Listener Feedback

PAUL BUTLER, HOST: Today is Friday, February 25th. Good morning! This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Paul Butler.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: And I’m Myrna Brown. Time now for Listener Feedback.

BUTLER: We’ll start today, as we always do, with corrections. At the beginning of the month, we mentioned Chinese astronauts celebrating the Lunar New Year in space. But they were not in the International Space Station. They were in the Chinese space station, which launched in 2021.

BROWN: In our January 31st History Book we referred to Portuguese explorer King Henry the Navigator. And in doing so, we gave him a pretty significant promotion. Turns out, he was only a prince.

BUTLER: Next, a handful of you wrote in to say that you weren’t going to take it as during our February 14th newscast, we referred to the 1970s and 80s rock band as “Twister Sister,” instead of “Twisted Sister.” And we demoted National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan to a State Department spokesman.

BROWN: And finally, a clarification. On Monday’s newscast, we referred to the silver medal won by cross-country skier Jessie Diggins on the last day of the Olympics. We noted it was one of 25 medals won by U.S. athletes this year. But it was not Diggins’ only medal. She also took home a bronze.

BUTLER: On now to your feedback.

TURNER: Hi y’all. This is Sarah Turner in Sugar Grove, West Virginia. I just wanted to give a shout-out to you all for the good work you’re doing. I really appreciate the effective music and sound that your programming has. It conveys the spirit behind your journalism and so I really appreciate that. I just got done listening to another episode of Effective Compassion. And listening to the intro and outro music there. It’s just so raw and gritty, I love it. It really captures my attention, conveys the desperate need that is there. I don’t personally have any musical talent. But I really love and appreciate how music affects our hearts in ways that words alone cannot. And when you all use your music, I feel like you don’t try to manipulate with it, but you do use it for emphasis and to bring attention where attention is needed. So, I appreciate that. I just want a big shout-out to the guys and gals that are working on the sound and music. Y’all do a great job, and it’s such a blessing to me every day.

BROWN: Thank you, Sarah, for that encouragement. Every month we get emails from listeners commenting on the music they hear on the program. Often, they want to know the name of a particular song. We’ve explained our process for selecting music before, and we don’t have time to do it again here. But we are going to link to the previous segment we did in today’s transcript. So if you’d like to hear Carl Peetz explain how he puts the program’s music together, you can check that out.

BUTLER: Sarah mentioned the music for Effective Compassion, specifically. We’ve also heard from many listeners this month who are really enjoying that podcast. If you haven’t started listening yet, we’re about half way through the season, so there’s still time to get caught up! We drop a new episode each Tuesday on the Effective Compassion podcast feed. We definitely encourage you to subscribe to that. Otherwise, you’ll have to wait until Saturday, when we release that week’s episode on The World and Everything in It feed.

BROWN: Well, we have time for one more comment. We’ll let listener Brad Shedd in Chesapeake, Virginia, have the last word. He called to express his appreciation for recent interviews and stories that included different perspectives.

SHEDD: I just appreciate that you are including voices that aren’t necessarily strong Christian voices, but you’ve treated them with respect and honor. And you have helped us all have a better understanding of how to connect and reach out to our world. Thanks again for what you do. God bless you.

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