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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Thousands die every year from distracted driving. Meanwhile, it is Halloween.
Do you have your candy ready? The average American spends
at least thirty dollars. Some of the things that we're
talking about deeper into this hour and the rest of
this show. Hey, everybody, Kate Delaney here on ATM. But
first we shake things up always with the rundown. We
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start with a wall of water that's slammed into the Northeast,
particularly New York Philadelphia. All of our listeners in Kinnecticut
and a lot of you probably were dealing with it too.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Hey.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Two people died Thursday in flooded basements effort record rainfall
in parts of New York City. Wow, the subways, you
could just see the water pouring down the steps, and
so many at the subway stations. And a thirty nine
year old man was found unconscious and unresponsive in a
flooded basement in Brooklyn. And then in northern Manhattan, the
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body of a forty three year old man was found
in a flooded boiler room and it was spread across
the city. Brooklyn was a mess. There was so much
rain that fell that a thousand flights were canceled in
the Northeast and hundreds of others were massively delayed. I
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mean it was nasty. The water that we're talking about.
All the airports in New York were down, they had
wind problems, etc. And especially the water that they saw.
The rain and wind are not from Hurricane Melissa, of course,
which slammed at the Caribbean this week. But instead this
was just a storm system that moved through and into
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New England. Right now, it's kind of hitting there, so
most of the northeast six is affected to be drier
but a little bit windy on Halloween. There's what one
woman said, It felt like the wind was powerful. It
was like a tornado. Yeah, it was like a tornado,
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all right. Speaking of that, the Asia trip was fast
and furious. And now the President is back and there's
been a lot of conversation about nuclear testing. The President
wants to push the restart button on nuclear tests. It
could take years and it could cost millions according to
(02:30):
a lot of experts. He talked about why it has
to happen.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
That had to do with others. They seemed it will
be nuclear testing. We have more nuclear weapons than anybody.
We don't do testing, and we've halted it years many
years ago, but with others doing testing, I think it's
appropriate that we do also.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
All right, it's because Russia and China is what he's saying.
And of course you look at I'm thinking a detonation
site in the Nevada the test site nineteen fifty three
e when you saw a big mushroom cloud that was
part of Operation Upshot. But there hasn't been anything like that,
and there's a lot of questions swirling as to what
does that mean. Then JD. Vance, the Vice President, was
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asked to kind of clarify it.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Well, I think the President's truth speaks for itself. We
have a big arsenal. Sometimes you've got to test it
to make sure that it's functioning and working properly.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
All right, functioning and working properly. Well. A lot of
the people and I said this in a previous show
that would normally be involved in that aren't working right
now because of the government shutdown, and to be able
to start all of that up, it would not happen overnight.
There's just no way that that's possible to happen. So
there is that conversation on the heels of coming back
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from China. And then ultimately, like I said, the question
is what does it mean after the President met with
Shijin Ping, what does it mean for us in the
United States? And he talked about the fact that overall
this meeting was just absolutely wonderful.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Overall, I guess on the scale from zero to ten,
with ten being the best, I would say the meeting
was at twelve.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
So it's a trade truce with China that was really
secured this week. And that's great news for American farmers
because you think of the soybeans and other things, but
especially soybeans and businesses, and there are a lot of
businesses that rely on cheaper things, let's face it, from China.
But actually you and I, the average consumer, probably not
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too much. We won't really see much in the way
of that, although prices could trickle down if you're talking
about some of the things that are made by small business.
But meeting in South Korea just a few days ago, now,
Trump and the Chinese president agreed to retreat from this
exchange of measures that threatened a near shutdown of trade
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between the world's two largest economies. But this is kind
of temp perrary, at least for a year. In some cases.
Trump got China to delay by one year the December
first start of restrictions on exports of the rare earth
minerals that US manufacturers need to produce a whole bunch
of civilian and military goods. She also promised to crack
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down and illicit shipments of chemicals used to make the
deadly drug fentanyl, which we know has killed tens of
thousands of Americans, and to resume the farmer part the
purchases of American soybeans that he had stopped. But on
the other side of it, the President dropped a threat
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for one hundred percent tariff cut in half the twenty
percent charge she had imposed on Chinese good goods rather
earlier this year, and fentanyl use to over fentuel use,
that was what that was about. And suspended port fees
for Chinese container ships and delayed new limits on exports
of advanced technology to China. So you heard what he said,
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a twelve on a scale of one to ten. And
then ultimately, you know what does this look like? We
don't know till down the line right well, price wise,
like I said, all of that, but there is no
question the soybean thing is very very good. You know,
the Chinese orders for soybeans in states like Iowa and
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Missouri had dropped to zero because Beijing was pressure pressuring
the president. Let's face it, So the White House had
started drawing up plans for multi billion dollar farm bailouts
while farm state lawmakers were begging, begging, begging for help.
So that's a really good thing if you look at
it that way. Don't forget to wind the clock back,
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so to speak. Does anyone wind the clock back? Clocks
falling back? What does it mean? Look, I go buy
the iPhone. That's what I go by, and that automatically happens.
So I don't I'm being serious. I really don't have
anything to I was thinking about this today. There's nothing
for me to fall back. I get to fall back
on that hour sleep, which I love it because I
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never get enough sleep. So that's a good thing. But
it's just going to automatically happen. I love clocks and things,
and I even have some watches that are tucked away
in drawers and stuff. I don't even know if half
of them work. But other than that, other than like
an oven clock, I don't know about the rest of you.
But I don't have a bunch of clocks. But if
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you do wind them all back and do it, do
it on Sunday, because we officially fall back one hour
at two a m. On Sunday, November two, the end
of daylight savings time, where most states observe one hour
time change to maximize daylight in the evening. Not a
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lot of people like it, or I should say a
lot of people don't like it. They'd rather the reverse stays.
Like a White and Arizona, we have listeners in both
places do not observe daylight savings time, so they don't
even do that, like not, it's nothing that they're worrying about.
It's whether they had clocks to wind back or not. Right,
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that's the thing. Hey, coming up, there's a lot of
things that we're going to talk about, including I mentioned
at the top distracted driving way Till you hear what
the numbers are, they're crazy. It is the number one killer.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
Really.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
I mean, speed is right up there, but distracted driving
think about it where people turn for like two seconds,
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Speaker 1 (12:10):
So check out these scary statistics. According to the US
Department of Transportation, twenty nine percent of all motor vehicle
crashes are caused by distracted drivers, what resulting in more
than ten thousand deaths, one point three million injuries, and
five point six million damaged vehicles every single year. We
don't have to tell this to. Our next guest joining
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us now is John Way. He's in our virtual green room.
He's the director of Customer Experience Research and Transportation and
Building Research for State Farm Insurance. And we're going to
talk about a really new twist and education about distracted driving?
How can we educate these people? So glad you're with us, John,
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thank you for joining us.
Speaker 9 (12:55):
So appreciate the opportunity to be here.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
Kate, So appreciate your passion on this topic, because you
hit the nail on the head. But it's a real
problem and it's one that deserves a real focus.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
So I mean, you and I understand this. What do
we know? Why is distracted driving so dangerous? And why
does it seem like we just can't stop?
Speaker 5 (13:12):
Good and important question, Kate, and one that we have
stayed farmer actively exploring and seeking to talk about in
more interesting and more impactful ways. I think there are
a lot of individual things that we can point to
as being contributors to it, But I'll start here.
Speaker 9 (13:24):
I'd say it's just kind of how we're wired these days.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
You know, our generation is different than the ones that
came before us, and that we have seemingly endless opportunities
to remain connected and to remain talking to people, or
to remain engaged in our favorite content, or to look
things up and to do any and everything. They're all
wonderful things right in a vacuum, in isolation, and they're
enhancing our work life, they're making our personal lives more efficient,
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more pleasurable. But Kate, the challenge is taking those same
series of activities that we're hardwired to be engaged in
all day, every day into the vehicle has some really
negative cons of quince is, we know that that distracted
drivers are dangerous drivers, and we want to start talking
about that in more impactful ways to start changing behaviors.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
So I mentioned a couple of the statistics, and you've
got this really cool thing to talk about. What's included
under the distracted driving umbrella?
Speaker 5 (14:18):
Yeah, so good question, right, because I think a lot
of us, and rightly so, gravitate immediately towards the cell phone.
Speaker 9 (14:23):
That's the one that we're joking a little bit off
the top.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
Where my personal aggravation comes in driving down the road
and seeing all of my fellow road users with a
cell phone basically right in front of their steering wheel.
Speaker 9 (14:33):
But it's not just that.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
It can be some of the more innocent things, Kate,
that we're all engaging in that can be distracting, like
eating a quick snack in between our work life and
home life, or engaging in conversation with someone in the
passenger seat, fumbling with the radio. There are a lot
of things that have nothing to do with the cell
phone that can be problematic. A couple of stats that
maybe back some of that up. A full eighty percent
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of us admit to driving distractedly in front. They think
that we're pretty good at doing it. In that forty
five percent admit to entering GPS addresses into the interface
while they're driving. Almost half of us scroll music playlists.
Thirty four percent of us manually still dial our cell phones,
despite the fact that most of our cars have some
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functionality to allow us to do that in the hands
free way. Perhaps the most concerning one for me and
guiltiest charge. I'm trying to be better about this. One
in five admit to either reading or sending an email
from behind the wheel. And I think we could all
agree that that is a real problem. And Kate, maybe
I'll underscore that with a couple of statistics that helped
maybe articulate the scope of the problem. You know, everything
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I just mentioned requires a little bit of.
Speaker 9 (15:39):
Investment of time.
Speaker 5 (15:40):
Right now, I think most of us think we're very
capable drivers if we just look away for a second
or two to get this thing done. The hard truth
is that in two seconds you double your risk of
getting into a vehicle accidy. So in that two seconds
you look over to do whatever it is you're doing,
you have immediately doubled your risk of getting into a crash.
And that back home, distracted drivers are dangerous drivers. What
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we view as distractions is more inclusive than probably what
the vast majority of us talk about, and so again
incumbent on us to be very intentional, very intentional, and
very mindful when we get behind the wheel.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Wow, those are crazy statistics. If the danger of distracted
driving doesn't motivate people to stop it, what do you
think will, John.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
We're seeking to talk about this more as an opportunity, Kate,
and more specifically a wellness opportunity. You know, look where
we started this conversation. We are all hyper connected and
hyper distracted, whether we realize it or acknowledge it actively
or not, and we know in looking at some of
the broader societal trends that that has an impact on
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our well being.
Speaker 9 (16:45):
Well.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
There are opportunities in our lives and opportunities in our
day to take some of that control back to truly
disconnect from the noise. And the chaos and re establish
some peace in our daily lives. And so we would
love for people to start thinking about the obligation of
driving as an opportunity to reconnect with ourselves.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Oh that's so so good. Is there anything else, John,
you want us to know?
Speaker 5 (17:10):
So I'll just share a quick personal anecdote on that
front case, because I'm finding myself talking about this much
more routinely, both with our employees here at State Farm
and my family members and with folks like yourself. I
think we would go a long way towards just appreciating
those moments of silence and those moments of connectivity. And
for me personally right now, that's when I get in
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my truck each morning to head off to work, and
I've gotten done ensuring that my two kids are are
ready for school and all the conversations in banter that
goes on there, and that my wife is ready to
conquer her day, and that the dogs have been taken
care of. And many can probably relate to some form
of that reality that's loud and it's noisy, and it's chaotic,
and it proceeds what's going to be allowed and noisy
and chaotic day when I get to my place of work,
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and so now daily I'm very intentional about slamming that
door shut and just being present in the silence, taking
in and realizing that this is a safe space for
me to sit here and reflect and kind of gather
my thoughts in my day and plot out how I'm
going to show up as the best version of myself
and whatever setting I'm in. And truthfully, the call to
action here, Kate is, let's try to extend those moments
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of peace and those moments of connectivity. I think our
immediate reaction right now as we slam that door shut
and we get our favorite program on the radio, and
we get our phone positioned correctly so that we can
see the text messages when they come across, and it
does not have to be that way. We have an
opportunity to think about this differently and operate differently. And
last point, Kate, as the father of two soon to
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be teenage drivers, I take that opportunity and obligation very seriously.
Our children are watching us from a very early age
trying to get clues for how they should operate when
they become adults. And for anybody that's got children that
are soon to be teenage drivers. This is a really
good time for us to role model the behaviors that
we want to see in them.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Oh, that's excellent. Where can we go for more information?
Speaker 5 (19:01):
Appreciate you asking would appreciate your viewers and listeners. Going
out to statefarm dot com look for our Simple Insights page,
where you will find much more content on the topic
of distracted driving, some of the impacts and perhaps most importantly,
ways that we could start thinking about that differently.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
John Waite, thank you so much.
Speaker 9 (19:18):
Appreciate you. Kate, have great day, you too.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Yeah, I don't understand distracted driving. I get it, and
I bet you were all guilty of it. Like he said,
guilty has charged the idea of pausing and taking a breath.
I mean, listen, it's so preventable. Do not multitask while driving.
Anything that takes your attention away from driving can be
a distraction, you know, visually taking your eyes off the road,
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taking your hands off the wheel, and you're moving around
doing things in the car. Nine people in the United
States are killed every day and crashes that involve a
distracted driver. In the United States, over thirty one hundred
people were killed at about four hundred and twenty for thousand.
These are insane statistics were injured in crashes that involved
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a distracted driver. If we go back to twenty nineteen,
about one in five of the people who died in
crashes involving a distracted driver that year weren't even in
the cars. They were walking, riding their bikes, or otherwise
outside of whatever the moving truck, car, et cetera. Was,
but they got hit because the person wasn't paying attention right.
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So a lot of states actually have laws to prevent
distracted driving, And of course a lot of that centers
around texting and the cell phone and whatnot, but distracted
driving could be a lot of things. I had a
friend in the business who good good friend. We were
both in we were both in television at the time.
And she went to go on a coffee run and
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she her coffee, she didn't set it downright, and she's
driving and the coffee starts to slide, so she's paying
attention to the car. She slams right in to a
light pole, and of course she was injured, had to
be taking the hospital. All of that. Broke a wrist.
She's lucky it wasn't worse. Didn't hit anyone else, but
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in just an instant because here goes my coffee. She
was just let the coffee spill, even if it makes
a mess, because not you know, not doing that just alone.
She was lucky there was anyone else there. But look
what happened. And I think your best defense against it
is but you can't. You can't always control what's happening
around you. You have to be a defensive driver these
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days anyway, right, But people that are multitasking, I think
it's way, way off the charts. And it's not just teenagers.
People like to blame it on teenagers, but it's not
just teenagers. I mean, I've seen people. I've seen women
putting on makeup. I've seen people reading a book. I've
seen people that are messing around with something inside the car.
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Can tell they're doing something inside the car, whatever it is,
they're fixing something or something slid or whatever it is.
But people, please, I think it's the saddest thing to
take a life because you had to. And of course
the basic answer some cell phone call or text somebody back.
You know, the public awareness campaigns. It can wait, It
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absolutely can wait. Coming up next, we're talking about getting
college credits for real world experience. It can happen. You
can earn credits and even a degree that way. Find
out how next. I'm really excited about this next conversation.
(23:03):
I'm thinking about this. Imagine tips for turning real life
experience into college credit. Did you hear what I said?
Learn how credit for prior learning can help you complete
an unfinished degree and save money on higher education. Sounds
so good. Devin Andrews, VP of Admissions and Evaluation for
University Phoenix, joins us. Now, Devin, thanks for.
Speaker 10 (23:24):
Coming on, Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
So that really is I think for some people they
don't realize it. So it's really true, right that you
can earn college credit from life experiences.
Speaker 10 (23:35):
Yes, it's really true. You can earn college credit from
work in life experiences. You know, not every student takes
the traditional path to a four year degree right out
of high school. And here's what's interesting. We recently did
a survey with the Harris Pool and we found that
sixty percent of working adults without degrees don't know about
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this hidden transfer credit potential, but really deserve to receive
credit for all of it, their learning, their work, and
their lived experiences. Throughout their educational journey.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
So then it begs the question what life experiences can
help you get college credit?
Speaker 10 (24:12):
So, really, adults have a lot of different learning experiences
that they have pained through their work in life. Professional
training programs, exams, and other sources may give them knowledge
and understanding that's at the same level as a student
who would have taken a course in a similar subject
at a college or university. In fact, according to our research,
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thirty nine percent of employed adults spend more than ten
hours a month developing new skills, and universities and colleges
can assess that learning and award credit towards a degree.
Sometimes that might be a standardized activity like a national
testing program or a workplace certification. And there are many
large employers like McDonald's, Walmart, and others who have their
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training programs evaluated by the American Council on Education for
credit recommendations.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Wow, what are the steps, because this is important obviously,
what are the steps to guide people listening on getting
credit for learning what you've already done.
Speaker 10 (25:13):
The first thing that's really important is to document your
learning experiences. Start with your past college coursework, but also
include learning experiences like military service and training licenses, certifications,
some of your personal learning like parenting, caregiving, community service.
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And remember to also include any training that you've completed
at work. And then second, look for tools that help
you to assess the program, time and cost that you're
interested in in any potential savings. For example, at University
of Phoenix, we offer a new mobile app that helps
identify possible transfer credit. And really every college or university
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is going to handle this a little bit differently. So
look at this for the schools that have clear policies
and on transferring credits and assessing credit for prior learning.
Because the schools that provide information and resources up front
really make it easier for potential students to understand what
they can expect when they enroll.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Yeah, and you said, this is the beginning people don't
realize about completing the degree. But what benefits are there
for completing a degree if for some reason, whatever the
reason is, someone wasn't able to do it the first
time around.
Speaker 10 (26:28):
Yeah, So if somebody's considering going back to college, the
data shows that getting their degree provides more career opportunities
and also increases earning potential. According to the US Bureau
of Labor Statistics, people with a bachelor's degree earn about
sixty five percent more per week than those with the
high school diploma alone. Completing a degree can also be
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a really important foundation to progress in your career, and
other reasons might include job security, better benefits, maybe flexibility
for remote work.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Wow, how can somebody who's working but wants to get
their degree convince their employer? This is a big one, Devin,
to help pay for it?
Speaker 10 (27:10):
Yeah, it's important, you know. Our survey found that fifty
five percent of working adults have self financed their own
professional development, and some have had to decline opportunities due
to the cost. But we also know that in the
era of AI, employers really are seeking to retain their
top talent and want to help their workers upskill and
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gain more competencies. Many employers offer tuition benefit programs and
may have agreements with institutions like University of Phoenix. They
may offer upskilling programs, apprenticeships and more. So it's really
important to check with your company and see what programs
and policies they have in place to support you.
Speaker 9 (27:51):
Love it?
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Where can listeners go? For more information?
Speaker 10 (27:55):
Check out our mobile app for a free pre evaluation
of transfer credit. Go to Phoenix Edu slash mobile dash app.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Devin Andrew's VP of Admissions and Evaluation, University of Phoenix.
Speaker 10 (28:06):
Thanks so much, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
All Right, it is Halloween, and yeah, did you know
that all together Americans are expected to spend three point
nine billion. I thought that was the wrong number. Three
point nine billion. Individually at least forty dollars. Halloween candy
is up ten point eight percent. So what did my
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family do? Me and the hubs. He actually went shopping
with me after dinner, and we went shopping for a
couple of things, but included Halloween candy. Mistake to bring him,
I picked up one of the something you know that
had dots in it and it had TUTSI roll pops
and stuff, and he said, oh, that's the cheap candy.
(28:56):
Don't be cheap with the kids. By the time I
got out of there, I had Hershey Bars, Reese's cups
and we have forty five dollars worth of candy in
our house. What what do you think is that ridiculous?
Speaker 8 (29:13):
Mean?
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Wow? Forty five dollars And then ask me how much
he has eaten of the candy so far. He said, Oh,
I haven't eaten that much. I want to leave all
the good stuff for the kids. I don't think there's
any Starburst left. Let's just put it that way. So
if somebody was looking for starbus Burst rather, it's not
going to happen, all right, speaking of Halloween, Just in
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or one of the original slashers from the nineties. We
have the ghost faced killer that comes into the quiet
town where Sidney Prescott Nev Campbell has built to life.
(30:21):
Her darkest fears are realized as her daughter becomes the
next target. So she's got to protect her family and
face the horrors of her past to put an end
to the bloodshed once and for all. How many of
you are going to go and catch Scream seven. I'm
just wondering. Or you might be friends, or you might
(30:42):
be friends. You might be friends with some of them.
You might be familiar with Stranger Things. Stranger Things is
in season five and it's the fall of nineteen eighty seven.
That town has been quarantined by the military. Everything's turned
upside down. It's really pretty I saw a little preview
(31:04):
it is looks pretty scary actually, So that starts up
not though until the end of November. I'll be watching
that for sure. And by the way, the Scream seven
you can only look at the previews. You can't go
to the theaters right now. That doesn't come out till February
twenty seventh. You kind of would think, wouldn't it be
good if they hit them right around Halloween. I'm just
(31:27):
thinking out loud, right, all right. A couple of quickies
here to talk about, including this one. Bye Bye the
title of Prince. King Charles stripped his brother Andrew of
the prince title and evicted him from the royal mansion. Yes,
it's true. He took the extraordinary step of taking the
(31:48):
titles away, evicting him from his estate and Windsor. That's
pretty dramatic, and that's the latest to quell the scandal
over the disgraced prince's ling to convicted rather sex offender
Jeffrey Epstein. The Buckingham Palace release, they put out a
news release set. It's a necessary censures and it shows
(32:11):
you the deep split in the British royal family. Right.
I wonder now, because of doing all of that, King
Charles and the British establishment did they actually do enough
to prevent his association with Epstein from really swallowing up
the monarchy Because Andrew, at sixty five, has faced about
(32:32):
fifteen years of on and off controversy over that friendship
with Epstein, and it's now intensified after the release of
the memoir by Virginia Jeffree, who alleged that Andrew had
sexually assaulted her as a teenager. In fact, her family
put out their own statement saying, just an American girl,
(32:55):
an ordinary American girl from an ordinary town, taking down
a prince who would have thought and of course it
was sad. She died by suicide in April, just forty
one years old. And he's repeatedly denied that he knewer
denied all the allegations against him. So her brother said,
(33:15):
it's been joyous and happy and just a sad day. Anyway,
she should be here, she should be doing interviews, as
she gave so many interviews, And he said, it just
shows that her truth was out there now, especially bigger
with that book, and it shows her extraordinary courage in
(33:36):
doing that because it had been a long time fight.
So will there be more shoes that drop on that?
Certainly there could be, but that has to play out,
I think criminally, is what we're talking about. If anything
comes up there, Hurricane Melissa, what's the follow up to that? Well,
(33:58):
it's pretty bad across. I mean, look, they got swapped
by the Cat five hurricane, one of the most powerful
landfalls in record on record in the Atlantic Basin, and
it lashed that island with winds and rain. You know,
we were talking about that and made that landfall in
Cuba two on Wednesday morning, then moved through the Bahamas
(34:19):
and Thursday night just passing by Bermuda. Now it's like
a Cat one. But you see the clean up. There's
five hundred and twenty one shelters open in Jamaica. Now
over one hundred and seventy communities in the most impacted
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Wow, this is so important. I saw this in my
own life. The critical role of caregivers and supporting patients
with prostate cancer. Seventy seven percent of caregivers are involved
in encouraging their patients first screening, and we have tremendous
experts with us to talk about this, including doctor Daniel
(38:24):
George and Gina Rather Carruthers, who is the President and
CEO of the Prostate Cancer Foundation. Doctor George is a
medical oncologist with a specialized focus on prostate cancer at
the Duke Cancer Institute. So thank you both for coming
on my pleasure.
Speaker 14 (38:42):
Thank you for having us Kate.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
Of course, doctor George, can you tell us about prostate
cancer and which men especially are at the greatest risk
of being affected.
Speaker 15 (38:53):
Yes, you know, Kate, it's all met are at risk
for developing prostate cancer, particularly as they age. But there
are so groups that are at greater risks than others.
And there's really three and the first is patients with
a family history of prostate cancer, so particularly you know,
if you've got a direct relative, a father or brother
with prostate cancer, your risk of developing prostate cancer is
(39:16):
much greater. The second group are men who identify as
Black or African ancestry. These are men that have probably
some genetic underlying risk of developing prostate cancer. It tends
to be more aggressive, so again another group we really
want to screen. And then the third group, believe or not,
we recommend for all men to get a midlife PSA.
(39:36):
This is a check between age forty five and fifty.
It's a blood test that your primary doctor can order
for you, and if it's above one point six, this
is really a flag for us, not necessarily that you
have prostate cancer, but you're much greater risk of developing it.
So we want to screen these particular subgroups much more carefully.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
Oh, great information, and Gina, you know this from your
work at the PC. What are some of the ways
caregivers can support their loved ones during their prostate cancer journey?
Speaker 14 (40:06):
So I think first we start out with the caregiver
or the support person in the life of the male,
reinforcing the need for screening and early detection, because with
early detection, which is through a simple blood test, we
can get early diagnosis and ninety nine percent of men
who have early diagnosis can be cured from their prostate cancer.
(40:31):
So that's a critical role that those who are around
the men in their lives can support. And then if
the male is in fact diagnosed with prostate cancer, then
participating in the medical appointments, going through the patient support
decision making process that they need to go through, and
providing education for yourself as well as that patient.
Speaker 10 (40:55):
Right, both of you.
Speaker 14 (40:56):
Need to be advocates for the treatment and decision that
the patient's going to be making. And so that's a
tremendous way for men to go through the journey, is
either the support of a colleague, another man, a family,
a loved one. That way they're on that journey and
being able to make clear decisions.
Speaker 1 (41:17):
And there's been, obviously, doctor George, a lot of advancements.
How is the prostate cancer treatment landscape evolving?
Speaker 15 (41:24):
You know, it's tremendous. In the last ten years, we've
really changed the landscape of patient for treatment for patients
with advanced prostate cancer in particular, and to the point
where now this is a chronic disease. Ten years ago,
we used to tell men who have disease that spread
outside their prostate to the lymphodes, bone or other organs
(41:46):
that their average survival is two to three years. And
our latest reports show that with combination therapies, men are
living on average seven years, some ten years or more.
So this is where, you know, it's so important for
people to get this message. Some healthcare providers may not
be explaining all the advantages of these additional therapies, and
(42:09):
yes there's some side effects, but we can manage those things.
It's so important for people to recognize the advantages of
keeping this disease at bay for so long, and a
lot of this information can be found on some of
our websites. We've got a new website out there specifically
for patients called Advancedpctreatment dot com. I encourage our patients
(42:31):
to check it out to see more about these combination
therapies and what might be benefiting them.
Speaker 1 (42:37):
Yeah, thanks, doctor George. Gina. How about on your side
of it, what resources are available to help patients and
caregivers feel more supportive.
Speaker 14 (42:45):
So, the Prospect Cancer Foundation recently updated our website and
relaunched it in May of twenty twenty five, and there
you will find everything about the disease from the screening
to biopsy, diagnosis, and then the treatment landscape and then finally,
we also have webinars that are provided for both the
(43:06):
caregivers and family support as well as the patients, and
that can be located at PCF dot org.
Speaker 1 (43:14):
Great, thank you both so much.
Speaker 14 (43:17):
Thank you, Kate, You're welcome.
Speaker 1 (43:20):
All right. We move from that, which I think is
really important information to get those checkups, you know, just
make the notes and do it. I mean, I think
when you're in that mid range and you're in shape,
and you're in your forties and you're in your early
fifties and whatnot, you just think, well, that's that's for older.
But obviously we've seen that's not the case. So we
(43:44):
move to a couple of random emails I got. I
thought I would throw to these. Jake is listening to
us in Connecticut w c G A, WG rather, wgc
H fourteen ninety am in and around Greenwich, Connecticut. Kate Delaney,
(44:07):
I love that you're gonna be a witch for Halloween.
My wife addresses up as a witch. She loves Halloween.
We have so many pumpkins all around. She loves to
give out candy to the kids in the neighborhood. I
won't even tell you what she spends on Halloween, but
I honestly think it's her favorite holiday besides Christmas the
(44:29):
whole year round. And I have to say she makes
great pumpkin pie. And I loved the spice lattes she
brought home the other day, So I guess it's not
all bad, right, No spiced I'm thinking pumpkin lattes. Maybe
that's what you're talking about so we go all the
way from Connecticut to the desert, and that would be
(44:54):
in Tucson, Arizona. Kate VOI ten thirty am. That's where
Bruce is listening to us. Bruce says, there's nothing that
gets me more excited about Halloween than going to a
haunted house. My kids are grown now, I'm a forty
three year old male, but yet I still love the
(45:16):
thrill of going in the bigger, batter, crazier haunted houses.
I've gone in them all around the country, and this
year there's a really good haunted house not too far
away from where we live, where it has the kind
of surprises where they jump out at you, and it
(45:38):
has a lot of other things supposedly because I haven't
done it yet, that are creepy and crawley that are
also new surprises too, And it costs twenty bucks to
get inside, and it's well well worth it. I don't
know if you like haunted houses or not, Kate, or
if you've gone into them over the years, but that
(46:01):
is my favorite favorite thing to do. There's something about
the fear. I just can't explain it. Something about the fear. Oh,
I think it's the worst are you kidding me? Here's
what I hate. I hate to be blindsided. So when
you go in the haunted houses and things pop out
at you, I mean that's the thing, right, Like someone's
dressed up and they they have a knife in their
hand and they jump right in front of you, and
(46:24):
people are grabbing onto you as you walk through, and
somebody comes out of a wall or whatever.
Speaker 14 (46:29):
That is.
Speaker 1 (46:30):
No, it is not my favorite thing to do. Proofs
I have done it. It's funny because my nephew as
a little boy, he always wanted to go in them,
and then he would cling to me for life and
I would say, why are we doing this, Ohen, and
he say, I want to go in, Kate, I want
to go and his parents say yeah, I mean take them.
(46:53):
And then one time we had to go over this
rickety bridge and there was a devil and a skeleton
on each side, and I said, Okay, which way do
you want to go? And he just sat in the
middle of the bridge and he started to cry. I thought, Okay,
this is it for me and Halloween haunted houses. I'm
(47:15):
not doing them anymore. I'm just saying I'm just saying them.
I'm not gonna do that, all right. A big reminder
to all of you if you miss some of the
cool highlights from the show, because I get this all
the time. There's an author we have on, there's something
we're talking about, there's some sort of resource, or you
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get both version of that and you can snap that up.
All right. Happy Halloween to everybody, and thanks so much
to all of you for listening to this hour and
the crew the Minnesota two, Jason 'daniel for their fine
work on the technicals. It was Ronnie in the fly
who said be afraid, be very afraid, my friends. I
(48:20):
echo that sentiment. Be safe, be saying, and enjoy the candy.
Thousands die every year from distracted driving. Meanwhile, it is Halloween.
Do you have your candy ready? The average American spends
at least thirty dollars. Some of the things that we're
talking about deeper into this hour and the rest of
this show. Hey, everybody, Kate Delaney here on ATM. But
first we shake things up always with the rundown. We
(00:35):
start with a wall of water that's slammed into the Northeast,
particularly New York Philadelphia. All of our listeners in Kinnecticut
and a lot of you probably were dealing with it too.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Hey.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Two people died Thursday in flooded basements effort record rainfall
in parts of New York City. Wow, the subways, you
could just see the water pouring down the steps, and
so many at the subway stations. And a thirty nine
year old man was found unconscious and unresponsive in a
flooded basement in Brooklyn. And then in northern Manhattan, the
(01:07):
body of a forty three year old man was found
in a flooded boiler room and it was spread across
the city. Brooklyn was a mess. There was so much
rain that fell that a thousand flights were canceled in
the Northeast and hundreds of others were massively delayed. I
(01:28):
mean it was nasty. The water that we're talking about.
All the airports in New York were down, they had
wind problems, etc. And especially the water that they saw.
The rain and wind are not from Hurricane Melissa, of course,
which slammed at the Caribbean this week. But instead this
was just a storm system that moved through and into
(01:50):
New England. Right now, it's kind of hitting there, so
most of the northeast six is affected to be drier
but a little bit windy on Halloween. There's what one
woman said, It felt like the wind was powerful. It
was like a tornado. Yeah, it was like a tornado,
(02:10):
all right. Speaking of that, the Asia trip was fast
and furious. And now the President is back and there's
been a lot of conversation about nuclear testing. The President
wants to push the restart button on nuclear tests. It
could take years and it could cost millions according to
(02:30):
a lot of experts. He talked about why it has
to happen.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
That had to do with others. They seemed it will
be nuclear testing. We have more nuclear weapons than anybody.
We don't do testing, and we've halted it years many
years ago, but with others doing testing, I think it's
appropriate that we do also.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
All right, it's because Russia and China is what he's saying.
And of course you look at I'm thinking a detonation
site in the Nevada the test site nineteen fifty three
e when you saw a big mushroom cloud that was
part of Operation Upshot. But there hasn't been anything like that,
and there's a lot of questions swirling as to what
does that mean. Then JD. Vance, the Vice President, was
(03:14):
asked to kind of clarify it.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Well, I think the President's truth speaks for itself. We
have a big arsenal. Sometimes you've got to test it
to make sure that it's functioning and working properly.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
All right, functioning and working properly. Well. A lot of
the people and I said this in a previous show
that would normally be involved in that aren't working right
now because of the government shutdown, and to be able
to start all of that up, it would not happen overnight.
There's just no way that that's possible to happen. So
there is that conversation on the heels of coming back
(03:47):
from China. And then ultimately, like I said, the question
is what does it mean after the President met with
Shijin Ping, what does it mean for us in the
United States? And he talked about the fact that overall
this meeting was just absolutely wonderful.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Overall, I guess on the scale from zero to ten,
with ten being the best, I would say the meeting
was at twelve.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
So it's a trade truce with China that was really
secured this week. And that's great news for American farmers
because you think of the soybeans and other things, but
especially soybeans and businesses, and there are a lot of
businesses that rely on cheaper things, let's face it, from China.
But actually you and I, the average consumer, probably not
(04:32):
too much. We won't really see much in the way
of that, although prices could trickle down if you're talking
about some of the things that are made by small business.
But meeting in South Korea just a few days ago, now,
Trump and the Chinese president agreed to retreat from this
exchange of measures that threatened a near shutdown of trade
(04:53):
between the world's two largest economies. But this is kind
of temp perrary, at least for a year. In some cases.
Trump got China to delay by one year the December
first start of restrictions on exports of the rare earth
minerals that US manufacturers need to produce a whole bunch
of civilian and military goods. She also promised to crack
(05:16):
down and illicit shipments of chemicals used to make the
deadly drug fentanyl, which we know has killed tens of
thousands of Americans, and to resume the farmer part the
purchases of American soybeans that he had stopped. But on
the other side of it, the President dropped a threat
(05:37):
for one hundred percent tariff cut in half the twenty
percent charge she had imposed on Chinese good goods rather
earlier this year, and fentanyl use to over fentuel use,
that was what that was about. And suspended port fees
for Chinese container ships and delayed new limits on exports
of advanced technology to China. So you heard what he said,
(05:58):
a twelve on a scale of one to ten. And
then ultimately, you know what does this look like? We
don't know till down the line right well, price wise,
like I said, all of that, but there is no
question the soybean thing is very very good. You know,
the Chinese orders for soybeans in states like Iowa and
(06:21):
Missouri had dropped to zero because Beijing was pressure pressuring
the president. Let's face it, So the White House had
started drawing up plans for multi billion dollar farm bailouts
while farm state lawmakers were begging, begging, begging for help.
So that's a really good thing if you look at
it that way. Don't forget to wind the clock back,
(06:44):
so to speak. Does anyone wind the clock back? Clocks
falling back? What does it mean? Look, I go buy
the iPhone. That's what I go by, and that automatically happens.
So I don't I'm being serious. I really don't have
anything to I was thinking about this today. There's nothing
for me to fall back. I get to fall back
on that hour sleep, which I love it because I
(07:05):
never get enough sleep. So that's a good thing. But
it's just going to automatically happen. I love clocks and things,
and I even have some watches that are tucked away
in drawers and stuff. I don't even know if half
of them work. But other than that, other than like
an oven clock, I don't know about the rest of you.
But I don't have a bunch of clocks. But if
(07:26):
you do wind them all back and do it, do
it on Sunday, because we officially fall back one hour
at two a m. On Sunday, November two, the end
of daylight savings time, where most states observe one hour
time change to maximize daylight in the evening. Not a
(07:46):
lot of people like it, or I should say a
lot of people don't like it. They'd rather the reverse stays.
Like a White and Arizona, we have listeners in both
places do not observe daylight savings time, so they don't
even do that, like not, it's nothing that they're worrying about.
It's whether they had clocks to wind back or not. Right,
(08:07):
that's the thing. Hey, coming up, there's a lot of
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at the top distracted driving way Till you hear what
the numbers are, they're crazy. It is the number one killer.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
Really.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
I mean, speed is right up there, but distracted driving
think about it where people turn for like two seconds,
they think it's okay, and then suddenly they're in a wreck.
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Speaker 1 (12:10):
So check out these scary statistics. According to the US
Department of Transportation, twenty nine percent of all motor vehicle
crashes are caused by distracted drivers, what resulting in more
than ten thousand deaths, one point three million injuries, and
five point six million damaged vehicles every single year. We
don't have to tell this to. Our next guest joining
(12:32):
us now is John Way. He's in our virtual green room.
He's the director of Customer Experience Research and Transportation and
Building Research for State Farm Insurance. And we're going to
talk about a really new twist and education about distracted driving?
How can we educate these people? So glad you're with us, John,
(12:53):
thank you for joining us.
Speaker 9 (12:55):
So appreciate the opportunity to be here.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
Kate, So appreciate your passion on this topic, because you
hit the nail on the head. But it's a real
problem and it's one that deserves a real focus.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
So I mean, you and I understand this. What do
we know? Why is distracted driving so dangerous? And why
does it seem like we just can't stop?
Speaker 5 (13:12):
Good and important question, Kate, and one that we have
stayed farmer actively exploring and seeking to talk about in
more interesting and more impactful ways. I think there are
a lot of individual things that we can point to
as being contributors to it, But I'll start here.
Speaker 9 (13:24):
I'd say it's just kind of how we're wired these days.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
You know, our generation is different than the ones that
came before us, and that we have seemingly endless opportunities
to remain connected and to remain talking to people, or
to remain engaged in our favorite content, or to look
things up and to do any and everything. They're all
wonderful things right in a vacuum, in isolation, and they're
enhancing our work life, they're making our personal lives more efficient,
(13:48):
more pleasurable. But Kate, the challenge is taking those same
series of activities that we're hardwired to be engaged in
all day, every day into the vehicle has some really
negative cons of quince is, we know that that distracted
drivers are dangerous drivers, and we want to start talking
about that in more impactful ways to start changing behaviors.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
So I mentioned a couple of the statistics, and you've
got this really cool thing to talk about. What's included
under the distracted driving umbrella?
Speaker 5 (14:18):
Yeah, so good question, right, because I think a lot
of us, and rightly so, gravitate immediately towards the cell phone.
Speaker 9 (14:23):
That's the one that we're joking a little bit off
the top.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
Where my personal aggravation comes in driving down the road
and seeing all of my fellow road users with a
cell phone basically right in front of their steering wheel.
Speaker 9 (14:33):
But it's not just that.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
It can be some of the more innocent things, Kate,
that we're all engaging in that can be distracting, like
eating a quick snack in between our work life and
home life, or engaging in conversation with someone in the
passenger seat, fumbling with the radio. There are a lot
of things that have nothing to do with the cell
phone that can be problematic. A couple of stats that
maybe back some of that up. A full eighty percent
(14:56):
of us admit to driving distractedly in front. They think
that we're pretty good at doing it. In that forty
five percent admit to entering GPS addresses into the interface
while they're driving. Almost half of us scroll music playlists.
Thirty four percent of us manually still dial our cell phones,
despite the fact that most of our cars have some
(15:17):
functionality to allow us to do that in the hands
free way. Perhaps the most concerning one for me and
guiltiest charge. I'm trying to be better about this. One
in five admit to either reading or sending an email
from behind the wheel. And I think we could all
agree that that is a real problem. And Kate, maybe
I'll underscore that with a couple of statistics that helped
maybe articulate the scope of the problem. You know, everything
(15:37):
I just mentioned requires a little bit of.
Speaker 9 (15:39):
Investment of time.
Speaker 5 (15:40):
Right now, I think most of us think we're very
capable drivers if we just look away for a second
or two to get this thing done. The hard truth
is that in two seconds you double your risk of
getting into a vehicle accidy. So in that two seconds
you look over to do whatever it is you're doing,
you have immediately doubled your risk of getting into a crash.
And that back home, distracted drivers are dangerous drivers. What
(16:03):
we view as distractions is more inclusive than probably what
the vast majority of us talk about, and so again
incumbent on us to be very intentional, very intentional, and
very mindful when we get behind the wheel.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Wow, those are crazy statistics. If the danger of distracted
driving doesn't motivate people to stop it, what do you
think will, John.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
We're seeking to talk about this more as an opportunity, Kate,
and more specifically a wellness opportunity. You know, look where
we started this conversation. We are all hyper connected and
hyper distracted, whether we realize it or acknowledge it actively
or not, and we know in looking at some of
the broader societal trends that that has an impact on
(16:44):
our well being.
Speaker 9 (16:45):
Well.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
There are opportunities in our lives and opportunities in our
day to take some of that control back to truly
disconnect from the noise. And the chaos and re establish
some peace in our daily lives. And so we would
love for people to start thinking about the obligation of
driving as an opportunity to reconnect with ourselves.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Oh that's so so good. Is there anything else, John,
you want us to know?
Speaker 5 (17:10):
So I'll just share a quick personal anecdote on that
front case, because I'm finding myself talking about this much
more routinely, both with our employees here at State Farm
and my family members and with folks like yourself. I
think we would go a long way towards just appreciating
those moments of silence and those moments of connectivity. And
for me personally right now, that's when I get in
(17:31):
my truck each morning to head off to work, and
I've gotten done ensuring that my two kids are are
ready for school and all the conversations in banter that
goes on there, and that my wife is ready to
conquer her day, and that the dogs have been taken
care of. And many can probably relate to some form
of that reality that's loud and it's noisy, and it's chaotic,
and it proceeds what's going to be allowed and noisy
and chaotic day when I get to my place of work,
(17:54):
and so now daily I'm very intentional about slamming that
door shut and just being present in the silence, taking
in and realizing that this is a safe space for
me to sit here and reflect and kind of gather
my thoughts in my day and plot out how I'm
going to show up as the best version of myself
and whatever setting I'm in. And truthfully, the call to
action here, Kate is, let's try to extend those moments
(18:15):
of peace and those moments of connectivity. I think our
immediate reaction right now as we slam that door shut
and we get our favorite program on the radio, and
we get our phone positioned correctly so that we can
see the text messages when they come across, and it
does not have to be that way. We have an
opportunity to think about this differently and operate differently. And
last point, Kate, as the father of two soon to
(18:38):
be teenage drivers, I take that opportunity and obligation very seriously.
Our children are watching us from a very early age
trying to get clues for how they should operate when
they become adults. And for anybody that's got children that
are soon to be teenage drivers. This is a really
good time for us to role model the behaviors that
we want to see in them.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Oh, that's excellent. Where can we go for more information?
Speaker 5 (19:01):
Appreciate you asking would appreciate your viewers and listeners. Going
out to statefarm dot com look for our Simple Insights page,
where you will find much more content on the topic
of distracted driving, some of the impacts and perhaps most importantly,
ways that we could start thinking about that differently.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
John Waite, thank you so much.
Speaker 9 (19:18):
Appreciate you. Kate, have great day, you too.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Yeah, I don't understand distracted driving. I get it, and
I bet you were all guilty of it. Like he said,
guilty has charged the idea of pausing and taking a breath.
I mean, listen, it's so preventable. Do not multitask while driving.
Anything that takes your attention away from driving can be
a distraction, you know, visually taking your eyes off the road,
(19:44):
taking your hands off the wheel, and you're moving around
doing things in the car. Nine people in the United
States are killed every day and crashes that involve a
distracted driver. In the United States, over thirty one hundred
people were killed at about four hundred and twenty for thousand.
These are insane statistics were injured in crashes that involved
(20:05):
a distracted driver. If we go back to twenty nineteen,
about one in five of the people who died in
crashes involving a distracted driver that year weren't even in
the cars. They were walking, riding their bikes, or otherwise
outside of whatever the moving truck, car, et cetera. Was,
but they got hit because the person wasn't paying attention right.
(20:30):
So a lot of states actually have laws to prevent
distracted driving, And of course a lot of that centers
around texting and the cell phone and whatnot, but distracted
driving could be a lot of things. I had a
friend in the business who good good friend. We were
both in we were both in television at the time.
And she went to go on a coffee run and
(20:51):
she her coffee, she didn't set it downright, and she's
driving and the coffee starts to slide, so she's paying
attention to the car. She slams right in to a
light pole, and of course she was injured, had to
be taking the hospital. All of that. Broke a wrist.
She's lucky it wasn't worse. Didn't hit anyone else, but
(21:12):
in just an instant because here goes my coffee. She
was just let the coffee spill, even if it makes
a mess, because not you know, not doing that just alone.
She was lucky there was anyone else there. But look
what happened. And I think your best defense against it
is but you can't. You can't always control what's happening
around you. You have to be a defensive driver these
(21:36):
days anyway, right, But people that are multitasking, I think
it's way, way off the charts. And it's not just teenagers.
People like to blame it on teenagers, but it's not
just teenagers. I mean, I've seen people. I've seen women
putting on makeup. I've seen people reading a book. I've
seen people that are messing around with something inside the car.
(22:00):
Can tell they're doing something inside the car, whatever it is,
they're fixing something or something slid or whatever it is.
But people, please, I think it's the saddest thing to
take a life because you had to. And of course
the basic answer some cell phone call or text somebody back.
You know, the public awareness campaigns. It can wait, It
(22:23):
absolutely can wait. Coming up next, we're talking about getting
college credits for real world experience. It can happen. You
can earn credits and even a degree that way. Find
out how next. I'm really excited about this next conversation.
(23:03):
I'm thinking about this. Imagine tips for turning real life
experience into college credit. Did you hear what I said?
Learn how credit for prior learning can help you complete
an unfinished degree and save money on higher education. Sounds
so good. Devin Andrews, VP of Admissions and Evaluation for
University Phoenix, joins us. Now, Devin, thanks for.
Speaker 10 (23:24):
Coming on, Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
So that really is I think for some people they
don't realize it. So it's really true, right that you
can earn college credit from life experiences.
Speaker 10 (23:35):
Yes, it's really true. You can earn college credit from
work in life experiences. You know, not every student takes
the traditional path to a four year degree right out
of high school. And here's what's interesting. We recently did
a survey with the Harris Pool and we found that
sixty percent of working adults without degrees don't know about
(23:56):
this hidden transfer credit potential, but really deserve to receive
credit for all of it, their learning, their work, and
their lived experiences. Throughout their educational journey.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
So then it begs the question what life experiences can
help you get college credit?
Speaker 10 (24:12):
So, really, adults have a lot of different learning experiences
that they have pained through their work in life. Professional
training programs, exams, and other sources may give them knowledge
and understanding that's at the same level as a student
who would have taken a course in a similar subject
at a college or university. In fact, according to our research,
(24:33):
thirty nine percent of employed adults spend more than ten
hours a month developing new skills, and universities and colleges
can assess that learning and award credit towards a degree.
Sometimes that might be a standardized activity like a national
testing program or a workplace certification. And there are many
large employers like McDonald's, Walmart, and others who have their
(24:56):
training programs evaluated by the American Council on Education for
credit recommendations.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Wow, what are the steps, because this is important obviously,
what are the steps to guide people listening on getting
credit for learning what you've already done.
Speaker 10 (25:13):
The first thing that's really important is to document your
learning experiences. Start with your past college coursework, but also
include learning experiences like military service and training licenses, certifications,
some of your personal learning like parenting, caregiving, community service.
(25:33):
And remember to also include any training that you've completed
at work. And then second, look for tools that help
you to assess the program, time and cost that you're
interested in in any potential savings. For example, at University
of Phoenix, we offer a new mobile app that helps
identify possible transfer credit. And really every college or university
(25:55):
is going to handle this a little bit differently. So
look at this for the schools that have clear policies
and on transferring credits and assessing credit for prior learning.
Because the schools that provide information and resources up front
really make it easier for potential students to understand what
they can expect when they enroll.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Yeah, and you said, this is the beginning people don't
realize about completing the degree. But what benefits are there
for completing a degree if for some reason, whatever the
reason is, someone wasn't able to do it the first
time around.
Speaker 10 (26:28):
Yeah, So if somebody's considering going back to college, the
data shows that getting their degree provides more career opportunities
and also increases earning potential. According to the US Bureau
of Labor Statistics, people with a bachelor's degree earn about
sixty five percent more per week than those with the
high school diploma alone. Completing a degree can also be
(26:51):
a really important foundation to progress in your career, and
other reasons might include job security, better benefits, maybe flexibility
for remote work.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Wow, how can somebody who's working but wants to get
their degree convince their employer? This is a big one, Devin,
to help pay for it?
Speaker 10 (27:10):
Yeah, it's important, you know. Our survey found that fifty
five percent of working adults have self financed their own
professional development, and some have had to decline opportunities due
to the cost. But we also know that in the
era of AI, employers really are seeking to retain their
top talent and want to help their workers upskill and
(27:31):
gain more competencies. Many employers offer tuition benefit programs and
may have agreements with institutions like University of Phoenix. They
may offer upskilling programs, apprenticeships and more. So it's really
important to check with your company and see what programs
and policies they have in place to support you.
Speaker 9 (27:51):
Love it?
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Where can listeners go? For more information?
Speaker 10 (27:55):
Check out our mobile app for a free pre evaluation
of transfer credit. Go to Phoenix Edu slash mobile dash app.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Devin Andrew's VP of Admissions and Evaluation, University of Phoenix.
Speaker 10 (28:06):
Thanks so much, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
All Right, it is Halloween, and yeah, did you know
that all together Americans are expected to spend three point
nine billion. I thought that was the wrong number. Three
point nine billion. Individually at least forty dollars. Halloween candy
is up ten point eight percent. So what did my
(28:35):
family do? Me and the hubs. He actually went shopping
with me after dinner, and we went shopping for a
couple of things, but included Halloween candy. Mistake to bring him,
I picked up one of the something you know that
had dots in it and it had TUTSI roll pops
and stuff, and he said, oh, that's the cheap candy.
(28:56):
Don't be cheap with the kids. By the time I
got out of there, I had Hershey Bars, Reese's cups
and we have forty five dollars worth of candy in
our house. What what do you think is that ridiculous?
Speaker 8 (29:13):
Mean?
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Wow? Forty five dollars And then ask me how much
he has eaten of the candy so far. He said, Oh,
I haven't eaten that much. I want to leave all
the good stuff for the kids. I don't think there's
any Starburst left. Let's just put it that way. So
if somebody was looking for starbus Burst rather, it's not
going to happen, all right, speaking of Halloween, Just in
(29:35):
time for Halloween, more screams. Yeah, that's the mic drop
Scream seven. Do you believe it? There's a Scream seven
coming out and a lot of the first people that
were part of the franchise are back, so Nev Campbell,
Courtney Cox part of the cast. And then there's some
(29:57):
other faces you know that are in it too. Mark Consuelo, boy,
he's popping up everywhere, so he's in it. Joel McHale
is in it. And you know that's the original slasher
or one of the original slashers from the nineties. We
have the ghost faced killer that comes into the quiet
town where Sidney Prescott Nev Campbell has built to life.
(30:21):
Her darkest fears are realized as her daughter becomes the
next target. So she's got to protect her family and
face the horrors of her past to put an end
to the bloodshed once and for all. How many of
you are going to go and catch Scream seven. I'm
just wondering. Or you might be friends, or you might
(30:42):
be friends. You might be friends with some of them.
You might be familiar with Stranger Things. Stranger Things is
in season five and it's the fall of nineteen eighty seven.
That town has been quarantined by the military. Everything's turned
upside down. It's really pretty I saw a little preview
(31:04):
it is looks pretty scary actually, So that starts up
not though until the end of November. I'll be watching
that for sure. And by the way, the Scream seven
you can only look at the previews. You can't go
to the theaters right now. That doesn't come out till February
twenty seventh. You kind of would think, wouldn't it be
good if they hit them right around Halloween. I'm just
(31:27):
thinking out loud, right, all right. A couple of quickies
here to talk about, including this one. Bye Bye the
title of Prince. King Charles stripped his brother Andrew of
the prince title and evicted him from the royal mansion. Yes,
it's true. He took the extraordinary step of taking the
(31:48):
titles away, evicting him from his estate and Windsor. That's
pretty dramatic, and that's the latest to quell the scandal
over the disgraced prince's ling to convicted rather sex offender
Jeffrey Epstein. The Buckingham Palace release, they put out a
news release set. It's a necessary censures and it shows
(32:11):
you the deep split in the British royal family. Right.
I wonder now, because of doing all of that, King
Charles and the British establishment did they actually do enough
to prevent his association with Epstein from really swallowing up
the monarchy Because Andrew, at sixty five, has faced about
(32:32):
fifteen years of on and off controversy over that friendship
with Epstein, and it's now intensified after the release of
the memoir by Virginia Jeffree, who alleged that Andrew had
sexually assaulted her as a teenager. In fact, her family
put out their own statement saying, just an American girl,
(32:55):
an ordinary American girl from an ordinary town, taking down
a prince who would have thought and of course it
was sad. She died by suicide in April, just forty
one years old. And he's repeatedly denied that he knewer
denied all the allegations against him. So her brother said,
(33:15):
it's been joyous and happy and just a sad day. Anyway,
she should be here, she should be doing interviews, as
she gave so many interviews, And he said, it just
shows that her truth was out there now, especially bigger
with that book, and it shows her extraordinary courage in
(33:36):
doing that because it had been a long time fight.
So will there be more shoes that drop on that?
Certainly there could be, but that has to play out,
I think criminally, is what we're talking about. If anything
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landfalls in record on record in the Atlantic Basin, and
it lashed that island with winds and rain. You know,
we were talking about that and made that landfall in
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Speaker 1 (38:01):
Wow, this is so important. I saw this in my
own life. The critical role of caregivers and supporting patients
with prostate cancer. Seventy seven percent of caregivers are involved
in encouraging their patients first screening, and we have tremendous
experts with us to talk about this, including doctor Daniel
(38:24):
George and Gina Rather Carruthers, who is the President and
CEO of the Prostate Cancer Foundation. Doctor George is a
medical oncologist with a specialized focus on prostate cancer at
the Duke Cancer Institute. So thank you both for coming
on my pleasure.
Speaker 14 (38:42):
Thank you for having us Kate.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
Of course, doctor George, can you tell us about prostate
cancer and which men especially are at the greatest risk
of being affected.
Speaker 15 (38:53):
Yes, you know, Kate, it's all met are at risk
for developing prostate cancer, particularly as they age. But there
are so groups that are at greater risks than others.
And there's really three and the first is patients with
a family history of prostate cancer, so particularly you know,
if you've got a direct relative, a father or brother
with prostate cancer, your risk of developing prostate cancer is
(39:16):
much greater. The second group are men who identify as
Black or African ancestry. These are men that have probably
some genetic underlying risk of developing prostate cancer. It tends
to be more aggressive, so again another group we really
want to screen. And then the third group, believe or not,
we recommend for all men to get a midlife PSA.
(39:36):
This is a check between age forty five and fifty.
It's a blood test that your primary doctor can order
for you, and if it's above one point six, this
is really a flag for us, not necessarily that you
have prostate cancer, but you're much greater risk of developing it.
So we want to screen these particular subgroups much more carefully.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
Oh, great information, and Gina, you know this from your
work at the PC. What are some of the ways
caregivers can support their loved ones during their prostate cancer journey?
Speaker 14 (40:06):
So I think first we start out with the caregiver
or the support person in the life of the male,
reinforcing the need for screening and early detection, because with
early detection, which is through a simple blood test, we
can get early diagnosis and ninety nine percent of men
who have early diagnosis can be cured from their prostate cancer.
(40:31):
So that's a critical role that those who are around
the men in their lives can support. And then if
the male is in fact diagnosed with prostate cancer, then
participating in the medical appointments, going through the patient support
decision making process that they need to go through, and
providing education for yourself as well as that patient.
Speaker 10 (40:55):
Right, both of you.
Speaker 14 (40:56):
Need to be advocates for the treatment and decision that
the patient's going to be making. And so that's a
tremendous way for men to go through the journey, is
either the support of a colleague, another man, a family,
a loved one. That way they're on that journey and
being able to make clear decisions.
Speaker 1 (41:17):
And there's been, obviously, doctor George, a lot of advancements.
How is the prostate cancer treatment landscape evolving?
Speaker 15 (41:24):
You know, it's tremendous. In the last ten years, we've
really changed the landscape of patient for treatment for patients
with advanced prostate cancer in particular, and to the point
where now this is a chronic disease. Ten years ago,
we used to tell men who have disease that spread
outside their prostate to the lymphodes, bone or other organs
(41:46):
that their average survival is two to three years. And
our latest reports show that with combination therapies, men are
living on average seven years, some ten years or more.
So this is where, you know, it's so important for
people to get this message. Some healthcare providers may not
be explaining all the advantages of these additional therapies, and
(42:09):
yes there's some side effects, but we can manage those things.
It's so important for people to recognize the advantages of
keeping this disease at bay for so long, and a
lot of this information can be found on some of
our websites. We've got a new website out there specifically
for patients called Advancedpctreatment dot com. I encourage our patients
(42:31):
to check it out to see more about these combination
therapies and what might be benefiting them.
Speaker 1 (42:37):
Yeah, thanks, doctor George. Gina. How about on your side
of it, what resources are available to help patients and
caregivers feel more supportive.
Speaker 14 (42:45):
So, the Prospect Cancer Foundation recently updated our website and
relaunched it in May of twenty twenty five, and there
you will find everything about the disease from the screening
to biopsy, diagnosis, and then the treatment landscape and then finally,
we also have webinars that are provided for both the
(43:06):
caregivers and family support as well as the patients, and
that can be located at PCF dot org.
Speaker 1 (43:14):
Great, thank you both so much.
Speaker 14 (43:17):
Thank you, Kate, You're welcome.
Speaker 1 (43:20):
All right. We move from that, which I think is
really important information to get those checkups, you know, just
make the notes and do it. I mean, I think
when you're in that mid range and you're in shape,
and you're in your forties and you're in your early
fifties and whatnot, you just think, well, that's that's for older.
But obviously we've seen that's not the case. So we
(43:44):
move to a couple of random emails I got. I
thought I would throw to these. Jake is listening to
us in Connecticut w c G A, WG rather, wgc
H fourteen ninety am in and around Greenwich, Connecticut. Kate Delaney,
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I love that you're gonna be a witch for Halloween.
My wife addresses up as a witch. She loves Halloween.
We have so many pumpkins all around. She loves to
give out candy to the kids in the neighborhood. I
won't even tell you what she spends on Halloween, but
I honestly think it's her favorite holiday besides Christmas the
(44:29):
whole year round. And I have to say she makes
great pumpkin pie. And I loved the spice lattes she
brought home the other day, So I guess it's not
all bad, right, No spiced I'm thinking pumpkin lattes. Maybe
that's what you're talking about so we go all the
way from Connecticut to the desert, and that would be
(44:54):
in Tucson, Arizona. Kate VOI ten thirty am. That's where
Bruce is listening to us. Bruce says, there's nothing that
gets me more excited about Halloween than going to a
haunted house. My kids are grown now, I'm a forty
three year old male, but yet I still love the
(45:16):
thrill of going in the bigger, batter, crazier haunted houses.
I've gone in them all around the country, and this
year there's a really good haunted house not too far
away from where we live, where it has the kind
of surprises where they jump out at you, and it
(45:38):
has a lot of other things supposedly because I haven't
done it yet, that are creepy and crawley that are
also new surprises too, And it costs twenty bucks to
get inside, and it's well well worth it. I don't
know if you like haunted houses or not, Kate, or
if you've gone into them over the years, but that
(46:01):
is my favorite favorite thing to do. There's something about
the fear. I just can't explain it. Something about the fear. Oh,
I think it's the worst are you kidding me? Here's
what I hate. I hate to be blindsided. So when
you go in the haunted houses and things pop out
at you, I mean that's the thing, right, Like someone's
dressed up and they they have a knife in their
hand and they jump right in front of you, and
(46:24):
people are grabbing onto you as you walk through, and
somebody comes out of a wall or whatever.
Speaker 14 (46:29):
That is.
Speaker 1 (46:30):
No, it is not my favorite thing to do. Proofs
I have done it. It's funny because my nephew as
a little boy, he always wanted to go in them,
and then he would cling to me for life and
I would say, why are we doing this, Ohen, and
he say, I want to go in, Kate, I want
to go and his parents say yeah, I mean take them.
(46:53):
And then one time we had to go over this
rickety bridge and there was a devil and a skeleton
on each side, and I said, Okay, which way do
you want to go? And he just sat in the
middle of the bridge and he started to cry. I thought, Okay,
this is it for me and Halloween haunted houses. I'm
(47:15):
not doing them anymore. I'm just saying I'm just saying them.
I'm not gonna do that, all right. A big reminder
to all of you if you miss some of the
cool highlights from the show, because I get this all
the time. There's an author we have on, there's something
we're talking about, there's some sort of resource, or you
just get a kick out of the cheesy one liners
and you want a list of them, well, then you
(47:36):
can go to Kate Delaney Radio with Extra Sauce the Sauce. Yes,
Kate Delaney Radio with Extra Sauce the Sauce. Any place
you get to a podcast, whether it's Apple, Spotify, just
go there, download it there, or just go to the
website Kate Delaney Radio and it's listed there and then
the full show is always there America Tonight, So you
(47:58):
get both version of that and you can snap that up.
All right. Happy Halloween to everybody, and thanks so much
to all of you for listening to this hour and
the crew the Minnesota two, Jason 'daniel for their fine
work on the technicals. It was Ronnie in the fly
who said be afraid, be very afraid, my friends. I
(48:20):
echo that sentiment. Be safe, be saying, and enjoy the candy.
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