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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to iHeartRadio Communities, a public affairs special focusing on
the biggest issues impacting you this week. Here's Manny Munoz.
I am Manny Munoz. Thank you for tuning in to
iHeartRadio's Communities. our weekly public affairs show where we try
to bring you conversations that will help you better understand
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important issues or maybe just some interesting topics. Either way,
I do hope you'll stick around for the next half hour.
And if you have any comments, questions, or suggestions, please
feel free to reach out on Instagram. My handle is
at I O D Manny. That's at I O D
M A N N Y. Now let's get on with
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the show. Prostate cancer remains one of the most common
cancers affecting men, but the good news is that screening, diagnosis,
treatment have all advanced significantly in recent years. Let's discuss
it all as we bring in Gina Carithers, CEO of
the Prostate Cancer Foundation. Gina, thank you so much for
the time.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Oh, thank you for inviting me, Manny. It's a pleasure
to be here with you.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
So let me start off with that. There have been
huge advances over the last few years. What does the
fight against prostate cancer look like in 2026?
Speaker 2 (01:15):
So the fight against prostate cancer in 2026 is a
bit of.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
A mixed bag.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
In 2012, the U.S. Preventative Task Force Services of the
United States made the decision that we were no longer
going to include screening for men because they felt that
it was leading to overtreatment. So what we see in 2018,
that position got reversed.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
To say, okay, it should be shared decision-making.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
But unfortunately, it fell out of everybody else's guidelines between
2012 and 2018.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
And therefore, it really doesn't have a stable position. As
a result of.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
That lack of screening, we now see more than 10%
of the men in the United States being diagnosed with
advanced disease that truly is not curable. That means the
prostate cancer has moved outside of the prostate gland itself.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
And travel to various parts of the body. That's a downside.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
However, since 1993, the Prostate Cancer Foundation has invested more
than $ 1 billion. We've mobilized the Department of Defense and
the NIH to invest more than $ 15 billion.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
In those periods.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
And that is all being invested in looking for a
cure for this disease, which is the Prostate Cancer Foundation's mission,
is to cure this together. And our vision is to
reduce the death and suffering of men with prostate cancer.
And I'm pleased to tell you today that we have
had our fingerprints on more than 16 FDA products that
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would not have been possible except for the advanced funding
of the Prostate Cancer Foundation into the research community that
does work in this field to both discover the drugs
as well as the biology of the disease so that
we were confident these drugs would work. And today we
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see precision oncology allowing men, instead of passing away in
18 months to two years, living for more than 10
to 15 years with metastatic or disease that's moved outside
of the prostate.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
These are huge achievements. So we need to continue our
work to find a cure.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Gina, is the biggest problem right now still early detection?
Because I've got to tell you, I don't know any
women in their mid-40s or any older that don't go
get their mammogram on a regular basis. Guys going to
get prostate exams on a yearly basis somehow, I don't
imagine still takes place as often as it should.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
That's an incredibly important point, Manny. So first of all, 50%.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Of men aged 50 in the United States do not
have a primary care physician. So if you do not
have a physician, you're not going to be screened for
any of the diseases that impact our health, right? So
cardiovascular disease and prostate cancer are the leading causes of
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death for men, okay?
Speaker 3 (04:24):
So that's important. And you're right.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Women are integrated into the healthcare system when we're very young.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
And we stay in the healthcare system as a result.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
So early detection only happens when you see a doctor,
you have a simple blood test that we call a PSA,
prostate-specific antigen, and it tells us, is your PSA rising?
And that can be the first indicator of what we
call early detection. And if we see a rise over time,
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then you can move into a diagnostic area so that
you can be effectively diagnosed and treated. And as you're right,
with women, women go for mammograms each and every year.
We follow the guidelines. The guidelines are adhered to by
all of the physicians who treat us, and we're missing
that link with our men in America.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
What do you think the biggest misconception is you travel
across the country, you hear from men or from women,
for that matter, about prostate cancer?
Speaker 3 (05:26):
That it only happens in older men.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
The challenge with that is that if you're.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Diagnosed with prostate cancer, Mike Milken was diagnosed at the
age of 46. If you're diagnosed as a younger male,
it tends to be more aggressive. And if we have,
whether we have aggressive disease, high-risk disease, et cetera, in
your 40s and 50s, early detection.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Leads to a 99% cure.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Meaning that recurrence in five years is not common, right? If,
in fact, you're not getting and you believe it's a
disease of older men and you decide at the age
of 70 you want to start looking for it, if
you've already had it, this disease can move very aggressively.
We often hear it's a slow-moving disease, but the younger
you are, the tendency for the more aggressive disease. But
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I will also tell you we've learned a lot about
the biology of the disease. I have a 72-year-old male
who was diagnosed with highly aggressive prostate cancer a year ago.
The prostate cancer had already left his prostate, but we
also understood what treatments might and might not work. That
is information we fund through our research. This patient has
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extremely aggressive disease.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
He's being treated.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Aggressively, but because it was diagnosed late, we have to
be far more aggressive with his treatments And it's impacting
his quality of life. And so it's not just a
disease of older men. And if you're older, it doesn't
mean the disease is not aggressive. And so these are
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really misunderstandings. They're myths about this disease. So for every
age of male, it's super important that you're getting that
blood test once a year will keep you informed about
the health of your prostate.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Speaking with Gina Carruthers, Prostate Cancer Foundation CEO, is the
PSA test enough for men to get on a yearly basis,
or do they need more testing, if you will?
Speaker 2 (07:36):
No, so the PSA today is the standard of care.
If we find your PSA rising over time, the.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Next step is an MRI. Now, MRIs were not.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Used In the traditional sense of the diagnostic process, first
data got presented at the American Urological Association back in
2013 that showed us that it works very nicely. It
informs whether or not you need a biopsy. And then
the next step in the diagnostic process is a biopsy.
But you don't need an MRI and you don't need
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a biopsy unless you have a rising PSA that gives
concern to your physician and yourself that you may have cancer.
And then you move into that diagnostic phase. But until then,
it's a simple blood.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Test once a year.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Are there certain men who should be especially proactive about
being screened or certain age where men should make sure
that they go see the doctor to do so?
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Yes, that's an excellent question.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
And thank you, because first of all, We know that
men of African-American descent or black men tend to get
this disease earlier. And the earlier you get this disease,
the more aggressive it is. So we tell black men
to begin being screened at the age of 45 unless
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you have a relative who's had this disease, at which
case this is a genetically driven disease. So whether you
are any nationality, If you have a relative who has
had prostate cancer, you should begin getting screened by the
age of 40 and certainly not later than 45 because
the disease is genetically driven.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Likewise, if you.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Have a female member of your family who's had ovarian
cancer or breast cancer or uterine cancer, these are cancers
that are hormone-driven cancers. And again, they can... also be
associated with a higher genetic propensity for this disease. So
you should get screened earlier. Every man is at risk
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of prostate cancer. One in eight will be diagnosed with
this disease. So if you don't have a family history
and you're not a black ancestry, then you should be
being screened by the age of 50. And then you
should get screened every year. And that's that simple blood
test TSA.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
What about lifestyle choices, diet, exercise, your weight, your overall health?
How much of a role does that play in either
reducing or increasing your chances of getting prostate cancer?
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Yeah, interestingly enough, this is such a common cancer.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
And then we know that this cancer is actually associated
with lifestyle choices. So healthy eating, eating fish, clean protein, vegetables,
having daily workouts, these are all behaviors that we know
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reduce the risk of cancers definitively. And prostate cancer, frankly, specifically,
we have that data. We also know that exercise contributes
to the same healthy outcomes. It doesn't prevent the disease,
but it gives you a fighting chance when you should
you be diagnosed, right?
Speaker 3 (11:05):
And so we always will say.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
That the reduction of the risk of cancer lie in
our hands in terms of managing our diet. reducing belly fat,
and exercise. These are drivers that we now understand can
either drive cancer sooner and faster or reduce cancers, but
they don't necessarily prevent it.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
What about AI?
Speaker 1 (11:29):
AI is being used in so many different areas of medicine,
not only for early detection, but for looking for new
and innovative treatments. How's that being used to address prostate cancer?
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Yeah, that's a great question, Manny. So several places, right?
First of all, there's a phenomenon of digital pathology. And
there was a company that was created, Page AI, that
was acquired a little more than a year ago, I.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Think, by Tempest.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
And they used AI to read the biopsies. And their
data demonstrated that with the pathologist, the pathologist is always
first line, they read the biopsies. But incorporating AI on
top of the pathologist increased the read rate up to 72%
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to 74% for accuracy. We know that 35% of biopsies
can be either upscaled or downscaled once we have actually
removed the prostate cancer tissue and do a full pathology.
So it's having AI on top. The same thing is
true with reading scans, reading MRIs. And reading what today
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is scans for men that have disease outside the prostate,
which is a PET-CT using PSMA, prostate-specific membrane antigen, which
is a radioactive isotope that allows us to see exactly
where that cancer is. Is it contained in the prostate
or has it moved beyond the prostate? There's a test
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that also helps us to identify, see it, and then
treat it. So these are important places where the scans
can have an overlay of AI on top of it.
We've also seen AI employed in understanding molecular behavior and
the biology of the disease, hopefully leading us to new
technologies and new treatments.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Coming into the pipeline.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
In the end, it's early detection that is the key
to spotting it and surviving it in the best way possible.
So I guess the first step would be to make
sure that every man has a primary care physician and
goes to visit him at least once every year for
a checkup, including the PSA test, right?
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Early detection is is the best way to keep yourself informed.
Do I have prostate cancer or don't I? Is my
PSA rising over time? And have that conversation with your
primary care physician.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Looking ahead the next five years, what do you envision
the conversation around men's health and prostate cancer? What would
success over the next five years look like to you
as the CEO of the Prostate Cancer Foundation?
Speaker 2 (14:19):
The first marker for success would be that we stop
diagnosing men with advanced disease that's moved beyond the prostate
into their bones or their lymphatic tissue. If we can
show significant drops in that, we will demonstrate significant improvement
in survival. And then we must continue to develop medications
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to drive this cancer when men do progress to drive
this cancer back. and increase the quality of their life
while extending survival. So those are the two real call
to actions.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Gina Carruthers, the CEO of the Prostate Cancer Foundation, is
there a website where we can get more information, Gina?
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Yes, the Prostate Cancer Foundation website is found at pcf.org, pcf.org.
We have all the information there, both of microsites, for
early detection that includes diet, nutrition, exercise, sleep habits, all
of the things that we're learning, keep us healthy as
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we age, and everything that you would need if you're
a patient who's been diagnosed. PCF.org.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Gina Carruthers, CEO of the Prostate Cancer Foundation. Thanks for
all the information, the mostly good news, and best of luck.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Thank you so much, Manny.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
It's a pleasure talking with you, and thanks for helping
us get the word out for men. to see a
primary care physician each year to get their simple blood
test to know that they're ahead of the game and
they'll improve their survival.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Thanks for the opportunity.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
You're listening to iHeartRadio Communities, our weekly public affairs show.
I am Manny Munoz. If you have any thoughts, comments,
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IOD M-A-N-N-Y. Already this year, 12 kids in our country
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has died after being left in or becoming trapped inside
hot cars, making what is referred to as pediatric vehicular
heat stroke, one of the leading causes of non-crash vehicle-related
death for kids under the age of 14. As inexplicable
as it is, we see it happen every year in
our country and worldwide. with these brutal heat domes, which
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have scorched parts of the country already this summer, it
is important to discuss. Luckily, we're joined by Laura Dunn,
a senior safety specialist with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Laura,
I appreciate the time. Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Twelve kids already this year, and summer's really just getting underway.
It seems like 2026 is shaping up to be another
especially dangerous year for these tragedies.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
Unfortunately, yes. Our hearts go out to their families, and
we hope that no other family has to experience this
tragedy this year. We have an average of about 37
children die in hot cars every year, which is about
two children per week. So we're hoping to kind of
get that word out and make sure that parents and
caregivers are paying extra attention and taking extra steps to
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take care of their kids this summer.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
I think a lot of people, when they see these stories,
think it can never happen to me. Why is that
mindset you think so dangerous?
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Well, I think that folks maybe sometimes think these are
a result of parents being negligent or, you know... something
else going on, but really it's just kind of a
lapse in memory and attention that can really happen to anyone,
especially in that forgotten scenario. So we encourage folks to
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add layers of safety into their routines, into their lives,
when you're dropping kids off at childcare or preschool, when
you're parking at home, you're locking your car and you're
storing your keys and key fobs up out of reach.
And of course, never leaving your children in a vehicle
for any amount of time.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Yeah, so many of us are on kind of cruise
control when we're going about our daily routines. Tell us
about the Stop, Look, and Lock campaign.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
So our message of this campaign is once you park, stop, look,
and lock. So before leaving your car, stop, look in
the backseat for your child, lock that door, keep your
doors locked when it's in your garage or driveway so
a child can't crawl in and become trapped. And, you know,
it is really something that we want people to have
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awareness of, even if they don't have their own children,
that children can enter vehicles and become trapped. So it's
important to lock our vehicles and prevent that from happening
in your neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Is that the most common scenario you see in these
heartbreaking cases, usually just a child being forgotten by the
parent or caretaker?
Speaker 4 (19:15):
That is the most common. And one of the biggest
risk factors for that type of death is a change
in routine. Many of these deaths have happened because that
morning routine is different for some reason. So, for example,
a parent is taking a child to daycare or preschool
who typically doesn't do that. Maybe they have a doctor's appointment.
Something is different about that day. So nearly half of
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these forgotten heat stroke deaths happen when a child is
supposed to be dropped off at preschool or childcare.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Speaking with Laura Dunn, a senior safety specialist with the
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. the website where you can
find more information, some great tips, noheatstroke.org is the website, noheatstroke.org.
What is the difference between the Stop, Look, and Lock
campaign and the Never Happens campaign?
Speaker 4 (20:07):
The campaign has never happened, and one of those main
campaign messages is stop, look, and lock. The website where
folks can go to get more information is nhtsa.gov slash heatstroke.
It has all of our tips and resources about how
to prevent hot car deaths available in both English and
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in Spanish.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Give us a preview of what they could see there.
I know there are some simple tricks that parents could
use to remind themselves there's a child in the backseat.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
So when you are going about your day, we want
to encourage people to kind of create systems for themselves
to promote safety. So one of the things that you
can do is arrange for your child care provider to
call you if your child hasn't arrived in the morning
at the designated time within about 10 minutes. Have them
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give you a call to say, hi, is your child
coming today? And make sure all the adults in that
child's life kind of check their vehicles, make sure that
children have been dropped off where they're supposed to be.
Another thing that parents can do is put something that
you need for the day in the backseat with that child, um,
your phone, your work badge, your purse, something that you
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need to complete your day, physically put it in the backseat.
So you are forced to open that backseat and look
in the backseat, make sure that your children are dropped
off where they need to be. Um, You also want
to make sure that you're locking your vehicle in your
driveway or your garage and storing your keys and your
key fobs up and out of reach of children. Talk
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to your children and make sure that they understand that
a car is never a safe place to play.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Why isn't just cracking the window open or parking in
the shade sometimes enough to keep the inside of a
car safe, the temperature?
Speaker 4 (21:57):
It's interesting that cracking a window or parking in the
shade is really does very little to alter that inside
temperature of a vehicle. It doesn't offer as much relief as,
as we would think, because if your car is parked outside,
it's kind of a greenhouse effect. The inside of your
vehicle keeps getting hotter and hotter and hotter. And, you know,
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the inside of your car can increase in temperature by
about 20 degrees in about 10 minutes and it quickly
becomes dangerous for children. So it is, uh, something that
doesn't take a lot of time and children are particularly
susceptible to that.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
I think another misunderstanding about this whole thing is that
people would believe that, that, you know, child deaths inside
of hot cars is only a problem in Florida or
Arizona or something like that. They don't understand that, especially
with these types of temperatures we're seeing this summer across
the country, it can happen anywhere. Can it?
Speaker 3 (22:57):
It can.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
I mean, we have seen these heat surf deaths happen in,
in temperatures as low as 60 degrees. So we're talking Maine, Minnesota,
North Dakota, places that you're not thinking about being cold.
And it's not the hottest day of the year either.
It can happen well early in the spring and well
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into the fall. So it's really something for all of
us to kind of be vigilant about when we're thinking
about protecting our kids.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
You alluded to something a couple moments ago, and that
is like grandparents or a babysitter, a daycare. What should
they do if they're expecting a child and the child
doesn't arrive? To follow up, make sure that this isn't
a case.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
Yeah, I would encourage anyone who's caring for children to
give parents a call if that child does not arrive
when they are supposed to. Within about 10 to 15 minutes,
we want to make sure that kids aren't left in
hot cars. Call the parents, call anybody that would be
transporting that child that day. For childcare providers, make sure
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you have a system where you're ensuring that all the
vehicles that you use for transportation are checked before that
vehicle is locked for the day and all the kids
have arrived at care.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Are there certain ages of kids that are more at
risk in this? Is it always kids that might be
strapped into a baby seat that fall victim?
Speaker 4 (24:31):
It is typically children that are younger. And, you know,
I know with my own children, especially when they were younger,
they tend to fall asleep easier in cars when they
are older. you know, in the car seat, maybe they're
rear facing still, and they're quiet when they're asleep. So that,
you know, it's not a, people aren't, parents aren't cued
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to the fact that, oh, my child is still here
with me, you know, if they are quiet when they're asleep.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
A couple more minutes here with Laura Dunn, Senior Safety
Specialist with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. You want
more resources for parents or caregivers, the website is NHTSA.gov.
slash heat stroke. You can also go to no heat stroke.org.
And we've talked exclusively about kids because there have been
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12 children who've died already this summer in hot cars.
We can't forget about our pets. I get infuriated when
I'm in a parking lot and I see someone has
left their dog in the car in a scorching hot
day and crack the window open thinking that's going to
be enough for their, for their dog.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Right.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
No living thing should be left in your car. And,
you know, unfortunately, I see that as well. Another group
that we can think about are elderly folks. You know,
children can't regulate their body temperature like an adult can.
But as folks age, it is also harder for them
to regulate their body temperature. So it becomes risky for
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older adults, too. A child's body temperature rises about three
to five times faster than an adult's. which is why
it becomes a dangerous situation so quickly. So that really
is something to consider for everybody in your life, that
being inside a hot car is just not a safe situation.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Right.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
I was reading there's new technology in some vehicles called
rear seat reminder technology. What exactly is that and how
prevalent are they in new cars?
Speaker 4 (26:35):
So in 2019, there were some auto manufacturers that to
sign a voluntary agreement to kind of incorporate some of
those alerts. And that is something that you might see
right now if you have a new car or you've
rented a car recently. So we are conducting research currently
for our rulemaking on these technologies. We're focusing on some
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of those available systems that can detect, act, and alert
drivers to prevent hot car deaths. We're also studying some
aftermarket systems that offer, you know, a variety of different
methods to alert parents and caregivers that a child is
in the backseat, many of which, you know, sense child
occupants while they are buckled in car seats. So these
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systems can be purchased by caregivers and, you know, they
aren't tied to a specific vehicle maker model. So hopefully
we will be able to share more information about how
folks can use those technologies.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Maybe a great idea for new parents or grandparents that
maybe aren't used to having a child in the backseat.
When you look at all the cases you've reviewed over
the years, is there one lesson that stands out to
you the most?
Speaker 4 (27:46):
I think that overall, just never leaving your children in
a car, not even if you only think you'll be
gone for a minute. And I know it's tempting. I
have young children. I know it's tempting to try and
go get something done quickly, but it's just never, it's
just never takes a shorter time as you think it's
going to take. And it's just not a safe situation
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to leave your children in a vehicle and build in
different systems to keep your children safe. Make it a
habit to keep stuff that you need in the backseat
and just kind of make it part of your routines.
So it's just another layer of safety for your family.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Put that in perspective in closing. How quickly can the
temperature inside a car become deadly, even on a day
that doesn't feel extremely hot outside?
Speaker 4 (28:34):
Even on just kind of a temperate day, the inside
of your vehicle can increase in temperature by about 20
degrees in only 10 minutes. And it only keeps getting
hotter from there. It doesn't level off, really. It kind
of just gets hotter and hotter and hotter. So it's
a very short amount of time, and the risk is
not worth it. It really only takes a few minutes
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for the inside of your car to become deadly.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Laura Dunn, Senior Safety Specialist with the National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration. A couple of websites you can go to
for more information or resources, nhtsa.gov slash heatstroke, nhtsa.gov. dot
gov slash heatstroke, uh, or no heatstroke.org. No heatstroke.org. Laura, uh,
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sincerely appreciate it for the time. Sadly, this is something
we've had to talk about, but thank you for the information.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
Thanks so much.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
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Now, your host, Rick Hughes.
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Good morning and welcome to The Flatline. I'm your host,
Rick Hughes, and for the next few minutes, please stick around.
It won't be long, just about 30 minutes of motivation, inspiration, education,
And as the announcer said, all without any type of manipulation.
We don't try to con people. We're not trying to
sell you anything. We're not trying to ask you to
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join up, fess up, give it up, nothing like that.
What we're asking you to do is listen. Just listen
up for a few minutes as I try to explain
the Word of God, how you can understand it, how
it can apply to your life, and how you can
build a FLOT line in your soul. FLOT, F-L-O-T, is
the name of the radio show. That stands for the
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Forward Line of Troops. So if you'll listen with me,
and you may be new to this radio station, new
to this radio show, just give me one hearing. That's
all I ask. Listen one time, and you don't have
to come back if you don't like it. But I
think if you'll listen, you'll learn something that you'll be
able to apply to your life. The question I think
about daily, almost every day, is this question. Is there
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a hunger for God's Word in our nation, USA, America, today?
Is there a hunger for God's word in our nation today?
And I could reduce that, I guess, down to one
simple question. Are you hungry for God's word? We know
from Scripture that when a nation like ours ignores, rejects,
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or despises the word of God, then destruction soon follows.
Listen to the prophet Hosea's warning to his people in
Hosea 4, verse 6. Here it says, as God speaks
through Hosea, my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
You hear that? Lack of knowledge. Not because of all
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their sins, not because of the bad tacky things they did.
Lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will
also reject you and you will no longer be a
priest for me. And since you've forgotten the laws of
your God, I will also forget your children.
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Wow.
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One of Satan's objectives for us today is so there
is no exposure to the Word of God anymore. Progressives, humanists,
they all want to shut down the Word of God.
They don't want the Word of God taught in schools.
They want kids to ignore God's laws like the Ten Commandments.
They consider that dangerous if you put the Ten Commandments
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in the school. And we're in trouble today because we
have forgotten the Word of God. We've forgotten the laws
of God as a whole. So the most dangerous thing
that a nation like ours faces is a lack of
knowledge concerning God's order and God's desires. That word knowledge
can mean something common sense or knowledge gained from observant facts.
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And we first see it used in Genesis 2 verse 9.
This is interesting. And out of the ground the Lord
God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the
sight and good for food. The tree of life was
also in the midst of the garden. And the tree
of the knowledge, there's that word again, the knowledge of
good and evil. That particular tree was designed as a test,
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which of course they failed since they did in fact
eat of the tree. And the effects were disastrous, not
only for them, but for the entire human race. Here's
what happened in Romans 5, 12. Wherefore, as by one man, Adam,
sin entered into the world eating the forbidden fruit, and
death by sin, that's spiritual death. And so spiritual death
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is passed upon all men for all have sinned. This
is why Jesus says you have to be born again
to go to heaven because you're spiritually dead. So the
knowledge of God's word is a great, great, great treasure.
In 2 Corinthians 4, verse 7, now we have this treasure,
Paul says, in jars of clay to show that this
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surprisingly great power is from God and not from us.
The Greek word for treasure is interesting. It's simply the
word thesaurus. Thesaurus. You know what that is. It's a
word treasure. And this is incredibly important since the scriptures
say the word of God, W-O-R-D, the word of God
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is alive and powerful. Hebrews 4.12.
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So you can.
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Buy all the lottery tickets you wish to buy. You
can go to every casino you want to go to.
Try to win big, but you will never be as
rich as you can. When you receive and apply the
word of God to your circumstances, I said receive it
and apply it. That treasure is freely given to all
who wish to learn God's plan. It's free. The treasure
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of the word of God. Now, rejecting the knowledge of
the word of God guarantees you that you're going to
be spiritually bankrupt all the days of your life. What
does that mean? It means no divine insight, no understanding,
which is lack of wisdom on your part. With thousands
of promises in the scripture, does it not make sense
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to you that you should have the knowledge of at
least a few of them? And I stand amazed today
at the lack of desire. on the part of many
Christians who feel no need to grow spiritually. Our Lord
stated in the Beatitudes that happiness belongs to those people,
listen now, here it is, those who hunger and thirst
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after righteousness. Hunger and thirst after righteousness. Matthew 5, 6,
blessed are they which hunger and thirst after righteousness. That's
the objective, righteousness. For they shall be filled. We start
with that word blessed. Blessed are they which hunger and
thirst after righteousness. Blessed, what does that mean? Well, in
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the Greek New Testament, what the New Testament was written in,
it could be one of two different words. The first
is the adjective eulogatos, and that means praised. So in
the days of our Lord, the Jews were hesitant to
speak the name of God, Elohim, Adonai, Elohim, Yahweh. and
so they gave him the title of the blessed one
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they use the word eulogotes but there's another adjective for
blessed and it's the word makarios makarios m-a-k-a-r-i-o-s and this
word It's the word that's used in our verse, the
one we quoted. And that word means the idea of
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being happy or having privilege. Blessed are they who hunger
and thirst after what? Righteousness. The word for hunger is
the word pinao. P-I-A-N-A-O is how you pronounce it. Pinao.
And it's a verb. It means passionate desire for something.
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That would add to something that would add to your life,
not take it away from your life. In this case,
the desire is to be righteous. Have you ever considered
what it means for you to live a life of righteousness?
What exactly is a life of righteousness? When this verse says,
who hungers and thirsts after righteousness, what does that mean?
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Is it morality or is it something greater than morality?
The religious Jews went to great lengths to be considered
righteous or right with God. They kept the law of Moses,
and they considered that there must be, if you hope,
to earn God's blessing. But the other word that our
Lord used is the word hunger and thirst. That word
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thirst is the Greek word dipsao, dipsao, and it is
to be refreshed or to have You know, if you're
parched and you've been out walking all day in the
heat of the sun like it is this time of
the year, you get very thirsty and you want some water. So,
depsao implies spiritual hunger. People who go to great, great
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lengths to find water. You remember when you were just
maybe a kid like I was and we'd be outside
playing and get hot. We'd go to the water faucet
and turn it on and drink it out of the hydrant.
In John 4, 4, Jesus said these words about the
water he had to give. He told the woman at
the well, whoever drinks of this water that I give
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him will never be thirsty again. But the water that
I give him will be a living well of water
springing up into everlasting life. Here we're talking about a metaphor,
talking about springing never. All day long, the person never
gets thirsty, never runs dry. This is a wonderful thing
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that the Lord Jesus Christ can do for you. He
can give you an unquenching thirst that always is satisfied
by using the word of God. So blessed are they
which do hunger and thirst after righteousness. Uh-oh, here's that word, righteousness.
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What does that mean to be righteous? The Greek word dikaiou,
remember this. We don't earn righteousness. We are given righteousness.
At the moment of our salvation, we are given righteousness.
That's a very interesting thing for us to learn here.
How are we given righteousness? Well, Romans 3.24 says all
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are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that
came through Christ Jesus. In 1 John 2.29, if you
know that he is righteous, And you know that everyone
that doeth righteousness is born of him. It's a trait
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of the Christian to live a righteous life. In Philippians 3.9,
And be found in him not having my own righteousness,
which is credited from the law, but that righteousness which
is through the faith of Jesus Christ, the righteousness which
is of God by faith. In 2 Corinthians 5.21, a
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very key verse, For he, that's God, has made him
to be sin for us, that's Christ, the one who
knew no sin, so that we may be made the
righteousness of God in him, in Christ Jesus. This is
the imputation of divine righteousness that's given to us at
the very moment of our salvation. So the moment you
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put your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, you are
given God's righteousness. On the cross, it was a trade-out deal.
He took your sin And he gives you his righteousness.
It's the only way you can ever have a relationship
with God. It's through the righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ. Again,
2 Corinthians 5.21. He made him to be sin for us. Yes,
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he did. The one who knew no sin. That's correct.
He never sinned. So that we, you and I, may
be made righteousness of God by means of him. That's
the imputation of divine righteousness given to us at the
moment of our salvation. We call it plus R. The
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very plus R, or the righteousness of God, is given
to us when we receive Christ as our Savior. And
this literally means as if you had never sinned at all.
Did you know the only reason Christ was the perfect
substitute for us, but he never sinned? In his humanity,
not one time did he ever sin. You might not
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believe it, but the Bible says in Hebrews 4.15, for
we have not a high priest which cannot be touched
with the feelings of our infirmities, but was in all
points tempted just like we are, and yet he was
without sin. Did you realize that each one of us
must learn what it means to be righteous or to
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have the righteousness of God? You and I can discover
our righteous abilities and benefits when we study the Scripture.
And this is where we find the word instruction in righteousness.
You have to learn how to produce righteousness in your life.
In 2 Timothy 3, 16 through 17, all scripture is
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given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine,
for reproof, for correction, and here it comes now, listen,
for instruction in righteousness. So why do we need to
be instructed in righteousness? Well, the next verse tells you,
so that, or in order that, The man of God
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may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works. That
word perfect, arterios, means to be complete or to be
fully grown. And that's what God wants you to do.
He wants you to be fully grown. Ephesians 4.13 talks
about being perfect, fully grown, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.
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This is a call to what we call divine good production.
And the exact opposite of divine good is human good,
which is merely man trying to manufacture his own righteousness.
I don't care how good you are. You cannot equal
the righteousness of God. The best you could do is
minus R. God is plus R. He's absolutely righteous. You
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and I are minus R. We're absolutely not righteous. The
Bible clearly says there are none that are righteous. No,
not one. Not even one. But when we come through
Jesus Christ, his anointed son, we are given his righteousness
accredited to our account so that we're able to have
fellowship with God. His righteousness. Divine good production. Remember that word.
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It's the exact opposite of human good. Human good is
man trying to manufacture, as I said earlier, his own righteousness.
In Proverbs 21, 3, To do righteousness and justice is
more acceptable to the Lord than any sacrifice. So in
your part, I don't care what you can manage to
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sacrifice to God, you know, like I'm going to give
this up for God or I'm going to give that
up for God. What he desires is your righteousness and
his justice come together. Relative righteousness, that's a different word
than perfect righteousness, Relative righteousness, that's what we call minus R.
That's just simply good works that the unbeliever produces. This
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is exactly why his morality does not justify him before God.
It's relative righteousness. It's the best man can do. And
on your best day, you cannot equal God's righteousness. So
if you don't have the plus R, the righteousness of
Christ accredited to your account, as the Bible said earlier,
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then you're in trouble. So, plus R is absolute righteousness,
and this is what's imputed to us at the moment
of our salvation. Now, we saw the word where we
may be thoroughly firm and produce good works, so we
should have instruction in righteousness, 2 Timothy 3, 16 and 17.
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What are we talking about? Well, The Bible goes on
to say we should be instruments of righteousness too. In
Romans 6, 11 through 14, I'll read it to you.
In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin, but
alive to God in or through Christ Jesus. Therefore, do
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not let sin reign in your mortal body so you
obey its evil desires. And do not offer any part
of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but
rather offer yourselves to God as those that have been
bought from death to life and offer every part of
yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness. So we
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have two comparisons. We have an instrument of wickedness or
an instrument of righteousness. Now, which one are you? Which
one do you manufacture in your life? Do you manufacture wickedness,
and that's sin? Or do you manufacture righteousness, and that's
observing the rules and the order and the laws of God?
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So let me try to clear it up for you
so you'll understand it. Any Christian who stays filled with
the Holy Spirit and is faithful to study the Scriptures,
both learning them and applying them, is producing experiential righteousness.
Any Christian who stays filled with the Holy Spirit. So
let's start there. Do you know how to be filled
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with the Holy Spirit? Well, obviously, you receive the Holy
Spirit when you get saved, Ephesians 1.13. You're filled with
the Holy Spirit until the day of redemption. And obviously,
sin quenches and grieves the Holy Spirit. But there's a
way to recover from that. And that's 1 John 1, 9,
which we call rebound, which is the first problem-solving device
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on the floodlight of your soul. And 1 John 1,
9 says if we confess our sin, then He, God,
is faithful and just to purify us, cleanse us from
all wrongdoing. Yes, you have to learn how to use
1 John 1, 9. So if you can stay filled
with the Holy Spirit, what does that mean? The Bible
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tells us we're to walk in the Spirit. The Bible
tells us do not let the Holy Spirit be quenched
or grieved in your life. When you know you have sinned,
when you realize you have sinned, you quench the Holy Spirit.
You let your sinful nature take over.
Welcome to iHeartRadio Communities, a public affairs special focusing on
the biggest issues impacting you this week. Here's Manny Munoz.
I am Manny Munoz. Thank you for tuning in to
iHeartRadio's Communities. our weekly public affairs show where we try
to bring you conversations that will help you better understand
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important issues or maybe just some interesting topics. Either way,
I do hope you'll stick around for the next half hour.
And if you have any comments, questions, or suggestions, please
feel free to reach out on Instagram. My handle is
at I O D Manny. That's at I O D
M A N N Y. Now let's get on with
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the show. Prostate cancer remains one of the most common
cancers affecting men, but the good news is that screening, diagnosis,
treatment have all advanced significantly in recent years. Let's discuss
it all as we bring in Gina Carithers, CEO of
the Prostate Cancer Foundation. Gina, thank you so much for
the time.
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Oh, thank you for inviting me, Manny. It's a pleasure
to be here with you.
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So let me start off with that. There have been
huge advances over the last few years. What does the
fight against prostate cancer look like in 2026?
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So the fight against prostate cancer in 2026 is a
bit of.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
A mixed bag.
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In 2012, the U.S. Preventative Task Force Services of the
United States made the decision that we were no longer
going to include screening for men because they felt that
it was leading to overtreatment. So what we see in 2018,
that position got reversed.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
To say, okay, it should be shared decision-making.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
But unfortunately, it fell out of everybody else's guidelines between
2012 and 2018.
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And therefore, it really doesn't have a stable position. As
a result of.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
That lack of screening, we now see more than 10%
of the men in the United States being diagnosed with
advanced disease that truly is not curable. That means the
prostate cancer has moved outside of the prostate gland itself.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
And travel to various parts of the body. That's a downside.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
However, since 1993, the Prostate Cancer Foundation has invested more
than $ 1 billion. We've mobilized the Department of Defense and
the NIH to invest more than $ 15 billion.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
In those periods.
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And that is all being invested in looking for a
cure for this disease, which is the Prostate Cancer Foundation's mission,
is to cure this together. And our vision is to
reduce the death and suffering of men with prostate cancer.
And I'm pleased to tell you today that we have
had our fingerprints on more than 16 FDA products that
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would not have been possible except for the advanced funding
of the Prostate Cancer Foundation into the research community that
does work in this field to both discover the drugs
as well as the biology of the disease so that
we were confident these drugs would work. And today we
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see precision oncology allowing men, instead of passing away in
18 months to two years, living for more than 10
to 15 years with metastatic or disease that's moved outside
of the prostate.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
These are huge achievements. So we need to continue our
work to find a cure.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Gina, is the biggest problem right now still early detection?
Because I've got to tell you, I don't know any
women in their mid-40s or any older that don't go
get their mammogram on a regular basis. Guys going to
get prostate exams on a yearly basis somehow, I don't
imagine still takes place as often as it should.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
That's an incredibly important point, Manny. So first of all, 50%.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Of men aged 50 in the United States do not
have a primary care physician. So if you do not
have a physician, you're not going to be screened for
any of the diseases that impact our health, right? So
cardiovascular disease and prostate cancer are the leading causes of
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death for men, okay?
Speaker 3 (04:24):
So that's important. And you're right.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Women are integrated into the healthcare system when we're very young.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
And we stay in the healthcare system as a result.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
So early detection only happens when you see a doctor,
you have a simple blood test that we call a PSA,
prostate-specific antigen, and it tells us, is your PSA rising?
And that can be the first indicator of what we
call early detection. And if we see a rise over time,
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then you can move into a diagnostic area so that
you can be effectively diagnosed and treated. And as you're right,
with women, women go for mammograms each and every year.
We follow the guidelines. The guidelines are adhered to by
all of the physicians who treat us, and we're missing
that link with our men in America.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
What do you think the biggest misconception is you travel
across the country, you hear from men or from women,
for that matter, about prostate cancer?
Speaker 3 (05:26):
That it only happens in older men.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Yeah.
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The challenge with that is that if you're.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Diagnosed with prostate cancer, Mike Milken was diagnosed at the
age of 46. If you're diagnosed as a younger male,
it tends to be more aggressive. And if we have,
whether we have aggressive disease, high-risk disease, et cetera, in
your 40s and 50s, early detection.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Leads to a 99% cure.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Meaning that recurrence in five years is not common, right? If,
in fact, you're not getting and you believe it's a
disease of older men and you decide at the age
of 70 you want to start looking for it, if
you've already had it, this disease can move very aggressively.
We often hear it's a slow-moving disease, but the younger
you are, the tendency for the more aggressive disease. But
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I will also tell you we've learned a lot about
the biology of the disease. I have a 72-year-old male
who was diagnosed with highly aggressive prostate cancer a year ago.
The prostate cancer had already left his prostate, but we
also understood what treatments might and might not work. That
is information we fund through our research. This patient has
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extremely aggressive disease.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
He's being treated.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Aggressively, but because it was diagnosed late, we have to
be far more aggressive with his treatments And it's impacting
his quality of life. And so it's not just a
disease of older men. And if you're older, it doesn't
mean the disease is not aggressive. And so these are
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really misunderstandings. They're myths about this disease. So for every
age of male, it's super important that you're getting that
blood test once a year will keep you informed about
the health of your prostate.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Speaking with Gina Carruthers, Prostate Cancer Foundation CEO, is the
PSA test enough for men to get on a yearly basis,
or do they need more testing, if you will?
Speaker 2 (07:36):
No, so the PSA today is the standard of care.
If we find your PSA rising over time, the.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Next step is an MRI. Now, MRIs were not.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Used In the traditional sense of the diagnostic process, first
data got presented at the American Urological Association back in
2013 that showed us that it works very nicely. It
informs whether or not you need a biopsy. And then
the next step in the diagnostic process is a biopsy.
But you don't need an MRI and you don't need
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a biopsy unless you have a rising PSA that gives
concern to your physician and yourself that you may have cancer.
And then you move into that diagnostic phase. But until then,
it's a simple blood.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Test once a year.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Are there certain men who should be especially proactive about
being screened or certain age where men should make sure
that they go see the doctor to do so?
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Yes, that's an excellent question.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
And thank you, because first of all, We know that
men of African-American descent or black men tend to get
this disease earlier. And the earlier you get this disease,
the more aggressive it is. So we tell black men
to begin being screened at the age of 45 unless
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you have a relative who's had this disease, at which
case this is a genetically driven disease. So whether you
are any nationality, If you have a relative who has
had prostate cancer, you should begin getting screened by the
age of 40 and certainly not later than 45 because
the disease is genetically driven.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Likewise, if you.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Have a female member of your family who's had ovarian
cancer or breast cancer or uterine cancer, these are cancers
that are hormone-driven cancers. And again, they can... also be
associated with a higher genetic propensity for this disease. So
you should get screened earlier. Every man is at risk
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of prostate cancer. One in eight will be diagnosed with
this disease. So if you don't have a family history
and you're not a black ancestry, then you should be
being screened by the age of 50. And then you
should get screened every year. And that's that simple blood
test TSA.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
What about lifestyle choices, diet, exercise, your weight, your overall health?
How much of a role does that play in either
reducing or increasing your chances of getting prostate cancer?
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Yeah, interestingly enough, this is such a common cancer.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
And then we know that this cancer is actually associated
with lifestyle choices. So healthy eating, eating fish, clean protein, vegetables,
having daily workouts, these are all behaviors that we know
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reduce the risk of cancers definitively. And prostate cancer, frankly, specifically,
we have that data. We also know that exercise contributes
to the same healthy outcomes. It doesn't prevent the disease,
but it gives you a fighting chance when you should
you be diagnosed, right?
Speaker 3 (11:05):
And so we always will say.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
That the reduction of the risk of cancer lie in
our hands in terms of managing our diet. reducing belly fat,
and exercise. These are drivers that we now understand can
either drive cancer sooner and faster or reduce cancers, but
they don't necessarily prevent it.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
What about AI?
Speaker 1 (11:29):
AI is being used in so many different areas of medicine,
not only for early detection, but for looking for new
and innovative treatments. How's that being used to address prostate cancer?
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Yeah, that's a great question, Manny. So several places, right?
First of all, there's a phenomenon of digital pathology. And
there was a company that was created, Page AI, that
was acquired a little more than a year ago, I.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Think, by Tempest.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
And they used AI to read the biopsies. And their
data demonstrated that with the pathologist, the pathologist is always
first line, they read the biopsies. But incorporating AI on
top of the pathologist increased the read rate up to 72%
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to 74% for accuracy. We know that 35% of biopsies
can be either upscaled or downscaled once we have actually
removed the prostate cancer tissue and do a full pathology.
So it's having AI on top. The same thing is
true with reading scans, reading MRIs. And reading what today
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is scans for men that have disease outside the prostate,
which is a PET-CT using PSMA, prostate-specific membrane antigen, which
is a radioactive isotope that allows us to see exactly
where that cancer is. Is it contained in the prostate
or has it moved beyond the prostate? There's a test
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that also helps us to identify, see it, and then
treat it. So these are important places where the scans
can have an overlay of AI on top of it.
We've also seen AI employed in understanding molecular behavior and
the biology of the disease, hopefully leading us to new
technologies and new treatments.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Coming into the pipeline.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
In the end, it's early detection that is the key
to spotting it and surviving it in the best way possible.
So I guess the first step would be to make
sure that every man has a primary care physician and
goes to visit him at least once every year for
a checkup, including the PSA test, right?
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Early detection is is the best way to keep yourself informed.
Do I have prostate cancer or don't I? Is my
PSA rising over time? And have that conversation with your
primary care physician.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Looking ahead the next five years, what do you envision
the conversation around men's health and prostate cancer? What would
success over the next five years look like to you
as the CEO of the Prostate Cancer Foundation?
Speaker 2 (14:19):
The first marker for success would be that we stop
diagnosing men with advanced disease that's moved beyond the prostate
into their bones or their lymphatic tissue. If we can
show significant drops in that, we will demonstrate significant improvement
in survival. And then we must continue to develop medications
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to drive this cancer when men do progress to drive
this cancer back. and increase the quality of their life
while extending survival. So those are the two real call
to actions.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Gina Carruthers, the CEO of the Prostate Cancer Foundation, is
there a website where we can get more information, Gina?
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Yes, the Prostate Cancer Foundation website is found at pcf.org, pcf.org.
We have all the information there, both of microsites, for
early detection that includes diet, nutrition, exercise, sleep habits, all
of the things that we're learning, keep us healthy as
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we age, and everything that you would need if you're
a patient who's been diagnosed. PCF.org.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Gina Carruthers, CEO of the Prostate Cancer Foundation. Thanks for
all the information, the mostly good news, and best of luck.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Thank you so much, Manny.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
It's a pleasure talking with you, and thanks for helping
us get the word out for men. to see a
primary care physician each year to get their simple blood
test to know that they're ahead of the game and
they'll improve their survival.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Thanks for the opportunity.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
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IOD M-A-N-N-Y. Already this year, 12 kids in our country
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has died after being left in or becoming trapped inside
hot cars, making what is referred to as pediatric vehicular
heat stroke, one of the leading causes of non-crash vehicle-related
death for kids under the age of 14. As inexplicable
as it is, we see it happen every year in
our country and worldwide. with these brutal heat domes, which
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have scorched parts of the country already this summer, it
is important to discuss. Luckily, we're joined by Laura Dunn,
a senior safety specialist with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Laura,
I appreciate the time. Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Twelve kids already this year, and summer's really just getting underway.
It seems like 2026 is shaping up to be another
especially dangerous year for these tragedies.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
Unfortunately, yes. Our hearts go out to their families, and
we hope that no other family has to experience this
tragedy this year. We have an average of about 37
children die in hot cars every year, which is about
two children per week. So we're hoping to kind of
get that word out and make sure that parents and
caregivers are paying extra attention and taking extra steps to
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take care of their kids this summer.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
I think a lot of people, when they see these stories,
think it can never happen to me. Why is that
mindset you think so dangerous?
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Well, I think that folks maybe sometimes think these are
a result of parents being negligent or, you know... something
else going on, but really it's just kind of a
lapse in memory and attention that can really happen to anyone,
especially in that forgotten scenario. So we encourage folks to
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add layers of safety into their routines, into their lives,
when you're dropping kids off at childcare or preschool, when
you're parking at home, you're locking your car and you're
storing your keys and key fobs up out of reach.
And of course, never leaving your children in a vehicle
for any amount of time.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Yeah, so many of us are on kind of cruise
control when we're going about our daily routines. Tell us
about the Stop, Look, and Lock campaign.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
So our message of this campaign is once you park, stop, look,
and lock. So before leaving your car, stop, look in
the backseat for your child, lock that door, keep your
doors locked when it's in your garage or driveway so
a child can't crawl in and become trapped. And, you know,
it is really something that we want people to have
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awareness of, even if they don't have their own children,
that children can enter vehicles and become trapped. So it's
important to lock our vehicles and prevent that from happening
in your neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Is that the most common scenario you see in these
heartbreaking cases, usually just a child being forgotten by the
parent or caretaker?
Speaker 4 (19:15):
That is the most common. And one of the biggest
risk factors for that type of death is a change
in routine. Many of these deaths have happened because that
morning routine is different for some reason. So, for example,
a parent is taking a child to daycare or preschool
who typically doesn't do that. Maybe they have a doctor's appointment.
Something is different about that day. So nearly half of
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these forgotten heat stroke deaths happen when a child is
supposed to be dropped off at preschool or childcare.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Speaking with Laura Dunn, a senior safety specialist with the
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. the website where you can
find more information, some great tips, noheatstroke.org is the website, noheatstroke.org.
What is the difference between the Stop, Look, and Lock
campaign and the Never Happens campaign?
Speaker 4 (20:07):
The campaign has never happened, and one of those main
campaign messages is stop, look, and lock. The website where
folks can go to get more information is nhtsa.gov slash heatstroke.
It has all of our tips and resources about how
to prevent hot car deaths available in both English and
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in Spanish.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Give us a preview of what they could see there.
I know there are some simple tricks that parents could
use to remind themselves there's a child in the backseat.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
So when you are going about your day, we want
to encourage people to kind of create systems for themselves
to promote safety. So one of the things that you
can do is arrange for your child care provider to
call you if your child hasn't arrived in the morning
at the designated time within about 10 minutes. Have them
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give you a call to say, hi, is your child
coming today? And make sure all the adults in that
child's life kind of check their vehicles, make sure that
children have been dropped off where they're supposed to be.
Another thing that parents can do is put something that
you need for the day in the backseat with that child, um,
your phone, your work badge, your purse, something that you
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need to complete your day, physically put it in the backseat.
So you are forced to open that backseat and look
in the backseat, make sure that your children are dropped
off where they need to be. Um, You also want
to make sure that you're locking your vehicle in your
driveway or your garage and storing your keys and your
key fobs up and out of reach of children. Talk
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to your children and make sure that they understand that
a car is never a safe place to play.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Why isn't just cracking the window open or parking in
the shade sometimes enough to keep the inside of a
car safe, the temperature?
Speaker 4 (21:57):
It's interesting that cracking a window or parking in the
shade is really does very little to alter that inside
temperature of a vehicle. It doesn't offer as much relief as,
as we would think, because if your car is parked outside,
it's kind of a greenhouse effect. The inside of your
vehicle keeps getting hotter and hotter and hotter. And, you know,
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the inside of your car can increase in temperature by
about 20 degrees in about 10 minutes and it quickly
becomes dangerous for children. So it is, uh, something that
doesn't take a lot of time and children are particularly
susceptible to that.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
I think another misunderstanding about this whole thing is that
people would believe that, that, you know, child deaths inside
of hot cars is only a problem in Florida or
Arizona or something like that. They don't understand that, especially
with these types of temperatures we're seeing this summer across
the country, it can happen anywhere. Can it?
Speaker 3 (22:57):
It can.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
I mean, we have seen these heat surf deaths happen in,
in temperatures as low as 60 degrees. So we're talking Maine, Minnesota,
North Dakota, places that you're not thinking about being cold.
And it's not the hottest day of the year either.
It can happen well early in the spring and well
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into the fall. So it's really something for all of
us to kind of be vigilant about when we're thinking
about protecting our kids.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
You alluded to something a couple moments ago, and that
is like grandparents or a babysitter, a daycare. What should
they do if they're expecting a child and the child
doesn't arrive? To follow up, make sure that this isn't
a case.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
Yeah, I would encourage anyone who's caring for children to
give parents a call if that child does not arrive
when they are supposed to. Within about 10 to 15 minutes,
we want to make sure that kids aren't left in
hot cars. Call the parents, call anybody that would be
transporting that child that day. For childcare providers, make sure
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you have a system where you're ensuring that all the
vehicles that you use for transportation are checked before that
vehicle is locked for the day and all the kids
have arrived at care.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Are there certain ages of kids that are more at
risk in this? Is it always kids that might be
strapped into a baby seat that fall victim?
Speaker 4 (24:31):
It is typically children that are younger. And, you know,
I know with my own children, especially when they were younger,
they tend to fall asleep easier in cars when they
are older. you know, in the car seat, maybe they're
rear facing still, and they're quiet when they're asleep. So that,
you know, it's not a, people aren't, parents aren't cued
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to the fact that, oh, my child is still here
with me, you know, if they are quiet when they're asleep.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
A couple more minutes here with Laura Dunn, Senior Safety
Specialist with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. You want
more resources for parents or caregivers, the website is NHTSA.gov.
slash heat stroke. You can also go to no heat stroke.org.
And we've talked exclusively about kids because there have been
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12 children who've died already this summer in hot cars.
We can't forget about our pets. I get infuriated when
I'm in a parking lot and I see someone has
left their dog in the car in a scorching hot
day and crack the window open thinking that's going to
be enough for their, for their dog.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Right.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
No living thing should be left in your car. And,
you know, unfortunately, I see that as well. Another group
that we can think about are elderly folks. You know,
children can't regulate their body temperature like an adult can.
But as folks age, it is also harder for them
to regulate their body temperature. So it becomes risky for
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older adults, too. A child's body temperature rises about three
to five times faster than an adult's. which is why
it becomes a dangerous situation so quickly. So that really
is something to consider for everybody in your life, that
being inside a hot car is just not a safe situation.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Right.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
I was reading there's new technology in some vehicles called
rear seat reminder technology. What exactly is that and how
prevalent are they in new cars?
Speaker 4 (26:35):
So in 2019, there were some auto manufacturers that to
sign a voluntary agreement to kind of incorporate some of
those alerts. And that is something that you might see
right now if you have a new car or you've
rented a car recently. So we are conducting research currently
for our rulemaking on these technologies. We're focusing on some
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of those available systems that can detect, act, and alert
drivers to prevent hot car deaths. We're also studying some
aftermarket systems that offer, you know, a variety of different
methods to alert parents and caregivers that a child is
in the backseat, many of which, you know, sense child
occupants while they are buckled in car seats. So these
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systems can be purchased by caregivers and, you know, they
aren't tied to a specific vehicle maker model. So hopefully
we will be able to share more information about how
folks can use those technologies.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Maybe a great idea for new parents or grandparents that
maybe aren't used to having a child in the backseat.
When you look at all the cases you've reviewed over
the years, is there one lesson that stands out to
you the most?
Speaker 4 (27:46):
I think that overall, just never leaving your children in
a car, not even if you only think you'll be
gone for a minute. And I know it's tempting. I
have young children. I know it's tempting to try and
go get something done quickly, but it's just never, it's
just never takes a shorter time as you think it's
going to take. And it's just not a safe situation
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to leave your children in a vehicle and build in
different systems to keep your children safe. Make it a
habit to keep stuff that you need in the backseat
and just kind of make it part of your routines.
So it's just another layer of safety for your family.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Put that in perspective in closing. How quickly can the
temperature inside a car become deadly, even on a day
that doesn't feel extremely hot outside?
Speaker 4 (28:34):
Even on just kind of a temperate day, the inside
of your vehicle can increase in temperature by about 20
degrees in only 10 minutes. And it only keeps getting
hotter from there. It doesn't level off, really. It kind
of just gets hotter and hotter and hotter. So it's
a very short amount of time, and the risk is
not worth it. It really only takes a few minutes
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for the inside of your car to become deadly.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Laura Dunn, Senior Safety Specialist with the National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration. A couple of websites you can go to
for more information or resources, nhtsa.gov slash heatstroke, nhtsa.gov. dot
gov slash heatstroke, uh, or no heatstroke.org. No heatstroke.org. Laura, uh,
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sincerely appreciate it for the time. Sadly, this is something
we've had to talk about, but thank you for the information.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
Thanks so much.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
I am Manny Munoz. I appreciate you listening to iHeartRadio's
communities this week. As always, if you have any questions, comments,
or suggestions, reach out to me on Instagram. My handle
is at IODManny. That's at I-O-D-M-A-N-N-Y. And that'll do it
for another edition of iHeartRadio's communities. I'm Manny Munoz. Until
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This program is furnished by the program participants. The following
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Speaker 5 (32:51):
Welcome to The Flatline with your host, Rick Hughes.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
For the next 30 minutes, you'll be inspired, motivated, educated,
but never manipulated.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
Now, your host, Rick Hughes.
Speaker 5 (33:07):
Good morning and welcome to The Flatline. I'm your host,
Rick Hughes, and for the next few minutes, please stick around.
It won't be long, just about 30 minutes of motivation, inspiration, education,
And as the announcer said, all without any type of manipulation.
We don't try to con people. We're not trying to
sell you anything. We're not trying to ask you to
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join up, fess up, give it up, nothing like that.
What we're asking you to do is listen. Just listen
up for a few minutes as I try to explain
the Word of God, how you can understand it, how
it can apply to your life, and how you can
build a FLOT line in your soul. FLOT, F-L-O-T, is
the name of the radio show. That stands for the
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Forward Line of Troops. So if you'll listen with me,
and you may be new to this radio station, new
to this radio show, just give me one hearing. That's
all I ask. Listen one time, and you don't have
to come back if you don't like it. But I
think if you'll listen, you'll learn something that you'll be
able to apply to your life. The question I think
about daily, almost every day, is this question. Is there
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a hunger for God's Word in our nation, USA, America, today?
Is there a hunger for God's word in our nation today?
And I could reduce that, I guess, down to one
simple question. Are you hungry for God's word? We know
from Scripture that when a nation like ours ignores, rejects,
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or despises the word of God, then destruction soon follows.
Listen to the prophet Hosea's warning to his people in
Hosea 4, verse 6. Here it says, as God speaks
through Hosea, my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
You hear that? Lack of knowledge. Not because of all
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their sins, not because of the bad tacky things they did.
Lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will
also reject you and you will no longer be a
priest for me. And since you've forgotten the laws of
your God, I will also forget your children.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (35:17):
One of Satan's objectives for us today is so there
is no exposure to the Word of God anymore. Progressives, humanists,
they all want to shut down the Word of God.
They don't want the Word of God taught in schools.
They want kids to ignore God's laws like the Ten Commandments.
They consider that dangerous if you put the Ten Commandments
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in the school. And we're in trouble today because we
have forgotten the Word of God. We've forgotten the laws
of God as a whole. So the most dangerous thing
that a nation like ours faces is a lack of
knowledge concerning God's order and God's desires. That word knowledge
can mean something common sense or knowledge gained from observant facts.
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And we first see it used in Genesis 2 verse 9.
This is interesting. And out of the ground the Lord
God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the
sight and good for food. The tree of life was
also in the midst of the garden. And the tree
of the knowledge, there's that word again, the knowledge of
good and evil. That particular tree was designed as a test,
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which of course they failed since they did in fact
eat of the tree. And the effects were disastrous, not
only for them, but for the entire human race. Here's
what happened in Romans 5, 12. Wherefore, as by one man, Adam,
sin entered into the world eating the forbidden fruit, and
death by sin, that's spiritual death. And so spiritual death
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is passed upon all men for all have sinned. This
is why Jesus says you have to be born again
to go to heaven because you're spiritually dead. So the
knowledge of God's word is a great, great, great treasure.
In 2 Corinthians 4, verse 7, now we have this treasure,
Paul says, in jars of clay to show that this
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surprisingly great power is from God and not from us.
The Greek word for treasure is interesting. It's simply the
word thesaurus. Thesaurus. You know what that is. It's a
word treasure. And this is incredibly important since the scriptures
say the word of God, W-O-R-D, the word of God
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is alive and powerful. Hebrews 4.12.
Speaker 4 (37:39):
So you can.
Speaker 5 (37:42):
Buy all the lottery tickets you wish to buy. You
can go to every casino you want to go to.
Try to win big, but you will never be as
rich as you can. When you receive and apply the
word of God to your circumstances, I said receive it
and apply it. That treasure is freely given to all
who wish to learn God's plan. It's free. The treasure
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of the word of God. Now, rejecting the knowledge of
the word of God guarantees you that you're going to
be spiritually bankrupt all the days of your life. What
does that mean? It means no divine insight, no understanding,
which is lack of wisdom on your part. With thousands
of promises in the scripture, does it not make sense
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to you that you should have the knowledge of at
least a few of them? And I stand amazed today
at the lack of desire. on the part of many
Christians who feel no need to grow spiritually. Our Lord
stated in the Beatitudes that happiness belongs to those people,
listen now, here it is, those who hunger and thirst
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after righteousness. Hunger and thirst after righteousness. Matthew 5, 6,
blessed are they which hunger and thirst after righteousness. That's
the objective, righteousness. For they shall be filled. We start
with that word blessed. Blessed are they which hunger and
thirst after righteousness. Blessed, what does that mean? Well, in
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the Greek New Testament, what the New Testament was written in,
it could be one of two different words. The first
is the adjective eulogatos, and that means praised. So in
the days of our Lord, the Jews were hesitant to
speak the name of God, Elohim, Adonai, Elohim, Yahweh. and
so they gave him the title of the blessed one
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they use the word eulogotes but there's another adjective for
blessed and it's the word makarios makarios m-a-k-a-r-i-o-s and this
word It's the word that's used in our verse, the
one we quoted. And that word means the idea of
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being happy or having privilege. Blessed are they who hunger
and thirst after what? Righteousness. The word for hunger is
the word pinao. P-I-A-N-A-O is how you pronounce it. Pinao.
And it's a verb. It means passionate desire for something.
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That would add to something that would add to your life,
not take it away from your life. In this case,
the desire is to be righteous. Have you ever considered
what it means for you to live a life of righteousness?
What exactly is a life of righteousness? When this verse says,
who hungers and thirsts after righteousness, what does that mean?
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Is it morality or is it something greater than morality?
The religious Jews went to great lengths to be considered
righteous or right with God. They kept the law of Moses,
and they considered that there must be, if you hope,
to earn God's blessing. But the other word that our
Lord used is the word hunger and thirst. That word
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thirst is the Greek word dipsao, dipsao, and it is
to be refreshed or to have You know, if you're
parched and you've been out walking all day in the
heat of the sun like it is this time of
the year, you get very thirsty and you want some water. So,
depsao implies spiritual hunger. People who go to great, great
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lengths to find water. You remember when you were just
maybe a kid like I was and we'd be outside
playing and get hot. We'd go to the water faucet
and turn it on and drink it out of the hydrant.
In John 4, 4, Jesus said these words about the
water he had to give. He told the woman at
the well, whoever drinks of this water that I give
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him will never be thirsty again. But the water that
I give him will be a living well of water
springing up into everlasting life. Here we're talking about a metaphor,
talking about springing never. All day long, the person never
gets thirsty, never runs dry. This is a wonderful thing
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that the Lord Jesus Christ can do for you. He
can give you an unquenching thirst that always is satisfied
by using the word of God. So blessed are they
which do hunger and thirst after righteousness. Uh-oh, here's that word, righteousness.
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What does that mean to be righteous? The Greek word dikaiou,
remember this. We don't earn righteousness. We are given righteousness.
At the moment of our salvation, we are given righteousness.
That's a very interesting thing for us to learn here.
How are we given righteousness? Well, Romans 3.24 says all
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are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that
came through Christ Jesus. In 1 John 2.29, if you
know that he is righteous, And you know that everyone
that doeth righteousness is born of him. It's a trait
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of the Christian to live a righteous life. In Philippians 3.9,
And be found in him not having my own righteousness,
which is credited from the law, but that righteousness which
is through the faith of Jesus Christ, the righteousness which
is of God by faith. In 2 Corinthians 5.21, a
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very key verse, For he, that's God, has made him
to be sin for us, that's Christ, the one who
knew no sin, so that we may be made the
righteousness of God in him, in Christ Jesus. This is
the imputation of divine righteousness that's given to us at
the very moment of our salvation. So the moment you
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put your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, you are
given God's righteousness. On the cross, it was a trade-out deal.
He took your sin And he gives you his righteousness.
It's the only way you can ever have a relationship
with God. It's through the righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ. Again,
2 Corinthians 5.21. He made him to be sin for us. Yes,
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he did. The one who knew no sin. That's correct.
He never sinned. So that we, you and I, may
be made righteousness of God by means of him. That's
the imputation of divine righteousness given to us at the
moment of our salvation. We call it plus R. The
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very plus R, or the righteousness of God, is given
to us when we receive Christ as our Savior. And
this literally means as if you had never sinned at all.
Did you know the only reason Christ was the perfect
substitute for us, but he never sinned? In his humanity,
not one time did he ever sin. You might not
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believe it, but the Bible says in Hebrews 4.15, for
we have not a high priest which cannot be touched
with the feelings of our infirmities, but was in all
points tempted just like we are, and yet he was
without sin. Did you realize that each one of us
must learn what it means to be righteous or to
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have the righteousness of God? You and I can discover
our righteous abilities and benefits when we study the Scripture.
And this is where we find the word instruction in righteousness.
You have to learn how to produce righteousness in your life.
In 2 Timothy 3, 16 through 17, all scripture is
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given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine,
for reproof, for correction, and here it comes now, listen,
for instruction in righteousness. So why do we need to
be instructed in righteousness? Well, the next verse tells you,
so that, or in order that, The man of God
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may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works. That
word perfect, arterios, means to be complete or to be
fully grown. And that's what God wants you to do.
He wants you to be fully grown. Ephesians 4.13 talks
about being perfect, fully grown, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.
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This is a call to what we call divine good production.
And the exact opposite of divine good is human good,
which is merely man trying to manufacture his own righteousness.
I don't care how good you are. You cannot equal
the righteousness of God. The best you could do is
minus R. God is plus R. He's absolutely righteous. You
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and I are minus R. We're absolutely not righteous. The
Bible clearly says there are none that are righteous. No,
not one. Not even one. But when we come through
Jesus Christ, his anointed son, we are given his righteousness
accredited to our account so that we're able to have
fellowship with God. His righteousness. Divine good production. Remember that word.
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It's the exact opposite of human good. Human good is
man trying to manufacture, as I said earlier, his own righteousness.
In Proverbs 21, 3, To do righteousness and justice is
more acceptable to the Lord than any sacrifice. So in
your part, I don't care what you can manage to
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sacrifice to God, you know, like I'm going to give
this up for God or I'm going to give that
up for God. What he desires is your righteousness and
his justice come together. Relative righteousness, that's a different word
than perfect righteousness, Relative righteousness, that's what we call minus R.
That's just simply good works that the unbeliever produces. This
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is exactly why his morality does not justify him before God.
It's relative righteousness. It's the best man can do. And
on your best day, you cannot equal God's righteousness. So
if you don't have the plus R, the righteousness of
Christ accredited to your account, as the Bible said earlier,
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then you're in trouble. So, plus R is absolute righteousness,
and this is what's imputed to us at the moment
of our salvation. Now, we saw the word where we
may be thoroughly firm and produce good works, so we
should have instruction in righteousness, 2 Timothy 3, 16 and 17.
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What are we talking about? Well, The Bible goes on
to say we should be instruments of righteousness too. In
Romans 6, 11 through 14, I'll read it to you.
In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin, but
alive to God in or through Christ Jesus. Therefore, do
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not let sin reign in your mortal body so you
obey its evil desires. And do not offer any part
of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but
rather offer yourselves to God as those that have been
bought from death to life and offer every part of
yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness. So we
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have two comparisons. We have an instrument of wickedness or
an instrument of righteousness. Now, which one are you? Which
one do you manufacture in your life? Do you manufacture wickedness,
and that's sin? Or do you manufacture righteousness, and that's
observing the rules and the order and the laws of God?
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So let me try to clear it up for you
so you'll understand it. Any Christian who stays filled with
the Holy Spirit and is faithful to study the Scriptures,
both learning them and applying them, is producing experiential righteousness.
Any Christian who stays filled with the Holy Spirit. So
let's start there. Do you know how to be filled
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with the Holy Spirit? Well, obviously, you receive the Holy
Spirit when you get saved, Ephesians 1.13. You're filled with
the Holy Spirit until the day of redemption. And obviously,
sin quenches and grieves the Holy Spirit. But there's a
way to recover from that. And that's 1 John 1, 9,
which we call rebound, which is the first problem-solving device
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on the floodlight of your soul. And 1 John 1,
9 says if we confess our sin, then He, God,
is faithful and just to purify us, cleanse us from
all wrongdoing. Yes, you have to learn how to use
1 John 1, 9. So if you can stay filled
with the Holy Spirit, what does that mean? The Bible
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tells us we're to walk in the Spirit. The Bible
tells us do not let the Holy Spirit be quenched
or grieved in your life. When you know you have sinned,
when you realize you have sinned, you quench the Holy Spirit.
You let your sinful nature take over.
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