The World and Everything in It: May 21, 2025

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LINDSAY MAST, HOST: Good morning!

Today on Washington Wednesday: President Trump’s visit to the Middle East, what does it signal for relations in that region?

TRUMP: This great transformation has not come from Western interventionists … or giving you lectures on how to govern your own affairs.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Also today news from around the globe on WORLD Tour.

And later: an unexpected friendship helps an illustrator see the big picture.

SOUND: God is a creator God … and then very quickly we read that God created us in his image, so we are like him in fundamental ways.

MAST: It’s Wednesday, May 21st. 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: Time for news. Here’s Kent Covington.

KENT COVINGTON, NEWS ANCHOR: Golden dome missile defense » President Trump has announced a proposal for a new Golden Dome missile defense program — a multilayered system that for the first time will put U.S. weapons in space.

TRUMP:  Once fully constructed, the Golden Dome will be capable of intercepting missiles even if they are launched from other sides of the world, and even if they're launched from space.

Speaking from the Oval Office, Trump said the system would cost $175 billion. He expects it will be “fully operational before the end of [his] term.”

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told reporters:

HEGSETH:  The Golden Dome for America is game changer. It's a generational investment in the security of America and Americans.

The Air Force secretary told senators Tuesday that Golden Dome overall is “still in the conceptual stage.”

Critics of the plan question the effectiveness of such a system, and say the price tag could be a half-trillion dollars over 20 years.

Trump meeting with GOP on big bill » President Trump has requested a $25-billion-dollar down payment for the Golden Dome be included in what he calls his ‘big beautiful bill.’ That would be one bill to address his top priorities, including tax cuts, and border control and national security.

On Capitol Hill today, President Trump huddled with House Republicans about that legislation working to convince some holdouts. He later told reporters:

TRUMP: There was no shouting... I think it was a meeting of love.

And he pushed back on a report that he said he was losing patience with Republican lawmakers.

TRUMP:  I never used the term. I didn't say losing. I didn't even talk about it. In fact, it's the opposite. I think we're gonna get it done. I'm not losing patients. We're ahead of schedule. Anybody that told you that is a liar.

Speaker Mike Johnson also said the mood was overwhelmingly positive.

JOHNSON: We are on the verge

The bill could go to a vote on the House floor as early as this week but will have to first advance through the House Rules Committee.

Some GOP members insist on steeper cuts to federal programs to offset the cost of trillions of dollars in lost tax revenue.

Democrats have criticized proposed Republican-led cuts to Medicaid. The president insists the only thing cut from Medicaid would be waste and abuse.

Pressure on Israel over Gaza war » Several Western governments are ramping up pressure on Israel over its handling of its war against the Hamas terror group.

British Foreign Secretary David Lammy says his government is halting free trade negotiations with Israel and hitting Israeli settlers in the West Bank with new sanctions.

LAMMY: We are unwavering in our commitment to your security and to your future, to countering the very real threat from Iran, the scourge of terrorism and the evils of anti-Semitism.

But he said the conduct of the war is damaging the U.K.’s relationship with the Israeli government.

But Israel's minister of economy and industry Nir Barkat said the U.K. is pointing its finger in the wrong direction.

BARKAT: The world should put pressure on Hamas. Because the minute they drop their weapons and bring our hostages, the war is over.

He added that the war against terrorism is not just Israel's fight.

Kellogg on Ukraine peace talks at Vatican » Special Envoy to Russia and Ukraine, retired General Keith Kellogg is weighing in on the Vatican’s suggestion that it could host peace talks between Russia and Ukraine

KELLOGG:  The Vatican has had a history of this, and I think we're gonna end up doing it, and I think it'll be good.

President Trump this week talked with Russia’s Vladimir Putin in a two-plus hour phone call aimed at convincing Putin to re-engage in peace talks. Trump said the call went very well, and he believes Putin and Russia are prepared to move forward with negotiations.

Kellogg added:

KELLOGG:  I think he's gonna be reasonable about it. I, I hope he does. I think there's a glimmer of hope, and I think one thing about President Trump, he says, let's try to go the last mile to get there.

Ukrainian negotiators held peace talks with Russian officials in Turkey last week. No peace deal was reached, but the two sides reached agreement on a prisoner swap.

Rubio hearing » Secretary of State Marco Rubio shared a few fiery exchanges with his former Senate colleagues Tuesday as he testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine sparred with Rubio about the Trump administration’s decision to expedite the approval of refugee status for roughly 60 white South African farmers, citing concerns over racial discrimination and violence in South Africa.

KAINE: So if you have a different standard based on the color of somebody’s skin, would that be acceptable?
RUBIO: Well, I’m not the one arguing that. Apparently you are because [SIC] the fact that they’re white and that’s why …
KAINE: No, I’m just asking you to say that that would be unacceptable. It would seem to be a very easy thing to say!
RUBIO: I would say that the United States has a right to pick and choose who they allow into the United States.
KAINE: Even based on the color of somebody’s skin.
RUBIO: No one’s—You’re the one who’s talking about the color of their skin, not me.
KAINE: You’re refusing to acknowledge [SIC] evenhanded.
RUBIO: Farms were beng burned down. They were killed because of the color of their skin.

The Trump administration says white farmers in South Africa were victims of a "genocide" and faced threats of land expropriation without compensation.

Critics of the move accuse the administration of showing racial favoritism. And some claim that attacks on South African farmers have been primarily driven by criminal motives rather than racial targeting.

George Wendt obit » Actor George Wendt has died. He was best known for his portrayal of the affable barfly Norm Peterson on the hit 1980s TV comedy “Cheers.”

AUDIO: Good afternoon, everybody. Norm!

He earned six straight Emmy Award nominations for best supporting actor in a comedy series from 1984-89.

Wendt enjoyed a long TV career and later built a stage career that took him to Broadway.

Wendt's family said he died early Tuesday, peacefully in his sleep while at home. He was 76 years old.

I'm Kent Covington. 

This is The World and Everything in It.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: It’s Wednesday, the 21st of May.

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

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

Time now for Washington Wednesday.

“Commerce not chaos” that’s the name of President Trump’s Middle East game—following a five-day trip to the Persian Gulf states last week. The White House promoted the trip as a whirlwind tour of business deals that will benefit the United States. But critics claim the president is opening himself up to a large-scale influence peddling scheme from the nation of Qatar.

Here’s WORLD’s Washington Bureau reporter Carolina Lumetta.

CAROLINA LUMETTA: President Trump is back from his first official state visit, touting billions of dollars of investment deals with Middle Eastern countries.

DONALD TRUMP: We have hundreds of different big companies pouring into America, now. Creating jobs like we have never seen before.

Last week he signed major deals with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar, some of the wealthiest nations in the world. They plan to invest in American technology, industry, and arms.

MONA YACOUBIAN: I think it is emblematic of how President Trump views his foreign policy, which, it is very transactional.

Mona Yacoubian is the director of the Middle East program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. She said Trump’s trip contradicts assumptions during his campaign that he would be isolationist and would not interact much on the world stage.

YACOUBIAN: It's very much about what deals can we bring back home to the United States? What benefits US prosperity? And in that sense, I think, you know, it very much was in line with what it was touted to do.

During his trip, President Trump spoke at several investment forums. He accused past administrations of holding up international development by forcing Middle Eastern countries to comply with western standards. He suggested a different approach at the Saudi-US Investment forum:

TRUMP: This great transformation has not come from Western interventionists who are giving you lectures on how to live or how to govern your own affairs. Instead, the birth of a modern Middle East has been brought about by the people of the region themselves, developing your own sovereign countries, pursuing your own unique visions, and charting your own destinies…

During his last term, Trump made deals with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. At the time, he accused Qatar of funding terrorism, and he helped Saudi Arabia and the UAE enforce a blockade against it. Now, a new alliance has emerged. Trump gave some remarks at a breakfast meeting with business leaders in Doha, the capital.

TRUMP: We are going to protect this country and it's very special place. with a special royal family… And they're going to be protected by the United States of America. and I think we're not going to have to do it because I, I believe very strongly in peace through strength.

Since Trump’s first term, Qatar has become a key mediator between Israel and Hamas. It has heavily invested in the U.S. and paid millions to upgrade the American air base outside Doha. However, it has also sent military aid to Lebanon, some of which has been funneled to the terror group Hezbollah. David Adesnik is director of research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

DAVID ADESNIK: I think it's more of a symbol of a broader issue, which is that Qatar has found some very effective ways to buy influence and mute criticism of the fact that it very much has one foot on the American side of the fence and one foot firmly on the Hamas-Iran-Turkey side of the fence.

Since the start of the war in Israel, Qatar has frequently hosted mediations between Hamas and the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Qatar also often hosts Hamas leaders at its luxury hotels. Adesnik worries that Qatar is buying influence in the United States.

ADESNI: You saw the figures that Trump was touting for potential deals are somewhat astronomical. And when they hire a huge number of lobbyists, they've funneled huge amounts of money to American universities to establish campuses in Qatar. They have an effective way of buying friends.

Trump also announced last week that the royal family of Qatar was giving the United States a $400 billion Boeing jet to be used as the new Air Force One. That set off a firestorm of criticism in Washington. Democratic Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut took to the Senate floor.

CHRIS MURPHY: Every American, every Republican, every supposed national security advocate in the Senate should be outraged by this.

The current Air Force One is more than 40 years old, and Boeing currently holds a contract to build a new one and a backup. But it’s years behind schedule. The White House insists that the gift does not violate constitutional ethics rules because it is a donation to the Air Force, not specifically the president. If Boeing delivers a new plane by 2028, Trump wants to decommission the Qatar jet after his term ends and store it in a presidential library. Before that, it could cost a billion dollars to retrofit the plane to meet the Air Force’s high security standards. And Senate Majority Leader John Thune said there may be national security concerns.

JOHN THUNE: I can assure you there will be plenty of scrutiny of whatever that arrangement might look like… There are lots of issues around that that I think will attract very serious questions if and when it happens.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has imposed a hold on unanimous consent for Justice Department nominees until Attorney General Pam Bondi answers questions about whether she approved the plane donation. Bondi was formerly a registered foreign agent when she lobbied businesses and lawmakers on behalf of Qatar…up until becoming Attorney General. On Monday, Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois called for Bondi to testify:

DICK DURBIN: In light of these significant ethical concerns I've also requested that Attorney General Bondi provide information related to any ethical consultation on her involvement in the Trump administration's consideration of this gift.

While lawmakers have ethical concerns about accepting the plane and Qatar’s role, Trump says the nation is a new ally. And more importantly, he’s done telling Middle Eastern countries how to live. The bottom line is the deal. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told me that while no country is perfect, Qatar has made improvements, and a holdup over human rights records should not be an impediment to deal-making. Here’s Trump at the Doha meeting.

TRUMP: When you talk about, Qatar, the relationship is uh, equal. I mean it's just like nobody's going to break that relationship. We've never we have never had a relationship uh, with Qatar as strong as it is now.

Most Republicans in Congress have mixed feelings about this new partnership. Senator Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma has defended Trump’s decision to accept the plane, while Senators Rand Paul and Shelley Moore Capito are wary of any deals with Qatar.

Meanwhile, next week Washington will hold a Memorial Day Parade through the city, sponsored by Boeing and the State of Qatar.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Carolina Lumetta in Washington.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Coming up next on The World and Everything in It: WORLD Tour with our reporter in Nigeria, Onize Oduah.

SOUND: [Cheering]

ONIZE ODUAH: European elections — We begin today with election outcomes in Europe.

In Romania, Bucharest mayor Nicusor Dan emerged winner of a presidential rerun. It comes five months after the constitutional court annulled an earlier vote and disqualified a far-right frontrunner over allegations of Russian influence.

Senior U.S. officials had criticized the canceled vote.

Dan campaigned on a pro-European Union pathway backing ties with the West, fiscal reform, and support for Ukraine. Mihai Vasile joined others on the streets to celebrate the outcome.

MIHAI VASILE: [ROMANIAN] For me, that's what the elections were about: staying in the European Union or going East.

He says here that the vote represented a choice between staying in the E-U, or developing closer relations with countries like Russia and other eastern European nations.

SOUND: [Supporters]

And in Portugal, the outcome of its third election in three years was less decisive.

The incumbent center-right Democratic Alliance party won the most seats, but failed again to secure a parliamentary majority.

Party leader and incumbent Prime Minister Luis Montenegro has said he is open to deals with some opposition parties.

LUIS MONTENEGRO: [PORTUGUESE] The Portuguese don't want any more early elections, they want a four-year term and they demand that everyone understands, respects and honours their free and democratic word.

He says here that the Portuguese are done with elections and want a leader to serve for a four-year term.

The country’s ceremonial president has called the parties together to begin talks of forming another minority government.

Colombia merges with China — Next, to Colombia, where authorities have agreed to join China’s Belt and Road Initiative. The announcement followed a bilateral summit this month between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Colombian President Gustavo Petro.

China is Colombia’s second-largest trading partner after the United States.

The State Department has said it would oppose any financing of projects linked to China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Latin America. Petro said Colombia has the right to freely choose its partners.

GUSTAVO PETRO: [SPANISH] I hope this can pave the way for expanded commodities trade between our countries.

He says here that he hopes the agreement will pave the way for expanded trade between the countries.

More than 20 Latin American and Caribbean countries have already joined the project, which seeks to expand China’s global trade and infrastructure links.

South Africa pageant — We end today with a granny pageant in South Africa.

Family members gathered to watch their elderly loved ones walk down the red carpet as they cheered. Contestants wore their colorful Sunday best.

Seventy-two-year-old Joyce Malindi was one of the contestants.

JOYCE MALINDI: I feel happy today, it brings my memories back, where I came from, it takes me back to my youth days, when I was still young, when I still know that I was sure of myself.

Nearly 4 in 10 South African children are raised by their grandparents.

Bridget Thusi is a mayoral committee member in the city of Ekurhuleni.

BRIDGET THUSI: You know often times the minute they take pension they are forgotten citizens, and all they do is look after great grand children and grandchildren, so to have programs like this where they are celebrated and to forget their problems that they’ve got at home, it was really really an amazing thing to see.

78-year old Margaret Fatyela took home the silver crown and a modest tea set. She told AFP she feels young again, and capable of “doing everything.”

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

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: For centuries, the wife of Shakespeare—Anne Hathaway—has been cast as the frumpy older woman he left behind. Some even claim he regretted marrying her.

But a fragment of a letter hidden in a 17th-century book and rediscovered in a cathedral library, is rattling that narrative.

Matthew Steggle is a professor at the University of Bristol. The audio from YouTube’s France 23:

STEGGLE: This is the first really chink in the wall on that. It’s the first piece of paper that places her in London.

In London, where her husband was living at the time. There are inferences to Anne managing her husband’s money and mingling in his literary circles.

Good historians will savor this opportunity:

STEGGLE: People are going to think about it. People are going to check the evidence. Maybe use it as a springboard for further research.

 So maybe Shakespeare didn’t run away from his wife after all. Proving once again: it’s never too late to question the narrative! 

It’s The World and Everything in It.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: Today is Wednesday, May 21st. This is WORLD Radio!

Good morning. I’m Lindsay Mast.

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

Coming next: the power of God-given creativity.

MAST: Psalm 24 declares “The earth is the LORD’s and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein.”

Or as another translation puts it, “the world and everything in it”—speaking of God’s ownership of it all.

EICHER: Genesis speaks of God’s creating man in his image, and so he wired us toward creativity and beauty, wonder and truth. Today, WORLD Reporter Jenny Rough will introduce us to an illustrator whose joyful imagination deepened not only his art, but his friendships—and his faith.

JENNY ROUGH: Aaron Zenz was a typical kid. He grew up in the 80s, doing typical kid stuff:

AARON ZENZ: You know, go out and ride my bike, play basketball, and all of those kinds of things. But for me, my greatest joy was drawing and coming up with characters. For me, drawing and writing was a form of play.

One day, Zenz jotted down a single stanza rhyming poem in his sketchbook. There was a hippopotamus who hiccupped quite-a-lotamus.

ZENZ: And every time he got’emus, he’d fall upon his bottomus!

He kinda liked it. So he held onto it. For years. In college, he took a children’s literature class. At the end of the course …

ZENZ: The professor said, “Alright, now that we’ve been studying children’s books all year, how about everybody take a crack at writing one of your own?”

Zenz used his rhyme to create a draft manuscript about a hippo who can’t get rid of the hiccups. As time went on, he’d pull it out and tweak it. Drop in a new character or two. In 2005, a start-up published Zenz’s book The Hiccupotamus.

It had been on store shelves only a few months when Zenz saw an email in his inbox. It was from a bookseller in Ohio named Meg Kuta.

ZENZ: And she said, I’m just going out on a limb here, I really love your book. Most of the time—I’ve been doing this a lot of years—when a new title comes into the store, you can kind of count on maybe over the course of the book’s run, selling maybe five copies is normal.

Kuta had been hand-selling the book to customers. When she sold her 101st copy, she sent the message.

Zenz could have responded with a simple thank you. But he went out on a limb, too.

ZENZ: It was a little bit scary. In my reply I kind of said something to the effect of, Thank you very much for the kind words. I appreciate that, I also just want to take all that praise and direct it to God who made all this possible. I will forward this to Him, you know?

Kuta wrote back.

ZENZ: Oh my goodness! You’re a Christian. I’m a Christian. That’s so neat that you brought that up and you said that.

A friendship was born. On Zenz’s book tour, their families met, and they became close. They prayed for each other over the years.

During that time, Zenz’s family grew to include six kids. He says they inspire his creativity and illustrations. He prefers to use colored pencils … and he uses them in an unusual way. Basically, like paint.

ZENZ: I push really, really, really hard on the pencil. I don’t like seeing the actual sketchy pencil marks. I try to make the fact that it’s a pencil disappear.

He's broken a lot of pencil tips.

Every time another one snaps off, he drops it in a clear container on his desk.

ZENZ: There’s literally about 2,000 pencil tips in here.

As of today, Zenz has illustrated 45 books. He wrote nine of them. He says the Bible teaches us from the very beginning that we’re creative beings.

ZENZ: God is a creator God. He made everything that exists. That is his nature. It’s who he is, he’s a creator. And then very quickly we read that God created us in his image, so we are like him in very fundamental ways. And so therefore we are also creators in a way nothing else in this world is. Giraffes aren’t putting on plays for each other. Fish aren’t telling stories to each other.

Zenz uses art to remember scripture.

ZENZ: As I’m doing my personal devotions for the day, I will look for some truth, and I will draw an image to try to represent that truth. Rather than be like, oh yeah, thanks God, that’s a good point, then move on with your day. But if I’m going to draw an image, that’s a timely process, so my mind is thinking through this in deeper ways.

Psalm 23, for example. Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil. For you are with me. Zenz drew dark, jagged rocks with a narrow path leading down through them. At the bottom, he drew a shepherd figure holding his hand. When he struggles, he brings the picture to mind.

ZENZ: I’m there, like I’m trusting the savior. Trusting my shepherd.

Years after they met, Zenz learned Kuta, the bookseller, was sick.

ZENZ: She had cancer in her eye. In her world, it’s like God, family, books was the order of things that was most important to her. So she’s going through all sorts of emotions. She’s grieving the loss of her vision. All the questions that you have. Why, God?

In April 2022, Kuta’s husband sent Zenz a message. She’d been hospitalized and didn’t survive. With a heavy heart, Zenz read the online condolence messages. One said, Meg can see well now. Zenz thought of 1 Corinthians 13. It refers to the fact that presently we can’t see things clearly. But one day, we will.

In his sketch journal, Zenz drew an image of a face, divided down the middle. On one side, a dark eye.

ZENZ: But then on the other half, her eye, bright blue, shining, glowing. There’s shining stars and suns that represent vision. There’s things in there that represent sound. It’s sad that we’ve lost her. But there is this promise that it’s all going to make sense.

Zenz says using his God-given creativity to tell stories reminds him of God’s ultimate story.

ZENZ: He gives us these visual word pictures for us to hang onto because he knows we need those things. But it’s just like I have such a longing for like that day when all this stuff that I hold by faith, when I'm going to realize it and I'm gonna see it, and all these kind of visual word hugs that I get is like, I'm longing for the real hug.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Jenny Rough.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Today is Wednesday, May 21st. 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. When evangelicals advocate for policies deemed unpopular today, a common critique is that they are being oppressive theocrats. The problem is many Christians have a hard time refuting that. WORLD Opinions contributor Craig Carter has some helpful advice.

CRAIG CARTER: First, let’s be clear about what a theocracy is. A theocracy is a country that is ruled by religious officials. Iran is a theocracy— and has been—since the Islamic Revolution in 1979. The Islamic Republic of Iran is a country with many of the institutions of parliamentary democracy such as a president and legislature but also a supreme body made up of religious clerics that gives orders to the politicians about public policy. When the Ayatollah Khamenei decrees something, the president and elected legislators fall into line.

The United States is not and never has been a theocracy. And it is in no danger of becoming one. Meaning it has been influenced by Christian ideas, Christian morality, and Christian public figures since before the Revolutionary War. Historically, its laws have reflected Christian ideals, and even where the nation has grievously erred, as in tolerance for slavery, it was Christians and their allies who led the charge to eradicate such evils.

But how can Christians convince non-Christians that accepting moral positions like the sanctity of human life is not creeping theocracy?

The problem is compounded by the recent rise of neo-Marxist postmodernism, which claims that all moral statements are merely disguised power grabs and that all social relations boil down to coercive power relations.

Christians need to do two things. First, we need to reject such a cynical view of reality, and second, we need to clearly articulate a different understanding of the world. We need to recover the idea of natural law, which is rooted in the classical philosophy that shaped the great Protestant confessions of faith in the post-Reformation era. There is a natural law that even non-Christians can discern by reason.

Many contemporary evangelicals have been influenced by Cornelius Van Til and his theory of presuppositionalism. He developed this theory as the basis of his apologetics. Basically, his point was that neutrality with regard to God is impossible, and that every person is either in submission to God or in rebellion against God. He calls this the antithesis. Given this, Van Til denied that unbelievers can affirm natural law and natural theology. He went so far as to claim that unbelievers cannot know any true facts. Van Til qualified this extreme position in other parts of his writings by admitting that unbelievers can know some things by common grace. The problem is that some evangelicals miss the qualification and stress the idea that non-Christians cannot know that, say, murder is wrong by reason and natural law.

This plays directly into the hands of the postmodern relativists who then insist that even the Christians agree with them that morality is just window dressing, and all politics is just a power struggle. From their perspective, only a coercive theocracy could impose Christian morality on society. Tragically, a shallow version of presuppositionalism leads many evangelicals to agree with them.

To ask the government to pass a law against murder or to adopt pro-life and pro-family policies is not the same as calling for conversion to personal Christian faith. When we ask everyone to admit that there are only two sexes, we are just asking people to use their reason to recognize reality. Of course, we want all people to come to faith. But we distinguish between acknowledging the common morality known from nature by reason and embracing the fullness of Christian faith.

If we want to be engaged in the public square without appearing to be a threat to religious freedom, we need a language to speak about public policy in a way other than quoting Bible verses and calling people to convert. Natural law provides a way of doing so.

I’m Craig Carter.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Tomorrow: Afghan Christians seek asylum as their temporary protective status expires. And, one woman’s story of growing up with recovering addicts. That and more tomorrow.

I’m Nick Eicher.

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

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