4.3.26 Tech companies failing to protect children, competing visions of speech and responsibility, review of The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, and Word Play on modern use of ancient Greek poetry
The World and Everything In It
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🗓️ 3 April 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Major tech platforms failing to protect children, Culture Friday on competing visions of speech and responsibility, a review of The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, and Word Play on modern use of ancient Greek poetry. Plus, the Friday morning news
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning. Today on Culture Friday, Big Tech and Kids, a major free speech ruling from the Supreme Court and what it means to count the cost of speaking out. |
| 0:15.5 | John Stone Street is standing by. Also, today a return to the Mushroom Kingdom. |
| 0:23.3 | I'm Bowser Jr. and I'm going to be taking my father now. Colin Garberino reviews the new Super Mario Galaxy movie. And later, even if you |
| 0:31.8 | have never read Homer before, you may still be speaking his language. George Grant will tell you about it on |
| 0:38.2 | Wordplay for April. |
| 0:46.3 | It's Friday, April 3rd. This is the world and everything in it. From listeners-supported World |
| 0:52.0 | Radio. I'm Merna Brown. And I'm Nick Eiger. Good morning. |
| 0:57.5 | Up next, Kent Covington with today's news. Attorney General Pam Bondi is out. President Trump |
| 1:05.3 | fired her Thursday after 14 months on the job. He is named Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche as acting head of the |
| 1:12.2 | Justice Department until he picks a nominee to replace Bondi. Blanche, who previously served as |
| 1:17.4 | Trump's personal defense lawyer, takes the helm immediately. The president did not announce a reason |
| 1:22.6 | for the change, but Republican Congressman Chip Roy says in his view, the president needed |
| 1:27.1 | someone more aggressive in the role. |
| 1:29.1 | We have a limited period right now with President Trump in the White House, with House Republicans and |
| 1:33.8 | Senate Republicans. We have got to be on offense for a justice and accountability. What are we doing |
| 1:39.1 | about Antifa and what they're doing radically across this country to endanger us? Open borders, |
| 1:43.7 | the radical |
| 1:44.1 | Marxist networks. |
| 1:45.6 | Trump praised Bondi in a statement calling her a great American patriot. |
| 1:49.9 | For her part, Bondi called the role the honor of a lifetime and plans to transition to |
| 1:54.2 | the private sector. |
| 1:55.7 | Her tenure drew mounting frustration from conservatives over the Justice Department's |
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