8.15.25 Culture Friday on AI’s dehumanizing turn in music, Arsenio Orteza on an elusive artist, and on Word Play the unpredictable English language

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🗓️ 15 August 2025

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Culture Friday on AI’s dehumanizing turn in music, Arsenio Orteza on an unconventional music prodigy David Ackles, and Word Play on our ever-shifting language. Plus, the Friday morning newsSupport The World and Everything in It today at wng.org/donateAdditional support comes from Dordt University, where pre-med students gain knowledge through undergraduate research and hone skills through hands-on simulations. Dordt.eduFrom WatersEdge Kingdom Investments — personal investments that build churches. 5.05% APY on a three-month term. WatersEdge.com/investWatersEdge Kingdom Investments - WatersEdge securities are subject to certain risk factors as described in our Offering Circular and are not FDIC or SIPC insured. This is not an offer to sell or solicit securities. WatersEdge offers and sells securities only where authorized; this offering is made solely by our Offering Circular.And from Covenant College. Rigorous academics, grounded in Reformed theology, lived out in Christ-centered community. covenant.edu/WORLD

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0:00.0	Good morning. Today on Culture Friday, the problem with AI-generated bands and music, and a new
0:12.0	documentary featuring Oz Guinness, Truth Rising, calling Christians to courage in a shaky cultural moment.
0:19.6	Right, and one of the narrators of the film, John Stone Street, is standing by.
0:23.6	Also, today, an unmarkitable genius who never played the fame game.
0:28.6	The idea that somebody can do their four albums, then they just move on,
0:32.6	is perhaps not such an easily packageable narrative.
0:40.1	And wordplay with George Grant.
0:48.6	It's Friday, August 15th.
0:50.7	This is the world and everything in it.
0:52.8	From listener-supported World Radio.
0:54.0	I'm Merna Brown. And I'm Nick Eicher. Good morning.
0:57.7	Up next, Kent Covington with today's news. President Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin
1:04.5	will meet face to face, just hours from now at a military base in Alaska, for what the White
1:09.7	House has described as a listening exercise.
1:12.6	Trump says of Putin that he will hear him out regarding what it will take to end the war in Ukraine
1:17.5	and get a sense of whether the Russian leader is serious about ending it.
1:21.9	As Putin knows, I'm the toughest one that he's ever had to deal with. He's never had to deal with anybody like me.
1:28.6	Putin on Thursday praised President Trump's efforts to end the war, and that is in keeping with what
1:34.7	many analysts see as a charm offensive on the Kremlin's part in dealing with the American
1:39.0	President, but Trump has voiced frustration of late with pleasant phone calls with Putin that were followed only by more violence.
1:47.2	Trump adds that the real negotiations would happen in a follow-up meeting to include Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky.
1:54.2	The second meeting is going to be very, very important because that's going to be a meeting where they make a deal.
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