8.29.25 Culture Friday on the Catholic school shooting, Steven Spielberg’s Jaws, and Listener Feedback

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🗓️ 29 August 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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0:00.0	Good morning. Today on Culture Friday, the Minneapolis Catholic school shooting and the media's favorite framing.
0:12.4	Don't just say this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying.
0:17.2	That and the redemption that can come when truth prevails John Stone Street standing by.
0:22.6	And 50 years later, the movie Jaws still keeps audiences on edge.
0:27.3	I don't want him on the ocean.
0:28.4	He's not on the ocean. He is in a boat. He's not going to go in the water.
0:39.7	It's Friday, August 29th. This is the world and everything in it.
0:41.9	From listener-supported World Radio.
0:44.2	I'm Merna Brown.
0:45.0	And I'm Nick Eicher.
0:46.3	Good morning.
0:48.6	Up next, Mark Mellinger with today's news.
0:53.0	Parents of the two students killed in this week's shooting during a time of prayer at a Catholic
0:58.4	school mass in Minneapolis are giving the nation windows into their grief.
1:03.8	This is Jesse Merkel, who lost his eight-year-old son Fletcher when the gunman opened fire Wednesday.
1:09.5	We will never be allowed to hold him,
1:12.5	talk to him, play with him, and watch him grow into the wonderful young man he was on the path
1:20.7	to be coming. He says Fletcher loved his family along with fishing, cooking, and sports. The other victim who died was Harper
1:29.5	Moiski, a 10-year-old. Her parents describe her as bright and joyful and say words cannot capture
1:36.3	the depth of their pain. Fifteen other children between the ages of six and 15 were hurt in the
1:42.3	shooting, along with three worshippers in their 80s.
1:45.7	Police do expect most of those remaining victims to survive.
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