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The World and Everything In It
8.8.25 Culture Friday on what kids need, a review of Sketch, and urban artists in Spain
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Myrna Brown
Good morning. Today, parental rights under pressure. California debating a bill that could let school staff override moms and dads. And a loophole in Pennsylvania allows a sex offender to gain custody of a child.
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Nick Eicher
John Stonestreet is back. He is standing by for Culture Friday. Also today, a family film about grief, healing and the good that makes the bad bearable. If you don't carry the good with, then it's just gonna make the bad stronger. Later, a weekend challenge. Get outside and draw the beauty. You see.
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Myrna Brown
It's Friday, August 8th. 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, Marc Mellinger with today's news.
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Mark Mellinger
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel intends to take full control of the Gaza Strip temporarily. Israel already controls about three fourths of Gaza. The goal of taking full control is to dismantle Hamas, then control would later be handed back over to friendly Arab forces. Netanyahu tells Fox News, I don't want.
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John Stonestreet
To occupy Gaza forever.
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Mark Mellinger
I don't want to govern Gaza. I want to have a different governance.
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Nick Eicher
There that basically is willing to live in peace with Israel and give Gazans a different future.
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Mark Mellinger
Netanyahu's security cabinet met Thursday to discuss different options for handling a temporary occupation of Gaza. Some former top Israeli officials have come out against the plan, fearing it could turn into a quagmire with little military benefit. Some families of hostages still in Hamas captivity are also worried about what an Israeli takeover in Gaza could mean for their loved ones, and they protested outside the security cabinet meeting in Jerusalem. President Trump says he is willing to meet with Russian leader Vladimir Putin even if Putin won't meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The US And Russia are trying to work out a summit between Trump and Putin as soon as next week, possibly in the United Arab Emirates, though there's no final decision yet on a location. Trump says he'll do whatever he can to stop the killing in Russia's war with Ukraine, even if it means holding the summit without a commitment from Putin to expand talks to include Zelensky. Today is the date Trump had set as the deadline for Moscow to show progress toward ending the Ukraine war or face tougher economic sanctions. When asked if the deadline still holds, Trump said of Putin, we're going to.
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John Stonestreet
See what he has to say.
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Nick Eicher
It's going to be up to him. Very disappointed.
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Mark Mellinger
Putin is already trying to temper hopes about the outcome of the possible meeting, saying all disappointments arise from excessive expectations the summit would be Trump's first sit down with Putin since the start of his second term. President Trump says he's directed the Commerce Department to begin work on a new U.S. census that excludes unauthorized immigrants from the population count. He made that announcement in a social media post Thursday. Historically, the constitutionally mandated census has counted everyone living in the country every 10 years, regardless of their immigration status. It's unclear if Trump is asking for changes to the normally scheduled 2030 census or if he's pushing for an additional census before then. Either way, census experts tell the Associated Press, his directive will set off legal fights. The FBI is actively searching for Democratic Texas state lawmakers breaking quorum and refusing to show up for a vote on a Republican led redistricting plan roughly 60 lawmakers went MIA on Sunday, claiming the plan, designed to give the GOP five additional U.S. house seats, amounts to gerrymandering. Without a quorum, the legislature cannot conduct business. Civil arrest warrants were already issued. But Thursday, Texas governor Greg Abbott said the FBI is now also working to track down the Democrats who fled the state. State Rep. Mahala Plisa tells the Will Kane show she has no intention of going back.
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Nick Eicher
I will not return to Texas by tomorrow. This is much bigger than Texas. I am willing to take votes when Republicans are showing that they're not doing the bidding of Donald Trump and that they're focused on Texans and Texas voters.
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Mark Mellinger
But White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller says gerrymandering should be nothing new to Democrats at every level of this country. Illinois, Chicago, New York, Massachusetts Democrats have gerrymandered the vote beyond recognition to try to maintain their advantage in the House elections. Abbott said. Any Democratic lawmakers who are arrested will immediately be transported back to the state Capitol. Efforts to redraw congressional boundaries are now springing up in other red states like Florida and Indiana. But as World's Travis Kercher reports, some blue states could be pushing back.
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John Stonestreet
Vice President J.D. vance was in Indiana yesterday trying to sell President Donald Trump's plan for Republican run states to take part in early redistricting. Local media outlet WTHR reported that hundreds of demonstrators gathered in Indiana's statehouse to protest the redistricting proposal. Indiana GOP leaders didn't commit to redistricting, but say they'll continue conversations. Republican leaders in Florida also announced yesterday that they would begin redistricting efforts. Several Democrat led states have responded by saying that they may start efforts to redraw congressional boundaries as well. For World, I'm Travis Kercher.
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Mark Mellinger
Despite warning signs starting to show up in some data. President Trump insists the US Economy is solid under his watch. Trump invited reporters to the Oval Office Thursday, where conservative economist Steve Moore flipped through charts designed to show the president is stewarding the economy well. Among Moore's claims that Trump was right to fire Bureau of Labor statistics director Erica McIntar last week because the bureau overestimated the number of jobs created during the last two years of Joe Biden's term by one and a half million. That's a gigantic error.
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John Stonestreet
And I don't know if she's.
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Nick Eicher
I'm not. Might not have been an error. That's the bad part. It was an error.
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John Stonestreet
That would be one thing.
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Mark Mellinger
I don't think it's an error.
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Nick Eicher
I think they did it purposely.
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Mark Mellinger
Democrats have criticized the president's firing of macintar, with one senator accusing Trump of weaponizing the bureau. Trump's facing consistently tough economic headlines for the first time in his second term, with job growth slowing and inflation rising. The stock market, however, has performed solidly. I'm Mark Mellinger. Straight ahead, John Stonestreet is standing by for Culture for Friday. Plus, a monster movie with an important message. This is the World and everything in it.
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Myrna Brown
It's Friday, August 8th. 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 Iger. It's Culture Friday. John Stonestreet is back. He's president of the Colson center and host of the Breakpoint Podcast. Good morning and welcome back, John.
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John Stonestreet
Good to be back. Thanks so much.
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Nick Eicher
Glad to have you. Hey, John. A controversial piece of legislation sitting in the California State Senate. It is one that critics say could strip away parental rights and open the door to child trafficking. This bill is called the Family Preparedness Plan act of 2025, Assembly Bill 495. It's pitched as a compassionate safeguard for children whose parents might find themselves suddenly detained or deported. So you can kind of see what's driving the push for this. But opponents are warning the bill would allow virtually anyone claiming a mentoring relationship with a child to assume legal authority. Doesn't no parental consent, no background check required at all. In Southern California, pastor Jack Hibbs is sounding the alarm. He is hoping in just a few days to rally at least 5,000 people to the state Capitol. And he's got a blunt message. Let's listen to it. I have to tell you, if this.
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Mark Mellinger
Bill passes, I am going to ask you to leave the state of California. You're gonna need to Pack up and you're gonna have to get out.
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John Stonestreet
You gotta get out. You gotta run with your kids. You gotta go.
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Nick Eicher
If this bill passes, you gotta go.
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John Stonestreet
I would not subject my child to.
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Nick Eicher
One second in this public school system with this new law, AB495. So, John, you've said something similar about your own state of Colorado, that if your kids were younger, you wouldn't stay in Colorado over laws that undermine parental authority like this. So I figured this might resonate with you. Is this bad in California?
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John Stonestreet
It is really that bad, and it's really this bad in Colorado. And it's not just because there are laws that undermine parental authority. There are laws that are actually inserting state officials and government entities in between kids and parents and not just undermining parental authority. Removing parental authority, replacing parental authority. Look, it's just an amazing thing how they title these bills. What about this is preparing a family for anything? Again, it's a replacement of a family. The fact that you're talking about that this applies to those whose parents might be deported and that this is really an immigration issue without drawing any lines, for example, between citizens and non citizens, without drawing any lines between which government officials. So now you have basically carte blanche potential for school officials, which in California, for the record, they already have done. One of the first stories I heard about a government official basically over the gender issue, removing a kid from her parents and actually forbidding her mom to see her daughter unless she never talked about Christianity, faith, or going to church. I mean, that was in California, and that was just done bureaucratically, right through the unchecked power of state officials there. When it comes to child protective services, we would not still be in Colorado, given the language that is already used now. We kind of think, well, look, is there a role then that people like us have to play in keeping this harm away from other people and other citizens? You know, Pastor Hibbs is exactly right that this is a big deal. And what he's really reflecting on here is just how the vibe shift that so many people are talking about. You know, kind of the political new day that some of these ideas that were basically out of control on a national level that have been turned around in recent days, that this isn't the same thing as cultural renewal. This is not like these things have stopped. Blue states are getting bluer, red states are getting redder. And what bluer means and what redder means, you know, is becoming more and more clear, and there are divides on fundamental issues. I just keep going back to you have people now in power passing laws where looking at the exact same thing, so called gender affirming care. One side calls it mutilation, the other side calls it life saving. I mean, we're just on such different pages and the policies are reflecting how different these worldviews are.
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Nick Eicher
Well, sticking to the subject of parents and children, John, a disturbing story out of Pennsylvania that raises urgent questions about the state surrogacy laws and about the broader breakdown of protections for children. A registered sex offender recently obtained of a newborn through a private surrogacy arrangement. The offender that we're talking about here was convicted of soliciting a teenage student while he was working as a high school teacher. So that's who we're talking about. But because Pennsylvania law doesn't require background checks or court oversight for contracts like these, there was nothing in place to prevent it. So is this just a kind of an unintended consequence loophole, or do you see a broader issue here?
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John Stonestreet
This kind of thing, where adults get what they want, no matter what is best for children, is not a bug of artificial reproductive technologies as the industry is built. It's a feature. And if you want to talk about the ideological foundations of it, it's the, the idea of birth control that this now becomes basically another process, another technology, another thing that will provide for us what we want. There was a remarkable piece in the Free Press a week or so ago by Madeleine Kearns talking about her own journey through infertility and how she was treated not through ivf, which almost all the doctors had told her was her only option, but through a medical practice that is emerging in which some of these things that have rendered women infertile are able to be treated and reversed. And it's been an incredible health benefit for her, according to her article. And it struck me as I was seeing that article and comparing it to this story, how in vitro fertilization, for example, but really surrogacy and the larger artificial reproductive technology movement, regardless of the ethical challenges of the practice itself, is what the medicine actually is aiming at doing. She talked about a doctor who for the first time was interested in treating this condition in her body. The other medical professionals who said IVF was her only option for them, the problem that they were trying to treat is that she couldn't get what she wanted in terms of a child. Now, there is a big, big difference if the purpose of medicine is to give everyone what they want. So if you want to have sex and you don't want to have a baby, birth control if you want to have a baby, but you're not able to ivf, which if you think about it, IVF does not treat a woman's infertility. IVF is a workaround to a woman's infertility. She remains infertile. But there are treatments that can actually help. And here you have the ultimate example of that. Because all of this is done in the context of the sexual revolution which has become this movement to enable at every level of society sexual autonomy. So if two men who have chosen to have an intentionally sterile union cannot have a child that they want, let's call it infertility, it's not infertility. The men aren't infertile. The process is sterile. That's two completely different things. But again, this industry is about giving adults what they want. And when you are all about giving adults what they want, it's just kind of a, gosh, it's a footnote whether one of the adults that wants something is a registered sex offender or not, isn't it? I mean, that's not really relevant to the whole process. So that's what I mean. This is a feature of the whole industry to give adults exactly what they want. And that is not something that will ever be aligned with the rights and well being of children.
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Myrna Brown
Well, John, for decades there's been a narrative of decline of marriage in America. Rising divorce, single parenthood, fewer people tying the knot. But a new report from the Institute for Family Studies suggests that narrative may be changing. Now, this is Brad Wilcox's group, a powerful expert on marriage and family. The study is titled Is Marriage Back? Divorce is down. Family stability is up. Here are a few key takeaways. Divorce is now at a 50 year low. More kids are being raised by married parents. The biggest improvements in family stability are among black and lower income families. But while marriage is rebounding for children, it's still flatlining for adults, especially younger adults. So John, you know, I really don't want to ask whether you're in agreement with Brad Wilcox, but you know, I am curious about one of the findings that that the marriage comeback is benefiting kids even more than the adults raising them. Why do you suppose that is?
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John Stonestreet
Well, look, at the end of the day, this is fascinating to watch and hopefully this will be part of the vibe shift, one that will take it beyond just kind of rejecting what's bad to reattaching ourselves as individuals and a society to things that are actually good. And that gets at the heart of this. There's nuances here and there's details here, and there's demographic differences, you know, whether you're talking about this age group or that age group. But what all of this comes back to and the reason that this is good for kids is that there's been a cultural lie that has permeated the sexual revolution from the beginning. And there was no better example of it than with no fault divorce and also intentionally single homes. You might remember that ridiculous moment in American political history where a real life political candidate, Dan Quayle, had a public spat with someone who didn't actually exist in real life, Murphy Brown. And this idea was, if adults want it, and it goes right back to what we were talking about in the previous answer, if adults want it, they should be able to get it. Okay, so that's where we're at. The form of that myth is, oh, well, kids need loving parents, not a mom and a dad. Or, you know, well, if two loving parents are good for kids, think of how good four will be or five will be in order to endorse polyamorous parenting. Now that was said back then when there was no data. The data is overwhelming. And Brad Wilcox has been one of the ones that's been most public in sharing the data. But I mean, the definitive work of the legacy of divorce on children and the importance of marriage for children is the Unexpected Legacy of Divorce by Judith Wallerstein, who studied this issue for 40 years, for 0 years, and compared basically the devastation that divorce carries for children to something akin to the catastrophic nature of the Holocaust for children. It wasn't that bad because nothing is. But the closest you get is that, in other words, this all points to something and that is that marriage is built into the fabric of the universe. It's not a social construct that, you know, now that we're more tolerant of alternative sexual relationships, we can socially construct a new definition of marriage. And therefore by doing that, you know, rework socially what we think a parent should be. All the data has pointed to a long time that kids do better when they are raised in a home with biological married mom and dad. And all the data has pointed and sometimes to the fact that mom's mom and dad's dad and dads don't mom and moms don't dad. That really moms and dads bring unique things. So when you talk about married biological mom and dad, every adjective there that you take away decreases what's good for children. And so that's what this continues to reflect. I think there is a way that you can suppress reality and when it comes to marriage and sexuality and children. We've suppressed it for a really long time. But as one of my apologist friends likes to say, you know, reality is like the beach ball. You can push it under the pool, but then it keeps coming back up. And if you're trying to push six or seven or eight beach balls under the water, you're not going to be successful. Reality wins. And that's really what marriage, family, parenting is. These are created norms. They're not socially constructed things. They're realities.
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Myrna Brown
Well, John Stonestreet, president of the Colson center and host of the Breakpoint podcast, thank you again, John.
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John Stonestreet
Thank you both.
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Mark Mellinger
Additional support comes from Asbury University, where.
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John Stonestreet
Academic excellence meets spiritual growth.
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Nick Eicher
Asbury. Edu visit and from Cedarville University, equipping.
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John Stonestreet
Students for professional excellence and gospel impact.
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Mark Mellinger
Cedarville. Edu World.
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Myrna Brown
Today is Friday, August 8th. Thank you for turning to World Radio to help start your day. Good morning. I'm Myrna Brown.
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Nick Eicher
And I'm Nick Eicher. Next up on the World and everything in it, Creature is discomforts. Angel Studios takes childhood monsters and makes them more than make believe. Reviewer Joseph Holmes says the film sketch is a story with a heart for kids and perspective for parents.
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Joseph Holmes
G.K. chesterton once said, fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of the bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of the bogey. I thought about this as I watched the new film sketch from Emmy winner and outspoken Christian Tony Hale.
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Elisa Palumbo
Amber's drawings might be.
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Mark Mellinger
Yeah.
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Elisa Palumbo
Alive.
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Joseph Holmes
Sketch is a brilliant kids film about battling monsters and facing scary emotions in a healthy way. The movie follows a young girl named Amber Wyatt who is battling dark thoughts as she mourns the death of her mother. To cope, she draws scary scenes full of monstrous creatures in a notebook. But still she struggles to connect with her brother Jack and her father, played by Tony Hale.
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Elisa Palumbo
You have to promise not to freak out.
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Nick Eicher
I won't freak out. I won't.
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Elisa Palumbo
This is the Blood Eater. It eats blood and pukes the blood back onto people.
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Nick Eicher
I see you colored it in.
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Elisa Palumbo
Do you think it made it less scary?
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Nick Eicher
Oh, no, no. You don't have to worry about that. No, no, no.
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Joseph Holmes
When Amber's sketchbook falls into a magical pond, the creatures come to life and threaten to destroy the town. This forces the family to band together to defeat these dangerous manifestations of their grief.
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Elisa Palumbo
All right, you guys ready? No, I don't want to do this. I have to go to the bathroom. You couldn't have gone before you Put.
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John Stonestreet
All this stuff on.
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Nick Eicher
I didn't have to go then. No, I have to go, too.
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Elisa Palumbo
Oh, my God.
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Joseph Holmes
Sketch repeatedly defies our expectations as it explores the depths of a child's emotions. It uses elements from the horror genre while still being safe for most kids. It's also a heartwarming drama about a loving family dealing with grief. It possesses genuinely positive messages about how it deals with hard feelings. Writer director Seth Worley deserves credit for balancing these elements in a way that feels honest and edifying. It's easily one of my favorite movies this year. Well written, well acted, and visually splendid. I laughed and cried multiple times.
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Nick Eicher
And then what?
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Elisa Palumbo
I'll feel better? What's wrong with that? Why do I keep getting in trouble for trying to fix stuff? Yes, you would feel better. We all would.
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Joseph Holmes
One of the best things about Sketch is how it features a fictional family that's genuinely good and wholesome, even while being imperfect. Some of the wisdom they share with each other on how to deal with inner monsters is exactly what many Christian parents want to impart to their kids. The dad separates sinful thoughts and actions for his kids, which he refers to as your inbox versus your outbox. They encourage each other not to make those things an identity, such as when Jack tells Amber about the monsters. It's not you, it's just something you drew. And they affirm both how to avoid denying our feelings and expressing them in a way that hurts others.
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Nick Eicher
You're incredibly creative. Here's the thing, okay? I think life is all about balancing the good and the bad, you know? So look, look, if you don't. If you don't carry the good with you, too, then it's just gonna make the bad stronger.
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Joseph Holmes
While age appropriate scares are frequent, actual harm to characters is minimal. Some get cuts, and monsters chase and attack kids and adults, but no one gets seriously injured. Despite being rated pg, adults use minor expletives, and the kids often refer to each other as B holes. This is not censored on my part.
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John Stonestreet
That's how they say it.
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Joseph Holmes
Jack innocently uses the more impolite word to ask his dad if they're illegitimate children, which the film plays for laughs. The film does sometimes imply that the way women more typically process emotions, such as talking, crying, or making art, is healthier than how men more often do it, such as taking action, fixing things, or powering through them.
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Elisa Palumbo
Do you want to hear my two cents on all this?
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Nick Eicher
No, I don't.
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Elisa Palumbo
Okay, I'm going to tell you. I think you should stop worrying so much about the girl who's drawing pictures.
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Myrna Brown
Of her pain and worry a little.
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Elisa Palumbo
Bit more about the boys who are ignoring theirs.
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Joseph Holmes
This is potentially problematic. We're learning more and more about how important a dad's more traditionally masculine approach is to a child's development. But this hitch is outweighed by the film's more positive messages, in my view, and families can discuss such strengths and weaknesses of the film's approach together. All kids face internal and eventually external dragons in life for families looking for a family affirming adventure movie that gives kids and adults the tools to fight them Sketch Might be a Wish come True I'm Joseph Holmes.
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Nick Eicher
Today is Friday, August 8th. 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. Finally today, drawn in. What do you see when you slow down long enough to really look? One artist walk through a city in Spain turned into something more than a sightseeing stroll. It became a lesson in noticing, in paying attention and then putting pen to paper. World associate correspondent Elisa Palumbo met some urban sketchers in Spain and tried it herself.
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Elisa Palumbo
One day while walking through the medieval city center of Cazares, Spain, I met Jose Antonio. He was sketching one of the many cobblestone streets. The narrow road, ironically named Wide street, is a perfect scene for him. He seemed at home.
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Nick Eicher
I've been tending towards leading a quiet, calm, relaxed and serene life. So I don't know if the painting has helped me do that or if the painting is a consequence of that decision.
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Elisa Palumbo
Painting outside is nothing new, but it became a global movement when a Spanish illustrator living and working in Seattle founded a blog in 2008. He encouraged artists to go paint what they saw and then upload pictures of their work. It began what's now known as urban sketchers. Their motto is to see the world one sketch at a time. They draw or paint on location, on paper, and in the moment, together. So I was curious. Can I chat with you for a second? Shelly Ginenthal is another urban sketcher. She says this type of drawing has changed how she sees what's around her.
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John Stonestreet
You know, even trash cans are interesting to draw. You know, something that you wouldn't think would be at all interesting.
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Nick Eicher
It doesn't have to be beautiful. It doesn't have to be.
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Myrna Brown
Doesn't have to be anything.
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Elisa Palumbo
In an ever digitalized world where limitless filters and AI enhanced editing boasts masterpiece results, sitting down to draw won't win many art competitions, but it has its own rewards Studies indicate a correlation between creative activities such as drawing and reduced stress levels. And it increases memory. Even if you sit for five minutes.
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Myrna Brown
And you draw a picture, you will.
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John Stonestreet
Remember it stays with you.
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Elisa Palumbo
Unlike a photograph, slowing down to paint outside comes with a lot of challenges. One big one. The results are often far from the desired outcome. Jose Antonio says the only way to get better is to go do it.
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Nick Eicher
Walking on a flat and well paved path, you never, never stumble. But when you put yourself on a mountain full of stones, that's when you really learn to run or learn to manage yourself.
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Elisa Palumbo
His analogy is true of life. Difficult things, when overcome, often bring the most satisfaction and can lead to moments of unexpected delight. So this week I took Jose Antonio's advice. I grabbed my backpack, a sketchbook and some colored pens and visited Manhattan beach pier south of Los Angeles, California. I found the view of the landmark I wanted to remember and settled myself on an uncomfortable wooden fence post by some stairs. Pier is really, really pretty. And I mean Manhattan beach is pretty in and of itself. So I'll admit I feel a little intimidated. I typically enjoy drawing nature, but structures are something new for me. As I draw, I realized why it would be nice to draw in a group. I'm struggling with technique. Honestly. I've never been very good at. At drawing angles. And this pier is all about angles and it's not very fun. But we're going with it. We're trying. I try holding my pen up to the pier and horizon and measuring the angles I see. It helps kind of. Okay. This is looking better still. Far, far from perfect. But it doesn't have to be realistic and it doesn't have to be perfect perfect. So that's what I'm telling myself after a while. It's no longer work. It's enjoyable. The sun is almost fully set when a curious biker stops to chat.
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Nick Eicher
What you drawing?
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Elisa Palumbo
Oh, the pier. Oh really trying to at least.
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Nick Eicher
Amazing. It looks beautiful. It's far better than anything I would do.
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John Stonestreet
Oh, thanks.
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Nick Eicher
Huh? Yeah. You've captured the roof very well. And even the color of the roof.
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Elisa Palumbo
I'm like probably the hardest was getting these and then this angle. I'm like really bad at angles. But I was like I'm just going to try.
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Nick Eicher
So I am trying to figure out the green. Oh, the green. Is the, Is the railing okay? Yeah.
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Elisa Palumbo
I'm like, I didn't. That didn't turn out great.
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Nick Eicher
Well, it's a little tall.
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Elisa Palumbo
Yeah, it is.
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Nick Eicher
Yeah. Respectively. But I, I mean I'm being pretty picky. Uni though about that.
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Elisa Palumbo
Conversation means I couldn't finish the sky, which would have been my favorite part. But I've drawn what I came to draw. It's perfectly imperfect, but I like it even if the sky is missing. Turned out better than expected. I certainly don't have the right techniques, but the time flew by as I focused on the pier and tried to recreate it on paper. I didn't think about my phone, the time, didn't even feel the need to listen to music. I was in the world for a moment, truly seeing what was around me and made a new acquaintance. Care to join me? For World, I'm Elisa Palumbo. In case it is Spain in Manhattan Beach, California.
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Myrna Brown
That'S an enticing offer even for an all thumbs artist like me. Well, to see Alisa's sketch, Visit our website worldandeverything.org and click on this page. For this segment. If you should head out this weekend to sketch something, snap a photo and send it to editorng.org we'll consider adding it to the post. Oh, and by the way, if you want to encourage a friend to do it with you, take a moment and share today's program.
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Nick Eicher
All right, it's time now to name the team who helped to make things happen this week. Elisa Palumbo, Joseph Holmes, John Stonestreet, Cal Thomas, Lauren Canterbury, Stacy Horton, Emma Frayer, Brad Littlejohn, Todd Vision, Carlos Paez, Jenny Lynn Schmidt, Hunter Baker, Carolina Lumeta, Janie B. Cheney, Amy Lewis, Mary Muncie, Emma Eicher, David Bonson, Lindsay Mast and Mary Reichert. Thanks also to our breaking news crew, Kent Covington, Mark Mellinger, Travis Kircher, Christina Grube, Steve Klosterman and Lindy Langdon. And thanks to the moonlight maestros, the literal burners of the midnight oil, Benj Eicher and Carl Peetz, making sure the program is there before your feet hit the floor. Paul Butler is executive producer, Harrison Waters is Washington producer. Kristen Flavin is features editor. Les Sillers is our editor in chief. I'm Nick Iger.
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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 records that a woman poured costly ointment onto Jesus and several criticized her. But Jesus said, leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a beautiful thing to me. For you always have the poor with you and whenever you want, you can do good for them. But you will not always have me she has done what she could. She has anointed my body beforehand for burial. And truly I say to you, wherever the gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will be told in memory of her. Verses 6 through 9 of Mark, chapter 14. A reminder now to go to a Bible believing church this weekend. The Christian life is lived shoulder to shoulder. So show up, lift someone's burdens, let someone help carry yours. And Lord willing, we'll be right back here with you on Monday. Go now in grace and peace.