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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Major League Baseball called up its first female umpire. Meantime,
smoke still gets in your eyes with those Canadian wildfires,
and sadly, an army base shooting really had us scrambling today,
worried about the people at the base. Hey, everybody, Kate
(00:31):
Delaney here on at and the Charcuterie board of talk radio.
So we start with the Army sergeant in custody after
five soldiers were shot at Fort Stewart. Still the motive
is unknown, just opening fire injuring five of his colleagues.
He was subdued by fellow soldiers and taken into custody.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Here's the military had to say.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
The alleged shooter is in custody, we re established security,
I have lifted all lockdown measures on Fort Stewart and
there is currently no threat to the local community. I'd
like to recognize and thank our Army, law enforcement and
medical personnel, and our partners from local, state, and federal
law enforcement and emergency services for their quick response and support.
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I would also like to thank the brave soldiers who
immediately intervened and subdued the shooter. These soldiers, without a doubt,
prevented further casualties.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
The suspect, identified now as Sergeant Quinelius Radford, just twenty
eight years old. He was an automated logistics non commissioned officer.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Soldiers in that field.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Typically managed maintenance or maybe warehouse operations by placing orders,
that kind of thing, tracking work in army computer systems,
is what I was told. All five people shot are
in stable condition as of this hour, expected to recover.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
That's the very very good news.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Two of the soldiers who were shot had to be
transported through ambulance to Memorial Health University Medical Center. It's
a trauma center about an hour's drive away in Savannah.
Helicopters were unable to assist because of local weather conditions,
but they did get them there.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
That's the good news. Stable condition.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Everything looks good as good can be anyway, because what
a terrible thing to happen. But as you heard, immediately
subdued by others on the base.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
So that's the good news.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
This happened surely before eleven in the morning in an
area of the South Georgia Installation that's kind of associated
with the third Infantry Division's Armored Brigade Combat Brigade there,
said the whole fort was locked down and he was
again taken into custody and still motives. All of that
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unclear at this point. This could have been when I'm
telling you, when I heard this, I thought, oh please,
nobody has died as a result with that. So that
is actually the good news, but what a sad, terrible,
terrible thing to happen. United Airlines has resumed flights. They
had to stop them across the country after some tech problems.
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There was that big, big halt. It was a few hours.
The underlying issue was resolved. They expect some residual delays.
They say they're working to really restore everything for what
would be normal operations.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
At issue was a thing called unimatic.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
It stores flight data and feeds it to other systems,
including those that track flight times and calculate weight and balance.
Of course, how could you take off if you don't
know that? And they're trying to replace this kind of
aging system. The airline said they didn't know what caused
the outage. It started after six pm Eastern, but it
wasn't cybersecurity related, so they had to scrub sixty mainline
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flights on Wednesday, with more than one thousand delays thirty
five percent of what it had scheduled. They're treating the
disruption as something within his control, so they covered expenses
like hotels for customers that needed them. Oh, that's the worst.
So that's the latest tech related issue that's interrupted or
grouted flights in the last couple of years. Airlines are
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definitely vulnerable to any kind of tech snaffoos from third
party providers. We've seen that before. So that's the latest
in the flight mayre category. Still dealing with the wildfires
in Canada, seventy plus fires all together, the smoke drifting
into the United States. A good reminder to be careful
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if you have a condition. Here's doctor Capo from Palisades
Medical Center.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
I always recommend miasmatics to carry their albuterol pump when
the air quality is bad and to have it on
them because it can happen at any moment. Yeah, any moment.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
And I've heard from a few people I know that
have somebody I has bronchitis. They were in Detroit, they said, yeah,
they were really not running around doing the normal errands,
that kind of thing. And then if you have any
kind of asthma or whatnot, you certainly don't want to
be in an area where where it's where you're dealing
with a lot of that, a lot of that smoke
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in Boston seems to be getting a lot of it
too in other parts of Massachusetts. RFK Junior announced the
end to some mRNA contracts, including for flu and COVID.
So the Health and Human Services Secretary announced a crackdown
on that vaccine technology. He's obviously a vaccine skeptic, knowing
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that heading into this position, and he's winding down twenty
two mRNA projects supported by the Biomedical Advanced Research and
Development Authority, So the contracts will either be canceled or
altered or basically out the window. In total, the administration
says the changes will affect nearly five hundred million in
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m RNA related projects. Details of those kinds of contracts,
of course, they're not all available there. So there's been
a massive outrage among the scientific community, at least some
of them.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Anyway.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Here's Caitlin Caraco, a Nobel laureate scientists who I caught
on the tube and this was her take.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
So obviously, you know, when you are sick, you wouldn't
ask advice from a lawyer like Kennedy. You know, you
ask for experts, your physician for advice, and obviously he's
misinformed and.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
Do not understand that.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
You know, science is knowledge, which was you know, around
the world, and.
Speaker 6 (06:50):
We collected those with observation, experimentation, measurements and all of
these scientific evidence. And you know, when you would just
reject and on misinformation, then you make a decision like
he made.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
That's all kicking into effect right now. As I said,
some of those contracts would just be halted mid stream.
And the reaction has been swift and overwhelming. There are
some people that are backing it. It depends on where
you sit as far as vaccines are concerned.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Wants some good news. All right, this might not be
good for some of you, but you know, in the
drink category.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Of what's new, what's hot? Heines, Yeah, check this out.
The Chicago and Pittsburgh based food maker said that they're
teaming up with Smoothie King to.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Introduce a new product. You know what. It's called Tomato Ketchup.
Smoothie Does that sound good to you? The first ever
of its kind.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
So they blend real fruit with hindes simply tomato ketchup.
They say it's an incredibly refreshing believe it or not.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
So you got this.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Kind of crisp apple juice and juicy strawberries and a
tart taste of raspberries. But the blend supposedly is all natural,
made with ripe tomatoes full of vitamins and antioxidants. The
food company says the final result is a sweet and
fruity smoothie with a bright, tangy ketchup finish. I wonder
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if that's gonna go over well. I have to say,
it looks like you're pouring ketchup into a smoothie cup
with the Hinds label on the outside.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
I don't know. The idea of a ketchup smoothie is
kind of provocative.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Would you taste it? I'm always up for tasting anything,
so I'm gonna taste it and I'll tell you what
it tastes like. When I get my hands on on
Odds and Ends next, Yeah, well, the Odds and Ends
(09:06):
where we mix the unusual with the even more strange
if possible, Mic drop Mone, a mount of money, and
a few other little surprises along the way, including some birthdays.
I was gonna stop doing birthdays and then I had
three people, including Big Bob, saying no, I want to
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know how old people are. I said something on the
show like occasionally we'll throw in birthdays, and then you
really slap me down when I didn't do the birthday things.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
So yeah, we're gonna get to the birthdays. This is
how it goes, though. Right at the top, we're talking
little dollars and cents.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
Many many, many, many, many many money money.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Yeah, how about this. Ubers and talks to raise money
for major, major, major robo taxi expansion.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
So that sound interesting to you, Well, that's the kind
of thing you have to do obviously. Obviously, rather Uber
dot n in talks with private equity firms and banks
to get that fund or funds to build their robotaxi business.
According to the CEO, Uber offers robotaxis from Alphabet, Google
(10:17):
dot O owned by Waimo is what it is really,
and they're strengthening that foothold in the self driving category
of taxis. So they're partnering with different automakers like Volkswagen
Tests Love course is another one. They're trying to expand
their robo taxi business too, and they're pitching the tie
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ups as part of a bigger plan that involves three
robotaxi business models. Check these out paying partners that own
the vehicles, so that's a fixed rate sharing revenue with
fleet operators, okay, and owning them straight out while licensing
software for self driving technology. Wonder if that'll really take off?
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And then of course what does that do to the
Uber drivers looks like they would be kicked to the curb.
Uber said it was planning on using a modest portion
of it's around seven billion in annual cash flows. That's
some money to fund deployments. They also might sell minority
stakes in companies to help with that expansion, because they
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think this is absolutely where the future is. This mass
robotaxi deployment could lower driver reliant ubers operating costs, and
of course that would do what jack up profitability. But
like I said, that means the drivers would be out
and how many people would take the robotaxis? Would you
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jump into robotaxi, Like, let's say in the middle of
downtown San Francisco right now, I'd be a little I
don't know, I'd be a little skeptical in some areas,
but I've heard the technology is absolutely there and a
lot of people say it totally works, and once it's
really streamlined, we won't think anything of it. What would
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you think if you opened the door to your house
and you found a seventeen foot python dancing around in
your living room?
Speaker 2 (12:22):
True story. A couple opened the living room door a reptile.
That reptile was stretched up to the ceiling in search
of an escape route. They think, Now, this wasn't in Thailand,
and this just happened the other day. Three Scottish fold
kitties along with seven other cats were cowering in the
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corner of the room. The python liked them for food.
I'm sure none of them were hurt.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
The snake, they think, entered from the bushes, so they
called emergency services to remove this beast. And even the
maids said she had seen the snake around the property
earlier in the day. It's so lucky the cats weren't harmed.
So animal rescuers had to drag the python out of
the house before they placed it in a sack to
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release it into nature far far away from the residential area.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
That's the good news. So I don't know, I mean,
this is Thailand.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
They live in forests and swamps and canals, but they
live in cities too, so of course if they're in
the cities, the conflict with humans is a natural thing
that can happen. And of course pythons are one of
the world's largest snakes and they can eat humans even
they can cats, dogs, birds, rats, and other snakes. I
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just suppose I never came across this story thinking of
a python of any sort to me and opening my
door and seeing that, oh, that would be frightening to me.
Oh so frightening. But they did get it, they did
remove it, and none of the animals were harmed. It
seems like there's a theme going on the last couple
of days or so. We're talking about animals eating other animals,
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and even a zoo saying bring your animals and we
need them to feed the big pets.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
I don't know, there's got to be something to this.
I'm not sure where I'm going with.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
It, but I know that I wouldn't want to be
anywhere near a seventeen foot python. I had a python
once put around my neck when I was in the Bahamas,
and there was lots of people around me, and that
was enough for me. Yeah, Okay, I touched the python.
It was a pretty big one. I'm done. The thrill
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of it all has left me.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Would you do that?
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Would you have that wrapped around your neck and feel
comfortable with that? You get where I'm going with it,
all right? So because you wanted them? How about these birthdays? Yes,
happy birthday. If you are celebrating a birthday, hey, you
(15:05):
should be recognized on your birthday. Hopefully someone bought your lunch,
maybe dinner, piece of cake. You know, I'm not sure,
but somehow it was recognized, right, So who's celebrating a
birthday of note? M Night Chamelan to know who he is?
Fifty five years old. One of my favorites. I kind
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of like scary movies, not not the slashers, the kind
where you kind of jump, Like The Sixth Sense, which
they filmed in my hometown in Philadelphia.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
That was a scary movie. Go back and watch that.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
That was like That came out in nineteen ninety nine
or two thousand and something like that, where he got
a nomination for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. There
was another one that I think is equally frightening in
a different way, Unbreakable Signs The Villa Lady in the Water,
The Happening, The Last Airbender, which is different from all
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of those, Knock at the Cabin, Saw That Trap, and
the growth of his films exceeds three point three billion
billion globally. It's usually his films have supernatural plots and twist.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Kind of endings. And I like some of his I
like some of his work.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
I like a lot obviously, I've seen a lot of
his I've seen a lot of his movies.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
I know I know two things.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
I just know when I go, I'm gonna probably there's
probably gonna be some scary moments. And I know that
I'm going to try the whole time to figure out
the plot. I mean, he's sitting there trying to figure
it out, right, all right?
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Meanwhile, how about Michelle.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
Yo.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
She is a Malaysian actress who is all over the place.
She won an Academy Award, a Gold Globe Award. She's
been a ton of films. She's had a really hot
run the last couple of years, but even before that
she was doing well. She started the James Bond movie
Tomorrow Never Dies. In the late nineties. She was in
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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon that was really a good a
really really really good movie. She was in Crazy Rich Asians, funny,
funny thing there, but the thing that put her on
the map was Everything Everywhere, all at once in twenty
twenty two, which she won an Academy Award for Best Actress.
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And yeah, she's gotten a lot of roles since then.
Not that, like I said, she didn't have them before that.
But a lot of her movies are are pretty interesting,
especially lately, but I think some of them in the
past too, I mean, even some Marvel things she's been
involved in that also Star Trek. If you're Trek, you
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know her Star Trek Discovery from twenty seventeen to twenty twenty.
And she's done a lot of voice acting in like
Kung Fu Panda, you know, Minions, The Rise of Guru,
The Pause of Fury, that kind of thing, The Transformers,
Rise of the Beast, you get it.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
She's a working actress. In other words, So.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Once again, happy birthday, Happy birthday, Happy birthday if you
are celebrating it. Yeah, definitely. And here's a random ubiquitous
bit of information, a UBI I call it. So, if
you look at box office sales, what's the most popular
star Wars movie of all time. Somebody asked me this
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rando question, what was the most popular one? I mean,
there have been so many, right, I went down the
list after I got it wrong, and I realized.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
You know how many there are.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
It's like over twenty five if you include yeah, it's
like twenty five, the prequels, all of that. So the
most the lifetime gross is The Force Awakens and that
came out in twenty fifteen Star Wars.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
The Force Awakens. Wow. Next to that the Last Jedi,
and then Rogue one, a Star Wars story. I was
way wrong. I said the Phantom Menace that was like
fifth on the list. Something like that.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Coming up, Zinger Zone, you're gonna laugh. I have officially
entered the Zingers Zone.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Once a week I roll out my cheesy one liners.
Some of you really applaud them, and you send me
your own. So once again we will have another week
where we do use your jokes.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
A free for all for listeners. So if you've got
a good one, send it to me Kate at katalinyradio
dot com. Just click on contact, just like Harry did.
I'll save his.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
It's pretty good. So what is the history of National
Fresh Breath Day. Did you know there is such a thing. Well,
I'm telling you there is, and it's now.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
So you think about teeth in dentistry, the modern toothbrush.
Did you know? This was invented in seventeen eighty.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Then in eighteen forty four there was a guy named
Horace Wells who started using nitrous oxide as anesthesia in
oral healthcare.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Oh, I would have really liked him.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Then Colgate began producing toothpaste in jars. That was eighteen
seventy three.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
And how about this.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
I use an electric toothbrush because Dennis told me that's
what you get, that's the way to go. Nineteen fifty four,
that's when it was invented. The first ones were manufactured
in Witserlinde. Yeah, so it is officially National Fresh Breath Day.
In honor of that, we are focusing our hysterical jokes
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on dentistry. Ugh even hearing that, Oh that's so scary,
isn't it?
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Ooh? Okay, So the DNIS says, my teeth are like
a string of pearls. Each one has a hole through it. Luckily, no.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
If a kid has twenty five candy bars and they
eat twenty two of them? What do they have cavities?
I know this is a joke you have heard. I've
heard so many different ways. What teeth do you need
to brush the ones you want to keep? What award
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did the dentist win? My friends?
Speaker 2 (22:12):
A little plaque?
Speaker 5 (22:15):
Boo? Right?
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Are you kidding? What does the dentist give a bear
with a hurting tooth? Anything at once?
Speaker 1 (22:30):
What made the snowman go to see a dentist he
was suffering from frostbite? What does the dentist do when
he's on a roller coaster? Brace himself?
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Of course?
Speaker 1 (22:51):
What game did the dentist play when he was a child?
Caps and Robbers? You know what in Panama they call
dental care. It's called a root canal?
Speaker 2 (23:15):
H have you ever had a root canal?
Speaker 5 (23:17):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (23:19):
What do dennis call their X rays? Toothpicks?
Speaker 5 (23:25):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Come on, I think that's the best one. Why did
the Why did the deer need braces? He had buck teeth?
Speaker 7 (23:37):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (23:37):
The power of laughter? Okay, I promise it'll be over soon.
I have just a couple more, just a couple more,
I'm gonna roll out for you.
Speaker 5 (23:44):
Right.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Why did the dentists make a poor date with the
manicurist because they fought both tooth and nail. When I
went to the dennis, he said to put my money where.
Speaker 8 (24:02):
My mouth is.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
So I got, yeah, gold fillings.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
I had a friend that got a job as a
receptionist had a dentist's office.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
How did that happen? Word of mouth? All right?
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Uh? Did you know that Dennis practice there? Trade by
going through many drills? All right, last one. I'd probably
gone too deep on this. My dentist has a TV
in the exam room. Of course, who doesn't. I go
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there for Netflix and drill. All right, one more, one more,
I promise one more. This one is it's just a
perfect one. You can roll this out for your friends.
I think they'll laugh. What do you call a bear
with no teeth? A gummy bear?
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Exactly? I thought it was funny.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
All right, that's it. I'm calling it a rap on
that one from the Zinger Zone, and it is. It
is interesting. You know, I have never met anyone that
likes going to the dentist, except for somebody related to
a dentist.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
And I've known. I've actually known a lot of Dennis.
I have and had.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
I had one dentist's friend, and I asked him, how
did you pick dentistry to go into and he said,
this was a guy out of Dallas who had a
very popular practice. Super nice guy. He said, well, you know,
it's pretty simple. I was a young, a young lad.
I was, you know, like thirteen years old, and I
was on a boat, a pretty big boat. I got
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invited to go fishing, and there were two denists on
the boat and I noticed when they were picked up
by their wives they were tall, had tan legs, and beautiful.
So I thought, big boat, beautiful women. That's the profession
for me. Seriously, there's no butumpump on that. It's like,
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oh my gosh. But think about what you do all
day long when you're a dentist. Such a necessary profession though, right,
I think people, I don't know the stats on this,
but of avoidance it has to be.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
I know it is way up.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
There on things that you avoid doing. But of course
the more you avoid it, the more you could pay
the price for that, that's for sure. Hey, coming up,
you know we're gonna do that mailbag thing and then
the pre market bell.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
But I wanted to get to this story. I thought
it was interesting.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Somebody asked me about this today, and in fact, we're
trying to get her on the show, but it's tough
during the season. After the season, I'm sure we will.
But Jen Powell is the first woman to umpire a
game in Major League Baseball, or she's gonna be coming
up this weekend when she works the Miami Marlins and
the Atlanta Braves.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
So how about that. It's a double header, And.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
She's worked spring training games in twenty twenty four and
this year. And this move comes after the NBA had
its first female official what I want to say, twenty
eight years ago, something like that, and then you go
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ten years ago the NFL, and then three years after
that Men's Soccer World Cup had a female referee. So
now here you go with baseball and a double header.
I mean, there's gonna be a lot of attention obviously
to this. But she has the chop, she's worked the games,
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and they're thinking of it's always about what kind of
ratings and umpire gets and are they good enough to
move up to a different rank or put them into
sub into something, And so obviously she's earned that. But
like I said, there's gonna be a lot of attention
on that Marlins Brave series. That's for sure. So I say, bravo. Right,
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that's a good thing. Yeah, that's a good thing. Absolutely,
why not if you're qualified or qualified period.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
And I've talked to enough athletes. They don't care about that.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
They care about good you know, they want calls to
go their way, right, they want a lot of problems.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
So as long as that's happening, and that's copasetic, right,
that's it, period. Boom.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
So I think it'll probably work out fine, all right.
From the Chiching department. I was gonna throw this into
the money section, but we didn't have time. The US
is auctioning The US is auctioning the seas three d
and twenty five million dollar Russian super yacht. It has
eight state rooms, a helipad, jim and a spa.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
The Amadea is the first American sale of a Russian
luxury ship since the start of Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.
And the auction closes September tenth. Think about this.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
It's three hundred and.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Forty eight feet long. It was seized actually three years ago.
It's docked in San Diego.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
It was pretty new. It was designed by this guy
named Francisco Zaretti, which do we care? Do we know
how many of you listening to the show?
Speaker 8 (29:45):
No yacht makers?
Speaker 1 (29:46):
But what you need to know I saw the insides
of this thing, and you can see it too, just
go on the search engine. It has incredible marvel work.
Eight like I said, rooms, state rooms, a beauty salon,
a spa, a gym, a swimming pool, an elevator.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
And yet with what I'm just describing.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
To you, sixteen guests can comfortably fit and thirty six
crew members. But of course it was an issue of
contention because there's this weird trail of trust and shell companies.
And it's registered in the game in Islands, naturally, and
it's owned by a thing called Milimaran Investments, also based
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in the Cayman Islands, and the US contends that Sulloman Kerimoff,
an economist and former Russian politician who was sanctioned by
the US in twenty eighteen for alleged money laundering, owns
that yacht. I don't know, it's cost you a fortune.
Would you want to buy this guy's yacht? There could
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be something I don't know.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
They were trying to conceal the yacht's true owner, right,
But there was all this litigation over it, so it's
out there. Will it really attract any rational buyer at
a fair market price?
Speaker 5 (31:09):
Right?
Speaker 1 (31:09):
I think it would be challenging to take this yacht
in a few places and very costly. But it's been
untouched for since twenty twenty two. Hey, it's Kate Delaney here.
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Speaker 5 (32:02):
I'm going to the man Cave, going to the merri Caave,
going to the Marri Cave. I'm going to Mary.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
As we are in the man Cave, everybody is welcome,
Thank you very much. For a lot of people are
actually sending me questions about their various teams, and I'm
going to have one of those. I'm gonna call it
Hike Hike and in the future, and we're going to
exactly Hike Hike and I'll go through all of them,
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and we'll go through all of them.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
We'll do it. Uh, we'll do it once a week.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
And so I'm collecting them all and I'll tell you
what I know about the dramas that are going on.
For example, I got a couple of a couple of
people that were asking me about what's happening with the
Cowboys and Micah Parsons and that whole saga and how
is that gonna play out?
Speaker 2 (33:00):
And will he be traded or not? It does make it.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
I mean, this has just become the overwhelming story certainly
of what's going on with the Dallas Cowboys, because everybody
wants to know, you know, is he getting an extension?
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Are they talking to the agent? What's the latest?
Speaker 1 (33:21):
And Jerry Jones, the latest is he says he has
a contract in writing for Micah Parsons. So how about that.
That's a very very big story. Of course, how about that?
I mean, you can't not have Micah Parsons. He's awesome?
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2 (33:38):
If you want to have you want to talk about
a you want to talk about a stud that you
need to anchor a key element of your team. Think
about that, Think about you, just think about just think
about what he means to the team. So he he
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makes an impact with a defense, he makes an impact.
You can not you can't. I just don't see how
you could not have him on your team. So it's
really strange the.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
You know, this idea of the holdout and what do
you do with a contract and you know, all of
that that becomes an issue and you have like Bengals
edge rusher Trey Hendrickson, you have the Commanders wide out
Terry McLaurin and of course Micah Parsons who go to
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training camps but they're not happy with their contracts, so
they have these you know, this kind of that brief
holdout thing and then they get fined for every day
of training camp that's missed. So none of the three
I mentioned have practiced during training camp.
Speaker 5 (34:54):
Right now.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
McLaurin can't practice because he hasn't passed his preseason physical,
so he he's on the physically unable to perform list
with an ankle injury. But with Parsons, for example, you know,
it's a different story in Hendrickson who say you won't
play for the Bengals in twenty twenty five with the
current contract where he's scheduled to make sixteen million next season.
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And of course Parsons also does have the issue a
little bit of the back issue. So now it's kind
of called hold ends and that's the tactic that there's
been some conversation about for players to get contract unhappiness address,
let's say, because of so they show up there's but
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they're not part of the whole practice situation. But it
also I think what it does is it does maybe
put pressure if I'm an agent, does that work. It
puts pressure on the teams. But it's a it is
a distraction. I mean that's a major distraction. You go
to camp and you have so much time with everybody
together where you're focused on the camaraderie aspect and also
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looking at every angle you can imagine a footage and
looking at new players and connections with how they do
and on various teams, whatever side of the ball they're
playing on. And I think it is absolutely a major,
major distraction.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
All right. You know, I love me some baseball, and
because you request the scores and we are in the
thick of it in baseball where some would say the
dog days.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
I'm going to make sure that we get some of
that in this time around. So the Cardinals, good news
for my Saint Louis fans. You beat the Dodgers in
Dodger territory, five three final score, picking up the fifty
eighth win for the Cardinals. You know, and we're talking
about show hey Otani was on the on the stick,
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so to speak, because he homeward for his one thousand
hit and he struck out eight, but the Cardinals still
managed to beat the Dodgers. Jordan Walker had three hits
for Saint Louis, including an RBI single that tied the
score with two outs in the eighth, and then Saint
Louis took that five to four lead on the same
play when rookie third baseman Alex Frielan made a throwing
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error trying to get Walker at second and so pretty interesting.
Walker was a late addition to the starting lineup because
he replaced Wilson Contreras, who had a stomach bug.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
That was a good replacement, wasn't it.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
And you know, it's funny because I'm talking about what
a great game like sho hey Otani dhing. He gave
up his first dole in base of the season though,
when Walker swiped second in the third, so he was
the guy for sure. He's the guy of the moment
anyway in that game, because that's an ice win over
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a really good team. Obviously, the Padres knocked off the Diamondbacks.
Sorry for my fans in Phoenix three two. That's your
final in that game. If you look at the Diamondbacks,
it's been a really a roller coaster season for sure,
and the fans were out there at Chase Field. Jose
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Iglesias followed Ryan O'Hearn and that was the tying homer
with a run scoring single in the ninth inning. So
the Padres rallied to beat your Diamondbacks on Wednesday night,
because they scored five runs in the eleventh inning to
beat the Diamondbacks on Tuesday night. And now here they
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staged another late rally. So no fun here on the
Arizona side of this, right, That's why you stay for
the whole game. You watch to see what happens because
you never know. You never know if you're going to
have those late rallies. Even if you think it's in
the bag. It's not always in the back. Here's a
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hot team, the Brewers vendee wins and they knocked off
the Braves five four in Atlanta. They are quietly unless,
of course, sheerry Milwaukee. They are quietly a hot team.
Speaker 2 (39:21):
Not a surprise.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
I say that heading into the season, and if you
look at their lineup, it makes sense, right. So I
was looking at little highlights from this game. Blake Perkins
doubled hit a homer, drove in two RBIs, Andrew Vaughn
homeward and Vaughn extended his hit streak to a career
best twelve games, and he's hitting four point thirty five
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who with five home runs and sixteen RBI in that span.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
So there you go. The Brewers are.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
Twenty six games above five hundred for the first time
since finishing the twenty one season ninety five and sixty seven.
And fans are definitely loving that. Not in Atlanta they weren't,
but fans back home, we're loving it. Let's just say that,
all right. Let me throw in a couple other quick scores.
Mariners knocked off the White Sox eight six. How about
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the Royals knocking off the Red Sox at Fenway seven
to three. Nationals Glide By the A's says they're having
a terrible season, though two one not much to cheer about.
They have forty four wins. Marlins beat the Astros six four,
Rays get the Angels five to four. This was a
crazy game. The Blue Jays beat the Rockies. You want
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to know what the final score was, like a laugher.
If you were at Coors Fields, you are gone. And
when this was happening, twenty twenty to one. That was
the final score. So the Blue Jays pick up their
sixty eighth. Vladimir Guerrero had four hits, including a home
run David Schneider deep. I mean I could go through
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the it just take too long. He went deep twice,
so it was an onslaught. It was a massacre, is
the best way. That's the best way to put that. Gerrera,
by the way, extends his on base streak to twenty
three games, the longest current streak in the American League.
Speaker 2 (41:16):
So how about that.
Speaker 1 (41:18):
And this has been a tough, tough series for the Rockies,
who are having the worst of the worst seasons. They
are thirty and eighty four. I mean, they are just
handing out tickets for people to go and watch the Rockies.
Let's put it that way. It's a tough it's a
tough place to play. Guardians knocked off the Mets for one,
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the Giants beat the Padres four to two, and the
Orioles got the better of the Phillies at Citizens Bank
Ballpark in Philly five to one. That's your final there.
As I said, keep an eye out earlier in the
show for what's coming up this season. We're gonna have
Hike Hike of course, where we go through your questions
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about what's happening in the NFL, but.
Speaker 2 (42:07):
Also nail the score.
Speaker 1 (42:09):
Yeah, nail the score will come back, and it's your
chance to win amazing prizes where you can email me
your scoring guesses of the game of the week, or
you can call in, or you can even go into
our special mailbox and leave your scoring guests. But all
the details on that will be rolled out in the
next couple of weeks.
Speaker 2 (42:29):
I'm gonna introduce you to.
Speaker 1 (42:31):
A man who tells you why it's so important to
love your mother, and I love the sentiment.
Speaker 7 (42:36):
Next, I'm so excited to produce you to doctor John Akiyemi.
Speaker 1 (43:02):
He is with us with a smiling face, and you
can see behind him is a picture of his beautiful wife, Agnes.
Will talk about his family, and the name of his
book is one I bet all of our mothers would
love for us to have written. It's called Meet My Mother,
Portrait of my Quintessential, My quintessential consonment, and I love
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that word. He's got the book in his hand, mother,
So wait till you hear the stories of his mother
and the impact that she had and just such an
interesting life.
Speaker 8 (43:35):
Doctor John, thanks so much for coming on.
Speaker 5 (43:37):
With us, my pleasure.
Speaker 8 (43:40):
Let's talk about your book. What made you decide to
write this book?
Speaker 5 (43:45):
I decided to write this book two weeks in advance
of the last Mother's Day. I sat off her on
my seid. Wouldn't it be nice if I can commemorate
a book in her name to honor all the mothers
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across the glory, because I know for a fact that
a mother's duties in the home, in the family is
never finished. It's a love affair that almost parallels a
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divine love that the Good Lord decides that all couples
should have. My mother. When I look back, I give
her all the glory I give God the glory, of course,
and I give her all the honor for the way
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she brought all nine of us and one in the middle.
I have far older siblings and four younger siblings. A
case in point was the fact that I recall, growing
up in Nigeria, West Africa as a young child, how
she not showed us how she built the foundation for
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our lives. Each day started with a morning devotion in
the family, and all nine of us we had a
family Bible. She had her own, my father had his own,
and we have won for the siblings. She would partially
a part of the verse in the Bible for us
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to read, and each one of us, from the oldest
demmandual to the youngest, we would read a verse and
has it onto the lost siblings. Now that I recall
my experience, I wondered how much I really valued that
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I was about serving as I recalled, and what does
something ye all know? I was bored with the ritual
of having to wake up a lady in the morning
and the ring of bear from my next older brother,
who was a portun to be the bell boy. It
would bring the bell and all of us who come
to the living room where we'll have the devotion, and
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my mother would interpret each lesson that we were supposed
to get from that devotion, And I just wondered, that
is the foundation, that is the pillar of my life today.
And I credit her for building my life on a
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piece of rock. And that is what I just glorified
God for. She, like my father, was an education at
cattle by training, so she aspired to the rank of
being the principal of a Methodist elementary girls school, and
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my father, my father likewise became the principal of the
boys' school. When I look back at the foundation of
my life, I just rejoice. First of all, they're not
show us to know whose sons or daughters we are.
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She and my father imposed upon us the idea of
knowing who you are. I'm going to know who you are.
You have established the rock for the foundation, as there
is the rock for whatever I'm building, so to speak,
comes on top of that. So my quintessential mother, as
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I call I, was about ten years old when she
went in one of those Methodist synods it's like a
meeting of leaders in the Methodist churches of Nigeria. She
took me along with her and she made me have
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a commitment. It said, John, I am taking you on
this synod of meetings. However, I want you to write
an essay on your experiences. So I recall after the synod,
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it was a four day meeting one of the large
just cities in Nigeria called Ibadan. I came back and
she asked me for my essay, which I wrote. So
she was my very first teacher. H all over that
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were read dramatical errors of course. Wow. Well anyway, I think, oh,
I should silence that.
Speaker 8 (49:15):
This is people understand that new silence the phote. It
was funny.
Speaker 1 (49:18):
We heard a rocky theme and I thought, you know what,
your mother coming through to us and telling us and
reaching out.
Speaker 8 (49:24):
Hey, they're talking about me. I feel her spirit. Oh,
thank you say so.
Speaker 5 (49:30):
Anyway, she was my first teacher, and I think for
all mothers in in in the world, I need to
emphasize the idea that mothers parents in particular uh the
rock educators of their family members. Later on, two decades
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or so later, when I was an student at Aurora College,
which has not become a rural university, I was lucky
enough to have a mentor. I still remember her name,
Doctor and then not just momentarily escaped me, but she
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was a female professor who encouraged me. I took her
course in creative writing, and creative writing course really brought
the very best out of every student. It was more
like she siphoning out the creative spirit in each of us.
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Apparently she recognized that I have this dormant emotion. She
encouraged me, and in that year that was nineteen sixty five,
I remember so well, she encouraged me to submit some
kind of competition to the National Anthology of College Poetry
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at the time, and lo and behold, the little poems
that I wrote were published. So that was my very
first introduction to the publishing field. And of course, later
in my scientific and devil I had to write a
thesis for the master's degree and a dissertation for the PhD.
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But after all these creative things that the Good Lord
has enabled me to do, the the most important one
was is the writing of books. In my retirement years,
every time I feel like expressing my joy, expressing my frustration,
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sometimes expressing a deep feeling, I just get a piece
of paper, get my computer and put the thoughts down.
So the idea of writing This book was really conceived
two weeks before the last Mother's Day, and I made
a deal with my publisher, said do you think you
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can publish this just in time for Mother's Day? Of
course I didn't meet that that deadline. But the memories
of my mother are so in debt, and all my
all my siblings in Africa, and we are scattered all
over where in Europe and South Africa, when of course
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I uh in Canada and of course here, all of
them are just so enamored that John is able to
write about make my mother, who have got with me
their grandmother, their great grandmother, and so on and so forth,
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because I'm blessed enough to have written another book called Belongings.
Belongings is a history, a genealogy of the k and
the family, tracing back all the way from eighteen forty eight.
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That's six generations. I was able to trace the effort
for this. I give the credit to my oldest niece,
missus Grace or like you okay me of course a
k And who did all the work from my mother's
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collection at home. My mother was a ridiculous note taken.
She kept record of the birthdays of each member of
the family. So my niece was able to dig into
this family bible that she kept in which he noted
all the family birthdays and so on and so forth,
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and shared it with me. So with her cooperation, with
her encouragement and of course the encournment draw of all
my cousins and nephews and family members, I was able
to write this genealogy which is called Belonging.
Speaker 2 (54:30):
We come back why Belonging. You're gonna love the reason why.
That's next on the flip side here on Arthur's corner,
thanks for listening to us. Here on at m on
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Author's Corner, we're talking to doctor Akiemi about his book
My Mother, which is I think so powerful and really
just made me think about my own mother, and I
hope it's doing the same for all of you. I
know that was one of his intended purposes. And then
you know this other book.
Speaker 1 (55:10):
We mentioned it in Belonging, and immediately what pops to
all of our heads is as humans wanting to feel
like there is a space for you, wanting to feel
like there's a group for you. Am I right about that?
Doctor John?
Speaker 5 (55:27):
I figure out that way Homo sapiens human beings truly
truly would belong to one another. I figured that I
am where I am today because I am standing on
the shortness of same people that preceded that can be
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found me. I figured, if I wrote something that show
us this family, human relationships, we belong to one another,
we belong to each other. It's a fresh scene. And
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what is going on in today's world when the leadership
of this great country is encouraging coalition between different groups
for some and godly purpose. I figure if I wrote
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a book that shows that we humans, we truly are
each other's keepers, that the world will be a better place.
Speaker 1 (56:51):
Wow, what a great sentiment When people read either one
of these books, both of these books, I hope they
get them.
Speaker 8 (56:57):
What do you hope they take away.
Speaker 5 (57:00):
From my Meet my Mother? I hope they take away
the incredible legacies that mothers throughout the world lead to
their families and children if the mother does it right.
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I figured that I hope that people would take the
idea home to know that persistence, love, caring, all these
things that a mother shows to her children are really
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the foundation in the roots of our advancement as humans.
I deeply suffer, deeply in my mind when I read
stories of some mothers who, for one reason or the other,
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decide not to give their consummate love to their family
or to their children. I feel hurt when I see
a young mother with two children shopping at camar shop
at Warmer. I'm not saying a father to accompany them.
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I know that I cannot imposs upon them my own values.
But it will be so much better when I see
And I'll tell you a little story that demonst say
what I'm trying to say. When I see a photo
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or a scene in which a mother and a father
show this connection, this connectivity, this love a causain point.
I was shopping at Costco the other day and I
saw two couples, a man and a woman holding hands,
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and something told me. I said, I like that. Then
I said what I said when I grew up, I'm
going to learn how to hold my spouses hands. Both
of us laugh when I see that. It's a visual
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body language that demonstrates what love is, what caring is.
I always marvel a gentleman who take their hat when
they see a lady who opened the door of the
car for their lady. This is just awesome to me.
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And he just tells me this is a little practice.
You don't need to have a PhD to have that,
It's just a little practice knowing that whoever you're with
means so much to you. My mother demonstrates all her
life that we, her n children mean so much to her.
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As a matter of fact, when my father died, and
he died rather young, fifty one years young, he was
an excellent health. However, at that time I'm talking about
nineteen fifty six, there was no medical kill for asthma.
Reportedly probably died of an asthmatic attack, again putting it
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back in the years nineteen fifty six when there was
no no care for that. So I'm hoping that readness
will know that we a society sometimes who don't give
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enough credits, enough credits to mothers who sacrifice everything just
to make sure that we the children become somebody without me.
And again a little side story about this. I I
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looked at earlier that I have far older and far
younger siblings. When I look back at my parents on
their way of handling family planning, I said to myself,
Oh my goodness, I am so glad my parents did
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not stop at just having three or four children, otherwise
I would not be alive today and the fifth of nine. Wow,
and this ties in a love intricate way with my
beautiful wife. In the early years of I had dated,
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she remarked to me at what time said whoever I
married must agree to her ten children with me. I
smiled and I said to her, I guess that rules
me out of it. So later in life, as I
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was thinking, I became new wises, I wondered what might
have been in her mind when she said that, and
knowing behorely don't mean you know, it's been said that
parents rear their children the way these parents themselves were real.
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So later I found out that Agnes has ten siblings,
including herself. Wow, it was her father and her mother.
No multiple wives now just husband and wife and ten children.
So I figured that maybe at that moment when she
said that, she was saying, if I can't break my
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parents' record, at least I must make it. And it's
so funny too that my mey myself, and for some
reason I'm in the middle, so I have a total
of ed siblings. So I forget, Oh man, no, this
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is this is this is a wonderful coincidence. In terms
of family numbering system. Yeah wow.
Speaker 1 (01:04:15):
I mean your stories are beautiful and there's so many
more stories and prayers and things that happened to you
during your life, and so much of that. Again, the Rock,
as you said, your mother Meet my Mother is a
wonderful gift belongings. Another book worthy of people going to
get doctor John, we could talk to you forever.
Speaker 8 (01:04:33):
Thank you so much for coming on.
Speaker 5 (01:04:35):
Yes, God bless wow.
Speaker 1 (01:04:38):
I tell you what listening to doctor Akaemi and the
passion he really has for people. I think that comes
across in both of those books, whether we're talking about
overall as a group of whether we're talking about his
own family and his mother and his desire that we
all understand really the importance of our own mothers, and
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especially in today's world where I think a lot of
that because we're resuming from one direction to the next,
a lot of that gets lost.
Speaker 8 (01:05:07):
Hopefully you take that to heart.
Speaker 2 (01:05:09):
Go call your mother if you still are lucky enough
to have her with us, and if not, just think
some really good thoughts. Thanks so much for listening to
this interview here on ATM
Major League Baseball called up its first female umpire. Meantime,
smoke still gets in your eyes with those Canadian wildfires,
and sadly, an army base shooting really had us scrambling today,
worried about the people at the base. Hey, everybody, Kate
(00:31):
Delaney here on at and the Charcuterie board of talk radio.
So we start with the Army sergeant in custody after
five soldiers were shot at Fort Stewart. Still the motive
is unknown, just opening fire injuring five of his colleagues.
He was subdued by fellow soldiers and taken into custody.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Here's the military had to say.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
The alleged shooter is in custody, we re established security,
I have lifted all lockdown measures on Fort Stewart and
there is currently no threat to the local community. I'd
like to recognize and thank our Army, law enforcement and
medical personnel, and our partners from local, state, and federal
law enforcement and emergency services for their quick response and support.
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I would also like to thank the brave soldiers who
immediately intervened and subdued the shooter. These soldiers, without a doubt,
prevented further casualties.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
The suspect, identified now as Sergeant Quinelius Radford, just twenty
eight years old. He was an automated logistics non commissioned officer.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Soldiers in that field.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Typically managed maintenance or maybe warehouse operations by placing orders,
that kind of thing, tracking work in army computer systems,
is what I was told. All five people shot are
in stable condition as of this hour, expected to recover.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
That's the very very good news.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Two of the soldiers who were shot had to be
transported through ambulance to Memorial Health University Medical Center. It's
a trauma center about an hour's drive away in Savannah.
Helicopters were unable to assist because of local weather conditions,
but they did get them there.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
That's the good news. Stable condition.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Everything looks good as good can be anyway, because what
a terrible thing to happen. But as you heard, immediately
subdued by others on the base.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
So that's the good news.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
This happened surely before eleven in the morning in an
area of the South Georgia Installation that's kind of associated
with the third Infantry Division's Armored Brigade Combat Brigade there,
said the whole fort was locked down and he was
again taken into custody and still motives. All of that
(02:51):
unclear at this point. This could have been when I'm
telling you, when I heard this, I thought, oh please,
nobody has died as a result with that. So that
is actually the good news, but what a sad, terrible,
terrible thing to happen. United Airlines has resumed flights. They
had to stop them across the country after some tech problems.
(03:14):
There was that big, big halt. It was a few hours.
The underlying issue was resolved. They expect some residual delays.
They say they're working to really restore everything for what
would be normal operations.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
At issue was a thing called unimatic.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
It stores flight data and feeds it to other systems,
including those that track flight times and calculate weight and balance.
Of course, how could you take off if you don't
know that? And they're trying to replace this kind of
aging system. The airline said they didn't know what caused
the outage. It started after six pm Eastern, but it
wasn't cybersecurity related, so they had to scrub sixty mainline
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flights on Wednesday, with more than one thousand delays thirty
five percent of what it had scheduled. They're treating the
disruption as something within his control, so they covered expenses
like hotels for customers that needed them. Oh, that's the worst.
So that's the latest tech related issue that's interrupted or
grouted flights in the last couple of years. Airlines are
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definitely vulnerable to any kind of tech snaffoos from third
party providers. We've seen that before. So that's the latest
in the flight mayre category. Still dealing with the wildfires
in Canada, seventy plus fires all together, the smoke drifting
into the United States. A good reminder to be careful
(04:43):
if you have a condition. Here's doctor Capo from Palisades
Medical Center.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
I always recommend miasmatics to carry their albuterol pump when
the air quality is bad and to have it on
them because it can happen at any moment. Yeah, any moment.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
And I've heard from a few people I know that
have somebody I has bronchitis. They were in Detroit, they said, yeah,
they were really not running around doing the normal errands,
that kind of thing. And then if you have any
kind of asthma or whatnot, you certainly don't want to
be in an area where where it's where you're dealing
with a lot of that, a lot of that smoke
(05:22):
in Boston seems to be getting a lot of it
too in other parts of Massachusetts. RFK Junior announced the
end to some mRNA contracts, including for flu and COVID.
So the Health and Human Services Secretary announced a crackdown
on that vaccine technology. He's obviously a vaccine skeptic, knowing
(05:44):
that heading into this position, and he's winding down twenty
two mRNA projects supported by the Biomedical Advanced Research and
Development Authority, So the contracts will either be canceled or
altered or basically out the window. In total, the administration
says the changes will affect nearly five hundred million in
(06:07):
m RNA related projects. Details of those kinds of contracts,
of course, they're not all available there. So there's been
a massive outrage among the scientific community, at least some
of them.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Anyway.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Here's Caitlin Caraco, a Nobel laureate scientists who I caught
on the tube and this was her take.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
So obviously, you know, when you are sick, you wouldn't
ask advice from a lawyer like Kennedy. You know, you
ask for experts, your physician for advice, and obviously he's
misinformed and.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
Do not understand that.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
You know, science is knowledge, which was you know, around
the world, and.
Speaker 6 (06:50):
We collected those with observation, experimentation, measurements and all of
these scientific evidence. And you know, when you would just
reject and on misinformation, then you make a decision like
he made.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
That's all kicking into effect right now. As I said,
some of those contracts would just be halted mid stream.
And the reaction has been swift and overwhelming. There are
some people that are backing it. It depends on where
you sit as far as vaccines are concerned.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Wants some good news. All right, this might not be
good for some of you, but you know, in the
drink category.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Of what's new, what's hot? Heines, Yeah, check this out.
The Chicago and Pittsburgh based food maker said that they're
teaming up with Smoothie King to.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Introduce a new product. You know what. It's called Tomato Ketchup.
Smoothie Does that sound good to you? The first ever
of its kind.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
So they blend real fruit with hindes simply tomato ketchup.
They say it's an incredibly refreshing believe it or not.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
So you got this.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Kind of crisp apple juice and juicy strawberries and a
tart taste of raspberries. But the blend supposedly is all natural,
made with ripe tomatoes full of vitamins and antioxidants. The
food company says the final result is a sweet and
fruity smoothie with a bright, tangy ketchup finish. I wonder
(08:26):
if that's gonna go over well. I have to say,
it looks like you're pouring ketchup into a smoothie cup
with the Hinds label on the outside.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
I don't know. The idea of a ketchup smoothie is
kind of provocative.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Would you taste it? I'm always up for tasting anything,
so I'm gonna taste it and I'll tell you what
it tastes like. When I get my hands on on
Odds and Ends next, Yeah, well, the Odds and Ends
(09:06):
where we mix the unusual with the even more strange
if possible, Mic drop Mone, a mount of money, and
a few other little surprises along the way, including some birthdays.
I was gonna stop doing birthdays and then I had
three people, including Big Bob, saying no, I want to
(09:26):
know how old people are. I said something on the
show like occasionally we'll throw in birthdays, and then you
really slap me down when I didn't do the birthday things.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
So yeah, we're gonna get to the birthdays. This is
how it goes, though. Right at the top, we're talking
little dollars and cents.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
Many many, many, many, many many money money.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Yeah, how about this. Ubers and talks to raise money
for major, major, major robo taxi expansion.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
So that sound interesting to you, Well, that's the kind
of thing you have to do obviously. Obviously, rather Uber
dot n in talks with private equity firms and banks
to get that fund or funds to build their robotaxi business.
According to the CEO, Uber offers robotaxis from Alphabet, Google
(10:17):
dot O owned by Waimo is what it is really,
and they're strengthening that foothold in the self driving category
of taxis. So they're partnering with different automakers like Volkswagen
Tests Love course is another one. They're trying to expand
their robo taxi business too, and they're pitching the tie
(10:42):
ups as part of a bigger plan that involves three
robotaxi business models. Check these out paying partners that own
the vehicles, so that's a fixed rate sharing revenue with
fleet operators, okay, and owning them straight out while licensing
software for self driving technology. Wonder if that'll really take off?
(11:04):
And then of course what does that do to the
Uber drivers looks like they would be kicked to the curb.
Uber said it was planning on using a modest portion
of it's around seven billion in annual cash flows. That's
some money to fund deployments. They also might sell minority
stakes in companies to help with that expansion, because they
(11:26):
think this is absolutely where the future is. This mass
robotaxi deployment could lower driver reliant ubers operating costs, and
of course that would do what jack up profitability. But
like I said, that means the drivers would be out
and how many people would take the robotaxis? Would you
(11:48):
jump into robotaxi, Like, let's say in the middle of
downtown San Francisco right now, I'd be a little I
don't know, I'd be a little skeptical in some areas,
but I've heard the technology is absolutely there and a
lot of people say it totally works, and once it's
really streamlined, we won't think anything of it. What would
(12:10):
you think if you opened the door to your house
and you found a seventeen foot python dancing around in
your living room?
Speaker 2 (12:22):
True story. A couple opened the living room door a reptile.
That reptile was stretched up to the ceiling in search
of an escape route. They think, Now, this wasn't in Thailand,
and this just happened the other day. Three Scottish fold
kitties along with seven other cats were cowering in the
(12:45):
corner of the room. The python liked them for food.
I'm sure none of them were hurt.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
The snake, they think, entered from the bushes, so they
called emergency services to remove this beast. And even the
maids said she had seen the snake around the property
earlier in the day. It's so lucky the cats weren't harmed.
So animal rescuers had to drag the python out of
the house before they placed it in a sack to
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release it into nature far far away from the residential area.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
That's the good news. So I don't know, I mean,
this is Thailand.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
They live in forests and swamps and canals, but they
live in cities too, so of course if they're in
the cities, the conflict with humans is a natural thing
that can happen. And of course pythons are one of
the world's largest snakes and they can eat humans even
they can cats, dogs, birds, rats, and other snakes. I
(13:47):
just suppose I never came across this story thinking of
a python of any sort to me and opening my
door and seeing that, oh, that would be frightening to me.
Oh so frightening. But they did get it, they did
remove it, and none of the animals were harmed. It
seems like there's a theme going on the last couple
of days or so. We're talking about animals eating other animals,
(14:10):
and even a zoo saying bring your animals and we
need them to feed the big pets.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
I don't know, there's got to be something to this.
I'm not sure where I'm going with.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
It, but I know that I wouldn't want to be
anywhere near a seventeen foot python. I had a python
once put around my neck when I was in the Bahamas,
and there was lots of people around me, and that
was enough for me. Yeah, Okay, I touched the python.
It was a pretty big one. I'm done. The thrill
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of it all has left me.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Would you do that?
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Would you have that wrapped around your neck and feel
comfortable with that? You get where I'm going with it,
all right? So because you wanted them? How about these birthdays? Yes,
happy birthday. If you are celebrating a birthday, hey, you
(15:05):
should be recognized on your birthday. Hopefully someone bought your lunch,
maybe dinner, piece of cake. You know, I'm not sure,
but somehow it was recognized, right, So who's celebrating a
birthday of note? M Night Chamelan to know who he is?
Fifty five years old. One of my favorites. I kind
(15:26):
of like scary movies, not not the slashers, the kind
where you kind of jump, Like The Sixth Sense, which
they filmed in my hometown in Philadelphia.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
That was a scary movie. Go back and watch that.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
That was like That came out in nineteen ninety nine
or two thousand and something like that, where he got
a nomination for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. There
was another one that I think is equally frightening in
a different way, Unbreakable Signs The Villa Lady in the Water,
The Happening, The Last Airbender, which is different from all
(16:05):
of those, Knock at the Cabin, Saw That Trap, and
the growth of his films exceeds three point three billion
billion globally. It's usually his films have supernatural plots and twist.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Kind of endings. And I like some of his I
like some of his work.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
I like a lot obviously, I've seen a lot of
his I've seen a lot of his movies.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
I know I know two things.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
I just know when I go, I'm gonna probably there's
probably gonna be some scary moments. And I know that
I'm going to try the whole time to figure out
the plot. I mean, he's sitting there trying to figure
it out, right, all right?
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Meanwhile, how about Michelle.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
Yo.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
She is a Malaysian actress who is all over the place.
She won an Academy Award, a Gold Globe Award. She's
been a ton of films. She's had a really hot
run the last couple of years, but even before that
she was doing well. She started the James Bond movie
Tomorrow Never Dies. In the late nineties. She was in
(17:18):
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon that was really a good a
really really really good movie. She was in Crazy Rich Asians, funny,
funny thing there, but the thing that put her on
the map was Everything Everywhere, all at once in twenty
twenty two, which she won an Academy Award for Best Actress.
(17:38):
And yeah, she's gotten a lot of roles since then.
Not that, like I said, she didn't have them before that.
But a lot of her movies are are pretty interesting,
especially lately, but I think some of them in the
past too, I mean, even some Marvel things she's been
involved in that also Star Trek. If you're Trek, you
(18:00):
know her Star Trek Discovery from twenty seventeen to twenty twenty.
And she's done a lot of voice acting in like
Kung Fu Panda, you know, Minions, The Rise of Guru,
The Pause of Fury, that kind of thing, The Transformers,
Rise of the Beast, you get it.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
She's a working actress. In other words, So.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Once again, happy birthday, Happy birthday, Happy birthday if you
are celebrating it. Yeah, definitely. And here's a random ubiquitous
bit of information, a UBI I call it. So, if
you look at box office sales, what's the most popular
star Wars movie of all time. Somebody asked me this
(18:42):
rando question, what was the most popular one? I mean,
there have been so many, right, I went down the
list after I got it wrong, and I realized.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
You know how many there are.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
It's like over twenty five if you include yeah, it's
like twenty five, the prequels, all of that. So the
most the lifetime gross is The Force Awakens and that
came out in twenty fifteen Star Wars.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
The Force Awakens. Wow. Next to that the Last Jedi,
and then Rogue one, a Star Wars story. I was
way wrong. I said the Phantom Menace that was like
fifth on the list. Something like that.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Coming up, Zinger Zone, you're gonna laugh. I have officially
entered the Zingers Zone.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Once a week I roll out my cheesy one liners.
Some of you really applaud them, and you send me
your own. So once again we will have another week
where we do use your jokes.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
A free for all for listeners. So if you've got
a good one, send it to me Kate at katalinyradio
dot com. Just click on contact, just like Harry did.
I'll save his.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
It's pretty good. So what is the history of National
Fresh Breath Day. Did you know there is such a thing. Well,
I'm telling you there is, and it's now.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
So you think about teeth in dentistry, the modern toothbrush.
Did you know? This was invented in seventeen eighty.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Then in eighteen forty four there was a guy named
Horace Wells who started using nitrous oxide as anesthesia in
oral healthcare.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Oh, I would have really liked him.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Then Colgate began producing toothpaste in jars. That was eighteen
seventy three.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
And how about this.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
I use an electric toothbrush because Dennis told me that's
what you get, that's the way to go. Nineteen fifty four,
that's when it was invented. The first ones were manufactured
in Witserlinde. Yeah, so it is officially National Fresh Breath Day.
In honor of that, we are focusing our hysterical jokes
(21:14):
on dentistry. Ugh even hearing that, Oh that's so scary,
isn't it?
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Ooh? Okay, So the DNIS says, my teeth are like
a string of pearls. Each one has a hole through it. Luckily, no.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
If a kid has twenty five candy bars and they
eat twenty two of them? What do they have cavities?
I know this is a joke you have heard. I've
heard so many different ways. What teeth do you need
to brush the ones you want to keep? What award
(22:09):
did the dentist win? My friends?
Speaker 2 (22:12):
A little plaque?
Speaker 5 (22:15):
Boo? Right?
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Are you kidding? What does the dentist give a bear
with a hurting tooth? Anything at once?
Speaker 1 (22:30):
What made the snowman go to see a dentist he
was suffering from frostbite? What does the dentist do when
he's on a roller coaster? Brace himself?
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Of course?
Speaker 1 (22:51):
What game did the dentist play when he was a child?
Caps and Robbers? You know what in Panama they call
dental care. It's called a root canal?
Speaker 2 (23:15):
H have you ever had a root canal?
Speaker 5 (23:17):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (23:19):
What do dennis call their X rays? Toothpicks?
Speaker 5 (23:25):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Come on, I think that's the best one. Why did
the Why did the deer need braces? He had buck teeth?
Speaker 7 (23:37):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (23:37):
The power of laughter? Okay, I promise it'll be over soon.
I have just a couple more, just a couple more,
I'm gonna roll out for you.
Speaker 5 (23:44):
Right.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Why did the dentists make a poor date with the
manicurist because they fought both tooth and nail. When I
went to the dennis, he said to put my money where.
Speaker 8 (24:02):
My mouth is.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
So I got, yeah, gold fillings.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
I had a friend that got a job as a
receptionist had a dentist's office.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
How did that happen? Word of mouth? All right?
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Uh? Did you know that Dennis practice there? Trade by
going through many drills? All right, last one. I'd probably
gone too deep on this. My dentist has a TV
in the exam room. Of course, who doesn't. I go
(24:45):
there for Netflix and drill. All right, one more, one more,
I promise one more. This one is it's just a
perfect one. You can roll this out for your friends.
I think they'll laugh. What do you call a bear
with no teeth? A gummy bear?
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Exactly? I thought it was funny.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
All right, that's it. I'm calling it a rap on
that one from the Zinger Zone, and it is. It
is interesting. You know, I have never met anyone that
likes going to the dentist, except for somebody related to
a dentist.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
And I've known. I've actually known a lot of Dennis.
I have and had.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
I had one dentist's friend, and I asked him, how
did you pick dentistry to go into and he said,
this was a guy out of Dallas who had a
very popular practice. Super nice guy. He said, well, you know,
it's pretty simple. I was a young, a young lad.
I was, you know, like thirteen years old, and I
was on a boat, a pretty big boat. I got
(25:51):
invited to go fishing, and there were two denists on
the boat and I noticed when they were picked up
by their wives they were tall, had tan legs, and beautiful.
So I thought, big boat, beautiful women. That's the profession
for me. Seriously, there's no butumpump on that. It's like,
(26:13):
oh my gosh. But think about what you do all
day long when you're a dentist. Such a necessary profession though, right,
I think people, I don't know the stats on this,
but of avoidance it has to be.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
I know it is way up.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
There on things that you avoid doing. But of course
the more you avoid it, the more you could pay
the price for that, that's for sure. Hey, coming up,
you know we're gonna do that mailbag thing and then
the pre market bell.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
But I wanted to get to this story. I thought
it was interesting.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Somebody asked me about this today, and in fact, we're
trying to get her on the show, but it's tough
during the season. After the season, I'm sure we will.
But Jen Powell is the first woman to umpire a
game in Major League Baseball, or she's gonna be coming
up this weekend when she works the Miami Marlins and
the Atlanta Braves.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
So how about that. It's a double header, And.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
She's worked spring training games in twenty twenty four and
this year. And this move comes after the NBA had
its first female official what I want to say, twenty
eight years ago, something like that, and then you go
(27:34):
ten years ago the NFL, and then three years after
that Men's Soccer World Cup had a female referee. So
now here you go with baseball and a double header.
I mean, there's gonna be a lot of attention obviously
to this. But she has the chop, she's worked the games,
(27:54):
and they're thinking of it's always about what kind of
ratings and umpire gets and are they good enough to
move up to a different rank or put them into
sub into something, And so obviously she's earned that. But
like I said, there's gonna be a lot of attention
on that Marlins Brave series. That's for sure. So I say, bravo. Right,
(28:17):
that's a good thing. Yeah, that's a good thing. Absolutely,
why not if you're qualified or qualified period.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
And I've talked to enough athletes. They don't care about that.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
They care about good you know, they want calls to
go their way, right, they want a lot of problems.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
So as long as that's happening, and that's copasetic, right,
that's it, period. Boom.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
So I think it'll probably work out fine, all right.
From the Chiching department. I was gonna throw this into
the money section, but we didn't have time. The US
is auctioning The US is auctioning the seas three d
and twenty five million dollar Russian super yacht. It has
eight state rooms, a helipad, jim and a spa.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
The Amadea is the first American sale of a Russian
luxury ship since the start of Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.
And the auction closes September tenth. Think about this.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
It's three hundred and.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Forty eight feet long. It was seized actually three years ago.
It's docked in San Diego.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
It was pretty new. It was designed by this guy
named Francisco Zaretti, which do we care? Do we know
how many of you listening to the show?
Speaker 8 (29:45):
No yacht makers?
Speaker 1 (29:46):
But what you need to know I saw the insides
of this thing, and you can see it too, just
go on the search engine. It has incredible marvel work.
Eight like I said, rooms, state rooms, a beauty salon,
a spa, a gym, a swimming pool, an elevator.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
And yet with what I'm just describing.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
To you, sixteen guests can comfortably fit and thirty six
crew members. But of course it was an issue of
contention because there's this weird trail of trust and shell companies.
And it's registered in the game in Islands, naturally, and
it's owned by a thing called Milimaran Investments, also based
(30:29):
in the Cayman Islands, and the US contends that Sulloman Kerimoff,
an economist and former Russian politician who was sanctioned by
the US in twenty eighteen for alleged money laundering, owns
that yacht. I don't know, it's cost you a fortune.
Would you want to buy this guy's yacht? There could
(30:53):
be something I don't know.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
They were trying to conceal the yacht's true owner, right,
But there was all this litigation over it, so it's
out there. Will it really attract any rational buyer at
a fair market price?
Speaker 5 (31:09):
Right?
Speaker 1 (31:09):
I think it would be challenging to take this yacht
in a few places and very costly. But it's been
untouched for since twenty twenty two. Hey, it's Kate Delaney here.
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Speaker 5 (32:02):
I'm going to the man Cave, going to the merri Caave,
going to the Marri Cave. I'm going to Mary.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
As we are in the man Cave, everybody is welcome,
Thank you very much. For a lot of people are
actually sending me questions about their various teams, and I'm
going to have one of those. I'm gonna call it
Hike Hike and in the future, and we're going to
exactly Hike Hike and I'll go through all of them,
(32:38):
and we'll go through all of them.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
We'll do it. Uh, we'll do it once a week.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
And so I'm collecting them all and I'll tell you
what I know about the dramas that are going on.
For example, I got a couple of a couple of
people that were asking me about what's happening with the
Cowboys and Micah Parsons and that whole saga and how
is that gonna play out?
Speaker 2 (33:00):
And will he be traded or not? It does make it.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
I mean, this has just become the overwhelming story certainly
of what's going on with the Dallas Cowboys, because everybody
wants to know, you know, is he getting an extension?
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Are they talking to the agent? What's the latest?
Speaker 1 (33:21):
And Jerry Jones, the latest is he says he has
a contract in writing for Micah Parsons. So how about that.
That's a very very big story. Of course, how about that?
I mean, you can't not have Micah Parsons. He's awesome?
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2 (33:38):
If you want to have you want to talk about
a you want to talk about a stud that you
need to anchor a key element of your team. Think
about that, Think about you, just think about just think
about what he means to the team. So he he
(33:58):
makes an impact with a defense, he makes an impact.
You can not you can't. I just don't see how
you could not have him on your team. So it's
really strange the.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
You know, this idea of the holdout and what do
you do with a contract and you know, all of
that that becomes an issue and you have like Bengals
edge rusher Trey Hendrickson, you have the Commanders wide out
Terry McLaurin and of course Micah Parsons who go to
(34:35):
training camps but they're not happy with their contracts, so
they have these you know, this kind of that brief
holdout thing and then they get fined for every day
of training camp that's missed. So none of the three
I mentioned have practiced during training camp.
Speaker 5 (34:54):
Right now.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
McLaurin can't practice because he hasn't passed his preseason physical,
so he he's on the physically unable to perform list
with an ankle injury. But with Parsons, for example, you know,
it's a different story in Hendrickson who say you won't
play for the Bengals in twenty twenty five with the
current contract where he's scheduled to make sixteen million next season.
(35:19):
And of course Parsons also does have the issue a
little bit of the back issue. So now it's kind
of called hold ends and that's the tactic that there's
been some conversation about for players to get contract unhappiness address,
let's say, because of so they show up there's but
(35:41):
they're not part of the whole practice situation. But it
also I think what it does is it does maybe
put pressure if I'm an agent, does that work. It
puts pressure on the teams. But it's a it is
a distraction. I mean that's a major distraction. You go
to camp and you have so much time with everybody
together where you're focused on the camaraderie aspect and also
(36:06):
looking at every angle you can imagine a footage and
looking at new players and connections with how they do
and on various teams, whatever side of the ball they're
playing on. And I think it is absolutely a major,
major distraction.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
All right. You know, I love me some baseball, and
because you request the scores and we are in the
thick of it in baseball where some would say the
dog days.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
I'm going to make sure that we get some of
that in this time around. So the Cardinals, good news
for my Saint Louis fans. You beat the Dodgers in
Dodger territory, five three final score, picking up the fifty
eighth win for the Cardinals. You know, and we're talking
about show hey Otani was on the on the stick,
(37:01):
so to speak, because he homeward for his one thousand
hit and he struck out eight, but the Cardinals still
managed to beat the Dodgers. Jordan Walker had three hits
for Saint Louis, including an RBI single that tied the
score with two outs in the eighth, and then Saint
Louis took that five to four lead on the same
play when rookie third baseman Alex Frielan made a throwing
(37:26):
error trying to get Walker at second and so pretty interesting.
Walker was a late addition to the starting lineup because
he replaced Wilson Contreras, who had a stomach bug.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
That was a good replacement, wasn't it.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
And you know, it's funny because I'm talking about what
a great game like sho hey Otani dhing. He gave
up his first dole in base of the season though,
when Walker swiped second in the third, so he was
the guy for sure. He's the guy of the moment
anyway in that game, because that's an ice win over
(38:02):
a really good team. Obviously, the Padres knocked off the Diamondbacks.
Sorry for my fans in Phoenix three two. That's your
final in that game. If you look at the Diamondbacks,
it's been a really a roller coaster season for sure,
and the fans were out there at Chase Field. Jose
(38:24):
Iglesias followed Ryan O'Hearn and that was the tying homer
with a run scoring single in the ninth inning. So
the Padres rallied to beat your Diamondbacks on Wednesday night,
because they scored five runs in the eleventh inning to
beat the Diamondbacks on Tuesday night. And now here they
(38:46):
staged another late rally. So no fun here on the
Arizona side of this, right, That's why you stay for
the whole game. You watch to see what happens because
you never know. You never know if you're going to
have those late rallies. Even if you think it's in
the bag. It's not always in the back. Here's a
(39:07):
hot team, the Brewers vendee wins and they knocked off
the Braves five four in Atlanta. They are quietly unless,
of course, sheerry Milwaukee. They are quietly a hot team.
Speaker 2 (39:21):
Not a surprise.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
I say that heading into the season, and if you
look at their lineup, it makes sense, right. So I
was looking at little highlights from this game. Blake Perkins
doubled hit a homer, drove in two RBIs, Andrew Vaughn
homeward and Vaughn extended his hit streak to a career
best twelve games, and he's hitting four point thirty five
(39:44):
who with five home runs and sixteen RBI in that span.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
So there you go. The Brewers are.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
Twenty six games above five hundred for the first time
since finishing the twenty one season ninety five and sixty seven.
And fans are definitely loving that. Not in Atlanta they weren't,
but fans back home, we're loving it. Let's just say that,
all right. Let me throw in a couple other quick scores.
Mariners knocked off the White Sox eight six. How about
(40:13):
the Royals knocking off the Red Sox at Fenway seven
to three. Nationals Glide By the A's says they're having
a terrible season, though two one not much to cheer about.
They have forty four wins. Marlins beat the Astros six four,
Rays get the Angels five to four. This was a
crazy game. The Blue Jays beat the Rockies. You want
(40:36):
to know what the final score was, like a laugher.
If you were at Coors Fields, you are gone. And
when this was happening, twenty twenty to one. That was
the final score. So the Blue Jays pick up their
sixty eighth. Vladimir Guerrero had four hits, including a home
run David Schneider deep. I mean I could go through
(40:56):
the it just take too long. He went deep twice,
so it was an onslaught. It was a massacre, is
the best way. That's the best way to put that. Gerrera,
by the way, extends his on base streak to twenty
three games, the longest current streak in the American League.
Speaker 2 (41:16):
So how about that.
Speaker 1 (41:18):
And this has been a tough, tough series for the Rockies,
who are having the worst of the worst seasons. They
are thirty and eighty four. I mean, they are just
handing out tickets for people to go and watch the Rockies.
Let's put it that way. It's a tough it's a
tough place to play. Guardians knocked off the Mets for one,
(41:41):
the Giants beat the Padres four to two, and the
Orioles got the better of the Phillies at Citizens Bank
Ballpark in Philly five to one. That's your final there.
As I said, keep an eye out earlier in the
show for what's coming up this season. We're gonna have
Hike Hike of course, where we go through your questions
(42:04):
about what's happening in the NFL, but.
Speaker 2 (42:07):
Also nail the score.
Speaker 1 (42:09):
Yeah, nail the score will come back, and it's your
chance to win amazing prizes where you can email me
your scoring guesses of the game of the week, or
you can call in, or you can even go into
our special mailbox and leave your scoring guests. But all
the details on that will be rolled out in the
next couple of weeks.
Speaker 2 (42:29):
I'm gonna introduce you to.
Speaker 1 (42:31):
A man who tells you why it's so important to
love your mother, and I love the sentiment.
Speaker 7 (42:36):
Next, I'm so excited to produce you to doctor John Akiyemi.
Speaker 1 (43:02):
He is with us with a smiling face, and you
can see behind him is a picture of his beautiful wife, Agnes.
Will talk about his family, and the name of his
book is one I bet all of our mothers would
love for us to have written. It's called Meet My Mother,
Portrait of my Quintessential, My quintessential consonment, and I love
(43:25):
that word. He's got the book in his hand, mother,
So wait till you hear the stories of his mother
and the impact that she had and just such an
interesting life.
Speaker 8 (43:35):
Doctor John, thanks so much for coming on.
Speaker 5 (43:37):
With us, my pleasure.
Speaker 8 (43:40):
Let's talk about your book. What made you decide to
write this book?
Speaker 5 (43:45):
I decided to write this book two weeks in advance
of the last Mother's Day. I sat off her on
my seid. Wouldn't it be nice if I can commemorate
a book in her name to honor all the mothers
(44:07):
across the glory, because I know for a fact that
a mother's duties in the home, in the family is
never finished. It's a love affair that almost parallels a
(44:30):
divine love that the Good Lord decides that all couples
should have. My mother. When I look back, I give
her all the glory I give God the glory, of course,
and I give her all the honor for the way
(44:54):
she brought all nine of us and one in the middle.
I have far older siblings and four younger siblings. A
case in point was the fact that I recall, growing
up in Nigeria, West Africa as a young child, how
she not showed us how she built the foundation for
(45:18):
our lives. Each day started with a morning devotion in
the family, and all nine of us we had a
family Bible. She had her own, my father had his own,
and we have won for the siblings. She would partially
a part of the verse in the Bible for us
(45:39):
to read, and each one of us, from the oldest
demmandual to the youngest, we would read a verse and
has it onto the lost siblings. Now that I recall
my experience, I wondered how much I really valued that
(46:00):
I was about serving as I recalled, and what does
something ye all know? I was bored with the ritual
of having to wake up a lady in the morning
and the ring of bear from my next older brother,
who was a portun to be the bell boy. It
would bring the bell and all of us who come
to the living room where we'll have the devotion, and
(46:23):
my mother would interpret each lesson that we were supposed
to get from that devotion, And I just wondered, that
is the foundation, that is the pillar of my life today.
And I credit her for building my life on a
(46:46):
piece of rock. And that is what I just glorified
God for. She, like my father, was an education at
cattle by training, so she aspired to the rank of
being the principal of a Methodist elementary girls school, and
(47:09):
my father, my father likewise became the principal of the
boys' school. When I look back at the foundation of
my life, I just rejoice. First of all, they're not
show us to know whose sons or daughters we are.
(47:34):
She and my father imposed upon us the idea of
knowing who you are. I'm going to know who you are.
You have established the rock for the foundation, as there
is the rock for whatever I'm building, so to speak,
comes on top of that. So my quintessential mother, as
(47:59):
I call I, was about ten years old when she
went in one of those Methodist synods it's like a
meeting of leaders in the Methodist churches of Nigeria. She
took me along with her and she made me have
(48:23):
a commitment. It said, John, I am taking you on
this synod of meetings. However, I want you to write
an essay on your experiences. So I recall after the synod,
(48:43):
it was a four day meeting one of the large
just cities in Nigeria called Ibadan. I came back and
she asked me for my essay, which I wrote. So
she was my very first teacher. H all over that
(49:03):
were read dramatical errors of course. Wow. Well anyway, I think, oh,
I should silence that.
Speaker 8 (49:15):
This is people understand that new silence the phote. It
was funny.
Speaker 1 (49:18):
We heard a rocky theme and I thought, you know what,
your mother coming through to us and telling us and
reaching out.
Speaker 8 (49:24):
Hey, they're talking about me. I feel her spirit. Oh,
thank you say so.
Speaker 5 (49:30):
Anyway, she was my first teacher, and I think for
all mothers in in in the world, I need to
emphasize the idea that mothers parents in particular uh the
rock educators of their family members. Later on, two decades
(49:57):
or so later, when I was an student at Aurora College,
which has not become a rural university, I was lucky
enough to have a mentor. I still remember her name,
Doctor and then not just momentarily escaped me, but she
(50:18):
was a female professor who encouraged me. I took her
course in creative writing, and creative writing course really brought
the very best out of every student. It was more
like she siphoning out the creative spirit in each of us.
(50:40):
Apparently she recognized that I have this dormant emotion. She
encouraged me, and in that year that was nineteen sixty five,
I remember so well, she encouraged me to submit some
kind of competition to the National Anthology of College Poetry
(51:05):
at the time, and lo and behold, the little poems
that I wrote were published. So that was my very
first introduction to the publishing field. And of course, later
in my scientific and devil I had to write a
thesis for the master's degree and a dissertation for the PhD.
(51:28):
But after all these creative things that the Good Lord
has enabled me to do, the the most important one
was is the writing of books. In my retirement years,
every time I feel like expressing my joy, expressing my frustration,
(51:55):
sometimes expressing a deep feeling, I just get a piece
of paper, get my computer and put the thoughts down.
So the idea of writing This book was really conceived
two weeks before the last Mother's Day, and I made
a deal with my publisher, said do you think you
(52:18):
can publish this just in time for Mother's Day? Of
course I didn't meet that that deadline. But the memories
of my mother are so in debt, and all my
all my siblings in Africa, and we are scattered all
over where in Europe and South Africa, when of course
(52:42):
I uh in Canada and of course here, all of
them are just so enamored that John is able to
write about make my mother, who have got with me
their grandmother, their great grandmother, and so on and so forth,
(53:05):
because I'm blessed enough to have written another book called Belongings.
Belongings is a history, a genealogy of the k and
the family, tracing back all the way from eighteen forty eight.
(53:30):
That's six generations. I was able to trace the effort
for this. I give the credit to my oldest niece,
missus Grace or like you okay me of course a
k And who did all the work from my mother's
(53:54):
collection at home. My mother was a ridiculous note taken.
She kept record of the birthdays of each member of
the family. So my niece was able to dig into
this family bible that she kept in which he noted
all the family birthdays and so on and so forth,
(54:14):
and shared it with me. So with her cooperation, with
her encouragement and of course the encournment draw of all
my cousins and nephews and family members, I was able
to write this genealogy which is called Belonging.
Speaker 2 (54:30):
We come back why Belonging. You're gonna love the reason why.
That's next on the flip side here on Arthur's corner,
thanks for listening to us. Here on at m on
(54:53):
Author's Corner, we're talking to doctor Akiemi about his book
My Mother, which is I think so powerful and really
just made me think about my own mother, and I
hope it's doing the same for all of you. I
know that was one of his intended purposes. And then
you know this other book.
Speaker 1 (55:10):
We mentioned it in Belonging, and immediately what pops to
all of our heads is as humans wanting to feel
like there is a space for you, wanting to feel
like there's a group for you. Am I right about that?
Doctor John?
Speaker 5 (55:27):
I figure out that way Homo sapiens human beings truly
truly would belong to one another. I figured that I
am where I am today because I am standing on
the shortness of same people that preceded that can be
(55:53):
found me. I figured, if I wrote something that show
us this family, human relationships, we belong to one another,
we belong to each other. It's a fresh scene. And
(56:15):
what is going on in today's world when the leadership
of this great country is encouraging coalition between different groups
for some and godly purpose. I figure if I wrote
(56:38):
a book that shows that we humans, we truly are
each other's keepers, that the world will be a better place.
Speaker 1 (56:51):
Wow, what a great sentiment When people read either one
of these books, both of these books, I hope they
get them.
Speaker 8 (56:57):
What do you hope they take away.
Speaker 5 (57:00):
From my Meet my Mother? I hope they take away
the incredible legacies that mothers throughout the world lead to
their families and children if the mother does it right.
(57:29):
I figured that I hope that people would take the
idea home to know that persistence, love, caring, all these
things that a mother shows to her children are really
(57:53):
the foundation in the roots of our advancement as humans.
I deeply suffer, deeply in my mind when I read
stories of some mothers who, for one reason or the other,
(58:18):
decide not to give their consummate love to their family
or to their children. I feel hurt when I see
a young mother with two children shopping at camar shop
at Warmer. I'm not saying a father to accompany them.
(58:44):
I know that I cannot imposs upon them my own values.
But it will be so much better when I see
And I'll tell you a little story that demonst say
what I'm trying to say. When I see a photo
(59:06):
or a scene in which a mother and a father
show this connection, this connectivity, this love a causain point.
I was shopping at Costco the other day and I
saw two couples, a man and a woman holding hands,
(59:29):
and something told me. I said, I like that. Then
I said what I said when I grew up, I'm
going to learn how to hold my spouses hands. Both
of us laugh when I see that. It's a visual
(59:51):
body language that demonstrates what love is, what caring is.
I always marvel a gentleman who take their hat when
they see a lady who opened the door of the
car for their lady. This is just awesome to me.
(01:00:15):
And he just tells me this is a little practice.
You don't need to have a PhD to have that,
It's just a little practice knowing that whoever you're with
means so much to you. My mother demonstrates all her
life that we, her n children mean so much to her.
(01:00:40):
As a matter of fact, when my father died, and
he died rather young, fifty one years young, he was
an excellent health. However, at that time I'm talking about
nineteen fifty six, there was no medical kill for asthma.
Reportedly probably died of an asthmatic attack, again putting it
(01:01:07):
back in the years nineteen fifty six when there was
no no care for that. So I'm hoping that readness
will know that we a society sometimes who don't give
(01:01:27):
enough credits, enough credits to mothers who sacrifice everything just
to make sure that we the children become somebody without me.
And again a little side story about this. I I
(01:01:49):
looked at earlier that I have far older and far
younger siblings. When I look back at my parents on
their way of handling family planning, I said to myself,
Oh my goodness, I am so glad my parents did
(01:02:14):
not stop at just having three or four children, otherwise
I would not be alive today and the fifth of nine. Wow,
and this ties in a love intricate way with my
beautiful wife. In the early years of I had dated,
(01:02:36):
she remarked to me at what time said whoever I
married must agree to her ten children with me. I
smiled and I said to her, I guess that rules
me out of it. So later in life, as I
(01:03:00):
was thinking, I became new wises, I wondered what might
have been in her mind when she said that, and
knowing behorely don't mean you know, it's been said that
parents rear their children the way these parents themselves were real.
(01:03:22):
So later I found out that Agnes has ten siblings,
including herself. Wow, it was her father and her mother.
No multiple wives now just husband and wife and ten children.
So I figured that maybe at that moment when she
said that, she was saying, if I can't break my
(01:03:45):
parents' record, at least I must make it. And it's
so funny too that my mey myself, and for some
reason I'm in the middle, so I have a total
of ed siblings. So I forget, Oh man, no, this
(01:04:05):
is this is this is a wonderful coincidence. In terms
of family numbering system. Yeah wow.
Speaker 1 (01:04:15):
I mean your stories are beautiful and there's so many
more stories and prayers and things that happened to you
during your life, and so much of that. Again, the Rock,
as you said, your mother Meet my Mother is a
wonderful gift belongings. Another book worthy of people going to
get doctor John, we could talk to you forever.
Speaker 8 (01:04:33):
Thank you so much for coming on.
Speaker 5 (01:04:35):
Yes, God bless wow.
Speaker 1 (01:04:38):
I tell you what listening to doctor Akaemi and the
passion he really has for people. I think that comes
across in both of those books, whether we're talking about
overall as a group of whether we're talking about his
own family and his mother and his desire that we
all understand really the importance of our own mothers, and
(01:04:59):
especially in today's world where I think a lot of
that because we're resuming from one direction to the next,
a lot of that gets lost.
Speaker 8 (01:05:07):
Hopefully you take that to heart.
Speaker 2 (01:05:09):
Go call your mother if you still are lucky enough
to have her with us, and if not, just think
some really good thoughts. Thanks so much for listening to
this interview here on ATM
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