ATN Extra Sauce 08-05-25 | Flights backed-up from wildfires, Gaza humanitarian crisis, Elon's big payday

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
I can see rain, let's go. I can see all obstacles.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
In my way. Ah, but there's some obstacles one cannot
see when you have wildfire smoke everywhere parts of the Midwest.
They had to not land the planes. My friends, Hey, Hey,
another day in paradise. Right here with me, Kate Delaney
on ATM the Sharkkuterie Board of Talk Radio. We're gonna

(00:35):
talk about Texas redistricting, GOSM, malnutrition so sad at least
five babies have died of it in the past twenty
four hours, and the Boeing staff strike.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
Just a few things we're gonna touch on. But don't worry.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
We have some fun stuff in store for you too.
Let's talk about the wildfires, toxes, toxic Canada. Wildfires have
really prompted ground delays at places like Boston's Logan Airport.
Somebody sent me a picture and then I went online
and looked, and let me tell you, my friends, it

(01:10):
looks like you put a weird filter in front of
the city. I would not want to be on any
plane that tried to cut through that haze. So it
was so awful in the Upper Midwest and Northeast that
they absolutely had to have a ground stop at Logan
International Airport because it was like low to no visibility.

(01:32):
Seven hundred and forty two wildfires burning in Canada, fifteen
that sprung up on Sunday. That's from the Canadian Interagency
Forest Fire Center. At least two hundred plus of those
fires are out of control. So we're talking states like that.

(01:53):
Listen to the show from Wisconsin to Maine where under
air quality alerts were all because of the wildfires across
the border. We've seen this happen a lot, but not
this bad. I know ground stops where there's just absolutely
no way you can't see, you just cannot see. Detroit

(02:16):
was listed as having the third worst air quality among
major cities, not just in the US, my friends, in
the world, in the world. So that smoke wafting down
into the US is not as severe as the smoke
and the reduction in air quality seen from the twenty

(02:39):
twenty three Canadian wild fires. Remember those a couple of
years ago, because you had like New York City that
was just orange. But we're talking it's bad enough that
you can't land planes that they couldn't do that today.
They weren't gonna take that chance, all right. Wildfires are
also out of control in California, in fact, in a

(03:00):
place I loved and called home for a while in
San Luis Obispo. In that area in Santa Maria, the
Gifford Fire has burned over seventy two thousand acres. Over
one thousand firefighters had to be called in to lend
a hand because it's just that bad. We're talking about
the Los Padres National Forest in Salvan, California, Santa Barbara,

(03:22):
San Luis Obispo counties, all of them only three percent contained.
So as to that haze and as to what we're
dealing with, there was a report I thought was pretty
good today from a CBS. I caught it in the morning,
right before I ran out. This is Jason Allen.

Speaker 4 (03:41):
So we're standing here along the highway which leads across
the Los Padres National Forest, and it's closed for about
fifty miles or so because the fire is burning along
the highway. That's where it started a couple of days ago,
a few different spot fires, and then it quickly grew.

Speaker 5 (03:56):
With the weather.

Speaker 4 (03:57):
Conditions, we're starting to get some more heat that is
building into the west. Humidity has dropped as you get
into inland California, and so the fire growth has really
been erratic.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
Yeah, three people injured by the wildfire. I looked up
where I used to live and the fire would have
been out my window.

Speaker 3 (04:15):
Yikes.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
That is scary, all right, Texas, the lone star state.
Everybody's talking about you. It's not because we're coming up
on a college football season, although there is a little
bit of that little long horn talk. It's about what
is happening with the redistricting where you had the Democrats
who just left. So the Texas State House reconvened without

(04:41):
dozens of Dems who left to try to stop the
Republicans from moving ahead with a new congressional map that
would give them five more safe seats. Here's the Texas
Speaker of the House, Dustin Burrows.

Speaker 6 (04:55):
Let me begin by commending the members who did show up,
those who answered the call, honored their oath, and came
here ready to work for the people of Texas. Your
presence speaks volumes. You understand that the issues before US
disaster recovery, fighting for the families who lost loved ones

(05:16):
in the floods, human trafficking, and more are not abstract
policy debates. They are real world problems demanding immediate solutions.
But instead of confronting those challenges, some of our colleagues
have fled the state and their duty. They've left the state,
abandoned their posts, and turn their backs on the constituents

(05:39):
they swore to represent. They've shirked their responsibilities under the
direction and pressure of out of state politicians and activists
who don't know the first thing about what's right for Texas.
To be absolutely clear, leaving the state does not stop
this House from doing its work.

Speaker 2 (05:57):
It only delays it well, and it's become now a
free for all. It's like a food fight, but with
serious consequences when I say that in all seriousness. So
now what has happened is you have Gavin Newsome I
talked about this the other day, who's saying, I guess
what we're gonna take care of you, because we're gonna

(06:18):
take care of California. So they're talking about what Lake
in California they can do to redistrict to gain seats back.
So this could explode into a different kind of wildfire
across the US.

Speaker 3 (06:31):
When it comes to.

Speaker 2 (06:31):
Politics and redistricting, Democrats and Republicans are gearing up for this.
So this is one that I think we're gonna be
talking about for weeks on end, and we're far a
far cry away from the midterm election, so maybe even
much longer than that. Very sad what's happening in Gaza.
We know that in the tunnels you have the sixth

(06:52):
situation of the hostages that are still there, the Israelis
that have been there since October seventh. Here's a case
of Eliah David talking about his brother, releasing some images
that they got of his brother, who looks like he's
just nothing but skin and bones.

Speaker 6 (07:14):
Now he looks like a skeleton, a human skeleton buried alive.
That's how it looks, and I don't exaggerate them.

Speaker 2 (07:22):
Yeah, So the problem is is that you've got the
baby's dying and the kid's dying in Gaza, and then
on the other side of that, you know the hospitals
and the Gaza strip where they recorded five more deaths
in the past twenty four hours. And then you have
the Israeli hostages on the other end of this in
the tunnels, who look like they're not gonna make it

(07:43):
another day. And now supposedly it's an all or nothing
deal that's being cut with net and Yahoo, that Trump
is backing that hamas are they gonna sign off on it?
And is there going to be a big exchange? Who knows?
But this would could could, I say, be the solution

(08:05):
maybe because we thought that this was going to happen
three weeks ago, a month ago, maybe a month before that.
Right Meanwhile, closer home, thirty two hundred union members at
Boeing say no way. In Missouri and Illinois, they went
on strike at midnight on Monday, rejecting a contract offer
from the company.

Speaker 3 (08:27):
Not doing it. They say, we are not going to
do it.

Speaker 2 (08:30):
They are the members that build the aircraft and defense
systems that keep our country safe. They emphasize that. They
say they deserve nothing less than a contract that keeps
their families secure and recognizes their unmatched expertise.

Speaker 3 (08:45):
They rejected an offer just last week. Odds and Ends
on the flip.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
Coming out with a little money, money, money, who's celebrating
a couple of big ones birthday wise and we're gonna
start off Odds and ends with tell me something good.

Speaker 3 (09:17):
So I think this is good. The end of the game.

Speaker 2 (09:19):
Word that took off really kind of during the pandemic.
Have you played Wordle. If you haven't, go and check
it out and tell me if you like it or not.
I got hooked on it. And do you know, here's
to tell me something good. It's really still taking off.
We're up to puzzle number one thousand and five hundred
and eight, and so it seems like it would be

(09:42):
a simple.

Speaker 3 (09:44):
Game, right.

Speaker 2 (09:46):
It emerged in twenty twenty one. It's one five letter
word that you have to come up with. You have
five chances to do that, and if you don't, then
you know, the points go in the opposite direction.

Speaker 3 (10:00):
It's really cool. I think it's cool. I don't know why.

Speaker 2 (10:03):
The guy who created it, he's just messing around coming
up with it. His name is Josh Wardle, and the
thing is called wordle, but he, you know, he's he
came up with this like kind of emoji based grid.
And then the game's success spurred dozens of clones, all

(10:26):
kinds of categories, all kinds of formats, and supposedly, you know,
millions and millions of people play Wordle. I will raise
my hand. I became one of those people because I thought,
you know, you're supposed to do the things to stretch
your brain word kind of games and crossword puzzles, and
I never did crossword puzzles really, so Wordle became the deal,

(10:48):
and then connections became the other. Thing is so difficult.
I don't I won't even talk to you about connections.
But if you've never played Wordle, I think it's good
tried out. I want to see see how you all
are doing. And if you get too few, which is
when you go all the way down and you've exhausted
every try, and that means you're down to your last

(11:13):
gasp and that's it for you. So but I think
it's wild over fifteen hundred, fifteen hundred, what did I say?
One thousand and five hundred and eight. So that's the
good news. It's a game that kind of got created
and messing around in the Times, New York Times and
this dude named Wartle, and it hung around because you

(11:34):
know how that is, there's so many fads.

Speaker 3 (11:35):
It can just come and go so easy.

Speaker 2 (11:38):
Speaking of come and go, it never seems to go
in the opposite direction for this guy. He is the
man with the money money, moneyay.

Speaker 6 (11:47):
Many many, many, many many money money money money.

Speaker 2 (11:50):
Yeah, you know who I'm talking about. Take a guess,
Tesla is his baby. Elon Musk was awarded thirty billion
in a to keep him at Tesla for years, right.
I mean, there's been all kinds of politics about what's
happening in the electric vehicle market in general, but with

(12:11):
that company in particular. But that's enough money that's going
to keep him there as an executive for at least
two years. So he is the world's richest person, I mean, right,
he is. The board ap prove ninety six million restricted
shares with a market value of thirty billion. That's where

(12:32):
that number comes from. So the stock award for now
would address the questions over the company and must commitment
to the company. And so I think any analyst would say,
anybody that's following the tea leaves that this will keep

(12:53):
him as the CEO of Tesla, probably at least through
twenty thirty something like that, because that's just a serious
amount of coin. Let's face it, all, right, we moved
from that to this. How about a zoo that encourages
you to donate your unwanted pets so the bigger animals

(13:15):
can eat them. I'm not making it up, but it's
not in the US. Whew, No, it is in fact
in another country at Denmark. A zoo in Denmark is
looking for donations of small pets to feed larger predators.

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The Alaborg Zoo wrote on its Facebook page last week
that it's accepting donations of chickens, rabbits, guinea pigs, cats
to feed larger animals, including the European links. And the
reason they say is in zoos we have a responsibility

(13:55):
to imitate the animals natural food chain for reasons of
both animal welfare and professional integrity. So my question is,
what if the zoo in your area said, if please
bring your unwanted pets because of the reasons that this
zoo has said, and here's what they're saying. They had

(14:19):
to clarify it too because people had questions. So the
zoo said that trained staff would then kill kill the
donated animals gently before they would be used as feed,
so nothing goes to waste.

Speaker 3 (14:39):
I don't know how I feel about that.

Speaker 2 (14:42):
I asked one of the Minnesota too, Jason, he has
a cat, Skittles, and he said, yeah, he'd give him skittles.

Speaker 3 (14:51):
I like shocked skittles, just like that.

Speaker 2 (14:54):
He's ready to donate skittles, and I wonder about the
other part of the Minnesota to Daniel, who also has
a cat. I got two cat guys. I got the
dog guinnis no way when I give up Guinness. But
they're not asking for dogs. So Kevin is his cat.
But supposedly Kevin is safe from being donated ever to

(15:18):
any future zoo that might gently kill Kevin to feed
the big animals.

Speaker 3 (15:25):
Wow. And I thought it was so.

Speaker 2 (15:27):
Shocking that I reached out to a guy I know
that lives in Denmark who was in the US and
left and went to live in Denmark. If this was
something that's you know, how do people feel about it?
And the practice is common there that people appreciate the
opportunity to contribute. Am I wrong about this? People I

(15:50):
don't know, drop me a line Kate at Kate Delaney
radio dot com.

Speaker 3 (15:55):
I'm curious, is it me?

Speaker 5 (15:57):
Is it me?

Speaker 2 (15:57):
All?

Speaker 5 (15:58):
Right?

Speaker 3 (15:58):
Time for some birthday?

Speaker 1 (16:04):
Birthday?

Speaker 2 (16:07):
If you're celebrating a birthday, yes, indeed, Happy happy birthday
to you. I hope someone takes you out for some cake.
Don't feel guilty, eat as much cake as you want.
It's your birthday. I think people should celebrate birthdays, whether
you're younger, middle aged, or older. I just got I

(16:28):
just got a posting, a solid posting of a friend
from high school who has her mother, who looks incredible,
who just turned one hundred and she, my friend, was
a late, late baby. So I was doing the math like, wow,
how can that be? But I just forgot about it.
And missus Clerman, Happy birthday to you, Phyllis Clerman, one

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hundred years old. She puts us all to sham. I'm serious,
this woman looks incredible. And happy birthday once again to
all of you who are celebrating a birthday.

Speaker 3 (17:00):
All right. I just love this guy.

Speaker 2 (17:02):
I love so many of the movies he's been in,
from sling Blade to A Simple Plan to Primary Colors,
even Yeah, even that one Armageddon, even that one, Monsters Ball,
Friday Night Lights, the Gift, so many I could go
on and on. Even he was in Fargo, and he

(17:24):
was so good when he was in Fargo. But he's
in a show that I like that maybe you've heard of.
Take a listen to a little snippet of a conversation.

Speaker 5 (17:34):
Who owns them oil companies?

Speaker 2 (17:36):
We're using the power of the wells.

Speaker 5 (17:39):
No electricity out here, we're off the grid.

Speaker 2 (17:43):
They use clean energy to power the oil wells.

Speaker 5 (17:45):
They use alternative energy.

Speaker 3 (17:47):
There's nothing clean about this, yep.

Speaker 2 (17:50):
That would be LANDMN. I like that show. It's all
Texas and it's all about being in the oil business.

Speaker 3 (18:01):
Just is so well written. I absolutely love it.

Speaker 2 (18:05):
Megan Markle is one of those people that people either
seem to love, to hate, or just absolutely love her.

Speaker 3 (18:12):
Either way.

Speaker 2 (18:12):
She is celebrating a birthday. The Duchess of Sussex is
forty four years old. She married Prince Harry. Of course,
you know that the younger son of King Charles the Third.
They live in California. Won't go through all that rigamarole.
She really kind of made a name for herself when

(18:34):
she was on Suits. She was on Suits for seven
seasons from twenty eleven to twenty eighteen. And there is
another birthday, and that birthday is the former president Barack
Obama sixty four years old. So sixty four. I didn't

(18:59):
realize he was sixty. I don't know why, but yeah,
sixty four years old. So once again, that's it for birthdays.
We boomerang into injuries. Some of you Weekend Warriors might
suffer from. Doctor Michael Girling stops by to give us
the nine one one on what we can do to

(19:20):
kind of avoid some of those tennis injuries and other
sports injuries that we get because we don't stretch well.

(19:42):
I'm really excited to introduce you to doctor Michael Gerling.
I'm a little bit jealous, and I think you're all
going to be jealous too, because he's in MAJORCA. Oh
my goodness, and he's at the rafin Adell Tennis Academy.
I hope he doesn't mind that I tell everybody that,
because he is the picture of health and he's doing
what we're going to talk about those injuries in golf
and tennis, which of course all of you know I love,

(20:04):
and I know many of you love too as well,
and you have to deal with that. And he's a
bored certified orthopedic surgeon with lots of experience in treating
spine related injuries. He's a leading expert in minimally invasive procedures.
We like that and so many other things, cutting edge
treatments for patients with back pain. Boy, oh boy, And

(20:26):
that's what I call so many of the weekend warriors.
So doc, thanks so much for spend a little time
with us. Heat.

Speaker 5 (20:34):
Thank you very much for having me. It's a real pleasure.

Speaker 2 (20:37):
So golf and tennis back injuries, I think they can
be super super common, and you certainly understand them. Is
obviously in playing the game too, and you know the
stresses that those two sports in particular can place on
the spine. What is it about that is there? Are
we not stretching? Is it just part of the deal

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because like I said, some of us are weekend warriors.

Speaker 5 (21:02):
Well we are most of us are weekend warriors. That's
the majority, not the minority. And I think it's a
real great question because why why are we having injuries
all the time? I mean, first of all, the nature
of tennis and golf is twisting, and twisting is not
good for discs in the spine. So it's very common

(21:24):
for people to injure discs, no matter how fit they
are in that type of activity. And then we do
tend to go out and extend ourselves beyond what we
really should be doing. There are lots of ways to
try and prevent them, but certainly we are at high
risk if we are doing something more strenuous than our routine.

Speaker 2 (21:46):
So okay, So then let's say I'm always going to
be a twister, and so are a lot of people listening,
because we want to win, doc, we want to play,
we want to you know, we think we can overcome
the odd and then we have the back problems. We
start to deal with that. And I said this at
the top, how you were so good at dealing with

(22:08):
these minimally invasive procedures that are out there? I mean,
you know them forwards and backwards. So tell me about those.
What are those surgeries like?

Speaker 5 (22:17):
Well, hopefully nobody here needs them, but you know, people
do frequently have problems in the spine where the nerves
are being pinched or the joints become injured badly enough
that they need to be fixed. And regardless of how
you perform a procedure, we sort of all have similar

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goals in mind to either take pressure off nerves or
reconstruct areas that have damage or deformity that causes problems, pain,
or dysfunction. So minimally invasive procedures just really give this
a very elegant sort of lady is there. I did approach,

(23:01):
you know, like laser guided bombs, A laser guided approach
to fixing a problem. So rather than just making like
opening up the field and perhaps touching parts of the
body that don't need to be touched, we are only
going to the area that needs the surgery. So we
might use a literally either a robot or a fluoroscopic

(23:24):
guided approach where we would make a tiny incision, place
a camera between your muscles, and accomplish our objective in
the same way somebody might with a large incision.

Speaker 2 (23:36):
Wow, so the scarring I would imagine, as you just described,
that can't be that bad. And then what's the recovery time?

Speaker 5 (23:42):
Like, well, I'm glad you're asking. That's exactly the point
is that you want to reduce the amount of damage
like collateral damage to the parts of the body, the
parts of the muscles, of the fine the supporting structures.
And then you want to minimize the impact of the
procedure on your lifestyle. So you want to be able

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to get back to work, you want to get back
to play, you want to get back to taking care
of yourself. The less recovery time you have, the better.
It's definitely been proven that with minimally invasive procedures using
the endoscope, either the camera and also using robots that
that we can reduce the blood loss, the hospitalization, and

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reduce the recovery times you return to play, your return
to sports, return to life is hastened by doing things
minimally invasively.

Speaker 2 (24:33):
Yeah, it's certainly a great time to be in your
field because I think of all the advancements, some of
them you just describe, and when you look at regenerative medicine,
one of the things that you do is stem cell
therapy and platelet rich plasma therapy.

Speaker 3 (24:49):
Explain those to us.

Speaker 5 (24:51):
Okay, Yeah, thanks for asking me about that, because I'm
really passionate about it. Because in the past, people would
have like sort of entry tier treatment for their problems,
physical therapy, pills, medication, things like that, and then they
would get surgery. They might get injections at some point
along the way, but essentially there were sort of one

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or two sort of tears before surgery. Now we have
this whole regenerative medicine tier of treatment that has come
in before you need surgery. And the hope is that
we can sort of prevent the spine from breaking down,
prevent the joints from degenerating too much, prevent the joints

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from getting too inflamed or prevent the nerves from being
pinched by simply just maintaining the health of the disks
and the joints in the spine and in the rest
of the body. So in the spine we now are
using these regenerative techniques, which for the most part right now,
the most successful version of that is stem cells. So

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we basically take your stem cells, or we take stem
cells from a donor and inject them into the part
of the spine that needs them, usually the disc and
we try to do it in an earlier stage before
the spine is critically ill, whereby it needs to be reconstructed.
So if you had back pain that just wasn't going

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away with basic therapy and treatment, you really would be
a candidate for that type of treatment. We would get
an MRI on you. If if your discs appear to
be damaged or they they're at the sort of the
middle range of degeneration, we would we would inject stem
cells into them. They can be combined with other types

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of treatment. We use, you know, other things that that
would that sort of enhance the stem cell effective efficacy,
things like exozomes, these types of things pepti people may
have heard of. These are all things that would enhance
our bodies healing capabilities. The stem cells are thought to

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be not just enhancing but also an active participant in
recreating and regenerating the tissue.

Speaker 2 (27:15):
Wow, that's exciting. And I said this, it's an exciting
time to be in your field. Am I right about that?

Speaker 5 (27:21):
It's very exciting, you know, in particular, I mean I
chose my field. I'm an orthopedic surgeon, but I specialize
in spinal surgery, and I chose that partially because it
is such an exciting world. You know, almost almost eighty
five percent of people suffer with either neck or back

(27:43):
and or back problems throughout their life. And they say
that one third of people, even desk workers, have a
significant disability at some point in their life from these disorders.
So it's very exciting to be on the cutting edge
of that. Right now. We're rapidly evolving in terms of

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our understanding. It's extremely exciting, and I think that we
can make a big difference for people where in the
past people would would really have to sort of downgrade
their lifestyle in order to continue, you know, living without
paying Yeah.

Speaker 2 (28:19):
Wow, that's the good news for sure. What can we
do to prevent that in the first place. I mean, I,
you know, jokingly said we're not stretching, but I think
that's true. I mean, should we do warm ups. I
see a lot of people that just go out and
just start hitting balls.

Speaker 5 (28:33):
It's so true, it's so true, And I think that
the worst is that people are not necessarily aware of
what of you, what condition they're in. So if you
are playing regularly, then yes, maybe you can do a
more abbreviated warm up, Maybe you can go out there
and swing for the fences. But if you are, if

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you are, you know, not in the greatest shape, you
need to know yourself. You know, maybe you an eighty
percent golf swing. You know, the power needs to be downgraded.
You need to try to stay in shape in between
your games with the three sort of pillars of spine health,
which are flexibility, endurance, and strength. So things like yoga

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or pilates, things that strengthen the core, that increase flexibility
will help you so that when you do go out there,
you don't overextend the capabilities of your spine and the
joints as well. So this is true for the shoulders,
the hips, the knees, all those things really need to
be worked on on a regular basis in terms of

(29:39):
flexibility and just conditioning. But to answer your question, and sorry,
I'm taking a while to get to it. You know,
once you get out there, you have to have a
routine of stretching, of really trying to warm up so
that those muscles and tendons and discs are ready to
take the vigor of a full swing once you're either
hitting a tennis ball or golf ball.

Speaker 3 (30:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (30:01):
Great advice, doctor Michael Gerling. What a delight to speak
with you.

Speaker 3 (30:04):
Thank you so much.

Speaker 5 (30:06):
Thank you so much for having me, Kate, It's really
nice meeting you.

Speaker 3 (30:10):
In another addition to it's your health.

Speaker 2 (30:13):
As we close out this segment, you know, I was
thinking about this the other day. Coca Cola adding cane
sugar to its ingredients lists. So by doing that and
it does taste different, which is better for you? It
seems silly to ask that using real sugar cane in coke,

(30:35):
And what the deal is is when you think about it,
when you think about using that, is it healthier than
the artificial sweeteners that they put in it?

Speaker 3 (30:46):
Well, coke isn't.

Speaker 2 (30:49):
Really you know, rather than replace high fruit toose corn
syrup as the sweetener in its flagship line, they're not
doing that, but the sugar is going to be used
in drinks that they say compplements and expands its product
range because hi fructose corns herop is one of the
main ingredients and it's one of the main ingredients that

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the Trump administration is pushing companies to remove from food
and beverages as part of a make America healthier again.

Speaker 3 (31:17):
M I'm curious.

Speaker 2 (31:18):
How about you mail bag next?

Speaker 3 (31:24):
Now, let's talk about the mail. Can we talk about
the mail?

Speaker 2 (31:26):
Please?

Speaker 3 (31:26):
Macam We dine to talk about the mail for you
all day.

Speaker 2 (31:28):
Okay, all right, Thanks to everybody who threw in their
two cents on all kinds of things.

Speaker 3 (31:46):
You could do the same thing.

Speaker 2 (31:48):
Go to katalinyradio dot com and click on contact and
let it flow no matter what it is you want
to talk about, and including if you want to give
a high five to somebody in your area, tell us
about the stories that are happening that you think other
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knowledge on something incredible that people are doing. In fact,

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I have one coming up on tomorrow's show that a
few people wrote to me about.

Speaker 3 (32:15):
I'm saving it because it's really, really, really really good.

Speaker 2 (32:18):
Let's go to this from Sam listening to us in
New Orleans WGSO nine ninety a m. He says, Kate
hard Knocks. I'm into it. Who is the team? I
don't know why. I sort of remembered it, then I forgot.
Do you know who is the feature of hard Knocks?

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I bet it's not my Saints. Oh it's not the Saints.
It is the Buffalo Bills, which I think will be
kind of interesting because what do we know about the
Buffalo Bills. If you're a Bills fan, you know a
ton about the Buffalo Bills. They're contenders, but always stopping
the Bills is the Kansas City chief So if you
look at the AFC East with the dog often the

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Patriots and the Jets, the Bills win the East, but
then they how far can they go when they go
through the playoffs and they meet the Kansas City Chiefs.
And this year is going to be a I think,
a really interesting year for sure in the AFC, But
of course the Saints. When you're looking at the NFC South,
and you look at the Saints right now, there's buzz

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all over training camp that we could say that any
team could could surprise us. You got thirty two teams
and everybody's everybody's waiting for the first couple to come
out for the preseason games which start next week. And
we just had the Hall of Fame, so the Hall
of Fame celebrations and all of that. And even if,

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even if people are dogging the Saints, which I'm not
dogging the Saints because I think there's more to meet
than meets the eye with the Saints. I think some
people will be maybe surprised what I want to know
about the Saints. I know you didn't ask to Sam.
I'm just going to say it, ty or So, what's
going to happen with him? You know, I watched a
little bit of I watched him a little bit in

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uh Lousville, and so you know, they picked him up
in the second round. I think they're gonna lean a
lot in that.

Speaker 3 (34:14):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (34:14):
I think they're gonna lean a lot in that direction.
And will he be ready to play right away for
the Saints? I mean that's he was the oldest quarterback
in the rookie class. He's twenty five. He was at
he was in college seven seasons. Remember he played for
Oregon and Texas Tech two and last year he completed

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sixty three percent of his passes. You know, but he
has so that's not great. But he has a good,
good arm, and he has a very big frame. I
think the shaker was Derek Carr's retirement in May. So
we'll see, We'll see what happens with the with the Saints.

Speaker 3 (34:56):
Then I just threw that in.

Speaker 2 (34:57):
All right, Brad is a list listening to us in
Saint Louis on KLIS, which is.

Speaker 3 (35:04):
Low information station.

Speaker 2 (35:10):
Kate, I just found you a couple of weeks ago,
so I think you're pretty new like everybody else, at
least anybody that syndicated.

Speaker 3 (35:17):
It was great to hear your voice.

Speaker 2 (35:19):
I've heard you before on some other things like NBC
and CBS, so yay, good for us. I know you
talk about everything, including sports, and I was going to
ask you a cardinal related question, but I'm gonna save
that for another day. My question to you is what

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do you think is going to happen with this situation
with the Israeli prisoners? And I asked that because I
keep hearing about the prisoners on your show. You've had
some good things when you had John Raska on rassic
On and you had the mother of one of the

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Israeli hostages.

Speaker 3 (36:03):
It's just so.

Speaker 2 (36:05):
Sad to think that October seventh, now, a few years ago,
is how long we're talking about. I mean, as much
as it's terrible to see those kids in Gaza, but
it's also terrible to think about those prisoners that are
still stuck in that situation. I mean, there has to
be some kind of chess move that's going to happen here. Well,

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the chess move is what's going on with net and
Yahoo and whether or not that's going to work all
or nothing deal, So you know, put up or shut up.

Speaker 3 (36:36):
You either sign this deal.

Speaker 2 (36:38):
You either do this deal with us and there going
to be full cooperation. So he's facing pressure to allow
more humanitarian aid into Gaza and halt the war amid
the Palestinian Desk. But in the meantime you've got the
situation with the hostages too, So.

Speaker 3 (37:02):
There's got here's the.

Speaker 2 (37:03):
Thing, okay, so if it's all or nothing, great, we'll
give the food. We'll do this let's get all those
Let's get all the prisoners back, Let's get all the hostages.

Speaker 3 (37:13):
There's really hostages.

Speaker 2 (37:15):
Let's get the hostages back and then move from there.
I mean, the whole idea, this is the halt in
the war should have already happened. It should already happen,
because when you think about it, the whole thing with
the victory over Iran and June, and that.

Speaker 3 (37:32):
Moment was a big moment. It would have been the
perfect time.

Speaker 2 (37:34):
But it just came and went, which I think we
all thought that was gonna happen, or at least, I'll
raise my hand.

Speaker 3 (37:39):
I thought that was gonna happen.

Speaker 2 (37:41):
So fingers crossed, because it is awful, awful, awful. I
never got Charlie listening to us w r D one
four point five FM in Daytona, Florida. I am hesitant,
Katie Kate to bring this up. But you're in this

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boat with us the hurricane season. We're watching everybody deal
with the floods. But we are tick tick tick talking
away very close to hurricane season.

Speaker 3 (38:15):
And usually you know this, it's worse when.

Speaker 2 (38:18):
You get to September. At the tail end of what
they would say is the hurricane season. But I think
we got Dexter that's out there churning off the coastline.
Hopefully it stays away. What do you know of the
latest developments. Yeah, it did come in. It did start
to form up on Sunday night. It is off the coast.

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It's causing some pretty wicked riptides in the Carolinas.

Speaker 3 (38:47):
But the thought is it's.

Speaker 2 (38:50):
Really kind of marked for development in the next couple
of days and more off the coast of course of
the southeast US. But it's supposed to be really a
tropical storm and track away from the US, but supposed
to looks like here's what we're hearing. You know how

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that rolls. It could change into something different. I don't
think so. I was looking at a map. It didn't
it didn't look like it to me. But it was named.
So it is a tropical storm Dexter, And we'll see
it's actually the fourth tropical storm of the of the
season so far. I don't even want to think about

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the Thanks Charlie. Then we have anna listening to us
KSL News Radio one two point seven FM.

Speaker 3 (39:41):
Wow, Kate.

Speaker 2 (39:42):
All these wildfires all over the place, including here in
Salt Lake City.

Speaker 3 (39:47):
We had red flag warnings.

Speaker 2 (39:49):
For not just the Salt Lake City area, but really
most of Utah because of the high tempers that we
have and some of these crazy dry can do. Some
of my friends are firefighters, and there's a lot of
warnings out there. I hope people are being diligent. I
just wanted to throw that out there. A good job

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on the show. So yeah, the National Weather Service, you're right,
they have a red flag warning for most of central
Utah and then the southwest corner of the state too.
There's the Monroe Canyon fire that's burning in central Utah.
It's near Richfield, and Monroe is actually the largest fire

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right now because it's burned over sixty one thousand acres
and it's just a little bit over fourteen fifteen percent contained. Yeah, well,
it's terrible, right. You get single digit humidity levels and
then you look at grass and wood and things that
are drier, they catch fire. And then, of course we

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all know this. The dangerous thing is when you get
the gusts of wind that are over thirty miles an hour.
And it's true. You look at the red and you
look at Salt Lake City and go all the way
down provo. You go up North Ogden, you got Yeah,
it's it's not good. It's definitely not good because you

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get the spark and who knows that can cause with
that low humidity, it can get worse, but hopefully not
from what I understand, there are a lot of fire
crews that are out that are that are out there
of course doing everything that they can. All right, my friends,
believe it or not. Wow, just like that, we are

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out of time. Don't worry if you hang around for
the pre market bell, We're gonna catch up with you
on the flip side when we jump into our second hour.

Speaker 3 (41:44):
For those of you who hang.

Speaker 2 (41:47):
Thanks so much to the Minnesota too, Jason and Daniel and
shame on Jason.

Speaker 3 (41:52):
Ready to throw skittles out to the wolves.

Speaker 2 (41:55):
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