The World and Everything in It - July 5, 2022

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Good morning!

The world’s wheat supply is way down and global demand is way up. How are American farmers faring?

NICK EICHER, HOST: Also, misinformation is rampant following the Dobbs decision that leaves abortion regulation up to the states. We’ll try to clear up some of it.

Plus our Classic Book of the Month. A little known story from one of the 20th century’s greatest authors.

And lessons from apple pie.

REICHARD: It’s Tuesday, July 5th. This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Mary Reichard.

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

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

KENT COVINGTON, NEWS ANCHOR: Families grieving after mass shooting at July 4th parade » Families are grieving in the Chicago area this morning after a gunman on a rooftop opened fire on a July 4th parade killing at least six people. At least 30 others were wounded.

Highland Park Mayor Nancy Rotering...

ROTERING: On a day that we came together to celebrate community and freedom, we’re instead mourning the loss, the tragic loss of life, and struggling with the terror that was brought upon us.

Part of the parade route is now a crime scene littered with abandoned strollers, lawn chairs, and American flags.

One parade-goer described the chaotic scene.

AUDIO: I saw someone on the ground with his leg in the air and the girl like crying next to him, and then on the ground to my left, my mom and I saw like at least three more people on the ground - bloody.

As of early this morning, police were looking for a person of interest, 22-year-old Robert E. Crimo III.

Investigators: Danish mall shooter; likely not terrorism » Meantime, in Copenhagen, Danish police say a gunman who killed three people in a crowded shopping mall on Sunday acted alone and apparently selected his victims at random.

The 22-year-old unnamed suspect is in custody. Investigators say the man has known mental health issues, and they do not believe the attack was related to terrorism.

The Danish man is being charged with murder and attempted murder. He’s currently locked up in a secure mental health facility.

UN migration study deems US-Mexico border 'deadliest' » The U.S.-Mexico border is the deadliest land crossing for migrants in the world—and it’s more dangerous now than ever. That, according to new data from the United Nations. WORLD’s Josh Schumacher reports.

JOSH SCHUMACHER, REPORTER: The International Organization for Migration says about 1,200 people died while immigrating across the Americas in 2021—More than 700 of them near the U.S.-Mexico border.

Nearly 500 more have died already this year.

And the author of the report said the actual numbers are likely even higher due to the challenges of collecting the data.

Human smuggling incidents last month in Texas claimed the lives of about 60 people.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Josh Schumacher

Putin declares victory in Luhansk » Vladimir Putin on Monday declared victory in the Luhansk province in eastern Ukraine. That one day after Ukrainian troops pulled out of their last remaining stronghold in the province.

The Russian army has also intensified its shelling of the eastern Ukrainian strongholds of Sloviansk and Kramatorsk.

Authorities in Sloviansk say Russian shelling killed six people, including a 9-year-old girl, while wounding 19 others.

Akron mayor declares state of emergency amid police shooting protests » PROTEST: We want justice! When do we want it? Now!

The mayor of Akron, Ohio has declared a state of emergency amid protests over a police shooting of an unarmed black man.

Demonstrators took to the streets after the city released video footage of the incident involving 25-year-old Jayland Walker.

HORRIGAN: The video you are about to watch is heartbreaking and it’s very tough take in.

That’s how Mayor Daniel Horrigan introduced the video.

It started as a routine traffic stop on June 27th. But then it appeared that someone fired a gunshot from the car.

Footage then showed a person wearing a ski mask exiting the car and running away. Police gave chase and authorities say they opened fire when they believed he was about to fire on them.

AUDIO: [Gunfire]

Akron Police Chief Steve Mylett …

MYLETT: Each officer independent of each other related that they felt that Mr. Walker had turned and was motioning and moving into a firing position.

But Walker family attorney Bobby DiCello countered …

DICELLO: The law requires to use force that is reasonable. Ya know, we’ve heard numbers high as 95 shells on the ground.

Officers later found Walker to be unarmed. However, in the car, they did find a gun and a loaded magazine. They also found a casing in the area where officers believed a shot had been fired from the vehicle.

The eight officers involved are on administrative leave pending the results of an investigation.

US: Israeli fire likely unintentionally killed reporter » Israeli soldiers may have accidentally killed an Al Jazeera reporter. That, according to State Department spokesman Ned Price on Monday.

He cited an independent examination of the bullet that killed Shireen Abu Akleh.

She died after being caught in a firefight between Israeli forces and Palestinian militants.

Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz says no one knows for sure who fired the fatal round. But he said it’s important to note…

GANTZ: That hundreds of bullets were fired at IDF troops, which responded with firepower of their own, only in the direction of the sources of the shooting.

U.S. officials said the bullet likely came from an Israeli position, but there’s no reason to believe Israeli troops targeted the reporter.

I’m Kent Covington. The world’s wheat supply is way down and global demand is way up. How are American farmers faring?

Plus, A little known story from one of the 20th century’s greatest authors.

This is The World and Everything in It.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: It’s Tuesday the 5th of July, 2022.

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

NICK EICHER, HOST: And I’m Nick Eicher. First up: global supply and demand for wheat.

The war in Ukraine has disrupted global wheat exports from that country, one of the world’s biggest exporters.

American wheat farmers continue their harvests with grain prices at historic highs. But will they see much benefit?

WORLD’s Lauren Dunn visited a Kansas wheat farm to find out.

LAUREN DUNN, REPORTER: Joseph Neville farms on about 1600-1700 acres in Andale, Kansas. Wheat makes up about 60-70 percent of his family’s operation. He started harvesting wheat on June 17th.

NEVILLE: We had decent yields this year, just a little bit above average.

That’s good news, as all of Neville’s costs have gone through the roof. Herbicides and fertilizers are both much more expensive this season. But perhaps the biggest cost factor is fuel.

NEVILLE: Our combine holds 400 gallons of diesel fuel, so we fill that up every day. So about 320 gallons a day. So we go through quite a bit a year, so anywhere from eight to 10,000 gallons a year. So it's a big, big chunk of change. So definitely affects the bottom line.

Wheat prices have soared since Russia invaded Ukraine in late February. In May of this year, they were about $12.75 a bushel—more than two times higher than a year earlier. Since then, the prices have declined to about eight-and-a-half dollars a bushel.

Chandler Goule is the CEO of the National Association of Wheat Growers. He says that high prices can sometimes discourage farmers from planting the crop.

GOULE: Actually what that volatility does is it sends the exact opposite message to a farmer of saying that this market is not stable and it is not it is not responding to supply and demand, it is responding to a war. And therefore that is going to make planting more wheat more risky. Because that just as fast as that price went up to $14, it can go right back down to $4.50-5, which is below the breakeven point for most of our growers.

About 65 percent of wheat grown in the U.S. is winter wheat, planted around September and harvested in about June. Nearly all winter wheat was in a drought this year. But in other states that plant spring wheat in March and harvest around September, planting was delayed because of too much rain.

GOULE: So the industry this year, this production year, is stricken with drought and in the winter wheat and excessive moisture in the spring wheat. So it's been kind of a tumultuous year so far.

But even farmers with higher crop yields may not benefit much from the higher prices.

GOULE: And as an example, you know, your loaf of bread that was 3.99, that's now 4.99. Still, the wheat grower is only getting 17 cents back on that loaf. Even though you're paying more at the store, the amount that's going back to the wheat grower is still the same. And so that price increase is being absorbed or recognized in the middle of the supply chain, and not going back to the individual wheat grower.

In 2021, almost one-fifth of U.S. wheat acres were in Kansas. Most years, about half of Kansas wheat is exported. This year, supply shortages and poor crop yields lowered the state’s wheat production.

Daryl Strouts is the CEO and president of the Kansas Wheat Alliance.

STROUTS: Farmers have not been immune from the supply chain issues that developed over the last couple of years because of COVID and shutdowns and that kind of thing. And so that was certainly starting to show up a year ago, you know, that we didn't have access to some of the chemicals that we needed, you know, whether it'd be seed treatments or fertilizers, those kinds of things.

While Strouts says that wheat farmers in southeastern Kansas have seen decent harvest yields, most western Kansas farms didn’t get enough rainfall for good crops.

STROUTS: Some of the wheat didn't even come up. I saw some photos this spring of wheat seeds literally just laying on top of the ground where they didn't germinate last fall. And the wind had eroded the soil over the top of it and there were just bare seeds laying there.

Last year Kansas farmers harvested 364 million bushels of winter wheat. Strouts says that estimates for this year’s harvest are about 260 million bushels.

STROUTS: Even though I think income on a per-bushel basis, you know, is up, with the diminished yields and the increased costs, I would guess a lot of farmers still aren't going to be a lot different than just break even on wheat.

Some farmers sell their wheat even before it’s harvested in order to take advantage of the current high prices. But Joseph Neville points out that can be risky.

NEVILLE: You can only do so much forward contracting beforehand. Because if you forward contract for so many bushels and you get hailed out then you're up a creek. You can't provide those bushels to meet that contract. And so we forward contract as much as we're comfortable with. And after that, we’re kind of stuck trying to find other ways to market it…

Many Kansas wheat farmers have finished this year’s harvest – or they’re close.

NEVILLE: We have 10 acres left. So about 35 minutes of harvesting, we got ran out of the field, two mornings ago, about 1:30 in the morning, and we were 30 minutes from finishing and the rain came in. So we're so close. So it was rough.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Lauren Dunn in Andale, Kansas.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Coming up next on The World and Everything in It: abortion misinformation.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Rumors are flying ever since the U.S. Supreme Court decided that there is no Constitutional right to abortion.

Social media in particular is spreading myths about how the Dobbs ruling will affect medical care for pregnant women. For example, claims that treating miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy will be illegal in pro-life states and that women will die without life-saving care.

REICHARD: Today, we have WORLD’s Leah Savas here to directly answer those claims. She’s our reporter who specializes in the life issues. Hi, Leah!

LEAH SAVAS, REPORTER: Hi, Mary. Thanks for having me.

REICHARD: Let’s get right to it. Is it now illegal in some states to treat miscarriages and ectopic pregnancies?

SAVAS: The short answer is no, but we can approach this no from two angles. The first one is legal, and the second one is medical. So I'll start by looking at the legal side of this.

If you actually look at the laws in the 21 states that already have protections for unborn babies, they all make exceptions to allow for abortions when the life of the mother is at risk. So that's the key part. So women can still get abortions if the pregnancy is threatening their lives. That would include removing ectopic pregnancies, because if the baby who in an ectopic pregnancy in plants in the fallopian tube, or somewhere else outside of the uterus, if the baby's allowed to grow, the fallopian tube could rupture, the mother could bleed to death. That is obviously a life threatening situation. Another life threatening situation would be when a baby miscarries but does not fully evacuate the mother's body. If the baby's allowed to remain there, that could lead to an infection and that could threaten the woman's life as well. So in those two cases, obviously, there are good medical reasons to remove the baby.

REICHARD: But that wouldn’t count as an abortion, would it, if the baby has already died? Abortion ends a life, and there’s no life in that case.

SAVAS: That's correct. But this is where things can get a little confusing for some people because one medical term for miscarriage is a “spontaneous abortion.” That's sometimes what it's called medically. But many laws get really specific about what counts and what doesn't count as an abortion. And it clarifies in definitions that miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy removal is not an abortion.

One of those states that makes that clarification is Arkansas. They have a conditional law that went into effect the day that the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. It prohibits abortion except to save the mother's life. And in the definition section, the legislation defines abortion and clarifies that the act is not an abortion if performed with the purpose to remove a dead unborn child caused by spontaneous abortion or removing ectopic pregnancy. That's a direct quote from the law.

REICHARD: What about states with laws that don’t make that clarification?

SAVAS: So, my state of Michigan is one of those states that has a law protecting babies from abortion in all cases. There's a debate right now as to whether or not it's actually an effect. But that's a totally different story. It does make exceptions for the life of the mother, but doesn't make these clarifications about ectopic pregnancies and miscarriages. So I talked to the legislative director of Right to Life of Michigan about this and she referred me to a part of the public health code that does define elective abortion and clearly states that it does not include treating a woman who has had a miscarriage or who has an ectopic pregnancy. But again, even if a state doesn't make this clarification in another part of the law, doctors always have that life of the mother exception to fall back on.

REICHARD: So there is a legal difference between, say, removing an ectopic pregnancy and an elective abortion. But is there any difference medically?

SAVAS: Yes, there is a medical difference and even Planned Parenthood says so. If you go to their website, they have a page that talks about ectopic pregnancy. And on one of the questions that it's answering on the page, it says that treating an ectopic pregnancy—and this is a quote from the page—"isn't the same thing as getting an abortion." It then goes on to clarify that abortion involves ending a pregnancy that's in the uterus, while removing an ectopic pregnancy is removing a pregnancy that has implanted outside of the uterus, usually in the fallopian tubes. And you have to remove that through laparoscopic surgical procedures or a drug called methotrexate. And that's exactly what the page says on Planned Parenthood.

But then you go to other cases of like removing a baby that has died but hasn't come out of the mother's body yet—so that'd be a missed miscarriage—often the treatment for those is the same kind of procedure that you would have in an abortion. It’s called a D&C. And it involves using a suction machine to remove the parts of the dead baby. And there's also a drug that you can use to help evacuate the dead baby. It's called misoprostol. It's one of the drugs used in chemical abortions. But one big difference there, like we talked about before, the baby is already dead. You're not killing the baby in these procedures.

And for other life threatening pregnancies, a lot of pro-lifers, even pro life physicians, will say that abortion is never necessary. I talked to an OB-GYN, Dr. Donna Harrison about this. She's the head of the American Association of Pro-life Obstetricians and Gynecologists. She pointed out that intentionally going in and killing an unborn baby is not the only way to separate a mother and unborn child when the mother's life is at risk. The other options include inducing labor, or performing a c-section. And those two options, unlike abortion, actually have a chance of ending with a live mother and a live baby. So pro-life doctors I've spoken to have talked about just preferring these methods and sometimes they'll even try to wait as long as possible to give the baby more time to develop before inducing labor so that it has a better chance of surviving. But sometimes a doctor might have to deliver a baby when she knows the baby won't survive. And Harrison said that she has been in cases like that before, but it's her opinion that having an intact baby for the mother to grieve over is better than pulling the baby out in pieces. It's emotionally better for the parents and also she said that if you can't save both patients, you try to save at least one. And if the mother doesn't survive, the baby inside of her isn't going to either. So, sometimes separating the baby and the mother is necessary.

REICHARD: Let’s talk about another rumor I’ve heard. Assuming drugs to treat miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy can be used to abort a pregnancy, will women in states with protections for the unborn have a problem getting meds they need?

SAVAS: So a few months ago, NPR reported that a pharmacy in Texas told a number of physicians that it would no longer be filling prescriptions for methotrexate since they were like, we can't be for sure that you won't use these for abortions. We don't want to be liable for an abortion. NPR didn't identify the pharmacy, so I haven't been able to verify this. But I did talk to a number of pharmacists about it and about the likelihood of something like this happening, and most of them said that if doctors would just write down the reason for the prescription, and clarify, for instance, that the drug was specifically for removing an ectopic pregnancy, that would solve the problem. And if the doctor doesn't do that, the pharmacists can always call. They can pick up the phone, talk to the doctor, ask them for an explanation. If the doctor lies to them, and it's actually a drug for an abortion, then that's on the doctor. And the evidence would show that the pharmacist was not a party to the abortion.

REICHARD: Some abortion advocates are saying that women who get abortions now in certain states will wind up in jail. Do the laws actually say that?

SAVAS: The short answer is no. No law says that the woman can be put in jail for getting abortions. And many laws even explicitly state that the pregnant woman can't be prosecuted for their own abortions. That Arkansas law we talked about earlier, has a section like this clearly stating you can't charge or convict a woman in the death of her own unborn child. Other laws like the one here in Michigan, it does not make this explicit, but even in the case of this law, past court cases involving this law make it clear that a woman who obtains the abortion cannot be charged under the law. So there's one case from 1963 that makes this clear here in Michigan. So that's just something to keep in mind. Even in the states that don't have that clear part of the law, it's still something that courts have held onto traditionally

REICHARD: Leah Savas is WORLD’s reporter on the pro life beat. Leah, thanks for clearing some of this up.

SAVAS: Thanks for having me, Mary.

AUDIO: The Avalanche are 2022 Stanley Cup champions!

NICK EICHER, HOST: Yeah, had to delay this one. I’m over it now. Congratulations, Colorado.

Listen, you think the Stanley Cup is a difficult trophy to win, try getting it delivered to the right address!

You see, each player on the Cup-winning team is entitled to a summertime day with the Cup.

And it’s the job of the keeper of the Cup, this is an actual job for an employee of the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto, the keeper ferries the Cup around from player to player.

Day after the big victory, the keeper was to drive the Cup to the home of the Avalanche Captain, Gabriel Landeskog. But he got the address mixed up. Right neighborhood, wrong house.

He had the home of Dmitri Rudenko—speaking here with Nine News Denver, K-USA television.

RUDENKO: The person open the trunk and I saw the case. I recognized it because we watched the final games. Like jokingly said, ‘Is that the Stanley Cup?’ and he says, ‘Yah!’

Well, he did know know his neighbor and was able to point the keeper to the correct address.

Just goes to show you, like any professional sport, hockey is a game of inches. Missed it by that much!

It’s The World and Everything in It.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Today is Tuesday, July 5th. Thank you for turning to WORLD Radio to help start your day.

Good morning. I’m Mary Reichard.

NICK EICHER, HOST: And I’m Nick Eicher. Most readers have probably heard of J.R.R. Tolkien and his high fantasy stories like The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

But you may not know about Tolkien’s humorous side. Here’s Emily Whitten now with our Classic Book of the Month for July.

EMILY WHITTEN, REPORTER: In this audiobook version of our Classic Book of the Month, narrator Derek Jacobi starts us off at the beginning, with our hero’s name.

JACOBI: Aegidius de Hammo was a man who lived in the midmost parts of the Island of Britain. In full his name was Ngidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo; for people were richly endowed with names in those days…

Thankfully, Tolkien gives us our hero’s common name–Farmer Giles of Ham. It’s also the name of the story, first published in 1949. Wesley Shantz of Signum Academy introduces the story this way in his 2020 online class:

SCHANTZ: Farmer Giles is kind of a funny story. Kind of a silly satire almost. You know, a playful take on the knight versus the dragon sort of legends. In his version the knight is Farmer Giles, kind of an average country guy, trying to look after his own home…

Giles initially encounters a giant and accidentally vanquishes him. But when a dragon makes his appearance, Farmer Giles faces a tougher foe….

SCHANTZ: …Farmer Giles has to stand up to the dragon again with the help of a wonderful sword. Not a gun this time, but a magic sword. It’s a cool little story.

Fans of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings will appreciate the elements of Middle Earth–dragons, swords, and heroic quests. But Tolkien isn’t aiming at high fantasy with this tale. He just wants to make you laugh.

Take our hero, Farmer Giles. He’s your stereotypical buffoon, only acting heroically when he’s shamed into it by others. Here’s another clip from Jacobi’s audiobook, this time featuring Farmer Giles’ showdown with the giant. And to set this up, if you’ve never heard of a blunderbuss, it’s an early firearm like a shotgun.

JACOBI: The moon dazzled the giant, and he did not see the farmer. But farmer Giles saw him and was scared out of his wits. He pulled the trigger without thinking, and the blunderbuss went off with a staggering, “Bang!” By luck, it was pointed more or less and the giant’s large, ugly face…

One important difference in this comedy and some kinds of satire–Tolkien doesn’t mean to undermine the idea of noble sacrifice or heroism. In fact, his good-natured ribbing flows out of his love for heroic tales–King Arthur, Beowulf, and the like. For him, dragon myths aren’t mere fantasy or even satire; they ultimately point to something true about Scripture and our world.

I talked recently with Champ Thornton, co-author of The Serpent Slayer and the Scroll of Riddles. In that kids’ book, Thornton helps families appreciate the dragon imagery of Scripture.

THORNTON: Paul picks it up in his epistle, I believe, to the Romans, and he says that God will soon crush Satan under your feet. So he’s picking up that theme, that subtle theme from way back in Genesis. And so this whole idea of serpents and dragons and the warfare between them and God's people, just runs all through God's word.

Thornton recognizes some of these themes of dragon warfare in Tolkien’s work.

THORNTON: I think of Smaug in The Hobbit, for example. He's sneaky, yes. He is powerful and destructive, yes. But he's also vulnerable, and his seeming invincibility is just that; eventually he's defeated. So I feel like there are similarities in terms of the nature of the dragon, of the serpent that come to the surface, whether we're reading Tolkien, or Bunyan, or you know, really anything Christian about dragons. I feel like they have a lot of the same themes.

Our Classic Book of the Month for July, Farmer Giles of Ham, will especially delight readers familiar with more serious dragon tales–they’ll get the joke, so to speak. Families or homeschool groups might even enjoy recording it together, like this version recorded under Paul Butler’s direction.

CLIP: ‘Give me my sword!’ ‘Give us your crown.’ ‘Lightning of heaven, seize him and bind him! What do you hang back for? Just then, the dragon got up from under the breach. He had lain there concealed on the far bank, deep in the river. Now he let off a terrible steam, for he had drunk many gallons of water…

Whatever you do, don’t read too much into this tale. It’s summer, after all.

I’m Emily Whitten.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Today is July 5th, 2022. Good morning! This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Nick Eicher.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: And I’m Mary Reichard.

Here’s WORLD commentator Janie B. Cheaney on just how American apple pie really is.

EICHER: And flaky and buttery!

JANIE B. CHEANEY, COMMENTATOR: Do you know where the expression “easy as pie” comes from? I didn’t until an article by Megan McArdle in the Washington Post filled me in. Ms. McArdle was lamenting the decline of the Great American Dessert, owing to the fact that we don’t know how to make pie crust anymore. Most Americans don’t know what real, handmade, crisp and flaky pie crust is—don’t even mention the kind you buy in a box or stick together with graham cracker crumbs.

According to McArdle’s research, what killed authentic pie was easy cake. Up until the invention of baking powder in the mid-19th century, cake batter had to be ferociously beaten by hand to make the eggs frothy enough to raise the batter in the oven. That took time that most housewives didn’t have. So they spent their energy on creating pies, which were easy by comparison, and passing the knowhow on to their daughters. “American as apple pie” isn’t just a saying: dessert pies were an American invention, and dried apples an American staple, and it was inevitable they get together. Pumpkin, strawberry-rhubarb, and pecan pies are equally American.

Fillings vary, but the crust makes the pie, and there’s a knack to perfect crust that Megan McArdle fears we’re losing. What came naturally to our grandmothers and great-grandmothers is increasingly foreign to us, because it can’t be communicated in a recipe. A perfect crust is a matter of skillful touch: cutting the fat into the flour until it’s just the right texture; adding ice water a little at a time just until the dough sticks together; kneading the dough just enough to activate the gluten; rolling it out with a light touch, adding just enough flour to keep it from sticking. And finally, keeping an eye on the oven as it bakes to the perfect shade of golden brown.

It takes practice to learn how the dough should feel at any of these stages, and time to cut and sprinkle and knead and roll. And sometimes it doesn’t turn out perfect, due to humidity or temperature or being a little too rushed. So why bother, when you can pick up a ready-made crust at the supermarket? Why spend so much time on something that won’t survive the next Sunday dinner?

But all our works are temporary, at least in this life. Maybe the effort it takes to achieve excellence in a few skills is its own reward. And we bless each other by our special abilities, whether it’s a well-tuned piano or well-crafted cabinet or a bushel basket of well-ripened tomatoes.

Besides, who knows but that God has a permanent use for the abilities we develop here on earth? Not that we’ll be making pies in heaven. But they could make heaven a little more heavenly.

I’m Janie B. Cheaney.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Tomorrow: After the NATO Summit, will the alliance’s new policies help solve the conflict with Russia or further inflame it?

Plus, a summer destination! We’ll visit a national historic landmark down in Alabama that’s a real blast.

That and more tomorrow.

I’m Nick Eicher.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: And I’m Mary Reichard.

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