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5.21.26 The Senate showdown, women’s metabolic testing, underwriting gender-transitions, and soft rock in the 1970s
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Mary Reichert
Good morning. Pushing back on businesses that underwrite procedures for gender confused kids.
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Eldeco
I share this experience not for sympathy, but because decisions made in boardrooms have consequences in operating rooms.
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Myrna Brown
And the White House ballroom debate snags border security funding. Also, how renaming a common condition may help women's health. And later, the story behind one of the most recognizable soft rock hits of the 70s.
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Ron Nevison
When those harmonies hit you, it reminds me of Beatles. It reminds me of Crosby, Stills and Nash.
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Myrna Brown
And world commentator Daniel Ser on the recipe to drive good people out of public life.
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Mary Reichert
It's Thursday, May 21st. This is the world and everything in it from listeners 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
The US Military boarded an Iranian flagged oil tanker in the Gulf of oman on Wednesday. U.S. forces searched and redirected the vessel after officials suspected it was trying to evade the ongoing blockade of Iranian ports. That blockade is choking Iran's oil exports, but Iranian state media reported that President Trump had offered to freeze oil sanctions in peace talks. The president, though, told reporters, I'm not
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Donald Trump
doing any relief until they sign an agreement. When they sign an agreement, get that place built up again and have something that's really a good country for the people. But no, we haven't offered anything.
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Kent Covington
Trump this week said he had postponed military strikes against Iran that had been planned for this past Monday at the request of Gulf state leaders seeking more time to negotiate. But he says time is running out for the Iranian regime.
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Donald Trump
It's right on the borderline. Believe me, if we don't get the right answers, it goes very quickly. We're all ready to go. We have to get the right answers. It would have to be a complete, 100% good answers. And if we do, we save a lot of time, energy and lives.
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Kent Covington
Most importantly, even amid the ongoing ceasefire, Iran is still effectively shutting down the Strait of Hormuz nearly three months after the start of the war, leaving more than 1500 commercial vessels stranded in Beijing. Pomp and circumstance Wednesday as Chinese leader Xi Jinping welcomed Russian leader Vladimir Putin to Beijing for a state visit. Putin called the visit fruitful and successful and says concrete work was taken on a range of issues with cooperation on trade, technology and more. China became Russia's top trading partner after Moscow invaded Ukraine, though Beijing still claims neutrality in the conflict. A federal grand jury has indicted former Cuban dictator Raul Castro for murder over the 1996 shoot down of two American civilian planes. The Justice Department unsealed the charges Wednesday in Miami. The now 94 year old Castro was accused of authorizing the attack. Cuban fighter jets fired missiles at two unarmed civilian planes flown by a Florida based exile group, killing four Americans. FBI Deputy Director Christopher Ryan Four humanitarians were on a noble mission to help those fleeing oppression. Instead, their lives were violently taken in a reckless act by the Cuban regime. The indictment names five other Cuban defendants, including three of the fighter pilots. Acting Attorney General Todd BLANCHE for nearly 30 years, 30 years, the families of four murdered Americans have waited for justice. Current Cuban leader Miguel Diaz Canel condemned the indictment, calling it a political maneuver without legal foundation. Wednesday was also Cuba's Independence Day and Secretary of State Marco Rubio used the moment to address Cubans in a Spanish language video. The son of Cuban immigrants offered a new relationship with the US but said it had to be with the people of Cuba, not with the Castro linked military business. Gaisa Rubio also pledged $100 million in food and medicine to be distributed through the Catholic Church and other charities. The Colorado Supreme Court has ordered the state's largest children's hospital to resume puberty blockers and cross sex hormones for minors. World's Kristin Flavin reports.
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Kristin Flavin
Children's Hospital Colorado halted those procedures in January after the federal Department of Health and Human Services opened an investigation. The parents of four minors who identify as transgender sued, claiming discrimination. They argued that the hospital still gave puberty blockers to other patients for medical reasons. The hospital said it was not discriminating and halted the procedures to protect itself from legal threat. A judge initially sided with the hospital, but in a 5, 2 ruling this week, the state Supreme Court reversed that decision. The majority claimed it would harm the children to not receive transgender procedures, and they said that supposed harm outweighs legal risk to the facility. The hospital said it was considering its next steps. A permanent ruling in the case is still pending in lower courts. For World I'm Kristin Flavin.
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Kent Covington
Longtime Massachusetts Democratic Congressman Barney Frank has died at the age of 86. First elected in 1980, Frank served 16 terms. He was perhaps best known for co authoring sweeping, controversial bank and financial regulations enacted after the 2008 financial crisis. He chaired the House Financial Services Committee at the time and co wrote the Dodd Frank act with Connecticut Democrat Chris Dodd. Frank was one of the first openly gay members of Congress and was also known for working closely with LGBT activists in Washington. Frank died Tuesday in Maine, where he had moved after retiring from Congress in 2013. I'm Kent Covington and coming up pushing back on businesses that underwrite procedures for gender Confused kids. And later, the story behind one of the most recognizable soft rock hits of the 1970s, this is the World and everything in It.
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Mary Reichert
It's Thursday, the 21st of May. You're listening to World Radio. We're so glad you've joined us today. Good morning, Mary. I'm Mary Reichert.
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Myrna Brown
And I'm Myrna Brown. First up on the World and everything in it, Congress turns a corner on ice, funding and the Iran war. Lawmakers on Capitol Hill have two days left before next week's Memorial Day recess and a full agenda. World's Harrison Waters reports.
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Harrison Waters
Top of Republican leadership's list is funding security enforcement agencies like Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection. Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso.
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Ron Nevison
It's called the Secure America Act.
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Harrison Waters
The bill is not a typical piece of legislation requiring 60 votes to pass in the Senate. Republicans are instead using the process of budget reconciliation that lets both chambers change existing spending laws with simple majority votes.
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Arsenio Arteza
It guarantees full funding for ICE and Border Patrol for the entire presidency of President Trump.
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Harrison Waters
House Republicans are ready to follow the Senate's lead ahead of the president's June 1 deadline. The process will allow Republicans to pass the legislation without any Democrat votes, but only after a voting period in which Democrats may offer as many amendments as they want. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer spoke before votes yesterday.
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Ron Nevison
Democrats are going to force Senate Republicans to vote on amendment after amendment about Trump's ballroom, Trump's slush fund and the rising costs of Trump's war.
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Harrison Waters
The bill hit a snag earlier in the week related to the White House ballroom construction project. The Senate parliamentarian ruled that a $1 billion line item in the Secret Service budget could not be used to fund security for the ballroom. President Trump has said private donors would fully fund construction, but a judge in April decided Congress needs to approve the project first. During a tour on Wednesday, President Trump said the goal is more than a ballroom.
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Donald Trump
They're building a hospital. They're building, it's a military hospital. They're building all sorts of research facilities, also meeting rooms and rooms that go hand in hand for the military using the ballroom and the ballroom is really a shield and protecting all of the things that are built here.
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Harrison Waters
Senators will also continue debating a bill on Congress role in the Iran war. This comes after four Republicans joined most Democrats on Tuesday to open the discussion. The War Powers Resolution seeks to require the president to stop all military operations in the region until Congress approves them. Mr. Cassidy, Mr. Cassidy, I. Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy, a Republican, cast the deciding vote on Tuesday to move the resolution forward. On Saturday, a Trump backed primary challenger pushed him out of his re election race. The debate and eventual vote will be largely symbolic. Even if both chambers passed it, the president will be almost certain to veto it. President Trump argues that hostilities ceased before the 60 day deadline imposed by the War Powers Act. He also says there's still time on the clock if hostilities resume. Reporting for world I'm Harrison Waters.
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Myrna Brown
Coming up next on the world and everything in it. Renaming a disorder the condition known for almost 100 years as polycystic ovary syndrome is getting new attention due to a name change. It affects about one in eight women, causing symptoms ranging from irregular menstrual cycles to increased risk for thyroid and heart disease.
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Mary Reichert
But it will now be known as polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome, or pmos, and researchers hope the new name will mean changes in both treatment and the stigma surrounding it. World's Mary Muncie reports.
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Mary Muncie
Amy McNay started having irregular menstrual cycles and odd symptoms when she was 14. A doctor diagnosed her with endometriosis at 19, but it took until she was in her mid-20s to be diagnosed with what's now known as PMOS.
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Amy McNay
I had very irregular cycles that were very painful.
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Mary Muncie
Someone with PMOS has at least two of three symptoms. Those symptoms are irregular or no ovulation and excess androgen hormones like testosterone and cysts on the ovaries or excess anti mullerian hormone. Doctors formally identified the disorder in 1935 after seeing ovarian cysts on women with irregular cycles, hence the original name, polycystic ovary syndrome. But recently, doctors have started recognizing a metabolic component to it. McNay had irregular cycles and cysts on her ovaries. In one sense, she was lucky her doctors were ahead of the curve.
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Amy McNay
They seemed to recognize that it was some kind of metabolic disorder even 30 years ago.
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Mary Muncie
But that doesn't mean they had solutions. The most common treatment is birth control, which suppresses hormones. But McNay didn't want to go that route. Her doctors tried prescribing medication for insulin resistance, but she felt lethargic and didn't have an appetite. She says her doctors did their best, but there wasn't much guidance for pmos in the 90s. So she did a lot of trial and error on her own.
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Amy McNay
I decided, let me take myself off this medicine and started reading some things about PCOS and just thought let me try to manage this on my own. And so I've basically done that for the last 25 years.
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Mary Muncie
Pediatric endocrinologist Melanie Cree says that's a common story and why she started working on changing the name.
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Melanie Cree
The new name is polyendocrine because it's not just those male hormones, androgens, but also the hormone insulin. And when you have this combination of high testosterone and high insulin, it predisposes the individual to getting metabolic disease.
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Mary Muncie
She says. The name polycystic ovary syndrome focused too much on cysts and not enough on hormones. It took years for some women to get a diagnosis, and even then they weren't screened or treated for metabolic conditions. Cree started working on this name change 14 years ago. She and other women's health specialists started with surveys of doctors and patients all over the world.
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Melanie Cree
People thought the name was really restricting treatment and diagnosis.
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Mary Muncie
Over 80% of the patients surveyed thought the name should change completely, so they started doing phone calls with global medical professionals. They considered linking the name to fertility, but that affects fewer women with PMOs than those with metabolic disorders.
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Melanie Cree
And especially in places where you've got arranged marriages or this is very culturally important for a woman to be a mother. If she is labeled as not being able to have a baby, she may not be marryable and in some countries could actually be at risk of being put to death.
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Mary Muncie
The group published their findings this month and is now working to implement them. That will be a three year, eight step process. They're currently on steps one and two, publishing their research and creating resources for providers. Later they'll start working on changing the medical billing codes. She hopes more providers outside of gynecology will start learning about PMOs and help guide their patients. That would mean patient facing changes could come soon.
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Melanie Cree
The things that I think will change and can change right now is women are not getting tested for metabolic disease because they are often told this is a reproductive condition. Take these birth control pills and come back when you want to get pregnant.
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Mary Muncie
A common pmos symptom is weight gain, she says. Insurance companies often resist covering weight loss medications for women with PMOs, but if they're screened for factors that often accompany PMOs, like extra fat in the liver or type 2 diabetes, they could get weight loss medications for those diseases.
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Melanie Cree
If they're not being tested for the disease, we can't treat it. So that's what I really hope we see immediately is appropriate metabolic screening for all patients with this condition, and that's
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Mary Muncie
insulin resistance screening for all patients, regardless of body size.
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Melanie Cree
The risks for all of these are increased in all women with these conditions,
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Mary Muncie
not just those who struggle with weight, Cree says. The next research questions will be about how PMOS affects women in and around menopause. McNay is approaching that phase and is trying to pick through her symptoms.
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Amy McNay
It's a little bit hard to determine what things are happening in my body now that could be still related to pcos.
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Mary Muncie
She has three daughters and so far none of them have been diagnosed with pmos, but she thinks the reclassification will help guide them if they ever are.
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Amy McNay
My hope is that because of the reclass, doctors will be quicker to recognize symptoms to refer to knowledgeable practitioners who can help pave a path for women who are struggling with this syndrome.
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Mary Muncie
Reporting for world, I'm Mary Muncie.
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Kent Covington
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Mary Reichert
Next up on the World and everything in it Corporate benefits and what They're Costing children the Human Rights Campaign is the largest LGBTQ advocacy organization in the country. For more than two decades, the HRC bullied companies into adopting practices and policies harmful to families and children.
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Myrna Brown
Now a record number of corporations once eager to comply with the LGBTQ agenda have started pulling back support and changing some of those policies. But is it too little, too late? I talked to one woman who is telling companies what happened to her by making videos from her home office.
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Eldeco
I'm a 23 year old detransition woman and I'm here to talk about what corporate health insurance did to me as a teenager.
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Myrna Brown
When Eldeco was 17 years old, she started taking hormones to deepen her voice, increase her facial and body hair and end her menstrual cycle. By the time she was 19, a surgeon had removed both of her healthy breasts. Still focused on the camera, Eldacko explains how a teenager could pay for cross sex hormones and a double mastectomy, all
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Eldeco
under the banner of gender affirming care. All covered by my mother's employer sponsored health plan.
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Myrna Brown
Dustin DeVito is the director of research at 1792 Exchange. It's a nonprofit organization helping companies navigate ideological issues like gender identity.
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Dustin DeVito
You go back 15 years ago or so, there were zero Fortune 1000 companies offering that type of care. And if you go to last year, that number was closer to 75% of companies.
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Myrna Brown
Then in February of this year, the numbers began Shifting again.
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Dustin DeVito
So there's a 65% decline in Fortune 500 participation. And if you dig in a little bit deeper, you notice that trend is pretty consistent across the Fortune 1000. There was a 61% decrease across the whole Fortune 1000.
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Myrna Brown
DeVito attributes the shift to a changing political climate. Many companies dropped the HRC and its CEI Corporate Equality Index. The CEI scored companies and published the results. High scores earned praise, low scores, boycotts. But even as companies ditch the cei, many harmful policies they adopted remain and in some instances have been added to Soren. El Daco says that's why her message is so vital.
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Eldeco
I share this experience not for sympathy, but because decisions made in the boardrooms have consequences in operating rooms.
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Myrna Brown
She's hoping her recorded message reaches boardrooms and beyond.
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Eldeco
Well, I was envisioning a lot of businessmen, primarily because that's who I imagine are the ones who make decisions in these sort of stakeholder meetings. I also envision people who are shareholders in other ways, Right? Just regular, everyday people who care about this issue and are affiliated.
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Myrna Brown
Eldeco sees fault in company policies that facilitate. Facilitate gender surgeries.
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Eldeco
My mom's benefits package was underwriting my destruction because.
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Myrna Brown
And while it caused damage, it also helped prevent even more.
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Eldeco
Anyone who's ever known anything about a double mastectomy is that there are drains. Doctors are heavily involved. Well, my doctor sent me to an Airbnb for five days with no drains, and I experienced major bruising.
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Myrna Brown
El Daco says the botched job landed her back in the hospital.
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Eldeco
They had to cut my scars back open, sew in new drains or drains, period. Right. Because I didn't have them to begin with. And I had to manually express the blood from my chest for about a week afterward and tend to the wounds for another couple.
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Myrna Brown
Aldacko's mother still works for the company that paid for the double mastectomy in the first place.
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Eldeco
The thing is, the cognitive dissonance is strong because this company treats her right in a lot of other ways. So I'm in that camp where it's like, I don't think we should burn everything down. I think I have a pretty reasonable expectation, which is that they stop underwriting other young people's destruction.
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Myrna Brown
Dustin DeVito says it's possible, but it will take time.
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Dustin DeVito
Companies are not gonna have total neutrality overnight.
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Myrna Brown
But when the American Family association put repeated pressure on Apple to add device
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Dustin DeVito
protections for minors, and that second year, Apple came to the table, understanding their policy deficiencies a lot more clearly and ready to make changes, he says someone
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Myrna Brown
like Soren has an opportunity to engage companies in the right direction.
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Eldeco
I'm asking you to support this proposal.
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Myrna Brown
Eldacko is married now and shares her story with anyone who listens, always reflecting on the life changing decisions she made as a confused emotional preteen.
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Eldeco
I realized, okay, I can be uncomfortable by the idea of being a woman, I can change my pronouns, I can get a double mastectomy and it doesn't change reality. And in fact, if I sit with that discomfort with time, it might even go away. And it did.
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Mary Reichert
A Georgia handyman says high gas prices forced him to think so. Smaller Mali Hightower now gets around town and well, let's hear him tell it.
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Myrna Brown
I am inside my infamous Barbie camper.
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Daniel Serr
The Barbie Jeep.
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Mary Reichert
Yeah, the pint sized pink camper that started life as a broken power wheels toy somebody threw away. Hightower rescued it from the trash, installed a small gas engine, added lights, music, even a tablet screen.
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Ron Nevison
Everything that you would pretty much see in a real regular car.
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Mary Reichert
Like a regular car that doesn't not need 90 bucks to fill up.
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Myrna Brown
Gas is getting too high so I gotta do what I can.
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Mary Reichert
That's right, he says. The tiny camper still gets him from point A to point B, though maybe not with as much panache. But then again, the price of panache is a little rich these days. It's the World and Everything in It. Today is Thursday, May 21st. Thank you for turning to World Radio to help start your day. Good morning, I'm Mary Reichard.
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Myrna Brown
And I'm Erna Brown. Coming next on the World and everything in it. Remembering the late singer songwriter Dave Mason. He made a name for himself in the late 1960s and early 70s as an on again off again member of the band Traffic, but he became best known as a solo performer. Mason died in April at the age of 79. Ron Nevison was Mason's co producer throughout his commercial peak. World's music critic Arsenio Arteza talked with Nevison about Mason's time at the top.
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Arsenio Arteza
Dave Mason's solo career began in 1970 and it got off to a pretty good start. His debut album Alone Together went gold and two years later Joe Cocker scored a hit with with this Mason composition. But with the exception of a self titled gold album in 1974, Mason failed to make an impression for the next several years. Enter the audio engineer Ron Nevison. His work included the who's Quadrophenia and Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti. Nevison first worked with Mason on his 1976 album Certified Live. Columbia assumed that Nevison would need Mason and his band to do the retouching that was common for most live albums at the time. So an owner of the studio where Mason often recorded booked a boat to help the team mix business with pleasure. It turns out the business took care of itself.
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Ron Nevison
The album was recorded, you know, at the Universal Amphitheater in la and they wanted me to mix it and so I spent two weeks with Dave and his band. We thought we were gonna fix some stuff. In the end, we didn't fix anything. I mean, why do what? This is so well recorded and, you know, the band was great.
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Arsenio Arteza
But it was the next album that embedded Mason in 70s radio. Let It Flow went platinum. Only one of its three singles made the top 40. But the one that did remains a radio favorite to this day.
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Dave Mason
I'm going back to a place that's far away how about you? Have you got a place to stay? Why should I care?
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Arsenio Arteza
We Just Disagree was written by Mason's bandmate Jim Krieger. In an era characterized by lushly produced disco and R and B, the song was a breath of fresh air.
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Ron Nevison
When those harmonies hit you, it reminds me of of Beatles or reminds me of Crosby, Stills and Nash. It reminds me of these great vocal vocal things that, that transcend even the song. Sometimes, you know, that just it's a sonic thing that hits you.
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Arsenio Arteza
Nevison was promoted from mixer to co producer on Let It Flow, a role he reprised in 1978 for Mason's follow up Mariposa de Oro. It only went gold instead of platinum, but in every other way it's a better album. So Good To Be Home was one of several deep cuts that could have been an FM radio favorite. first, Nevison wasn't sure whether Mariposa de Oro would turn out as well as it did.
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Ron Nevison
I was worried when I got back together with him to do Mariposa de Oro that he had spent too much time buying houses and not enough time writing songs.
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Arsenio Arteza
Tell you the truth, Nevison worried in vain. Mason only wrote or Co wrote six of the 11 songs, but his were good and the songs by other writers were just as solid.
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Dave Mason
Where do the words come from when you leave them they make themselves so hard to use well, I wouldn't have a date with the blues if I could only find the words
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Donald Trump
well, my
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Dave Mason
friends they know that I love.
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Arsenio Arteza
But Nevison was right about one thing. Mason was buying houses, including a spacious Spanish style dwelling that turned out to be an ideal place to record.
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Ron Nevison
We actually pulled the Record Plant mobile truck to that house and did Mariposa de Oro remotely, the whole record.
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Arsenio Arteza
After the recording was done, Nevison and Mason mixed the album in North Miami. And from its California beginnings to its Florida consummation, Mariposa de Oro has a distinctly breezy, sun kissed sound. Its best known cut is a cover of a song by the Shirells.
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Dave Mason
Tonight the light of love is in your eyes. Will you still love me tomorrow?
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Arsenio Arteza
Unlike the original Will youl Still Love Me Tomorrow? Which comes in at under three minutes, Mason stretches past five. Edited for radio, the song spent two weeks on the top 40, thus sparing Mason the dreaded one hit wonder tag. It also features the album's most expansive use of strings.
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Ron Nevison
We were looking for something that would be fitting radio formats and so I like to have as much softer stuff just to kind of please the easy listening audience that Dave had had formed with. We just disagree.
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Arsenio Arteza
Nevison went on to produce successful albums for Jefferson Starship, Ozzy Osbourne and Hart, but he never worked with Mason again.
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Ron Nevison
But think about it. On a boat, doing one album, doing one album in a in a beautiful house in Malibu, staying on Palm island, mixing an album at Criteria Studios. It was quite an adventure with Dave.
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Arsenio Arteza
And in the music that Nevison made with Mason, that sense of adventure comes through. I'm arsenio orteza.
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Dave Mason
We all gotta go sometime sooner or later.
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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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Mary Reichert
And I'm Mary Reichardt. Recent revelations about selective prosecutions, uneven sentencing, and politically charged investigations are renewing an old debate in American life. Can the justice system stay truly blind to politics? World commentator Daniel Serr says equal justice under law means more than carving words into a marble building.
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Daniel Serr
Equal justice under law, that core principle of the American republic, is violated when political motivations result in unequal justice, when people are targeted not for what they have done, but for who they are. This week, President Trump, members of his family and the Trump Organization settled a lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service. The case arose out of the unlawful leak of confidential tax return information. The broader conversation surrounding that case has renewed debate about political retaliation, selective enforcement, and the growing use of lawfare in American Life. Vice President J.D. vance defended the administration's approach this week.
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J.D. Vance
This is about compensating Americans for the lawfare that we saw under the last administration. And by the way, anybody can apply for it. Republicans can apply for it. Democrats can apply for it.
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Daniel Serr
The issue reaches beyond any single case. The Department of Justice recently released a report examining enforcement of the freedom of access to clinic entrances or face act during the Biden administration. Congress originally passed the law as a bipartisan compromise. It created federal criminal penalties for obstructing or vandalizing abortion clinics, pro life pregnancy centers, and houses of worship. But according to the report, enforcement was far from even. During four years under President Biden, the Justice Department brought more than 20 cases against over 45 pro life demonstrators. Meanwhile, attacks on pro life pregnancy centers and churches after the Dobbs opinion leak and the Supreme Court's decision resulted in comparatively few prosecutions. The report also found that nonviolent pro life defendants often receive substantially harsher sentences than abortion activists charged under the same law. That is exactly the kind of unequal justice that damages public trust in the rule of law. Again, here's Vice President Vance.
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J.D. Vance
Let's not prosecute people because they said the wrong thing or because they had the wrong political candidate or because they had the wrong viewpoint. And I think part of that, part of turning the page on that, is to actually ensure the real victims of that lawfare receives some compensation.
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Daniel Serr
A healthy republic depends on citizens who are willing to participate in public life, to speak, organize, campaign, protest, serve in government, and stand publicly for what they believe. Theodore Roosevelt famously praised the man in the arena. But fewer people will enter the arena if they believe the legal system itself will be used as a weapon against them.
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J.D. Vance
We're trying to compensate people where the book was thrown at them. They were mistreated by the legal system.
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Daniel Serr
When public engagement carries the threat of crushing legal bills, aggressive prosecution, or years of investigation, many capable people simply decide it is safer to stay away from politics altogether. And that, my friends, is bad for any republic. Americans will always disagree passionately about abortion, elections, public morality, and political power. But equal justice requires that the law be applied evenhandedly, regardless of ideology or party. Otherwise, we drift toward a system where political identity, not equal protection, determines how aggressively laws are enforced. The old saying, often attributed to Stalin's secret police, captures the danger. Well, show me the man and I'll find you the crime. No free society can flourish under that kind of thinking. For world, I'm Daniel Sir.
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Mary Reichert
Tomorrow it's Culture Friday with John Stonestreet, and a new Star wars film hits theaters. We'll have a review of the Mandalorian and Grogu. That and more tomorrow. I'm Mary Reichardt.
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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 journaling that informs, educates, and inspires. The Bible says the heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps. Verse 9 of Proverbs 16 Go now in grace and peace.