The World and Everything in It: February 14, 2025

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: Good morning!

Today on Culture Friday, the high cost of anxious leadership, and the challenges of new technology.

SOUND: We refuse to view AI as a purely disruptive technology that will inevitably automate away our labor force.

NICK EICHER, HOST: We’ll talk about that and more, John Stonestreet is standing by for Culture Friday.

Also today, new films coming to theaters this weekend: Paddington in Peru and a new Captain America.

THADDEUS ROSS: You’re not Steve Rogers.

SAM WILSON: You’re right. I’m not.

Later, George Grant with Word Play.

MAST: It’s Friday, February 14th. This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Lindsay Mast.

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

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

AUDIO (Trump-Modi): Thank you very much. Thank you very much, please.

KENT COVINGTON, NEWS ANCHOR: US-India cooperation » President Trump stood shoulder to shoulder with Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi at the White House last night.

Addressing reporters in the East Room, Trump said the two nations are deepening their ties.

TRUMP:  Starting this year, we'll be increasing military sales to India by many billions of dollars. We're also paving the way to ultimately provide India with the F 35 stealth fighters.

India is a key partner in the Indo-Pacific in efforts to counter China’s military buildup and aggression in the region.

For his part, Modi—heard here through an interpreter—added:

MODI (translated): We have also set ourselves the target of more than doubling our bilateral trade to obtain $500 billion dollars by 2030.

But on trade, Trump said there is still work to be done to erase a trade deficit with India.

Trump tariffs » Hours earlier, Trump announced new reciprocal trade tariffs on imports from many different countries.

TRUMP:  For many years, the U. S. has been treated unfairly by other countries, both friend and foe.

The president says to level the playing field, he’s imposing tariffs on imports to mirror what U.S. producers are charged to ship their goods overseas.

TRUMP: No more, no less. In other words, they charge us a tax or tariff, and we charge them the exact same tax or tariff. Very simple.

Commerce Secretary nominee Howard Lutnick told reporters:

LUTNICK:  We are going to address each country one by one, but here's the key. They'll get an invitation to trade with the greatest consumer economy in the world. And in exchange you have to treat us the way we're going to treat you.

Asked if consumers could face higher prices, President Trump says “not  necessarily.” And he added that the move will bring a lot of jobs to the United States, as more companies decide to build in the United States to avoid tariffs.

Ukraine talks » And on the topic of perceived fairness, the Trump administration is also applying heavy pressure to European allies.

Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth told leaders at NATO headquarters in Brussels:

HEGSETH:  Leaders of our European allies should take primary responsibility for defense of the continent … which means security ownership by all allies

He said other NATO allies need to spend more on defense.

And regarding the war in Ukraine, Hegseth said while in Brussels :

HEGSETH:  I had the chance to brief allies on President Trump's top priority, a diplomatic, peaceful end to this war as quickly as possible in a manner that creates enduring and durable peace.

White President Trump has started by making direct contact with Vladimir Putin, Hegseth said Ukraine and NATO leaders will be a part of those negotiations.

Israel-Gaza latest And in the Middle East, Hamas appears to have had a change of heart.

Earlier this week, the terror group said it would not release three Israeli hostages this weekend as required by the terms of an ongoing ceasefire.

Israeli military spokesman David Mencer said Thursday:

MENCER: We have already amassed forces inside and surrounding Gaza. So, if those three are not released, if Hamas does not return our hostages by Saturday noon, the ceasefire will end and the IDF will resume intense fighting until the final defeat of Hamas.

After Hamas initially said it was halting the further release of hostages, President Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a new ultimatum. They said if ALL the hostages weren’t set free by noon on Saturday, the war would resume.

But Israel now says that provided Hamas honors the terms of the agreement by releasing three more captives on Saturday, the ceasefire will remain in place.

RFK sworn in / Rollins confirmed » Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is the new Secretary of Health and Human Services.

AUDIO: I, Robert F. Kennedy Jr — do solemnly swear — do solemnly swear ….

Kennedy has vowed to fight chronic disease and clean up the ingredients in American foods.

Democrats expressed strong objections over his past voicing skepticism about vaccines. Kennedy made a series of assurances to assuage the concerns, at least of Republicans, on that matter.

Also on Thursday:

AUDIO: The years are 72. The nays are 28, and the nomination of Brooke Rollins is confirmed.

Brooke Rollins is the new Secretary of Agriculture following that vote.

Judge pauses Trump's order RE: trans procedures on kids » A federal judge has blocked President Trump’s executive order aimed at protecting children from transgender procedures. WORLD’s Kristen Flavin has more.

KRISTEN FLAVIN:  District Court Judge Brendan Hurston in Baltimore, a Biden appointee … said, in his view … It seems the president's order is trying to deny this population exists.

Trump’s order says federally run insurance programs cannot pay for potentially life-altering interventions like puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones … or surgeries to alter a child's anatomy.

Attorneys for some parents who claim their children are transgender … say Trump’s order is unconstitutional.

They argue, among other things, that his order tries to withhold funds already authorized by Congress.

The Supreme Court is currently considering a Tennessee law that bans the performance of transgender surgeries on children.

For WORLD, I’m Kristen Flavin.

I’m Kent Covington.

This is The World and Everything in It.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: It’s Friday the 14th of February.

Glad to have you along for today’s edition of The World and Everything in It. Good morning, I’m Lindsay Mast.

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

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MAST: And now, Culture Friday! Joining us is John Stonestreet … president of the Colson Center and host of the Breakpoint podcast. Good morning!

JOHN STONESTREET: Good morning!

EICHER: I wrote a piece in the new issue of WORLD Magazine, it’s online this morning and I’ll have a link in the program transcript. In the column, I’m borrowing a term from pastor and scholar Joe Rigney about “anxious leadership”, the kind that prioritizes cultural approval over mission.

I’ve got lots of examples from churches and academia … but also in the wider culture. No doubt you remember this from a few years ago. This viral ad cost a lot of money.

MULVANEY: Hi! I got some Bud Lights for us. So this month I celebrated my Day 365 of womanhood and Bud Light sent me possibly the best gift ever: A can with my face on it. Love ya! Cheers! Go team!

That was a $27 billion dollar ad: not meaning the cost of talent and production, meaning that’s how much market cap Anheuser-Busch InBev lost over the Dylan Mulvaney catastrophe. They’ve been trying to win back lost market share ever since.

Fast forward to Super Bowl Sunday:

AD: Cul-de-sac party!
Party at the sac!
This is incredible!
How many Bud Lights can you fit in that puppy?
As many Bud Lights as it takes.

So you can read the column for yourself, but the idea here is that this is the price of leadership that merely reacts to pressure from culture, when it places that fear above mission.

And we see that big time in the evangelical world: recent example, John, the short-lived congratulations on social media to a Wheaton College alumnus. Russ Vought won Senate approval to be President Trump’s budget director and Wheaton put up a nice message. But then bunch of people got all bent out of shape how could you? How dare you? He works for Trump!

It wasn’t even a day and Wheaton took it down. I did try engaging the school and I got an emailed statement, but no answers to any of my questions.

So I’m assuming you saw the Wheaton College dustup. What do you think that reveals about the broader challenge of institutional backbone in an age of online outrage?

STONESTREET: I did. I think obviously there is some guilt to be claimed by leaders, but this is endemic in the evangelical institutional space on an institutional level.

I think it’s especially true when it comes to evangelical institutions of higher learning.

Can you, for example, imagine Wheaton, who certainly would have caught flak had they celebrated on X or Instagram an alum appointed to the Biden administration? Can you imagine them ever pulling that because of the complaints of those on the right?

Now, maybe I’m wrong. Maybe it would go a different way than I’m predicting, but I just can’t imagine that from any of these institutions.

Part of this is the idea that many have noted that we punch right and coddle left. That’s kind of an evangelical tendency.

I do think it’s kind of built into the missiology of evangelicalism, which has really been infected by this desire to be palatable, to be relevant, to be accepted. But it just doesn’t go anywhere. That does create a high level of “anxiety,” to use the word that you use there in the question, because you can’t keep up with what it takes to be palatable.

Cultural norms move so fast. Pretty quickly, you find yourself off orthodoxy without even noticing it.

Look, I think the slippery slope fallacy is indeed a fallacy, but this is one of those examples where it always tends to work out the other way.

I’ve talked about the slippery slope reality of doctor assisted suicide, right? Okay, it might be a fallacy from a purely logical perspective, but culturally speaking, if the slope is slippery, you’re going to end up at the bottom. This is just another way.

You know, you don’t see these institutions becoming more conservative. You don’t see the institutions, for example, suddenly turning around going, you know what? I went too far.

It just keeps going in a leftist direction. Maybe there are some exceptions to that. I can think of a couple, for example, evangelical colleges that I think have moved further away from the slide that they have taken.

But it just seems to be the narrative, you know, to the point that this is endemic of leadership, I think it is, but I think it’s also of institutions. And I think it’s something within the evangelical world that is such a reality that it has to be dealt with at some point.

MAST: John, let’s turn to the Paris AI Summit. Vice President JD Vance spoke there this week about the Trump administration’s approach to artificial intelligence—framing it as a tool to improve quality of life, not something to replace humans. Let’s listen:

VANCE:  We refuse to view AI as a purely disruptive technology that will inevitably automate away our labor force. We believe, and we will fight for policies that ensure AI will make our workers more productive. We expect that they will reap the rewards with higher wages, better benefits, and safer and more prosperous communities.

Now, we also recently saw a “Family and Technology” manifesto from more than 30 conservative leaders, covering everything from AI to reproductive technologies and digital addiction. It’s a comprehensive list of concerns about ethics keeping pace with rapid tech advances.

Is this a sign we’re getting serious about preventing technology from outpacing morality? And if so, how do we ensure it’s more than just talk?

STONESTREET: Yeah, that’s a great question.

I don’t know if I have the answer to that, but I do think we’re seeing something new. I think it has to do with more than just the technology outpacing our ethics, as the statement that you referred to earlier said, which I signed as well.

I didn’t agree with each policy proposal all the way down the line, but I did think that just the thoughtfulness of it warranted attention in this way: that our real challenge with technology is not just because we have ethics lagging behind, although that certainly is the case.

But I think that’s the fruit, not the root.

At the end of the 20th century, there was an article in Time magazine talking about technology and where it was going to go and what it meant. Interestingly enough, this manifesto written back then said that the great irony is that secular humanism never gave us humanism—that basically our techno-scientific, technocratic way of thinking about life has only accelerated since then - dramatically - basically, what it did is it reduced humans down to just being part of the machine. So we lost human exceptionalism. We lost an understanding of what gives humans value.

This is obvious in how humans think about work, particularly Western Americans. This is why we had The Great Resignation. This is what David Bahnsen has written about in his wonderful book, Full Time, about the connection, as he puts it in the subtitle, “between work and the meaning of life.”

So what happens is we try to fill that God-shaped hole with convenience and efficiency and choice. So that’s what drives technology, but it can’t fulfill that meaning gap. And pretty soon, as that statement says, we can’t have this technology at the cost of our humanity.

When you start looking at which technologies are dehumanizing us, well, you got to go to artificial reproductive technologies. You’ve got to go to how screen time has interrupted the family. You’ve got to go to artificial intelligence. The holistic approach that Vice President Vance took in that speech that was taken in this statement are both warranted.

We have to have a reckoning. Will we?

That’s your your last question or some form of it. And this reminds me of an opening dialogue of Saturday Night Live. There was a comedian who made this observation: “Do you know how much time we spend proving to robots that we’re not robots?” You know? That was five years ago, right? You know, we had to open every website the way we now just take as normal: Are a robot? No. But how do we prove ourselves?

Look, there’s an awful lot of unraveling to do. Will we be able to do it? I don’t know.

Are the threats as real as the statement? I think so. And I think that statement is worth everyone’s read.

EICHER: Let’s switch gears, John. Did you catch that Secret Service ad during the Super Bowl?

STONESTREET; I did not see that one.

EICHER: Got it right here. This was produced by Michael Bay, the Hollywood producer known for his big-budget action movies.

AD: America was founded on an idea.
Our heroes are humble.
Protectors are born, they’re not made.
America’s Secret Service protecting this Super Bowl is asking a few more to step forward.

Clearly a return to the classic masculine ideal—facing fear and defending others. I can’t wait to see the new military recruitment ads—but even without them, recruitment’s way up. Having a war fighter at the helm of the Pentagon probably doesn’t hurt, right?

John, you’ve said politics is downstream from culture, but sometimes it feels like the political scene can also shape the culture, there’s a symbiotic relationship. Do you agree with that?

STONESTREET: Well, we need cultural change in order to secure political change.

Otherwise, you’re governed by executive order, which is what we talked about in recent weeks. But I think that Secret Service commercial offers a striking image, right? I mean, all this messaging reflects our vision of what it means to be human, specifically what it means to be male.

It was gone for a long time. I see a contrast even between that commercial and the halftime performance, right? Because I just think we’re just kind of done with this kind of uber-artistic, like this was a historic performance, we’re told.

No one got it. Well, some people got it. And it had to do with a beef that he has with another rapper or something like that. But when you compare that to real acts of heroism and greatness, it’s a stark contrast and it needs to be a stark contrast.

So I’ll at least grant that we have that image making its way back. And I think it’s because there’s been an awful lot of cultural pushback and political pushback. But cultural pushback at least on the vision of “greatness” that we’ve been given, that because someone who has a weird sexual fetish does something, it’s supposed to be “historic.” I think we’re just kind of all going, “No, I don’t buy that anymore.” But that image of heroism, you know, running into the fire instead of running away from it, you know, that’s heroic. That’s historic.

That’s the kind of life that we were made to at least honor if not emulate.

MAST: John, here’s one more for you: Worcester, Massachusetts, just declared itself a sanctuary city for “transgender and gender-diverse people.” It’s mostly symbolic—essentially thumbing its nose at President Trump’s new executive orders on gender definitions.

Do you see people actually moving based on these kinds of local proclamations? Or is it more about confirming where a place already stands socially and politically?

STONESTREET: It’s certainly a sign of where certain locales are, and it’s also a sign that, again, you live by executive order, you die by executive order. You live by federal mandate and you lose by it. That is a departure from the founders. Now, you might need it to some degree, and I think we do to correct some things that have gone wrong.

But, you know, you’re talking to a guy who lives in in Colorado.

You know, this week, the rare conservatives in our state House proposed an anti-trafficking law so you couldn’t take minors across the border to secure an abortion in this very abortion-friendly state. That was killed in committee, like day one. What went forward was requiring emergency rooms to have abortion services at no charge.

And by the way, if you take the ER and the emergency language and the “at-no-charge,” that also gets around parental notification. Then they also, of course, somehow hitch transgender rights onto all that and the abortion things, too.

So what you’re describing in Worcester is popping up in different places and it does talk about the importance of Christians being involved locally.

I mean that in two senses. Number one is not just looking for salvation from the top of the federal government. Now, I’m the first one to say that there has been a strategic speed and effectiveness of what Trump has done in his first couple months that has been necessary to turn back the tide.

But it’s not long-term sustainable unless it’s also propped up culturally. But when you talk about government and legislation, you also have to do it locally. I had a bunch of people, you know, write me about these bills that were being kicked around in committee in the Colorado legislature.

I want to do something. I want to say something. I’m saying something to you guys, but the real situation on the ground politically means there’s absolutely nothing that pro-lifers can do to stop this because it’s that bad politically.

So look, that salvation is not going to come from Air Force One or from the Supreme Court, you know, for our state. What are we going to do?

That’s what we have to get back and talk about. And I think that there is this tendency to see the good things happen and then to abdicate responsibility. I think being culturally and politically engaged has to be more local than it is national.

That’s just kind of the reality of it, I think.

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

STONESTREET: Thanks to both of you.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: Flowers might seem like an obvious choice on Valentine’s Day, but for some Miami Airport employees, you might want to branch out.

That’s because over the last three weeks dozens of U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents have been working around the clock processing more than 900 million stems of cut flowers, some 18 tons worth.

Diogo Elias is vice president of Avianca airlines.

ELIAS: So we have to double … our staff people here. So it’s much more intense with a very sensible product, which is flowers.

Sensible? Depends who you ask.

But 9 out of every 10 fresh cut flowers for today’s celebrations come through Miami from South America. Agents tap and shake the bundles, spot-checking for any unwanted critters that may have hitched a ride.

That’s a lot of petal processing for those agents and while they rose to the occasion—at this point—they might prefer the chocolate.

It’s The World and Everything in It.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: Today is Friday, February 14th. Thank you for turning to WORLD Radio to help start your day.

Good morning. I’m Lindsay Mast.

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

Coming next on The World and Everything in It: Some new arrivals in theaters this weekend. Here’s arts and culture editor Collin Garbarino.

COLLIN GARBARINO: Perhaps you’re looking forward to a trip to the cinema this Valentine’s Day to see one of the latest releases. If so, I’ve got some good news, and some bad news for you. Let’s start with the good news.

The latest Paddington Bear film won’t disappoint fans of the franchise. The marmalade-loving bear in the blue coat and red hat is one of Britain’s most charming exports, and Paddington in Peru, the third live-action film in the series, captures the essence of what makes the character special.

PADDINGTON: Dear Aunt Lucy, I have very important news. We’re coming to Peru!

Things at 32 Windsor Gardens have changed for the worse since Paddington 2. Henry Brown, the family’s patriarch, is struggling with changing demands at work. The kids, Judy and Jonathan, are growing up and worrying their parents. And Mary, the family’s mother, is pining after the days when the family spent more time together.

When Paddington receives a letter from the Home for Retired Bears saying his Aunt Lucy misses him, Mary sees an opportunity for togetherness and organizes a trip to Peru for the whole family.

Upon arrival, Paddington and the Browns get some unexpected news.

REVEREND MOTHER: I’m afraid she’s set off on some sort of quest.

PADDINGTON: But she knew we were coming.

REVEREND MOTHER: Well, that’s what’s so mysterious.

The family decides to find Aunt Lucy. They’re aided in their adventure by a singing nun played by Olivia Colman, and a riverboat captain played by Antonio Banderas.

PADDINGTON: Excuse me, sir. Is this boat for hire?

HUNTER CABOT: Captain Hunter Cabot. At your service.

This third installment is good, though perhaps not quite as good as the first two. And some viewers might find the story a little too familiar. It doesn’t explore many new ideas. Instead, it sticks to the well-worn jungle-adventure plot points established by earlier films in the genre.

HUNTER CABOT: Your map is the key to finding El Dorado.

Paddington in Peru bears a striking resemblance to 2019’s Dora and the Lost City of Gold, another worthwhile family movie. But I will say that Paddington’s ending offers a satisfying little twist.

Despite its somewhat derivative narrative, the film provides plenty of feel-good entertainment. The humor is rooted in its particular Britishness: You might be able to take the bear out of London, but you can’t take London out of the bear. The slapstick comedy has an understated quality, and the film is almost completely devoid of the crude gags that have become the backbone of kids movies in America. Paddington amuses us because he’s a bear at odds with himself. He’s always making a muddle of things, but he desperately wants to preserve decorum.

PADDINGTON: We have a slight emergency.

In this movie, the Brown family doesn’t spend much time at 32 Windsor Gardens, but the franchise keeps its emphasis on the importance of home and family. Circumstances change and kids grow up, but the lessons we learn from a small brown bear remain the same.

PADDINGTON: I’m coming, Aunt Lucy!

Now for the bad news.

If you were hoping Captain America: Brave New World would be a return to form for the struggling Marvel Cinematic Universe, I’m afraid you’ll be disappointed. There’s no trace of Steve Rogers, the original Captain America. Instead, his old sidekick, Sam Wilson is playing dress up with Cap’s red, white, and blue shield.

On the bright side, we do get Harrison Ford taking on the role of Thaddeus Ross. He’s got big plans for Sam.

THADDEUS ROSS: Which is why I want you, Captain America, to help me rebuild the Avengers.

Ross has just been elected president of the United States, and Sam must investigate an international incident that threatens to undo the new administration. Ross and Sam haven’t always seen eye to eye in the past, but Sam is willing to see if the newly elected president has had a change of heart.

THADDEUS ROSS: The country needs this.

SAM WILSON: And when we disagree on how to manage a situation, what happens then?

THADDEUS ROSS: Figure it out together.

There’s not much suspense to the film’s central mystery because Marvel bombarded fans with promotional clips in which we see Ross transform into the Red Hulk. Since we already know where things are going to end up, the 90 minutes or so it takes to get there feel very tedious.

Even more tedious is Sam’s relentless speechifying. This new Captain America isn’t a supersoldier, so his fists don’t pack a mighty punch. However, he sure can bludgeon his foes and the audience with self-righteous platitudes. The same guys who wrote the cringeworthy Disney+ series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier are responsible for this film’s script. The political overtones are somewhat subtler in Brave New World, but the humorless scolding is still the same.

THADDEUS ROSS: You’re not Steve Rogers.

SAM WILSON: You’re right. I’m not.

Yeah, he’s not Steve, but we sure wish he were.

This film feels like loosely connected leftovers from other movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Perhaps the writers should have spent less time on the exposition and more time on the story.

I’m Collin Garbarino.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Today is Friday, February 14th. Good morning! This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Nick Eicher.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: And I’m Lindsay Mast.

Wordsmith George Grant now with Word Play. This month, considering our ever-changing language.

GEORGE GRANT: According to linguist Nick Nicholas, the structure of the English language has remained relatively stable. Even as the ubiquity of social media and instant messaging has prompted the rapid adoption of newly coined vernacular, neologisms, loan words, and slang.. He says: “Extending vocabulary by means of native derivational morphology is not evidence of a language system changing. It is evidence of a language system working.”

Nevertheless, the seemingly ceaseless changes in vocabulary can be more than a little disconcerting. Our daily discourse is now awash with freshly minted fad words like boujee, rizz, bussin, situationship, fosheezy, and bruh.

In an effort to help us navigate the newest frontiers in language, every year editors of online dictionaries attempt to sort through all these changes. Then, they pick the most significant and defining words of the previous year. Using factors like searches on their websites, online polling, and data from page hits, they identify words that reflect developments in popular English usage as it is shaped by current events and social trends. They try to highlight expressions that particularly reveal the ethos, mood, fashions, or fads of the preceding year.

In the past, words like refudiate, locavore, emoji, vape, goblin-mode, omnishamble, sportswashing, lawfare, vibeshift, metaverse, and splooting have been named word of the year by one or another of the dictionaries.

This year the Oxford English Dictionary editors passed over romantasy, lore, taytay, and slop, to settle on brain-rot. It is defined as the “deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as the result of overconsumption of material (particularly online content) considered to be trivial or unchallenging.”

Merriam-Webster’s editors considered demur, fortnight, allision, and pander but selected polarization as their word of the year. It is defined as “division into two sharply distinct opposites; especially, a state in which the opinions, beliefs, or interests of a group or society no longer range along a continuum but become concentrated at opposing extremes.”

The editors at Collins English Dictionary chose brat over delulu, looksmaxxing, anti-tourism, and rawdogging. Brat, taken from the synthpop music of Charli XCX, is defined as “a confident, independent, and hedonistic attitude or aesthetic.”

I must admit that at least few of these neologisms are interesting and fun. But it is probably best to heed the wise counsel of William Zinsser, author of On Writing Well. He said, “Beware of all the slippery new fad words. They rarely endure.”

Ah yes. Reality check.

I’m George Grant

NICK EICHER, HOST: Well, it’s time to say thanks to the team who helped out this week.

Mary Reichard, David Bahnsen, Caleb Welde, Addie Offereins, Carlos Paez, Mary Muncy, Craig Carter, Carolina Lumetta, Onize Oduah, Adam Carrington, Bekah McCallum, Anna Johansen Brown, Bob Case, Cal Thomas, John Stonestreet, Collin Garbarino, and George Grant.

Thanks also to our breaking news team: Kent Covington, Lynde Langdon, Steve Kloosterman, Travis Kircher, Lauren Canterberry, Christina Grube, and Josh Schumacher.

And a big thanks to the guys who stay up late to get the program to you early: Carl Peetz and Benj Eicher.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: Harrison Watters is Washington producer, senior producer Kristen Flavin is features editor, Paul Butler executive producer, and Les Sillars editor-in-chief.

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