film and the program transcript and we'll release much more of our discussion of Forever Green on our podcast feed. Tomorrow, the directors will talk a bit of shop about how the film was made and much more about how the process bolstered their faith. Additionally, musician Josh Garrels will talk about how he came to be part of the project. It's a great discussion and we hope you'll listen
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John Stonestreet
to.
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Myrna Brown
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 Eicher. Finally today, we end the week with your listener feedback for the month of February. We begin with a couple of corrections. In our February 11 newscast, we mispronounced the name for followers of a branch of Islam, the Shiite branch. And in the same program, we mispronounced the name of the luxury auction house Sotheby's. Now, I need to add that those two things pale in comparison to a mistake that I made recording a really terrific commentary by Hunter Baker on how gambling has taken over professional sports. He was recording remotely and I I Nick, I did this. I neglected to ensure that his external microphone was plugged in, so the entire thing was recorded using a decent but not broadcast quality laptop microphone. So I have already apologized to Hunter for that and now I do embarrassingly come to you and say sorry about that. Well, moving on now to feedback from listeners. And speaking of Hunter Baker, listener Sam Arora sent a voice memo noting how the Dobbs decision has changed pro life conversations for presidential candidates.
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John Stonestreet
In his Feb. 18 opinion segment, Hunter Baker said that he could argue that there was a pro life litmus test among Republicans running for president while Donald Trump ran for the Republican nomination as Pro Life in 2016. When he ran in 2024, he said abortion law should be left to the states and reshaped his party's platform in that way. What Dr. Baker said may once have
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Nick Eicher
been true for the Republican Party, but
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John Stonestreet
it doesn't seem to be true today.
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Myrna Brown
Scott Barr from Livonia, Michigan sent a different perspective after our February 12th interview regarding the rollback of climate regulations.
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Nick Eicher
I appreciated the interview with Philip Rossetti about the rollback of climate regulations, but I disagree with his contention that this is more theoretical than practical because industry had not fully repositioned to it. That certainly is not true for the auto industry, which had invested billions of dollars in electric battery plants to meet the former regulations. Those plants are now being abandoned before they hardly got started. I previously worked in product planning for one of the automakers, and I've seen firsthand the unnecessary costs forced into vehicles to meet these regulations. I've also seen entire vehicle lines for products that Americans want shut down simply because they didn't fit the government plan. This has caused vehicle prices to skyrocket and they will stay high as automakers try to recover the dollars they wasted on the government's climate change boondoggle. We're all paying the price for that.
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Myrna Brown
Paul Gable from Edmond, Oklahoma wrote in to express his appreciation for our music reviews.
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Kent Covington
I've been a fan of Arsenio Ortez's music reviews in World's Print magazine for a long time. His descriptive phrases and encyclopedic knowledge of musicians past and present is more than impressive. My only unanswered question after reading Arsenio's reviews was but what does it sound like? That's why I've been more than thrilled that you now feature an occasional audio review by Arsenio. It makes sense that music and music reviews be listened to. So thank you for bringing his work to your podcast. I'll still look forward to Arsenio's articles, which I read and often reread, but please continue his audio contributions as well. Thank you.
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Myrna Brown
John Howith from Windsor, Colorado had a small quibble with Arsenio Arteza over his February 12 segment on Christian rock band Petra.
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Jeremy Spears
Thank you for the episode on February 12 about the musical legacy of Christian rock group Petra and the review of Petra's new album. Without that, I wouldn't have known that they had come out with a new album. Petra has been one of my favorite groups for years, but I feel like Arsenio missed it, skipping the whole 1990s decade. Some of Petra's best albums, especially Beyond Belief, that was released in 1990.
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Nick Eicher
Well, now a couple of kudos on what we call our tent pole features things like Legal Docket, the Monday Money Beat, Washington Wednesday, Culture Friday, those types of segments first. Abby Devaughan from Minneapolis had this to say about a legal docket on February
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Arsenio Orteza
16 hi world, my name is Abby Devon. I'm a professional actuary in Minnesota and I wanted to write in and say that I loved the legal docket on the actuarial pension problem and you guys did a really great job talking about the profession and the really complex issues at stake here.
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Jeremy Spears
And I just wanted to say that
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Arsenio Orteza
I really appreciate your commitment to covering all kinds of Supreme Court cases on Legal Docket, even the more technical ones or the ones that might not sound
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Jeremy Spears
as quote unquote interesting. And this was just a really special
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Arsenio Orteza
treat for me to see my profession represented in this way. Thanks again.
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Myrna Brown
Victoria Cartina had a word of thanks from Norway for our February 10th report on preventing mass violence.
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Arsenio Orteza
I wanted to thank you for the report on how to prevent mass violence. I'm a public school teacher in Norway, in Europe, and we have at least one to two students in every single classroom who acts in the way that that gentleman described himself. And it is so frustrating. It feels hopeless and I have given up at times, but I feel renewed motivation and encouragement thanks to your report and I feel capable. I feel like there is something that I can do and I feel like I have been doing things just by meeting them where they're at and being kind as we're called to be. And in gratitude to all that Christ has done for us, we can be kind. So thank you for this. What an amazing news podcast that we even get to hear stories like this. Well done.
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Myrna Brown
And here's Ruth Solo of Highland Village, Texas on John Stonestreet's Culture Friday. Comments last Friday.
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Arsenio Orteza
I just appreciate John Stonestreet's clear and biblical based comments on the 20th about transgender issues, saying that New York University won't do transition surgeries. What really helped me was his simple comment, well, the Bible tells Christians not to lie and that God hates lying or something to that effect. It was so helpful to me as a parent. Your podcast always helps me as a Christian in this twisted culture, know how I should think properly. By the way, the verse which he was mentioning that I had my kids memorize that he alluded to is Proverbs 12:22. Besides the Ten Commandments, this verse says line lips are an abomination to the Lord, but those who deal truthfully are his delight. Thank you always for being truthful in your mag and your podcast. You are God's delight.
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Nick Eicher
Well, thanks to all who wrote and called this month. We'd love to hear from you as well. If you'd like to comment on a story you heard or a commentary you heard, or just anything that you notice about the program, you can send us a recorded message or email to editorng.org that's editorng.org and you can also phone it in 202-709-9595 and that is listener feedback for the month of February. Time now to thank the team who helped to put together this week's programs. Jenny Ruff, David Bonson, Arsenio Orteza, Mary Reichardt, Carolina Lumeta, Caleb Weldy, Cal Thomas, Hunter Baker, Jennifer Jenny Lynn Schmidt, Rachel Coyle, Daniel Sir, Lauren Smith, Seth Trout, John Stonestreet and Colin Garberino. Thanks also to our breaking news crew, Kent Covington, Steve Klosterman, Travis Kircher, Daniel Devine and Christina Grube. And thanks to the moonlight maestros serving up the program each weekday, bright and early, Beng Eicher and Carl Peetz. Harrison Waters is Washington producer. Kristen Flavin is features editor. Lindsay Mast is producer. I'm Executive Producer Nick Eicher.
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Myrna Brown
And I'm Myrna Brown. The world and everything in it comes to you from World Radio. World's mission is biblically objective journalism that informs, educates and inspires Scripture records. With his mouth the godless man would destroy his neighbor, but by knowledge the righteous are delivered. Verse 9 of Proverbs 11 Care well for your brothers and sisters in Christ this weekend. Bear one another's burdens and let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts. And Lord willing, we'll meet you right back here on Monday. Go now in grace and peace.
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John Stonestreet
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