The World and Everything in It: June 4, 2025

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LINDSAY MAST, HOST: Good morning!

Health secretary Bobby Kennedy identifies the major causes of America’s chronic health problems. But:

LAFFERTY: He can have all these great ideas, how are you going to make it happen?

NICK EICHER, HOST: That’s ahead on Washington Wednesday.

Also WORLD Tour.

And as anti-Semitic violence begins rising again. Messianic Jews are working their way through the fear.

SURASKY: It's scary because we are Jews, and it doesn't matter to the people who hate us that we're believers, they just hate us.

And what king Solomon might say about modern America’s so-called “race wars”

MAST: It’s Wednesday, June 4th. 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.

KENT COVINGTON, NEWS ANCHOR: The family of Colorado attacker set for removal » Federal authorities have detained Mohamed Sabry Soliman’s wife and five children. Soliman is the man accused of carrying out an attack in Colorado against a group that had gathered in support of Israeli hostages in Gaza.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Tuesday:

NOEM:  Today the Department of Homeland Security and ICE are taking the family of suspected Boulder, Colorado terrorists and illegal alien Mohammed Solomon into ICE custody. Now, Mohammed's despicable actions will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

But she said investigators are also looking into whether his family knew anything about the attack beforehand.

Soliman, an Egyptian national, arrived in the U.S. in 20-22 and then overstayed his visa, which had expired the following year.

He allegedly threw Molotov cocktails at his victims on Sunday while yelling “Free Palestine.”

The suspect faced a judge on Tuesday.

JUDGE:  With respect to bond, the court previously set bond on the written affidavit. It is set at $10 million cash only.

Police wrote in an affidavit that Soliman didn't carry out his full plan—quote—“because he got scared and had never hurt anyone before.” Soliman faces federal hate crime and state attempted murder charges.

U.S.-China trade tensions » Tensions are once again on the rise in the trade war between the U.S. and China. WORLD’s Benjamin Eicher reports.

BENJAMIN EICHER: Beijing issued a pointed response Tuesday to the Trump administration’s claims that China is violating the terms of a truce.

The two countries agreed last month to ratchet down the trade war while negotiations continued.

But Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says China is “withholding some of the products that they agreed to release” in that agreement.

Beijing fired back, calling that assertion “groundless” and insisting it is the U.S., not China, that is undermining the truce.

Chinese officials pointed to recent U.S. actions—including new export controls on AI chips, halting sales of chip design software, and revoking Chinese student visas.

The White House is reportedly expecting a phone call with Chinese leader Xi Jinping this week.

For WORLD, I’m Benjamin Eicher.

Ukraine latest » In Ukraine…

SOUND: [Sumy strike aftermath]

...authorities say three people are dead and more than a dozen injured after a Russian strike in the city of Sumy yesterday.

Ukraine's foreign minister calling it a deliberate strike on civilians in the city's center.

The White House is still pushing for peace in Ukraine. Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt:

LEAVIT:  The president does not want to see this war prolonged. He wants the fighting to stop. He wants people to stop dying, and he wants this to be solved at the negotiating table.

But a negotiated peace is still nowhere in sight.

Monday's direct talks in Istanbul yielded no progress toward a ceasefire, though the two sides did agree to release dead and seriously wounded troops.

PESKOV: [Speaking Russian]

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says negotiations are focused on removing the root causes of disagreement. But he says it pointless to expect any immediate decisions or breakthroughs.

Newark mayor sues after arrest » The mayor of Newark, New Jersey, Ras Baraka is suing New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor over his arrest outside a federal immigration detention facility on a trespassing charge.

He asserts that the Trump administration pursued the case out of political spite before dropping the trespassing charge.

BARAKA:  They threatened me with, uh, charging me resisting arrest with doing all these other things. I mean, and, uh, all of that is false.

Baraka was denied entry to a federal immigration facility and federal officials said he was arrested after refusing to leave.

He was trying to join three Democratic members of Congress who went there on what they called an oversight visit.

Baraka is a candidate in a crowded field for the Democratic nomination for governor in the June 10 primary election.

California Bakery » After a years-long court battle, the Christian owner of a bakery in California is taking her religious freedom case to the U.S. Supreme Court. WORLD’s Christina Grube reports:

CHRISTINA GRUBE: The state of California sued Christian baker Cathy Miller in 2017 after she declined to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple.

Miller explained that her religious beliefs prevented her from making the cake and referred the couple to other bakeries in the area.

The case has worked through both the state and federal court systems for nearly eight years.

The California Supreme Court decided last week that it would not hear Miller’s appeal.

Her legal team now plans to petition the nation’s highest court for a ruling citing two Supreme Court ruling precedents supporting Cathy’s case.

For WORLD, I’m Christina Grube.

Jobs numbers There's another sign that the labor market remains resilient. Job openings rose unexpectedly in April from 7.2 million a month earlier to 7.4.

Economists had predicted openings would fall by about a hundred thousand.

But the number of Americans quitting their jobs dropped and layoffs did rise slightly.

The Labor Department is expected to report Friday that employers added about 130,000 jobs last month.

I'm Kent Covington.

Straight ahead: HHS Secretary Robert F Kennedy, Jr. outlines his vision for the nation’s health. Plus, mourning with those who mourn.

This is The World and Everything in It.

NICK EICHER, HOST: It’s Wednesday, the 4th of June.

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

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

Time now for Washington Wednesday.

The Department of Health and Human Services has released its assessment of America’s health, and the report isn’t good. Our food is overprocessed, our minds are overloaded, our bodies are over medicated, and we’re all over-tired.

Here’s HHS Secretary Bobby Kennedy releasing the Make America Healthy Again Report.

KENNEDY: There has never in American history has the Federal government taken a position on public health like this. And because of President Trump’s leadership it’s not just one cabinet secretary, it’s the entire government that’s behind this report.

EICHER: Also behind the report is a question Kennedy has been asking for many years: Is the medical establishment’s approach to healing actually making chronic illness worse?

Here’s Washington Bureau Reporter Leo Briceno.

LEO BRICENO: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. went from running for president as a Democrat, to becoming an independent candidate, to dropping out and throwing his support behind Donald Trump. Through all of it, he had one issue he made the center of his messaging.

KENNEDY: By chronic disease what do I mean? I mean obesity, neurological diseases, neurodevelopmental, ADD, ADHD, speaking late, language late, ticks, Tourette syndrome, and autism.

Now as the Secretary of the U.S. Department for Health and Human Services, Kennedy has released the Make America Healthy Again or “MAHA” report, detailing just what he wants to do about chronic illness in his tenure on Trump’s cabinet.

The 70 page document outlines four broad areas of focus: “Ultra processed foods, the cumulative load of chemicals in the environment, the crisis of childhood behavior in the digital age, and the overmedicalization of kids.”

It’s a wide-ranging assessment, with implications for policy from drug authorization to school physical education programs. Even his supporters recognize addressing those issues will likely have to extend beyond his tenure at HHS.

So far, Kennedy’s made internal changes to the agencies, reducing the workforce to pre-COVID numbers and streamlining what he has called "redundancies." Here he is on CBS after becoming HHS secretary.

RFK: We have 100 communication departments. We have 40 procurement departments, we have 40 IT departments. We have nine HR departments and many of them have computer systems that can’t talk to each other.

According to the “Celebrating big wins” section of their website, Kennedy has also cut up to $67 billion dollars from the department by suspending contracts and eliminating COVID-related grants. He’s launched operation “Stork Speed” to better evaluate the safety of children’s food. And most recently, the Food and Drug Administration announced it would remove authorization for two synthetic food colorings—Citrus Red No. 2 and Orange B. They plan to implement that change in the coming months with aims to expand that ban to another six dyes.

HISANO: Changing these dyes or some ingredients is more feasible, I guess to change in today's food.

Ai Hisano is a food business researcher and associate professor at the University of Tokyo in Japan. She says food dyes are one piece of the puzzle of food health, with processed foods posing health concerns that will be more challenging to address with policy changes.

HISANO: This is kind of just the tip of the iceberg in today's modern food industry.

And it’s an iceberg many parents have spent years probing on their own.

LAFFERTY: We didn’t know what was going on the first time it happened.

Christy Lafferty is a health coach and pastor’s wife in Asheville, North Carolina. She has three children that have dealt with chronic illness. One of them used to experience intense migraines.

LAFFERTY: But if he stays away from food dyes and MSG, he does not have any problems.

She says turning to alternative medicine helped her learn about the harms of neurotoxins in processed foods and synthetic dyes.

LAFFERTY: I think the average person who doesn’t have a child like my son doesn't know what they don’t know.

While the MAHA report encourages supporters like Lafferty, it worries some medical professionals evaluating Kennedy’s work so far. Mike Varshavski, more commonly known as “Dr. Mike” runs a YouTube channel where he documents the latest conversations in medicine. He’s a practicing family medicine doctor living in New York City.

He’s not a Kennedy fan.

DR. MIKE: We certainly need to be skeptical of our institutions but healthy scientific skepticism means following data not cherry-picking it. Or making it up.

That’s from a video Dr. Mike posted this past Sunday. Varshavsky pointed out a litany of statistics he believes Kennedy has gotten wrong throughout his career. For example, Varshavsky points out Kennedy has claimed that roughly 50 percent of the Chinese population has diabetes, and that Lyme disease could have been developed as a military weapon.

The MAHA report does not make those same claims, but critics still have concerns. After HHS released the report, news outlets discovered that a handful of citations were linked to non-existent scientific studies. More broadly, Varshavsky says Kennedy’s vision for making America healthy conflicts with slashing research budgets and staff.

DR. MIKE: I just don’t see a plan here. There’s a lot of political speak, PR stunts, promises that we’ll remove certain dyes from kids’ food—as if that’s the problem. No. The issue is the ultra-processed foods. The issue is that obesity is going up. Those are the real problems, because that impacts all parts of our lives.

Varshavsky believes Kennedy sees issues that appear connected and then jumps to conclusions about the evidence.

DR. MIKE: RFK sees two things happen at the same time, he doesn’t even care what the evidence shows, he just says they must be causing one another.

But to Kennedy’s supporters, it’s precisely the willingness to explore the possible alternatives to the established answers that makes him a compelling figure. Here’s Lafferty again.

LAFFERTY: It's mothers like me that have wanted a voice and we’ve felt like we have a voice now.”

Lafferty says she disagreed with the doctor’s official recommendations… when it came to yet another one of her son’s health challenges.

LAFFERTY: He’s got type one diabetes. His pancreas is broken. They told us to feed him 150 carbs and cover it with insulin. And I said, well, that’s like that’s like somebody that has a kid with a deadly peanut allergy saying here’s a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and an epi-pen on the side. And it didn’t make sense.

Lafferty suggested feeding her son fewer carbs, but faced pushback.

LAFFERTY: They said it was dangerous. Now it’s a big movement in type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes to do a low-carb, high-fat diet. A ketogenic diet.

The change in diet helped significantly.

Lafferty is hopeful that Kennedy’s willingness to challenge conventional norms will clear the way for questions about chronic illness the Health Department and the rest of the government haven’t explored yet.

But she’s concerned that Kennedy’s message will fall on deaf ears with the medical industry and public health sector.

LAFFEERTY: I think sometimes Bobby’s naive. Because he thinks if people just hear the truth, they’ll want to change…he can have all these great ideas, how are you going to make it happen?

Bruce Fogerty—the president of Worthwhile Productions—believes Kennedy won’t be pushed around by the medical establishment…or the White House.

FOGERTY: I don’t have any concern that he won’t to the best of his ability do the right thing, regardless of the consequences. Other people, I’m concerned, you know, everyone else wants to be Trump’s favorite.

Fogerty met Kennedy at a campaign event he helped put together in the Fall of 2023. He still exchanges reg ular text messages with Kennedy and describes his tone as optimistic about the work he’s done so far.

Fogerty hopes that Kennedy is able to dig deeper, and move the needle as far as he can in four years.

FOGERTY: He says he’s working harder than he’s ever worked before. I think he’s up to it. I mean he said he prayed every day, you know, that God would put him in a position where he could, you know, change the healthcare system in this country. And the Lord answered that prayer.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Leo Briceno.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: Coming up next on The World and Everything in It: WORLD Tour with our reporter in Africa, Onize Oduah.

SOUND: [Women and children crying]

Nigerian flooding — Flooding in the north central Nigerian town of Mokwa has killed more than 200 people. Hundreds are missing.

Days of rainfall had caused water to build up behind an abandoned railway. Debris clogged the channels that would normally drain the water, causing the floodwaters to drench the town.

The downpour flattened homes and buried residents underneath.

Adamu Usman lives in the town.

ADAMU USMAN: In my own in-laws’ house, they lost ten. Friends, friends, the one that I know lost five, lost three, lost an entire family. Only he remain or only her remain or only the child remain.

He says he lost 10 people among his in-laws, while friends also lost family members.

Flooding during Nigeria’s rainy season is complicated by poor drainage, waste dumping, and shoddy construction.

Meanwhile, flooding in northeast India has killed more than 30 people.

SOUND: [Meeting]

Sweden adoptions — Over in Sweden, a government commission is recommending a total end to international adoptions.

Authorities commissioned the committee four years ago after a newspaper investigation found thousands of children were adopted from South Korea, China, and elsewhere, with falsified background details. The inquiry confirmed cases of child trafficking from the 1970s to 2000s.

Anna Singer is the head of the commission.

ANNA SINGER: [SWEDISH] The state needs to acknowledge the human rights violations that have occurred within the international adoption system and the consequences this has had for adopted individuals and their families — and to apologize.

She says the state also needs to apologize to adoptees and their families over the rights violations that happened within the system.

Other countries are also confronting similar issues. The Netherlands last year banned its citizens from adopting from abroad … while Denmark’s only international adoption agency announced its closure.

​​Mongolia PM resigns — Next, to Mongolia, where the prime minister has resigned after weeks of protests.

Prime Minister Oyun-Erdene Luvsannamsrai lost a confidence vote Tuesday.

SOUND: [Protests]

It followed youth-led protests that began last month after reports surfaced of the lavish lifestyle of the prime minister’s son. Protesters said the country’s mineral resources benefit the wealthy, while the majority of Mongolians remain in poverty.

STUDENT: [MONGOLIAN] It is unfair that the Prime Minister's son and his girlfriend possess a lavish lifestyle, while I'm buying my bag from a thrift shop.

This 19-year-old student who joined the protests said it’s unfair that the prime minister’s son enjoys an opulent lifestyle while she has to shop in a thrift store.

Oyun-Erdene will remain in office until a new prime minister is appointed in 30 days.

SOUND: [Music]

El Salvador — We wrap up in El Salvador at an annual harvest celebration.

Hundreds of men joined the procession carrying poles on their shoulders laden with pineapples, coconuts, and bananas.

Margarita Aldana described the celebration as a thanksgiving to God.

MARGARITA ALDANA: [SPANISH] Now they've added things like sacks of fertilizer as a way to bless the crops so that next year's harvest will be even better. We give thanks to God for all the fruit that’s gathered at this time, and it's taken to the church. It’s like an offering.

She says they also add fertilizers to the procession as a way of praying for next year’s crops.

The practice dates back nearly a century in El Salvador.

That’s it for this week’s World Tour. Reporting for WORLD, I’m Onize Oduah in Abuja, Nigeria.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Maybe you’re in a traffic jam, but it can’t compare to this sticky situation.

Up in Lynden, Washington, a semi hauling 70-thousand pounds of pollinator property beelined for a ditch and toppled over—unleashing about 250 million honeybees. Suddenly, a quiet farm road became the state’s biggest flight delay.

Local beekeepers suited up, boxed the battered hives, and set them upright so the worker-bees can sniff out home base and hustle back to their queens.

No word on injuries—unless you count sheriff’s deputies sheltering in cruisers to avoid an impromptu sting operation.

It’s The World and Everything in It.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: Today is Wednesday, June 4th.

You’re listening to The World and Everything in It.

Good morning. I’m Lindsay Mast.

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

Over the weekend, a man on an expired visa attacked a Jewish group in Boulder, Colorado. Police say the victims had gathered to show support for Israeli hostages still being held by Hamas. The assault follows another shocking act of violence: the fatal shooting of two Israeli Embassy staffers in Washington, D.C.

Among the victims there: Yaron Lischinsky, a Messianic Jew.

MAST: Messianic Jews sometimes find themselves rejected by other Jews, and overlooked by many Christians. But in the wake of tragedy, their quiet witness may be finding a louder voice.

WORLD’s Elizabeth Russell has the story.

ELIZABETH RUSSELL: The day after the shooting of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, Kim Surasky made her grandson take off a shirt that said “oppose anti-Semitism.” Kim and her husband Neal are Messianic Jews who live near Washington, D.C. She was afraid that someone who shared the shooter’s views might target her grandson.

KIM SURASKY: Even with me, I'm sitting here with this Star of David on right now, and I'm thinking, Are there areas that I can wear that, not wear it? Is it safe? Because it clearly distinguishes me in a way that could potentially be dangerous for my life.

The tragedy hit close to home in more ways than one. Kim is the granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor.

KIM SURASKY: I remember him saying that, don't do anything too outwardly Jewish, because it will get you killed.

Both Neal and Kim grew up in Jewish homes with little religious observance. They stumbled into a Messianic congregation during a desperate search for a rabbi to officiate their wedding.

NEAL SURASKY: The service was Jewish. They were singing Jewish prayers. In fact, one of the key parts that, that really drew me into the truth of who Jesus was, was the fact that they were singing songs that I remembered from my Bar Mitzvah and, and yet here they were talking about, about Yeshua, which is Jesus’ Hebrew name.

That was the first time Neal realized that someone could be Jewish and believe in Jesus. He and Kim accepted Jesus as the Messiah a few days later. They got baptized just before their wedding.

Their new relationship with Jesus strained the ones with their families. They refused to hear about Neal and Kim’s newfound faith.

SURASKY: Because the stigma is there, and in the United States, it's still there, we have been called traitors and betrayers of our faith. And maybe it's a little lighter in the United States and other places. In Israel, it's really harsh. 

Despite the pushback, the Suraskys quickly jumped into ministry. Right after accepting Jesus, Neal made a resolution:

NEAL SURASKY: If there's anything I can do to to share the Good News of Yeshua Jesus with the, with the Jewish people, I will do it.

Neal is now the rabbi of a small Messianic Jewish congregation in Leesburg, Virginia. It’s about a 40-minute drive from Washington.

Just a few days after the shooting, they set aside time in their weekly Saturday service to mourn. The congregation prayed the traditional Mourner’s Kaddish.

The end of the prayer asks God to make peace for His people.

After the Oct. 7, 2023 attacks, the Suraskys made a security plan. Every time their small congregation of about 35 people meets for a Saturday service, someone monitors cameras over the entrance. About 10 minutes in, they lock the doors. Several members have permits to carry a concealed weapon.

SURASKY: It's scary because we are Jews, and it doesn't matter to the people who hate us that we're believers, they just hate us.

But despite their fear, the Suraskys see a moment of opportunity. Lischinsky’s tragic death has brought his faith into the global spotlight. Even in Israel, Jewish dignitaries eulogized Lischinsky and attended his Messianic funeral. A believer in Jesus was recognized and mourned as a Jew.

SURASKY: Now the whole world knows it, and that includes a Jewish community that has for so many years had a bias against Jews that believe in Jesus.

The Suraskys are seizing the chance to share the hope of the Messiah with fellow Jews who may be hurting and afraid. The day before we spoke, a Jewish man called Neal, asking to hear about Jesus.

NEAL SURASKY: He ended up giving his life to Christ. You know, after our conversation and our prayers, and it was just, it was just a confirmation that this is absolutely where we are supposed to be, right here, right now, and that's what, that's what we're focusing on.

The Suraskys hope evangelical Christians will share their urgency and reach out to Jews.

SURASKY: I mean, when the Bible says, it says in Psalm 121, “I lift up my eyes to the hills. Where does my help come from?” Jewish people around the world are looking for that kind of help and that kind of hope, and the place to find it is in the Bible and in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and his Son, Jesus, Yeshua, the Messiah of Israel.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Elizabeth Russell.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Today is Wednesday, June 4th. 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. Up next, the proverbial “splitting the baby.”

WORLD Opinions contributor Hans Fiene says Christians would be wise to apply the lessons of Solomon to modern problems.

HANS FIENE: The story of Solomon and the two mothers is a fascinating example of the king’s wisdom…but also his great compassion…for both women. He knew that replacing another woman’s child with the corpse of her child was not the act of a woman who just desperately wanted to be a mother again. It was the act of a woman enslaved by the bitterest of despair—a woman who thought the only way to survive her sorrow was to foist it on someone else. Her grief took a child created in the image of God and turned him into a flag to be captured and withheld from the woman she saw as the enemy.

We would be wise to hear the wisdom and compassion of Solomon today. 

In April a white high school student named Austin Metcalf was killed at a track meet in Texas. People began giving to a GiveSendGo account—not to show support not for Metcalf or his family, but for the family of Karmelo Anthony. He’s the young black man charged with stabbing Metcalf to death. Numerous donors left vile comments on the fundraiser page. They weren’t giving to ensure that Anthony received adequate representation or a fair trial. They just wanted to reward Anthony and his family for allegedly killing a white man. Many donors essentially suggested: “For too long, black Americans have been forced to suffer, but now Karmelo Anthony has helped us toss our suffering onto the head of Austin Metcalf’s family. As long as his parents don’t get a living child, the flag is ours. We win.”

More recently, a white woman started her own GiveSendGo after another race-related conflict. Shiloh Hendrix claims a young black child tried to steal from her, and she responded by calling the child a racial slur. After a Somali immigrant named Sharmarke Omar uploaded a video of his subsequent argument with Hendrix, Hendrix set up her donation page. She insisted she did nothing wrong and claimed she needed funds to find safety after her social security number, address, and phone number had been leaked. 

In response, people gave heartily, many seeing it as an opportunity essentially to steal the flag back from those supporting the Karmelo Anthony fundraiser.

In a recent video, conservative commentator Matt Walsh articulated a kind of pragmatic defense of the Hendrix fundraiser. He says he doesn’t support Hendrix’s behavior, but the only way to disincentivize leftist mobs is to show them that “instead of getting their targets cancelled, they might accidentally make them rich.”

The problem with Walsh’s argument is that he fails to account for the spiritual nature of the problem. Those who cheer Karmelo Anthony do so because they want the baby divided in half. Certainly, Christians should be cautious not to downplay the differences between the Hendrix and Anthony cases. Anthony, if guilty, belongs in prison for stabbing an innocent young man to death. Hendrix and her family don’t deserve death threats and danger simply for uttering an ugly word.

However, the difference between the actions of Hendrix and Anthony is one of degree, not nature, as Christ taught us when He declared, “You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder; and whoever murders will be liable to judgment.’ But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment.” Many Pharisees likely sneered at these words of Christ, convinced He was making ugly words equal with the most vicious of sins against your neighbor. It’s worth remembering, however, that these same Pharisees who wouldn’t turn from the lesser sin of anger at Christ soon found themselves conspiring to murder the very same son of God.

Even if the leftist mobs and the anti-white crusaders invented the game where they turn human beings into inanimate objects through the “capture the flag” race war game, we should avoid playing along. Wisdom tells us that dismissing the verbal assault of children and dismissing the terminal assault of teenagers are not as far apart as we might think.

I’m Hans Fiene.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Tomorrow: How peace talks between Russia and Ukraine are complicated by the complexities of modern warfare.

Also, a New Jersey town is threatening to seize the property of a church that had proposed a new homeless shelter.

That and more tomorrow.

I’m Nick Eicher.

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

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