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Speaker 1 (00:12):
Hey, everybody, Kate Delandy here at the helm of ATM
the sharcutery board of Talk Radio. So the National Guarden
troops are now on the DC streets, eight hundred who
are told to maintain their presence, specifically near the National Mall.
There's been a lot of reaction to this, a lot
of push pull on what's going on there. We'll talk
(00:34):
about that, but we start with the fact that the
President and the Vice President are going to meet virtually
with the President of Ukraine, Vladimir Vladimir brother Azalinski, ahead
of the Putin summit that is happening in a couple
of days in Alaska. Trump has been talking about the
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possibility of a deal to end what's going on between
Russia and Ukraine, as he calls it. Here's his thoughts.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Way instinct really tells me that we have a shot
at it. Okay, and you'll find that out later on
and maybe even today, But we have a shot at it.
Looks it's got to be solved. You know, we're not
losing people. A lot of people say, why are you bothering?
We're not losing people. We were spending hundreds of billions
of dollars now we're spending nothing. We're spending no money.
(01:29):
I guess we're making money because you know, we're are great.
We have the best military equipment in the world. We're
selling it to NATO. But you're losing thousands of people
a week, Russians and Ukrainians, mostly mostly soldiers. But you know,
missiles are lobbed into cities and towns, Kiev, lots of places.
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You've been reading the same stories that I've been reading.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
So in the meantime, as far as Ukraine is concerned,
Lensky says that there are things that are not going
to happen when it comes to exchange of territory. Zelenski
emphasizer where no demands or concrete proposals from the US,
just discussions. And it's still unclear to him what exactly
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Russian President Vladimir Putin told even the envoy, which is
really Witkoff, who is always the man who's the part
of that, and what this means and what will happen.
As far as Zelensky says that Russia is it showing
signs that they really want to end the war. So again,
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the White House advisor Steve Witkoff is in the middle
of this after meeting with European leaders the other week.
So I think what happens virtually is going to be
interesting to see ahead of the Alaska summit and what
will be said at the Alaska Summit, which now is
being called as maybe a listening exercise. So does that
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mean Putin is just going to unload and talk and
what happens when they actually both depart from there. But
it's going to take place on Friday in Anchorage, Alaska,
So what is that going to mean? What is that
going to mean heading in to the weekend because you
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have fearce fearce frontline combat and long range drone and
missile strikes that are ongoing as this is being prepared
for in Alaska. So nothing has stopped on that front.
It is about the economy. We talk about the reports
that are coming out to measure what is happening as
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far as the Consumer Price Index, that's one of the
big ones. So here's Carolyn Levitt, the White House Press Secretary,
explaining why these are positive numbers.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
CPI report revealed that inflation beat market expectations once again
and inflation remains stable. Overall, inflation has run at a
one point nine average annual pace in President Trump's first
six months in office.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
But here's the other part of this. Of course, always
you have to remember gas groceries cheaper, but other prices
are surging. So when we talk about that, because it
strips out food volatile food prices and energy costs overall,
which rows three point one percent up from two point
nine percent in June, economists say the uptick signals persistent
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price pressures that are lurking just beneath the surface, even
as consumers enjoy some short term relief at the pump end,
perhaps in the supermarket aisles too as well. Horrific what happened,
of course, when we talk about the CDC shooting and
the fact that the gunman who opened fire l Friday
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at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta
broke into his father's safe of what we know, to
get five firearms that were recovered at the scene. Five
hundred rounds were shot during the shooting. According to the
Georgia Bureau of Investigation, most of the shellcasings found at
the scene were from a long gun, one of the
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weapons that the perpetrator, Patrick White, who killed himself, took
and was using He had died again of self inflicted
gunshot wounds, and he had expressed discontent with COVID nineteen
vaccines and written documents recovered from his home. White wanted
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to make the public aware of his public distrust of vaccines.
According to the information that was found in what's come
up in these investigations. Unfortunately, decorated and respected police officer
lost his life as a result of it. It's a
miracle that there weren't other people. But the reaction to
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Patrick White and what happened there is you know, from
the from Kennedy who is the Health and Human Services secretary,
because he's under fire, so to speak, in a different
way for Hey, what you know, what's going on? Is
this the anti vaccine rhetoric. That's some of the conversation.
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And here's what he said.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
You don't know enough about what the motive was of
this individual. But people can ask questions without ask questions
without without being penalized. What I'm trying to do with
the agency is return it to gold standard science.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
All right, So you know there's going to continue to
be questions and they're going to continue to look at this.
Of course, White had no known criminal history. He did
have all those firearms, the mix of the rifles, the shotgun,
the handgun, all that was recovering. Of course, his family
is obviously cooperating with the investigation. The CDC's agency had
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a meeting on Tuesday and talked to the staff about,
you know, what had happened even more and of course
there are many people at the CDC who are concerned
because you look at the amount of rounds that were
shot into the building, and like I said, it's unbelievable
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that nobody else was hurt when he decided to open
fire on all of those windows on that very very big,
big building in Atlanta.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
I went some good news.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Yeah, here's the good news. So this is one of
my favorite Beatles song. So there's going to be a
Beatle Night at city Field.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
I'm going to tell you why. I Scot.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
So the Bets are going to host this Beatles Night
at city Field on August fifteenth to celebrate sixtieth anniversary
of the Beatles' iconic performance at Shea Stadium. The event
has a pre game performance by the nineteen sixty for
the tribute band and a post game fireworks show featuring
music from the Beatles. That would be a fun, fun
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game to be at fifteen thousand fans that the first
fifteen thousand fans that go to the event get a
shay Stadium replica love it odds and ends on the flip.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
Coming up on odds and ends?
Speaker 1 (09:03):
What do you do when you find a diamond at
a popular state park? And how much money have tariffs
brought in? The President has a number for us, but
before we go there talk about bringing in the cold cash.
Taylor Swift seems as anything that she touches turns to gold.
(09:24):
I'm certain that the downloads will go through the roof
of the New Heights podcast. That's the Kelsey Brothers invention
that has really taken off Jason and her boyfriend Travis Kelsey.
So she is going to be a guest on the
podcast when it drops on Wednesday, and of course that's
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pre recorded. So Taylor Swift making a big announcement about
her twelfth studio album. Here's what she said to brother
Jason Kelsey.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
So, I wanted to show you something.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Okay, what we got?
Speaker 5 (10:01):
We got a briefcase yep, Mick Green.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
By the way, it was an album case where not
a briefcase that she opened and pulled out the blurred
album cover of her brand new album that is called
the Life of a show Girl, and the music on
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this is what people are very curious about. Everybody's trying
to look for Easter eggs and trying to figure out
what that playlist is going to look like. And I'm
sure that will just take off like nobody's business once
that also is specifically you know, bounced out, and so
all of this happening on Wednesday. It's it's weird because
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last year was like the the year of Taylor Swift
for the eras you know how that went on for
maybe it was almost two years, and the conversation about
the friendship bracelets, all the fathers taking that could afford it,
which was an insane amount of money, daughters to the
concerts and all of that, you know, when she closed
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out the twenty twenty three leg of her landmark Eras
tour in Los Angeles and that part of it, and
I'm and talked about, you know, this project, her re
recording project, her version, because there was so much arguments
about her music. Of course, so this is the twelfth album,
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so a lot of again, a lot of coin I
think is going to be dropped in that direction. And
it's the first time of all the times they've been
doing these the podcasts, that she would officially be a guest. Anyway,
all right, you want some more from the money money Department.
Speaker 6 (12:00):
Waity way many many many many many many many many many.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Yeah, how about what's happening when it comes to tariffs
and what are tariffs bringing in? So President Trump's tariffs
poured billions into US offers, he says in July in
trying to reshape the US landscape. New data from the
Treasury Department released on Tuesday afternoon confirmed that July marked
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another record month on the revenue front, with twenty seven
point seven billion in custom duties coming into the United States.
So this was another step up from June's total of
twenty six point six billion and May's total of twenty
two point two billion, and a jump from the around
eight billion in custom duties one year ago. It brings
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the total to one hundred and thirty five point seven billion.
Of course, the government's fiscal year, you all know, ends
September thirtieth, and that was the big thing that this
was going to bring in so much money, And that's
the number that we're at right now. So I'm sure
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there's going to be more that will noticeably come in
in September. But what's interesting is that's a huge amount
of money, right but the tariff revenue hasn't really made
a dent in the overall US budget deficit that grew
to two hundred and ninety one billion last month, So
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the gap for the ten months through July came in
around one point sixty three trillion. And I don't know
does all of this eventually flip around and then ultimately
what happens with US businesses who are absorbing the brunt
of the TEARFF price hikes. That's the thing that we're
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all trying to look at the crystal ball and decide upon.
This woman didn't have to look into a crystal ball.
She found a two point three carrot diamond at a
popular state park in Arkansas, and one was asked, what.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
You're gonna do with it?
Speaker 1 (14:12):
What are you gonna do with that diamond? Put it
in an engagement ring. So this was a New York
City woman who unearthed this white diamond at the Crater
of Diamond State Park in Arkansas. And wow, and I
just I saw the chunk of it. It is pretty amazing.
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Thirty one year old misscher Fox told her husband to
be two years ago she didn't want to get engaged
until she unearthed her own diamond. I'm not making this up.
So she said she was willing to go anywhere in
the world to make it happen. It turned out the
only place you can do that in the United States
and our own backyard is in Arkansas. So she went,
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and she took a few weeks in July to go
in search of shiny treasures. You know, more than seventy
five thousand diamonds have been found there since nineteen six
and no kidding, her last scheduled day at the park
July twenty ninth, she found the diamond. She was walking
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in the diamond search area when she spotted something shiny
at her feet. She thought it was a spiderweb or
dew or something else, but she picked it up. She
just picked it up. She wasn't even digging at that point,
and sure enough it was a precious gem and the
third largest of the three third largest of the three
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hundred and sixty six diamonds found at the park in
twenty twenty five. Wow, that is incredible that story.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
You know what.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
I went to the Crater of Diamonds in search of
a diamond myself, with my nephew and my husband, and
we did the digging and we did the things that
you're supposed to do, and it was so hot. The
two of them were good. With maybe maybe twenty minutes
doing it. I could have stayed out longer. I will
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post pictures on my Facebook page Kate Delaney Media at
Kate Delaney Media so you can see it. It was
so much fun, but no diamonds were unearthed. Perhaps I
should have put it out there into the universe. And
I really really was hoping to find a diamond.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
Just incredible.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
And you see the diamond and my friends, I mean,
it is a diamond. She was walking and it happened,
you know, it happened upon it and it was It.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
Is exactly what I said.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
You know, they verify it, you take it in, they
verify it right there at the store that they have
where they sell all kinds of rocks and you find
really cool rocks. There's no doubt. But this chunk that
she found, wow, something else. Two point three carrot white diamond.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
Good for her? How about some applause. How about some.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Applause for putting that out there? Yeah, what do they
call that, you know, manifesting it. I'm going to manifest that.
I'm going to find my own diamond And as soon
as they get out of grad school, I'm going to
Arkansas and I'm going to the Crater of Diamonds. Just
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crazy that I think that she again that she found that.
But I think it's a very very cool story, no doubt. Hey,
coming up on the flip talking about finding really really
cool things. There is an organization that comes up with
the best of the best when it comes to products
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in the United States, Products of the Year, and they,
I mean they even make a big deal about it.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
Of course, Product of the Year USA dot com.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
You can see all the products and I was surprised
in in a good way some of the products that
I saw there. We're gonna have a conversation with Michelle
Parks about, you know, what are the some of the
products of the year and how they made the list.
Pretty I think it's pretty interesting to look across the
board and see what they are. They even get this
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little seal so when you're shopping you can see like, oh,
that was one of the products of the of the year,
and then you know, you know it's met the certain
criteria in order to be considered for that. One of
the things that we have talked about on the show
(18:39):
for the last I mean, it seems like always we're
talking about flooding, right, but for the last week or
two especially, but torrential rains forced Mexico City's main airport.
You know, we've had that happen here just the last
couple of days, shut down for hours for two days,
really starting a lot of chaos and one of the
(19:00):
busiest airports in Latin America because they've had constant heavy,
heavy rain, one of their heaviest rainy seasons in years,
flooding all kinds of parts.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
Of the city.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
So four hours on Tuesday they had to cancel flights.
About twenty thousand passengers impacted by the flight cancelations. Some
of them were turning to the United States.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
Meet you on the flip.
Speaker 7 (19:43):
It's one of my favorite things that we talk about
every single year for the last couple of years.
Speaker 8 (19:47):
For sure.
Speaker 7 (19:48):
Michelle Parks is in our virtual green room. She's an
Emmy Award winning broadcast journalists. You've seen her all over
the place. I was in New York and I saw
her as a correspondent on New York Live on NBC
New York. She's the author of Let's Celebrate Korean New Year,
really fun book, and there's so much more I could
tell you about Michelle. But we want to talk about
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the most innovative consumer products of twenty twenty five. So Michelle,
thanks for hanging with us.
Speaker 6 (20:14):
Thank you for giving me that great intro, by the way,
I love that. But I'm so happy to be here.
Speaker 8 (20:20):
So tell us about the Product of the Year and
how it all works.
Speaker 6 (20:24):
Yeah. So, the Product of the Year is a consumer
voted award for product innovation. It's determined by the votes
of forty thousand real American shoppers, and I think it's
really changed the game of shopping by recognizing brands for
best in class innovation and guiding shoppers to the best
products on the market. So you're going to look for
that familiar red seal. And this year there are forty
two winners across categories from home and personal care, to
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food and beverage to so much more.
Speaker 8 (20:49):
Ooh, so take us through some of those winners.
Speaker 6 (20:52):
Yeah, So I want to start things off with Valvelene
restore and Protect. It's an advanced motor oil design to
clean and safeguard your engine. Engine's natural build up deposits
over time, which can affect performance, so this formula uses
active clean technology to remove up to one hundred percent
of harmful deposits with regular use, while liquist shield technology
helps protect against future build up, restoring your engine to
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perform like new for your four legged family members. Supreme
Source Savory Jerky Cuts are made with real North American
sourced salmon and include organic super sweed, known to support
healthy digestion and dogs. These treats provide Omega three fatty
acids and protein, combining taste with nutritional benefits to support
overall well being. Now moving on to a handy everyday tool,
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the Big Easy Load Multipurpose Lighter is designed for convenience
and durability. Its reusable design allows it to be reloaded
up to ten times using a Big Maxi lighter, making
this the longest lasting lighter built to meet high safety standards.
It's practical for tasks like lighting candle, starting a grill,
or camping and bringing a bit of restaurant flavor home.
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Texas Roadhouse Mini rolls are inspired by the restaurant made
from scratch recipe. So these ready to bake rolls come
with a honey cinnamon glaze and are easy to prepare
in the oven, offering a simple way to enjoy a
familiar favorite right at home. Last, but certainly not least,
Kirkwood chicken nuggets, available exclusively at Aldi, offer a quick
and easy meal made from chicken breast and rib meat,
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similar to the popular red Bag chicken. They're a convenient
option for busy days and can be enjoyed either on
their own or as part of a balanced meal.
Speaker 7 (22:27):
Ooh, that all sounds so good.
Speaker 8 (22:29):
I could use all of those so they with great selections.
Speaker 7 (22:33):
Thank you, well, thank you.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
I'm glad to hear that.
Speaker 5 (22:36):
Where do we go for more info?
Speaker 6 (22:38):
For more information and also to see all forty two
of the winners because I couldn't talk about them all today.
You want to head to Product of the Year USA
dot com.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
Michelle, thank you so much. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Yeah, so it's interesting if you go to Product of
the Year dot com, like she mentioned, I think you'll
see some things that probably and I don't know this,
but maybe some of the products that you get like,
for example, I went through to see some of the
winters because I was I just was naturally curious even
about when I'm walking up and down the aisles, am
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I getting any of the things that have this special
seal on it? And I found out like BRONI, for example,
is one of those you think of all the paper towels,
and so it passes the test. It's people are getting
browny for the various measurements, and it's so it hit
that list. Some of the other things that hit the list,
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for example, like the dial body soap, you know, the
wash that was number one. You think of all the
different things that are there when you go and you
look at the body washes, and that's one that would
be on the list. The big easy load, which is
the lighters. You know when you because nobody wants the
tiny lighter anymore. You want the long lighter when you're
trying to make those some moores or whatever you're trying
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to get up close to wintertime, you're trying to light
the pile of wood to sit.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
Around the fire.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
And those were a hot product of the year voted
by consumers.
Speaker 8 (24:13):
And I'll give you just one more that.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
I thought was pretty good.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
I hate streaky things like on windows and whatnot. And
this wind decks fast foam is really good. It's easy
use bim that's on there. Oh, and also airborne because
people are getting you know, you travel, people are coughing.
Airborne is supposed to be a great preventative measure. People
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really swear by it. I've taken it in the past,
and I guess it's worked for me. And that is
on the Product of the Year list.
Speaker 5 (24:49):
Two.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
You see that like red seal when you're out there shopping.
So just a few of them, but if you're curious
and you're looking for certain things, it is kind of
a good list to go to. It's laundry or meals
or home solutions or snacks or you know, dog treats
and food and cat food and that kind of stuff.
It's interesting to check it and see if if what
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you use makes that list. All right, We do this
on the show all the time now most days, not
every single day, because I think there is something too,
I really do. I think there is something about honoring
people's birthdays. And the one thing about social media is
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that people if they put their birthday, people are always
recognized for their you know, for their birthday.
Speaker 5 (25:43):
I think that's a good thing.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Is a lot of people get more isolated, and how
many are getting the phone called it? Let me buy
you some lunch, especially if you're working remotely. So happy
birthday to you. It's time for some birthdays. If nobody
has said that to you today, let me be the
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first to say happy birthday.
Speaker 5 (26:06):
And of course it might be just kicking off your day.
So I understand that.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Casey Affleck, who I think is a fine actor, fifty
years old.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
Yes, his brother is Ben Affleck. Boy.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
He's been in a lot of movies that I've seen.
He was in that whole Oceans series, you know, Steven
Soderberg's Ocean films from two thousand and one to two
thousand and seven. He was in the Assassination of Jesse James,
which I thought was really super good. He was in
a movie that is sad and good and gritty. It's
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a crime drama called Gone, Baby Gone. And Interstellar he
was in that movie. He was in a movie that,
oh I wish I hadn't watched, but it was excellent.
I mean, that's not a good ringing endorsement saying I
wish I hadn't watched it because so de pressing. But
it was to twenty sixteen something like that, Manchester by
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the Sea, and he got an Academy Awardi for Best
Actor for that. And he was in gosh Oppenheimer, and
he was in a ghost Story and a whole bunch
of other things. But he is the brother of Ben
Affleck and he, you know, worked professionally as a kid too,
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wanted to be an actor, and he is a very
very good, solid actor artist. Celebrating a birthday as well.
Sir mix A Lot sixty two years old, or his
CB handle as he's known, Prime Minista. He's an American rapper.
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He is known for his ninety two hit song back
in nineteen ninety two, baby Got Back. It peaked at
number one on the Billboard Hot one hundred. He grew
up in Seattle and he was a fan of hip
hop and he started rapping in the eighties and the
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path kind of took them all over the place, and
he found fame pretty They found fame pretty early. He
started DJing at community centers in Seattle, and he was
part of the whole West coast like first rap radio
show in Seattle on a station out there called k
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Fox and whatnot, and he just absolutely gained a lot
of attention for hip hop and electro funk and whatnot.
So happy birthday to him as well. Hey, it's a
great reminder to all of you if you're listening to
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Speaker 1 (29:11):
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So so easy to be able to be able to
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do that, all right, A couple of other fun things.
Speaker 5 (29:36):
You know, we were telling.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
You the other day that AOL dial up is gone,
and I happened to find out on this day in history.
Back in nineteen eighty one, the IBM personal computer was released. Wow,
computers have certainly changed it more these many years later.
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I mean, really, to me, the phone, our phones are
like computers. I mean, how many of you actually use
I mean, think about this, how many of you actually
really use your phone as something to talk on? And
I'm not saying you don't talk at all on the phone.
But isn't it more texting? Isn't it more looking something up?
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Isn't it playing games? It's just so much more to me, like,
you know, like a computer, and it's weird. If you
go and look this up you want to see something
really cool. There are these Charlie Chaplin IBM ads that
ran when the IBM personal computer was released. I mean,
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it's like a crazy vintage commercial. And the main reason
people bought computers was for word processing for their school
assignments and stuff, right, because there wasn't typewriters in the
typewriters were gone. I was past the age of the typewriter.
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And some of you listen, I'm sure you didn't use
typewriters either.
Speaker 5 (31:08):
So it was about the computer.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
But so clunky, so clunkily, and it's hard to believe
how far we've come in what thirty some years.
Speaker 5 (31:17):
Well your turn next, Hey.
Speaker 7 (31:27):
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Speaker 5 (32:05):
I'm going to the man Cave, into the amer Cave.
We are in the man Cave. Thank you for that. Andy.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Everybody, by the way, is welcome into the Cave. I
wrote a book called Invade the Man Cave. You can
get it on Amazon, Barnes and Noble. I talk about
sports of all sorts because I could never find anything
that had everything in there except for what was once
very handy, and I do like it and get it
every year. The ESPN book that is so thick. It's
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like warm Peace, but it's a lot of records. There's
some stories and things in there, but it's not quite entertaining.
It doesn't have the background of a lot of the
sports I mean, you could never have the whole thing.
It would take I don't know, millions of pages, and
I'm not exaggerating. And you all know that when you
look at stories and you decide what would you put
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in for the Big Four and what would you put
in for the various other sports that are very significant
as well. So in the man Cave, we're gonna talk
about a couple of different things. Always, of course, the
NFL I mentioned heading into this that the Brewers routed
schemes and pirates extend that win streak to eleven games.
Woo ooo, that is huge, my friends, record book stuff. Yeah,
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what about some of the other happenings across the board. Well,
let's see the Cubbies, another red hot team not so
hot against the Blue Jays.
Speaker 5 (33:29):
Blue Jays knocked.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Them off five one, and looking a little bit deeper
into that game, which was played across the border, Ernie
Clement and Dalton varshow Homeward part of the reason why
hot bats so the Blue Jays reach seventy wins.
Speaker 5 (33:50):
This is really as.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
We start to drop games, you start to realize when
you look all of you who are baseball fans, how
many opportunities do you have to see home baseball? It
is dwindling, my friends. I'm here as that reminder for
people who say I'm gonna get out and see a game,
even know it's a school night. Diamondback fans, you picked
up your fifty eighth. Your team did anyway, with a
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three to two win over the Texas Rangers. Elsewhere, this
has been a fun series to watch, the Angels and
the Dodgers rivalry.
Speaker 5 (34:22):
The Angels win.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Knocking off that other Los Angeles team seven six show. Hey,
O Tani once again goes yard one for three. He
had an RBI and I'll tell you what in the
DH that's what he's doing.
Speaker 5 (34:41):
He's a DH.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
He lined into a triple play in the sixth inning,
but he hit a tie breaking homer in the ninth.
It was the Angels on the winning side, like I mentioned,
because they were the ralliers in that game.
Speaker 5 (34:56):
In ten so, the defending World.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
Series champion Dodgers fell into a first place tie with
San Diego in the NL West as a result of
their third consecutive loss. I have to say this, the
crowd is lovin O Tani though, I mean he was
the guy at Angels Stadium and now he's coming back
for that. You know, this is now his second game
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in this visit back and the Hens the fans miss
him and they have been embracing him when he's up
at the plate. Of course, they went their team to win,
but they still have that love forum. So how about
that Tampa Bay shut down on the road. The A's
got him six zip.
Speaker 5 (35:42):
It was a.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
Padres over the Giants five one red socks. Oh, I
would have left. I'm sorry, I think I would have
left this game. Beat the Astros.
Speaker 5 (35:53):
Fourteen to one.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
Oh, that's just where you know, maybe there's the chance
that a few people.
Speaker 5 (36:00):
Could be over served.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
Let's say Alex Bregman homeward against his former team for
second straight game, and it just was a slug fest.
Dustin May scattered five singles across six scoreless innings, struck
out eight in his second start since a trade from
the Dodgers. So the Laws drops the Astros into a
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tie with Seattle for the AL West lead. After the
Mariners beat the Orioles one zip for their eighth consecutive
win on Tuesday, All right, checking NFL news because now
people are getting ready for fantasy football. You know you're
talking about a handful of weeks. A lot of people
(36:43):
do it Labor Day, weekend or the weekend before that.
You've got I've watched Hard Knocks, Buffalo Bills or featured
on Hard Knocks. It's been fun to actually to watch it.
I always like Hard Knocks and it just gets you
primed for football. I mean, can we get enough of it?
Speaker 5 (37:04):
Still?
Speaker 1 (37:04):
So many conversations about a whole bunch of teams and
some players who are part of what they now call
hold ends because they're actually physically there. A lot of
times it was that the player was all hold out.
So they're still holding out, but they're there on campus,
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so to speak. So we're doing a little thing called
high five, low five. It's either going to be booze
or applause. There was a big story a couple of
weeks ago, you know, when you would tune into the
tube and you would see, sadly so someone would be
having a concussion, they'd be on the sideline and they
would immediately go to the smelling salts. Well, the NFL
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decided no more smelling salts, and so why is that?
Because there are supposed some side effects to that. So
they decided they're going to ban them because of the
health concerns. So in the twenty twenty five season, they're
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prohibiting teams from supplying players with them and other ammonia
inhalance during the games or pregame activities and half time.
This follows on the heels of a twenty four warning
from the FDA, which raised the flag about the safety
and how good these products are anyway when it regards
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when it comes in regards to their potential to mass
symptoms of concussions.
Speaker 5 (38:36):
So high five, low five. Yeah, absolutely, it'll be weird
for the.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
Players because they're kind of used to that. All you
have to do is look at any old but not
even old footage, even from just the previous year, and
you'll see that it was definitely, I mean, it was
definitely used lots of different times. And not all the
players are on board with us. I was reading something
(39:05):
about uh George Kittle, who wasn't He wasn't excited about
the idea that, you know, that they should be banned.
He thinks it should be reconsidered, uh, because of the
significance of what it.
Speaker 5 (39:21):
Can do for you.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
But there's no wiggle room, you know, he said, there
was there were some people that were broadcasting, and he
interrupted the broadcast in training camp and said, I I
want to air a grievance. Our team got the memo
about the smelling salts and ammonia packets that were made illegal.
I considered a retirement. We got to figure out a
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middle ground here. Somebody helped me up, you know, out
somebody come up with a good idea. And and and
again it's probably because, I mean, the individual players can
use them if they were using them outside of the NFL.
But why they be using them when there would be
so many that would normally you know, they can use
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their own supply, but normally they that would be something
that would be available during a game. Okay, So how
about this one? This goes to the whole in letting
Micah Parsons hover around camp without a contract, Is it
a distraction or is it intentional? When it comes to
the Dallas Cowboys and the big decision that keeps hovering
(40:30):
over the training camp.
Speaker 5 (40:34):
Is it a high five or a low five?
Speaker 1 (40:37):
The high five, Yeah, because that's what's happening now, the
whole inns, that's what it's called, the whole dens.
Speaker 5 (40:43):
So he's part of that.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
So if I'm his agent, of course I'm going to
say you're going. You're not playing, you're not participating, but
you're going so now because of how this has been
dragged out. The other part of this is how much
is this going to cost the Dallas Cowboys. I read
an interesting story today from a long time Cowboy writer
that because of the way the negotiations are going, it
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could cost the Cowboys one hundred million dollars because they're
so slow to get the contract done. Ooh, how about
this the cost of streaming NFL games. Remember when it
was free back in the Madden Summer all days, and
you didn't have to pay for every single service to
try to figure out the jumping jacks of when your
team is being aired on Amazon Prime or Netflix or
(41:30):
Paramount or Peacock or Fox.
Speaker 5 (41:32):
Or Red Zone.
Speaker 1 (41:34):
You add all of that up and it comes to
hundreds of dollars.
Speaker 5 (41:40):
Is it worth it? High five?
Speaker 1 (41:42):
Low five? It is a boo. It's ridiculous. It's ridiculous.
I mean, this is the thing we live in the
world of streaming because every network, every organization that puts
content out there is saying, why shouldn't we get ours
when they're getting theirs. If they're streaming, why shouldn't we
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be able to do it? And my final one is
and get the money for the subscription. PGA players having
to wear long pants when they're embroiling hot conditions like
we're seeing the temperatures across the country, is it time
to ditch the no shorts rules?
Speaker 5 (42:19):
High five? Low five?
Speaker 1 (42:21):
Boo.
Speaker 4 (42:27):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (42:27):
We're used to them in long pants, right, I mean,
they can't ride the carts and they're never going to
change that. I doubt they would ever change to the
shorts thing either. All right, coming up, Jana Johnson Anderson.
Speaker 5 (42:39):
Next, the name.
Speaker 8 (42:53):
Of the book is Abby's Flight.
Speaker 7 (42:56):
We are really pleased to welcome to author's corner Johnson Anderson.
This book has received numerous accolades. The book I'm talking
about is obvious Flight. You got to think Nepal abduction abuse,
beautiful country. It's so beautiful and bittersweet this adventure that
she takes us on. Janet, First of all, what made
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you write the book and tell us what it's about.
Speaker 9 (43:20):
Well, I was a board member with an organization at
work in Nepal and other countries where sexual trafficking and
enslavement is high. And the thing is, most people associate
Nepal with namaste and hospitality, you know, a peaceful country
amid the snowcapped Himalayans. But I was touched by the
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stories I heard and the people I met, and just
felt compelled to write a story that could lend a
voice to the many who are voiceless. There's so many
who are abused, abducted, sold into brothels, sold into slavery,
and with little recourse.
Speaker 5 (43:58):
Yeah, so that was a eye opener for you, right.
Speaker 9 (44:02):
It was in a way, it was, and.
Speaker 1 (44:05):
I think it's an eye opener for a lot of
other people. So you decide you're going to wrap this
into the book. How do you go about writing that
novel and having that approach.
Speaker 9 (44:16):
Well, luckily I had a chance to meet some of
the women who run organizations in Paul to help those women,
and so I knew the background, I knew about the area.
I had to choose fiction because I personally never lived
in Nepal and didn't have any quote, official authority, So
(44:40):
I had to write fiction. But much of what I
write about is truth. And the nice thing with fiction
is I can wrap the point of the story in
an eye opening adventure. So while there is struggle in
the book, there is beauty and relationsh ships and you know,
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discovery of people's purpose in life and group action and
things like that that if I was doing a nonfiction
it would just be fact slash fact, you know.
Speaker 1 (45:15):
So you get wrapped up in the characters and you
talk about So talk about the title Avi, tell us
about Avi and Avi's flight.
Speaker 9 (45:25):
Okay, Well, Avi Savoru is a fourteen year old girl
who is in the very beginning of the book is
in an arranged marriage to be And actually what makes
the book I think an interesting standout is we learn
in the first five sentences that she has been promised
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to mister Singh in marriage, but instead she clubs him
in the head and flees with his oxen cart from
the village. And so that sets the stage right away
within the first paragraph. But she travels from poor countryside
to the two larger cities, Pokara and Katmandu, and that
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is her journey through the countryside that sheds light on
the plight of Nepoly women amid a suppressive culture and
a discovery of purpose beyond South.
Speaker 1 (46:25):
Yeah, and talk about that purpose because that's a big
point in the book. Like you say, there certainly there
are the horrific things that are happening, but then discovering
purpose that's something everybody's searching for.
Speaker 9 (46:36):
I think, right, absolutely. Well, it's almost a story of
international advocacy. So you know, she's fourteen, so she's kind
of a coming of age character, and while she's aware
of elements obviously that she wants to escape from within
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her own village, she meets other women who have come
to safe places and learns their stories and realizes that
there are things that we can all be doing that
can help benefit the women and the girls of her
country as well.
Speaker 1 (47:17):
For you, what was the best part about taking what
you knew and instead, like as you mentioned, not having
fact after fact after fact, and weaving into a story
with the hopes of really getting people to pay attention
to what was happening with trafficking and areas that are
idyllic and people love but not realizing what's going on
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behind the scene. What was it like for you when
you actually saw the book and put it together.
Speaker 9 (47:44):
Well, I was proud that I was able to do it.
I was also sad because here in America there are
a thout hundreds of thousands of women that protest for
whatever the purpose is and support them. But there are
not women marching in the streets of Nepal to stand
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up for things. And it's a whole mindset, and I think,
really we need to be teaching the men these stories
because while we can say the male gender is suppressing women, well,
these women grow up amid this culture and sort of
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buy into that thinking. So there is great gender injustice
and it is not just one sided. And it is
not just rich versus poor. It's not a class thing,
although it is the poor people who are more I
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want to say, taken advantage of. I mean, there are
girls in the countryside of Nepal who are given away
for a pig, you know, in exchange for something like that.
But the whole cultural disregard for women there, as you say,
was was eye opening to any woman from the western
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area of the world. But there's a bitter, sweet, beautiful
aspect of it too, because the people love their land.
You certainly read about the beauty through her eyes.
Speaker 2 (49:31):
You read about.
Speaker 9 (49:32):
Her very tender relationship with her brothers and her best
friend whom she has to leave behind. There's there's enough
elements that creates the story that it's not just walking
you into the door of despair, you know. So, and
and her decision to try to make something of herself
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more that she can offer herself to her fellow citizens
is also very encouraging and hopeful.
Speaker 5 (50:05):
Yeah, the struggle is real, That's what it is.
Speaker 1 (50:07):
Is you're saying there's no protest because of the culture,
and it's about lifting that veils what you found out,
and the book really kind of pulls you into that idea.
Speaker 9 (50:19):
Yes, I mean, you can't necessarily go to police or
authority because they might be getting a kickback from the brothels,
and so you go to them for help and they
end up taking you somewhere where you don't want to be. So,
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and this has been life for so long. Child enslavement
is very typical. So it's a tough scenario to beat.
And I wanted to wear raisediness to kind of further
the lines of community because, for example, Westerners, we know
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you can't cross.
Speaker 5 (51:05):
A border with.
Speaker 9 (51:09):
A DVD that has been stolen and reproduced. You know
they're going to crack down on you. But any forty
year old man can walk across the border with a
six year old girl and nobody thinks anything of it.
So the only way to really address that is we
have to go through legal aspects political systems to recognize
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that there are issues and that it's important to the
rest of us. They're not going to get anything accomplished
in Nepal if the United States and Canada and England
and Europe as a whole are not appalled by this
kind of behavior.
Speaker 5 (51:53):
Boy, and that the truth.
Speaker 1 (51:55):
What do you hope people take away from reading Obvious Flight?
We're speaking with Janet Johnson Anderson once again, and you
can get this book on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, wherever.
Speaker 8 (52:05):
Great books are sold. Janet, what do you hope people
take away from reading Auvi's Flight? What do hope they
take away from that?
Speaker 9 (52:14):
Well, I hope that there's a greater understanding of the
plight of women, not just in Nepal, but in other
dark places of the world. We tend to get focused
on our own culture and don't understand the difficulties that
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other people face, and so I'm hoping that this book
offers a springboard for discussion that may ultimately lead to
some sort of change. Americans, for example, we tend to say, oh, well,
that's you know, that's Nepal's problem, but it's not if
it's trafficking those women and girls and boys. Up in America,
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we're one of the largest consumers of trafficking, so it's
not just Nepal's problem. And I have to say that
before my book came out, I sent a manuscript over
to the Women's Foundation of Nepal and they endorsed the book.
Their endorsement is on the back of my cover for
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the various work that they are currently doing, which can
be setting up sewing classes so that women can can
learn to sew and become entrepreneurs. And you know, many
of these women who even when they escape a bad situation,
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can't go back to their family or their villages. There's
their shun. So there are there are are foundations in
this in the country that are doing wonderful things, but
you know, they need help and awareness, and so I
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was very pleased honored to have gained their endorsement.
Speaker 1 (54:11):
Yeah, I'm so glad you pointed that out. Obvio's Flight
is definitely an eye opener a book to read.
Speaker 5 (54:17):
Janet, thank you for coming on.
Speaker 9 (54:19):
Well, it was my pleasure I appreciate your interest
Hey, everybody, Kate Delandy here at the helm of ATM
the sharcutery board of Talk Radio. So the National Guarden
troops are now on the DC streets, eight hundred who
are told to maintain their presence, specifically near the National Mall.
There's been a lot of reaction to this, a lot
of push pull on what's going on there. We'll talk
(00:34):
about that, but we start with the fact that the
President and the Vice President are going to meet virtually
with the President of Ukraine, Vladimir Vladimir brother Azalinski, ahead
of the Putin summit that is happening in a couple
of days in Alaska. Trump has been talking about the
(00:55):
possibility of a deal to end what's going on between
Russia and Ukraine, as he calls it. Here's his thoughts.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Way instinct really tells me that we have a shot
at it. Okay, and you'll find that out later on
and maybe even today, But we have a shot at it.
Looks it's got to be solved. You know, we're not
losing people. A lot of people say, why are you bothering?
We're not losing people. We were spending hundreds of billions
of dollars now we're spending nothing. We're spending no money.
(01:29):
I guess we're making money because you know, we're are great.
We have the best military equipment in the world. We're
selling it to NATO. But you're losing thousands of people
a week, Russians and Ukrainians, mostly mostly soldiers. But you know,
missiles are lobbed into cities and towns, Kiev, lots of places.
(01:50):
You've been reading the same stories that I've been reading.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
So in the meantime, as far as Ukraine is concerned,
Lensky says that there are things that are not going
to happen when it comes to exchange of territory. Zelenski
emphasizer where no demands or concrete proposals from the US,
just discussions. And it's still unclear to him what exactly
(02:17):
Russian President Vladimir Putin told even the envoy, which is
really Witkoff, who is always the man who's the part
of that, and what this means and what will happen.
As far as Zelensky says that Russia is it showing
signs that they really want to end the war. So again,
(02:42):
the White House advisor Steve Witkoff is in the middle
of this after meeting with European leaders the other week.
So I think what happens virtually is going to be
interesting to see ahead of the Alaska summit and what
will be said at the Alaska Summit, which now is
being called as maybe a listening exercise. So does that
(03:06):
mean Putin is just going to unload and talk and
what happens when they actually both depart from there. But
it's going to take place on Friday in Anchorage, Alaska,
So what is that going to mean? What is that
going to mean heading in to the weekend because you
(03:27):
have fearce fearce frontline combat and long range drone and
missile strikes that are ongoing as this is being prepared
for in Alaska. So nothing has stopped on that front.
It is about the economy. We talk about the reports
that are coming out to measure what is happening as
(03:48):
far as the Consumer Price Index, that's one of the
big ones. So here's Carolyn Levitt, the White House Press Secretary,
explaining why these are positive numbers.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
CPI report revealed that inflation beat market expectations once again
and inflation remains stable. Overall, inflation has run at a
one point nine average annual pace in President Trump's first
six months in office.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
But here's the other part of this. Of course, always
you have to remember gas groceries cheaper, but other prices
are surging. So when we talk about that, because it
strips out food volatile food prices and energy costs overall,
which rows three point one percent up from two point
nine percent in June, economists say the uptick signals persistent
(04:40):
price pressures that are lurking just beneath the surface, even
as consumers enjoy some short term relief at the pump end,
perhaps in the supermarket aisles too as well. Horrific what happened,
of course, when we talk about the CDC shooting and
the fact that the gunman who opened fire l Friday
(05:01):
at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta
broke into his father's safe of what we know, to
get five firearms that were recovered at the scene. Five
hundred rounds were shot during the shooting. According to the
Georgia Bureau of Investigation, most of the shellcasings found at
the scene were from a long gun, one of the
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weapons that the perpetrator, Patrick White, who killed himself, took
and was using He had died again of self inflicted
gunshot wounds, and he had expressed discontent with COVID nineteen
vaccines and written documents recovered from his home. White wanted
(05:45):
to make the public aware of his public distrust of vaccines.
According to the information that was found in what's come
up in these investigations. Unfortunately, decorated and respected police officer
lost his life as a result of it. It's a
miracle that there weren't other people. But the reaction to
(06:09):
Patrick White and what happened there is you know, from
the from Kennedy who is the Health and Human Services secretary,
because he's under fire, so to speak, in a different
way for Hey, what you know, what's going on? Is
this the anti vaccine rhetoric. That's some of the conversation.
(06:31):
And here's what he said.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
You don't know enough about what the motive was of
this individual. But people can ask questions without ask questions
without without being penalized. What I'm trying to do with
the agency is return it to gold standard science.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
All right, So you know there's going to continue to
be questions and they're going to continue to look at this.
Of course, White had no known criminal history. He did
have all those firearms, the mix of the rifles, the shotgun,
the handgun, all that was recovering. Of course, his family
is obviously cooperating with the investigation. The CDC's agency had
(07:16):
a meeting on Tuesday and talked to the staff about,
you know, what had happened even more and of course
there are many people at the CDC who are concerned
because you look at the amount of rounds that were
shot into the building, and like I said, it's unbelievable
(07:37):
that nobody else was hurt when he decided to open
fire on all of those windows on that very very big,
big building in Atlanta.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
I went some good news.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Yeah, here's the good news. So this is one of
my favorite Beatles song. So there's going to be a
Beatle Night at city Field.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
I'm going to tell you why. I Scot.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
So the Bets are going to host this Beatles Night
at city Field on August fifteenth to celebrate sixtieth anniversary
of the Beatles' iconic performance at Shea Stadium. The event
has a pre game performance by the nineteen sixty for
the tribute band and a post game fireworks show featuring
music from the Beatles. That would be a fun, fun
(08:38):
game to be at fifteen thousand fans that the first
fifteen thousand fans that go to the event get a
shay Stadium replica love it odds and ends on the flip.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
Coming up on odds and ends?
Speaker 1 (09:03):
What do you do when you find a diamond at
a popular state park? And how much money have tariffs
brought in? The President has a number for us, but
before we go there talk about bringing in the cold cash.
Taylor Swift seems as anything that she touches turns to gold.
(09:24):
I'm certain that the downloads will go through the roof
of the New Heights podcast. That's the Kelsey Brothers invention
that has really taken off Jason and her boyfriend Travis Kelsey.
So she is going to be a guest on the
podcast when it drops on Wednesday, and of course that's
(09:45):
pre recorded. So Taylor Swift making a big announcement about
her twelfth studio album. Here's what she said to brother
Jason Kelsey.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
So, I wanted to show you something.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Okay, what we got?
Speaker 5 (10:01):
We got a briefcase yep, Mick Green.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
By the way, it was an album case where not
a briefcase that she opened and pulled out the blurred
album cover of her brand new album that is called
the Life of a show Girl, and the music on
(10:30):
this is what people are very curious about. Everybody's trying
to look for Easter eggs and trying to figure out
what that playlist is going to look like. And I'm
sure that will just take off like nobody's business once
that also is specifically you know, bounced out, and so
all of this happening on Wednesday. It's it's weird because
(10:55):
last year was like the the year of Taylor Swift
for the eras you know how that went on for
maybe it was almost two years, and the conversation about
the friendship bracelets, all the fathers taking that could afford it,
which was an insane amount of money, daughters to the
concerts and all of that, you know, when she closed
(11:16):
out the twenty twenty three leg of her landmark Eras
tour in Los Angeles and that part of it, and
I'm and talked about, you know, this project, her re
recording project, her version, because there was so much arguments
about her music. Of course, so this is the twelfth album,
(11:40):
so a lot of again, a lot of coin I
think is going to be dropped in that direction. And
it's the first time of all the times they've been
doing these the podcasts, that she would officially be a guest. Anyway,
all right, you want some more from the money money Department.
Speaker 6 (12:00):
Waity way many many many many many many many many many.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Yeah, how about what's happening when it comes to tariffs
and what are tariffs bringing in? So President Trump's tariffs
poured billions into US offers, he says in July in
trying to reshape the US landscape. New data from the
Treasury Department released on Tuesday afternoon confirmed that July marked
(12:26):
another record month on the revenue front, with twenty seven
point seven billion in custom duties coming into the United States.
So this was another step up from June's total of
twenty six point six billion and May's total of twenty
two point two billion, and a jump from the around
eight billion in custom duties one year ago. It brings
(12:48):
the total to one hundred and thirty five point seven billion.
Of course, the government's fiscal year, you all know, ends
September thirtieth, and that was the big thing that this
was going to bring in so much money, And that's
the number that we're at right now. So I'm sure
(13:09):
there's going to be more that will noticeably come in
in September. But what's interesting is that's a huge amount
of money, right but the tariff revenue hasn't really made
a dent in the overall US budget deficit that grew
to two hundred and ninety one billion last month, So
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the gap for the ten months through July came in
around one point sixty three trillion. And I don't know
does all of this eventually flip around and then ultimately
what happens with US businesses who are absorbing the brunt
of the TEARFF price hikes. That's the thing that we're
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all trying to look at the crystal ball and decide upon.
This woman didn't have to look into a crystal ball.
She found a two point three carrot diamond at a
popular state park in Arkansas, and one was asked, what.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
You're gonna do with it?
Speaker 1 (14:12):
What are you gonna do with that diamond? Put it
in an engagement ring. So this was a New York
City woman who unearthed this white diamond at the Crater
of Diamond State Park in Arkansas. And wow, and I
just I saw the chunk of it. It is pretty amazing.
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Thirty one year old misscher Fox told her husband to
be two years ago she didn't want to get engaged
until she unearthed her own diamond. I'm not making this up.
So she said she was willing to go anywhere in
the world to make it happen. It turned out the
only place you can do that in the United States
and our own backyard is in Arkansas. So she went,
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and she took a few weeks in July to go
in search of shiny treasures. You know, more than seventy
five thousand diamonds have been found there since nineteen six
and no kidding, her last scheduled day at the park
July twenty ninth, she found the diamond. She was walking
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in the diamond search area when she spotted something shiny
at her feet. She thought it was a spiderweb or
dew or something else, but she picked it up. She
just picked it up. She wasn't even digging at that point,
and sure enough it was a precious gem and the
third largest of the three third largest of the three
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hundred and sixty six diamonds found at the park in
twenty twenty five. Wow, that is incredible that story.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
You know what.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
I went to the Crater of Diamonds in search of
a diamond myself, with my nephew and my husband, and
we did the digging and we did the things that
you're supposed to do, and it was so hot. The
two of them were good. With maybe maybe twenty minutes
doing it. I could have stayed out longer. I will
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post pictures on my Facebook page Kate Delaney Media at
Kate Delaney Media so you can see it. It was
so much fun, but no diamonds were unearthed. Perhaps I
should have put it out there into the universe. And
I really really was hoping to find a diamond.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
Just incredible.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
And you see the diamond and my friends, I mean,
it is a diamond. She was walking and it happened,
you know, it happened upon it and it was It.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
Is exactly what I said.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
You know, they verify it, you take it in, they
verify it right there at the store that they have
where they sell all kinds of rocks and you find
really cool rocks. There's no doubt. But this chunk that
she found, wow, something else. Two point three carrot white diamond.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
Good for her? How about some applause. How about some.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Applause for putting that out there? Yeah, what do they
call that, you know, manifesting it. I'm going to manifest that.
I'm going to find my own diamond And as soon
as they get out of grad school, I'm going to
Arkansas and I'm going to the Crater of Diamonds. Just
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crazy that I think that she again that she found that.
But I think it's a very very cool story, no doubt. Hey,
coming up on the flip talking about finding really really
cool things. There is an organization that comes up with
the best of the best when it comes to products
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in the United States, Products of the Year, and they,
I mean they even make a big deal about it.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
Of course, Product of the Year USA dot com.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
You can see all the products and I was surprised
in in a good way some of the products that
I saw there. We're gonna have a conversation with Michelle
Parks about, you know, what are the some of the
products of the year and how they made the list.
Pretty I think it's pretty interesting to look across the
board and see what they are. They even get this
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little seal so when you're shopping you can see like, oh,
that was one of the products of the of the year,
and then you know, you know it's met the certain
criteria in order to be considered for that. One of
the things that we have talked about on the show
(18:39):
for the last I mean, it seems like always we're
talking about flooding, right, but for the last week or
two especially, but torrential rains forced Mexico City's main airport.
You know, we've had that happen here just the last
couple of days, shut down for hours for two days,
really starting a lot of chaos and one of the
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busiest airports in Latin America because they've had constant heavy,
heavy rain, one of their heaviest rainy seasons in years,
flooding all kinds of parts.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
Of the city.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
So four hours on Tuesday they had to cancel flights.
About twenty thousand passengers impacted by the flight cancelations. Some
of them were turning to the United States.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
Meet you on the flip.
Speaker 7 (19:43):
It's one of my favorite things that we talk about
every single year for the last couple of years.
Speaker 8 (19:47):
For sure.
Speaker 7 (19:48):
Michelle Parks is in our virtual green room. She's an
Emmy Award winning broadcast journalists. You've seen her all over
the place. I was in New York and I saw
her as a correspondent on New York Live on NBC
New York. She's the author of Let's Celebrate Korean New Year,
really fun book, and there's so much more I could
tell you about Michelle. But we want to talk about
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the most innovative consumer products of twenty twenty five. So Michelle,
thanks for hanging with us.
Speaker 6 (20:14):
Thank you for giving me that great intro, by the way,
I love that. But I'm so happy to be here.
Speaker 8 (20:20):
So tell us about the Product of the Year and
how it all works.
Speaker 6 (20:24):
Yeah. So, the Product of the Year is a consumer
voted award for product innovation. It's determined by the votes
of forty thousand real American shoppers, and I think it's
really changed the game of shopping by recognizing brands for
best in class innovation and guiding shoppers to the best
products on the market. So you're going to look for
that familiar red seal. And this year there are forty
two winners across categories from home and personal care, to
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food and beverage to so much more.
Speaker 8 (20:49):
Ooh, so take us through some of those winners.
Speaker 6 (20:52):
Yeah, So I want to start things off with Valvelene
restore and Protect. It's an advanced motor oil design to
clean and safeguard your engine. Engine's natural build up deposits
over time, which can affect performance, so this formula uses
active clean technology to remove up to one hundred percent
of harmful deposits with regular use, while liquist shield technology
helps protect against future build up, restoring your engine to
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perform like new for your four legged family members. Supreme
Source Savory Jerky Cuts are made with real North American
sourced salmon and include organic super sweed, known to support
healthy digestion and dogs. These treats provide Omega three fatty
acids and protein, combining taste with nutritional benefits to support
overall well being. Now moving on to a handy everyday tool,
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the Big Easy Load Multipurpose Lighter is designed for convenience
and durability. Its reusable design allows it to be reloaded
up to ten times using a Big Maxi lighter, making
this the longest lasting lighter built to meet high safety standards.
It's practical for tasks like lighting candle, starting a grill,
or camping and bringing a bit of restaurant flavor home.
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Texas Roadhouse Mini rolls are inspired by the restaurant made
from scratch recipe. So these ready to bake rolls come
with a honey cinnamon glaze and are easy to prepare
in the oven, offering a simple way to enjoy a
familiar favorite right at home. Last, but certainly not least,
Kirkwood chicken nuggets, available exclusively at Aldi, offer a quick
and easy meal made from chicken breast and rib meat,
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similar to the popular red Bag chicken. They're a convenient
option for busy days and can be enjoyed either on
their own or as part of a balanced meal.
Speaker 7 (22:27):
Ooh, that all sounds so good.
Speaker 8 (22:29):
I could use all of those so they with great selections.
Speaker 7 (22:33):
Thank you, well, thank you.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
I'm glad to hear that.
Speaker 5 (22:36):
Where do we go for more info?
Speaker 6 (22:38):
For more information and also to see all forty two
of the winners because I couldn't talk about them all today.
You want to head to Product of the Year USA
dot com.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
Michelle, thank you so much. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Yeah, so it's interesting if you go to Product of
the Year dot com, like she mentioned, I think you'll
see some things that probably and I don't know this,
but maybe some of the products that you get like,
for example, I went through to see some of the
winters because I was I just was naturally curious even
about when I'm walking up and down the aisles, am
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I getting any of the things that have this special
seal on it? And I found out like BRONI, for example,
is one of those you think of all the paper towels,
and so it passes the test. It's people are getting
browny for the various measurements, and it's so it hit
that list. Some of the other things that hit the list,
(23:35):
for example, like the dial body soap, you know, the
wash that was number one. You think of all the
different things that are there when you go and you
look at the body washes, and that's one that would
be on the list. The big easy load, which is
the lighters. You know when you because nobody wants the
tiny lighter anymore. You want the long lighter when you're
trying to make those some moores or whatever you're trying
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to get up close to wintertime, you're trying to light
the pile of wood to sit.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
Around the fire.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
And those were a hot product of the year voted
by consumers.
Speaker 8 (24:13):
And I'll give you just one more that.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
I thought was pretty good.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
I hate streaky things like on windows and whatnot. And
this wind decks fast foam is really good. It's easy
use bim that's on there. Oh, and also airborne because
people are getting you know, you travel, people are coughing.
Airborne is supposed to be a great preventative measure. People
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really swear by it. I've taken it in the past,
and I guess it's worked for me. And that is
on the Product of the Year list.
Speaker 5 (24:49):
Two.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
You see that like red seal when you're out there shopping.
So just a few of them, but if you're curious
and you're looking for certain things, it is kind of
a good list to go to. It's laundry or meals
or home solutions or snacks or you know, dog treats
and food and cat food and that kind of stuff.
It's interesting to check it and see if if what
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you use makes that list. All right, We do this
on the show all the time now most days, not
every single day, because I think there is something too,
I really do. I think there is something about honoring
people's birthdays. And the one thing about social media is
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that people if they put their birthday, people are always
recognized for their you know, for their birthday.
Speaker 5 (25:43):
I think that's a good thing.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Is a lot of people get more isolated, and how
many are getting the phone called it? Let me buy
you some lunch, especially if you're working remotely. So happy
birthday to you. It's time for some birthdays. If nobody
has said that to you today, let me be the
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first to say happy birthday.
Speaker 5 (26:06):
And of course it might be just kicking off your day.
So I understand that.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Casey Affleck, who I think is a fine actor, fifty
years old.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
Yes, his brother is Ben Affleck. Boy.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
He's been in a lot of movies that I've seen.
He was in that whole Oceans series, you know, Steven
Soderberg's Ocean films from two thousand and one to two
thousand and seven. He was in the Assassination of Jesse James,
which I thought was really super good. He was in
a movie that is sad and good and gritty. It's
(26:41):
a crime drama called Gone, Baby Gone. And Interstellar he
was in that movie. He was in a movie that,
oh I wish I hadn't watched, but it was excellent.
I mean, that's not a good ringing endorsement saying I
wish I hadn't watched it because so de pressing. But
it was to twenty sixteen something like that, Manchester by
(27:04):
the Sea, and he got an Academy Awardi for Best
Actor for that. And he was in gosh Oppenheimer, and
he was in a ghost Story and a whole bunch
of other things. But he is the brother of Ben
Affleck and he, you know, worked professionally as a kid too,
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wanted to be an actor, and he is a very
very good, solid actor artist. Celebrating a birthday as well.
Sir mix A Lot sixty two years old, or his
CB handle as he's known, Prime Minista. He's an American rapper.
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He is known for his ninety two hit song back
in nineteen ninety two, baby Got Back. It peaked at
number one on the Billboard Hot one hundred. He grew
up in Seattle and he was a fan of hip
hop and he started rapping in the eighties and the
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path kind of took them all over the place, and
he found fame pretty They found fame pretty early. He
started DJing at community centers in Seattle, and he was
part of the whole West coast like first rap radio
show in Seattle on a station out there called k
(28:31):
Fox and whatnot, and he just absolutely gained a lot
of attention for hip hop and electro funk and whatnot.
So happy birthday to him as well. Hey, it's a
great reminder to all of you if you're listening to
this show, which you are right now on one of
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I missed that story, what were the deeds on that are?
I had an author on and I just the book
sounded interesting. I can't remember the name of the author. Well,
you can easily go to Kate Delaney Radio.
Speaker 5 (29:07):
With Extra Sauce the sauce.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Easy to remember, right, Kate Delaney with extra Kate Delany
Radio with Extra Sauce the Sauce. So, whether it's Apple,
Spotify or just go to the website, you can click
on the show that you missed and find that content.
So so easy to be able to be able to
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do that, all right, A couple of other fun things.
Speaker 5 (29:36):
You know, we were telling.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
You the other day that AOL dial up is gone,
and I happened to find out on this day in history.
Back in nineteen eighty one, the IBM personal computer was released. Wow,
computers have certainly changed it more these many years later.
(29:59):
I mean, really, to me, the phone, our phones are
like computers. I mean, how many of you actually use
I mean, think about this, how many of you actually
really use your phone as something to talk on? And
I'm not saying you don't talk at all on the phone.
But isn't it more texting? Isn't it more looking something up?
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Isn't it playing games? It's just so much more to me, like,
you know, like a computer, and it's weird. If you
go and look this up you want to see something
really cool. There are these Charlie Chaplin IBM ads that
ran when the IBM personal computer was released. I mean,
(30:43):
it's like a crazy vintage commercial. And the main reason
people bought computers was for word processing for their school
assignments and stuff, right, because there wasn't typewriters in the
typewriters were gone. I was past the age of the typewriter.
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And some of you listen, I'm sure you didn't use
typewriters either.
Speaker 5 (31:08):
So it was about the computer.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
But so clunky, so clunkily, and it's hard to believe
how far we've come in what thirty some years.
Speaker 5 (31:17):
Well your turn next, Hey.
Speaker 7 (31:27):
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Speaker 5 (32:05):
I'm going to the man Cave, into the amer Cave.
We are in the man Cave. Thank you for that. Andy.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Everybody, by the way, is welcome into the Cave. I
wrote a book called Invade the Man Cave. You can
get it on Amazon, Barnes and Noble. I talk about
sports of all sorts because I could never find anything
that had everything in there except for what was once
very handy, and I do like it and get it
every year. The ESPN book that is so thick. It's
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like warm Peace, but it's a lot of records. There's
some stories and things in there, but it's not quite entertaining.
It doesn't have the background of a lot of the
sports I mean, you could never have the whole thing.
It would take I don't know, millions of pages, and
I'm not exaggerating. And you all know that when you
look at stories and you decide what would you put
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in for the Big Four and what would you put
in for the various other sports that are very significant
as well. So in the man Cave, we're gonna talk
about a couple of different things. Always, of course, the
NFL I mentioned heading into this that the Brewers routed
schemes and pirates extend that win streak to eleven games.
Woo ooo, that is huge, my friends, record book stuff. Yeah,
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what about some of the other happenings across the board. Well,
let's see the Cubbies, another red hot team not so
hot against the Blue Jays.
Speaker 5 (33:29):
Blue Jays knocked.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Them off five one, and looking a little bit deeper
into that game, which was played across the border, Ernie
Clement and Dalton varshow Homeward part of the reason why
hot bats so the Blue Jays reach seventy wins.
Speaker 5 (33:50):
This is really as.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
We start to drop games, you start to realize when
you look all of you who are baseball fans, how
many opportunities do you have to see home baseball? It
is dwindling, my friends. I'm here as that reminder for
people who say I'm gonna get out and see a game,
even know it's a school night. Diamondback fans, you picked
up your fifty eighth. Your team did anyway, with a
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three to two win over the Texas Rangers. Elsewhere, this
has been a fun series to watch, the Angels and
the Dodgers rivalry.
Speaker 5 (34:22):
The Angels win.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Knocking off that other Los Angeles team seven six show. Hey,
O Tani once again goes yard one for three. He
had an RBI and I'll tell you what in the
DH that's what he's doing.
Speaker 5 (34:41):
He's a DH.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
He lined into a triple play in the sixth inning,
but he hit a tie breaking homer in the ninth.
It was the Angels on the winning side, like I mentioned,
because they were the ralliers in that game.
Speaker 5 (34:56):
In ten so, the defending World.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
Series champion Dodgers fell into a first place tie with
San Diego in the NL West as a result of
their third consecutive loss. I have to say this, the
crowd is lovin O Tani though, I mean he was
the guy at Angels Stadium and now he's coming back
for that. You know, this is now his second game
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in this visit back and the Hens the fans miss
him and they have been embracing him when he's up
at the plate. Of course, they went their team to win,
but they still have that love forum. So how about
that Tampa Bay shut down on the road. The A's
got him six zip.
Speaker 5 (35:42):
It was a.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
Padres over the Giants five one red socks. Oh, I
would have left. I'm sorry, I think I would have
left this game. Beat the Astros.
Speaker 5 (35:53):
Fourteen to one.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
Oh, that's just where you know, maybe there's the chance
that a few people.
Speaker 5 (36:00):
Could be over served.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
Let's say Alex Bregman homeward against his former team for
second straight game, and it just was a slug fest.
Dustin May scattered five singles across six scoreless innings, struck
out eight in his second start since a trade from
the Dodgers. So the Laws drops the Astros into a
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tie with Seattle for the AL West lead. After the
Mariners beat the Orioles one zip for their eighth consecutive
win on Tuesday, All right, checking NFL news because now
people are getting ready for fantasy football. You know you're
talking about a handful of weeks. A lot of people
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do it Labor Day, weekend or the weekend before that.
You've got I've watched Hard Knocks, Buffalo Bills or featured
on Hard Knocks. It's been fun to actually to watch it.
I always like Hard Knocks and it just gets you
primed for football. I mean, can we get enough of it?
Speaker 5 (37:04):
Still?
Speaker 1 (37:04):
So many conversations about a whole bunch of teams and
some players who are part of what they now call
hold ends because they're actually physically there. A lot of
times it was that the player was all hold out.
So they're still holding out, but they're there on campus,
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so to speak. So we're doing a little thing called
high five, low five. It's either going to be booze
or applause. There was a big story a couple of
weeks ago, you know, when you would tune into the
tube and you would see, sadly so someone would be
having a concussion, they'd be on the sideline and they
would immediately go to the smelling salts. Well, the NFL
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decided no more smelling salts, and so why is that?
Because there are supposed some side effects to that. So
they decided they're going to ban them because of the
health concerns. So in the twenty twenty five season, they're
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prohibiting teams from supplying players with them and other ammonia
inhalance during the games or pregame activities and half time.
This follows on the heels of a twenty four warning
from the FDA, which raised the flag about the safety
and how good these products are anyway when it regards
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when it comes in regards to their potential to mass
symptoms of concussions.
Speaker 5 (38:36):
So high five, low five. Yeah, absolutely, it'll be weird
for the.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
Players because they're kind of used to that. All you
have to do is look at any old but not
even old footage, even from just the previous year, and
you'll see that it was definitely, I mean, it was
definitely used lots of different times. And not all the
players are on board with us. I was reading something
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about uh George Kittle, who wasn't He wasn't excited about
the idea that, you know, that they should be banned.
He thinks it should be reconsidered, uh, because of the
significance of what it.
Speaker 5 (39:21):
Can do for you.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
But there's no wiggle room, you know, he said, there
was there were some people that were broadcasting, and he
interrupted the broadcast in training camp and said, I I
want to air a grievance. Our team got the memo
about the smelling salts and ammonia packets that were made illegal.
I considered a retirement. We got to figure out a
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middle ground here. Somebody helped me up, you know, out
somebody come up with a good idea. And and and
again it's probably because, I mean, the individual players can
use them if they were using them outside of the NFL.
But why they be using them when there would be
so many that would normally you know, they can use
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their own supply, but normally they that would be something
that would be available during a game. Okay, So how
about this one? This goes to the whole in letting
Micah Parsons hover around camp without a contract, Is it
a distraction or is it intentional? When it comes to
the Dallas Cowboys and the big decision that keeps hovering
(40:30):
over the training camp.
Speaker 5 (40:34):
Is it a high five or a low five?
Speaker 1 (40:37):
The high five, Yeah, because that's what's happening now, the
whole inns, that's what it's called, the whole dens.
Speaker 5 (40:43):
So he's part of that.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
So if I'm his agent, of course I'm going to
say you're going. You're not playing, you're not participating, but
you're going so now because of how this has been
dragged out. The other part of this is how much
is this going to cost the Dallas Cowboys. I read
an interesting story today from a long time Cowboy writer
that because of the way the negotiations are going, it
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could cost the Cowboys one hundred million dollars because they're
so slow to get the contract done. Ooh, how about
this the cost of streaming NFL games. Remember when it
was free back in the Madden Summer all days, and
you didn't have to pay for every single service to
try to figure out the jumping jacks of when your
team is being aired on Amazon Prime or Netflix or
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Paramount or Peacock or Fox.
Speaker 5 (41:32):
Or Red Zone.
Speaker 1 (41:34):
You add all of that up and it comes to
hundreds of dollars.
Speaker 5 (41:40):
Is it worth it? High five?
Speaker 1 (41:42):
Low five? It is a boo. It's ridiculous. It's ridiculous.
I mean, this is the thing we live in the
world of streaming because every network, every organization that puts
content out there is saying, why shouldn't we get ours
when they're getting theirs. If they're streaming, why shouldn't we
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be able to do it? And my final one is
and get the money for the subscription. PGA players having
to wear long pants when they're embroiling hot conditions like
we're seeing the temperatures across the country, is it time
to ditch the no shorts rules?
Speaker 5 (42:19):
High five? Low five?
Speaker 1 (42:21):
Boo.
Speaker 4 (42:27):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (42:27):
We're used to them in long pants, right, I mean,
they can't ride the carts and they're never going to
change that. I doubt they would ever change to the
shorts thing either. All right, coming up, Jana Johnson Anderson.
Speaker 5 (42:39):
Next, the name.
Speaker 8 (42:53):
Of the book is Abby's Flight.
Speaker 7 (42:56):
We are really pleased to welcome to author's corner Johnson Anderson.
This book has received numerous accolades. The book I'm talking
about is obvious Flight. You got to think Nepal abduction abuse,
beautiful country. It's so beautiful and bittersweet this adventure that
she takes us on. Janet, First of all, what made
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you write the book and tell us what it's about.
Speaker 9 (43:20):
Well, I was a board member with an organization at
work in Nepal and other countries where sexual trafficking and
enslavement is high. And the thing is, most people associate
Nepal with namaste and hospitality, you know, a peaceful country
amid the snowcapped Himalayans. But I was touched by the
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stories I heard and the people I met, and just
felt compelled to write a story that could lend a
voice to the many who are voiceless. There's so many
who are abused, abducted, sold into brothels, sold into slavery,
and with little recourse.
Speaker 5 (43:58):
Yeah, so that was a eye opener for you, right.
Speaker 9 (44:02):
It was in a way, it was, and.
Speaker 1 (44:05):
I think it's an eye opener for a lot of
other people. So you decide you're going to wrap this
into the book. How do you go about writing that
novel and having that approach.
Speaker 9 (44:16):
Well, luckily I had a chance to meet some of
the women who run organizations in Paul to help those women,
and so I knew the background, I knew about the area.
I had to choose fiction because I personally never lived
in Nepal and didn't have any quote, official authority, So
(44:40):
I had to write fiction. But much of what I
write about is truth. And the nice thing with fiction
is I can wrap the point of the story in
an eye opening adventure. So while there is struggle in
the book, there is beauty and relationsh ships and you know,
(45:01):
discovery of people's purpose in life and group action and
things like that that if I was doing a nonfiction
it would just be fact slash fact, you know.
Speaker 1 (45:15):
So you get wrapped up in the characters and you
talk about So talk about the title Avi, tell us
about Avi and Avi's flight.
Speaker 9 (45:25):
Okay, Well, Avi Savoru is a fourteen year old girl
who is in the very beginning of the book is
in an arranged marriage to be And actually what makes
the book I think an interesting standout is we learn
in the first five sentences that she has been promised
(45:50):
to mister Singh in marriage, but instead she clubs him
in the head and flees with his oxen cart from
the village. And so that sets the stage right away
within the first paragraph. But she travels from poor countryside
to the two larger cities, Pokara and Katmandu, and that
(46:13):
is her journey through the countryside that sheds light on
the plight of Nepoly women amid a suppressive culture and
a discovery of purpose beyond South.
Speaker 1 (46:25):
Yeah, and talk about that purpose because that's a big
point in the book. Like you say, there certainly there
are the horrific things that are happening, but then discovering
purpose that's something everybody's searching for.
Speaker 9 (46:36):
I think, right, absolutely. Well, it's almost a story of
international advocacy. So you know, she's fourteen, so she's kind
of a coming of age character, and while she's aware
of elements obviously that she wants to escape from within
(46:57):
her own village, she meets other women who have come
to safe places and learns their stories and realizes that
there are things that we can all be doing that
can help benefit the women and the girls of her
country as well.
Speaker 1 (47:17):
For you, what was the best part about taking what
you knew and instead, like as you mentioned, not having
fact after fact after fact, and weaving into a story
with the hopes of really getting people to pay attention
to what was happening with trafficking and areas that are
idyllic and people love but not realizing what's going on
(47:38):
behind the scene. What was it like for you when
you actually saw the book and put it together.
Speaker 9 (47:44):
Well, I was proud that I was able to do it.
I was also sad because here in America there are
a thout hundreds of thousands of women that protest for
whatever the purpose is and support them. But there are
not women marching in the streets of Nepal to stand
(48:06):
up for things. And it's a whole mindset, and I think,
really we need to be teaching the men these stories
because while we can say the male gender is suppressing women, well,
these women grow up amid this culture and sort of
(48:29):
buy into that thinking. So there is great gender injustice
and it is not just one sided. And it is
not just rich versus poor. It's not a class thing,
although it is the poor people who are more I
(48:52):
want to say, taken advantage of. I mean, there are
girls in the countryside of Nepal who are given away
for a pig, you know, in exchange for something like that.
But the whole cultural disregard for women there, as you say,
was was eye opening to any woman from the western
(49:14):
area of the world. But there's a bitter, sweet, beautiful
aspect of it too, because the people love their land.
You certainly read about the beauty through her eyes.
Speaker 2 (49:31):
You read about.
Speaker 9 (49:32):
Her very tender relationship with her brothers and her best
friend whom she has to leave behind. There's there's enough
elements that creates the story that it's not just walking
you into the door of despair, you know. So, and
and her decision to try to make something of herself
(49:56):
more that she can offer herself to her fellow citizens
is also very encouraging and hopeful.
Speaker 5 (50:05):
Yeah, the struggle is real, That's what it is.
Speaker 1 (50:07):
Is you're saying there's no protest because of the culture,
and it's about lifting that veils what you found out,
and the book really kind of pulls you into that idea.
Speaker 9 (50:19):
Yes, I mean, you can't necessarily go to police or
authority because they might be getting a kickback from the brothels,
and so you go to them for help and they
end up taking you somewhere where you don't want to be. So,
(50:40):
and this has been life for so long. Child enslavement
is very typical. So it's a tough scenario to beat.
And I wanted to wear raisediness to kind of further
the lines of community because, for example, Westerners, we know
(51:04):
you can't cross.
Speaker 5 (51:05):
A border with.
Speaker 9 (51:09):
A DVD that has been stolen and reproduced. You know
they're going to crack down on you. But any forty
year old man can walk across the border with a
six year old girl and nobody thinks anything of it.
So the only way to really address that is we
have to go through legal aspects political systems to recognize
(51:34):
that there are issues and that it's important to the
rest of us. They're not going to get anything accomplished
in Nepal if the United States and Canada and England
and Europe as a whole are not appalled by this
kind of behavior.
Speaker 5 (51:53):
Boy, and that the truth.
Speaker 1 (51:55):
What do you hope people take away from reading Obvious Flight?
We're speaking with Janet Johnson Anderson once again, and you
can get this book on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, wherever.
Speaker 8 (52:05):
Great books are sold. Janet, what do you hope people
take away from reading Auvi's Flight? What do hope they
take away from that?
Speaker 9 (52:14):
Well, I hope that there's a greater understanding of the
plight of women, not just in Nepal, but in other
dark places of the world. We tend to get focused
on our own culture and don't understand the difficulties that
(52:35):
other people face, and so I'm hoping that this book
offers a springboard for discussion that may ultimately lead to
some sort of change. Americans, for example, we tend to say, oh, well,
that's you know, that's Nepal's problem, but it's not if
it's trafficking those women and girls and boys. Up in America,
(53:01):
we're one of the largest consumers of trafficking, so it's
not just Nepal's problem. And I have to say that
before my book came out, I sent a manuscript over
to the Women's Foundation of Nepal and they endorsed the book.
Their endorsement is on the back of my cover for
(53:24):
the various work that they are currently doing, which can
be setting up sewing classes so that women can can
learn to sew and become entrepreneurs. And you know, many
of these women who even when they escape a bad situation,
(53:45):
can't go back to their family or their villages. There's
their shun. So there are there are are foundations in
this in the country that are doing wonderful things, but
you know, they need help and awareness, and so I
(54:06):
was very pleased honored to have gained their endorsement.
Speaker 1 (54:11):
Yeah, I'm so glad you pointed that out. Obvio's Flight
is definitely an eye opener a book to read.
Speaker 5 (54:17):
Janet, thank you for coming on.
Speaker 9 (54:19):
Well, it was my pleasure I appreciate your interest
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