On Culture Friday, Nick Eicher and Myrna Brown talk to John Stonestreet about secular pushback to transgender idology; Collin Garbarino reviews Dune, a movie sci-fi fans have waited years to see; and on Word Play, George Grant waxes eloquent about the beauty of autumn. Plus: the Friday morning news.

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