The World and Everything in It: September 3, 2025

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MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Good morning!

President Trump is all in on law and order, but how far can he go with the National Guard?

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: That and more ahead on Washington Wednesday with Hunter Baker.

Also, World Tour.

And Ecuadorian villagers join short-term missionaries to dig for clean water.

CORTEZ: We don’t do projects when the community doesn’t get involved, because eventually we leave and they have to take care of the water project.

And how a young man who can’t speak has shared his testimony with thousands.

BROWN: It’s Wednesday, September 3rd. This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Myrna Brown.

MAST: And I’m Lindsay Mast. Good morning!

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

KENT COVINGTON, NEWS ANCHOR: Israel latest » Thousands of Israel Defense Forces reservists have begun reporting for duty ahead of an Israeli’s offensive to seize control of Gaza City.

NETANYAHU: [Speaking in Hebrew]

In a video address, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told those called to duty that Israel has been forced to make very difficult decisions in its war against Hamas.

He adds that the country is now facing what he calls a decisive stage.

Meanwhile, hundreds of Israeli reservists gathered in Tel Aviv, saying they refuse to report for duty.

Israeli combat reservist Max Kresch:

KRESCH: We refuse to take part in Netanyahu's illegal war and we see it as a patriotic duty to refuse and to demand accountability from our leaders.

Kresch told reporters he believes the ongoing war endangers the lives of Israeli hostages still held by Hamas.

Netanyahu says the war cannot end until Hamas is removed from power permanently.

Afghanistan death toll » The death toll from the Sunday night earthquake in Afghanistan has now soared to over 1,400, with thousands more injured.

Indrika Ratwatte is the UN’s humanitarian coordinator for Afghanistan. He says the disaster is taking a devastating toll in numerous ways. In addition to the deaths and injuries, many are now homeless, and destroyed roads have cut off many Afghans from food sources and medical care.

RATWATTE:  Looking at the stats, looking at the remoteness and the topography, which is extremely challenging and remote, we think potentially, uh, the impacted individuals could go up to almost into the hundreds of thousands.

The 6.0 magnitude quake flattened villages and trapped many people under rubble.

Residents have been frantically digging through debris since Monday morning, hoping to find missing loved ones still alive.

Rough terrain is hampering rescue efforts, with commandos air-dropped to evacuate the injured.

Space Command to Alabama » President Trump says U.S. Space Command headquarters will be moving from Colorado:

TRUMP:  To the beautiful, uh, locale of a place called Huntsville, Alabama, forever to be known from this point forward as Rocket City.

That reverses a Biden-era decision to keep the headquarters at its temporary home.

Space Command’s functions include enabling satellite-based navigation and troop communication and providing warning of missile launches.

TRUMP:  In Huntsville space com will play a key role in building the Golden Dome. As you know, that's gonna be a big thing.

The Golden Dome is a large new homeland missile defense system now in the planning stages.

The president said the move could create thousands of jobs in Alabama.

Military to send hundreds to serve as immigration judges » Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has reportedly approved sending up to 600 military lawyers to the Justice Department to serve as temporary immigration judges. WORLD’s Benjamin Eicher reports:

BENJAMIN EICHER: The Associated Press reports that the military will begin sending groups of 150 attorneys — both military and civilians — to the Justice Department—quote—“as soon as practicable.”

The AP says that is according to a new memo.

The temporary assignments last up to 179 days, but are renewable.

The effort is aimed at addressing a long backlog of immigration cases.

And the files are only stacking up as the Trump administration cracks down on illegal immigration and ramps up deportation efforts.

For WORLD, I’m Benjamin Eicher.

Lawmakers return from summer recess » Lawmakers are back on Capitol Hill after summer recess. And it’s likely to be a chaotic month with a long to-do list.

Republican Congresswoman Kat Cammack:

CAMMACK:  We not only have 12 appropriations to get through, we have the National Defense Authorization Act. We have some real cleaning up to do here in Washington to build on President Trump's work.

The to-do list will include passing a new bill to keep the government funded.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries says he spoke to House Speaker Mike Johnson about reaching common-ground:

JEFFRIES:  In that conversation, I also made clear we're not gonna support partisan funding legislation, period. Full stop.

The deadline is September 30th for Congress to pass a bill averting a shutdown.

Jeffries says he's also in touch with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.

Back in March, Schumer helped to break a filibuster in March to avoid a shutdown angering many Democrats who said he got nothing in return from Republicans.

Joni Ernst won’t seek reelection » Meantime, a prominent Republican senator has announced her retirement after her current term ends. Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst:

ERNST:   I never imagined this farm girl would have the opportunity to serve as a lieutenant colonel and then a United States Senator only in America, and by the grace of God.

She served 23 years in the Army Reserve and the Iowa Army National Guard.

Her second term in the Senate will expire in 2027.

She cited her age and growing family as the reason for retiring.

Iowans are not accustomed to senators bowing out after two terms. Her fellow Iowa U.S. Senator, Chuck Grassley, joined the Senate in 1981. And before she won her Senate seat, Democrat Tom Harkin held it for 30 years.

I'm Kent Covingon.

Straight ahead: Washington Wednesday with Hunter Baker. Plus, a visit to Ecuador as international volunteers and villagers work together for fresh water.

This is The World and Everything in It.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: It’s Wednesday the 3rd of September.

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

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

Time now for Washington Wednesday.

AUDIO: No National Guard, no National Guard, get Trump out now, get Trump out now.

That was the scene in Los Angeles this summer after federal immigration raids. President Trump sent nearly five thousand Marines and National Guard troops into the city. But this week a federal judge said the deployment was illegal—calling it a violation of a federal law called the Posse Comitatus Act, which bars the military from acting as a domestic police force.

BROWN: The ruling doesn’t affect Washington, D.C., where presidents have broader authority. But it could matter if President Trump tries to make good on his ideas about sending troops into cities like Chicago.

MAST: Joining us now to talk about this and other stories is Hunter Baker, he’s a political philosopher and WORLD Opinions contributor.

Hunter, good morning

HUNTER BAKER: Good morning.

MAST: Hunter, I'd like to tap your legal training to tell us more about this 19th century law, whether this is as black and white as the judge portrays it, and then what's the basis for an appeal?

BAKER: I'll be honest, I really thought about it more in constitutional terms. I mean, our Constitution, we don't pay a lot of attention to this, but our Constitution is a constitution that sets out a federal system where you have clear differentiation between the powers of the national government and then of the states, and the states really have most of the power, or at least in the original constitutional design they did. And so anybody who goes to law school, you're going to hear that the states possess the police power over health, morals, education and safety and those sorts of things. And so the states are the dominant actors when it comes to crime and punishment. And so Trump has kind of announced this intention to operate the National Guard, sort of like a national police force and then for himself to act as a kind of a chief.

Now, as I analyze this, basically, I would say there's the legal answer and then there's the political answer. The legal answer, I think, is pretty clear cut. You differentiated between Washington, D.C. and the rest of the country. He absolutely has broader powers in D.C. D.C. is not a state. D.C. does not have the deference owed to it from the federal government that the states do. We don't want D.C. to be a state. It would be like The Hunger Games or something like that. So better for D.C. just to remain the special district than the seat of government that it is.

But when you asked me about the political sort of view of this thing, what I would say is, is that a politician is never going to do badly, especially an American politician focusing on law and order. Order is sort of the the most fundamental of our political needs. And so when people perceive that there is chaos, they are going to want a strong figure to bring order. And I do not think that Donald Trump is going to hurt himself in the polls by saying, you know, there are these chaotic situations where people are being killed and their property is being stolen, and I'm going to do something about it. People are going to like that. They're going to rally to him when he says that. So I think that he will continue to pursue that kind of a strategy, and he will probably continue to be blocked by the courts.

MAST: I'm curious about how broadly this ruling might apply. We raised the question of Chicago. Let's listen to something Vice President Vance said about the possibility.

VANCE: What the president has said is that, very simply, we want governors and mayors to ask for the help…Why is it that you have mayors and governors who are angrier about Donald Trump offering to help them than they are about the fact that their own residents are being carjacked and murdered in the streets? It doesn't make an ounce of sense.

So does this ruling yesterday complicate things Hunter, in other words, would it limit the President if he tried something similar in Chicago? Or is this a California specific thing?

BAKER: No, this is, this is a general, sort of a limitation on the power of the president. It is not normal, in any sense, for the President to run around enforcing sort of the normal criminal laws of a state. So yeah, he'll encounter similar barriers if he tries to act that way in Chicago. But again, I think that some of the politicians may be tone deaf here, like Governor Pritzker, he says Donald Trump, you're not going to come in here and intimidate Chicagoans. Well, Chicagoans are probably thinking, I'm not worried about being intimidated by the President. I'm worried about being intimidated by a carjacking or something like that. And if somebody wants to help me with that, great. And they're looking at things like Washington, D.C., where just last week I heard the. Mayor of Washington D.C., say that carjackings had gone down 87% since the federal government had involved itself. So a lot of people are going to be saying, hey, I want, I want that kind of help.

BROWN: Well, switching to the international scene now, some big names are gathering in China today, Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un are set to join Chinese President Xi Jinping for a parade in Beijing. Hunter, what do you make of the open alignment between these three leaders?

BAKER: It's almost like the scene of a movie, you know, let's let's get together the bad guys, the obvious bad guys, and have them unite in a big, intimidating military parade. But this is this is much more than caricature or theater. They are trying to show some independence in a world that for the past few decades has been dominated by American foreign policy and by the West more generally. And so they are asserting independence. They're saying that, you know, we're no longer going to accept the idea that America sets the tone or tells us what to do. North Korea never did. And there they are trying to say, No, there's going to be a greater level of independence here, and we're going to set our own agenda.

MAST: Well, turning to New York City; Democratic Socialist Zoran Mamdani is still the front runner in the race for mayor there, we've talked about him several times. I don't think we've touched, though, on his plans to freeze rent rates. Here he is on a podcast back in June.

MAMDANI: About two and a half million New Yorkers live in rent-stabilized housing right now, and the profits of their landlords increased in this last year by 12%. There is clearly room for relief for those very tenants who are on the precipice of being pushed out of their own city

12% revenue increase may be a bit of a mixed bag. Revenue is up for rent stabilized apartments in core Manhattan, but going down in outer boroughs, so landlords may not be sitting on as much wealth as Mamdani implies.

Hunter, Mamdani says New York is still here after rent freezes during the last mayor’s term during the COVID lockdowns. But does that mean they’d actually work?

BAKER: No, it's not a good thing. You know, I talked about modern social science, and of the social sciences, the one that I would say is the most scientific is economics. And economists are pretty darn unified on this question of rent freezes. The idea that rent freezes actually reduce the amount of housing and the quality of housing. There used to be an economics textbook that would show pictures of badly declining sort of urban areas, and they would ask the question, the result of a bomb strike or the result of rent freezes? You know, it's just very, very often has been demonstrated, for instance, in the Bronx in the 1970s that rent freezes tend to bring about great urban decline. So this is one of those public policies that I call wishing makes it so, where we just say, well, this is the outcome we want, and it doesn't really matter what the social or economic dynamics are. I think it's guaranteed to go badly

BROWN: Well before we let you go, Congress is back in session, and House Democrats are joining a handful of Republicans pushing for the release of more files related to the Epstein case. Hunter, is this just about who might be connected to the sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, or does this say something about a wider interest in government transparency?

BAKER: I think that Americans are much more interested in transparency right now, in part because we have a much greater technical ability to look into these kinds of things for ourselves, right? If I have access to hundreds, 1000s of pages of text, there are now tools, including AI, that can help me to try to digest that information and find out what's really there. And so I think that as our technical capability increases, people are naturally going to think, well, just let us see it all. That's the best way to have accountability. You sometimes heard the phrase sunlight is the best disinfectant. And I think a lot of people are starting to think that way about these things.

BROWN: Power of technology. Hunter Baker is Provost of North Greenville University and a WORLD Opinions contributor. Thanks so much, Hunter!

BAKER: Thank you.

MYNRA BROWN, HOST: Coming up next on The World and Everything in It: WORLD Tour.

This week, political drama in South America and nuclear talks in Iran.

WORLD’s Mary Muncy reports.

Jair Bolsonaro’s trial » We begin in Brazil, where the country’s former president is standing trial—accused of leading a coup while trying to stay in power after losing the 2022 election.

JAIR BOLSONARO: [Portuguese] What is a coup? It's to put tanks on the streets, it's guns, it's conspiracy. It's bringing the political class to your side, this is what a coup is. None of it was done in Brazil.

Jair Bolsonaro heard here maintaining his innocence, saying that a coup involves tanks, guns, and conspiracies, and none of that happened in Brazil.

After the 2022 election, Bolsonaro went to the United States as his supporters took to the streets. But prosecutors say there was a conspiracy to poison the ultimate winner, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Now, President Donald Trump has imposed a 50 percent tariff on the country, saying the trial is a witch hunt.

Brazil’s Supreme Court began the final part of the trial yesterday and deliberations are expected to last until the end of next week. If he’s convicted, he could face more than 40 years in prison.

Student unrest in Indonesia » Next to Indonesia, where thousands of people have been protesting a housing allowance for members of parliament. The allowance was nearly 10 times the minimum wage in the country’s capital.

The protests started last Monday outside the parliament building and spread across the country. They turned violent after a police officer hit a food delivery driver with his car and protesters started burning buildings and clashing with the police. So far, eight people have died and 700 have been injured.

PRABOWO SUBIANTO: [Indonesian] The leaders of the People's Representative Council have reported that they will revoke some of their policies, including the amount of allowances for members of parliament and a moratorium on official visits abroad.

Indonesia’s president saying that he’s revoking some of the parliamentary perks… and he’s launching an investigation into the police’s use of force.

Iran says no breakthrough yet in nuclear talks » Next to the middle east as negotiations over Iran's nuclear program continue.

Iran's foreign ministry spokesman Ismael Baghaei says two rounds of talks with the International Atomic Energy Agency have not produced results.

BAGHAEI: [Farsi]

Speaking yesterday, he says U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio claims the United States is ready for diplomacy, but then he accused the United States of lacking seriousness or good will. He went on to urge European countries to, in his words, act honestly and responsibly, and encouraged them to adopt positions free of influences from Israel and the United States.

In a statement late last month, Rubio said the U.S. is available for direct talks with Iran. But he also encouraged the United Nations to begin the process of reimposing sanctions over Iran's nuclear program.

U.S. vessels near Venezuela » Heading now to South America,Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro is warning the United States that his country will take up arms if attacked by U.S. forces.

His comments came in response to the U.S. boosting its maritime force in the Caribbean to combat drug cartels.

MADURO: [Speaking Spanish]

Speaking on Monday, Maduro says Venezuela is facing the greatest threat the continent has seen in a century. He accuses the U.S. forces of targeting Venezuela in what he calls an extravagant, unjustifiable, immoral, and criminal, bloody threat.

The U.S. Navy has moved two destroyers into the Caribbean, as well as another destroyer and a cruiser into the waters off Latin America.

Maduro targeted U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio in his comments, calling him the chief of war and accusing him of wanting to stain his hands with blood.

SOUND: [Celebrations]

Vietnam marks 80 years of independence » Finally, we head to Hanoi, Vietnam, where record crowds gathered yesterday to celebrate 80 years of independence from French colonization.

One of the largest military parades in decades marched down the street in Ba Dinh Square, where revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh made the original declaration of independence in 1945.

SOUND: [Soldiers marching in unison]

Onlookers waved flags and cheered as the country displayed advanced military equipment and machinery such as helicopters and tanks. An event at sea featured submarines and frigates in the festivities.

Thu Minh is a Vietnamese international studies graduate who watched the parade on her TV at home.

AUDIO: I’m really proud of my country. There is a celebration of our independence because our country suffered for a long time.

The country also released nearly 14,000 prisoners as a gesture of goodwill. And announced it would hand out money to every citizen, ultimately costing $380 million US dollars.

That’s this week’s World Tour. I’m Mary Muncy.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: Some people struggle to draw even a decent stick figure. But Jessica Drenk takes junk mail, discarded cardboard, and recycled books and turns them into beautiful art. For one piece, she took a section of a book, dipped it into hot wax, let it cool, then sliced it in half:

DRENK:  it looked more like a fossil than a book. And that was one of those like “Wow, this is really cool. I’ve gotta follow this and see where this leads.

Her creative experiments turned into wall pieces with layers that you’d think are actual sediMENtary stone.

DRENK: It just felt like folded bits of rock…like a whole mountain pressed together….So opposite to junk mail.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: I’m just trying to keep my junk mail from forming more piles.

MAST: It’s The World and Everything in It.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Today is Wednesday, September 3rd.

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

Good morning. I’m Myrna Brown.

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

Coming next on The World and Everything in It: clean water.

Globally, about 1 in 4 people lack reliable access to clean water. That puts them at risk for parasites and other waterborne diseases.

BROWN: In recent decades, foreign aid has poured billions into water projects around the world. But too often, pumps and pipelines break down within a few years. The problem? Poor planning, little local involvement, and no long-term funding for maintenance.

MAST: In Ecuador, Christian engineers and their missionary partners are trying to change that by involving local communities in every aspect of the project.

AUDIO: [Sound of shovels]

THERESA HAYNES: Quichua women, dressed in bright alpaca wool, shovel dirt into a long trench that runs along a quinoa field. Teenagers and men join them, covering a miles-long pipe that will deliver clean water to their homes.

It's demanding work, especially for the elderly women. But they are eager to help build the new system that will replace the decades-old network of hoses that delivers contaminated water.

Civil engineer Chris Visscher serves with Life Giving Water International. He’s helping to oversee the project.

VISSCHER: And we also did some health surveys before starting the project, and every family that I spoke with that drank the water without boiling it first all had huge problems with parasites and diarrhea and all kinds of different things.

SOUND: [Sound of work]

Visscher has traveled to this remote village with his Ecuadorian ministry partners and a team of American missionaries. But they’re not doing the bulk of the work.

Nancy Cortez, an Ecuadorian who has worked in community development for more than two decades, explains how they divide up the project. Everyone pitches in.

CORTEZ: The people in these areas are used to working in mingas. Minga is a Quichua word that means ‘working in is community all together.’ So when we do water projects, that's what we do. We do Mingus, and we bring our technicians to organize the people and tell them what to do, and that's how we accomplish and get the water project done.

Cortez works with CODEINSE, an Ecuadorian ministry that partners with other organizations to design and build sustainable water structures.

But she says it is the Quichua involvement that determines the project's success.

CORTEZ: We don't do projects when the community doesn't get involved, because eventually we leave and they have to take care of the water project.

SOUND: [Sound of work]

Missionaries and Ecuadorian civil engineers design water tanks and systems to safely capture spring water. And Quichua leaders set up a water board to finance ongoing maintenance of the system.

Each household volunteers one family member per minga.

It’s no small commitment. Most water projects take months to complete— sometimes as many as 60 minga days.

SOUND: [Sound of shovels]

Today, engineering interns from George Fox University and volunteers from a church in Illinois are working with the Quichua in Balda Upaxi.

They take turns shoveling dirt over newly laid pipes until mid-afternoon.

Vischer hopes the collaboration between Ecuadorian ministries, American missionaries, and the Quichua will communicate God’s love.

VISSCHER There's a verse in Isaiah that says, the poor, needy search for water, but there is none, but I the Lord will provide. So just that concept that the Lord is providing for their needs and helping them to be able to improve their own situation is really meant to be an encouragement to the community more than anything.

It also gives local Christians an opportunity to build relationships with Quichua.

AUDIO: [Quichua voices, “In Ingles, ‘Thank you.’” Laughter]

Mark Dehaan is one of the engineers working with Life Giving Water.

DEHAAN They see people that are willing to give up their time and their resources, to contribute to their project, and are willing to work alongside them. And we just feel like that's a wonderful encouragement to these communities.

It also provides an opportunity for Cortez and her local team to host Vacation Bible Schools.

Chris Visscher says that’s especially important in areas like this, where evangelical Christians have not always been welcome.

VISSCHER: Last year, they actually had a family that converted to be evangelical, and they got kicked out of the community, and the community took their land and their house, and they had to leave.

But this week, the kids gather while Cortez translates a Bible story.

Visscher says the Quichua’s acceptance of the NGOs and mission teams shows their great need for clean water.

VISSCHER: Maybe they aren't so interested in what we have to say about the gospel, but if we can talk with a few people and just encourage people to search for the Lord on their own, that's the goal.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Theresa Haynes in Balda Upaxi, Ecuador.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: Today is Wednesday, September 3rd. Good morning! This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Lindsay Mast.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: And I’m Myrna Brown. Up next WORLD Opinions contributor Pastor Josh Reavis with a story of a recent baptism that was far from ordinary.

JOSH REAVIS: If you can hear me, say Amen…Amen!

JOSH REAVIS: Last month I had the privilege of baptizing a young man in our church.

REAVIS: Bradley, because of the love we know that you have for Jesus Christ…

Baptism is always a sacred celebration. Watching a new believer publicly profess his or her faith in Jesus Christ by following our Lord in baptism never gets old. And while the testimony of every believer is unique, their experience of baptism at our church is almost always the same. We baptize them in the same baptistry. We give them all the same t-shirt that declares “I have decided to follow Jesus.” We baptize them at the same time in the worship service—after the opening prayer and right before the time of congregational singing. And I always say the same thing as I’m baptizing them.

Almost everything about Bradley’s baptism was different.

REAVIS: So it is my privilege today to baptize you, my brother, in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit…

We baptized him after the service, outside, in an inflatable pool that was holding less than a foot of water. I didn’t say the things I normally say, and I used a bucket to pour water over his head instead of immersing him under the water. Why was his baptism so different? The world would say it’s because Bradley is different. But I believe his baptism was more than different. It was special, because Bradley is special.

Bradley was born with special needs. He is now 23 years old. He requires a wheelchair for mobility. He needs assistance for all his personal care. He is non-verbal in his communication. And most importantly, Bradley is made in the image of God.

From creation onward, the Bible recognizes full human dignity for all people, including those with special needs. This undergirds our conviction that people with intellectual and developmental disabilities are not “exceptions” to the gospel, but precious image bearers whom Christ came to save.

We certainly believe that the Bible teaches universal fallenness, but we also acknowledge that God judges people according to the capacity they possess.

Bradley loves Jesus, and he desired baptism. He knows enough to respond to Christ with simple uncomplicated faith. He wants the world to know he loves Jesus.

We do not believe that baptism is a requirement for salvation. Baptism is a picture. And for our congregation, Bradley’s baptism was an important picture that they needed to see.

I took time before his baptism to reaffirm what we believe about the sanctity of life and the dignity of individuals with special needs. During his baptism I celebrated that we are brothers in Christ. And when I poured the water over his head, I believe we faithfully pictured the sovereign and saving grace of God that has been poured over Bradley’s life by his Creator.

SOUND: [BAPTISM]

Our church posted a video of Bradley’s baptism on social media. That short video has been viewed thousands of times across multiple platforms. And I’m so thankful. Not for the sake of our church. Not even for the sake of Bradley. But for the sake of the gospel.

REAVIS: Let me pray for us. God, we thank you for your loving care over our life, that your design is perfect.

Bradley has never spoken a word. But this week his testimony has been proclaimed to people and in places he would have never had the opportunity or ability to go. Bradley has a smile that will light up a room, and now his story has lit up the world.

REAVIS: God, may we all live in such a way. We ask in Jesus' name. Amen.

I’m Josh Reavis.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Tomorrow: the domino effect of Olympic policies on female athletes. And, a trip out west to the lava fields of Oregon. That and more tomorrow.

I’m Myrna Brown.

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

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