The World and Everything in It: March 18, 2025

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: Good morning!

Canada’s new prime minister takes office just as a trade war with the U.S. looms.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Also, the Trump administration moves to stop operations that try to change the sexual characteristics of young people.

SMITH: This should not be covered on public dollars.

And a chaplain works the bucking chute at a rodeo.

OLIVAREZ: I want to penetrate their minds and their hearts, because I want them to be able to be like, ‘You know what; he prayed for me.

And WORLD commentator Janie B. Cheaney on Britain’s shifting demographics.

MAST: It’s Tuesday, March 18th. This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Lindsay Mast.

REICHARD: And I’m Mary Reichard. Good morning!

MAST: Time for news with Kent Covington.

KENT COVINGTON, NEWS ANCHOR: Ukraine peace talks » President Trump is expected to speak with Vladimir Putin today, as the White House pushes for a ceasefire in Ukraine and an end to the war.

TRUMP:  We're getting down to a very critical stage, and we want to get the whole Russia Ukraine thing done. And I think Ukraine wants it, I know they want it, everybody wants it. It's tremendous death, the bloodshed is unbelievable.

Trump said the call will likely include a difficult conversation about how territory might be divided. White House Press Secretary Karline Leavitt stressed that that’s not a conversation that’s happening without Ukraine’s involvement.

LEAVITT:  The president and his entire national security team have been engaged directly with President Zelensky and the Ukrainians team. Um, and that has been part of the discussion between the President's team and the Ukrainians. As for where those lines will be drawn or any specifics, I am not going to get into that from this podium.

Putin recently rejected the outline of a U.S. backed Ukraine peace plan. But President Trump and his team remain guardedly optimistic.

Israel resumes fighting in Gaza » Leavitt also spoke to reporters about news out of the Middle East, where explosions once again rang out in Gaza, after Israel resumed attacks on Hamas terrorist targets. The latest strikes come more than two weeks after a ceasefire agreement expired. Hamas has since rejected proposals to renew the ceasefire.

LEAVITT:  The Trump administration and the White House were consulted by the Israelis on their attacks in Gaza tonight.

The Hamas-controlled Gaza health ministry claims that at least 44 people were killed in the new wave of airstrikes.

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz says Israel will press ahead until all hostages are released and Israel achieves all of its war goals.

Trump Iran warning » President Trump is warning Iran that it will “suffer the consequences” if there are any further attacks by the Houthi rebels in Yemen. Tehran has long funded and armed the group.

The warning follows a U.S. airstrike against the Houthis on Friday. And at the Pentagon, Lt. General Alex Grynkewich said more strikes will follow.

GRYNKEWICH: There is a design to the operation. There are specific effects that we're trying to achieve, and there's specific targets that have been selected and approaches that we're taking in order to achieve the president's end state. So it isn't that we're just striking capabilities.

And ‘the president’s end state’ is to crush the ability of the Houthis to terrorize critical shipping lanes in the Middle East, as they have for nearly a year and a half.

But Iran’s Revolutionary Guards commander, Hossein Salami, denied that Iran controls the rebels. And he brushed off Trump’s warning, saying Iran would deliver a “decisive and devastating” response to any aggression.

Kennedy assassination files » The president on Monday also said he has ordered the release of tens of thousands of records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy sometime today.

TRUMP:  We are giving all of the Kennedy files. So people have been waiting for decades for this.

Last month, the FBI announced it inventoried and digitized about 2,400 newly discovered records related to that assassination.

TRUMP: I don't believe we're gonna redact anything. I said, just don't redact. You can't redact.

The release follows an executive order he signed in January ordering the declassification of records related to the killings of JFK, Robert Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr.

Reactions to judge deportation halt  The White House is blasting an order from a federal judge temporarily halting further deportation fights of what the administration says are dangerous and violent illegal immigrants.

On Saturday, US district judge James Boasberg, an Obama appointee, imposed a two week restraining order against President Trump‘s use of the rarely invoked Alien Enemies Act to deport high-risk illegal migrants.

Border czar Tom Homan:

HOMAN:  President Trump invoked the authorities of the Alien Enemies Act, which he has the right to do, and we removed over 200 violent criminals from the United States. The actions of President Trump made this country safer.

The Trump administration says activist judges are overstepping their authority.

At least one Republican lawmaker is now pushing to impeach Judge Boasberg.

SOUND: [Storm pickup]

Storm damage, death toll update » Crews in Dallas, Georgia work to remove trees knocked to the ground by powerful weekend storms.

Nationwide the confirmed death toll now stands at 42 Forty-two after storms pounded roughly a dozen states from Texas, to Illinois, to Tennessee.

Georgia resident Scott Bingham said the storm destroyed his grandmother's home, and nearly cost her her life.

BINGHAM: There was probably like an 8-inch-diameter branch that came through her side—beside her. If she had a-been sleeping two or three inches further away from the edge of the bed, it would have went through her.

Severe weather triggered dozens of tornadoes across more than a half-dozen states.

A storm also triggered blinding dust storms from Texas to Kansas - blamed for deadly car crashes. And in Oklahoma, powerful winds triggered wildfires that destroyed more than 400 homes.

I'm Kent Covington.

Straight ahead: Canada has a new Prime Minister. Plus, a seminary student heads to the rodeo and finds fields ripe for harvest.

This is The World and Everything in It.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: It’s Tuesday the 18th of March.

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

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

Up first, Canada gets a new Prime Minister.

CARNEY: I, Mark Carney, do solemnly and sincerely promise and swear that I will truly and faithfully and to the best of skill and knowledge execute the powers and trust reposed in me as prime minister.

That’s Mark Carney taking the oath of office on Friday, stepping in after Justin Trudeau’s nearly decade-long tenure.

Carney is a longtime central bank governor for Canada and the U-K. Now he takes the helm as Canada counters a growing trade war with the U-S.

REICHARD: Joining us now to talk about it is Stockwell Day. He’s a former Opposition Leader in Canada’s Parliament, and later served as Cabinet minister. He’s now a political consultant and commentator.

Stockwell, good morning.

STOCKWELL DAY: Good morning, Mary, good to be with you.

REICHARD: Well, we’re glad you’re here. Quite a shift in the polls of late in Canada. We’ll get to that in a moment. But first, talk to us about who Mark Carney is?

DAY: Mark Carney was the governor of the Bank of Canada. That’s when I knew him, and then he was acquired by the Bank of England. I felt he always had aspirations politically, came back to Canada, or more correctly, to the US, with a very large investment firm and was its chief advisor. He had different titles there, he was also an advisor to now retired Prime Minister Trudeau. So that’s been his background.

REICHARD: We know that he is new to politics, and so it makes it an interesting moment because earlier this month, American tariffs on Canadian goods and materials went into force…and Canada responded with its own tariffs. Now where do things stand right now in this trade war?

DAY: To be really frank, it looks a little bleak. The history of successful trade wars on any side, that’s a thin history book. And so I very much, of course, side with my Canadian colleagues. Canada does not want to become the 51st state, and we bristle a little about that, but a trade war on the way, we are prosecuting it right now. I just am not convinced it's going to work.

REICHARD: How do you think Carney will lead that is different from his predecessor Justin Trudeau?

DAY: Honestly, I don’t think they will be much different. They are both globalist in their world view. They are both elitist. Matter of fact, Mr. Carney was one thing—I’ll give him as a point for honesty—he was accused of being globalist and elitist, and he said, Yes, I’m guilty, I’m both. And Mr. Carney, like Mr. Trudeau, is going to try and align things globally, which usually tend to be against and in opposition to the US on many counts. That’s not going to do well. So it’s going to be economic business as usual, but people were so anxious to see Justin Trudeau gone that it seems like anything would be better, and that’s what the polls are indicating right now.

REICHARD: When we last spoke in January, you and I, polling data showed support for the Conservative Party increasing as the Liberals polling went down. That’s totally flipped around now. What do you think is behind that? Is it nationalism alone or is it something else?

DAY: Well, and nationalism has been a key factor. If it hadn’t been for President Trump and his tariff attacks, then there would have been some movement upward in the polls, because everybody, including liberals, wanted to see Justin Trudeau gone. He was the most unpopular Prime Minister, probably since his father before his father stepped down. Now, with President Trump launching what Canadians see as a direct attack that has increased in terms of sort of anti American sentiment, which usually the liberals in conjunction with mainstream media, which in Canada tracks very significantly to the left and for liberals at any time, because of that media backing, Mr. Carney is not facing any questions that would be difficult. He’s not facing any questions about all of the mergers that he ordered and organized over the last few years with major coal and energy producing companies outside of Canada. he has mainstream media siding with him. They’re all kind of holding their breath, thinking they'll just quickly call an election and get through some tough questions unscathed and therefore be able to keep up some momentum in the polls, because broadly speaking, the electorate will not hear anything negative concerning his worldviews.

REICHARD: Not only is Prime Minister Carney new to politics but he’s an unelected politician…for now. Canadian law calls for elections no later than October, although they could be scheduled for sooner than that. What will you be watching for in the meantime?

DAY: I’ll watch for an early election. It is possible in Canada to be, actually, to be Prime Minister and not yet be elected. That’s just some of the quirks of how our system works. It’s happened only on very rare occasions. And I think Mr. Carney is smart enough to realize that the impatience that people will start to have if he’s not answering any questions about the direction in which he’s going to take the country, that impatience will grow. So my guess is that he will call an election sooner or later, and hope to sail through, as I said, relatively unscathed and using the US tariff attack is kind of a shield. He’ll try and position himself as Mr. Canada, when he’s actually Mr. United Nations.

REICHARD: Wrapping up here…before you mentioned that Canada was taking the wrong approach responding to American tariffs. What do you think would be a more effective approach?

DAY: We say there’s chaos, but in some types of war, chaos creates opportunity, and that’s what President Trump is using. And he’s narrowly zeroing in on the, for instance, the agriculture sector in Canada, which is highly protected. So what we should be doing as politicians is going to that sector, our own agriculture sector, and say: Look, we’re not going to remove all the protective tariffs, but some of the Ag. sectors in Canada enjoy protection as high as 250% and we say that those Ag. sectors, we’re going to start taking a few points off of that. And the Trump administration is also concerned about the border. We need to see significant resources going into the border, and we need to deal more effectively with the fentanyl situation. We also need to be far more aggressive on the investigative side, give our very good police agencies more resources, and also use the courts to show that serious drug crime is going to be seriously prosecuted. So hit some of those areas. Give the president some wins. And I’m not saying fake wins, those are true wins that won’t hurt Canada, and I think we can soften the tariff blow that he’s presently hitting us with.

REICHARD: Stockwell Day is Canada’s former opposition leader and a political commentator. Stockwell, thank you so much for your time. Really appreciate it.

DAY: Thanks Mary, bye now.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: Coming up next, taxpayer funding and procedures to change sex characteristics.

Back in January, President Trump signed an order to protect children from these harmful medical interventions.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Now federal agencies are taking action. They’re closing the door to funding irreversible procedures on minors confused about their sex.

Here’s WORLD Reporter Juliana Chan Erikson.

JULIANA CHAN ERIKSON, REPORTER: Forrest Smith was 24 years old when he realized he had made a terrible mistake.

SMITH: I was deliberating something that was actually impossible, right? You’re deliberating, “Can I become a member of the opposite sex?”

Smith dropped out of college in 2014 and went to Portland, Oregon to live like a female. He had been exposed to transgenderism through pornography, but thought it was ugly and not worth pursuing. That changed when he saw social media posts of men appearing to become attractive women with hormones and cosmetic surgeries. At an event hosted by the group Genspect on Capitol Hill last week, Smith explained what happened next.

SMITH: I was given a transgender road map by a social worker who was queer identified themselves, and it has every operation you can think of related to transgender operations, covered by public health insurance.

By September 2019, he had breast implants. The following June, he underwent surgery to remove his testicles. But within a month, he regretted it. When he started down the path of detransition, he learned something that wasn’t in the health insurance fine print. He explains in an interview with WORLD.

SMITH: It's like, well, they cover anything that's transgender, and they don't cover anything that is opposed to transgen—I don’t what the wording is, because I’m like I don’t want to cause any problems, I would just like to have as much restorative surgery as I can get within reason…and that was not covered, because I no longer identify as transgender.

Medical organizations in the U.S. continue to say so-called gender affirming procedures are safe…and do not acknowledge the regret and medical consequences detransitioners face. But political pressure challenging that narrative is growing.

ROSS: If you receive any federal funding as an institution, you are not eligible for that funding if you provide so-called gender care services to minors.

Dr. Jared Ross is an emergency medicine physician in South Carolina ***, and a senior fellow with the research group Do No Harm.

On day one in office, President Trump signed an executive order stating that the U.S. government only recognizes two sexes, male and female. The order required all federal agencies to delete any references to gender identity on forms. Eight days later, Trump signed another order ending all government support for gender change procedures on children.

ROSS: …so we saw when that executive order came out that hospitals and institutions were backing away from this. They said, we just can't afford to, we can't afford to lose our NIH funding.

But then district judges in Maryland, Washington State, and the District of Columbia temporarily blocked the orders from going into effect. That gave medical providers political cover.

ROSS: they then said no, we'll continue doing this…

While the challenges continue, two federal agencies have specifically mentioned plans to curb pediatric gender procedures. The Department of Health and Human Services said it would take steps to protect children seeking these treatments. And the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced it had already alerted hospital providers about the dangers of what it called “chemical and surgical mutilation.”

Dr. Ross says since only about a third of cases are covered by public insurance, the executive branch policies do not go far enough.

ROSS: …that doesn't protect these children who are on private insurance from getting these medications and procedures at a clinic or hospital that isn't affiliated with the university, that isn't receiving federal funding for that.

Lawmakers are also trying to put the medical field on notice.

CRENSHAW: Good afternoon, everyone. Thanks for being here today on Detransitioner Awareness Day.

That’s Congressman Dan Crenshaw in a press conference on Wednesday. In January, the Texas Republican reintroduced a bill that would block federal funding for pediatric residency programs that offer procedures aimed at changing sex characteristics. He first put the bill forward in 2023, but didn’t get enough support to pass it and faces similar challenges this time.

CRENSHAW: We would need Democrats in the Senate to cross the aisle to get 60 votes.

Last month, 89 Democratic legislators signed a letter asking President Trump to rescind his executive order and allow children to receive these procedures. They say these medical decisions should be left to children, families and their doctors.

Detransitioners like Forrest Smith disagree.

SMITH: I’m not against science. One of the things I’ve come to a conclusion about is a lot of these surgeries exist for really rare cases of intersex conditions or just other deformities that happen naturally. It's amazing science, but it's being abused on healthy bodies. And one thing that I feel very certain about is that this should not be covered on public dollars.

When Smith realized he had made a mistake, he turned to the only people who would accept him as a detransitioner: his parents.

SMITH: Seeing how how how simple my family's care and love for me was my mother's whole extended family the way that I was welcomed with open arms, it was not the the story that I had been painting in my head about transphobes and homophobes and hateful people, was not at all true.

He paid for reversal procedures out of pocket…and must maintain his testosterone levels medically. But Smith has also found a different kind of healing…in the Roman Catholic church.

SMITH: I learned a prayer of “Christ join my suffering to yours”, that brought me a lot of meaning when I was in the depths of physical pain and humiliation and trauma, when I was struggling with hatred towards the people who'd injured me. And to pray to Christ then, that's when you really understand Christ. It was like I don’t want to live with this anger.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Juliana Chan Erikson, in Washington.

*** Editors Note: Dr. Jared Ross lives in South Carolina. A previous version of this story misidentified where he lives and practices medicine.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: Here’s a story that’ll be music to your ears, freshly picked and ready to play.

The Vienna Vegetable Orchestra is the world’s first music group to carve instruments straight out of the produce aisle.

Have a listen:

SOUND: [Veggie orchestra playing]

With hundreds of performances over nearly three decades, Guinness World Records now officially recognizes the group.

They go through about 70 pounds of fresh veggies for each concert. Here’s co-founder Matthias Muhtheeus Meinharter on the Sean Moncrieff CREEF podcast:

MEINHARTER: There are some ready-made, for example the leek violin. You can use it fresh from the market, actually. We take the cabbage and we smash the like a 70s rock concert. Of course the stage is messed up.

I’ll bet! Now, no preservatives on those instruments, so the performers carve new ones before every show. Carrot recorders, pumpkin drums, bell pepper horns, radish whistles, truly a farm-to-stage experience.

It’s The World and Everything in It.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Today is Tuesday, March 18th.

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

Good morning. I’m Mary Reichard.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: And I’m Lindsay Mast. Coming next on The World and Everything in It: praying for cowboys.

We recently took you inside the world of freestyle bullfighting. Those fearless daredevils don’t just dodge bulls. They shield fallen cowboys from a pounding.

REICHARD: WORLD’s Todd Vician talked to one city slicker who saddles up to those cowboys with a bigger prize in mind: 8-seconds of fame here, and eternity beyond.

SOUND: [Sound of gate opening, bull riding until buzzer]

TODD VICIAN: When the rodeo’s in town, John Olivarez is there. But he’s not in the stands. Instead he’s making his way to the pens where cowboys strap themselves on top of a bull or a bronco for a short, violent ride.

OLIVAREZ: My first instance back here,I could feel somebody breathing on me. And so I look, and it was actually a bull. You actually do see steam come out of their nose. So that's just like, yeah, when the cartoons and it's coming out steam actually does come out of their nose.”

Olivarez is a “chute minister” at the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo. He joins a posse of Cowboy Church volunteers that spend about 3 hours each night surrounded by 6-foot high fencing holding back powerful animals. Olivarez has just a few seconds to pray with the men before they’re thrust into the spotlight.

OLIVAREZ: These cowboys come far from home. These cowboys are missing their families…and of course they’re ailing from injuries that they sustained. They’re just humble guys. They want to receive that blessing. No one ever turns down a blessing or a prayer. It's a dangerous sport.

Olivarez sports a clean-shaven head hidden by a crisp, black cowboy hat. He was raised on 40 acres, surrounded by animals, barns, and lots of dirt. It’s what he and many others at the stock show call the cowboy lifestyle. He watched his father minister at the rodeo for over 10 years and wanted to follow in his dad’s boot-steps. But like the Prodigal Son, Olivarez didn’t take the easy trail.

OLIVAREZ: I fell off my horse five years ago, where I was just going through a really bad time in my life, where, you know, I was trying to get my marriage together, because I was working out of town and things like that. So I ended up coming back home, and I ended up reuniting with my parents. My father and I have always had a good relationship but I think the Lord led me back home, because I just lost my father three years ago.

He began this Sunday by ushering at the Cowboy Church where bluejeans, boots, and big belt-buckles are in fashion…

MUSIC: It’s written he’ll come down riding on a big white stallion…

and the music, western.

MUSIC: …With a band of angels hot on his trail…

As the preacher sauntered up to the podium in the auction barn, Olivarez helped two late-comers find empty seats among the 300 worshipers in folding chairs and bleachers.

MUSIC: … just some good cowboys to save from a burnin’ hell.

After the service, Olivarez entered his arena.

OLIVAREZ: Down here you’ll have your Broncs. And, yeah, once they see these guys coming out, man, they get raged. They know what it’s time for.

At about 5 and ½ feet tall and slender, the 46-year old easily walks between the pens restraining dangerous animals. Like the preacher-turned-auctioneer he’s not tongue-tied.

OLIVAREZ: I just get straight to the point, you know, give them what they need to hear. And that's what we need to do. Just get straight to the point, you know, you know, straight to Jesus.”

Olivarez stops one of the cowboys tightening a rope for his horse before the Charraeda, a Mexican rodeo. He asks if he can pray for him, and word spreads quickly.

OLIVAREZ: My name is John.

Soon more than 20 chap-wearing cowboys are standing around him.

OLIVAREZ: And I just want to pray a blessing on y’all’s lives...Father, God, we come before you right now in your mighty name…

Olivarez prays with cowboys most nights in the nearly three week rough and tumble rodeo. Many participants thank him, especially when he prays over them while the medics tend to their injuries.

OLIVAREZ: I want to penetrate their minds and their hearts, because I want them to be able to be like, ‘You know what; he prayed for me. I don't know his name, but the little guy at the cowboy church at San Antonio. I hope he's there next year, because he prayed for me.’ And that's all I want.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Todd Vician in San Antonio, Texas.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: Today is Tuesday, March 18th. Good morning! This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Lindsay Mast.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: And I’m Mary Reichard. Up next, WORLD commentator Janie B Cheaney on the changing demographics of the U-K.

JANIE CHEANEY: Ramadan 2025 began at the end of February and continues to the end of March. The month-long observance for Muslims to fast and pray occurs on a lunar calendar cycle, meaning it falls at a different time each year. Most Americans have no idea when.

But the British can hardly escape knowing, as columnist Melanie McDonaugh observed in a Spectator article titled, “Are you Ramadan-ready?” She writes, “That was the poster in Sainsbury’s advertising its delicious range of fast-breaking foods . . . And the striking thing about it was the ‘you.’ That ‘you’ means the normal customer, the default Sainsbury’s shopper.”

Sainsbury’s is the UK’s second-largest grocery chain. Their website offers “all the essentials needed for celebrating Eid,” which occurs at the end of Ramadan. Nothing wrong with catering to the clientele, but McDonaugh noticed that same intrusive “you” in an email she received from a hair salon she once patronized: “We know how important it is to take a moment for yourself amid the busy days of fasting and prayers.” Rest assured, the salon would be open after sundown for fast-breakers to “indulge in a little luxurious self-care.”

Ramadan lights have added a festive touch to Coventry Street and Leicester Square and schools are advised to schedule Ramadan assemblies. The Muslim population is now fifteen percent of London. No one denies the right to practice their religion, “but,” writes Ms. McDonaugh, “it’s still oddly unsettling that Islam is now the default ‘us’.”

In an Easter Sunday interview last year, atheist Richard Dawkins confessed to feeling oddly unsettled about the encroachment of Islam on English traditions. Though he had no use for the substance of Christianity, he retained a sentimental attachment to the trappings. “It would be truly dreadful,” he said, if another religion replaced cathedrals, hymns, and Christmas carols.

A hundred years ago, G. K. Chesterton imagined just such a future in a comic novel titled “The Flying Inn.” The plot turns on prohibition, not Ramadan. As a result of a treaty with the Ottoman Empire and a prominent M.P.’s attachment to a Turkish Muslim cleric, Parliament has banned alcohol. Not only alcohol, but that cornerstone of British society: the local pub. The two heroes load a cart with the last remaining barrel of rum and travel from town to town serving up a kind of cultural communion. Chesterton’s point was that secular concerns like health and politics must never trump faith. Secularism is temporal and individual by nature. It doesn’t have the fortitude to withstand a united challenge from true believers, whether Islamic or communist. Creedal faith can only be confronted by creedal faith.

There’s been a lot of interest in a Pew poll showing that the decline of traditional religion in the US has stalled out. That could be because the American church, for all its divisions and scandals and brawls, still holds to the faith that shaped its history and character. This should stir us up to love and good works, not complacency. God willing, Ramadan lights will never replace Christmas lights, but we must keep the faith.

I’m Janie B. Cheaney.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: Tomorrow: on Washington Wednesday… What’s fueling the outrage over DOGE, and how will the GOP handle division in its ranks? And, soaring egg prices have Americans flocking to backyard chickens. Passing fad or start of a homegrown food revolution? That and more tomorrow.

I’m Lindsay Mast.

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

WORLD’s Washington Producer Harrison Watters wrote today’s story on Medicaid funding.

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