The World and Everything in It: April 3, 2026

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MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Good morning!

Today on Culture Friday: Big Tech and kids; a major free speech ruling from the Supreme Court; and what it means to count the cost of speaking out.

NICK EICHER, HOST: John Stonestreet is standing by.

Also today: a return to the Mushroom Kingdom:

BOWSER JR.: I’m Bowser Jr. And I’m going to be taking my father… Now!

Collin Garbarino reviews the new Super Mario Galaxy Movie.

And later: even if you’ve never read Homer before, you may still be speaking his language. George Grant will tell you about it on Word Play for April.

BROWN: It’s Friday, April 3rd. This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. 

I’m Myrna Brown.

EICHER: And I’m Nick Eicher. Good morning!

BROWN: Up next, Kent Covington with today’s news.

KENT COVINGTON, NEWS ANCHOR: Bondi out as Attorney General » Attorney General Pam Bondi is out. President Trump fired her after 14 months on the job. He has named Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche as acting head of the Justice Department until he picks a nominee to replace Bondi.

Blanche, who served as Trump's personal defense lawyer, takes the helm immediately.

The president did not announce a reason for the change. But Republican Congressman Chip Roy says in his view the president needed someone more aggressive in the role.

ROY:  We have a limited period right now with President Trump in the White House, uh, with House Republicans and Senate Republicans. We have got to be on offense for justice and accountability. … What are we doing about ANTIFA, and what they're doing radically across this country to endanger us; open borders, the radical Marxist networks?

Trump praised Bondi in a statement, calling her "a great American patriot." Bondi called the role "the honor of a lifetime" and plans to transition to the private sector.

Her tenure drew mounting frustration from conservatives over the Justice Department's handling of Jeffrey Epstein files.

This is the second cabinet shakeup in less than 30 days. President Trump fired and replaced former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem last month.

DHS funding deal » A partial government shutdown at the Department of Homeland Security continues as Republicans in Congress grapple over the path forward.

With most lawmakers back home for Easter and Passover recess, a handful met in a pro forma session Thursday. That came after the Senate approved a plan to fund all of DHS—except agencies involved in immigration enforcement. Senate Majority Leader John Thune:

THUNE: You know we have to do this now without Democrat votes. And the way to do that obviously, is to do it through the budget reconciliation.

That process allows both chambers to pass budget issues on a simple majority. House Republicans have opposed funding DHS without immigration enforcement, but Speaker Mike Johnson said in a statement Wednesday he now favors the approach.

However, on Thursday, the House punted the resolution until next week.

Meanwhile, President Trump plans to sign an executive order authorizing paychecks for the rest of DHS after approving partial back pay for TSA agents last week.

Ukraine latest » In Ukraine:

SOUND: [Firefighters in Odesa]

Firefighters battled massive flames Thursday...after an overnight Russian drone attack on the port city of Odesa. WORLD’s Kristen Flavin reports:

KRISTEN FLAVIN: Local authorities say civilian and port infrastructure was hit. And officials say two people were killed and three others injured in Russian aerial attacks Thursday.

Meanwhile, Russia is inviting its students to join newly created drone units.

PESKOV: [Speaking Russian]

FLAVIN: Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says the new units require personnel with specialized skills.

All of this comes as negotiators for both countries are trying to hammer out a possible prisoner exchange for Easter.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy previously proposed a ceasefire for the holiday weekend, but the Kremlin says it’s not interested in a temporary truce.

For WORLD, I’m Kristen Flavin.

Artemis update » Four astronauts are coasting toward the moon today, two days into NASA's Artemis II mission.

The Orion capsule, carrying a crew of four, locked onto its lunar path last night after a critical Translunar Injection burn.

President Trump saluted the astronauts, noting they will boldly go where no man has gone before, further into space than anyone has ever gone.

TRUMP: And will very substantially pass the moon, go around it and come back home from a distance that has never been done before. It's amazing. They are on the way and God bless them. These are brave people.

Today, the crew is planning to perform the first of several smaller mid-course correction burns to fine-tune their path.

Closest lunar approach comes Sunday before splashdown in the Pacific one week from today. Artemis II is the first crewed deep-space mission since Apollo Seventeen in 1972, paving the way for a moon landing as early as 2028.

White House ballroom approval » President Trump's White House ballroom is moving forward, despite a federal judge's order to halt construction. WORLD’s Benjamin Eicher reports:

BENJAMIN EICHER: A key planning commission voted eight-to-one Thursday to approve the $400 million-dollar project. Commission chair Will Scharf said the judge's ruling applies to construction activity, not the planning process, so Thursday's vote was legally sound.

The ruling has been stayed two weeks while the administration appeals. Trump also tweaked the design Sunday, dropping a south staircase that critics called too large and adding a west porch.

The ballroom is funded through private donations, with public dollars covering security upgrades. The National Trust for Historic Preservation has sued, arguing congressional approval is required.

For WORLD, I’m Benjamin Eicher.

I'm Kent Covington.

Straight ahead: John Stonestreet is standing by for Culture Friday. And later, a review of the new animated Super Mario Galaxy movie.

This is The World and Everything in It.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: It’s Good Friday, April 3. Glad to have you along for today’s edition of The World and Everything in It. Good morning, I’m Myrna Brown.

NICK EICHER, HOST: And I’m Nick Eicher.

For years now, whistleblowers, lawmakers, and parents have warned that some of the biggest names in tech are not doing enough to protect children online.

BROWN: Each year, NCOSE—the National Center on Sexual Exploitation names companies it says are putting users at risk … 12 companies in particular. WORLD’s Harrison Watters has the group’s 2026 report.

HARRISON WATTERS: The “Dirty Dozen” this year includes online stores that allow minors to browse explicit products … including Apple’s App Store, the video game platform Steam, and Amazon Prime. It also calls out xAI’s chatbot Grok for explicit conversations, including in its chats for children. And Google gets the spotlight for its Chromebook and Android products that provide gateways to pornography through insufficient parental controls and optional content filtering.

NCOSE Executive Director Haley McNamara says these companies are aware of the problems. In her view, they’re choosing instead to use customer data for their own profit.

MCNAMARA: They get more engagement and more eyeballs by maybe allowing minors under the age of 13 on there who shouldn't be on there, or by allowing adults to contact kids or allowing other nefarious features that they could clamp down on.

The list also names Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg by name…for failing to take action to protect children on Instagram. In 2024, Missouri Senator Josh Hawley confronted Zuckerberg for knowing about teenagers exposed to harmful content but not stopping it.

HAWLEY: Will you take personal responsibility?

ZUCKERBERG: Senator, I view my job and the job of our company is building the best tools that we can to keep our community safe—

HAWLEY: Well, you're failing at that.

ZUCKERBERG: Senator, we're doing an industry leading effort. We build AI tools—

HAWLEY: Oh nonsense. Your product is killing people…

Up till now, digital media companies have deflected lawsuits because of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act…A law that says companies are not liable for third party content. But that’s changing. In December, members of the Senate introduced a bill to end that rule.

Then last week, courts in New Mexico and California respectively ruled against Meta for facilitating sexual exploitation and addictive product features. The company plans to appeal those rulings…but during the New Mexico trial, Meta announced that by May, it will shut down end-to-end encrypted chats on Instagram. Predatory adults have used that tool to groom children without authorities or Meta able to track them.

McNamara says the recent rulings may bring more legal pressure:

MCNAMARA: I think sometimes people hear lawsuits and they think, Oh, so now the company is going to be liable for everything that ever happens on its platform. No, this is just survivors to have their chance to have a day in court to plead to their specific case.

NCOSE is also petitioning the Supreme Court to take a case against Twitter, now X, for facilitating the spread of child sexual abuse material. McNamara says the fight lies on multiple fronts.

MCNAMARA: Parents, of course, have a duty, but these online platforms have a duty as well.

She also hopes that between courts and Congress, big tech companies will be forced to take responsibility for business decisions that allow children and young women to be exploited.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Harrison Watters in Washington.

NICK EICHER, HOST: It’s Culture Friday.

John Stonestreet is here. He’s President of the Colson Center and host of the Breakpoint Podcast. Good morning, John.

JOHN STONESTREET: Good morning.

EICHER: John, you heard that report on the annual Dirty Dozen list from the National Center on Sexual Exploitation … naming companies like Meta, TikTok, Discord, and others—arguing their design choices and algorithms are still exposing kids to harm … even as lawsuits and policy debates heat up.

When you hear that—especially the argument that this is less about content and more about how these platforms are built—what stands out to you about where the real responsibility lies here?

STONESTREET: Well, I think a list like this is helpful, because it’s not just for lawyers looking for folks to go after, although I think that is going to be a legitimate aspect of this.

We’re not just talking about platforms that allow certain content to be carried on them. We’re talking about platforms that harmed young people in an addictive way. This has a lot more to do with things like class action lawsuits against the Sackler family because of the opioid addiction crisis—what they knew, what they actually lied about, what they enabled, what they hid, and where they targeted—and big tobacco, things like that.

But at the end of the day, this list is not just for lawsuits. It’s to put these companies on notice that they can’t hide what they’re doing anymore, and I appreciate that.

I think we’re at the point now where we should expect parents to take the responsibility that parents should have been taking for a long time—for the devices that they let their kids have, the apps that are on those devices, the platforms that are being allowed to infiltrate the hearts and minds of their students. They’re enabling this access.

And I think a lot of parents feel like they can’t do anything, and I don’t know why that’s the case. I know there are plenty of times in which it feels like, as a parent, that culture just kind of runs over you, like you can’t really prevent the bad stuff from happening. But you can.

You can know your kids’ passwords. There is no right to privacy for a 12-year-old that lives in your house and might be stalked or harassed or harmed in some way by an adult. At that point, you violate whatever myths of privacy rights that parents often appeal to.

You do have control. You can assert that sort of will, and that’s what a parent’s job is. So I do think that, hopefully, this will immediately speak to them.

And look, educational institutions have gotten on board in droves in terms of limiting this access, at least during the school day. All of them need to get on board. It’s no longer up in the air whether smartphones are needed for education. They’re not, and they’re bad for it. There’s no more research here that really needs to be done to demonstrate that.

EICHER: John, you said something—I don’t know how long ago it was—but it really made an impression on me. Something along the lines of, there was a time when young kids went looking for pornography, but now pornography goes looking for little kids.

And I think of that whenever I hear counterarguments about these lawsuits and government coming after these companies trying to hold them accountable. They have built something that is really predatory. This is hardly pure free speech. This is something that is trying to almost surveil young kids, just as you said—they don’t go looking for it; it goes looking for them.

And I wonder if that doesn’t make a big difference.

STONESTREET: It’s an enormous difference, and it’s not just pornography. That’s so early 2000s, when we were worried about pop-up ads on chat rooms or video games.

What we’re talking about now is actually eating disorders and addictions of various kinds and straight-up lies. Because the most aggressive sexual grooming that’s happened with this generation is not in trying to get them to behave sexually—it’s to get them to question who they are sexually at a level that no one had ever seen before.

Which is why, when you lay down the social media use trends among young people and then the growth of the LGBTQ identification among young people, it’s like an exact match. We’re talking about the exact same trend.

So it’s not just—pornography has been predatory online for a long time. What we’re talking about here is all kinds of bad predatory behavior.

Frankly, I ask parents this. I ask Christian school administrators this. If there were a creepy old man following around all the young girls and whispering terrible things to them of various kinds, would you step in and get rid of that guy?

And everybody says yes. And I’m like, well, that’s the device. That’s exactly what that is.

EICHER: Well, John, a major win for free speech rights. Now we’re pivoting here a little bit—free speech rights for counselors and therapists.

The Supreme Court ruling eight to one—and you saw that this week—against the law in your state of Colorado. This had to do with prohibiting licensed counselors from helping clients navigate their way out of same-sex attraction or gender confusion, those kinds of things.

And I think this is what bothered the court: the law allowed counselors to steer clients toward LGBTQ life, but not out of it. And a nearly unanimous court said that is just plain and simple a violation of the First Amendment.

It’s interesting, though—we just talked about arguably limiting free speech or holding these companies accountable in the case of social media, and now we’re celebrating counselor free speech and freedom of religion.

So help us draw a line here. What is the difference between regulating speech on social media platforms and restricting what a counselor can say in private in a one-on-one setting like that?

STONESTREET: I don’t think we’re talking about really the same thing at all.

We are dealing with the ramifications of something that we have in terms of the First Amendment. What we’re not saying is that these freedoms don’t have limits. You can’t use the freedom of speech to intentionally harm someone—especially minors.

That was the case that was made—that to lead a client into even their own desire to reconcile with their bodies, or to manifest a different sexual orientation or desire to go along with this state of will, would be to cause harm. And the data doesn’t back this up.

I thought, for example, Justice Jackson’s arguments that the state has to police medicine and that this is the only way to protect young people—it was fascinating to see that. Because at the same time, institutions, healthcare institutions, doctors, medical professionals, entire medical associations, are backpedaling away from transgender ideology as quickly as they possibly can, saying there is not the sort of defense of this practice or evidence that supports this practice that we thought.

So she’s actually now arguing that you need the state to police something that’s not effective and not true.

We’re just talking about completely different things. The question is, does a professional have the right to free speech as a professional? You don’t leave your freedom at the door just because you’re a healthcare professional or mental healthcare professional.

That’s different than allowing anyone to say anything they want in any way they want. And that is what’s happening with these social media companies—there is no regulation and there is an intent to harm and clear evidence of harm.

BROWN: Erin Hawley, John, the lawyer in this case who represented the Christian counselor, wrote for WORLD Opinions that this ruling puts roughly 20 states with similar laws on notice.

Do you see this as a turning point—not just legally, but culturally—in how dissenting views on identity are treated?

STONESTREET: Well, I would listen to Erin Hawley’s analysis, which is going to go well beyond mine.

Colorado, of course, has earned a lot of the backlash of this headline, because Colorado is now 0 for 3. And that makes ADF 3 and 0 on some of these conscience rights cases.

But they’re not the first state to have enacted some sort of anti-conversion law. There are others out there that are built a little bit differently.

Even in their concurring opinion, Justices Kagan and Sotomayor suggested that this could stand if it’s done a little bit differently. It was almost like they were attempting to coach progressive lawmakers into heading down that path.

Another thing worth thinking about is that you have old-school liberal judges like Sotomayor and Kagan, and then you have a younger progressive judge like Justice Jackson—and they’re not on the same page.

It’s interesting how liberalism evolved into progressivism. Liberalism was once about the liberation of the individual being able to do whatever you want, and progressivism now is about making people believe and say and do what you want. It’s the opposite of being liberal.

To hear Justice Jackson say that the state should police medicine—you’re like, go back 150 years.

There are a lot of ramifications that come out of this case. Also, this decision comes in a landscape where sexual orientation and gender identity have been lumped together, and even the LGBTQ groups don’t want to be grouped together anymore—especially on gender ideology.

Medical professionals are running away from it and making dramatic admissions about what it does not do, especially for minors.

So this is a moving target to figure out everything this decision means. And the fact that it was eight to one is another thing to talk about. Usually when you have a big ruling like that, it’s because of a narrow technicality. This wasn’t narrow. It was basically: professionals have speech, period.

It was a fascinating defense of free speech.

BROWN: One day, right? One day.

STONESTREET: Yeah, there we go.

BROWN: So John, before we let you go, you are a basketball guy. We know that. And so I know you’ve been following Jayden Ivey and the NBA drama. Ivey publicly proclaimed his newness in Christ back in February.

IVEY: I’m not the J.I. I used to be. The old J.I. is dead. I’m alive in Christ no matter what the basketball setting is. I’m born again with the Holy Spirit and I’ve been saved by Jesus Christ.”

But it wasn’t until he spoke out against the NBA for promoting so-called Pride Month and unrighteousness that the Chicago Bulls essentially fired him on Monday. Here he is again.

IVEY: They proclaim Pride Month in the NBA. They show it to the world. They say come join us for Pride Month to celebrate unrighteousness. So how is it that one can’t speak righteousness?

So John, you have said this many times on this program: as Christians, we have to cultivate a theology of getting fired. How would you compare and contrast the stand Ivey is taking with some of the other cases that we’ve talked about in the past? I’m thinking of Barronelle Stutzman, Jack Phillips …

STONESTREET: Well, I think this is a fascinating story.

We’re talking about a real life and someone who has now been fired. It’s going to be a very interesting question. The NBA is the kind of business where you could get picked up by somebody else. But what will that mean for other front offices?

To hire him back is now a statement. Is that a statement that should be made? You bet. Is this unfair? Completely unfair.

Of all the things NBA players and professional athletes don’t get fired for, this is what you’re going to get fired for?

I don’t know that other players are wrong for not saying what Jayden Ivey has said. If he felt the Holy Spirit was leading him to say this and he didn’t, that would have been disobedience. He said it.

I would have liked to see a lot of other NBA players, many of whom claim to be Christian, speak out for him.

We all remember when Jason Collins made that announcement—“I’m black, I’m gay, and I’m in the NBA”—and the overwhelming support he got.

Now you have a guy where others claim to believe the same things he does, and it’s been kind of crickets.

Your question was about a theology of getting fired. I do think that sometimes, in a culture like ours, you don’t always have to show up at everything and say everything out loud, but you need to be willing to never live by lies and to take that stand.

I don’t see him backtracking. He’s showing the courage of a Russian hockey player refusing to put on the pride jersey.

EICHER: Provorov!

STONESTREET: So, yeah, good for him.

EICHER: All right. John Stonestreet is president of the Colson Center and host of the Breakpoint podcast. John, thanks so much.

STONESTREET: Thank you both.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Today is Friday, April 3rd. Thank you for turning to WORLD Radio to help start your day.

Good morning. I’m Nick Eicher.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: And I’m Myrna Brown.

Coming next on The World and Everything in It: a blockbuster sequel lands in theaters.

The Super Mario Bros. Movie was a billion-dollars-plus hit. Now comes the followup—and the question: can it live up to the first?

EICHER: Here’s WORLD arts and culture editor Collin Garbarino —let’s-a-go.

MUSIC: [Mario theme music]

COLLIN GARBARINO: The Super Mario Galaxy Movie starts where most of Mario and Luigi’s video game adventures begin: With the abduction of a princess.

BOWSER JR: Princess Rosalina, you’re coming with me.

Anyone who’s played the Super Mario Galaxy video game knows Princess Rosalina lives in the comet observatory and is the caretaker of a race of starlike beings called the Lumas. After her kidnapping, one of her Lumas heads to the Mushroom Kingdom to find help.

Princess Peach, who’s a bit of a girlboss, enlists her trusty sidekick Toad and heads into deep space in search of Rosalina. Mario and Luigi get left behind to keep an eye on the Mushroom Kingdom, especially Peach’s special guest.

BOWSER: Hey, Luigi. What’s up, Mario?

Mario’s archenemy Bowser is being kept prisoner because of all the trouble he caused in the last movie. In this movie, he continues to see himself as a would-be rival for Peach’s affections. And he’s trying to reform.

BOWSER: Behold! I made a masterpiece of Princess Peach. What do you think?

LUIGI: Love the colors.

MARIO: It’s trash.

Reform, however, proves elusive.

BOWSER: How dare you look at my masterpiece and say that! I’ll burn the skin off your bones! Wow. Sorry about that. That’s the old Bowser talking. Still working through my demons I suppose.

But when Bowser’s son plans a jailbreak, Mario, Luigi, and their new pal, the dinosaur Yoshi, get sucked up into outer space where they’ll need to find Peach and help her rescue Rosalina.

BOWSER JR: I’m Bowser Jr. And I’m going to be taking my father… Now!

Most people are probably wondering how The Super Mario Galaxy Movie compares to its blockbuster predecessor. This movie has the same creative team as the 2023 film, so if you’re the kind of person who enjoyed that movie, you’re likely to enjoy this one too.

As with the previous film, Nintendo fans will appreciate the constant sly references to the video game franchise. And the musical echoes from the game that find their way into the score evoke just the right level of nostalgia. Also folks familiar with Super Smash Bros. will be delighted to see a few surprising cameos.

But don’t expect too much.

ROSALINA: Once upon a time, there was a brave and noble princess named Peach.

LUMA: I want to hear the story about the plumbers!

ROSALINA: We read that one last night!

LUMA: Plumbers! Plumbers! Plumbers!

I was a fan of the first film, but as I said in my review back in 2023, it suffered from a paper-thin plot. It had cute characters and lots of Nintendo jokes, but not much else. I also said the voice acting from Chris Pratt and Charlie Day as Mario and Luigi felt flat. It still does in this movie. But now you can add Brie Larson’s performance as Rosalina to the list. Jack Black still makes for a nice Bowser, but he doesn’t get to deliver a showstopper song like he did in the last film.

MUSIC: [“Peaches”]

Not having Bowser offer up a new song was a huge oversight that’s going to disappoint a lot of the fan base.

But other than the lack of a whimsical musical number, the films are pretty comparable. The plot of the new movie doesn’t feel that new, but the visuals are great, and it includes some action sequences that really highlight why Illumination is one of the better animation studios.

I also appreciated that this PG film doesn’t include any of the crude humor that sneaks into so many kids movies these days. Instead, the filmmakers wisely rely on nostalgia to hook teens and parents. I also have to admit that the relationship between Bowser and Bowser Jr, despite being villainous, was kind of touching.

BOWSER JR: From the ashes of his father’s defeat rises a new conqueror. The Bowser name shall be feared once more!

It’s nice for a Hollywood movie to remind us that fathers matter, even if they’re using the bad guys to do the reminding.

So on the whole, The Super Mario Galaxy might not be quite as fun as the first—I mean, really, the omission of a fresh Bowser song is unforgivable—but it’s still plenty fun, especially for kids and parents who enjoy rescuing a princess every now and then.

I’m Collin Garbarino.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Good morning! This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Myrna Brown.

NICK EICHER, HOST: And I’m Nick Eicher. Up next—proof that even if you’ve never read Homer, you’ve probably been quoting him. Here’s George Grant with Word Play for April!

GEORGE GRANT: Rage—Goddess, sing the rage of Achilles. This exclamation is the iconic first line of the Iliad, composed orally by the blind bard Homer sometime in the eighth century BC.

The classic poem is generally described by scholars as the first work of European literature, and some would assert the greatest. Its sequel, the Odyssey, is very nearly equally esteemed. Together, they lyrically describe brief episodes in the Trojan War and its aftermath. The poems have had an enormous impact on the literary legacy of the West.

Homer wrote in a distinctive, long, rolling drumbeat rhythm. Scholars call it dactylic hexameter. That same form was later taken up by Virgil in the Aeneid, Ovid in the Metamorphoses, Hesiod in the Theogony, as well as a host of other lyrical works by the likes of Horace, Perseus, Juvenal, Hesiod, and Lucretius.

Because of the limitations and constraints of that meter, Homer employed formulaic epithets at regular intervals throughout the epics, and these too became standard stock and trade devices used by lyricists all across the centuries. “The rosy-fingered dawn,” “the wine-dark sea,” “everlasting glory,” “undying fame,” “beauty, terrible beauty,” “that star of the waning summer,” “the heat of love,” and “the pulsing rush of longing.”

In addition to those memorably picturesque epithets, Homer profoundly enriched our vocabulary. The word “Amen,” for instance, passed into English from Latin, but the Latin root was derived from the Greek “emen,” meaning true or truthful, a word first found in the Iliad.

The word “humor” comes from Homer’s use of “hemor,” literally meaning wet or juicy, related to the ancient anatomical description of the four bodily fluids: blood, phlegm, choler, and bile. The term did not come to mean witty until well into the 17th century.

The word “money” comes from Homer’s use of “Mnemosyne,” an alternate name for Hera, the mythic goddess of memory. Outside the temple of Hera in Olympia, ceremonial coins were minted adorned with Hera’s image, hence the association with money. Later, this was mirrored at Rome’s mint outside the temple to Hera’s Roman counterpart, Juno.

The word “glamor” originates from the Greek word “grammaria,” again first used by Homer. Medieval alchemists measured their potions and formulas in grams, and the mystique of their trade gave the term its present meaning: fashionable, chic, or stylish.

Then there are any number of other quite obvious Homeric bequests to our common parlance. An odyssey is a grand adventure. An Achilles’ heel is a congenital weakness. To hector is to bluster, bully, or torment. A mentor is a counselor, discipler, or advisor. Stentorian is a thunderously loud voice. And marmalade is a kind of fruit jam or jelly.

Interestingly, the phrase we might most readily associate with Homer is “Trojan horse,” but it does not appear in The Iliad. It is only briefly described in The Odyssey, and though the scheme was planned by Odysseus, even there it is not mentioned by name. Instead, the term first appears in Virgil’s Aeneid.

Thus, the old ploy remains a bit of an etymological and linguistic Trojan horse. How Homeric!

I’m George Grant.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Alright, time now to name the crew who contributed to this week’s programs:

Jenny Rough, David Bahnsen, Mary Reichard, Juliana Chan Erikson, Mary Muncy, Bethel McGrew, Amy Lewis, Daniel Darling, Hunter Baker, Cal Thomas, Lauren Smyth, Collin Garbarino, John Stonestreet, Josh Schumacher, George Grant, and Josh Goniea.

Thanks also to our breaking news crew: Kent Covington, Steve Kloosterman, Travis Kircher, Daniel Devine, and Christina Grube.

And thanks to the Moonlight Maestros—working hard to make sure the program is ready each week-day bright and early: Benj Eicher and Carl Peetz.

Emma Eicher is assistant producer, Harrison Watters is Washington producer, Kristen Flavin is features editor, Lindsay Mast is producer. I’m Executive Producer, Nick Eicher.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: And I’m Myrna Brown

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The Bible says: “It was now about the sixth hour, and there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour, while the sun’s light failed. And the curtain of the temple was torn in two. Then Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said, ‘Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!’ And having said this he breathed his last.” —Luke 23:44-46

That’s Good Friday. You know the story doesn’t end there. This weekend, celebrate the Resurrection of King Jesus! There is victory in His name!

He is Risen!

EICHER: He is Risen, indeed!

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