The World and Everything in It - May 20, 2021

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Good morning!

The Arctic is usually a place for international cooperation. But Russia is flexing its muscles there and that’s led to rising tensions.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Also, cyberhackers and cybersecurity. We’ll talk about the risks and what must be done to counter them.

Plus, we’ll meet a Christian lawyer who reformed criminal justice for young people in Uganda.

And commentator Cal Thomas on the lack of respect for human life.

REICHARD: It’s Thursday, May 20th. 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, Paul Butler has today’s news.

PAUL BUTLER, NEWS ANCHOR: Netanyahu vows to continue military operation in Gaza » Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday he has no intention of backing down in the Gaza Strip.

NETANYAHU: SPEAKING HEBREW

Hours earlier, President Joe Biden called Netanyahu to discuss the situation. Biden has so far supported Israel’s military campaign, a response to Hamas rocket attacks.

But Deputy White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre Biden gave Netanyahu an ultimatum on Wednesday.

JEAN-PIERRE: The president conveyed to the prime minister that he expected a significant de-escalation today on the path to a cease-fire.

Netanyahu said he “greatly appreciates the support of the American president.” But he said Israel would continue its military operation until its aim is met.

Democrats pressure Biden to push ceasefire » Biden’s stronger stance toward Israel may be in response to pressures at home.

Dozens of Democrats have criticized his handling of the conflict. They say he has not done enough to stop the fighting. Democrats on the House Foreign Affairs Committee even considered demanding he delay a long-planned weapons sale to Israel.

In an ironic twist to partisanship, the president’s biggest supporters when it comes to Israel are Republicans. Congressman Doug Lamborn of Colorado is a member of the House Republican Israel Caucus.

LAMBORN: Israel needs our support now more than ever. Unfortunately, there are those in Congress who are wanting to defund our military support of Israel. They’re wanting to condemn Israel’s right to defend itself. And that is totally wrong. And we’re not going to let that happen.

Fierce fighting in Gaza continued Wednesday, with Israeli airstrikes interspersed with Hamas rocket fire. Militants in Lebanon also fired a barrage of rockets into northern Israel, raising the prospect of a two-front war.

So far, more than 200 Palestinians and 12 Israelis have died in the fighting that began on May 10th.

NY AG joins Trump criminal probe » New York Attorney General Leticia James has opened a criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump’s business empire. WORLD’s Leigh Jones has that story.

LEIGH JONES, REPORTER: The state attorney general was already conducting a civil probe into the Trump organization. But late Tuesday, a spokesman for James’ office announced the investigation was now criminal in nature.

James offered no explanation for the change, but her spokesman did confirm the investigation would merge with a similar probe by the Manhattan district attorney's office.

Both teams of investigators were already seeking to determine whether Trump or his businesses manipulated the value of assets to get loans or tax breaks.

Clues about the Manhattan DA’s investigation have mostly come from his fight for tax documents. He has not said publicly what exactly he’s looking for.

The former president called the expanded probe an investigation in desperate search of a crime.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Leigh Jones.

Storms bring flooding to Louisiana, parts of Texas » Western Louisiana is once again mopping up from record flooding. A strong line of storms swept through the region on Tuesday and Wednesday. It dumped as much as 18 inches of rain on parts of Lake Charles.

And National Weather Service meteorologist Alex Donato says the rain isn’t over.

DONATO: We are expected to get up to 4 inches throughout south central Louisiana as well as southeastern Texas. We’re getting that inflow of moisture from the Gulf of Mexico, which is fueling a lot of these storms.

The Louisiana Department of Health has confirmed three deaths due to the flooding. All resulting from driving vehicles into high water.

Flood watches on Wednesday covered most of Louisiana and a large part of Texas, as well as parts of Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Mississippi.

Texas governor signs heartbeat bill into law » Finally, abortion will soon be illegal in Texas after unborn babies develop a heartbeat. In most cases, that’s as early as 6 weeks into pregnancy.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed the bill into law Wednesday.

ABBOTT: Our creator endowed us with the right to life and yet millions of children lose their right to life every year because of abortion. In Texas, we work to save those lives.

Texas is not the first state to adopt a heartbeat bill. But its legislation is unique: The state will rely on civil lawsuits to enforce the measure. Any citizen, even someone living outside Texas, can sue an abortion provider who violates the law.

Pro-life advocates hope the enforcement twist will help the bill evade its own legal challenges. Lawsuits against pro-life laws usually target state officials, who would not be involved in enforcing this measure.

Nevertheless, abortion activists have vowed to sue, hoping to prevent the bill from taking effect in September.

I’m Paul Butler.

Straight ahead: Russia makes a power play in the Arctic.

Plus, Cal Thomas on pro-life hopes at the Supreme Court.

This is The World and Everything in It.

NICK EICHER, HOST: It’s Thursday, the 20th of May, 2021.

Thank you for joining us for today’s edition of The World and Everything in It. Good morning, I’m Nick Eicher.

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

First up, the Arctic.

It’s not just the icy domain of polar bears and snowy owls. Many countries lay claim to parts of the Arctic. The region contains crucial shipping lanes and is also home to many natural resources.

EICHER: Russia is especially interested in those resources and is trying to stake a claim for control. WORLD’s Anna Johansen Brown reports.

AUDIO: PRE-ARCTIC COUNCIL

ANNA JOHANSEN BROWN, REPORTER: World leaders gathered in Iceland this week to talk about the fate of the Arctic. Eight countries make up the Arctic Council. All have territory within the Arctic Circle. Finland, Norway, Canada, the United States—each one has a stake in the region. And they want to make sure everyone plays nice.

But Russia isn’t making any promises.

AUDIO: SPEAKING RUSSIAN

At a press conference on Tuesday, Russia’s foreign minister claimed Arctic land and waters belong to his country. He insisted, “We are responsible for ensuring our Arctic coast is safe.”

That kind of rhetoric has world leaders a little jumpy especially given some recent changes in the Arctic. For one thing: Less ice.

HUMPERT: The Arctic landscape where there was previously a frozen landscape with ice almost year round, we now have seasonal navigable ocean.

Malte Humpert is the founder of the Arctic Institute. He says shifting ice patterns have dramatically changed the Arctic region. During the summer, there’s more open water.

HUMPERT: And so with that you gain access to resources, you can suddenly send ships through the Arctic, there's more of a cruise ship tourism, there's exploration of oil and gas resources, minerals in the future, increased access to fishing.

Most of those resources are inside the exclusive economic zones of the Arctic nations, so they’re already claimed. But that doesn’t stop Russia from wanting just a little extra. Last month, Moscow put forward a claim to an extra slice of continental shelf.

Mathieu Boulegue is a research fellow at the London think tank Chatham House. He explains it’s not land Russia wants, or the surface of the water. It’s everything underneath.

BOULEGUE: And that can be fish, that could be energy resources, potentially, they're able to dig and drill deep enough and build anything at sea, for that matter. Let's say, you can do a lot of shenanigans at sea, as you can imagine.

The only problem is Denmark and Canada also claim that piece of continental shelf. At the end of the day, Boulegue doesn’t think any of them will get it.

BOULEGUE: I'm not seeing it happen, not least because it takes a lot of time in terms of fact finding and evidence finding, and then presenting a bulletproof scientific case to show that yes, your continental shelf is extending the you know, with an absolutely undeniable proof beyond your existing coastline.

Russia is also staking its claim on the Northern Sea Route, a shipping lane along its northern coast. Taking the route cuts two weeks off shipping times. Most of the year, it’s frozen over. But with changing ice patterns, it’s more accessible.

HUMPERT: And so suddenly, you can use this shipping lane to export resources that previously, you would have had difficulty getting out of the Russian Arctic. And so for Russia, this is, you know, a huge play in the future of Russian oil and gas activity.

But Russia isn’t just making territorial claims. It’s also asserting itself militarily.

AUDIO: GUNFIRE, EXPLOSIONS

Every six months or so, Russian troops run military drills at an Arctic base near Russia’s coast. They wear winter camo, train with snow mobiles and skis, and take training courses on how to survive the Arctic’s harsh environment.

BOULEGUE: They've been revamping or opening new bases and filled in air strips along the coastline. They've been completely boosting their presence in terms of troops, weapon systems that have been fitted specifically to Arctic conditions to ensure complete operations in a complicated environment.

Russia is also testing nuclear stealth torpedos that could be launched from Arctic bases. And it’s building longer airstrips capable of launching nuclear bombers. But Boulegue says, at this point, it’s all defensive.

BOULEGUE: You can never know for sure, with Russia, of course. But so far, what we've seen is a defensive posture that aims to give Russia sort of strategic depth by creating long range capabilities to make sure that nobody really has to fight in the Arctic.

Boulegue says it’s a little overkill but that tends to be Russia’s M.O.

BOULEGUE: You know, it's a defensive posture with teeth. But this is how also how Russia understands deterrence.

He believes all these moves are symbolic power plays to show the world that Russia is back.

But Malte Humpert says Moscow has moved past legitimate security measures.

HUMPERT: I think a lot of the developments were surface to air missiles and hypersonic missiles and nuclear capable bombers in the Arctic definitely shows that we are definitely leaving the security aspect and entering into a militarization you know, of the Arctic. And then the question is, will that lead to future conflicts?

As Russia ramps up its military presence in the area, other nations have started beefing up their defenses as well. That makes things tense in an area that, historically, has been a place of cooperation. Kind of like the International Space Station.

The Arctic Council has always been held up as a model of international cooperation. But that’s becoming harder to maintain.

HUMPERT: Because once you introduce geopolitics and economic interest, of course, the stakes, change, from environmental stewardship, to a more, you know, economic security kind of focused discussion.

The Arctic Council doesn’t talk about military issues. It’s focused on things like fishing rights, search and rescue missions, and oil spill prevention. And though Mathieu Boulegue doesn’t think we’ll see a war in the Arctic any time soon, he does think global leaders should have strategies in place, just in case.

BOULEGUE: I would argue it is time that we started discussing an architecture for military security in the Arctic, so that when the time comes and we really have an issue with military escalation, we know what to do so that we don't let that escalate.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Anna Johansen Brown.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Coming up next on The World and Everything in It: cyberattacks.

The fuel supply in parts of the East Coast still is not back to normal. And it’s almost two weeks after a ransomware attack forced the shutdown of the largest pipeline in the country.

Colonial Pipeline reportedly paid millions of dollars in Bitcoin to cyberhackers in order to regain control of its own computer systems.

U.S. intelligence believes Russian hackers were behind the pipeline attack. But they do not suspect the Russian government was involved.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: And it’s not only a nationwide problem. It’s a global one.
Ireland’s health system is still struggling to recover from a recent cyberattack. And an insurance company in France is investigating a similar attack on its operations in several countries.

Here now to help us understand what happened and what the risks are going forward is Professor Paul Poteete. He teaches cybersecurity at Geneva College. Professor, good morning!

POTEETE: Well, good morning. Thank you so much for having me online.

REICHARD: Glad to have you. Well, let's just start with a very basic question. How does a ransomware attack work?

POTEETE: Well, they're about three different kinds there. There are encrypting versus non encrypting, there are blocking ransomware attacks, and there's information exfiltration ransomware attack—they're just trying to get at your information. But the way it works is usually, you'll click on something, and that's what we call a Trojan. It appears to be something else. But you click on it, and it gets into your system. And of course, it's malicious. When you have a Trojan that is ransomware, that one's going to encrypt your files, or it's going to block your access to certain things, or it's going to exfiltrate data. Or all of the above—it's going to be a hybrid solution there. So they can be pretty nasty from all kinds of all kinds of places.

REICHARD: Describe how vulnerable our infrastructure is to attacks like this one.

POTEETE: We do have a number of vulnerabilities in our infrastructure. And those would be from physical vulnerabilities, administrative vulnerabilities, and technical vulnerabilities. You can ask a hacking firm or a firm that does penetration testing, "Have you ever been to a firm that you could not hack?" And probably 100 percent of them are going to say, we were able to find something with every firm that we went into. So with every time we tried to hack somebody, we were able to do it eventually. And that's something to keep in mind there as we talked about making things secure, is, you know, you can't really have perfect security in technology. You know, if you're looking for perfect security, that's going to come in Jesus Christ, and technology, we're always going to fall short.

REICHARD: That's unsettling to realize it. Well, what about reports that Colonial Pipeline had glaring security issues? And what kinds of problems did auditors find?

POTEETE: Well, the audit report is—I think you're referring to—was done probably about three years ago, and they said like an eighth grader or an eight year old could hack into the system. And that is absolutely stereotypical of any firm that's been around for a number of years. If you look at the Colonial Pipeline, they've been added, merged, expanded, reduced. They've had new acquisitions, new technology, all kinds of solutions that have come across. It's all over the East Coast, United States with several different companies involved in it. It's, that is a very difficult infrastructure to manage.

REICHARD: Do you think the government will be able to track down these hackers and bring them to justice?

POTEETE: I think they have. That's one of the problems. When we talk about the hackers, for instance, are we really talking about Dark Side? You know, Dark Side is ransomware as a service, so what they're really doing is providing a cloud based kind of platform on the dark web that other people can pay into, use their systems, and then go provide ransomware to other companies. So who is actually the perpetrator here? You know, is it someone using dark side or was it part of the Dark Side group themselves? Or are we considering anybody who uses their software now part Dark Side?

However, from the United States standpoint, we have a very solid cybersecurity and critical infrastructure security group. And they will probably have tracked down those perpetrators in just a few hours. And if they haven't tracked them down yet, then we have a tendency to kind of stick on something for decades. So they'll be tracking them down for a long period of time.

REICHARD: I know a lot of American infrastructure is controlled by private companies. There's a patchwork of mom and pop companies along with great big corporations like Colonial. What security support do these companies receive, if any, from the federal government as it relates to infrastructure?

POTEETE: Well, that's one of the cases that’s special with infrastructure. So when you talk about finances, or you're talking about critical infrastructure, you actually do get special protections from the United States government. If you're looking at just a regular mom and pop store, they don't get those protections. If you're looking at something where we're looking at the river system or, or if you're looking at the gas pipelines, or electricity or financial districts, etc, then they get special protections with critical infrastructure protection. And it usually starts with the FBI. And so they'll they'll look into the issues there, and they'll branch off from that point.

REICHARD: Final question and practical applications. What do small businesses and individuals like us need to know about protecting against ransomware attacks?

POTEETE: It is a cat and mouse game. We talk about individual well being in cybersecurity, and things like use two factor authentication. That's just don't use a password. Don't leave your your security up to just a single password on a system somewhere to protect your information. Use two factors. And two factors is like a password and a key fob, or a password. And it's gonna send you a message to an authenticator app or password. It's gonna send you a message over to your cell phone, that way you have two factors. It’s a lot harder to crack that. Next, if you look at it, you need to close all of your unneeded services that you're running. This is from a company standpoint, and us as individual users can do this to any services we have running on our network that we can close those things down.

The last part is patch your systems. Patch your computer on a regular basis. Be sure that you're up to date with all of the security patches. Those patches are often overlooked. And that's one of the leading causes of, well, the exploits working is people have not patched their systems in a reasonable amount of time, often years.

REICHARD: Such useful information Professor Paul Poteete with the Geneva College has been our guest. Professor, thanks so much for your insight.

POTEETE: Thank you so much for having me here.

A man in Australia set a record just by living: Dexter Kruger is 111 years old. That makes him Australia’s oldest-ever man.

The oldest person was a woman who died 20 years ago at the verified age of 114.

But those who know Kruger say they won’t be surprised at all if he claims the record. They say he has an amazing memory.

He’s currently writing his autobiography.

And he’s got some advice:

KRUGER: Find something you like to do and do it well. I set myself a goal when I was quite young, and I achieved that.

Achieved his goal of succeeding at cattle ranching on his 13,000 acres.

But that’s not the secret to his longevity.

Here’s the secret—if you can handle the truth.

According to Kruger, the secret is eating chicken brains.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Ewwwwwwwww.

EICHER: I knew you’d like that.

Your mileage may vary.

It’s The World and Everything in It.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Today is Thursday, May 20th. 

You’re listening to WORLD Radio and we’re so glad you are! 

Good morning. I’m Nick Eicher.

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

Coming next on The World and Everything in It: children behind bars.

Today, we will meet a Christian lawyer who visited Uganda on a mission trip thinking it would be a one-time thing.

EICHER: Then two, three, and now 27 trips later, he continues to advocate for young people in prison. Here now is WORLD reporter Jenny Rough.

JENNY ROUGH, REPORTER: Ten years ago, juveniles accused of a crime in Uganda remained stuck in prison to await their day in court. At the time, the African country didn’t have a bail system: the ability to get out of jail with charges pending. No immediate right of a lawyer to represent them. The system was a mess.

GASH: These kids were just taken out of their homes, often just off of the street, and the parents, in many of these cases, had no idea where the kid had gone to.

In 2009, Jim Gash heard about the challenges facing Uganda’s juvenile criminal justice system. A law professor at the time, he learned its judiciary was severely understaffed.

GASH: It’s a country the size of California in terms of population, about 37 million. They’ve got about 20 times fewer judges than L.A. County does.

Gash joined three other lawyers on a legal ministry trip. He spent a week at one of the juvenile prisons in rural Uganda to help move the backlog of cases toward trial.

He learned that the average wait time for a juvenile’s case to be heard was two years. Even for a crime like petty theft. Gash met kids who told him how wait times exceeded the prison sentence.

GASH: The maximum sentence is six months, and I’ve already been here for two years.

Adults were held even longer.

GASH: It’s 5 to 7 for an adult.

The prisons aren’t comfortable places to spend long periods of time: A room about 20 yards long and 5 yards wide. Twenty boys. Twelve floor mats.

GASH: Which consisted of blankets on top of one-inch foam. Toward the back of the warehouse you could clean yourself with the jugs of water that were scattered throughout. The prisoners were allowed outside for about an hour a day, but for 23 hours a day, they were confined to that warehouse.

Gash returned to California and to his wife and three kids. Although devastated at what he witnessed, he had no plans to return.

GASH: I remember thinking: Someone has got to do something about this. But I knew it wasn’t going to be me. This was my one-and-done. This was my voluntourism trip.

But the fate of the boys weighed on him.

In Uganda, when the court date for the accused finally does arrive, a full trial ensues. For every single case.

GASH: What those kids needed was just someone to get them before a court to get an agreement made and then to move forward.

Gash decided to return for a second trip. He visited a different juvenile prison and continued similar work: moving stalled cases along. This time, the Ugandan judges had a request:

GASH: When I was over there, they said, “Hey, we want to do a study tour of plea bargaining. What do you recommend?

Plea bargaining. In United States criminal law, plea bargaining is an agreement between the accused and the prosecutor to resolve the case without taking it to trial. The agreement is subject to court approval. So judges play a crucial role.

After speaking with Gash, six Ugandan judges traveled to the states to examine the American system. The judges met with everyone from police officers to prison officials to FBI agents.

GASH: And they came back and said, “We would like to institute plea-bargaining in Uganda, first starting in with juveniles and then moving into adults. Can you help us?"

Gash took a sabbatical in 20-12 and relocated his family to Uganda for six months. But as a torts professor, he felt like he was in over his head.

GASH: I was not a prosecutor. I wasn’t a public defender. I’ve never appeared in criminal court in the U.S.

Gash invited American prosecutors and public defenders to Uganda to help fill in the gaps. With experts from both countries in one room, the work began.

GASH: What we did is we started with: What is it that you want to achieve? What are various aspects of American criminal justice that you want to include in Ugandan criminal justice, and what are those that you don’t? And so it was entirely up to them.

Gash and his lawyer friends consciously worked to avoid a common mistake: Acting with the belief or attitude that the American way is the right way.

GASH: That was not a, “Hey! This is how we do it. This is how you should do it.” All we do is say, “How can we be helpful?” Well, “How do you guys handle this? And what are the alternatives to this?” And some of the times, they said, “Okay, we’ll do it that way.” And then some of the times, they say, “Well, we don’t like it that way. Our culture is different.” Okay, well how would you like it?

Once the directive was on paper, formal legislation began and Ugandan officials put the new system in action.

GASH: And so cases, instead of taking two years for a kid who was arrested to get to court, you know, it would happen in six months, or four months.

Twenty cases. Then 50. Today, Uganda has resolved almost 100,000 juvenile and adult criminal law cases. Here is Ugandan justice Geoffrey Kiryabwire. This clip is from a documentary that described the transition, called Remand.

GEOFFREY KIRYABWIRE: I am personally convinced that plea bargaining will be the most significant reform of our criminal justice system since independence.

The American criminal justice system has plenty of problems of its own. Fifty states means 50 juvenile justice systems, not to mention differences at the county level. According to the Juvenile Law Center, we are the only country in the world with formal statutes on the books that impose life without parole on youth. Uganda has one system with one set of rules. And Gash says it’s a country that does not give up on its youth so quickly.

Critics of plea bargaining say it's problematic. It bypasses justice by giving a prosecutor an assured conviction without giving the defendant a day in court. A defendant who may be innocent.

GASH: Okay, yeah. There are risks with plea bargaining. But what’s worse? Having a choice to accept an offer that you think is unfair or sitting alone in a cell? Sometimes perfect is the enemy of the good. Sit for an hour in a Ugandan prison. Come with me, and you will have a very different view of your disdain for plea-bargaining.

Neighboring countries watched Uganda’s changes with great interest.

GASH: Rwanda said if Uganda can do it, then we can do it.

Ghana. Nigeria. Lawyers from multiple African countries are now working together to reduce a juvenile’s time from arrest to resolution.

Next month, Gash is heading back to Uganda for his twenty-eighth visit.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Jenny Rough.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Today is Thursday, May 20th. Good morning! This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Mary Reichard.

NICK EICHER, HOST: And I’m Nick Eicher. Here’s commentator Cal Thomas on the connection between law and morality.

CAL THOMAS, COMMENTATOR: The Supreme Court this fall will hear a case from Mississippi that outlaws abortions past 15 weeks of a woman’s pregnancy. The law makes exception in cases of rape or when the mother’s life is in danger.

Lower courts have rejected it as unconstitutional because of the precedent set by Roe v. Wade in 1973. Subsequent rulings have reaffirmed and expanded it. Since then, science and technology have allowed babies to survive outside the womb at earlier stages. Even so, the abortion lobby has continued to press for the procedure to be legal at any stage and for any reason.

Pro-lifers are encouraged because of the court’s three new justices. All are Catholic, and one, Amy Coney Barrett, has made public statements about her opposition to abortion. But Barrett has also said she would not let her personal views affect her interpretation of the law. Watch for the left and their media allies to begin lobbying the justices through one-sided TV stories, editorials, and op-ed columns about how any restrictions will lead to “back alley abortions.”

Abortion has contributed to the caustic environment in which we now live. People kill each other nightly on the streets of major cities. Riots and vandalism are becoming increasingly “normal” behavior. A Wall Street Journal story predicts we face another summer of “unrest.”

This disrespect for human life, law, order, and morality has extended to pressure at the other end of life, as well. Assisted suicide laws are gaining ground in some states. And we have seen with COVID-19 a lack of concern about the elderly in nursing homes.

According to the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute, more than 62 and a half million abortions have been performed since 1973. And abortionists disproportionately target African-American women. One might think that if black lives matter, the weakest and most vulnerable would matter most. Think of the potential of these lost lives.

The number of abortions has declined in recent years for several reasons—including the free services of pregnancy help centers. But any innocent life lost is one too many.

The greater philosophical—even theological—question is this: Is abortion the cause of our increasingly decadent culture, or a reflection of it? Given the societal upheaval, I am inclined to believe it is a reflection of our self-centered and depraved minds, along with the loss of a shared morality. We are now mostly our own “gods,” deciding right from wrong subjectively. That is, if we still believe in and can intellectually defend the concepts that still exist.

The yearning among pro-lifers for a positive Supreme Court decision in the Mississippi case may not, by itself, reverse our national decline. But it could be one step in the right direction.

I’m Cal Thomas.

NICK EICHER, HOST: We are at Dordt College for World Journalism Institute. Tomorrow, Culture Friday and we turn over the mics to students who have questions. John Stonestreet has answers.

And, we’ll tell you about two films your kids might request for family movie night.

That and more tomorrow.

I’m Nick Eicher.

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