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6.27.26 Culture Friday on socialism in the city, a review of F1, and Listener Feedback
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Myrna Brown
Good morning. A decade of same sex marriage. Trump goes off script. Or does he? And the surprising victory of a socialist in the Big Apple.
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Nick Eicher
Right, John Stonestreet is standing by for Culture Friday. Also today, Brad Pitt's latest film, a car racing movie meant to inspire. But our reviewer is not so sure.
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John Stonestreet
I'm not here to hold anyone's hand. I'm here to race. No, you're not. You're here to give me a heart attack.
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Myrna Brown
It's Friday, June 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 Eicher. Good morning.
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Myrna Brown
Up next, Kent Covington with Today's news.
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Kent Covington
The U.S. supreme Court has ruled that states can legally cut off Medicaid funding to abortion providers like Planned parenthood. In a 6 to 3 decision, the justices sided with South Carolina's health department, which had barred the abortion giant from receiving taxpayer funds. The court said Medicaid laws do not give patients the right to sue if their preferred provider is excluded. Pro life advocates in South Carolina hope the ruling pushes Planned Parenthood to close altogether. Valerie Berry with a moment of hope in Columbia. Almost everything that Planned Parenthood does is.
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Myrna Brown
Cheaper somewhere else, even if you're paying out of pocket.
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Kent Covington
She says the number of women visiting the facility has dropped since the state upheld its pro life law. Several other states have similar policies regarding Medicaid funding, including Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas. At the White House, President Trump held an event Thursday to rally support for his so called one big beautiful bill. The president said the legislation would, among other things, lock in tax cuts passed back in 2017 that would otherwise expire.
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Nick Eicher
We're going to stop the largest tax.
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John Stonestreet
Hike and we're going to do that in history.
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Kent Covington
Debate was expected to begin today in the Senate, but the bill still isn't ready. House conservatives are blasting the Senate, saying they won't accept a watered down version of the bill after the House already passed it. But White House National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett said with this kind of bill, it is always a bumpy ride at the end.
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John Stonestreet
We respect that process and we have high confidence that the majority leader is.
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Nick Eicher
Going to deliver a bill that can.
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John Stonestreet
Pass the Senate and pass the House.
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Nick Eicher
And on the 4th of July or even before.
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John Stonestreet
President Trump has got to sign the big beautiful bill.
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Kent Covington
The Senate parliamentarian rejected key sections aimed at limiting Medicaid costs. Those included provisions to block illegal immigrants from accessing Medicare and Medicaid. That ruling partially forced Republicans back to the drawing board. The Trump administration and Defense Officials offered new details Thursday about last weekend's airstrikes targeting key nuclear facilities in Iran. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Dan Kaine discussed the so called bunker buster bombs dropped on Iran's underground Fordo facility.
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Nick Eicher
The primary kill mechanism in the mission space was a mix of overpressure and blast, ripping through the open tunnels and destroying critical hardware. The majority of the damage we assessed based on our extensive modeling was a blast layer combined with the impulse extending from the shock.
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Kent Covington
And Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth blasted a recent media report suggesting that the strikes might have only set Iran's nuclear program back by a matter of months. That report cited a leaked preliminary assessment by one intelligence agency. Hegseth said of that assessment, it admits.
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John Stonestreet
Itself in writing that it requires weeks to accumulate the necessary data to make such an assessment.
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Myrna Brown
It's preliminary. It points out that it's not been coordinated with the intelligence community at all. There's low confidence in this particular report.
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Kent Covington
Senators yesterday emerged from a classified briefing with mixed reactions, mostly along party lines. GOP Senator Tom Cotton I think it's.
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John Stonestreet
Safe to say that we have struck a major blow alongside our friends in Israel against Iran's nuclear program.
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Kent Covington
But Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal says he's not convinced.
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John Stonestreet
My personal view, based on what I heard is Iran continues to be a threat.
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Kent Covington
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe Thursday both backed the conclusion that Iran's nuclear program was severely harmed. Israeli intelligence also backs that assessment. And Rafael Grossi, the head of the UN's nuclear watchdog agency, said this week that he believes Iran's nuclear program was set back significantly. Meantime, a ceasefire between Israel and Iran is holding, but Tehran is still waging a PR battle. Foreign Ministry spokesman Ismail Bugahi spoke ahead of scheduled talks between US and Iranian officials next week.
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Colin Garbarino
We have to make sure that whether the other parties are really serious when they're talking about diplomacy or it is again part of their tactics to make more problem for the region and for my country.
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Kent Covington
He called the US airstrikes a quote, horrible blow to diplomacy and international law. And Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, looking to project strength at home, made his first public statements since the start of the ceasefire, declaring the Islamic Republic delivered.
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John Stonestreet
A hard slap to America's face by attacking one of its key bases in the region. Al Udid airbase had inflicted damage.
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Kent Covington
But analysts largely regarded the missile strike against the Al Uid air base in Qatar as a token response to US airstrikes There were no casualties or significant damage. Wall street is hoping to keep a winning streak going today after stocks surged to the edge of another record on Thursday. World's Benjamin Eicher has more.
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Colin Garbarino
The S&P 500 rose 0.8 of 1%.
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John Stonestreet
Yesterday and finished just half a percentage point below its all time closing high set back in February.
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Colin Garbarino
The Dow Jones Industrial rallied 0.9% and.
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John Stonestreet
The Nasdaq gained a full percentage point.
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Colin Garbarino
McCormick helped lead the market after the seller of cooking spices delivered a better than expected profit report.
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John Stonestreet
Treasury yields fell after a few stronger than expected reports on the US Economy.
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Colin Garbarino
Including a drop in jobless claims and.
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John Stonestreet
An increase in orders for long lasting goods. Stock markets in Europe and Asia ended.
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Colin Garbarino
The day with mixed results.
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John Stonestreet
For WORLD I'm Benjamin Eicher.
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Kent Covington
And I'm Kent Covington. Straight ahead, Culture Friday with Johnst. Plus comments and suggestions from you on listener feedback. This is the WORLD and everything in it.
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Myrna Brown
It's Friday, the 27th of June. Glad to have you along for today's edition of the WORLD and Everything In It. Good morning. I'm Myrna Brown.
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Nick Eicher
And I'm Nick Eicher. It's CULTURE Friday. Joining us now, John Stonestreet, the president of the Colson center and host of the Breakpoint Podcast. John, good morning to you.
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John Stonestreet
Good morning.
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Nick Eicher
Well, here we are. It's Friday morning and in just a few hours, we expect the US Supreme Court will issue the final decisions of this current term. One of those may be the most culturally significant. It's a case that will decide whether parents have a right to opt their young children out of public school, instruction that they believe is harmful, in particular, lessons on sexuality and gender identity. Now, this comes just a day after the 10th anniversary of Obergefell v. Hodges. That was yesterday. It's another Supreme Court decision that redefined marriage nationwide 10 years after Obergefell. We're now asking whether parents even have the right to guide how and when their children come into contact with these contested moral ideas. John, it seems that there is a straight line between Obergefell and the parental rights decision that the court is poised to announce today. What are your reflections on this cultural and legal moment?
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John Stonestreet
Well, it's interesting on a number of levels. I think the two are absolutely related, and I'll tell you why in just a second. But I also think that it's important to remember what the decision actually was. Not only that it mandated same sex marriage on all of the United States, including 30 some states that had defined marriage otherwise as between a man and a woman as civilizations had always defined it, including civilizations that had no influence whatsoever from a Judeo Christian morality. So what has Obergefell wrought? Justice Kennedy told us at the time that the real reason that we needed to have same sex marriage is because we were a more tolerant, more moral, more more accepting and loving people. Because marriage in and of itself was not inherently connected to procreation. That's an argument that's now been extended in many ways, but it was instead an argument that was primarily about adult happiness. So what we were told is that Obergefell would then extend the definition of marriage to include this other relational arrangement. But the net result has been by extending it, it redefined it. And it redefined it by making irrelevant the number two. The only reason that the number two is important in a marriage is because we're talking about man and woman, man and woman, who, as Jesus put it, could become one flesh. That's not a Christian reality, that's just a reality. In other words, it's a procreative union. And that's why every county clerk and every state law wanted to know if the man and the woman were, you know, related anyway, if they were of certain age before issuing a marriage license. But if there is no inherent connection between marriage and procreation, then the number two becomes irrelevant. If we're talking about two men or two women, there's no reason we can't be talking about three or four or a mixture of the two, because it's not inherently connected. And what we have seen downstream from Obergefell is that the redefining of marriage meant the redefining of family. And then what happened really quickly, even though we were promised that this decision had nothing to do with procreation or children or parenting, but was just really about adult happiness, is that all these couples that were in this new arrangement of adult happiness then demanded children. Now, how is this connected to this case about whether parents have the right to remove their children from teaching that they consider to be explicit or obscene or inappropriate for them? Well, listen, if you start saying that not only does love make a marriage, but love makes a family, and therefore what we've seen now biology is irrelevant and quote, unquote, love makes appearance, well, then it's basically who loves and who cares for our kids more. And the state inserts itself in that conversation and says that the will of the parents is actually less important than the will of the state. And those family bonds between mom and dad and child, what G.K. chesterton called that triangle of truisms, has been dramatically weakened both in law and, and in the cultural imagination from Obergefell. So there was a whole bunch of upstream things to this law, and there's been a whole lot of downstream things from this law. Obergefell has radically changed our understanding of the relationship between moms, dads and kids and introduced all kinds of other parties in the middle of it. And it hasn't, obviously hasn't been good for kids.
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Nick Eicher
Well, John, I think we've got to talk about this one. It really was, in some ways the story of the week, the US Launching a surprising and forceful strike on Iran over the the weekend, the past weekend, by Tuesday, we had a ceasefire in that conflict. So we'll see, I guess, in time, how effective the operation really was. But clearly it had an effect. But alongside the military action, a cultural story, one that caught fire. That was President Trump's reaction to the ceasefire. He was speaking in front of Marine One. It was just hours after ordering that strike, he dropped a bomb of a different kind, an F bomb. Not in private, not off mic, but on camera. Deliberately and unapologetically. Now, some people will dismiss this as just a word, but I cannot recall ever hearing a sitting president use language like that publicly and proudly. He said it. He turned away and walked away. Like a mic drop moment. John, what do you make of that?
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John Stonestreet
Yeah, I think it's a little bit different than the hot mic moment for President Biden. This was just brazen. It was direct. It was clearly out of frustration. And, you know, I guess this, one of my colleagues said it. You never really have to worry what he's thinking, do you? He just kind of says it out loud. That's the. The case. Coy is not an adjective that you would use for the man. But also, listen, it should shock our sensibilities. And I think it's something that we have so many people telling us that it shouldn't, that tells us something about the state of our culture. And we're a much more coarse culture. It is not unusual now to hear that word dropped consistently. Have, for example, the networks censored by the federal government. You've got Netflix and Hulu and all of these workarounds. And so, you know, series that are otherwise the same as you would have watched network television 10 years ago are full of these sorts of language bombs. And you also hear it out in public all the time. You go to a sporting event, you hear it all the time. Now, some of this is not new, but it's all a lot worse than it was five or 10 or 15 years ago. And words matter, especially within a Christian worldview, words matter. That word in particular, and the reason that word in particular matters is because it's referring to something in reality that is a sacred good gift from God. And when that act is actually corrupted in real life, we know that it brings great harm and great damage. And because the center of the Christian worldview is that words created the world, God's words first and foremost, and we're made in his image. And our words have incredible power. When we denigrate something that's sacred, whether indeed or in word, then it will have consequences. And I think we're a way worse culture because we accept that sort of coarse language. And I don't think that's the same thing as being prudish. I don't think it's the same thing as being old fashioned or traditional. There's a time and a place, there's a professionalism, and this wasn't it. And it does say an awful lot. I think when you have that coming from, you know, kind of the dominant American spokesperson, there's better ways to communicate. And I wish you would have used those better ways.
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Myrna Brown
Well, John, the political world is still digesting what happened, what just happened in New York City and learning how to pronounce a new name. So here goes Zoran Mamdani. He's a 33 year old self described Democratic socialist and he's won the Democratic primary for mayor defeating former governor Andrew Cuomo. So that makes Mamdani the odds on favorite to become the next mayor of America's largest city. And you know, this was no fluke. He went from near zero in the polls to a decisive win. And he was powered by a massive grassroots ground game and endorsements from progressives like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez. His platform, hard left all the way. Here's his pitch.
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John Stonestreet
I'll freeze the rent for millions of tenants, make buses fast and free and deliver universal childcare. And before you ask, I'll pay for.
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Nick Eicher
It by taxing the rich.
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Myrna Brown
So John, some are calling this a litmus test for the future of the Democratic Party. Others see it as part of a broader cultural and political realignment. So John, what do you make of this surprising win and what it might mean beyond New York?
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John Stonestreet
Oh, this is an enormous story if you ask me. I think it's incredible that in the city where 911 took place, now less than 25 years later, after Muslims perpetrated that disaster on New York City, a Muslim is now the leading candidate for mayor in that same city. That is a stunning development. That says an awful lot. I was incredibly concerned when you hear his explanation and really justification and rationalization for the chant globalize the intifada, basically giving you the critical theory answer that it really is just a cry of the oppressed and it should be justified. So now in that city where 911 happened, but you also have a city with a disproportionately high population of Jewish citizens and you have then someone rationalizing or justifying a call for genocide against those people. And he might be able to dismiss it, but I think it's highly concerning because where it leaves us is the significance and importance of worldview. You mentioned self described socialist here. Clearly he's referring to kind of a critical theory sort of framework that he's applying to clear hate speech and a call for genocide. So that means at best, at best he is a woke socialist. At worst, he's one of those candidates that have dominated London politics for the last decade or so. Muslim candidates that move into the city and start doing things to increase ties, create space for radical Muslims, penalize any critiques of Islam whatsoever, criminalize it in the name of hate speech and speech codes. So that's what we have to I think really watch out for is what kind of candidate here are we talking about? Are we talking about a westernized, progressivized, woke ized Muslim candidate? Are we talking about someone who is deeply committed to Muslim tenants? You know that's the thing is the promise of free buses and free childcare and free city run grocery stores that are basically subsidized. Yes, that is a far left socialist strategy. It's also an Islamic strategy. It's also when you see, you know, basically Muslims move into a city and deal with poverty, it all becomes state controlled and then it becomes redistributed. I think it shows us that worldview matters and which worldview we're talking about remains unclear, but it'll matter. What's the answer to that question?
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Myrna Brown
John Stonestreet, President of the coast center and host of the Breakpoint podcast. Thanks again John.
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John Stonestreet
Thank you both.
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Kent Covington
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Myrna Brown
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Nick Eicher
Nick Iker coming next on the world and everything in it. Fast cars, flawed character Brad Pitt hits the gas in the new summer film that blends high speed thrills with a familiar storyline. He plays an aging speedster trying to rescue a failing Formula one team. But at what cost? Here is World Arts and Culture editor Colin Garbarino.
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John Stonestreet
Ever seen a miracle? Not yet.
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Colin Garbarino
In F1, Brad Pitt stars as Sonny Hayes, a veteran racer willing to drive any kind of car in any kind of race. But despite his skill behind the wheel, he's been out of formula racing for 30 years. Then his old friend Ruben, played by Javier Bardem, shows up asking for a favor. Reuben owns a struggling Formula one team called Apex GP and he wants Sonny to drive for him. Reuben's desperate. If he doesn't win one of the next nine races, his board will force him to sell the team.
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Nick Eicher
You've got an entire assembly line of.
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Colin Garbarino
Kids raised on the simulator.
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Myrna Brown
No, I don't have time for some.
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John Stonestreet
Kid to learn how to come in 10.
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Myrna Brown
I don't.
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John Stonestreet
Well, you don't just walk off the.
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Nick Eicher
Street and pilot a rocket.
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John Stonestreet
Yes, you can if you've done it before.
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Colin Garbarino
Not everyone at Apex is happy to see Sonny Damson. Idris plays the team's number one driver, Joshua Pearce. Joshua's confidence is already shaky due to Apex's poor performance, and having the coolly confident Sonny strutting around the garage further unnerves him. A rivalry quickly develops between the talented rookie and the battle tested veteran. When was the last time you won a race?
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Myrna Brown
Sunday.
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Kent Covington
Daytona.
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Nick Eicher
Oh, I'm sorry, I meant Formula One.
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John Stonestreet
Oh, I'm sorry then. Same as you.
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Colin Garbarino
F1's central conflict revolves around this intergenerational rivalry. Sonny and Joshua must learn to trust each other and work as a team to give Apex a win. What's the difference between Joshua Pierce and Sonny Hayes? A lot of decades hard won experience.
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John Stonestreet
Of living in a van.
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Nick Eicher
Says the guy still lives with his mom.
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Colin Garbarino
This basic plot, in which a grizzled veteran shows a young kid the ropes, might remind you of 2022's Top Gun Maverick. There's a good reason for that. The two films share the same creative team. Moreover, like Top Maverick, F1 is technically splendid and the film is best seen on an IMAX screen. You can almost feel the G forces as the cars race around corners at ludicrous speeds. Much of the filming took place during the 2023 Formula One season, and the movie is filled with glimpses of real racing teams and cameos of top racers like Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen. Racing fans will also appreciate the scenes filmed in authentic F1 training and design centers. Innovative cameras capture Pitt and Idris doing their own driving behind the wheels of modified formula cars. Some folks might appreciate that this film gets a little technical about the importance of tire condition and the intricacies of Formula One's rules. But die hard fans will wonder why no one questions whether Sonny has the FIA superlicense needed for competition.
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Nick Eicher
I'm sorry, Ruben, for demolishing not one.
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John Stonestreet
But both of your lovely cars. For coming back into your life only to destroy it. Is this your revenge for Monaco? Yeah. I waited 30 years and came all this way to humiliate myself on global television.
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Colin Garbarino
Despite an abundance of PG13 language, the film is fun to watch. But honestly, the story doesn't contain many surprises. It sticks to the same formula, no pun intended, used by just about every other racing movie. Have you seen Ford versus Ferrari, Gran Turismo or even Pixar's cars? If so, you more or less know what to expect. However, the film struggles to find the prerequisite bad guy. There's no grudges or rivalries with the other teams. Perhaps none of those real life racers wanted to be depicted as jerks. Instead, the movie's tension comes from within the team.
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John Stonestreet
Listen, he's cocky, he's arrogant, he's got a lot to learn. You were cocky, you were arrogant and you had a lot to learn. I'm not here to hold anyone's hand. Here to race. No, you're not, Sonny. You're here to give me a heart attack.
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Colin Garbarino
There's nothing wrong with the theme of developing teamwork to achieve a goal. But F1 has some dubious morality. And I'm not even talking about Sonny's love affair with the team's female technical director. Winning is so important to Sonny that he's willing to race dirty. At times he employs a brilliant and creative strategy, but it's still dirty. The film also glorifies the pursuit of personal passion at the expense of others. We're meant to admire Sonny's single mindedness, but essentially he's left home and family behind for the sake of racing. The movie thinks it's being inspiring, but in the end I felt a little sad watching an old man sacrifice relationships to chase fleeting feelings. I'm Colin Carborel.
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Nick Eicher
Today is Friday, June 27th. Good morning, this is the world and everything in it from listener Supported World Radio. I'm Nick Iger.
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Myrna Brown
And I'm Myrna Brown. Up next, listener feedback for the month of June. We start things off with Sally Broge from Widensville, Massachusetts. She sends these comments on Culture Friday from last week. In the Culture Friday segment on June 20, John Stonestreet gave an overview of what Islamic teachings say about the annihilation of non believers. It made me think of my Islamic co worker who seems to be a caring, friendly and well educated, great co worker. So I thought that it may be important to make a distinction that in both Christianity and in Islam, there are both true believers and cultural believers. We understand that true believers in the Islamic faith will want to kill and destroy anyone who has not expressed fidelity to Muhammad. However likely, there are many people who call themselves Islamic who are only culturally Islamic. Perhaps my co worker who may not even know these teachings of the Quran. The contrast between the two faiths still exists. One faith teaches to kill the non believers, while the other faith wants to save non believers. But I think it's important for us.
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Colin Garbarino
To recognize that some people who say they're Islamic may actually not be Islamic.
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Myrna Brown
Of course, as Christians, we want to love and show love to all people.
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Colin Garbarino
And hopefully get a chance to share the gospel.
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Myrna Brown
Thanks very much again. God bless you all.
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Nick Eicher
Well, next, physician Amy Givler. She had a comment on our June 10th story on the California riots. In the setup to the report, I used the phrase suspected illegals, and that didn't sit well.
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Myrna Brown
As a physician, my ears perked up because I'm very sensitive to language that labels a human being by a characteristic they have or a behavior they have. In medicine, we call that person first language, and person first language means that I'm training myself to say the person with diabetes rather than saying the diabetic or he is struggling with drug addiction. Rather than saying he is a drug addict. When I say that, I was saying basically he equals drug addict. But he is a person. He is made in the image of God, a human being, and so much more than his drug addiction. So likewise, people who are in the United States illegally are not illegals because that robs them of their humanity.
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Nick Eicher
Well, that's a fair point. Of course, word choice does matter. I did write back to Dr. Gibler, and part of what I said in the letter I will share here, namely that I meant the phrase not as a label but as a journalistic shorthand for suspected illegal entrants or suspected illegal aliens. The aim there was not to dehumanize but to reflect using word economy, a legal category that was relevant to the story and the actions that ICE was taking. Now it was a four and a half minute report already quite dense with legal terminology, and we were trying to avoid piling up technical phrases that could bog down the story or make the audience harder to follow. But that said, the reminder is helpful. We always do want to speak with truth and with grace, recognizing the image of God in all people while at the same time accurately describing the issues at hand. So Dr. Givler, thank you for taking the time to raise the point. It is well taken.
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Myrna Brown
Well. Next listener Becky Manring appreciated Andrew Walker's commentary on Christian elites and she offered this antidote. Colossians 2, 6 and 7 says therefore as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving. There is a shameful lack of rootedness in Christ and His Word in the family of God, and Mr. Walker's assessment, I believe, ties directly to the surveys that the world and everything in it discussed on Friday, June 13th from Arizona Christian University's Cultural Research Center. We listeners heard the results that stated only 6% of self identified Christians actually live and think in ways that align with the biblical worldview. So really, is it any wonder that Mr. Walker found a dearth of faithfulness in the evangelical elite? I believe that we need to exhort ourselves with the Word of God, not blog posts to demand of ourselves to be in churches that preach from actual scripture, not settle for online recordings to encourage one another not with memes, but with Bible verses to root us in the Word. And we certainly need to pray that the Holy Spirit will fill our hearts with the mind of Christ to truly walk in him. We must ring aloud again Solas Christus sola scriptura, sola fide, sola gratia soli. Dear Gloria, to God be the glory. Well, a couple more comments from listeners. Next we head to Dallas, Texas, where Michaela Meyer lives. She expresses gratitude for the recent interview with novelist Andrew Clavin. I'm a painter doing an artist residency here through a ministry called Transform Arts and I just wanted to thank you for your interview with Andrew Clavin and share how it impacted me as a Christian artist. It's been a challenge to navigate the art world because it feels like you always have one foot in two conflicting ideologies. I loved Clavin's emphasis on truth, transcending the divide between the sacred and the secular and the humility it takes to.
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Colin Garbarino
See that God reveals things to non.
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Myrna Brown
Believers that I as a Christian hadn't seen. It has made me more curious and hopeful about the future of our culture because I believe that God is pouring out his words on a multitude of artists, even if they aren't fully aware of the source of their inspiration. Thank you for all that you do. Bye.
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Nick Eicher
All right, one more call this morning. This one from Matt Brown, who lives in Tucson, Arizona.
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John Stonestreet
Just listen to everything in it today. This is Thursday, June 12th. And I wanted to say that the segment Myrna Brown did with this woman who's building tiny house in Alabama represents a can do attitude and a proactive approach to this housing crisis that is just absolutely impressive. Inspirational Kudos to Myrna Brown.
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Colin Garbarino
And also the segment by Cal Thomas.
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John Stonestreet
On Vietnam Saigon orphans that came to the U.S. deeply, deeply moving. And it's just heartwarming and refreshing to hear stories of that nature that remind us of what we can do and how we can impact and change lives. So thanks so much to Cal Thomas for that segment.
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Nick Eicher
Well, thanks to everyone who wrote and called this month. It's great to hear from you. We're grateful that you take the time to share your thoughts with us and just as grateful when you share your resources. Those gifts are what keep this program coming to you each day. We are now in the home stretch of our June giving drive. Today, the weekend and Monday, and then we close the books. Now here is the simple reality, the depth and reach of our reporting travel pretty much at the pace your generosity allows. Every gift extends, the miles we can travel, the interviews we can conduct, the writing and editing hours that we can devote to getting each story just so.
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Myrna Brown
Right. So if you've benefited from the world and everything in it or from world's wider coverage, would you make that known by contributing to our June giving drive? Every gift makes a difference. A few dollars or quite a few dollars, it all comes together to fuel biblically grounded journalism for the year ahead. WNG.org JuneLivingDrive that's the place to go. And again, thanks for helping us keep truth in front of listeners every day.
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Nick Eicher
If you have a comment to share, you can email editorng.org that's editorng.org you can include an audio file attachment to your email and we will consider that for air. You can even phone it in at 202-709-9595.
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Myrna Brown
And that's listener feedback for the month of June.
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Nick Eicher
All right, time now to name name the team who helped to make it happen this week. Mary Reichard, David Bonson, Jenny Ruff, Bethel McGrew, Emma Eicher, Leo Braceno, Mary Muncie, Amy Lewis, Janie B. Cheney, Lauren Canterbury, Grace Snell, Cal Thomas, John Stonestreet and Colin Garbarino. Thanks also to our breaking news team, Kent Covington, Mark Mellinger, Christina Griffin, Travis Kercher, Steve Klosterman and Lindy Langdon. And thanks to the moonlight maestros, the guys who stay up late to get the program to you early, Ben Jeicher and Carl Peetz. Harrison Waters is Washington producer, Lindsay Mast and Lee Jones standing in as features editors. Paul Butler is executive producer and Les Sillers editor in chief. I'm 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. The Bible says, put not your trust in princes, in a son of man in whom there is no salvation. When his breath departs, he returns to the earth. On that very day, his plans perish. Verses 3 and 4 of Psalm 146, your weekly reminder here. Go to a Bible believing church this weekend. The Christian life is to be lived together, be encouraged and be an encourager. And Lord willing, we'll be right back here with you on Monday. Go now in grace and peace.
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John Stonestreet
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