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Speaker 1 (00:13):
A lot of people dealing with the wall of water
in this country, particularly in the northeast and in the southeast. Hey, everybody,
Kate Delaney here on ATM the Charquitie Board of Talk Radio.
Chattanooga got blasted, I mean flooding in Chattanooga. Very sad.
Three people, in fact, were killed when a tree fell
on a car. Among rather the treacherous things that happened
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with this Tennessee flooding. People were trapped in cars near
Chattanooga during the storm that began on Sunday and continued
through Wednesday. It was record rainfall in some places. We're
talking about a foot. Hey, hey, everybody, Kate Delaney here
another day in Paradise on ATM the Charquitie Board of
(00:58):
Talk Radio. So while some people we're dealing with the
extreme flooding like twenty four as they said, in southern Tennessee,
completely flooded, people trapped in cars, you had others who
were dealing with nasty heat. And we're talking about the
kind of heat that, yes, it's hot in the summer,
we all know that. But we're talking about the kind
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of heat where you turn it up an extra fifteen
degrees or so and then you throw in humidity and
it's really really bad. Parts of the West Coast are
dealing with that. You have you know, even people in
the Midwest where the Cincinnati Open is going on, and
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you have people that are having trouble with the heat.
There a huge tennis tournament, including the tennis players themselves,
and it's all about the hydration, the hydration, the hydration.
But it's easy to open up a mic and scream
that into a mike, but it's too late for the
people who don't do that the night before, the days before.
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So you have this dichotomy that we've had now for
a couple of weeks. We have lingering storms bringing these
flash flood threats to the southeast and parts of the Northeast.
You're listening to me in the Great State of Connecticut
and you're getting hit by that. And then you've got
the heat wave in the pockets across the US that, yeah, again,
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it's hot, but it's hotter than some can stand. I've
spent plenty of time in Palm Springs, and yes, you
expect it to be warm, but do you feel like
you're on top of the sun plus plus plus I
would say no, that's a little bit abnormal. A little
bit abnormal is what's happening in Washington, DC. A lot
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of the people who are waking up to finding that
troops have been deployed along the National Mall. You're talking
about eight hundred National Guard. It is really startling to
many people. But on the other hand, there are others
that are saying, Okay, here's the problem. We do have
an issue with violence. Here's reaction from a DC resident,
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Darryl Gaston, who owns a restaurant in DC.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
We can always use more more police, right, But I
think having police officers that are from the community, that
are trained locally is much different than having a federal
police as not trained a community policing.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Yeah, and he was somebody who had a restaurant. I
caught him on CBS where he was showing that there
were bullet holes that were on the outside of it
up toward kind of the roofline. And then Carolyn love Att,
the White House Press Secretary, said, you know, it's we're
talking about thirty days and he said, She said, rather,
this is what we're doing.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
We are removing as many criminals from the streets, and
we are cleaning up DC as best as we can
and working with the Metropolitan Police Department to do that.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
All right, So it's not changing, I mean it is.
The idea, is what they're saying is we're just going
to try to have the presence there push the crime out.
And the idea is that the people who live there
and the tourists that are seeing this sight of the
significant military presence will realize the reason that it's there,
because certainly what is DC at least a quiet stretch
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where the lot of the guard is known from museums
and monuments and hot dog vendors and restaurants and that
kind of thing. A lot of people have asked me
in our through email rather, how is this possible? Well,
there's a law that grants the president, of course, the
power to activate the National Guard to protect federal personnel
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and property, like how it happened in January sixth of
twenty twenty one. If you remember, the president has the
power to mobilize troops in times of extraordinary crisis. That
happened in nineteen ninety two during the Los Angeles riots.
It's still kind of unclear about the thirty days is clear,
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So there is then to that, But other arenas of
what is the military going to do, what would that
actually achieve? There is a system that has become a hurricane.
And of course it's like a dirty word to say
hurricane after what we've dealt with many in the US
last year with back to back hurricanes. But Tropical Storm
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Aaron is forming into a hurricane. It's going to be
the first hurricane of the season. It's just a question
of where it's going to be. Here's Brian Northcrust from
the National Weather Service.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
In terms of all the variety of models we look at.
You see where the main cluster is. It stays offshore,
but can't completely rule out this subset over here, and
the European is more in that subset over there. I
notice we've got the various AI models here, a couple
of them, then we have the regular Modzeles and there's
a lot of possibilities. That significant plausible subset is the issue.
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And with that, how bad are the condition is going
to be? Even if it stays offshore along the coast,
and we see that from the mid Atlantic on up
through the Northeast, you're going to put a lot of
energy no matter what up along the coast. So everybody
needs to be aware of that here coming up later
next week.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Yeah, the thing to be aware of is along the northeast.
We've seen what's happened in Seaside Heights is rip currents,
and also let's say like the outer Banks, so there
could be people there. There will be people there, and
if they're vacation or whatever they're doing, if they're locals,
you have to be careful of getting into that water
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and not realizing how deadly it can become. When suddenly
it becomes that rip current when it's pulling you, pulling you,
pulling you, and you're trying to fight it, and it
becomes harder and harder and harder. Sadly, we've seen so
much of almost fifty people have died this year as
a result of being caught up maybe unaware of these
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rip currents and how it has you know, just completely
left them pulled out and flailing about and trying to
get help but not being able to get back out
of the water. It's just too tough trying to fight it.
It's terrible if you get caught up in that. I'm
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sure some of you can remember a time where you've
been in the water and you've been dragged down the
beach and you realize you look over and that's nothing
like some of the really strong rip currents that people
have battled. All Right, you want something good. This is
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for my husband and maybe some of you too as well.
So Sex and the City the iconic show that's been
around since the nineties. It was part of what made
HBO become HBO because so many people tuned into it
when there wasn't as much to tune into, but cable
became much more exciting and worth it to pay for it.
(08:10):
So Sex and the City was the other show along
with the Sopranos. And Sex and the City is ending
its run. So Sarah, Jessica Parker and the girls who
went on to age in thirty years thirty years of
a show where it became and just like that, it
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is grinding to a halt. The final show on Thursday night.
Oh it's crazy to think about how long that show
has been on and how it influenced fashion and friendships. Wow,
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the group Kiss is just one of the honorees. The
recipient of the twenty twenty five Kennedy Center Honors is
going to be a live event that is coming up.
The President revealed that he will host the December Awards ceremony.
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They kind of had to twist his arm, but he agreed.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
I've been as to host. I said, I'm the President
of the United States. Are you fools asking me to
do that? And then Susie Well said to be sure
like a horse, I said, okay, Susie, I'll do it.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
So not just kiss, but also Sylvester Stallone is going
to get an award too as well. He's a longtime
friend of the president's and he certainly is a pop
culture and Hollywood superstar and whatnot, has been around for
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a decade, so he's on the list. Michael Crawford makes
the list. He's a Broadway superstar. And you know, you
go back with Phanom of the Opera, That's where Michael
was really huge, but also in several other musicals as well.
Gloria I Will Survive, Gainer makes it in two. Certainly
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when you look at the American Disco error. And then
as I mentioned kiss, you heard kiss there with I
Want to Rock and Roll? Ever say kiss in concert?
How many people listening to my voice saw kissing concert?
I went with my cousins along. It seems like a
long time ago in Philadelphia, back when they had a
place called the Spectrum, which is where the Sixers and
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the Philadelphia Flyers played. And it's interesting they became such
a global phenomenon then talk about spreading generations. They made
certainly a fortune doing what they did, and they and
they've gone on to take that to some interesting places
I think, and still have kind of a relevancy for sure.
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So they also will be in and of course the
great George Strait makes it in too as well. I mean,
he is the king of country. I would say he's
on his last tour too, so it's interesting timing for that.
But he has so many iconic songs and doesn't really
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need an introduction. I think anyone that doesn't knows anything
about country music, even if you don't, you certainly have
heard of George Strait. So anyway, that's the people that
will be getting the honors, and the President is going
to be the MC of the December ceremony. Interesting, isn't it.
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There's been such a shift at the Kennedy Center, which
he says he is redoing, completely redoing the inside, and
then there's been some talk of be renaming the Kennedy
the Kennedy Center that it could be called something else,
but so far that has not happened. There's just been
discussion of that these birthdays. If you are celebrating a
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birthday today, doesn't matter how many candles are on the cake.
Let me be the first to say. If nobody else has,
and I hope they have, happy birthday to you. Such
a significant time in so many people's lives, your birthday,
I think it's good to recognize it. I've said that
again and again. That was one good thing I would
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say about social media. As much as there's so much
that I think is tough with social media, what's really
good is a lot of people that were from your
past etca come out to say happy birthday. Danny Bonaducci,
he was famous for The Partridge Family. Sixty six years old.
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He tops the list, and after the Partridge Family, he
didn't just go away. He popped up in a couple
of other shows. But he definitely was famous in the
seventies for being a kid on that on that show,
and he was in Charlotte's Web. He was in that
seventies show, and he did a couple of other things
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too as well. A couple of celebrity television shows, though
some of those reality shows and whatnot biz are sixty
one years old. You might not know the name, but
I guarantee you've probably seen her in something like La Law.
She was big on the show Entourage. That's what I
used to watch back in the early days of HBO.
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She was in Goodfellows, she was in Batman Forever too.
If you watch that, you will have recognized her for sure.
What's really interesting about Debbie Mazar is she used to
do nails and she did Madonna's nails when Madonna wasn't
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really super known. That was like one of her side
gigs that she did, and Madonna really encouraged her to
go into acting, go deeper into acting, and sure enough
she did and struck a chord because she she's one
of those character actors that has been in, like, like
I said, a ton of movies that you you might
not recognize her name, but you would recognize her face. Collateral,
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Grand Theft, Auto Three Grand Theft, Auto San Andreas, all
kinds of movies, all kinds of games, et cetera. And again, definitely,
definitely it has an impact on the acting world, especially
in that character role she plays it so well that
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the New Yorker she just absolutely nails it, which makes
sense because she is a New Yorker. All Right, you
biquitous bits of information. We're trying to kind of bring
that back a little bit. You know how you put
some of the fun stuff in the closet and then
you bring it back again. Well, that's what we did.
We took some of the clutter away and we're bringing
it back. What do you think the number one or
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first chain? When I say number one, the first chain
in the United States was of pizza. The first pizza chain,
ding ding ding. Anybody know the answer to this? Shakey's Pizza.
I had no idea. This kind of popped up randomly
when I was surfing around today. Founded in nineteen fifty four,
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first franchise pizza chain in the United States. By sixty eight,
they had three hundred and forty two locations five hundred
stores globally, fifty eight in the United States. Now you
can find Shaky's Pizza in California and Washington. In the Philippines,
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it's really big. Singapore and Japan, super super big in
those places. Was really really really popular, has always been
really really popular. They're in California because they were known
for long rows of picnic tables, and a lot of
parents and kids that were in some of these youth teams,
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baseball teams, etc. Would go there afterwards. And they still
have that same kind of iconic look and logo. But
I had no idea. That stumped me when I was
trying to think, well, what was the first franchise pizza?
No idea. And of course every single day there's a
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day where something is represented right national something day. In fact,
when we go into the Zinger Zone are one liners
for the week, We're going to take you in one
direction for a national something that was recognized nationally today.
But because it's my favorite cut of meat, yes, I
eat meat, National Fila mignon day, uh huh. So flat
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mignon is the most tender cut of beef definitely for me,
and it's considered to be the most desirable, so of
course it is the most expensive, right although there are
places we can get it where I think it doesn't
break the bank, even if you go to like a outback.
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Can make a good flame and yon. But when we
talk about the cattle industry, and there's really been a
hit on the cattle industry and beef is taking a
hit because it's gone up in price. We've talked about
this on the show. People are complaining about the price
of beef when they shop. You think about the US,
and like I said, the big cattle industry where we're
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known for that spread across the country and there are
certain states, especially like Texas is number one by a
long shot as far as beef cows are concerned. I mean,
more than fifteen percent of the entire US total is
from the lone star state, followed closely by Oklahoma. And
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a lot of people are listening to us in Missouri
and Missouri is third one point eighty six million. When
you talk about cows, so the southern plains, the Midwest
and cattle production super super big. Tell all of you
that people listening in Kentucky. Also, Kentucky would make the
top ten on the list, and even Florida because a
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lot of water in Florida. And what did cows need?
They need water, They need water, and they need grass
and a whole bunch of other things. But that's why
Florida makes it onto the list. A lot of people
don't you realize that. And of course when you go deeper,
you realize where some of the worst places are, Like
New York makes sense, Michigan, Arizona is so dry, it
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makes sense that that wouldn't be high on the list either.
But anyway, I thought that was interesting that, of course
we recognize flaming Yon. And when I was a kid,
that was the special meal. If you ran home and
you had Jersey corn and filet and some mashed potatoes
and then whatever the vegetable was, that was a good
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That was good eating, and that was a good night
at the Delaney house, all right. Coming up on the
flip side, I mentioned National Day for Everything. We got
one focused on the Zinger Zone, our famous one liners
that's happening around the bend. So today is a National
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left Handers Day, and a world really dominated by writings,
let's face it, this is a day to celebrate those
lefties in our lives and it raises awareness on some
of the issue who's faced by left handers in their
daily lives. My mother was left handed, my sister in
law's left handed, my husband is left handed. And because
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of them, I realized, like things like cutting, you know,
using a knife, it's awkward not to have a left
handed knife. That was one of the first presents that
my mother gave my husband, and also cutting things like scissors.
There's so many things that are different when you are
a left hander. So they started celebrating. There's actually an
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association left Handers International, so a guy named Dean Campbell
in nineteen seventy six has been celebrated every year since,
raising the awareness of being left handed. In the sixteen hundreds,
when people were left handed, they were thought of as
being in cahoots with the devil. Yeah, they were not.
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They were not thought of well. There was even a
left Hander's Club that was founded in nineteen ninety. The
idea was to keep people up to date with developments
and to serve as kind of a bridge with the
views of left handers and manufacturers, because that's the hard thing,
right that. Like I just described two things to you,
and being left handed is still definitely different, but it
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is valuable in the world of sports. Nothing like having
a left handed pitcher, nothing like being a tennis player
who's left handed. You have a slight advantage in my mind,
and there are other sports where I think that comes
into play. Who are some other well known people who
are left handed, Walt Disney left handed, Charlie Chaplin left handed,
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Mark Zuckerberg from Meta left handed, Albert Einstein left handed. Yeah,
so how about that the percentage of the world that
is left handed, the best we know anyway, twelve percent,
twelve percent. Yeah, now this is a crazy thing too.
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And then we're going to get to the one liners.
But eleven times is the number of how much higher
of a likelihood it is for a left hander to
suffer from allergies? What allergies? Yes, and it's it's interesting.
Twenty three percent is the percentage of more men than
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women who are left handed. So if you're left handed,
you are not completely alone, but there's not a lot
of you. Here we go into the Zinger zone. Why
are left handed people so great at baseball? Because they
always hit it out of left field? Why did the
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left handed golfer get an award? Of course they had
a unique swing to things. All right, I know that's
a little lame. It's hard to write left handed jokes.
I'm not left handed. Why should you never argue with
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left handed people because they are never right? Oh? And
I have so many more left handed jokes that feel
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just right. If you know what I mean. So here's
a couple more of them. What pair of siblings were
definitely not southpaws? The right brothers? What's ironic about having
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a left handed pen? It's for writing?
Speaker 5 (24:04):
What do you.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Why do left handed people die faster because they don't
do things the right way? Yeah? I know that was weak.
I will admit to that. What do a left handed
person and netflix have in common? They can't do anything right? Yeah,
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like raise prices, but somehow people still stick with them. Right.
Why do left handed people always write incorrectly? Their right
hand has nothing left and their left hand has nothing right? Yeah?
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Why are smart watches worn on the left hand? If
they were weren't on the right hand, guys would have
had three times more steps than girls. All right? For
you cat lovers, which includes Jason and Daniel to Minnesota. Two?
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What do you call a left handed cat a south paw?
Speaker 5 (25:30):
All right?
Speaker 1 (25:30):
I promise, I promise. Last one? Why are lefties so
close minded? Because when they look in the mirror, everything
they do is right?
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Come on, that's good. It's tough, right, it's tough, tough, tough, tough, tough, tough,
And like I said, because there were left handers in
my life, and there are currently I I realized that
plight when I see the things that I just don't
even think about, but I see them kind of struggle
with it, and I realize, oh, yeah, that's right, all right,
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coming up. Of course, we have our famous mailbag segment.
All of you know about that because you're constantly sending
me your thoughts. I love it. And plus we always
do a check of the markets. It was a great
day on the stock market, new highs for the S
and P five hundred and the NAS deck, even crypto search. Overall,
it was really good. The dal Jones industrial average jump
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more than one percent. The SNP five hundred tacked on
some more too, twenty point eighty two points, so up
a bunch there. The NAS deck shot up to as well,
over thirty one points, and after a kind of a
tame July inflation report, the expectations jump for why do
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you think a rate cut at the Federal Reserves Policy
meeting in September? There is the real possibility of it.
In fact, there is a tool called the CME FED
Watch tool. It's kind of cool if you go and
check it out. They track the markets expectations for a
rate move at each FED meeting, and they're suggesting as
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of just even a few moments ago, a more than
ninety four percent chance of a FED rate cut. So
how about that. And that's something that of course the
President has been just begging for. And there's a really
really really good chance that that is going to happen
because we saw what happened at the end of July.
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But we'll wait and see in September. But if you
read the tea leaves or you look at that tool
and you talk to some economists, let's just say, it's
looking really really really really really really really good. So
there were it was just overall a really good day
on the market. And some people will say, well, why
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do we care about the market? You care about the
market because I've had this is so many of you
over the years. Ask me about your four oh one
case and four o one case. You got a basket
of stocks, right, and you want those stocks to go
higher whenever it is that you retire, whether it's twenty
years from now, whether it's a year from now, whenever
it happens to be. That timing can be really really
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really really interesting. Let's put it that way. I don't
know what is about sharks. It's been a very weird
summer for all kinds of things and sharks. Yeah, a
large sharks spotted off the main coast. There's been a
bunch of sightings of sharks. This was a huge great
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white off of mains coastline. You could say, well, you know,
we've cape cod et cetera. If you go up and
you look at the New England area. It's not that
we haven't seen that before. But I'm saying this is
like a super shark, and they see him, they report
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him because they try to warn people if they're closer
to a beach. And the drone was up and it
followed the great white shark that was near a popular beach,
which is a very good thing because then they, like
I said, they can warn the lifeguards to keep people
out of the water because these sharks can get so
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close to the beachline. And this was in Scarborough, Maine.
It was swimming near this beach that a lot of
people were also in and he was getting rather close
to them. So that's the good thing about these drones.
And there've been, like I mentioned, multiple sightings of this
shark and a few others too as well. I looked
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at some of the video of it. Lets is say,
I wouldn't want to be on a paddle board, or
I just wouldn't want to be in the water with
this size shark, well, any shark I wouldn't necessarily want
to be shit the water with. But you are. I mean,
it's like somebody said to me the other day, you're
getting into their pool, so we don't know what's there,
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and that's the deal. You're sharing the water with whatever
creatures are you know, in the water. So there have
been much more shark sightings. However, I think then I
can ever remember in the last maybe five years where yes,
there are shark things. There are shark bites, I mean
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in Florida and New smurna beach where somebody gets nipped
at the heels or we hear of a really tough
shark attack, but not to the amount I think that
we've been talking about, you know lately. Let's put it
that way, all right, one quick one for you, because
we're gonna dip into obviously the mail bag on the
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flip and then we're gonna have more on the opening
bell too as well. But it's interesting Pope Leo. Celebrations
for Pope Leo a lot of them because he's making
his mark and leaving a mark as well, and so
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there have been all these celebrations around Italy for the papacy.
But I don't think that's unusual. Hey, it's Kate Delaney here.
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Speaker 6 (32:05):
I'm going to the man Cave, going to the Marri Cave,
Going to the Marri Cave.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Ay, as we are in the man Cave, everybody's invited
into the man Cave. I've been asked this question so
many times now. I wrote a book called Invade the
man Cave. Sports Secrets Guys Wish you knew. You can
get it on Amazon or Barnes and Nobles. A whole
lot of fun to do that. I'm even updating it
again because you always have to update it. I talk
about everything from the Kentucky Derby, Ooh, where are my
(32:36):
Kentucky people? I love horses, the Stanley Cup. So of course,
the Big Four, NFL very prevalent in this book, and
also college football too, and we'll be talking about that
as we get closer to the season. And we do
have some football talk coming up here in the man Cave,
but I better get to it. The story everybody is
(32:58):
really talking about is football. In a sense, the New
Heights podcast is the Kelsey Brothers. Travis Kelsey, who dates,
of course, the world's biggest superstar, pop superstar or country
I'm not even sure how you bill her anymore, Taylor Swift.
She made an appearance to talk about her latest album
and to make an appearance on the on the podcast,
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and Jason Kelsey got to introduce here introduce her. Here's
what it sounded like.
Speaker 6 (33:30):
Our guest today is a singer, songwriter, and producer and
director from Nashville, Tennessee that she is from writing. She
is the most awarded artist in the history of the
American Music Awards, Billboard Music Awards, and iHeart Radio Music Awards.
God damn Jim Bartine Grammy Awards. That is the only
artist in the history of the year four times. Last December,
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she wrapped up the Aristeur, which spanned one hundred and
forty nine shows across fifty one cities five was the
most attended.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Tour of all time.
Speaker 6 (34:05):
Of all time, I'm still going hold up. Her last album,
The Torture Police Department, set a record with one point
seventy six billion streams globally within the first week alone.
All right, in the first week and as a fan
of that guy on the Chiefs just nineteen wins two
ASC titles had a Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Why reading Violent podcast.
Speaker 6 (34:31):
In the history of shows, Taylor.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Swift Wow, he lost his Mind. The podcast is available
on all streaming platforms. It's currently the top show on
Apple Music and can be streamed on Spotify. Not a surprise.
You're can have all the Swifties and all the music
people that like Taylor Swift or curious that will go
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on that also to hear about their relationship and the
fact that she's got this new album out as well,
which is completely hers and it's number twelve, The Life
of a show Girl. So there's a lot of conversation
about that. She got kind of emotional talking about how
tough it was to get her master's back and you know,
giving up those rights when she was just a teenager.
(35:17):
So there were those kinds of moments, a lot of
conversation about her air's tour, the conversation about how Travis
and Taylor met, and the other thing that was talked
about was that now what is she doing and so
she's baking all this bread and all that stuff, and
also that she was not a sports fan, that what
(35:39):
did she know about sports? Her father was an Eagles
fan and would be screaming in the other room while
she was practicing her guitar and whatnot. And it was
just a lot of that kind of conversation, more interpersonal conversation,
which of course, any of the gossip entertainment people, the
Swifties would absolutely love. Remember this podcast. Wandry Is produces
(36:05):
this podcast. It's a network owned by Amazon and that
platform signed a deal last year for one hundred million
to hold the distribution and ad sales rights for the
New Heights For New Heights It's called podcast for three years.
So this is definitely going to be one of their
top episodes. There's no question about that. They kept talking
about the ninety two percenters, and of course that's one
(36:27):
of their that's Jason and Travis Kelcey. The how they
refer to fans of New Heights podcasts at the ninety
two percenters in reference to the success rate quarterback of
a quarterback sneak. It's very clever if you like sports.
It's not the normal inside bro conversation that goes on
(36:47):
there with her on the episode. But I would still
again have to believe that this show that premiered in
twenty twenty two, when both players were active in the
NFL and focus around so much about football, would have
drawn in the new people and I don't know that
they stay at all, but would have drawn them in
(37:08):
for her episode. So as far as downloads is concerned,
I'm sure Wandery would be completely off the charts with that.
But anybody that was expecting Bro talk, it was not
Bro talk, not really unless you were just completely curious
about Travis Kelsey's relationship with Taylor Swift. But what an introduction.
(37:31):
Oh Jason, that's you know, he'll do some crazy things,
And that was like one of that sounded like one
of his crazy moments when he rips off his shirt
and he's doing beer bongs or you know whatever it
is where they've caught him partying with the people back
in the day and even as he just had retired
too as well. All right, a big news on injuries
(37:53):
in the NFL. We had to the mash unit and
what does that look like? Well, one of the biggest injuries.
It's because we've been talking about him so much and oh,
what's he gonna look like? And is he gonna throw
(38:13):
it in everyone's face? Is Shador Sanders the rookie who
is campaigning for his life on the Browns because it's
so uncertain. He's got an oblique injury, so that certainly
would make fans who want to see him push through
a little bit anxious. It was suffered during a joint
(38:34):
practice with the Eagles. Everything is showing that the rookie
quarterback won't be able to play in the second preseason
game against the Super Bowl champions, but it doesn't mean
that he's out of the running as far as quarterbacking
is concerned. Throughout the training camp, head coach Kevin Stevanski
has had to deal with all kinds of injuries with quarterbacks.
(38:57):
Canny Pickett, Dylan Gabriel missed the first preseason game because
of injuries. So they're carrying a lot of quarterbacks. And
like I said, people are really curious about Sanders. He's
got a lot of fans because of how far he
dropped I think in the NFL draft. All right, so
you got these joint practices, you had these preseason games
(39:20):
and injuries to deal with, and that was certainly one
of them. But some of the others include Chop Robinson,
the Dolphins' first round pick and twenty twenty four, went
down in practice, carded off the fields, and he's got
some kind of an injury. They haven't released what that is.
(39:42):
They're not saying it's super super severe, but you know,
things get chippy, and when chippy things happen, that's when
people edge out. Like Aiden Hutchinson, the Lions edge rusher,
took snaps on the defense against the Dolphins offense and
full contract drills because he had had an injury. So
(40:04):
that's a good one. He is back. Jets backup quarterback
Tyrod Taylor had authroscopic knee surgery. He'll be out for
the remainder of the pre season wide receiver Alan Lazard
is nursing a shoulder injury for them two as as
as well some other injuries for like the Giants. People
(40:30):
that weren't you know, people that weren't practicing include Drew
Phillips and Trey Hawkins a third and Evan Neil again
nursing injuries. The Falcons wide out Darren Darnell I need
more coffee. Darnell Mooney injured his shoulder during the falcons
(40:52):
first practice of training camp back on the twenty fifth
of July. A timeline for his return hasn't been clarified
at this point. It's just I don't know. Oh, I
don't know. Every day being asked that question, I don't know.
All right. So that's some of the injuries. Let's jump
to a couple of other things quickly, including the fact
that the brew Crew made history. Boy, they are on fire.
(41:13):
Twelfth straight win for the Brewers, a twelve five win
over the Pirates. How about that. They're really making all
kinds of history, that's for sure. The Tigers in a
low scoring affairs, all about the pitching one zip over
the white socks, and then you had the Nationals edging
(41:36):
out the Royals eight seven at Kaufman Stadium. That's a
fun place to see a game in Kansas City. And
in that game, what happened there is Dalen Lyles two
out ninth inning single not the Nationals over case after
the Royals had tied the game in the eighth inning.
(41:56):
Oh bummer, if you're sitting there, you gotta stay. You
gotta watch them all. Diamondback fans, where are you? I
know you're out there. It was in Texas, it took place,
but you beat the Rangers six' four At Globe Life.
Field padre spanked The giants eleven to. One rockies glide
by The cardinals out At bush six. Five it's fun
(42:20):
to watch This cardinal, team but really. Unpredictable so pinch
Hitter Hunter goodman hit a two run homer in the
ninth inning that rallied The rockies for that. Win The
rockies are such a bad team in, normally that's for.
Sure all, right hang with, Us gonna introduce you to
an interesting lady who's been through a. Lot so it
(42:54):
was twenty three years. Ago nine to eleven. Happened as
somebody was telling me to you think about that everybody
went to bed the night before and whenever you were
doing your usual ho hum getting up for, work and
then all of our lives changed in some, way but
none more than the people who actually, lost people who
(43:14):
perished on that, day and one of them Is Denise.
Olsen we had a chat with her the other. Day
you heard some of that. Interview she wrote a book
Called strong And, Soulful graced By. Grace and her, Husband,
jeff was a firefighter in the first station that was
right there at The World Trade. Centers he wasn't even
supposed to be worked that. Day they had three, Kids, Vincent,
(43:36):
Tory rose And, noah and they were young and love.
Happy they had demanding service related, careers and then he.
Died he was one of those that died trying to
save other. People so she talked to me about something
that was so uplifting that she gives back to so
many and so many different. Communities and in twenty sixteen
(43:57):
she did a sixty mile hike Over Memorial day weekend
to attribute to the. Fallen she hiked From Harper's, Ferry
West virginia To section sixty In Arlington cemetery with a
group of really special special, people and So, denise what
would you say to people is? It do you just
follow what's inside of you and do what you feel is?
Speaker 3 (44:17):
REAL i would just follow my. Heart so as far
as becoming a yoga, instructor that was so. INTERESTING i
found yoga very, serendipitously as most of my life has
been really led by this divine. Guidance BUT i found
(44:37):
yoga and that. Catapulted that really was a catalyst for
my healing because NOW i was moving my body and
my breath together in this intentional healing kind of a,
dance AND i saw the. EFFECTS i saw HOW i felt,
(44:59):
lighter THAT i could feel happiness and joy for no,
reason which after nine to eleven was really difficult for.
Me and at the same, time there were guys in
the fire department that were going to the counseling unit
and they were suggesting that they maybe they try, yoga
(45:22):
and they wouldn't because they felt. Intimidated yoga seems like
something that women do and they weren't really into. It
they would call me and, say, hey why don't you
teach us? Yoga SO i decided to become a yoga
instructor so THAT i could offer it to the guys
(45:42):
THAT i knew in the, department which ended up not
working out because of red tape and all of, that
but it did lead me to working with the, military
and that is WHERE i was able to utilize my
nursing background as far as the physiology of trauma and
(46:02):
then really take a deep dive into post traumatic stress
and holistic.
Speaker 1 (46:10):
Healing and by doing, that was that also a healing
thing for you because you were helping others?
Speaker 3 (46:16):
Heal, YES i think that that is like THE i
don't want to call it the final. Step there's no
final step in, healing but that's where you really can
recognize that you have made progress and now you're sharing
it with other people and seeing them heal kind of
(46:41):
heals you a little a little bit. Deeper and it's
this sacred reciprocity that happens so.
Speaker 1 (46:47):
Beautiful you, know you talk about in your, book you
have a chapter Of pain is A privilege and you
talk about in twenty sixteen committing to a sixty mile
hike over A Memorial day week And Appalachian. Trail, wow
how grueling and physical and what was that like take
us on the trail with?
Speaker 3 (47:07):
You that was that was The i've done it multiple
times since. Then by that first, one oh my. Goodness
it was physically, difficult but the mental challenge was something
THAT i hadn't ever experienced. Before and it started out
(47:32):
LIKE i was really, scared, HONEST i was, LIKE i
HOPE i can finish. You you're on a, team you
don't want to slow people, down and when you're out,
there you find, yourself especially at. Night we do a
movement at night that's a long THE, W o AND
D trail down In, virginia and it's it's so. Dark
(47:56):
all you can see is the chem light of the
person in front of. You we have team leaders who
are all former, military and when you're in this space
of being so physically exhausted and you can't you don't
really know what's coming. Next there's there's a strange thing that.
(48:20):
Happens it just creates this space for everything to come.
Up and they refer to it as like you, know
facing your, demons and it really is what. Happens you
start to question your, ability you start to question your
why why AM i doing? This and it brought, Me
(48:41):
it brought up a feeling of what in my husband
experience and WHENEVER i felt LIKE i wanted to give,
UP i would think to, myself, well if he could
go up that many flights of, STAIRS i. CAN i
chose to be here right LIKE i can finish. This
SO i learned a lot about how my body Will
(49:10):
it's like your mind wants to give, up way before
your body will give. Up and being able to feel
that physical pain was actually to me a privilege because
there were so many people that don't have the ability
to do that. Anymore and that's where that came. FROM
i feel that me being able to carry, on whether
(49:31):
it is in a sixty mile, hike or in writing the,
book or in raising my, family is a. PRIVILEGE i
get to be, HERE i be a witness to my
children having their own. Children i'm a grandma now and
holding space for people that are suffering the way THAT i.
Did and it's all been a. Gift, yeah but that,
(49:55):
hike that hike really drove home from me the sacrif
ice that our military, meets that our first responders, meet
and how am we stronger THAN i THAN i think
THAT i.
Speaker 1 (50:10):
Am, yeah you, know it's interesting in the book you
talk about you weren't going to give up but you
talk about the break at the, brewery you know was
coming to an, end and you, said you, looked you
got up and you looked at your chewed up, feet
and he, said barely a spot was left. Unblistered And
i'm sure people listening to, this can you just visualize
(50:30):
what that would be? Like and you had to keep, going.
Speaker 3 (50:34):
Oh, god don't visualize. It it was so. Nasty they
actually took a photo of my foot and used it
the next year on the rock and, said this is bad.
Book this is what you don't want your feet to
ends up looking. Like and you know what that taught,
me that that the way we have a choice in.
(50:58):
Everything AND i had to choose to accept that with
every step my foot would, hurt that it felt with
every step LIKE i was stepping into glass, shards but
that it was temporary and THAT i would be able
to finish and at some point my feet would heal
and just to continue. On and that is where your
(51:23):
why your reason for moving forward becomes so. IMPORTANT i
was not going to let my children, down my team.
DOWN i, wanted like the memory of my husband to
be carried through to the ends and make it an
(51:46):
honorable and honorable, event.
Speaker 1 (51:50):
And you did, it you got through, it and then
you've done others since.
Speaker 3 (51:52):
Then, Yeah and my favorite ONE i write about in
the book was we did we did a rock from
From Boston Logan international all the way to The World
Trade center for that twentieth. Anniversary so that was two
hundred and sixty miles and that. HAPPENED i GUESS covid was.
(52:21):
There was there. WAS i don't THINK covid was still,
happening was. It there was a lot of unrest AND
i was going through all these little towns In, america
and if you were WATCHING, tv you would think that
everybody was at each other's, throats, Right like we really
had this perception That america was on the verge of
(52:45):
collapse or, something, Right And i'm walking through all of
these small towns along The northeast coast and we're carrying
The american. Flag everyone everyone came out and cheered for,
us and they were inquiring about what we were doing
(53:06):
and anything that they could do to support, us whether
it was giving us a place to, stay offering a.
DONATION i, mean it was. Unbelievable it restored my faith
in our, country all.
Speaker 1 (53:21):
Right so, BOY i love that powerful ending there and
how she talks about it restored her faith in our
country and talked about pain being a privilege and you
can only. Imagine and she just talks about that grief
part and then coming out in helping people and how
that's helped. Her and now she's a young grandmother because
(53:44):
they had children early and thought they had their whole
lives in front of. Them And, jeff LIKE i, said
was a fire or, fighter and never thought the day
that he picked up his one young son who was
eight from school and then and talked to his wife
and gave her a hug, goodbye that he would not
she'd ever thought that he would not be coming back
(54:06):
in the door. Again but look how she moved. Forward
and her story is definitely one of giving back of
community and of having those people near. You, REALLY i
suggest her book it is so, Good strong and. Soulful,
(54:45):
WELL i can't believe it's been twenty three years since nine.
Eleven Denise olsen is here her, Book strong And, Soulful
graced By. Grief her husband was a firefighter killed on nine.
Eleve in her, book she, writes two months, ago my
husband's body was recovered from the rubble that once was
(55:05):
The Twin. Towers i'm in the grocery, store shopping for my.
Family imagine, This it seems like a survivable day so.
Far i've gotten, up, showered stepped out of the. House
that alone is a win these. Days i'm going down
the aisles the WAY i normally, would throwing what we
regularly use into our, cart my favorite, shampoo snacks for the,
(55:26):
kids shaving cream For. Jeff full. Stop i'm about to
let it go flying into the. Cart i'm slap with
the Reality jeff isn't, here he doesn't need this. Anymore
i will never buy him another. Thing, wow does that
just not take your breath? Away And, denise it's interesting
you said in the very, beginning even after it, happened
(55:46):
there was this little bit of hope days and days
later because you thought there was a way, maybe and
so did some others that he.
Speaker 3 (55:55):
Survived there were rooms that were fully. Intact to go
to the, museum you can the nine to eleven, museum
you can see how there were some stores that remains completely.
Intact and so we were being told that maybe people
could be found in these, voids and there was just
(56:15):
this level of hope not wanting to give, up and
when they we ended up after about a, month having
a memorial Without jeff's body BECAUSE i FELT i go
into it more in the, book BUT i felt that
my children needed, closure AND i had gone to the
(56:37):
site and it seemed nearly impossible that they would ever
be able to find a single person in the pile
that was. Left so we did have that memorial and
it brought us some, closure but when they recovered, him
(56:57):
it felt as if the scab had ripped off again
and we had to start all over and go through
the whole ritual of of a cremation and a burial and.
Uh in the, end it did bring us solid, closure
AND i know THAT i am one of the lucky
ones having my husband's body, recovered but it felt like
(57:24):
like a double a double. Whammy.
Speaker 1 (57:25):
Almost, yeah who do You who do you reach out?
TO i, MEAN i know people reached out to, you
and and there were people talking to you and trying
to help your, Family but who did you reach? For
who who gave you the most? Comfort was it your?
Speaker 3 (57:40):
Family there were numerous people that were instrumental in helping
me get through that, time my family being of course
the initial and my larger community, people people THAT i worked,
with my, neighbors all of, That but EVENTUALLY i wanted
(58:05):
to speak to someone who could tell me, that how WAS,
I how COULD i survive, This what is the right
thing to? Do what DO I how DO i keep
my kids? Safe how DO i heal? Myself how DO
i move? Forward AND i wanted to speak to another
widow that was my age with, children who had already
(58:28):
been through something, Similar and, unfortunately there wasn't anyone THAT
i knew personally that had experienced anything like that that
could give me WHAT i was looking. For but there
were so many widows After september, eleventh and we ended
(58:50):
up coming, together and that was WHERE i felt the
most seen and understood because there were times WHERE i
THOUGHT i was going, crazy and THEN i would talk
to another woman who had lost her husband on the
same day and they had experienced the same emotions THAT
i was, experiencing and it creates this this level of.
(59:15):
Normalcy so we were kind of like the blinds leaving
the blinds and, nobody nobody knew what to do, next
but we made it through, together and that was that was.
Speaker 1 (59:26):
Important were you in writing the book and telling the.
Story what was the toughest part about.
Speaker 3 (59:35):
THAT i think the toughest part about writing the book
was seeing myself from an outside observer's point of. VIEW
i kind of had to slip the, switch you, know
like not just feel the, emotions but kind of see
(59:55):
it from a different perspective so THAT i could get
accurate words on. Paper and WHEN i, that it was
almost as IF i was looking at the story as
having happened to someone, else and it was heartbreaking to.
Me SO i was able to create space for a
(01:00:16):
really deep self. Compassion and the other, part, obviously was
reflecting back on the experiences of my children and just
how we how we were living day to day at that. Time,
yeah and.
Speaker 1 (01:00:35):
You, know you talk about, that you talk about it in,
depth you talk about the first few weeks and you
know what it was like. Drowning and then you're going,
back so you're writing this in the, Book you're you're
pulling this, out you're remembering, this and then you're talking
about moving, forward which we'll talk, about and YOU i love.
This you, say each act of kindness was a life,
preserver keeping me afloat for another. Day and you, say
(01:00:58):
IS i asked that. Question before this, one my family
rallied around me like a steadfast. Anchor my sister became
the caretaker of everyone's. Needs my mother took the children
under her, wing my aunt tirelessly managed the, laundry and my,
cousin who had witnessed the collapse of the towers, firsthand
would come to offer his silent strength after working overtime
for The New York City Police. Department, wow, Wow, wow
(01:01:19):
it was great that you had that support. SYSTEM i was.
Speaker 3 (01:01:24):
Very blessed with my support. SYSTEM i had my family
that showed up in that. WAY i was not left.
Alone it was it was almost to the point THAT
i was, LIKE i need some, space you, KNOW i
wasn't left. Alone and THEN i also had my fired department.
Family being A New York city fired department, widow it's you,
(01:01:52):
know you are instantly surrounded by people who are going
to make sure that all of your needs are. Met
SO i was very blessed in the level of support
THAT i, had And i'm not sure THAT i would
be in the place THAT i am today without.
Speaker 1 (01:02:11):
It, yeah that tells you something absolutely about what a.
Community and you knew you had that community With jeff
went in during his career because of how close the firehouses.
Are in his own.
Speaker 3 (01:02:24):
Firehouse, yeah, YEAH i, know it's it's we actually have
a company picnic. Today but all of these these guys
they lived. Together you, know they're there for twenty four
hours at a, time and the relationships that they create
(01:02:44):
are way more than simply being co. Workers and they
include the families in that. Relationship so There's christmas, parties
and there's, barbecues and there's dinner. Dances and while you're
doing this so, socializing you're creating a network of people
that really understand what it's like to be married to
(01:03:12):
a man who puts his life in danger every time
he goes to.
Speaker 1 (01:03:15):
Work yeah, Wow and you, definitely you, know have lots
and lots of details about. That WHAT i like is
in moving forward to you do these physical. THINGS i,
mean how do you were a nurse and now you
are a BSN r in yoga. Instructor how does that all?
Happen did that help you mentally and? Physically, yes.
Speaker 3 (01:03:41):
A lot of these. Things, again in, hindsight you can
connect the, dots but as they were, occurring they WERE i.
COULDN'T i couldn't see how they were playing into my.
FUTURE i just knew THAT i needed to keep moving,
forward all?
Speaker 1 (01:04:04):
Right And, wow what a conversation With Denise. Olsen you
think about it and you think about what she went,
through and moving forward is so the. Key as she told,
me her book is, amazing and she talks about pain
as a. Privilege she talks about going through the, grief
walking through the, grief what that feels. Like and AS i,
(01:04:26):
said going into, this can you believe it's been twenty
three years since nine to. Eleven, Wow i've talked about this.
BEFORE i was in the. CITY i was at my
dream job when it. HAPPENED i was In queens on
the air all Across New york AT wfan and we
talked to a lot of firefighters and it was just
(01:04:46):
gut wrenching and a lot of people and a lot of.
Widows pick up the, Book Denise, Olsen strong And, Soulful
graced By. Grief thanks To denise for joining, us and
for all of you for listening to this. Show thanks
to The minnesota two for their excellent work on the.
Technicals jason And. Daniel catch any of my shows at
kasliniradio dot. COM i like to say with extra, Sauce
(01:05:09):
make account, everybody
A lot of people dealing with the wall of water
in this country, particularly in the northeast and in the southeast. Hey, everybody,
Kate Delaney here on ATM the Charquitie Board of Talk Radio.
Chattanooga got blasted, I mean flooding in Chattanooga. Very sad.
Three people, in fact, were killed when a tree fell
on a car. Among rather the treacherous things that happened
(00:36):
with this Tennessee flooding. People were trapped in cars near
Chattanooga during the storm that began on Sunday and continued
through Wednesday. It was record rainfall in some places. We're
talking about a foot. Hey, hey, everybody, Kate Delaney here
another day in Paradise on ATM the Charquitie Board of
(00:58):
Talk Radio. So while some people we're dealing with the
extreme flooding like twenty four as they said, in southern Tennessee,
completely flooded, people trapped in cars, you had others who
were dealing with nasty heat. And we're talking about the
kind of heat that, yes, it's hot in the summer,
we all know that. But we're talking about the kind
(01:20):
of heat where you turn it up an extra fifteen
degrees or so and then you throw in humidity and
it's really really bad. Parts of the West Coast are
dealing with that. You have you know, even people in
the Midwest where the Cincinnati Open is going on, and
(01:42):
you have people that are having trouble with the heat.
There a huge tennis tournament, including the tennis players themselves,
and it's all about the hydration, the hydration, the hydration.
But it's easy to open up a mic and scream
that into a mike, but it's too late for the
people who don't do that the night before, the days before.
(02:03):
So you have this dichotomy that we've had now for
a couple of weeks. We have lingering storms bringing these
flash flood threats to the southeast and parts of the Northeast.
You're listening to me in the Great State of Connecticut
and you're getting hit by that. And then you've got
the heat wave in the pockets across the US that, yeah, again,
(02:24):
it's hot, but it's hotter than some can stand. I've
spent plenty of time in Palm Springs, and yes, you
expect it to be warm, but do you feel like
you're on top of the sun plus plus plus I
would say no, that's a little bit abnormal. A little
bit abnormal is what's happening in Washington, DC. A lot
(02:46):
of the people who are waking up to finding that
troops have been deployed along the National Mall. You're talking
about eight hundred National Guard. It is really startling to
many people. But on the other hand, there are others
that are saying, Okay, here's the problem. We do have
an issue with violence. Here's reaction from a DC resident,
(03:10):
Darryl Gaston, who owns a restaurant in DC.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
We can always use more more police, right, But I
think having police officers that are from the community, that
are trained locally is much different than having a federal
police as not trained a community policing.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Yeah, and he was somebody who had a restaurant. I
caught him on CBS where he was showing that there
were bullet holes that were on the outside of it
up toward kind of the roofline. And then Carolyn love Att,
the White House Press Secretary, said, you know, it's we're
talking about thirty days and he said, She said, rather,
this is what we're doing.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
We are removing as many criminals from the streets, and
we are cleaning up DC as best as we can
and working with the Metropolitan Police Department to do that.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
All right, So it's not changing, I mean it is.
The idea, is what they're saying is we're just going
to try to have the presence there push the crime out.
And the idea is that the people who live there
and the tourists that are seeing this sight of the
significant military presence will realize the reason that it's there,
because certainly what is DC at least a quiet stretch
(04:21):
where the lot of the guard is known from museums
and monuments and hot dog vendors and restaurants and that
kind of thing. A lot of people have asked me
in our through email rather, how is this possible? Well,
there's a law that grants the president, of course, the
power to activate the National Guard to protect federal personnel
(04:43):
and property, like how it happened in January sixth of
twenty twenty one. If you remember, the president has the
power to mobilize troops in times of extraordinary crisis. That
happened in nineteen ninety two during the Los Angeles riots.
It's still kind of unclear about the thirty days is clear,
(05:06):
So there is then to that, But other arenas of
what is the military going to do, what would that
actually achieve? There is a system that has become a hurricane.
And of course it's like a dirty word to say
hurricane after what we've dealt with many in the US
last year with back to back hurricanes. But Tropical Storm
(05:30):
Aaron is forming into a hurricane. It's going to be
the first hurricane of the season. It's just a question
of where it's going to be. Here's Brian Northcrust from
the National Weather Service.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
In terms of all the variety of models we look at.
You see where the main cluster is. It stays offshore,
but can't completely rule out this subset over here, and
the European is more in that subset over there. I
notice we've got the various AI models here, a couple
of them, then we have the regular Modzeles and there's
a lot of possibilities. That significant plausible subset is the issue.
(06:06):
And with that, how bad are the condition is going
to be? Even if it stays offshore along the coast,
and we see that from the mid Atlantic on up
through the Northeast, you're going to put a lot of
energy no matter what up along the coast. So everybody
needs to be aware of that here coming up later
next week.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Yeah, the thing to be aware of is along the northeast.
We've seen what's happened in Seaside Heights is rip currents,
and also let's say like the outer Banks, so there
could be people there. There will be people there, and
if they're vacation or whatever they're doing, if they're locals,
you have to be careful of getting into that water
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and not realizing how deadly it can become. When suddenly
it becomes that rip current when it's pulling you, pulling you,
pulling you, and you're trying to fight it, and it
becomes harder and harder and harder. Sadly, we've seen so
much of almost fifty people have died this year as
a result of being caught up maybe unaware of these
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rip currents and how it has you know, just completely
left them pulled out and flailing about and trying to
get help but not being able to get back out
of the water. It's just too tough trying to fight it.
It's terrible if you get caught up in that. I'm
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sure some of you can remember a time where you've
been in the water and you've been dragged down the
beach and you realize you look over and that's nothing
like some of the really strong rip currents that people
have battled. All Right, you want something good. This is
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for my husband and maybe some of you too as well.
So Sex and the City the iconic show that's been
around since the nineties. It was part of what made
HBO become HBO because so many people tuned into it
when there wasn't as much to tune into, but cable
became much more exciting and worth it to pay for it.
(08:10):
So Sex and the City was the other show along
with the Sopranos. And Sex and the City is ending
its run. So Sarah, Jessica Parker and the girls who
went on to age in thirty years thirty years of
a show where it became and just like that, it
(08:33):
is grinding to a halt. The final show on Thursday night.
Oh it's crazy to think about how long that show
has been on and how it influenced fashion and friendships. Wow,
(08:59):
the group Kiss is just one of the honorees. The
recipient of the twenty twenty five Kennedy Center Honors is
going to be a live event that is coming up.
The President revealed that he will host the December Awards ceremony.
(09:22):
They kind of had to twist his arm, but he agreed.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
I've been as to host. I said, I'm the President
of the United States. Are you fools asking me to
do that? And then Susie Well said to be sure
like a horse, I said, okay, Susie, I'll do it.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
So not just kiss, but also Sylvester Stallone is going
to get an award too as well. He's a longtime
friend of the president's and he certainly is a pop
culture and Hollywood superstar and whatnot, has been around for
(10:01):
a decade, so he's on the list. Michael Crawford makes
the list. He's a Broadway superstar. And you know, you
go back with Phanom of the Opera, That's where Michael
was really huge, but also in several other musicals as well.
Gloria I Will Survive, Gainer makes it in two. Certainly
(10:22):
when you look at the American Disco error. And then
as I mentioned kiss, you heard kiss there with I
Want to Rock and Roll? Ever say kiss in concert?
How many people listening to my voice saw kissing concert?
I went with my cousins along. It seems like a
long time ago in Philadelphia, back when they had a
place called the Spectrum, which is where the Sixers and
(10:45):
the Philadelphia Flyers played. And it's interesting they became such
a global phenomenon then talk about spreading generations. They made
certainly a fortune doing what they did, and they and
they've gone on to take that to some interesting places
I think, and still have kind of a relevancy for sure.
(11:09):
So they also will be in and of course the
great George Strait makes it in too as well. I mean,
he is the king of country. I would say he's
on his last tour too, so it's interesting timing for that.
But he has so many iconic songs and doesn't really
(11:29):
need an introduction. I think anyone that doesn't knows anything
about country music, even if you don't, you certainly have
heard of George Strait. So anyway, that's the people that
will be getting the honors, and the President is going
to be the MC of the December ceremony. Interesting, isn't it.
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There's been such a shift at the Kennedy Center, which
he says he is redoing, completely redoing the inside, and
then there's been some talk of be renaming the Kennedy
the Kennedy Center that it could be called something else,
but so far that has not happened. There's just been
discussion of that these birthdays. If you are celebrating a
(12:14):
birthday today, doesn't matter how many candles are on the cake.
Let me be the first to say. If nobody else has,
and I hope they have, happy birthday to you. Such
a significant time in so many people's lives, your birthday,
I think it's good to recognize it. I've said that
again and again. That was one good thing I would
(12:36):
say about social media. As much as there's so much
that I think is tough with social media, what's really
good is a lot of people that were from your
past etca come out to say happy birthday. Danny Bonaducci,
he was famous for The Partridge Family. Sixty six years old.
(12:56):
He tops the list, and after the Partridge Family, he
didn't just go away. He popped up in a couple
of other shows. But he definitely was famous in the
seventies for being a kid on that on that show,
and he was in Charlotte's Web. He was in that
seventies show, and he did a couple of other things
(13:17):
too as well. A couple of celebrity television shows, though
some of those reality shows and whatnot biz are sixty
one years old. You might not know the name, but
I guarantee you've probably seen her in something like La Law.
She was big on the show Entourage. That's what I
used to watch back in the early days of HBO.
(13:38):
She was in Goodfellows, she was in Batman Forever too.
If you watch that, you will have recognized her for sure.
What's really interesting about Debbie Mazar is she used to
do nails and she did Madonna's nails when Madonna wasn't
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really super known. That was like one of her side
gigs that she did, and Madonna really encouraged her to
go into acting, go deeper into acting, and sure enough
she did and struck a chord because she she's one
of those character actors that has been in, like, like
I said, a ton of movies that you you might
not recognize her name, but you would recognize her face. Collateral,
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Grand Theft, Auto Three Grand Theft, Auto San Andreas, all
kinds of movies, all kinds of games, et cetera. And again, definitely,
definitely it has an impact on the acting world, especially
in that character role she plays it so well that
(14:45):
the New Yorker she just absolutely nails it, which makes
sense because she is a New Yorker. All Right, you
biquitous bits of information. We're trying to kind of bring
that back a little bit. You know how you put
some of the fun stuff in the closet and then
you bring it back again. Well, that's what we did.
We took some of the clutter away and we're bringing
it back. What do you think the number one or
(15:06):
first chain? When I say number one, the first chain
in the United States was of pizza. The first pizza chain,
ding ding ding. Anybody know the answer to this? Shakey's Pizza.
I had no idea. This kind of popped up randomly
when I was surfing around today. Founded in nineteen fifty four,
(15:27):
first franchise pizza chain in the United States. By sixty eight,
they had three hundred and forty two locations five hundred
stores globally, fifty eight in the United States. Now you
can find Shaky's Pizza in California and Washington. In the Philippines,
(15:47):
it's really big. Singapore and Japan, super super big in
those places. Was really really really popular, has always been
really really popular. They're in California because they were known
for long rows of picnic tables, and a lot of
parents and kids that were in some of these youth teams,
(16:10):
baseball teams, etc. Would go there afterwards. And they still
have that same kind of iconic look and logo. But
I had no idea. That stumped me when I was
trying to think, well, what was the first franchise pizza?
No idea. And of course every single day there's a
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day where something is represented right national something day. In fact,
when we go into the Zinger Zone are one liners
for the week, We're going to take you in one
direction for a national something that was recognized nationally today.
But because it's my favorite cut of meat, yes, I
eat meat, National Fila mignon day, uh huh. So flat
(16:56):
mignon is the most tender cut of beef definitely for me,
and it's considered to be the most desirable, so of
course it is the most expensive, right although there are
places we can get it where I think it doesn't
break the bank, even if you go to like a outback.
(17:17):
Can make a good flame and yon. But when we
talk about the cattle industry, and there's really been a
hit on the cattle industry and beef is taking a
hit because it's gone up in price. We've talked about
this on the show. People are complaining about the price
of beef when they shop. You think about the US,
and like I said, the big cattle industry where we're
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known for that spread across the country and there are
certain states, especially like Texas is number one by a
long shot as far as beef cows are concerned. I mean,
more than fifteen percent of the entire US total is
from the lone star state, followed closely by Oklahoma. And
(18:04):
a lot of people are listening to us in Missouri
and Missouri is third one point eighty six million. When
you talk about cows, so the southern plains, the Midwest
and cattle production super super big. Tell all of you
that people listening in Kentucky. Also, Kentucky would make the
top ten on the list, and even Florida because a
(18:28):
lot of water in Florida. And what did cows need?
They need water, They need water, and they need grass
and a whole bunch of other things. But that's why
Florida makes it onto the list. A lot of people
don't you realize that. And of course when you go deeper,
you realize where some of the worst places are, Like
New York makes sense, Michigan, Arizona is so dry, it
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makes sense that that wouldn't be high on the list either.
But anyway, I thought that was interesting that, of course
we recognize flaming Yon. And when I was a kid,
that was the special meal. If you ran home and
you had Jersey corn and filet and some mashed potatoes
and then whatever the vegetable was, that was a good
(19:09):
That was good eating, and that was a good night
at the Delaney house, all right. Coming up on the
flip side, I mentioned National Day for Everything. We got
one focused on the Zinger Zone, our famous one liners
that's happening around the bend. So today is a National
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left Handers Day, and a world really dominated by writings,
let's face it, this is a day to celebrate those
lefties in our lives and it raises awareness on some
of the issue who's faced by left handers in their
daily lives. My mother was left handed, my sister in
law's left handed, my husband is left handed. And because
(20:09):
of them, I realized, like things like cutting, you know,
using a knife, it's awkward not to have a left
handed knife. That was one of the first presents that
my mother gave my husband, and also cutting things like scissors.
There's so many things that are different when you are
a left hander. So they started celebrating. There's actually an
(20:34):
association left Handers International, so a guy named Dean Campbell
in nineteen seventy six has been celebrated every year since,
raising the awareness of being left handed. In the sixteen hundreds,
when people were left handed, they were thought of as
being in cahoots with the devil. Yeah, they were not.
(20:54):
They were not thought of well. There was even a
left Hander's Club that was founded in nineteen ninety. The
idea was to keep people up to date with developments
and to serve as kind of a bridge with the
views of left handers and manufacturers, because that's the hard thing,
right that. Like I just described two things to you,
and being left handed is still definitely different, but it
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is valuable in the world of sports. Nothing like having
a left handed pitcher, nothing like being a tennis player
who's left handed. You have a slight advantage in my mind,
and there are other sports where I think that comes
into play. Who are some other well known people who
are left handed, Walt Disney left handed, Charlie Chaplin left handed,
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Mark Zuckerberg from Meta left handed, Albert Einstein left handed. Yeah,
so how about that the percentage of the world that
is left handed, the best we know anyway, twelve percent,
twelve percent. Yeah, now this is a crazy thing too.
(22:03):
And then we're going to get to the one liners.
But eleven times is the number of how much higher
of a likelihood it is for a left hander to
suffer from allergies? What allergies? Yes, and it's it's interesting.
Twenty three percent is the percentage of more men than
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women who are left handed. So if you're left handed,
you are not completely alone, but there's not a lot
of you. Here we go into the Zinger zone. Why
are left handed people so great at baseball? Because they
always hit it out of left field? Why did the
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left handed golfer get an award? Of course they had
a unique swing to things. All right, I know that's
a little lame. It's hard to write left handed jokes.
I'm not left handed. Why should you never argue with
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left handed people because they are never right? Oh? And
I have so many more left handed jokes that feel
(23:33):
just right. If you know what I mean. So here's
a couple more of them. What pair of siblings were
definitely not southpaws? The right brothers? What's ironic about having
(23:55):
a left handed pen? It's for writing?
Speaker 5 (24:04):
What do you.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Why do left handed people die faster because they don't
do things the right way? Yeah? I know that was weak.
I will admit to that. What do a left handed
person and netflix have in common? They can't do anything right? Yeah,
(24:33):
like raise prices, but somehow people still stick with them. Right.
Why do left handed people always write incorrectly? Their right
hand has nothing left and their left hand has nothing right? Yeah?
(24:56):
Why are smart watches worn on the left hand? If
they were weren't on the right hand, guys would have
had three times more steps than girls. All right? For
you cat lovers, which includes Jason and Daniel to Minnesota. Two?
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What do you call a left handed cat a south paw?
Speaker 5 (25:30):
All right?
Speaker 1 (25:30):
I promise, I promise. Last one? Why are lefties so
close minded? Because when they look in the mirror, everything
they do is right?
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Come on, that's good. It's tough, right, it's tough, tough, tough, tough, tough, tough,
And like I said, because there were left handers in
my life, and there are currently I I realized that
plight when I see the things that I just don't
even think about, but I see them kind of struggle
with it, and I realize, oh, yeah, that's right, all right,
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coming up. Of course, we have our famous mailbag segment.
All of you know about that because you're constantly sending
me your thoughts. I love it. And plus we always
do a check of the markets. It was a great
day on the stock market, new highs for the S
and P five hundred and the NAS deck, even crypto search. Overall,
it was really good. The dal Jones industrial average jump
(26:32):
more than one percent. The SNP five hundred tacked on
some more too, twenty point eighty two points, so up
a bunch there. The NAS deck shot up to as well,
over thirty one points, and after a kind of a
tame July inflation report, the expectations jump for why do
(26:53):
you think a rate cut at the Federal Reserves Policy
meeting in September? There is the real possibility of it.
In fact, there is a tool called the CME FED
Watch tool. It's kind of cool if you go and
check it out. They track the markets expectations for a
rate move at each FED meeting, and they're suggesting as
(27:16):
of just even a few moments ago, a more than
ninety four percent chance of a FED rate cut. So
how about that. And that's something that of course the
President has been just begging for. And there's a really
really really good chance that that is going to happen
because we saw what happened at the end of July.
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But we'll wait and see in September. But if you
read the tea leaves or you look at that tool
and you talk to some economists, let's just say, it's
looking really really really really really really really good. So
there were it was just overall a really good day
on the market. And some people will say, well, why
(27:59):
do we care about the market? You care about the
market because I've had this is so many of you
over the years. Ask me about your four oh one
case and four o one case. You got a basket
of stocks, right, and you want those stocks to go
higher whenever it is that you retire, whether it's twenty
years from now, whether it's a year from now, whenever
it happens to be. That timing can be really really
(28:23):
really really interesting. Let's put it that way. I don't
know what is about sharks. It's been a very weird
summer for all kinds of things and sharks. Yeah, a
large sharks spotted off the main coast. There's been a
bunch of sightings of sharks. This was a huge great
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white off of mains coastline. You could say, well, you know,
we've cape cod et cetera. If you go up and
you look at the New England area. It's not that
we haven't seen that before. But I'm saying this is
like a super shark, and they see him, they report
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him because they try to warn people if they're closer
to a beach. And the drone was up and it
followed the great white shark that was near a popular beach,
which is a very good thing because then they, like
I said, they can warn the lifeguards to keep people
out of the water because these sharks can get so
(29:27):
close to the beachline. And this was in Scarborough, Maine.
It was swimming near this beach that a lot of
people were also in and he was getting rather close
to them. So that's the good thing about these drones.
And there've been, like I mentioned, multiple sightings of this
shark and a few others too as well. I looked
(29:49):
at some of the video of it. Lets is say,
I wouldn't want to be on a paddle board, or
I just wouldn't want to be in the water with
this size shark, well, any shark I wouldn't necessarily want
to be shit the water with. But you are. I mean,
it's like somebody said to me the other day, you're
getting into their pool, so we don't know what's there,
(30:10):
and that's the deal. You're sharing the water with whatever
creatures are you know, in the water. So there have
been much more shark sightings. However, I think then I
can ever remember in the last maybe five years where yes,
there are shark things. There are shark bites, I mean
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in Florida and New smurna beach where somebody gets nipped
at the heels or we hear of a really tough
shark attack, but not to the amount I think that
we've been talking about, you know lately. Let's put it
that way, all right, one quick one for you, because
we're gonna dip into obviously the mail bag on the
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flip and then we're gonna have more on the opening
bell too as well. But it's interesting Pope Leo. Celebrations
for Pope Leo a lot of them because he's making
his mark and leaving a mark as well, and so
(31:15):
there have been all these celebrations around Italy for the papacy.
But I don't think that's unusual. Hey, it's Kate Delaney here.
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scenes magic.
Speaker 6 (32:05):
I'm going to the man Cave, going to the Marri Cave,
Going to the Marri Cave.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Ay, as we are in the man Cave, everybody's invited
into the man Cave. I've been asked this question so
many times now. I wrote a book called Invade the
man Cave. Sports Secrets Guys Wish you knew. You can
get it on Amazon or Barnes and Nobles. A whole
lot of fun to do that. I'm even updating it
again because you always have to update it. I talk
about everything from the Kentucky Derby, Ooh, where are my
(32:36):
Kentucky people? I love horses, the Stanley Cup. So of course,
the Big Four, NFL very prevalent in this book, and
also college football too, and we'll be talking about that
as we get closer to the season. And we do
have some football talk coming up here in the man Cave,
but I better get to it. The story everybody is
(32:58):
really talking about is football. In a sense, the New
Heights podcast is the Kelsey Brothers. Travis Kelsey, who dates,
of course, the world's biggest superstar, pop superstar or country
I'm not even sure how you bill her anymore, Taylor Swift.
She made an appearance to talk about her latest album
and to make an appearance on the on the podcast,
(33:21):
and Jason Kelsey got to introduce here introduce her. Here's
what it sounded like.
Speaker 6 (33:30):
Our guest today is a singer, songwriter, and producer and
director from Nashville, Tennessee that she is from writing. She
is the most awarded artist in the history of the
American Music Awards, Billboard Music Awards, and iHeart Radio Music Awards.
God damn Jim Bartine Grammy Awards. That is the only
artist in the history of the year four times. Last December,
(33:55):
she wrapped up the Aristeur, which spanned one hundred and
forty nine shows across fifty one cities five was the
most attended.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Tour of all time.
Speaker 6 (34:05):
Of all time, I'm still going hold up. Her last album,
The Torture Police Department, set a record with one point
seventy six billion streams globally within the first week alone.
All right, in the first week and as a fan
of that guy on the Chiefs just nineteen wins two
ASC titles had a Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Why reading Violent podcast.
Speaker 6 (34:31):
In the history of shows, Taylor.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Swift Wow, he lost his Mind. The podcast is available
on all streaming platforms. It's currently the top show on
Apple Music and can be streamed on Spotify. Not a surprise.
You're can have all the Swifties and all the music
people that like Taylor Swift or curious that will go
(34:55):
on that also to hear about their relationship and the
fact that she's got this new album out as well,
which is completely hers and it's number twelve, The Life
of a show Girl. So there's a lot of conversation
about that. She got kind of emotional talking about how
tough it was to get her master's back and you know,
giving up those rights when she was just a teenager.
(35:17):
So there were those kinds of moments, a lot of
conversation about her air's tour, the conversation about how Travis
and Taylor met, and the other thing that was talked
about was that now what is she doing and so
she's baking all this bread and all that stuff, and
also that she was not a sports fan, that what
(35:39):
did she know about sports? Her father was an Eagles
fan and would be screaming in the other room while
she was practicing her guitar and whatnot. And it was
just a lot of that kind of conversation, more interpersonal conversation,
which of course, any of the gossip entertainment people, the
Swifties would absolutely love. Remember this podcast. Wandry Is produces
(36:05):
this podcast. It's a network owned by Amazon and that
platform signed a deal last year for one hundred million
to hold the distribution and ad sales rights for the
New Heights For New Heights It's called podcast for three years.
So this is definitely going to be one of their
top episodes. There's no question about that. They kept talking
about the ninety two percenters, and of course that's one
(36:27):
of their that's Jason and Travis Kelcey. The how they
refer to fans of New Heights podcasts at the ninety
two percenters in reference to the success rate quarterback of
a quarterback sneak. It's very clever if you like sports.
It's not the normal inside bro conversation that goes on
(36:47):
there with her on the episode. But I would still
again have to believe that this show that premiered in
twenty twenty two, when both players were active in the
NFL and focus around so much about football, would have
drawn in the new people and I don't know that
they stay at all, but would have drawn them in
(37:08):
for her episode. So as far as downloads is concerned,
I'm sure Wandery would be completely off the charts with that.
But anybody that was expecting Bro talk, it was not
Bro talk, not really unless you were just completely curious
about Travis Kelsey's relationship with Taylor Swift. But what an introduction.
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Oh Jason, that's you know, he'll do some crazy things,
And that was like one of that sounded like one
of his crazy moments when he rips off his shirt
and he's doing beer bongs or you know whatever it
is where they've caught him partying with the people back
in the day and even as he just had retired
too as well. All right, a big news on injuries
(37:53):
in the NFL. We had to the mash unit and
what does that look like? Well, one of the biggest injuries.
It's because we've been talking about him so much and oh,
what's he gonna look like? And is he gonna throw
(38:13):
it in everyone's face? Is Shador Sanders the rookie who
is campaigning for his life on the Browns because it's
so uncertain. He's got an oblique injury, so that certainly
would make fans who want to see him push through
a little bit anxious. It was suffered during a joint
(38:34):
practice with the Eagles. Everything is showing that the rookie
quarterback won't be able to play in the second preseason
game against the Super Bowl champions, but it doesn't mean
that he's out of the running as far as quarterbacking
is concerned. Throughout the training camp, head coach Kevin Stevanski
has had to deal with all kinds of injuries with quarterbacks.
(38:57):
Canny Pickett, Dylan Gabriel missed the first preseason game because
of injuries. So they're carrying a lot of quarterbacks. And
like I said, people are really curious about Sanders. He's
got a lot of fans because of how far he
dropped I think in the NFL draft. All right, so
you got these joint practices, you had these preseason games
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and injuries to deal with, and that was certainly one
of them. But some of the others include Chop Robinson,
the Dolphins' first round pick and twenty twenty four, went
down in practice, carded off the fields, and he's got
some kind of an injury. They haven't released what that is.
(39:42):
They're not saying it's super super severe, but you know,
things get chippy, and when chippy things happen, that's when
people edge out. Like Aiden Hutchinson, the Lions edge rusher,
took snaps on the defense against the Dolphins offense and
full contract drills because he had had an injury. So
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that's a good one. He is back. Jets backup quarterback
Tyrod Taylor had authroscopic knee surgery. He'll be out for
the remainder of the pre season wide receiver Alan Lazard
is nursing a shoulder injury for them two as as
as well some other injuries for like the Giants. People
(40:30):
that weren't you know, people that weren't practicing include Drew
Phillips and Trey Hawkins a third and Evan Neil again
nursing injuries. The Falcons wide out Darren Darnell I need
more coffee. Darnell Mooney injured his shoulder during the falcons
(40:52):
first practice of training camp back on the twenty fifth
of July. A timeline for his return hasn't been clarified
at this point. It's just I don't know. Oh, I
don't know. Every day being asked that question, I don't know.
All right. So that's some of the injuries. Let's jump
to a couple of other things quickly, including the fact
that the brew Crew made history. Boy, they are on fire.
(41:13):
Twelfth straight win for the Brewers, a twelve five win
over the Pirates. How about that. They're really making all
kinds of history, that's for sure. The Tigers in a
low scoring affairs, all about the pitching one zip over
the white socks, and then you had the Nationals edging
(41:36):
out the Royals eight seven at Kaufman Stadium. That's a
fun place to see a game in Kansas City. And
in that game, what happened there is Dalen Lyles two
out ninth inning single not the Nationals over case after
the Royals had tied the game in the eighth inning.
(41:56):
Oh bummer, if you're sitting there, you gotta stay. You
gotta watch them all. Diamondback fans, where are you? I
know you're out there. It was in Texas, it took place,
but you beat the Rangers six' four At Globe Life.
Field padre spanked The giants eleven to. One rockies glide
by The cardinals out At bush six. Five it's fun
(42:20):
to watch This cardinal, team but really. Unpredictable so pinch
Hitter Hunter goodman hit a two run homer in the
ninth inning that rallied The rockies for that. Win The
rockies are such a bad team in, normally that's for.
Sure all, right hang with, Us gonna introduce you to
an interesting lady who's been through a. Lot so it
(42:54):
was twenty three years. Ago nine to eleven. Happened as
somebody was telling me to you think about that everybody
went to bed the night before and whenever you were
doing your usual ho hum getting up for, work and
then all of our lives changed in some, way but
none more than the people who actually, lost people who
(43:14):
perished on that, day and one of them Is Denise.
Olsen we had a chat with her the other. Day
you heard some of that. Interview she wrote a book
Called strong And, Soulful graced By. Grace and her, Husband,
jeff was a firefighter in the first station that was
right there at The World Trade. Centers he wasn't even
supposed to be worked that. Day they had three, Kids, Vincent,
(43:36):
Tory rose And, noah and they were young and love.
Happy they had demanding service related, careers and then he.
Died he was one of those that died trying to
save other. People so she talked to me about something
that was so uplifting that she gives back to so
many and so many different. Communities and in twenty sixteen
(43:57):
she did a sixty mile hike Over Memorial day weekend
to attribute to the. Fallen she hiked From Harper's, Ferry
West virginia To section sixty In Arlington cemetery with a
group of really special special, people and So, denise what
would you say to people is? It do you just
follow what's inside of you and do what you feel is?
Speaker 3 (44:17):
REAL i would just follow my. Heart so as far
as becoming a yoga, instructor that was so. INTERESTING i
found yoga very, serendipitously as most of my life has
been really led by this divine. Guidance BUT i found
(44:37):
yoga and that. Catapulted that really was a catalyst for
my healing because NOW i was moving my body and
my breath together in this intentional healing kind of a,
dance AND i saw the. EFFECTS i saw HOW i felt,
(44:59):
lighter THAT i could feel happiness and joy for no,
reason which after nine to eleven was really difficult for.
Me and at the same, time there were guys in
the fire department that were going to the counseling unit
and they were suggesting that they maybe they try, yoga
(45:22):
and they wouldn't because they felt. Intimidated yoga seems like
something that women do and they weren't really into. It
they would call me and, say, hey why don't you
teach us? Yoga SO i decided to become a yoga
instructor so THAT i could offer it to the guys
(45:42):
THAT i knew in the, department which ended up not
working out because of red tape and all of, that
but it did lead me to working with the, military
and that is WHERE i was able to utilize my
nursing background as far as the physiology of trauma and
(46:02):
then really take a deep dive into post traumatic stress
and holistic.
Speaker 1 (46:10):
Healing and by doing, that was that also a healing
thing for you because you were helping others?
Speaker 3 (46:16):
Heal, YES i think that that is like THE i
don't want to call it the final. Step there's no
final step in, healing but that's where you really can
recognize that you have made progress and now you're sharing
it with other people and seeing them heal kind of
(46:41):
heals you a little a little bit. Deeper and it's
this sacred reciprocity that happens so.
Speaker 1 (46:47):
Beautiful you, know you talk about in your, book you
have a chapter Of pain is A privilege and you
talk about in twenty sixteen committing to a sixty mile
hike over A Memorial day week And Appalachian. Trail, wow
how grueling and physical and what was that like take
us on the trail with?
Speaker 3 (47:07):
You that was that was The i've done it multiple
times since. Then by that first, one oh my. Goodness
it was physically, difficult but the mental challenge was something
THAT i hadn't ever experienced. Before and it started out
(47:32):
LIKE i was really, scared, HONEST i was, LIKE i
HOPE i can finish. You you're on a, team you
don't want to slow people, down and when you're out,
there you find, yourself especially at. Night we do a
movement at night that's a long THE, W o AND
D trail down In, virginia and it's it's so. Dark
(47:56):
all you can see is the chem light of the
person in front of. You we have team leaders who
are all former, military and when you're in this space
of being so physically exhausted and you can't you don't
really know what's coming. Next there's there's a strange thing that.
(48:20):
Happens it just creates this space for everything to come.
Up and they refer to it as like you, know
facing your, demons and it really is what. Happens you
start to question your, ability you start to question your
why why AM i doing? This and it brought, Me
(48:41):
it brought up a feeling of what in my husband
experience and WHENEVER i felt LIKE i wanted to give,
UP i would think to, myself, well if he could
go up that many flights of, STAIRS i. CAN i
chose to be here right LIKE i can finish. This
SO i learned a lot about how my body Will
(49:10):
it's like your mind wants to give, up way before
your body will give. Up and being able to feel
that physical pain was actually to me a privilege because
there were so many people that don't have the ability
to do that. Anymore and that's where that came. FROM
i feel that me being able to carry, on whether
(49:31):
it is in a sixty mile, hike or in writing the,
book or in raising my, family is a. PRIVILEGE i
get to be, HERE i be a witness to my
children having their own. Children i'm a grandma now and
holding space for people that are suffering the way THAT i.
Did and it's all been a. Gift, yeah but that,
(49:55):
hike that hike really drove home from me the sacrif
ice that our military, meets that our first responders, meet
and how am we stronger THAN i THAN i think
THAT i.
Speaker 1 (50:10):
Am, yeah you, know it's interesting in the book you
talk about you weren't going to give up but you
talk about the break at the, brewery you know was
coming to an, end and you, said you, looked you
got up and you looked at your chewed up, feet
and he, said barely a spot was left. Unblistered And
i'm sure people listening to, this can you just visualize
(50:30):
what that would be? Like and you had to keep, going.
Speaker 3 (50:34):
Oh, god don't visualize. It it was so. Nasty they
actually took a photo of my foot and used it
the next year on the rock and, said this is bad.
Book this is what you don't want your feet to
ends up looking. Like and you know what that taught,
me that that the way we have a choice in.
(50:58):
Everything AND i had to choose to accept that with
every step my foot would, hurt that it felt with
every step LIKE i was stepping into glass, shards but
that it was temporary and THAT i would be able
to finish and at some point my feet would heal
and just to continue. On and that is where your
(51:23):
why your reason for moving forward becomes so. IMPORTANT i
was not going to let my children, down my team.
DOWN i, wanted like the memory of my husband to
be carried through to the ends and make it an
(51:46):
honorable and honorable, event.
Speaker 1 (51:50):
And you did, it you got through, it and then
you've done others since.
Speaker 3 (51:52):
Then, Yeah and my favorite ONE i write about in
the book was we did we did a rock from
From Boston Logan international all the way to The World
Trade center for that twentieth. Anniversary so that was two
hundred and sixty miles and that. HAPPENED i GUESS covid was.
(52:21):
There was there. WAS i don't THINK covid was still,
happening was. It there was a lot of unrest AND
i was going through all these little towns In, america
and if you were WATCHING, tv you would think that
everybody was at each other's, throats, Right like we really
had this perception That america was on the verge of
(52:45):
collapse or, something, Right And i'm walking through all of
these small towns along The northeast coast and we're carrying
The american. Flag everyone everyone came out and cheered for,
us and they were inquiring about what we were doing
(53:06):
and anything that they could do to support, us whether
it was giving us a place to, stay offering a.
DONATION i, mean it was. Unbelievable it restored my faith
in our, country all.
Speaker 1 (53:21):
Right so, BOY i love that powerful ending there and
how she talks about it restored her faith in our
country and talked about pain being a privilege and you
can only. Imagine and she just talks about that grief
part and then coming out in helping people and how
that's helped. Her and now she's a young grandmother because
(53:44):
they had children early and thought they had their whole
lives in front of. Them And, jeff LIKE i, said
was a fire or, fighter and never thought the day
that he picked up his one young son who was
eight from school and then and talked to his wife
and gave her a hug, goodbye that he would not
she'd ever thought that he would not be coming back
(54:06):
in the door. Again but look how she moved. Forward
and her story is definitely one of giving back of
community and of having those people near. You, REALLY i
suggest her book it is so, Good strong and. Soulful,
(54:45):
WELL i can't believe it's been twenty three years since nine.
Eleven Denise olsen is here her, Book strong And, Soulful
graced By. Grief her husband was a firefighter killed on nine.
Eleve in her, book she, writes two months, ago my
husband's body was recovered from the rubble that once was
(55:05):
The Twin. Towers i'm in the grocery, store shopping for my.
Family imagine, This it seems like a survivable day so.
Far i've gotten, up, showered stepped out of the. House
that alone is a win these. Days i'm going down
the aisles the WAY i normally, would throwing what we
regularly use into our, cart my favorite, shampoo snacks for the,
(55:26):
kids shaving cream For. Jeff full. Stop i'm about to
let it go flying into the. Cart i'm slap with
the Reality jeff isn't, here he doesn't need this. Anymore
i will never buy him another. Thing, wow does that
just not take your breath? Away And, denise it's interesting
you said in the very, beginning even after it, happened
(55:46):
there was this little bit of hope days and days
later because you thought there was a way, maybe and
so did some others that he.
Speaker 3 (55:55):
Survived there were rooms that were fully. Intact to go
to the, museum you can the nine to eleven, museum
you can see how there were some stores that remains completely.
Intact and so we were being told that maybe people
could be found in these, voids and there was just
(56:15):
this level of hope not wanting to give, up and
when they we ended up after about a, month having
a memorial Without jeff's body BECAUSE i FELT i go
into it more in the, book BUT i felt that
my children needed, closure AND i had gone to the
(56:37):
site and it seemed nearly impossible that they would ever
be able to find a single person in the pile
that was. Left so we did have that memorial and
it brought us some, closure but when they recovered, him
(56:57):
it felt as if the scab had ripped off again
and we had to start all over and go through
the whole ritual of of a cremation and a burial and.
Uh in the, end it did bring us solid, closure
AND i know THAT i am one of the lucky
ones having my husband's body, recovered but it felt like
(57:24):
like a double a double. Whammy.
Speaker 1 (57:25):
Almost, yeah who do You who do you reach out?
TO i, MEAN i know people reached out to, you
and and there were people talking to you and trying
to help your, Family but who did you reach? For
who who gave you the most? Comfort was it your?
Speaker 3 (57:40):
Family there were numerous people that were instrumental in helping
me get through that, time my family being of course
the initial and my larger community, people people THAT i worked,
with my, neighbors all of, That but EVENTUALLY i wanted
(58:05):
to speak to someone who could tell me, that how WAS,
I how COULD i survive, This what is the right
thing to? Do what DO I how DO i keep
my kids? Safe how DO i heal? Myself how DO
i move? Forward AND i wanted to speak to another
widow that was my age with, children who had already
(58:28):
been through something, Similar and, unfortunately there wasn't anyone THAT
i knew personally that had experienced anything like that that
could give me WHAT i was looking. For but there
were so many widows After september, eleventh and we ended
(58:50):
up coming, together and that was WHERE i felt the
most seen and understood because there were times WHERE i
THOUGHT i was going, crazy and THEN i would talk
to another woman who had lost her husband on the
same day and they had experienced the same emotions THAT
i was, experiencing and it creates this this level of.
(59:15):
Normalcy so we were kind of like the blinds leaving
the blinds and, nobody nobody knew what to do, next
but we made it through, together and that was that was.
Speaker 1 (59:26):
Important were you in writing the book and telling the.
Story what was the toughest part about.
Speaker 3 (59:35):
THAT i think the toughest part about writing the book
was seeing myself from an outside observer's point of. VIEW
i kind of had to slip the, switch you, know
like not just feel the, emotions but kind of see
(59:55):
it from a different perspective so THAT i could get
accurate words on. Paper and WHEN i, that it was
almost as IF i was looking at the story as
having happened to someone, else and it was heartbreaking to.
Me SO i was able to create space for a
(01:00:16):
really deep self. Compassion and the other, part, obviously was
reflecting back on the experiences of my children and just
how we how we were living day to day at that. Time,
yeah and.
Speaker 1 (01:00:35):
You, know you talk about, that you talk about it in,
depth you talk about the first few weeks and you
know what it was like. Drowning and then you're going,
back so you're writing this in the, Book you're you're
pulling this, out you're remembering, this and then you're talking
about moving, forward which we'll talk, about and YOU i love.
This you, say each act of kindness was a life,
preserver keeping me afloat for another. Day and you, say
(01:00:58):
IS i asked that. Question before this, one my family
rallied around me like a steadfast. Anchor my sister became
the caretaker of everyone's. Needs my mother took the children
under her, wing my aunt tirelessly managed the, laundry and my,
cousin who had witnessed the collapse of the towers, firsthand
would come to offer his silent strength after working overtime
for The New York City Police. Department, wow, Wow, wow
(01:01:19):
it was great that you had that support. SYSTEM i was.
Speaker 3 (01:01:24):
Very blessed with my support. SYSTEM i had my family
that showed up in that. WAY i was not left.
Alone it was it was almost to the point THAT
i was, LIKE i need some, space you, KNOW i
wasn't left. Alone and THEN i also had my fired department.
Family being A New York city fired department, widow it's you,
(01:01:52):
know you are instantly surrounded by people who are going
to make sure that all of your needs are. Met
SO i was very blessed in the level of support
THAT i, had And i'm not sure THAT i would
be in the place THAT i am today without.
Speaker 1 (01:02:11):
It, yeah that tells you something absolutely about what a.
Community and you knew you had that community With jeff
went in during his career because of how close the firehouses.
Are in his own.
Speaker 3 (01:02:24):
Firehouse, yeah, YEAH i, know it's it's we actually have
a company picnic. Today but all of these these guys
they lived. Together you, know they're there for twenty four
hours at a, time and the relationships that they create
(01:02:44):
are way more than simply being co. Workers and they
include the families in that. Relationship so There's christmas, parties
and there's, barbecues and there's dinner. Dances and while you're
doing this so, socializing you're creating a network of people
that really understand what it's like to be married to
(01:03:12):
a man who puts his life in danger every time
he goes to.
Speaker 1 (01:03:15):
Work yeah, Wow and you, definitely you, know have lots
and lots of details about. That WHAT i like is
in moving forward to you do these physical. THINGS i,
mean how do you were a nurse and now you
are a BSN r in yoga. Instructor how does that all?
Happen did that help you mentally and? Physically, yes.
Speaker 3 (01:03:41):
A lot of these. Things, again in, hindsight you can
connect the, dots but as they were, occurring they WERE i.
COULDN'T i couldn't see how they were playing into my.
FUTURE i just knew THAT i needed to keep moving,
forward all?
Speaker 1 (01:04:04):
Right And, wow what a conversation With Denise. Olsen you
think about it and you think about what she went,
through and moving forward is so the. Key as she told,
me her book is, amazing and she talks about pain
as a. Privilege she talks about going through the, grief
walking through the, grief what that feels. Like and AS i,
(01:04:26):
said going into, this can you believe it's been twenty
three years since nine to. Eleven, Wow i've talked about this.
BEFORE i was in the. CITY i was at my
dream job when it. HAPPENED i was In queens on
the air all Across New york AT wfan and we
talked to a lot of firefighters and it was just
(01:04:46):
gut wrenching and a lot of people and a lot of.
Widows pick up the, Book Denise, Olsen strong And, Soulful
graced By. Grief thanks To denise for joining, us and
for all of you for listening to this. Show thanks
to The minnesota two for their excellent work on the.
Technicals jason And. Daniel catch any of my shows at
kasliniradio dot. COM i like to say with extra, Sauce
(01:05:09):
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