The World and Everything in It: December 30, 2022

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Good morning!

Today on Culture Friday, we’ll talk about the cultural stories of the year 2022.

NICK EICHER, HOST: John Stonestreet will join us.

Also, we’ll remember prominent people from the stage and screen.

And our last installment of listener stories of answered prayer from 2022.

BROWN: It’s Friday, December 30th. 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, Kristen Flavin with today’s news.

KRISTEN FLAVIN, NEWS ANCHOR: Santos »

SOUND: Hey hey, ho ho, San-tos has got to go

Protesters in Long Island, New York, demanding the man they elected to Congress last month step down before he’s sworn in next month.

Republican Congressman-elect George Santos is facing a voter backlash after admitting to having lied about his heritage, work experience, and education.

MOS: Why would anyone want a representative who doesn’t want to represent us because he falsified everything in order to get the vote.

Santos lied about having Jewish ancestry, lied about working on Wall Street, and lied about his college pedigree.

So far, he’s hanging in. But he’s facing fraud investigations, a possible probe by the House ethics committee, and embarrassed colleagues in Congress.

Pele » Soccer fans are mourning the death of one of the best-known names in the game: Pele. He had been fighting colon cancer since 2021.

Pele retired from the game in 1977.

PELE: Everybody knows I passed a most important, and most saddening moment in my life. And I feel very, very sorry, because I'm going to stop to do what I like more in life, to play soccer.

Pele would receive the nickname “the King” for his dominance on the pitch.

MOS: Portugese

This fan remembering how the nation of Nigeria held a three-day ceasefire in the middle of a civil war in 1967 just so that Pele could play in an exhibition match.

Pele died at age 82.

Netanyahu » Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is back in power after being out of power for a year-and-a-half.

NETANYAHU: Hebrew

Netanyahu said in his first cabinet meeting yesterday that his government has four main priorities: keep Iran from getting nuclear weapons, restore security, defeat the cost-of-living crisis, and expand peace in the Arab world.

His new government is a coalition cobbled together with nationalist and orthodox parties and said to be the most right-leaning government Israel’s ever had.

Southwest » Southwest Airlines says that it will resume normal flight operations today.

The airline slashed 2,400 flights yesterday. That’s six out of every 10 scheduled.

The airline’s canceled more than 13,000 flights in the past week.

The federal government has begun investigating some of the flight cancellations, but a representative for Southwest pilots, Michael Santoro, says the government should stay away.

SANTORO: Deregulation was the best thing that happened to the aviation industry and I would not want to see the government come back into it. We like it the way it is.

Southwest has made promises to improve.

Jan 6. » Former President Donald Trump will not be forced to appear before the Jan. 6 House Committee. WORLD’s Josh Schumacher has more.

JOSH SCHUMACHER, REPORTER: Committee chairman Bennie Thompson wrote a letter to Donald Trump’s lawyer saying that he is formally withdrawing the subpoena for the former president.

The letter comes as the Committee’s work winds down.

The committee had issued the subpoena in October and Trump sued in November.

He argued that no former president has ever been forced to provide documents via Congressional subpoena. Some have done so voluntarily.

For WORLD, I’m Josh Schumacher.

Pope » The health of Pope Emeritus Benedict the 16th continues to worsen.

The 95-year-old former pontiff is being monitored by doctors at a monastery within Vatican City. Vatican journalist Massimo Franco.

FRANCO: I don't know if he's in his death bed. He's in his bed, but we don't know actually what his real conditions are because there was a lot of alarm after the words of Pope Francis.

Ordained a Roman Catholic priest in Germany in 1951 as Joseph Ratzinger, he’d become Pope Benedict in 2005 and serve until 2013.

I’m Kristen Flavin.

Straight ahead: the top cultural stories of 2022.

Plus, remembering the lives of prominent people from the world of arts and entertainment.

This is The World and Everything in It.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: It’s the 30th day of December, 2022.

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. It’s Culture Friday!

Joining us now is John Stonestreet, president of the Colson Center and host of the Breakpoint podcast.

Morning, John!

JOHN STONESTREET, GUEST: Good morning.

EICHER: Well, here we are with mere hours remaining before the last grains of sand pass on the year that was 2022 and I thought it’d be good to take a look back.

2022 was the year we had a war break out in Europe. We had another year in which mass shootings made headlines around an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, a Fourth of July parade in Chicago.

We read about supply chains, quiet quitting, and border crises.

Fentanyl deaths, sexual abuse in the church, and a pushback on Covid regulations.

Gaslighting and goblin-mode were words of the year, depending upon whether you asked Oxford or Merriam-Webster. If you asked Dictionary.com, the word of the year was woman, and I think we all know the reason why. People had trouble giving a definition.

We had Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health. We had a new Supreme Court justice, and we had another election.

We said goodbye to a monarch who stood for a lot of history.

John, all of this in its own way is culture. I imagine the reversal of Roe versus Wade has to be not just the story of the year but the story of the last 50. What’s your year-in-review top story?

STONESTREET: Well, if you're asking me for one story, I'd have to choose the Dobbs decision just because of what it means culturally speaking. And potentially, in other words, now there is a huge roadblock to the defensive life that's out of the way. But if it really if you're asking me what changed, the most Dobbs didn't change that much. And I think one of the stories of the year is what we learned post-Dobbs in the midterms and beyond. But almost all of these headlines point to something deeper. And I think that's what's really important here. It's not the headlines themselves. It's not the stories themselves. It's what the stories actually uncover. Now that row is out of the way, we have come to see, but in particular, in Michigan, and even in Montana, where voters refused to pass a law defending and saving babies that were born alive after an abortion, not to mention some other states like Kansas, we have a huge worldview problem when it comes to the issue of life. If we thought the Supreme Court was now going to settle this issue by getting rid of Roe v Wade through Dobbs, and we were just flat out wrong, and the Supreme Court can't settle this, the culture settles this, given wherever it is on fundamental questions about life and meaning and purpose and morality and human value and dignity. The fact that the we can't define what a woman is, that's a weird headline that points to a much deeper reality that Carl Trueman and others have written about in terms of how we have so thoroughly misunderstood what it means to be human. And we think actually, that what our feelings imply is not just what we feel, but actually what the nature of reality is, itself. Look, we could also talk about the headline having to do with the death of Queen Elizabeth, that's an amazing historical marker. And yet the headlines almost tend to be, you know, a, a kind of critical theory mood-ish sort of treatment of Meghan Markel, as opposed to what this particular monarch accomplished, right. But you know, I gotta be honest, when you threw them all together. That's pretty amazing that all of this happened in 2022. You know, we should all be exhausted going from one of these headlines to the next to the next to the next to the next.

BROWN: I'm out of breath myself. Well, as the only woman in this conversation today, John, I made a mental note of the word woman being the dictionary.com word of the year. And, you know, I think it's in a way fitting that one of the other dictionaries chose gaslighting as word of the year. So do you think 2022 goes down as the year we all were gaslit on the question, what is a woman?

STONESTREET: It's, you know, again, this points to something so fundamentally bizarre about this particular cultural moment, and it's something actually that Romans one talks about, is that when you choose to worship something other than God, the creation rather than the Creator, then you just lose touch, you lose any sense of, of permanence, any fundamental reference point by which to define reality and to orient yourself and Of course, this is stuff that was talked about by some of the 19th century philosophers, most notably Frederick Nietzsche. And we seem to be kind of in the full on Wake of what he predicted in something like the parable of the madman. But you know, I also wonder if there's going to be a push back in 2023. Let's, let's, let's schedule a date for a year from now and see if we've settled on this definition of woman. The reason I asked that is because I just kind of wonder if this has just gone too far, the number of places right now that it is being exposed and proven where two things are happening. Number one, the overt hyper sexualization of children in the name of men claiming to be women. And number two, the the absolute, presuming of things that belong to women, spaces, positions, titles, rights, and areas such as education, and in the government, and so on. And the actual jumping past any sort of rationale, and just kind of making a claim that anyone who's not ready to go along with this bizarre agenda is somebody who's bad. I mean, this is just really crazy. It just is. And I don't say that in any sort of rude way, I'm not trying to call anyone else that, you know, clearly, there's mental disorders involved in this whole thing. And I'm not trying to make light of any of that. I'm just saying, This is so far over the top. And we seem to be hitting the bounds of what our culture is willing to accept. And that's what culture does culture is made of human expression. And then culture takes on a life of its own. And it kind of serves as a gatekeeper of what we are going to accept as a people and what we aren't going to accept as a people. And I've just got to say, I think we've hit the limit. So that's the deal a year from now, we'll gather together somebody, remember, we had this conversation, and we'll just see if the culture is going to rein us back in on this kind of insanity.

EICHER: All right, I've got it on the calendar, John 12/30. So December, the 30th, of 23, we'll be coming back. Hey, I think we also saw this year in 2022, Elon Musk emerge as a significant cultural player. And in a way, it seems as though he changed sides. But I wonder what you think is the impact this year of the revelations out of Twitter now that Musk has made them public, the Twitter files, what do you think about that?

STONESTREET: Well, you know, I think that's something too, that points to a deeper reality, which we're coming out of a two or three year stretch, where the culture has just absolutely lost any and all trust and public officials. You know, we've always had a healthy skepticism with state officials, that's just kind of part of it. This is just made that worse. We came out of COVID. Now there's a skepticism of medical professionals. And, you know, so called, you know, experts, we're tired of hearing the science says this is the same science that says the sort of insanity we talked about in the last question, and then turns around and says, you know, here's what you have got to believe. And here's how you got to behave. And Musk is, you know, seems to not be that sort of person. I don't know that he's changed sides any more than like a Bill Maher has changed sides, right? Bill Maher are now his must watch TV, at least, you know, the clips of what he said the night before. And you know, I can't imagine 15 years ago, finding myself agreeing with anything that that Bill Maher said, of substance. So what happened, what happened is that the cultural left has gone so far left that, you know, all kinds of people are to the right of them, including the Elon Musk and the Bill Maher's and the other. So I just think that's really been the big shift that we have seen take place. Musk is a fascinating character. I think he's going to go down in some ways, in our history books, like some of the other, you know, remarkable individuals that America has produced in the sciences and invention and business. I mean, you can just see the names he thinks differently. He's an interesting figure too, in light of what Ross Douthat wrote about a couple years ago and his book on the decadence of America, decadence not being decay as much as just basically stagnation, nothing new, no new ideas, no new anything. And Musk's is a obvious and very public exception to that and by you know, and he's also creating just havoc in California because of course, he was pretty popular in the early days of electric cars and everyone bought a Tesla and now you can't You're not allowed to have a Tesla because that means you like Elon Musk so but those poor folks in California are really you know in trouble and so you No I'll stop being sarcastic Happy New Year.

EICHER: John Stonestreet is president of the Colson Center and host of the Breakpoint podcast.

BROWN: Thanks, John, and Happy New Year!

STONESTREET: Thank you both … and happy new year!

NICK EICHER, HOST: It wasn’t raining cats and dogs in Houston this week. It was raining bats!

The unusual cold caused the flying mammals to go into hypothermic shock and fall to the ground.

Mary Warwick is wildlife director at the Houston Humane Society.

Worried, she drove to where she knew a colony lived. More than a hundred bats were lying on the ground, seemingly dead.

She scooped them into a box and rescued them. But she just kept getting calls. Call after call and she really didn’t have the space, so Warwick had to get creative.

By Wednesday, it warmed up and she released 1,500 bats back to their homes. Was it hard to let them go?

It’s The World and Everything in It.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Today is Friday, December 30.

Thank you for turning to WORLD Radio to help start your day.

Good morning. I’m Myrna Brown.

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

Coming next on The World and Everything in It: notable deaths in 2022.

Today, we finish up our recap of people who died this year, this time from the world of the arts and media. Here’s WORLD reporter Anna Johansen Brown.

ANNA JOHANSEN BROWN: First, we remember the man behind Conjunction Junction.

AUDIO Conjunction junction, what’s your function?

George Newall was a co-creator of Schoolhouse Rock, the animated series that set school to music.

AUDIO I’m just a bill, yes I’m only a bill, and I’m sitting here on Capitol hill…

Newall famously helped come up with the idea while working at an ad agency. His boss complained that his young son could sing along with Jimi Hendrix or the Rolling Stones, but couldn’t do basic multiplication. Newall brought together a team to make math facts singable, and Schoolhouse Rock was born.

AUDIO Three is a magic number…

The educational series ran from 1973 to 1985. It taught kids about science, math, grammar, and civics.

Newall was the last surviving member of the founding team. He died earlier this month at the age of 88.

Next, one of America’s first black movie stars.

AUDIO The winner is Sidney Poitier in Lilies of the Field [applause]

Sidney Poitier grew up in the Bahamas, the son of tomato farmers and the youngest of seven kids. At 15, Poitier headed to the US with three dollars in his pocket. He tried his hand at acting, but he couldn’t read very well and had trouble getting through scripts. Instead, Poitier got a job as a dishwasher. In between shifts, an elderly waiter helped him practice reading.

Soon, Poitier landed work with the American Negro Theater. He took acting lessons and softened his thick islander accent. Eventually, he got on Broadway and from there, Hollywood.

AUDIO Well what do they call you up there? They call me Mr. Tibbs.

At the time, Hollywood had few roles for black actors. Racial taboos kept Poitier from playing most romantic parts. But even with few options, Poitier was choosy about what roles he would take. He refused to play a part that wasn’t consistent with his values.

In 1963, Poitier starred in "Lilies of the Field." He played an itinerant worker who helps a group of East German nuns to build a chapel.

AUDIO It’s English lesson time. I build a chapel. I build a chapel. You build a chapel. You build a chapel…

Poitier won an Oscar for that performance.

Many of his films explored social changes and racial tensions in the midst of the civil rights movement.

AUDIO Was Mr. Colbert ever in this greenhouse, say last night about midnight? [slap, slap]...there was a time when I could have had you shot.

But Poitier sometimes got frustrated when people focused too much on racism. He said, “racism was horrendous, but there were other aspects to life.”

AUDIO [singing] Amen. Amen…

Poitier died in January at age 94.

AUDIO [singing] …amen, amen, amen.

Next, the architect behind an intergalactic planet-destroying space station.

AUDIO That’s no moon. It’s a space station. Too big to be a space station. I have a very bad feeling about this.

Colin Cantwell was the concept artist who designed multiple Star Wars spacecraft including the TIE fighter, X-wing, and Death Star.

AUDIO [music]

Cantwell graduated from UCLA with a degree in animation, then attended Frank Lloyd Wright’s School of Architecture. During the space race, he worked for NASA, creating educational programs for the public.

In 1974, Cantwell joined the Star Wars team. He built the ship prototypes for A New Hope. One of his original minis makes an appearance in the film. Luke Skywalker plays with it while talking to C-3PO.

Cantwell died in May at the age of 90.

Next, we remember the voice of an infamous villain.

AUDIO My dear, sweet child. That’s what I do. It’s what I live for. To help unfortunate merfolk like yourself.

Pat Carroll voiced Ursula in the 1989 animated classic The Little Mermaid.

AUDIO Poor unfortunate souls, in pain, in need. This one wanting to be thinner, this one wants to get the girl and do I help them? Yes indeed.

Carroll was also an iconic comedian. She won an Emmy for her TV work and made regular appearances on “The Danny Kaye Show,” “The Red Skelton Show” and “The Carol Burnett Show.”

AUDIO Mimi, this is my kid sister, Kris. Is she just visiting, or does she live here permanently? Oh she’s staying with us til she gets married. Permanently, huh?

But one of Carroll’s favorite roles was Ursula the sea witch. She called her an “Ex-Shakespearean actress who now sold cars.”

Carroll died in July at age 95.

Next, we move behind the camera.

Ron Galella was a pioneer member of the paparazzi: One of the first photographers to take pictures of celebrities in their private lives. During his career, Galella took more than three million photographs of people like Elvis Presley, Elizabeth Taylor, and Brigitte Bardot.

AUDIO It’s curiosity, one word…We see them on the screen, glamorous, super stars. But are they as glamorous in real life?

Many grew frustrated with Gallela and accused him of stalking…of being obsessed with his subjects. In 1973, Galella followed Marlon Brando to a restaurant in New York City. Brando got fed up and punched him in the face, breaking his jaw and knocking out five of his teeth. Galella sued and won $40,000. Next time he chased Marlon Brando for a picture, he wore a football helmet.

Despite his subjects’ frustration, Galella’s work is exhibited in art galleries all over the world.

Galella died in April at age 91.

Next, we remember a sprawling dairy farm in Bethel, New York.

Michael Lang was a co-creator of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair in 1969.

AUDIO

Woodstock was a cultural flashpoint of the 60s. It was a three-day music festival meant to celebrate all the freewheeling countercultural values of the era.

Michael Lang was 24 at the time…a concert promoter, producer, and manager. He and a fellow music executive came up with the idea for Woodstock during the height of the Vietnam War.

AUDIO

He held the event on a farm in upstate New York. Popular artists like Jimi Hendrix, the Grateful Dead, and Janis Joplin performed.

AUDIO

Lang expected about 50,000 people to show up. But more than 400,000 came, creating a massive traffic jam. The setup couldn’t handle that many people, and festival-goers spent days with food shortages and poor sanitation. Drug use and overdoses ran rampant.

Michael Lang wanted Woodstock to celebrate peace, love, and music. He described it as a test: “Could we live as the peaceful community we envisioned? I’d hoped we could.”

Lang died in January at age 77.

Next, we remember a dancer and choreographer.

AUDIO I want you to enjoy the silence that you create when you step.

Yuriko was the daughter of Japanese immigrants. She was born in 1920 in California, but at age three, her father and two sisters died of influenza. Yuriko’s mother sent her to Japan to live with relatives. There, she studied German Expressionist dance. As a teen, Yuriko came back to the US to learn ballet and modern dance, but then came the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. American troops rounded up hundreds of thousands of Japanese Americans and sent them to internment camps. Yuriko spent two years at a camp in Arizona. She decided to teach dance to the kids in the camp.

STOCK NUTCRACKER SOUND

They used tablecloths and old curtains for costumes, and gave a recital of The Nutcracker.

In 1943, Yuriko moved to New York. She danced with the Martha Graham Dance Company, and performed on Broadway in the original productions of The King and I and Flower Drum Song. Yuriko went on to start her own modern dance company.

AUDIO I expect the highest from you. Laurie. Hungry hands. Let me see it. Hungry, hungry. Not in your brain, in your body.

Yuriko died in March at the age of 102.

From the stage to the page. Next, we remember the author behind Sarah Plain and Tall.

Patricia MacLachlan wrote poignant stories about everyday life on the American plains. Many of her books were inspired by her own childhood in North Dakota.

AUDIO I think my voice comes from my upbringing. The prairie where I grew up is a very spare place. And so the language of my Russian uncles was spare. My father’s was too. They spoke like the landscape. There weren’t a lot of trees, not a lot of clutter.

She wrote Sarah Plain and Tall in 1985. MacLachlan based the book on her own family history.

AUDIO Sarah Plain and Tall is about my step-great-grandmother, who left Maine and went to Kansas to meet my great grandfather who had put an ad in the paper for a wife because he had lost his wife and he had children.

The book won a Newberry Medal in 1986.

MacLachlan often wove together stories of the young and old.

AUDIO I always had a great respect for how alike the old and the young are. So I work really hard to make it spare enough for children, but complicated enough of a story to challenge them.

MacLachlan died in March at age 84.

Finally, we remember the man who put books on tape.

Duvall Hecht was an Olympic gold medalist in rowing. But he might be more famous for making audiobooks mainstream.

In the 1960s, Hecht was working at a brokerage firm in Los Angeles. He had an hour-long commute to and from work and it was making him frantic. Radio, he said, offered “bad music and worse news.” He wanted to find a way to escape the daily misery, so he turned to audiobooks recorded for the blind.

CASSETTE AUDIO

Cassettes were still in their infancy. Some entrepreneurs had put books like the Bible on tape, but Hecht wanted modern literature. Full length novels, biographies, histories.

He tried to talk publishers into it. They didn’t bite. So Hecht took things into his own hands. In 1975, he started a company called Books on Tape and became the first great purveyor of full-length books on cassette. That first year, he made $17,000 dollars. By 1991, the company was making $7.5 million. Hecht sold the company to Random House in 2001.

Hecht died in February at age 90. But his legacy continues. Today, audiobooks are the fastest growing format in the publishing field.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Anna Johansen Brown.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Today is Friday, December 30th. Good morning! This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Nick Eicher.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: And I’m Myrna Brown. Now, the final day in our series of Answered Prayers.

Before we get into it, just a quick word, and we’ll report more next week, after the end of the year and after all the mail’s in. But here’s an answered prayer. We have already exceeded the goal for our December Grassroots Giving Drive! You did it! We’re so thankful!

EICHER: That’s such great news, and we’re so thankful. All those resources we will put to the best use we can to produce this program and all the biblically objective journalism and Christian worldview commentary. Thank you for that vote of confidence as we go into calendar year 2023!

BROWN: Amen, and thank you! Well, we end today with the testimony of a prayer warrior, interceding for families with prodigals. But we begin with Lillian Hamman, who helped put these prayer segments together. She tells a story that highlights God’s mercy in the details of life, even when we make a mess of things.

LILLIAN HAMMAN: Earlier this year when a good friend asked me to be the maid of honor in her wedding, I immediately wanted to make my dress. I figured the one skirt I sewed back in middle school on top of years of quilting, knitting and weaving experience would be enough to get me through. After all, it was only a dress. Little did I know this thought process was the perfect recipe for humble pie. I got my 60 page digital PDF pattern pieced together with tape and started working on a practice version. Right when it was time to turn the dress out from the inside I realized I had sewn a mistake with my Goodwill sewing machine that stitches so tight, you can't seam rip mistakes. So now two weeks before the wedding, I was out of ideas and definitely out of time. I felt like I didn't deserve help, especially from the creator of the universe, because my very lack of asking for help was what got me here in the first place. But knowing that divine intervention was my only hope at this point to not let the bride down, I prayed and put out a cry for help in the office messaging channel. And within a few hours, a brand new member of the advertising team, who happened to have a textile degree and sewing machine I could borrow, reached out. And not only did God send this undeserving maid of honor some help, He sent an expert, and a new friend. So one week before the wedding she helped me scrap the handmade pattern for a reliable Vogue one and helped me get a practice garment made up and walked me through working with the really slippery and expensive satin on the finished product. And after pulling an all nighter just to get the zipper in and hem the skirt the day before I had to leave, I finished my dress. So at the wedding, I got lots of compliments, the bride loved it, and one guest asked me that's not your first dress is it? And I just winked at God and told her Oh, it definitely is. But I hope it's not my last.

DIANE IPPOLITO: My name is Diane Ippolito. And I am the state coordinator for moms in prayer in Pennsylvania. So I get the privilege of praying with lots of women, we pray over all kinds of things. And I lead a group of women that prays every week for our prodigal children and grandchildren and nieces and people that we know. And God has been so merciful to hear our cries that this year we had three prodigals who returned. And that is just such a cause for celebration and rejoicing because we know the Lord is able to do more than we could ever ask or imagine. We are so grateful that as we call on Him in truth, He hears. The Lord is righteous in all His ways, and kind in all His works. The Lord is near to all who call on Him, to all who call on Him in truth. He fulfills the desire of those who fear Him. He also hears their cry and saves them. Psalm 145, verses 17 through 19.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Well, it’s time to say thanks to the team members who helped put the program together this week: Leah Savas, Mary Reichard, David Bahnsen, Mary Muncy, Steve West, Jill Nelson, Onize Ohikere, Bonnie Pritchett, Harrison Watters, Anna Johansen Brown, Lillian Hamman, and John Stonestreet.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Thanks also to our breaking news team: Kent Covington, Lynde Langdon, Steve Kloosterman, Lauren Canterberry, Mary Muncy, Anna Mandin, and Josh Schumacher.

Plus, the guys who stay up late to get the program to you early, Johnny Franklin and Carl Peetz. Our producer is Kristen Flavin with production assistance from Emily Whitten, and Benj Eicher.

Paul Butler is our Executive Producer.

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