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The World and Everything In It
9.2.25 Conflict and negotiation in the Middle East, violent crime rates in the U.S., and a review of Dopamine and Jesus
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Lindsay Mast
Good morning. Israel pounds targets in Syria as US Diplomats work to head off a war that could draw in the whole region. Also today, addressing crime and crime stats in the nation's capital. The difference between this 20 day period of this federal surge and last year represents a 87% reduction.
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Nick Eicher
And remixing the formula for Christian music.
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Arsenio Orteza
I want something that sounds, sounds just like something that hasn't been made yet.
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Nick Eicher
And later, world commentator Janie B. Chaney on the emptiness of the troubled Soul.
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Lindsay Mast
It's Tuesday, September 2nd. This is the world and everything in it from listener supported World Radio. I'm Lindsay Mast.
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Nick Eicher
And I'm Nick Eicher. Good morning.
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Lindsay Mast
Up next, Kent Covington has today's news.
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Nick Eicher
Vladimir Putin is not living up to his word. That from U.S. treasury Secretary Scott Benson.
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Arsenio Orteza
President Putin, since the historic meeting in Anchorage, since a phone call when the European leaders and President Zelensky were at the White House the following Monday, has done the opposite of following through on what he indicated he wanted to do.
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Nick Eicher
He characterized recent Russian attacks on Ukraine as despicable and said President Trump is considering a wide range of responses. Meantime, the European Union is accusing Russia of a cyberattack on an EU official's plane. Spokeswoman Arianna Podesta said the Kremlin intentionally jammed the navigational systems of a plane carrying European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
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Lindsay Mast
We can indeed confirm that there was GPS jamming, but the plane landed safely in Bulgaria. We have received information from the Bulgarian.
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Arsenio Orteza
Authorities that they suspect that this was.
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Lindsay Mast
Due to blatant interference by Russia.
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Nick Eicher
Bulgaria issued a statement saying that the aircraft's GPS navigation was disrupted as the plane approached the airport. The Kremlin denies any involvement. Von der Leyen is a fierce critic of Russia's war with Ukraine and of Russian leader Vladimir Putin. The Trump administration is blasting a federal judge's ruling over the weekend. District Judge Sparkle Sukhnan on Sunday issued a temporary restraining order halting the deportation of 10 migrant children from Guatemala. She said the government cannot return the children to their home countries without a deportation order. All of the children are unaccompanied minors who do not have parents in the United States. And Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanch says the US Government has been working with.
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Darren Duke
The Guatemalan government for over a month to identify children who were smuggled into this country away from their parents, who are now sitting in foster homes and orphanages around this country to send them back to their parents.
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Nick Eicher
But the judge says the government must prove that that is, in fact the case. The court order could ultimately affect hundreds more. By Some estimates, around 600 children now in federal custody. Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maruro says he would declare a republic in arms if the US Takes military action in Venezuela. At a news conference on Monday, he called nearby military buildup in the Caribbean his words unjustifiable, immoral and absolutely criminal. He also called it the greatest threat his country has faced in a hundred years. But at whom is the US Military threat actually aimed? The US Says it is the cartels within Venezuela that should be worried. The Pentagon says it is a counter narcotics operation aimed at disrupting drug trafficking networks and routes. But the US Military buildup along with other measures may also be a threat to Nicolas Maduro's grip on power. World's Benjamin eicker explains.
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Arsenio Orteza
The U.S. like many other nations, says that after multiple rigged elections in Venezuela, Maduro is not the justly elected president, but an illegitimate dictator and narco terrorist. The Department of Justice is offering a $50 million reward for his arrest. There are no indications that the president plans to order a military invasion to oust Maduro by force. But analysts say that with the arrest reward, along with targeting his financial networks, sanctions and shows of force, the US May be working to make Maduro's hold on power unsustainable. Following Venezuela's last presidential election over a year ago, Maduro once again claimed victory despite a mountain of evidence indic he had lost. For WORLD I'm Benjamin Eicher.
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Nick Eicher
In Afghanistan. A military helicopter heard there airlifting a group of Afghans to safety after a powerful earthquake that has killed more than 800 people and injured thousands. Many desperate residents are still searching for missing loved ones in the rubble. One man said his entire village was destroyed and that children and elders were still trapped under the debris. He added, we need urgent help. The 6.0 magnitude quake struck late Sunday. A Taliban government spokesman said most of the casualties are in the Kunar province near the border with Pakistan. I'm Kent Covington. And still ahead, conflict in the Middle east is spilling over Israel's borders. Plus, the music of hope from despair. This is the world and everything in it.
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Lindsay Mast
It's Tuesday, the 2nd of September. Glad to have you along for today's edition of THE WORLD and EVERYTHING in It. Good morning. I'm Lindsay Mast.
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Nick Eicher
And I'm Nick Eicker. First up, Israel striking targets in Syria as Washington scrambles to keep the conflict contained. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outlining strikes on Hamas, the Houthis, Hezbollah and Syria coming just a week after US Brokered peace talks.
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Lindsay Mast
Joining us now to Talk about it is retired US Marine Colonel Darren Duke. He formerly served as an attache to Israel. Colonel Duke, good morning.
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Darren Duke
Good morning, Lindsay. It's good to be with you.
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Arsenio Orteza
Colonel.
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Lindsay Mast
Can you tell us what the goals were and whether they succeeded?
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Darren Duke
Well, the Israeli strikes and ground operations near Damascus last week were by one Israeli account, intended to destroy or seize Turkish surveillance equipment that had been installed to collect intelligence on Israel. These actions also reflect Israel's longer term policy of retaining a territorial buffer between Israel and Israeli held territory in the Golan Heights, especially the strategically important summit of Mount Hermon. The Israelis have communicated very clear to the regime in Damascus that they do not want any heavy maneuver forces south of Damascus to create that buffer zone. And they will continue to address those threats as they emerge.
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Lindsay Mast
Colonel, I've read reports that Israel has launched hundreds of airstrikes in Syria since the regime fell last year. Still, Syria calls it a breach of sovereignty. It's accused Israel of sowing chaos. Do you think Israel has a strategic interest in Syria at this point?
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Darren Duke
Well, Israel is facing a complex array of threats from Yemen in the south, obviously the continuing war in Gaza, the continuing presence of an armed Hezbollah in Lebanon, and the emergence of whatever will become the new Syrian government. And those are all tremendous challenges to Israel. So Israel's approach to that strategically is to try to achieve some measure of quiet in Syria while retaining the freedom of action to address more pressing threats, such as the ongoing military action in Gaza.
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Lindsay Mast
Well, I'm also curious about American interests. Members of Congress recently met with Syria's transitional president. They're now calling for an end to US Sanctions on Syria and for open trade. Do you think that would be helpful now or is there more at stake?
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Darren Duke
Well, the US has a much more complicated set of interests in the region and globally than Israel does. Israel cares about quiet on its borders. The United States, however, has to be concerned about a whole array of interests, from energy policy, security interests, balancing alliances. Turkey, who has a large interest in Syria, is still a NATO ally and also has interest in the Black Sea with regard to the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine. And so those interests have to be taken into account. And then there's the broader role of Iran in the region and the United States policy towards Iran. So the United States is trying to balance a whole set of interests and Israel has a more narrowly focused security concern. And so that's going to naturally bring the two allies into to some tension. But I don't think that either leader will allow that to affect the very solid relationship the United States And Israel will continue to have.
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Lindsay Mast
Well, as Nick said a moment ago, the latest strikes came in the wake of talks the US Brokered. So what should we make of those talks now, given what's happened since?
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Darren Duke
I don't think it's unusual that states may be in conflict with each other as they conduct negotiations. I think actually that's the historical norm. I think frequently many people look and see military action while diplomacy is going on as some type of contradiction. And I would offer that actually that's probably historically the natural pattern of interactions between states. And so I wouldn't read too much into the military action and the diplomatic discussions as being contradictory, but rather part of an ongoing complex engagement between an emerging Syria and what that will look like and an Israeli government that's seeking to protect its citizens.
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Lindsay Mast
Well, you talked about the larger context of the Syrian conflict and I don't want to let you go without asking you about two other important countries, namely Lebanon and Yemen. In that sound from Prime Minister Netanyahu, he spoke of hitting the Houthis in Yemen and Hezbollah in Lebanon. Can you talk a bit about the larger picture?
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Darren Duke
Sure. Let's talk about Lebanon first, because it's right next door to Syria. The situation in Lebanon is essentially that Hezbollah remains the largest and most well armed faction inside Lebanon and has no intention of up that power easily or willingly. And so Lebanon is always faced with a specter of a return to the civil war that raged between 1975 and 1990. And this cows other elements in Lebanon that would be willing to stand up to Hezbollah. And that makes it very difficult for progress to be made. And so that's likely to remain a unstable location and an unstable part of Israel's northern border. And therefore Israeli action in Lebanon will probably continue for the foreseeable future. When we speak about Yemen, what we're talking about is the continuation of Iran's proxy strategy throughout the region. And the Houthis ability to launch attacks on Israel and to threaten international shipping in the Red Sea in order to place pressure on Israel both strategically and more locally. With regard to the war in Gaza and the strike last week on Yemen and the death of the Houthi prime minister does add an element of uncertainty, certainty to it. Whenever a state is attacked and its political echelons are attacked, that certainly raises the stakes. But with respect to Yemen, we'll have to see because of the relative inability to project force beyond primarily attacks on Israel, we'll have to see where that goes. I know that the Israeli government has increased the security profile of its leaders because of that result in Yemen. And it does bear watching. We'll have to see where that goes. I think all of this puts the UN General assembly in the coming week in perspective as we see all the global leaders converging on New York and where a lot of these issues will be discussed. There'll be lots of side meetings where global leaders will be engaged to try to reduce tensions or address the instability in the region and try to bring it back to some modicum of stability and quiet. But we'll have to see.
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Lindsay Mast
Darren Duke is a retired U.S. marine Corps colonel who served in the Middle East. Colonel, thank you so much.
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Darren Duke
You're welcome. Thank you.
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Nick Eicher
Next up, cracking down on crime. The Trump administration's takeover of policing in Washington, D.C. is showing results that even the city's Democratic mayor admits are significant. Those gains come as violent crime rates have been declining nationwide, but as one analyst puts it, better national averages don't mean much if murders are still happening on your street corner. World's Josh Schumacher has our report. Everybody was getting hit and mugged and you people could not walk to your office without security. That's how unsafe it was.
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Arsenio Orteza
That's President Donald Trump there speaking to members of the press last week. He claims that Washington, D.C. was incredibly unsafe before he deployed the National Guard and federal agents to the streets of the Capitol last month. Since then, the city's Democratic mayor, Muriel Bowser, admits that crime has dropped.
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Lindsay Mast
The difference between this period, this 20 day period of this federal surge and last year represents a 87% reduction in carjackings in Washington, D.C. we know that when carjackings go down, when use of gun goes down, when homicide or robbery go down, neighborhoods feel safer and are safer. So this surge has been important to us.
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Arsenio Orteza
But even before Trump deployed the National Guard, crimes such as assault, homicide and robbery were on the decline in Washington and the rest of the country. I would not attribute anything directly to the Trump administration without this evidence and likewise necessarily even to the Biden administration. Ernesto Lopez is a research specialist at the Council on Criminal Justice. He says that the data shows violent crime has been dropping since a massive spike during the COVID 19 pandemic. You know, with homicide, there was a major about nationally about a 30% increase from 2019 to 2020. And looking at the full year and then there's a smaller increase I believe is about 5% from 2020 to 2021, maybe a little smaller 2022 and then starts downward a bit. And so but it looks like probably, I'd say probably around starting in 2024, you start to see some larger decreases, and then 2025, again, larger decreases. Lopez says that there are many factors that could explain that drop things like shifting drug markets or returning neighborhood violence prevention programs. While Lopez acknowledges that crime hasn't decreased everywhere at the same rate, it has decreased by and large across the country because there's always going to be variation whenever you're looking at data. There's always going to be some cities that go up and some cities that go down, and some cities have declined in homicide much sooner. But President Trump doubts that data.
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Nick Eicher
And I'm tired of listening to these people say how safe it was before we got here. It was unsafe. It was horrible.
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Arsenio Orteza
Vice President J.D. vance points to the dramatic reduction in homicide rates since the administration deployed the national guard in Washington, DC. This town averaged one murder every other day for the last 20, 30 years, which means that in two short weeks the president and the team have saved six or seven lives.
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Darren Duke
People who would have been killed on.
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Arsenio Orteza
The streets of D.C. who are now.
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Darren Duke
Living, breathing, spending time with their families.
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Arsenio Orteza
Because the president had the willpower to say no more. When he was first deploying the national guard to Washington, D.C. trump says that the city's murder rate was worse than anywhere else in the world.
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Nick Eicher
The murder rate in Washington today is higher than that of Bogota, Colombia, Mexico.
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Arsenio Orteza
City, some of the places that you hear about as being the worst places on earth.
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Nick Eicher
Much higher. This is much higher.
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Arsenio Orteza
The data shows that the United States homicide rate is as much as seven times higher than similarly wealthy and industrialized countries. But crime statistics themselves have come under greater scrutiny over the last decade, with well publicized instances miscategorizing crimes or changing definitions in places like Buckeye, Arizona and New York City. More recently, the Department of Justice has been investigating Washington, D.C. 's police department for allegedly falsifying crime statistics to make the city appear safer. Zach Smith is a legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation. Local D.C. police union officials have reported that many of their members have experienced a scenario where they respond to the scene of a violent crime, and shortly afterwards a higher ranking police official will show up and order the officers on the scene to take a report for a less serious offense, essentially artificially making it look like crime, particularly violent crime, is not as bad as it may seem. And then I think we also have to take into account the fact that many residents may simply not be reported. Washington, DC's police department did not respond to World's request for comment regarding those allegations, but Ernesto Lopez of the Council on Criminal justice says that while crime data may not be perfect, the trending line is consistent nationwide. He says it's been measurably decreasing. We're seeing that most crimes are falling to below pre pandemic level, so pre 2020levels. The Cato Institute's Mike Fox says that may be true, but it doesn't mean much to someone who's living in a high crime neighborhood. So, like D.C. yeah. The crime rates overall are considerably lower this year than they were last year, and they're considerably lower last year than they were in 2023 yet. But, you know, when I see that there's routine violence in the neighborhood, I don't necessarily feel safe, and other people don't necessarily feel safe. So telling them that the murder rate went down doesn't really help when you know you're witnessing homicides on the street corner. Yet Fox isn't a fan of flooding DC With National Guard personnel and federal agents. He says they're too focused on the symptoms and not really addressing the root causes. Meanwhile, the Trump administration is touting hundreds of arrests. Many of those have been for illegal firearms possession, drug offense offenses, and the arrests of illegal immigrants. But last week in the Oval Office, President Trump announced that since he mobilized the National Guard, Washington, D.C. has seen a massive decrease in homicides as well.
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Nick Eicher
And in the last 11 days, again, I hate to say it because it sounds so ridiculous, but in the last 11 days, we've had no murders, and that's the first time that's taken place in years.
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Arsenio Orteza
That statistic has emboldened President Trump to consider deploying the National Guard to other cities in the United States as well, naming Chicago and New York as possible destinations.
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Nick Eicher
And after we do this, we'll go to another location and we'll make it safe also, we're going to make our country very safe. We're going to make our cities very, very safe for world.
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Arsenio Orteza
I'm Josh Schumacher.
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Nick Eicher
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Nick Eicher
To help graduates make an impact in aggression agriculture. Sooner Dort Edu. You hear that? Well, believe it or not, that's the real call of America's national bird, the bald eagle. Science confirms it.
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Lindsay Mast
I'm kind of wimpy.
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Nick Eicher
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology says our glorious patriotic icon sounds more like a squeaky dog toy than a symbol of strength. So Hollywood does what Hollywood's gonna do. And calls for a stunt double, like this car commercial where a bald eagle swoops down for a salmon. That shriek belongs to the red tailed hawk, not the eagle. You hear this all over film and television and no wonder. The eagle may be majestic, but it's the hawk that delivers that top of the food chain menace Americans love. It's the world and everything in it.
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Lindsay Mast
Today is Tuesday, September 2nd. Thank you for turning to World Radio to help start your day. Good morning, I'm Lindsay Mast.
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Nick Eicher
And I'm Nick Iker. Coming up next on the World and everything in it, medicine meets music. One time pre med student Luke Bauer set aside plans for a medical career to pursue Christian songwriting. His new full length album, Dopamine and Jesus weaves together faith and brain chemistry into songs drawn from personal struggle.
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Lindsay Mast
By the time he turns 24 in December, Bauer will have wrapped up a nationwide tour in support of the record. World's music critic Arsenio Orteza sat down with him to talk about the making and meaning of his music.
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Nick Eicher
Luke Bauer grew up in Bernie, Texas.
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Arsenio Orteza
Fat it off, had the pain, blamed.
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Janie B. Chaney
The.
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Nick Eicher
His family attended church and he attended a Christian school, acquiring what he calls head knowledge about faith in Christ. It was this knowledge that would later allow him to work biblical references seamlessly into a song such as Necessary Fault, which alludes to Paul's thorn in the flesh.
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Arsenio Orteza
The jagged thrown up in my side, It's a sharpened steeple, it's the darkness of the night.
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Nick Eicher
But another reason that Bauer can identify with such Pauline language is that he himself has experienced thorns in the flesh.
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Arsenio Orteza
Ever since I was a little kid, I've always just randomly got extremely sad. I don't know why. I remember going to my dad and I'd say I have bad feelings like help. And it seemed to only get more intense and that like dark spots seemed to get darker as I grew up.
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Nick Eicher
Bowers Head knowledge, in other words, wasn't much help during these periods. This crisis gave rise to his new album's title and its title track.
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Arsenio Orteza
Oh, it is well inside my soul, unless you really wanna know.
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Nick Eicher
Yeah. One night during his first year of college, the crisis came to a head. He'd been on a pre med track, but he realized that a career in medicine wasn't for him.
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Arsenio Orteza
I talked to my parents and I said, I just want to do music. And they gave me the hard no. Like that's crazy. I mean, I don't blame them for that because they didn't know I did it. And I just remember there was this period of Time after that where I was just at home, just kind of spiraling out, realizing I was never going to be able to do my dream, I guess. And that was the first time that I really got, like, actually suicidal. Long story short, I called out to God for like the first real time in that moment, and I think he showed up for me there because I'm obviously still here.
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Nick Eicher
It's important to note that when Bauer first signed to a Christian label, he was told that he had to make formulaic CCM at the outset if he wanted the finances and clout to do what he really wanted to do later. He went along at first, then he didn't. There's certainly nothing formulaic about either his debut, the EP man on Fire, or Dopamine in Jesus.
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Arsenio Orteza
When we came in for this, I'm like, I want to do. I want to leave like a mark that's different than other stuff. I want something that sounds just like something that hasn't been made yet. And so we really dove into, like, finding everything that was kind of weird, pursuing every weird idea just to see if it worked. So we just lived really creatively, tried to make all of the sounds, like, match the words.
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Nick Eicher
What Bauer has come up with could be called Christian music without guardrails. Consider the way that he ends the sides of Dopamine in Jesus Vinyl edition. Side one's closer is called Spirit.
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Arsenio Orteza
Oh, praise him, praise him I don't know what else to do I got nothing I got nothing but a spirit and the truth.
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Nick Eicher
Side two's closer is called Truth.
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Arsenio Orteza
Praise him, praise him I don't know what else to do I got nothing, I got nothing but a spirit ain't.
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Nick Eicher
The truth if you think they sound similar, you're right. They're the same song.
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Arsenio Orteza
There's something in Christian music that I really don't like. Everything's really hype all the time. And it's like young people, everyone come, like, dance at this concert and just be happy the whole time. It's not how life is. And so I feel like a lot of people are going to that and being let down when it gets hard. Basically, that's a test where spirit is the hype one, and you don't even really hear the words because it's just faster and more like you just want to feel good. And then truth is the same words, but you can hear it because it's pretty much only words.
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Nick Eicher
After our conversation, I realized that while I'd asked Bauer about his relationship with Jesus, I'd forgotten to ask about Dopamine So I asked via email, and this in part was his response. I've spent a lot of time trying to control dopamine. I've gone to therapy, taken meds of various kinds. Nothing really worked. These days, I recognize it as something I can't control. It's the lack of control I have of it that earned it its spot in the title of the album. Both faith in Jesus and my mental state are things that I cannot control. Like the air in my lungs and the blood passing through my heart. These things are on the move. That movement is what we call life.
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Arsenio Orteza
It's the way I used to talk before they laughed at what I said. It's the kid behind my eyes it's masquerading as a man it's the key.
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Janie B. Chaney
Under the doormat It's a prison made.
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Arsenio Orteza
Of doubt It's a heart that breaks Cause Eden had to love the whole world out.
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Nick Eicher
I'm Arsenio Orteza.
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Arsenio Orteza
That's what is like believing.
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Nick Eicher
Today is Tuesday, September 2nd. Good morning. This is the world and everything in it. From listener supported World Radio, I'm Nick Icker.
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Lindsay Mast
And I'm Lindsay Mast. Finally today, world commentator Janie B. Cheney on the emptiness at the heart of modern violence.
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Janie B. Chaney
The FBI has a new crime. Nihilistic violent extremism, or nve. The term could serve as a default explanation for random killing sprees like the one that pierced our hearts last Wednesday in Minneapolis. What motivates anyone to deliberately set out to kill children? What disordered the mind of the Covenant School shooter or the Sandy Hook Mass murderer? Clues strewn along a shooter's past may indicate certain leanings toward violence, but not the rock solid determination to do it. These were not crimes of passion fashion, we understand, but that vacant space in the heart of a cold blooded killer mystifies us. To call it mental illness seems inadequate. Nihilistic violence is more specific. Though most of us might just call it evil. Yet to say such a heart was filled with evil is to say nothing and nothing. The root meaning of nihilism may be closer to the truth than we realize. Augustine's privation theory wrestles with a conundrum how falsehood, hatred and murder could have flourished so quickly in a world created by goodness and love. If God created all things and evil is a thing, then it must follow that God is the creator of evil, a conclusion that devastates our faith. Augustine did not deny the problem, but believed it was misunderstood. What if evil is not actually a thing? What if it is instead the absence of a thing in the city of God. He summed it up this evil has no positive nature, but the loss of good has received the name evil. He reasons that God is the source of all being, and being is good in itself, and no goodness exists outside of God. Rejecting God therefore creates a hole in the human soul, and whatever fills that emptiness is the residue of corrupted being. The privation theory isn't perfect. No intellectual heavy lifting could encompass this great mystery, but it seems to come close. It doesn't mean that all unbelievers are potential mass murderers, nor that evil has no real effect. It obviously does, but its essence is emptiness. In the great divorce, C.S. lewis Pictures condemned souls in hell as consumed by their vices. After the narrator witnesses a silly old woman reject potential glory in order to keep complaining, his mentor explains that she has ceased to be a grumbler and become a grumble. The whole difficulty of understanding hell, he says, is that the thing to be understood is so nearly nothing. The collapse of a human being into itself can happen on this side of the divide. For example, did jet setting financier Jeffrey Epstein cease to be a predator and become a predation? Or was there enough of a person remaining in him to repent? Only God knows. Psalm 115, verse 8 describes how the idols one embraces while turning away from God can't hear, see, taste or touch, and those who make them will become like them. The bad news is that we often don't recognize those empty souls among us. The good news is that good will eventually overcome by its very nature. Something always defeats nothing. I'm Janie Buccane.
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Nick Eicher
Tomorrow Washington Wednesday with Hunter Baker and how short term missions work alongside local groups to bring clean water and better health to low income countries. That and more tomorrow. I'm Nick Iger.
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Lindsay Mast
And I'm Lindsay Mast. 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 one of the criminals who were hanged railed at Jesus saying, are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us? But the other rebuked him, saying, do you not fear God, since you are under the the same sentence of condemnation? And we indeed justly for we are receiving the due reward of our deeds. But this man has done nothing wrong. And he said, jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom. And Jesus said to him, truly I say to you today you will be with me in paradise. Verses 39 through 43 of Luke chapter 23 go now in grace and peace, Sam.