ATN Extra Sauce 07-31-25 | Passengers stranded by Cruise ships, Jerome Powell says no rate cut, Best hospitals ranked

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:12):
That's what we were all thinking.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
After the tsunami risks passed for the US after that
massive eight point eight earthquake, there were some scary moments
and people that headed for the high ground, especially in
Honolulu and in other parts of the Hawaiian Islands, and
the same thing for people along the Pacific rim. A

(00:38):
lot of people in Oregon kind of scrambled, the same
thing in San Francisco, because when you hear you should
get out and maybe should look for higher ground, especially
if you were on the coastal area. That's what you do. Hey, hey,
everybody again, Crisis averted to be with you here on

(01:01):
ATM the Charquity Board of Talk Radio. So what happened?
Like I said, you had the earthquake. We know about that.
I talked about it a ton in the last show
because it happened we were on the air, and the
tsunami warning was then downgraded to an advisory. Small waves
were reported, no significant damage or injuries in Hawaii, and

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people in low lying coastal areas who were advised to
evacuate and had inland, a lot of them did that,
but the situation stabilized, so it allowed them to return
to whatever normalacy is for them. But there was one
thing that did happen where people freaked out. You had

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passengers on a couple of cruise ships that were abandoned
at the dock because many of them had gone off
in Hawaii to expeditions from the boat, and they were
getting these alerts from their phone to get back to
the boat because they were taking off, they were leaving

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the harbor. So they were marooned. They were removed, just marooned,
and on TikTok you saw son of people with TikTok's
describing what happened to them.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
Here's a couple of them.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
We thought the ship would still leave at its original time,
given that the tsunami would hit by seven pm. But
now that we're here and it's only three point fifty,
they've already closed the ship and now we're strounded here.

Speaker 4 (02:35):
We were up visiting Volcano National Park, and so the
tsunami warning go off on our phones. And then one
of the tour operators from our cruise ship, the Friday
of America, said everyone back to the ship.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
Passage you can.

Speaker 4 (02:50):
Ship's leaving at three point thirty, and we we knew
at that point we were going to make it so
it's pulling away.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
Now, Yeah, I understand Volcano National Park. I climbed it.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
You're too far up to scramble down unless you had
a helicopter that took you right to the boat.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
So pretty scary.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
But in the event of a tsunami warning, cruise ships
have to move the water that's at least one hundred
and eighty feet deep to avoid the impact of waves.
Tsunamis are the most dangerous in shallow water when they
get close to the shore. So if you're at sea,
you avoid going to shallow water. Harbor's, marina's, bays, inlets,

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all of that, and you can't do it because think
of the debris, think of everything else. So they had
to move because that was the area. Hawaii was one
of the areas that was the big concern. Like I
mentioned Hawaii, Russia of course was a concern, and they
did feel that on the eastern coast where it happened, Alaska,

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the whole US West Coast and Japan.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
But we're talking about a five foot waves, so.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
That is really actually a very very good news that
that's what happens to.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
The Norwegian cruise Line.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
Pride of America was one of them that left the
passengers behind. And also the Oceana Regatta was forced to
leave port in Kahlui Kona on the Big Island of
Hawaii while there were still some guests ashore. And they
tell people you have to have a contingency plan in
place in case of emergencies. So those people got ubers

(04:29):
and went for shelters and higher grounds and did whatever
they can do.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
I guarantee, if I'd been at.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
One of those ships, because I'm an expedition person, I
would have been up and out too, and who knows,
I'm sure I wouldn't have been anywhere near the boat.

Speaker 1 (04:44):
Some to keep in mind if you go on cruise ships.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
All right, The big story of the day economically speaking,
is that Jerome Powell and the Federal Reserve of course met,
They do their two day meetings and nothing has changed.
So the interest rates were not changed. There was no
cut after the votes. Here's what Powell said.

Speaker 5 (05:11):
The majority of view was still what it has been,
which is that inflation is running above target, maximum employment
is right at target. That means policy policy should be
a little bit restrictive, somewhat restrictive, because we want we
want inflation to move all the way back to its target.
So that's where people have been and still are. Two

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of our members felt that the time had come to
cut and that they for the reasons that they're they're
going to express. I won't I won't tell you the
reasons they've they'll they'll issue some kind of of a
thing in the next day or so.

Speaker 1 (05:45):
So, but that's the story.

Speaker 5 (05:48):
And I would say, you know, well argued, very thoughtfully,
argued all around the table, good arguments, and you know,
it's a situation where unusual situation.

Speaker 1 (05:59):
The economies is in good shape.

Speaker 5 (06:01):
But it's an unusual situation where you have risks to
both your employment mandate and your inflation. That's the nature
of a supply shock.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
So, for the first time since nineteen ninety nine where
the one FED governor voted against the chair in an
official policy decision, two of the seven sitting governors. He
mentioned that Michelle Bowman and Christopher Waller, that's their names,
made the case for a rate cut, so they followed
through the dissenting votes, first time that they've had so

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actually two governors that have done that in two hundred
and fifty nine meetings. Bowman and Waller are Trump appointees,
and they have taken some political flack incoming for sure
for aligning themselves with the president's call for immediate rate cuts.
And they've argued that the labor market is not as

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strong as consensus economists believe, so their case for lower
rates is rooted in the signs of cooling wage growth
and slow job creation. These are some of the things
that you talk about and you argue about when you're
at the big table deciding whether there's going to be
cuts or you're moving forward, or what is happening with policy.

Speaker 1 (07:16):
So I'm just gonna say stay tuned. I said it.

Speaker 2 (07:19):
I mean, listen, I didn't have to shake the magic
eight ball or go to Madame Cleo. It's clear that
because of the whole tariff situation. You heard the very
last thing out of his mouth is he's not budging,
and that's not happening. Maybe the next time around, maybe
at the tail end of the year, there will be

(07:40):
a cut. There's still I think a lot of shock
and there should be over what happened in Manhattan a
few days ago. A man who killed four people at
a Manhattan office building apparently bought the rifle he used
in the attack and the car you drove across the
country from a supervisor at a Las Vegas casino. Twenty
seven year old Shane Tomorrow, who said he had CTE

(08:03):
in a rambling note that he left really stunned the
people who thought they knew him, including his former football coach,
who said he knew nothing of him, even being roughed
up too much when he played. And he said he
just can't wrap his head around the story.

Speaker 6 (08:20):
I can't believe it.

Speaker 3 (08:21):
It's just, you know, even though I haven't seen a
kid in what ten years, I just yeah.

Speaker 7 (08:26):
It's still I can't process that yet.

Speaker 3 (08:29):
It's tough.

Speaker 8 (08:30):
I want to, you know, sometimes I just want to,
you know, I want to cry.

Speaker 2 (08:35):
We all want to cry. It is a sad, sad thing. Epstein, Epstein, Epstein.
We just can't get out of that mode. Also coming up, mosquitoes,
what do you do when you keep getting bit We
might have a solution.

Speaker 1 (08:48):
Odds and ends.

Speaker 2 (09:01):
All right, topping odds and ends. It's Epstein, Epstein, Epstein,
our own files, because it's the story that's never going away.
Just because he went away, it doesn't mean that the

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story is going away. I mean, look, the House took
off early because they wanted to get out of that
whole thing. And you've got this ever changing narrative for
some people because they want to They don't understand. I
thought there was a serious file. I thought there was
a list of people, there's some sort of book. There

(09:45):
is more to what happened on that island? What is
the deal on that? And then you got Julane Maxwell,
who's like swooping in. Let me take advantage of that.
I'm gonna say, I'm gonna tell the doj everything and
I'll testify if if you get me out of this jail,
if only the President would pardon me, if only the
Supreme Court will send me a lifeline. So far, nothing

(10:08):
has happened there, but the President gets asked this all
the time.

Speaker 1 (10:13):
What was the connection to Epstein? What happened in the break?

Speaker 2 (10:17):
When you say he was out of your life, you
bounced him out of your life. And that has to
do with stealing some of his employees from a SPA.
He said it again on Air Force One.

Speaker 6 (10:31):
He took people.

Speaker 1 (10:32):
And because he took people, I said, don't do it anymore.

Speaker 6 (10:34):
You know they work for me.

Speaker 7 (10:36):
And he took.

Speaker 4 (10:38):
Beyond that he took some others and once he did that,
that was the end of him.

Speaker 1 (10:44):
That was the end of him.

Speaker 2 (10:45):
And it's true he warned him and that is not
an exaggerated story. Several people have also verified that, in fact,
one of the employees sadly was Virginia Guffrey, who died
by suicide in April, and she worked at mar Lago

(11:05):
as a locker room attendant at the age of sixteen
in the summer of two thousands. So her family called
the admission of all this stuff shocking, and that the
Julane Maxwell thing in particular, that she should as a
monster and she should rot in prison. That's what her
family says, that she should not get a pardon because

(11:29):
it was Maxwell who targeted and prayed on Guffree while.

Speaker 1 (11:33):
She was working at Mar A Lago.

Speaker 2 (11:36):
And I think it's good to clarify that aspect with Maxwell,
because she was the huntress according to all the reports
and the investigations, which was why ultimately she was put
in jail. So there has not been any mention that
the pardon is happening, and the Justice Department hasn't commented

(12:00):
when asked about the Gumfrey family's statement about this. She
does not deserve this, that she was his good friend
and she preyed on these young women who were under age,
and the survivors deserve that she stays in prison. By
the way, she's serving a twenty year prison sentence for

(12:22):
her role recruiting trafficking miners for sex. But she did
meet with the Deputy Attorney Todd Blanche last week for
two days. They're looking for additional information pertaining to the
Epstein case. Her attorney emphasized that there were no ass
at that time and no promises regarding clemency, but the

(12:46):
relief would be welcome. Stay in jail, stay in jail.
Just the whole sordid, sick story and what they nailed
her for and what happened to those young girls. Yeah,
un believable in a sense, But then in another sense,
I guess not because you know some of the stories

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that we've had on this show, some of the really
sad stories how people young women have been trapped in
trafficking situations and used for sex. We move to something
completely different, Mosquitos. Who wants to get bit by Mosquitos?

Speaker 1 (13:28):
There are so.

Speaker 2 (13:33):
Yes, yes, yes, indeed, there are so many ways to
kill mosquitos at least everybody has one to tell you about.
It takes more than I guess. A tiny mosquito is
not just a nuisance, but has a little crowns the
number one killer of humanity across our lives, our existence.

(13:55):
According to a historian I was reading a quote from
Timothy Wininguard. Today, the predatory insect takes more than one
million lives each year by transmitting lethal diseases. We know that,
and so the whole thing is what can we do
to get rid of mosquitoes? And one of the things

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is to steer clue clear of alcohol. There's something about
alcohol that makes us light up, almost like infrared, according
to this historian, and your temperature to your body temperature,
So you become a magnet for mosquitoes because they can

(14:37):
they can find you. That's what it is. The other
they feel it, they see you somehow. The other thing
is applying, of course, insect repellent. I mean, that's the
bare minimum or the gold standard to do that. But
if you don't, you're more vulnerable. But it's some people

(14:59):
laugh themselves up in it, and that's not doesn't mean
that that's gonna you know, they're going to find a
chink somewhere unless you have every single thing so covered
and so it's it's a few sprints is all you need.
That's what you need that has to have date in it.
You realize that you have to have date in it.
The other thing, of course, is the water, because female

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mosquitoes lay their eggs in still water and they don't
need a lot of it, like a pond, a pool,
a stream, anything. You could be in that still pool
and that's where the mosquito can get you. And people
have this myth about it's my blood type. They don't
care about your blood type. There's no truth to that.
It doesn't matter. I mean maybe, oh, people with O

(15:47):
say they get bitten twice as much as with A
or B or whatever. But it's according to most scientists
that's not really true. There's a slight exaggerate, let's put
it that way. Slight exaggeration, no exaggeration. When it comes
to sharks. Yeah, the waters off of New York and

(16:16):
the Hampton's they'd really pulled in the sharks. I didn't
realize how many sharks. I mean, it makes sense. Look,
it's an ocean, so if they're not saying, oh no,
I'm not going to New York. Let me go down
the coastline. It's prettier in the Carolinas. There's more beach goers.
Let's go to Florida. It's it's better there. We can hunt.
Because remember, that's not what it's about. So more sharks

(16:41):
have showed up. You look at the Rockaway area, they've
been hit by a couple of sharks.

Speaker 1 (16:47):
I mean, we're talking pretty decent sized sharks.

Speaker 2 (16:49):
You want to stay away from those bulls or those tigers.
Of course, a great white that would be really unusual
can happen. But in this case, we're probably talking about
showing up once again on that whole long beach area.
There was three of them that were spotted overhead, so
people were told to clear steer clear of that area.

(17:13):
It's just a good reminder, I guess to everybody. It
doesn't matter where you are, just be aware you are
in their swimming pool. And most shark attacks happen in
water that is less than three feet Did you know that?

Speaker 7 (17:28):
All right?

Speaker 2 (17:28):
Ready for something good, We're sticking with the sea. A
large sea turtle that was found injured along the Florida
coast in May because a boat smashed into it. They
called this adult female Pennywise, three and two pounds, is

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now finally healthy, strong enough to go to the wild
after being treated at the Loggerhead Marine Life Center Vets
Area for the past couple of months. You know each
and so that's really really good. There's a lot of
interactions with boats that are fatal. So the center transported
the turtle to a horse clinic for diagnostic imaging because

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she was too large to fit inside a CT machine.

Speaker 1 (18:16):
They discovered she was also full of eggs.

Speaker 2 (18:19):
With see turtle nesting season underway, Pennywise has the chance
to lay her eggs and continue the role she has
in the marine ecosystem. So it's very exciting for the
community because you have people that heard about it and
they lined up to wish her well as she was
returned to the sea. Nesting season in Florida runs from

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March first to October thirty first, so it's just a
good reminder for boaters to slow down because they're in
the water. I've seen a couple of turtles when we've
been out on boats.

Speaker 1 (18:57):
This is pretty exciting.

Speaker 2 (18:59):
Actually, it would be exciting if we hit them and
you can see how that could even accidentally happen. But
that's a cute story and good for Pennywise.

Speaker 1 (19:07):
A lot of people came out to watch it.

Speaker 2 (19:10):
She kind of slowly slumbered toward the water. We'll come
back lay those eggs. That is a good, good story,
that's for sure.

Speaker 1 (19:21):
All right.

Speaker 2 (19:21):
Coming up on the flip side, we got all kinds
of things for you, including birthdays. There's some surprise birthdays
in there.

Speaker 7 (19:28):
Stay with us.

Speaker 2 (19:41):
So pleased to be joined by doctor Faginia here on
the show because it's so important what we're talking about.
Think about your picky eaters and what do you do
with back to school nutrition? How can we make this
so much more simpler? And she certainly has the cred
and knows this. She is the director of Medical Affairs

(20:02):
nutritional Science at Bear and she's got a new survey
with some great insights to share with us and solutions
to help fill these key nutritional gaps. So, Doc, thanks
so much for coming on.

Speaker 8 (20:15):
Thank you so much for having me.

Speaker 2 (20:17):
Let's start there. Let's start about the survey. Tell us
more about the survey.

Speaker 8 (20:21):
Sure, the survey really highlights the meal time struggles that
many families face. Nearly sixty percent of parents say their
child is a picky eater, and almost two out of
three report that their kids refuse to eat veggies at
least once a week. While kids often refuse to eat
foods because of how it tastes, the survey found that smell, texture,

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and color also play an important role. Over have a
parent say that their kid is texture sensitive, and one
third said that their kid won't eat certain color.

Speaker 2 (20:53):
Foods, oh, certain color friends.

Speaker 1 (20:55):
So what do you do.

Speaker 7 (20:58):
Well?

Speaker 8 (20:59):
What this really means is that getting kids the key
nutrients they may need can be a challenge. For example,
for nutrient like iron, Iron is one of the most
common nutrient deficiencies in children in the US, and making
sure kids get enough is important for their development. So
I always encourage parents and kids to eat a well

(21:20):
balanced diet to get their essential nutrients and to help
fill nutrient gaps, especially for picky eaters. There is a
new one of Day Kid's multigummy with iron. These gummies
provide ten key nutrients like vitamin C, D, and E
and an excellent source of iron with two thirds of
the recommended daily value. No other leading kids gummy multivitamin

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has more iron.

Speaker 2 (21:46):
Wow, And so, like you said, the sixty percent. That
is a very staggering number, isn't it?

Speaker 6 (21:52):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (21:54):
So what you just told us there is so so important?
Where can people go for more information?

Speaker 8 (22:00):
Well, you can go to oneaday dot com to learn
more about their new gummy options in our multi vitamin
line for yea one of they kids?

Speaker 2 (22:11):
So why else would you say?

Speaker 1 (22:12):
Would you say?

Speaker 2 (22:12):
Planning is important?

Speaker 8 (22:14):
So what I do as a mom of five is
I'm model healthy eating myself. Kids often mimic their parents,
so when they see you choosing nutritious options, they are
more likely to follow suit. Involving them in meal prep
can also spark their interest. They're more inclined to eat
what they help make. You can even tell stories about

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the foods uh they're eating to boost their interests, like
how a certain food benefits their bodies. Also, if you're
looking for easy ways to sneak in more nutrients, blending
veggies into sauces or smoothies is a great trick. Be
patient and persistent. It can take multiple exposures to a
new food before a child accepts it. And finally, consider

(22:59):
adding a one to day kids multi to their daily
routine for added nutritional support.

Speaker 2 (23:04):
Yeah, all excellent excellent advice.

Speaker 1 (23:07):
Thank you so.

Speaker 8 (23:07):
Much, Thank you so much for having me.

Speaker 1 (23:12):
Yes, there's vitamins.

Speaker 6 (23:14):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (23:15):
Interesting. As an adult, I don't take anything.

Speaker 2 (23:18):
And because of so many people that are out there
with all kinds of crud that you can easily pick up,
I started taking after the last time I caught something
from the hubs by the way who gave it to
me when we had a little weekend get away. I
started taking like D three and a vitamin, like a
gummy vitamin thing too.

Speaker 1 (23:38):
And some people.

Speaker 2 (23:39):
Will say, well, yeah, I don't know how much that's
going to help you. But the people I know that
seem to be the healthiest are taking like at least
a handful of things. We don't get enough sun so
even if you live in an area that's sunny, so
I think it makes sense to take some d's And
that's that's that's what I'm doing, and also the gummy

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as well.

Speaker 1 (24:03):
Time for some.

Speaker 2 (24:04):
Birthdays, some really good ones today. If I said to you,
mister Universe, hmmm. If I said to you pumping Iron
nineteen seventy seven. If I said to you Governor of California,

(24:28):
if I said the running Man Predator kindergarten cop jingle
all the Way, Terminator one in two, Judgment Day Ooh,
three other sequels, and this famous.

Speaker 1 (24:42):
Line, I'll be back. Do you know what I'm talking about?

Speaker 7 (24:47):
Now?

Speaker 2 (24:48):
Are you screaming out the answer into the air. It
would be Arnold Schwarzenegger. He's celebrating a birthday. How old
is Arnold Schwarzenegger. I don't know why I was surprised
by this, but he is seventy eight years old.

Speaker 1 (25:04):
Well, he's been in a lot of films.

Speaker 2 (25:06):
I had all that controversy over having a child with
his housekeeper and his divorce, but they seemed to, according
to what you even hear from them, they seem to
have now come to a good place where the kids
are the focus. They're all adults and they have grandkids.
And Arnold is a well liked person. He absolutely is.

(25:31):
There was a documentary on him maybe two years ago,
and if you're a fan of Arnold's it's a great watch.

Speaker 1 (25:38):
Look it up.

Speaker 2 (25:40):
I'm going to tell you about this woman. Let's see
if you know who she is. She was in romy
and Michelle's high school reunion. She was in The Comeback,
which is pretty funny. She was in the opposite of sex.
She was a friend, and she was Phoebe Buffet in

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a popular show name Friends, which aired from nineteen ninety
four to two thousand and four. You might have remember
her being famous for singing this song many cats, many cat,
What are they feeding you?

Speaker 1 (26:21):
Many cats?

Speaker 3 (26:23):
Melli cat?

Speaker 7 (26:24):
It's not your fun?

Speaker 8 (26:29):
Wow, that's great. Yeah, you know, you could totally sell this.
It'd be perfect for like, oh Katie letter campaign.

Speaker 7 (26:39):
A jingle, no no, no, no no, why.

Speaker 6 (26:41):
Not you make a ton of money?

Speaker 1 (26:43):
Okay, Well, if I was in this for the money,
I would be a millionaire by now, you know. Pretty funny.

Speaker 2 (26:49):
Sixty two years old, Lisa Kudro and certainly Friends really
made her, along with the others, pretty famous. There is
one more birthday, and this is a birthday of I
think a guy that you that you definitely know his face,

(27:12):
and you may know who he is too. I really
really like some of his work, and he's appeared lately
in more television shows, but he started off with commercials
and whatnot. And I'm going to just give you a
couple of quick hints about him too as well. And

(27:34):
he you might have known him from Brooklyn nine to nine,
you might and that was from twenty thirteen to twenty
twenty one. You might know him from White Chicks, the
Expendables film series. He was in that rumble America's Got Talent.

(27:54):
That's a really big hint. He even played as a
defensive end in linebacker in the NFL for the Rams,
the Chargers, and the Redskins Redskins at the time, as
well as the World League of American Football. You know
who it is from Flint, Michigan, Terry Crews. He is

(28:15):
fifty seven years old. Like I said, if you don't
know his name, you absolutely I think would know his face.
All Right, here's a great reminder about the show. If
you miss anything in the show, like those incredible mosquito
tips that I gave you, or what happened to those
stranded passengers from the cruise ships, or the latest on

(28:36):
Epstein Epstein Epstein, or some of the serious news that
you need to know just to keep yourself informed, or
what's happening with the Federal Reserve chair. Well, we have
a way to do that, and we also have great
authors on this show for Author's Corner that have incredible
stories that they talk about.

Speaker 1 (28:54):
You can go to Kate Delaney Radio with extra sauce.

Speaker 6 (28:57):
The sauce.

Speaker 2 (28:58):
It gives you the highighlights. We also have America Tonight
atn SO two different podcasts. You can get them on Apple,
you can get them on Spotify. iHeart all over the place.
Hopefully you hear them on these fabulous affiliates. But I
know how it is. Something goes by fast and you
want to hear it again, or you want to hear

(29:20):
the story you missed, or you couldn't remember the name
of the book, but you love the incredible author and
the novel that they were talking about.

Speaker 1 (29:27):
So there's a way to do it. Kate Delaney Radio
with Extra Sauce.

Speaker 6 (29:31):
The sauce.

Speaker 2 (29:34):
Oh so easy, Right, I have a ubiquitous bit of information.
I thought we needed a little fun on the show,
so I was going to have just a completely fun segment.
So here's an interesting piece of a ubi interesting piece
of info. Did you know Today's Cheesecake Day? You probably
don't know that cheesecake goes all the way back four
thousand years to ancient Greece. Yes, it's made of cream, cheese, eggs, sugar,

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and for some people a Graham cracker crust. Ooh my
mom made great cheesecake. Of all the things I can
replicate that she did recipe wise, I can't do that.
I mean, people would pay her, They would ask her, Hey,
I'll buy your cheesecake. To do pineapple cheesecake or half pineapple,

(30:21):
half plane or a plain cheesecake.

Speaker 1 (30:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (30:24):
You know how when you're lucky enough that the word
spreads or unlucky enough, everybody wants you to make a
certain dessert.

Speaker 1 (30:31):
That was her.

Speaker 2 (30:32):
Here's another one that's pretty interesting. Hulk Cogan. We just
lost at the age of seventy one last week. A
nineteen eighty one super wrestler Hulk Cogan action figure is
up for auction. Any guesses as to what the base
number is in the auction, I mean, of course you

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can go up, but uh, five thousand, five one hundred
dollars fifty five hundred dollars for the action figure. I
mean it looks pretty cool, but I don't know. It's
from nineteen eighty one, I'm gonna say, and it has

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a Japanese theme by the way, on the outside of
the cover. So US News and World Report is releasing
the thirty six annual Best Hospitals Study. Boy, I've been

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really anticipating this, So we're going to dig into it
with Chelsea Wynn, who is the senior health data analyst
for US News and World Report. Who better to do
this with, Chelsea. Thanks for coming on, Yeah, thanks so
much for having me. So let's talk about of course,
we're we talk about the rankings and what's the methodology
that you use to determine the best hospitals.

Speaker 6 (31:58):
Yeah, so our ratings and rankings of hospitals are rooted
in patient outcomes. So that's going to be things like mortality,
the readmission rates, the rates of complication after receiving a procedure.
You know, we're looking at how often patients are able
to be discharged directly from the hospital to their own

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home rather than being discharged to another long term care facility.
We also look at the patient experience, and we look
at the number of patients that are served by the
hospital as well.

Speaker 2 (32:36):
Yeah, and kind of along those same lines, how do
you determine which hospitals are the best regional hospitals?

Speaker 6 (32:43):
Yeah, so the best regional hospitals are hospitals that are
providing really exceptional care and delivering really great outcomes across
a full range of services. So specifically, these hospitals receive
at least eight high performing ratings across all of the
procedures and conditions that we evaluate. It's meant to provide

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local options for people so that you don't have to
necessarily travel to get really great care. So, you know,
for example, in the metro area of Dallas Fort Worth,
we have nine best regional hospitals. We have best Regional
hospitals listed in Des Moines, Iowa, and Providence, Rhode Island. Basically,
anywhere you live, there's probably going to be a hospital

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in your community or in your area close by that
you can go to.

Speaker 1 (33:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (33:36):
What I also like about the report too, is you
evaluate the top hospitals in more than three dozen different
healthcare services. So think about like cancer care would be
in there, or theopedics heart bypass surgery. Tell us more
about the different specialty areas and procedures and conditions that
you evaluate.

Speaker 6 (33:57):
Yeah, So I think creating are evaluating hospitals specifically in
each procedure is more useful for patients. You know, if
you're looking to get a hip replacement done, you want
to know that the hospital is really good at hip
replacements specifically. You might not care so much about how
they're doing on colon cancer surgery or something not as related.

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So we do evaluate hospitals in twenty two procedures and conditions.
This year we added two new ones, which are heart
arrhythmia and also pacemaker and plantations. Other historical ones we
have are back surgery, we have hip replacement, kidney failure,

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as well as diabetes and COPD. And then on the
other side a little bit different, we rank hospitals in specialties,
and the specialties are supposed to survey hospitals on how
they are treating the sickest patients, you know, the highest risk,
the most complex cases. So that's going to be in

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areas like cancer, neurology as well as gastro enterrology and
also urology.

Speaker 2 (35:09):
Oh so, now, as everybody's listening to this, which is
great because what a thorough report. How should Americans use
US News's Best Hospitals list when they make decisions about
their healthcare?

Speaker 6 (35:23):
Yeah? So I think it's our website, which is www
dot usnews dot com slash hospitals. It's a really great
tool for people to use as a starting point when
they're making these decisions. We have a search tool on there,
so you can search for the specific procedure you're interested in.

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You can type in me replacement, and you can also
type in your zip code or your city or your state,
and the website will pull up all of the hospital
profiles that meet that criteria. So it's a really great
way to compare and contrast the places that are in
your community. And of course, using that along with your

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doctor's advice and your family and friends advice is a
really great way to make that important decision.

Speaker 2 (36:13):
Yeah, I'm curious. How long have you been doing the report?

Speaker 6 (36:19):
So US News has been evaluating hospital for thirty six
years at this point.

Speaker 1 (36:25):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (36:25):
All right, all great information again, go to usnews dot
com slash hospitals.

Speaker 1 (36:32):
Chelsea. Thank you so much.

Speaker 6 (36:34):
Thank you so much for having me.

Speaker 2 (36:37):
A little sports shorts if you will in the moments
we have left in the segment before we introduce you
to a really cool customer, an incredible athlete who had
two heart transplants, Simon Keith.

Speaker 1 (36:52):
But before we go there, check this out.

Speaker 2 (36:55):
It was so chippy at the Cowboys practice that new
coach Brian Schottenheimer said, Okay, enough is enough. If you
go on X you can see you can see some
of the scuffles that some of the players had. There's
like three different scuffles, I mean where they were fisticups
and pushing each other and whatnot. So he said, okay,

(37:15):
enough is enough. So thanks to the few pushers and shovers,
everybody gets to run, including some of the coaching staff.
So the people that were involved in the fights, they
had to get running. And the way he said, he says,
you want to fight, let's boot fight, and he said
get your butt on the sideline.

Speaker 1 (37:35):
And that was it.

Speaker 2 (37:36):
He took control of what was happening. And I said,
that's a good thing. So he's not sitting back because
it was. It was ridiculous. Every time I kept looking
at what was happening. It was so chippy that they
weren't able to complete some of the drills they had
to do. So the players had to run sideline to
sideline for several minutes. That'll teach you don't do that anymore.

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Oh oh's I've had enough of that. This is a
big deal. The Mariners acquired Eugenios Suarez from the Diamondbacks.
I mean, he is on pace for well over fifty
homers or maybe even more this year, so you got
to think about the trading deadline and Seattle picking him
up from the d Backs makes sense. First baseman Tyler

(38:22):
Locklear and a minor league pitcher, A couple of them
make up the package that heads to Arizona. Hunter Cranton
is one of them. One Burgos is the other. And
for Suarez, he's going back to Seattle. Was he was
there what in the twenty two and twenty three seasons,
And that makes sense because that's what they need. And

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the Diamondbacks, for their part, I think made a good
deal because they need some of those arms, and I
was looking at I was looking at what they get
in return, and I think it just seems like to
me a pretty decent deal, especially when you look at
they're on the fringes of it, the Diamondbacks compared to

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the Mariners. All right, speaking of that, let's jump right
into the fray and give you a couple of those scores. Boy,
the Red Sox just demolished the Twins. If I was
at target Field, I would have just left. I'm sorry
this one. I feel pretty safe. I would have left
because I would have said, oh, I got too much
to do on a school night. Thirteen one I'm not
even gonna give you the highlights of it, because it's

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just low lights pretty much all around, unless you're a
Red Sox ban fifty ninth win. Speaking of the d Backs,
the big announcement of the trade a losing day for them.
At Comerica Park, Tiger's picked up their sixty fourth win,
seven to two, the final score in the game, And
I looked at some of the highlights there. Kerry Carpenter

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hit a two run homer, drove in three runs. Chris
Paddock threw some really nice ball that made a huge
difference six solid innings in his Detroit debut. So the
AL Central leading Tigers have won four straight games coming
off of one to twelve slump that spanned before the

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All Star Game. So they have motored that thing around.
And this is this is it. That's why they call
it the dog Days. This is where you got to
You got to pull it up and you got to
make it happen or you're going to be out. And
they're certainly not out. The Blue Jays and the Orioles
in a tight one, but in the end, the Jay's
pulled it out. They pick up their sixty fourth win
nine to eight. The final the final score there. Okay,

(40:34):
I want to get you some real because everybody's sending
me saying the man cave, will you make sure that
you do this? And I'm just trying to appease all
of you. I know the Cardinal fans want to know
what's going on at Bush Stadium. If you missed at
the Marlins blank the Cardinals two nothing, what do nothing?
So looking at that game, and again I looked at

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I watched a little.

Speaker 1 (40:56):
Bit of but I but I looked at the highlights.

Speaker 2 (40:59):
Hey, Sue San with a two run homer made a
big difference. And when I say that, that's where they
you know, that's where they came to life and got
those runs that they needed. And Cal Quantrill pitched five
innings and the Marlins were able to come up with
what they came up with. You know, they've won ten
of thirteen overall. That's a big difference for them. Cardinals

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were zero for eight with runners, people and scoring position. Yeah,
that's not good. You can't strand them, of course, So
sorry about that loss.

Speaker 1 (41:33):
See if they.

Speaker 2 (41:34):
Turned that one around in the next game. Couple of
other quickies for you. Rangers beat the Angels six to
three A's beat the Mariners five four oh.

Speaker 1 (41:46):
The A's forty eight and.

Speaker 2 (41:48):
Sixty three Yankees over the Rays, picking up their fifty
nine to five to four the final score in that game.

Speaker 1 (41:56):
Stay with us, Simon Keith round the ben.

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