5.9.25 Journalism that sows confusion, the music of Lance Cowan and Nina Hagen, plus Word Play

The World and Everything In It

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🗓️ 9 May 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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On Culture Friday, John Stonestreet talks about intentional confusion; Arsenio Orteza reviews two surprising musical turns; and on Word Play, George Grant illustrates the difficulty of learning English. Plus, the Friday morning newsSupport The World and Everything in It today at wng.org/donateAdditional support comes from I Witness, an immersive audio drama exploring stories of faith and transformation. On podcast apps or at iwitnesspod.comFrom The Joshua Program at St. Dunstan’s Academy in Virginia ... a gap year shaping young men ... through trades, farming, prayer ... stdunstansacademy.orgAnd from Asbury University, where summer for teens can be an epic adventure. asbury.edu/camps

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0:00.0	Good morning. The Pulitzer Committee honors a misleading abortion story. World cleans up the mess.
0:12.0	The Trump DOJ echoes Biden on Mithopry Stone and why child-centered arguments turn the tide on transgenderism.
0:20.4	John Stone Street is standing by for Culture Friday.
0:23.5	Also today, world music critic Arsenio Orteza
0:26.7	on the surprising sophomore album of a longtime music PR man
0:30.9	and a punk icon whose gospel song might make you smile.
0:35.1	Later, wordsmith George Grant on why English plurals are enough to make
0:39.2	your head spin. The plural of mouse is mice. The plural of goose is geese. The plural of louse
0:47.6	is lice, but the plural of moose's not me's.
1:01.9	It's Friday, May 9th.
1:04.0	This is the world and everything in it.
1:05.9	From listener-supported World Radio.
1:07.2	I'm Merna Brown.
1:08.4	And I'm Nick Einker.
1:08.9	Good morning. Up next, Kent Covington with today's news.
1:15.6	White smoke billowed from a chimney at the Vatican's Sistine Chapel on Thursday, drawing cheers
1:21.3	from a crowd gathered in St. Peter's Square and signaling to the world that the Catholic Church
1:26.3	has a new pope. He has Robert Prevost from the United States,
1:30.3	who becomes the first American pope in history
1:32.3	to lead the church of some 1.4 billion people.
1:36.3	And his first words as successor to the late Pope Francis,
1:39.3	he addressed the crowd in Italian, one of five languages he speaks,
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