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Speaker 1 (00:13):
Hey, everybody, Kate Delaney here on atn the shark Tery
Board of talk radio.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Finally it's here.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
We've talked about it now this entire week and a
little bit last week, but really we've been talking about
Ukraine and Russia since the President said on the campaign
trail I'm going to fix this thing the second I
get in office, and it has been absolutely a passion
of his. Now it becomes reality as Putin and Trump
will meet in Alaska. Here's one of the last things
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the President said to reporters before he takes off in
the morning.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
We're going to see what happens. And I think President
Putin will make peace. I think President Zelenski will make peace.
We'll see if they can get along, and if they can,
it'll be great. You know, I've solved six wars in
the last six months, a little more than six months now,
and I'm very proud of it.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
I thought the.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Easiest one would be this one. It's actually the most difficult.
We had one war raging, as you know, for thirty
seven years. One into Congo with Rwanda was raging for
thirty one years. We saw six of them made peace,
not just South We made peace. If you look at
Pakistan and India that was planes were being knocked out
of the year, six or seven planes came down, they
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were ready to go. Maybe nuclear we solve that. I
thought this would be maybe an easier one. It never
made sense. This war would have never happened when I
was president. If I were president, this war would have
never happened.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
And so what will be at stake at this summit?
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Already a lot of the Russians are in place, and
what's at stake maybe land and some other things in
a possible cease fire.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
One key party who's not going.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
To be in a tendance Friday at the joint base
in Anchorage, Alaska, as Ukrainian President Voltimore Zelenski, Trump said
Thursday during that press conference, you just heard a little
snippet of it that he hopes the summit will lead
to a second meeting that would include Zelenski. But right
now it's about Putin and what's going to happen with Putin,
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And of course some of this is definitely about land,
there's no question. And will there be any kind of
concessions in that sense or not. Secretary of State Marco Rubio,
you know, is preparing for the summit as well, because
he's going to be involved in it. And he said
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they're going very fast because this was put together pretty
quickly and it's in Alaska, so we're headed there. We'll
see how tomorrow plays out. The hope is that there
is some sense and can we get it very quickly
and early, whether peace is possible or or not, we
hope it is. We've heard the word hope a lot,
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and the President has been careful about that, saying he
has no idea. Reading the tea leaves what exactly Putin
will do or won't do. But you know, you hear
the air raids go on in Kiev. That's what I've
been told. Drones were flying over key regions of Ukraine
Thursday into Friday. So this is a pretty historic thing,
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and a lot is riding on what happens in Alaska.
Without without a doubt, we turned closer to home, really sad.
A couple of creepy, horrible things that happened in this
week and just the tail end of last week. Let's
start in Austin, Texas. There was the shooting in the
parking lot of Target that left three people dead, including
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a four year old little girl who was with her grandfather,
sixty five year old Adam Chowd, his four year old
granddaughter and even his wife was shot. And then the
car was stolen by the man who is now the
thirty two year old who police believe killed three people,
including a target worker who was just returning carts and
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getting them out to take them into the store. That
the man Ethanninneker, who was in possession of a gun.
Of course, the perpetrator was convicted of minor level family
violence in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
And here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Because of that especially, he was not allowed to be
in possession of a gun. It's just one little element
that is tucked into this, I mean, and the grief
reigns supreme.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
In that area of Austin.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
You can hear the disgust in this policewoman's voice talking about.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
It was an unprovoked and deliberate attack, a deliberate act
of violence.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
So, now as this moves forward, because we're talking about,
you know, capital murder, that's what's on the table here.
And again, the whole idea that once you are convicted
of something like he was convicted of, you cannot own
a firearm for the remainder of your life. That's another
element in this case that of course will all play out.
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It doesn't do anything for the families who are just
left talking about their loved ones who happen to be
in the wrong place at the wrong time. The police chief,
Lisa Davis, who you heard there, said several times that
Nyneker had struggled with mental health and appeared to be
experienced in an episode during the attack. And she said,
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you know this was missed, but there is no official
tracking system to even make sure people convicted of crimes
aren't carrying. It's almost impossible to police every single person.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
She said.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
That's why when we ask people in the community, if
you're loved one has a mental issue, say what he's doing,
and do not have guns at home.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
This one really hit hard.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
For a lot of people, and it's the story of
what happened to Devil's Den State Park in Arkansas. Just
a slice of heaven there that was absolutely destroyed by
twenty eight year old Andrew James McGann, who was in
a courtroom and he is accused of the teacher of
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fatally stabbing two hikers at that state park in Arkansas
last month. Here is what the prosecutor, Brandon Carter, the
prosecuting attorney from Washington County there said about the Devil's
Den alleged murderer.
Speaker 6 (06:49):
He's been charged with capital murder for some time. We
filed the efficient chargers on August first. Today was the
day that the charges were read to him and.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Not guilty, all right, And this mcgaan, as he said,
this is the first time that he was read those charges.
And now this all plays out starting in November. That's
when the case is set. So we're talking about a
double homicide and again a rain that's the new detail
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in this on Thursday, and him pleading not guilty. We
need some good news. Here's news that people have wanted
to hear, I think for a long time.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
And you know what the news is.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
It feels like a long time anyway, that the average
rate on a thirty year mortgage dropped to the lowest
level that we've seen since October. So we're talking really
ten months, because I'm talking about last October. So I
looked at the rates and the long term rates fell
to six fifty eight, six point fifty eight percent from
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six sixty three. So you can see it's sliding down
a little bit, which is a good thing. And then
of course barring costs on a fifteen year fixed rate mortgage,
which is popular with homeowners for example refinancing their home loans,
also dropped down. So that's good news for people who
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have been playing around with this who desperately need to
maybe move. But the elevated mortgage rates have kept the
housing market in a terrible sales slump really since early
twenty twenty two, when the rates started to climb from
rock bottom lows higher and higher and higher and higher.
So yay, that is very very good news. A pregnant
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woman attacked by a shark.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
That's next time.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
For a little dollars and cents and maybe no sense whatsoever.
How about Starbucks CEO Brian Nickel. I caught him on
WGN in Chicago. Sales have been down six straight quarters.
Twenty percent of sales are mobile people well, you know,
going through the windows. So what is the problem? He
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feels The problem is people aren't getting the customer service
they really desire and what Starbucks was known for. If
you go into one of those stores and they've launched
something new called green Apron, and the idea behind green
apron is you'll get your coffee within four minutes. I'm
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thinking to myself lining up in Washington, d C. Inside
a store, or in New York City in downtown Manhattan. Ooh,
that's a tall, tall task. And then I think of
all the stores, and there's so many of those stores,
you know, over fifteen thousand of them. But this is
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the direction they're going on, and he feels pretty confident
they can accomplish this, and it starts within a couple
of weeks.
Speaker 7 (10:18):
And it's centered on putting enough partners on the roster
in the stores and then deployed correctly so they can
provide that customer connection, that experience that frankly, Starbucks really
was founded on.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Well, all right, so we'll see, and you know that
it is one thing they were founded on for sure
when they first came around. I can remember going into
a Starbucks traveling, and especially when you're traveling because they're
inside a lot of airports or just you know, if
you're hustle bustling between places and whatever downtown area. I mean,
it could be a small town that you're in, or
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it could be somewhere a little bit larger, and the
whole idea of them writing your name with the selfie
and you know they I mean at the selfie with
the sharpie. They were and it was pretty quick. It
was a pretty quick turnaround. But then because of the windows,
things got jammed up and he said something I thought
was really interesting. And I can see this if you
were If you were inside and you're seeing all these
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people whip through the drive through, then you think, why
am I standing in this line? Should I have just
stayed in my car and gone through because I already
have gotten my order versus standing here in this line.
So we'll see if it works and it turns things
around a bit for them. Would you pay four billion
dollars for an NBA franchise? How about the Portland Trailblazers
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for all our Portland Trailblazer fans out there, And we
definitely have them people listening on KBNP at least for
sure the money station, right, they might have a new owner.
And so the idea is because this first thing I
thought of was the guy who owns the Carolina Panthers
is buying the Trailblazers.
Speaker 8 (11:58):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Is he going to take the team to Carolina or
is he going to keep the team there and the
new owner, who it looks like is going to be
the new owner since they've agreed. Paul Allen's estate has
agreed to sell the team to Carolina Hurricanes owner Tom Dundon.
He said that he intends to keep the team in
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the city that's been its home since nineteen seventy and
he just heads the group that wants to buy this.
It includes the capital of like Blue Oul Capital, and
a few other people too are mixed into that. And
even though the specific negotiated sales price wasn't disclosed, let's
just say it leaked out and it's four billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
And he does say that he'll address some of the
specifics once things are finalized, because you know, a lot
of things can happen. Even though there's an agreement in
all of this, a lot of things can certainly happen
that could maybe change that. But it looks like smooth
sailing to me. I don't know what would get in
the way of it. Although the sale needs to be
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approved by the NBA's Board of Governors, and that could
take several months. Like if you remember Bill Chisholm agreed
to buy the Boston Celts in March, and that sale
still is not complete, so it does take a little
bit of a little bit of time. Who knows spin
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for the Portland Trail Blazers, it could be something interesting.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
By the way, Dundin I knew that name.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
He lives in Dallas, Texas, and he became the majority
owner of the Hurricanes in twenty eighteen. He was one
of those guys where part of where he made his money.
He was an early investor in top Golf, among other ventures.
So you know, Adam Silver said in July that the
Blazers need a new arena. So that means there's either
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going to be a dramatic renovation of the thirty year
old old palace that they play in now, which is
not a palace, or a new facility altogether. I'm thinking,
if I'm Dundant, it's probably gonna be a new facility,
and let's see if he can breathe some new life
into into the franchise even so to speak, all right,
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continuing along dollars and cents, Walmart has expanded its discount
program for Ready for This employees. So I always wonder this,
what do employees get anything for free? Do they get
a lunch.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Do they get? What do they get?
Speaker 1 (14:31):
They they're offering employees discounts on all groceries year round,
versus discounts on specific things during the holiday season, So
I think that's better. They sent out a company memo
just a couple days ago and they said the changes
mean employees get ten percent off all food categories, So
that means dairy and frozen and dry grocery and meat
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and seafood and general merchandise and fashion and all of that.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
And I think that's.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Pretty good for the people that work there because they're,
let's face it, especially if they're hitting the hours hard
and they have families or whatever, easy to easy prices
and easy to whip down a couple of those aisles
and grab what they need and you know, and get
those discounts. I was wondering, how many of you were you?
What are the perks on your job? What are the
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perks that you get for your job? And I used
to work at a sandwich place when I was in college.
It was called Hole in the Wall. It was off
of Court Street in Athens, Ohio, and it was so fun.
I loved the people that work there and we got
to eat the free. I mean, so you know, how
many subs can you eat though, especially if you're work
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at a lot of hours. But still, I thought that
was pretty good. So you know, you could get a
meal there. And there are other companies like Home Depot
employees get a ten percent discount on all regular priced merchandise, right,
and also that applies to immediate family members. It's the
same thing for Lows. They get the same deal there. Amazon,
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It kind of varies, but they get like ten percent
on purchases too, and they can get they get like
a maximum discount of ten percent off a thousand, So
it's pretty it's pretty interesting, and I wonder if you
crunch the numbers, how many employees take advantage of that, right,
I'm thinking especially with Walmart, the amount of employees they
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have across the country, you know, like Georgia, Indiana, Floor,
I mean every state has them, So so what does
that look like?
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Right?
Speaker 1 (16:41):
And then how about this story A dollars and cents.
The Bath and body Works is selling products in six
hundred college bookstores as pretty genius in a sense because
what do they need? What do kids need on college campuses? Right,
So it's kind of back to school that's the thought
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for this company. They announce that they're going to do this,
and it's just at least they're probably testing it for
the twenty twenty five twenty twenty six academic years, and
they're trying to strengthen their connection with jen Z consumers.
They were named and this is smart, and I bet
you this is part of what they discussed at their meeting.
If I was a fly on the wall, they were
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the number one Fray Grants brand for American teenagers and
the third overall most shopped at beauty stores by teenagers.
Speaker 9 (17:35):
In this.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Taking stock Piper Sandler taking stock with teen survey that
they do every year, the twenty twenty five survey. So
Bath and Bodyworks partnered with ICM distributing company, and so
they work with chains like Barnes and Noble College and
Fullet operated bookstores and other independent campus retailers.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
And they cut that a deal and so they'll get it.
There'll be a whole bunch of different things that will
be offered.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Their hand soaps and candles and those kinds of products
like the tiny hand sanitizers and the diffusers. They're smart,
they're keeping it small what they're offering even like some
lip product kind of things. And I think this is
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will probably be a boost to them. I'd be really
curious to see how that all turns out, because that's
a lot of locations that there. That's a lot of
locations that they're talking about, from like Alabama State University
to Ball State.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
To you know, you name it. But I bet, I
bet it goes pretty well.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
And I was in Staples the other day and I
realized this since I was doing dollars and cents for
back to school stuff. They always say they have deals
because that's also a psychological thing. We see deal, right,
and we're we all get roped in. We just take
a hook line and sinker. But they have back to
school sales with things starting at twenty five cents. What
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can you get with twenty five cents? Well, let me
tell you. You can get pencils for less than fifty cents.
You can get Crayola crowns less than fifty cents, So
I'm not talking about a giant thing of it gluticks.
Same thing. I looked around because I was like, okay,
what can I get folders?
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Really is the twenty five cent deal?
Speaker 1 (19:29):
You can grab folders for twenty five cents or even
notebooks and school binders. That's actually pretty good. And they
were pretty good. And does anyone even use a calculator?
I guess they do because they sell calculators.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
If you're in math, can't you just use your phone
or they not let you even pulling out your phone?
I guess then you can't, and then you have to
have a calculator. I'm not really sure. One thing I
know most kids have to have now is they have
to have computers because so much of the work is
done through the computer. It's you're not writing things so
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down so much as you used to. You know, there's
even schools where they have computers donated because some of
the kids can't afford computers. But they have a lot
of laptops on sale at Staples with pretty good deals.
I feel like I'm advertising for Staples. I'm not, but
I just noticed it and I wondered, Yeah, how true
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is this back to schools sale?
Speaker 2 (20:24):
I want to see what.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
You can get for what they're saying, And actually some
of it was pretty decent. All right on the flip
your thoughts as we go to the mail bag and
speaking of dollars and cents the pre market bell as well.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
I'm going to the man Cave.
Speaker 8 (20:49):
I'm going to the marri Cave, going to the mar Caves.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Yes, we are in the man Cave.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
This the time of the year where anybody can win
the Super Bowl because we haven't played any games yet.
Who cares about the preseason? Although there will be a
slate of games coming up this week and it's on Friday.
There's a bunch of games and then through the weekend
and before you know it will be into the real stuff,
into the thick of it. So there's a cool thing
that's happening. It's called The Kingdom. It's a six episode
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documentary series and it looks at the history of the
Kansas City Chiefs with a focus on what's happened recently,
especially looking at the twenty twenty four season, from the
Super Bowl loss to the Eagles to the prominent role
of Taylor Swift.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
It kicked off on Thursday, and it's.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
On like you can watch it in a lot of
different places, Direct TV, Fubo, Disney plus all a lot
of different places where we can watch this content for
you know, for free. So here's a little sneak on
the Kingdom every year.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
The only goal that you have is winning the Super Bowl.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Don't win it, it's a failure. All this pressure builds up.
Speaker 8 (22:04):
No one's ever got three. When you're winning, people look
at you and they're like, you're the villain.
Speaker 9 (22:09):
Cout Cameron's play.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
It's our life and it's an emotional game.
Speaker 8 (22:17):
I do right, win or lose.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
This team will never do the same team.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
How about those.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
They had a bunch of injuries and so one of
the first episode of the series looks at not just
the season, but also Pat Mahomes and a bunch of
injuries that hit the team during the twenty twenty four season.
I think it's probably going to be well received, all right,
So Taylor Swift, I mentioned her name, and it's interesting
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that just of course exploded when it came to downloads
of Taylor Swift being on New Heights, the podcast by
the Kelsey Brothers.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Here's what she said when it came to foot all, Oh.
Speaker 5 (23:01):
My god, I fell in love with it.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
I became obsessed with it.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
I became like a person who was running through the
halls of my house screaming.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
We DRAFTEDXA. If you're worthy and my friends were like,
what is who? Body snatched you? This is?
Speaker 9 (23:15):
This?
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (23:16):
What do you mean we drafted you're worthy?
Speaker 4 (23:20):
I forget you were the first person to tell me
that screeching. No, I was screeching.
Speaker 5 (23:25):
I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
I thought that was a cute moment for sure, in
that in that interview. All Right, a couple of things
to mention quickly. Here about the NFL, and like I said,
we're into the preseason stuff and now it's about, you know,
eventually who who's in and who's out. As the cuts
get made, that becomes a big thing.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Obviously.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
One of the things that's one of the things that's
happening is the Michael Parsons deal. I keep talking about
that because everybody keeps asking about that, even Cowboy fans.
People say, oh, are they really America's team anymore? But
yet so many of you will ask about the Dallas Cowboys,
and you're asking me from Connecticut and New York. And
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when I traveled with the Cowboys, I saw that that
there were fans everywhere, I mean absolutely everywhere. All Right,
here's a note on not the Cowboys, because nothing new
with Michael Parsons it's the Packers and it's Jordan Love surgery.
Now looking at surgery, he had surgery so that he
would be ready for Week one. If you remember, after
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dealing with so many injuries last season, and he didn't
want to go in with any kinds of ailment. So
he had surgery on his left thumb that's his non
throwing hand, after he had a ligament injury in a
preseason opener against the Jets, and he said the surgery,
which took place in Los Angeles on Tuesday, was to
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repair his this collateral ligment, his ulnar collateral ligment. And
he said, I think with the timeframe we have right now,
finishing up training camp in preseason heading into the season,
the choice was I want to be one hundred percent healthy,
and I got to make the call. And because I
dealt with all those injuries last year, I wanted to
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go into this thing feeling better. Remember last year he
missed the second and third games after he had that
sprain MCL in the season opener against the Eagles in Brazil.
Then he had a groin injury later in the season,
so it made a big difference. But even after the
thumb injury, he took part in Monday's practice with you
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know the team. His thumb was taped up and he
could do everything that he normally I guess could pretty
much do. They just have to exercise serious caution when
it comes to that. All right, Major League Baseball, I'm
going to squeeze in some of the scores for you.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Oh boy, do I get asked about scores? I love it.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
So we do have some baseball fans in this audience
listening to the man Cave Orioles beat the Mariners five three.
Ryan Mountcastle nabbed home so the O's pulled off a
double steal, which is one of the coolest things. I
have never seen that live. I've seen it on video.
Blue Jays glide by the Cubbies two to one. They
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pick up their seventy first win. Guardians knocked off the
Marlins nine to four. Nationals edged out the Phillies three
to two. Ozzie Alby's big night helped the Braves really
rally past the Mets four three.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
He was mister score.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
The Tigers did it in eleven, beating the Twins four three.
Diamondbacks with a good night as they finally beat up
on the Rockies eight to two. They picked up their
sixtieth win in on the season, and of course this
is where they want to see that add up because
looking at oh, where would you fall into a playoff spot?
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That's that's the big thing there, looking ahead, bouncing ahead,
and of course that's you know, that's what that's what
we're looking at. You know, we talked about a little
bit about what's happening in the NFL, but what about
what's happening in college football? There are a couple of
things that are I think pretty interesting that I love
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looking at the preseason projections and who's predicted to, you know,
go where. I like absorb all those crazy preseason mags.
I said, I was going to go through the NFL,
and I'll go through as much as I can with
college football in the next couple of weeks. But it's
interesting in looking at the big the big spots like
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the Sugar Bowl, the Rose Bowl, the Orange Bowl, the
Cotton Bowl, because you're talking about who's going to be
the national champs. And Texas of course is projected to
being number one, Penn State number two. This is in
some in preseason analysis. Is three is Clemson, four is
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Ohio State, and.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
You know, you it's really.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
You know, how does the twelve team see college football
playoff play out? What does that look like? And Notre Dame?
What happens with Notre Dame? What happens with Texas Tech?
I mean, looking at all the top ten, Miami, Alabama,
Squeeze Alabama, how about Oregon? You can't forget the Ducks. Whatsoever?
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Texas ranked number one in the preseason AP Top twenty
five for the first time in the program's history.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
The Longhorns have.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Serious pressure and part of that is there's so much
hype over Arch Manning and let's see what happens Penn State.
Can the Knit nee Lyons really accomplish what the expectation
is for them, because of course the bulk of their squad,
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they're bringing back the bulk of them after, you know,
a few plays away from playing for a national title
last year. And they have a pretty favorable schedule. And
I talked about Clemson and Dados Sweetey you can't ever
count him out and he's projected to once again. He's
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got an Eisman candidate at quarterback and you know, a
hot defense. And I mentioned the Irish and of course
Ohio State and despite Ohio State's loss to Texas at home.
You know, on August thirtieth, they're still talking about the
Buckeyes trying to land a first round by not even
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though they didn't win the Big Ten the past fall.
So you know, it's interesting and looking at how this
all plays out. And to me, do I carry those
notes to see? Okay, who's saying what will happen? Even
Texas Tech in so many cases edging in there, and
I mentioned Miami And for twenty two consecutive years there's
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been a preseason top ten team from the AP pole
to finish the year unranked. And some are looking at
what's happening with the Hurricanes and how do they fall
in around and of course Oregon and the Ducks when
they take the field in twenty twenty five. You know
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last year only unbeaten last season by Ohio State. You
know I think about that, the field's only unbeaten last
season by Ohio State.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
I really watched the Ducks last year and I really
loved watching it. My cousin's kid goes to Oregon and
that became kind of a thing.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
We're gonna watch and see what the Ducks do. Anyway,
I'm getting psyched. We got our duck there.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
I'm getting psyched for football just in general. Probably all
of you are too, or maybe you're not. But that's
what the man Cave is all about. We'll stay with us,
Doctor Clifton Hunt next and then and reason with author's corner.
Speaker 8 (31:26):
I'm going to the man Cave, going to the Merricave,
going to the Merricaves.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Yes, we are in the man Cave.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
This is the time of the year where anybody can
win the Super Bowl because we haven't played any games yet.
Who cares about the preseason? Although there will be a
slate of games coming up this week and it's on Friday.
There's a bunch of games, and then through the weekend
and before you know it will be into the real stuff,
into the thick of it. So there's a cool thing
that's happen. It's called The Kingdom. It's a six episode
(32:02):
documentary series and it looks at the history of the
Kansas City Chiefs with a focus on what's happened recently,
especially looking at the twenty twenty four season, from the
Super Bowl loss to the Eagles to the prominent role
of Taylor Swift. It kicked off on Thursday, and it's on, Like,
you can watch it in a lot of different places,
(32:23):
Direct TV, Fubo, Disney Plus all a lot of different
places where you can watch this content for you know,
for free. So here's a little sneak on the Kingdom.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Every year, the only goal that you have is winning
the Super Bowl.
Speaker 4 (32:39):
If we don't win it, it's a failure. All this
pressure builds up.
Speaker 8 (32:44):
No one's ever got three and you're winning.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
People look at you and they're like, you're the villain
the camera. It's our life and it's an emotional game.
Speaker 8 (32:57):
After right, win or lose. This team will never do
the same.
Speaker 4 (33:02):
How about those.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
They had a bunch of injuries and so one of
the first episode of the series looks at not just
the season, but also Pat Mahomes and a bunch of
injuries that hit the team during during the twenty twenty
four season. I think it's probably going to be well received,
all right, So Taylor Swift, I mentioned her name, and
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it's interesting that just of course exploded when it came
to downloads of Taylor Swift being on New Heights, the
podcast by the Kelsey Brothers.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Here's what she said when it came to football.
Speaker 9 (33:41):
Oh my god.
Speaker 5 (33:41):
I fell in love with it.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
I became obsessed with it.
Speaker 5 (33:43):
I became like a person who was running through the
halls of my house screaming, we.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Drafted Xavier, You're worthy. And my friends were like, what
is who? Body snatched you? This is? This is?
Speaker 9 (33:56):
What do you mean?
Speaker 2 (33:58):
We save You're worthy?
Speaker 4 (34:00):
I forget where it was, but you were the first
person to tell me that the question no. I was screeching.
Speaker 5 (34:05):
I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
I thought that was a cute moment for sure, in
that in that interview. All right, a couple of things
to mention quickly here about the NFL, and like I said,
we're into the preseason stuff and now it's about, you know,
eventually who who's in and who's out. As the cuts
get made, that becomes a big thing. Obviously. One of
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the things that's one of the things that's happening is
the Michael Parsons deal. I keep talking about that because
everybody keeps asking about that. Even Cowboy fans. People say, oh,
they are they really America's team anymore? But yet so
many of you will ask about the Dallas Cowboys and
you're you're asking me from Connecticut and New York and
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when I traveled with the Cowboys, I saw that that
there were fans everywhere. I mean absolutely everywhere. All right,
here's a note on not the Cowboys, because nothing new
with Michael Parsons. It's the Packers, and it's Jordan Love surgery.
Now looking at surgery. He had surgery so that he
would be ready for Week one. If you remember, after
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dealing with so many injuries last season, and he didn't
want to go in with any.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
Kinds of ailment.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
So he had surgery on his left thumb that's his
non throwing hand, after he had a ligament injury in
a preseason opener against the Jets, And he said the surgery,
which took place in Los Angeles on Tuesday, was to
repair his collateral ligament, his ulnar collateral ligment. And he said,
(35:46):
I think with the timeframe we have right now, finishing
up training camp, in preseason, heading into the season, the
choice was I want to be one hundred percent healthy,
and I got to make the call. And because I
dealt with all those injuries last year, I wanted to
go into the thing feeling better. Remember last year he
missed the second and third games after he had that
Sprain mcl and the season opener against the Eagles in Brazil.
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Then he had a groin injury later in the season,
so it made a big difference. But even after the
thumb injury, he took part in Monday's practice with you know,
the team. His thumb was taped up and he could
do everything that he normally I guess could pretty much.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
Do they just have to.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
Exercise serious you know, caution when it comes to that,
all right, Major League Baseball, I'm going to squeeze in
some of the scores for you. Oh boy, do I
get asked about scores?
Speaker 2 (36:40):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
So we do have some baseball fans in this audience
listening to the man Cave Orioles beat the.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
Mariners five three.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
Ryan Mountcastle nabbed home so the O's pulled off a
double steal, which is one of the coolest things. I
have never seen that live. I've seen it on video.
Blue Jays glide by the Cubbies two to one. They
pick up their seventy first win. Guardians knocked off the
Marlins nine to four. Nationals edged out the Phillies three
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to two. Ozzie Alby's big night helped the Braves really
rally past the Mets four three.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
He was mister score.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
The Tigers did it in eleven, beating the Twins four three,
Diamondbacks with a good night as they finally beat up
on the Rockies eight to two. They picked up their
sixtieth win in on the season.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
And of course this is.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Where they want to see that add up because you're
looking at, oh, where would you fall into a playoff spot?
That's that's the big thing there, looking ahead, bouncing ahead,
and of course that's you know, that's what that's what.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
We're looking at.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
You know, we talked about a little bit about what's
happening in the NFL, but what about what's happening in
college football? There are a couple of things that are
I think pretty interesting that I love looking at the
preseason projections and who's predicted to, you know, go where.
I like, absorb all those crazy preseason mags. I said,
(38:15):
I was going to go through the NFL, and I'll
go through as much as I can with college football
in the next couple of weeks. But it's interesting in
looking at the big the big spots like the Sugar Bowl,
the Rose Bowl, the Orange Bowl, the Cotton Bowl, because
you're talking about who's going to be the national champs.
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And Texas, of course is projected to be number one,
Penn State number two. This is in some in pre
season analysis is three is Clemson? Four is Ohio State?
And you know, you it's it's really you know, how
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does the twelve teams see college football playoff play out?
What does that look like? And Notre Dame? What happens
with Notre Dame? What happens with Texas Tech? I mean,
looking at all the top ten, Miami, Alabama, Squeeze Alabama,
how about Oregon?
Speaker 2 (39:15):
You can't forget the Ducks. Whatsoever?
Speaker 1 (39:19):
Texas ranked number one in the preseason AP Top twenty
five for the first time in the program's history. The
Longhorns have serious pressure, and part of that is there's
so much hype over Arch Manning and let's see what
happens Penn State. Can the Nitney Lions really accomplish what
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the expectation is for them, because of course, the bulk
of their squad, they're bringing back the bulk of them
after a few plays away from playing for a national
title last year, and they have a pre favorable schedule.
And I talked about Clemson and Dados Sweetey, you can't
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ever count him out. And he he's projected to once again.
He's got an Eisman candidate at quarterback, and you know,
a hot defense. And I mentioned the Irish and of
course Ohio State. And despite Ohio State's loss to Texas at.
Speaker 2 (40:26):
Home, you know.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
On August thirtieth, they're still talking about the Buckeyes trying
to land a first round by not even though they
didn't win the Big Ten the past fall. So you know,
it's interesting and looking at how this all plays out.
And to me, do I carry those notes to see? Okay,
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who's saying what will happen? Even Texas Tech in so
many cases edging in there, And I mentioned Miami and
for twenty two consecutive years there's been a preseason top
ten team from the AP pole to finish the year unranked.
And some are looking at what's happening with the Hurricanes
and how do they fall in around and of course
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Oregon and the Ducks when they take the field in
twenty twenty five, you know last year only unbeaten last
season by Ohio State. You know, I think about that
the field's only unbeaten last season by Ohio State Wow.
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I really watched the Ducks last year and I really
loved watching it. My cousin's kid goes to Oregon and
that became kind of a thing. We're gonna watch and
see what the Ducks do. Anyway, I'm getting psyched. See
we got our duck there. I'm getting psyched for football
just in general. Probably all of you are too, or
maybe you're not, but that's what the man Cave is
(41:53):
all about. We'll stay with us. Doctor Clifton Hunt next,
and then and reason with author's Corner. This time around
(42:15):
an author's corner the name of the book Protector of
the Innocent. Doctor Clifton Hunt joins us to talk about
his book here in America tonight with me Kate Delaney.
His story is a story that is sadly far too common,
and boy, what is he doing to help change that scenario?
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And actually, I think this book will inspire you and
make you think of ways that you can reach out
and help people too as well.
Speaker 2 (42:42):
So, doctor Hunt, thank you for coming.
Speaker 8 (42:44):
On, Thank you for having me. Kate.
Speaker 1 (42:47):
What made you write the book? Because you really poured
your heart into this book. What made you decide to
tackle it?
Speaker 8 (42:55):
Well, it started as a child growing up in the
Chicago Housing Authority, the project we would call it projects,
and as a child going to the public school system,
going through that system is where I started. I grew
up in a family with the mother who had multiple
curosis and a father who was a janitor, and so
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as we struggled through those periods of time, and my
mom never I never saw her walk, so but I
experienced at a very young age some traumatic experiences because
she couldn't walk and my dad was a janitor. What
we experienced was we had an older cousin who and
I don't want to give away too much of the book,
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who sexually abused me. So that was dramatic. That's where
it started. Experienced abuse as a child and even continued
going into adolescent. When I became older after finishing school,
I saw those sayings type of symptoms in my children
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that I was the principal of and the classroom teacher.
I saw those same hurt in their eyes when I
would look at them, I knew something wasn't right.
Speaker 1 (44:10):
Wow, and the hurt in their eyes did you just
know I have to figure out a way to do.
Speaker 8 (44:15):
Something, absolutely, absolutely And it's amazing. At one of the schools.
I was the principal of a kindergarten teacher spoke a
word over me and she said, you're going to be
a mentor of millions of young men. And I started
my first mentoring program and it was so successful there
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was a waiting list to get into the program. It
became so successful in the district that the girls did
begme to come to me and they said, mister Hunt.
I was mister Hunt. Then they said, Principal Hunt, we
want our program too. You spent all the time with
the boys. So what I found out is the same
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principles I used to mentor boys worked with girls. So
I started a program for the girls and had the
female teachers run that program.
Speaker 1 (45:09):
Wow, hearing you talk about it and the emotion and
really what you've given to the world and that somebody
saw that in you and that you were able to
then later in your life pursue this. And what does
it mean to these kids, as you said, you could
see that look in their eye, What does it mean
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for them to have mentors, to have somebody that can help.
Speaker 8 (45:36):
It's a must in the life of a young boy,
whether he's a boy of color or regardless of what
his ethnic background is or social background is. Every boy
needs a mentor. And the reason I say that is
he needs to see what a man looks like. He
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needs to see a positive role model of a man
and how to navigate through life's many difficult challenges that
we face as men. And my head goes off and
I salute all the single mothers who have done an outstanding,
excellent job and raising boys. But we as men need
to partner along with those mothers to show that young
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man what it means to be a man. And another
man is the only one who can really show him
that picture.
Speaker 1 (46:27):
Yeah, and we should tell everybody. Protector of the Innocent.
You can get this book on Amazon, Barnes and Noble.
I mean, you can get a Kindle version paperback for
just absolutely a song and it's so important and it's
just what you've poured out in this book and things
that maybe people don't know. I mean, you know, physically,
sexually abused, teased, bullied, you talk about all of that.
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What do you hope people take away from reading the book?
Speaker 8 (46:55):
What I hope they take away when they look at
my life story, what they should take way is that
I was not the one who was predicted to be
the successful child in the group. I was the one
that was most likely not to be successful. But because
of an ad Joseph annointing that was placed over my life,
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I watched God take me from a high school dropout
to begin from a high school dropout to becoming doctor
Clifton Hunt No One. I'm the first in my family
to receive that type of a title educational background when
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I had no mentor. My father only had a sixth
grade education, and my mother, she didn't finish high school,
so I had no one to show me the ropes
and how to navigate through that. And so what I
hope people will take away from my book, regardless of
your beginning, there is a plan for your life and
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if you just keep following the dream. And my book
I talk a lot about the dream that pushed me.
I had a desire to be a teacher, and that
was the first dream, and it kept pushing me to
the next level. And after being a classroom seven years,
then I wanted to become an administrator. And it pushed me,
and it pushed me, and it kept pushing me, and
I became work to coordinate over one hundred and six
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schools and kept pushing me, and the dream kept pushing
me until I finally finished my doctoral study after going
through two doctoral programs. The book will bring you healing
is what my prayer is. When my person read it,
they will see that there is hope no matter what
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the challenges they have gone through, no matter what the
hurd or pain is, there's healing for them and they
can reach the full potential and the plan that God
has for their life.
Speaker 1 (48:59):
Did you ever imagine? And because you had that dream
and you pursued it, and wow, what an inspiration did
you ever imagine? You would have been in the classroom,
which was great to begin with, then is in your
influencing and you're helping and you're teaching, and then you
become a principal and then you even go hirer Did
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you ever see that once you jumped up the education?
Speaker 8 (49:25):
No, I didn't see any of it. And that's the
amazing thing. There's a plan for each of our lives.
And it's probably a good thing that we can't see
that far ahead because we might become afraid and say,
I can't go through all of that. And what I
had to go through to get to this level of
doctor hunt, the many many doors that were closed, the
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many hurts and the many pains, and the many people
that said you can't do that, No, you're not smart enough,
and had even one professor said you'll never make it
through this program, and I was like wow. So had
I known all of that, I probably would have became
afraid to said, oh, it's not worth it. But the
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dream kept pushing me so that I couldn't see the end.
I just saw a little bit at a time. And
even when the time I was homeless and sleeping out
of my car because I wanted to finish school, it
was that Despert. I was in my last year of
school and doing my student teaching, and I was homeless,
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and so I had to sleep in my car for
a while, and the book talks about that, and I
finally humbled myself and had to sleep with my brother
to move in with him and his wife. So No,
to answer your question, Kate, no, I never saw any
of this, never never imagined it.
Speaker 4 (50:51):
Never well.
Speaker 1 (50:52):
And I keep using this word, but it is the
best word. What an inspiration somebody that keeps going, Like
you said and talk about it in your book, it
was worth it, right, Oh yes.
Speaker 8 (51:04):
Yes, because now I look back at my old thirty
years of educational experience as a principal, and one story
that sticks with me that makes it worth it all.
And one of the schools that I was mentoring really quick,
there were two young men of the Hispanic background and
they wanted to be in the program. So I let
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him in the program. I mean go the program was full.
One brother was about ten and his younger sibling was
about six. I let him in the program because he
was always fighting. The ten year old. He was constantly
getting into trouble constantly, teachers couldn't do anything with them,
and so those are the kind of schools that I
had always. So I just sat down one day and
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talked to him and tried to figure out what was
going on, and he wouldn't open up. So we let
him in the program. And being surrounded with other boys
and the love that he felt, he began that share
beginning to crack. Then I met with his and I
would meet with my parents, all tell me, said what
is going on with him? She was in my office
with the two boys. She said, I'm going to share
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something with you, doctor Hanna. So what is she said?
Both of my sons have been repeatedly sexually abused by
their dad, who was incarcerated, so when he came out,
he would come out sexually abuse him and then get
rearrested and go back to jail. And she said this
has been a pattern for them. That story sticks with
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me and one of the reasons why I know God
called me and put me on this earth to be
a protector of the innocence. The innocence are these young
men who are children and adolescents. They're not adults, you know,
they shouldn't have to experience being abused and bullied and
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teased like I was. And if more men and more
adults would step up and protect our children, that's our call,
and I know that's mine. So anytime I hear about
anything in the news and I see these teenage boys
that are going around robbing people and hijackie, the first
thing that goes to my mind, Kate, is where is
their mentor, who's spoken to their life, Who's there to
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guide them the right way, to let them know there's
a better way. You don't have to do this. And
so that's my passion.
Speaker 1 (53:24):
You are an inspiration. I've used that word so much
and you truly are you own that word. Protector of
the Innocent, Doctor Clifton Hunt. Get this book Amazon, Barnes
and Noble. Thank you for sharing your story.
Speaker 8 (53:37):
Thank you Kay so much for having me spend my.
Speaker 4 (53:40):
Blessure you Mention.
Speaker 1 (54:09):
And reason joins us this time around on author's corner.
She's written a book called Rodeo Queen one oh one
and thanks so much for coming on the show.
Speaker 9 (54:18):
Oh it's my privilege. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (54:20):
So you and I talked off the air, and I'm
fascinated by the rodeo and your life is all about
the rodeo. Explain I am. I got so hooked into
this for everyone listening when I lived in Las Vegas
and the biggest rodeo in the country was there, and boy,
oh boy, the competitions. It just blew me away. The
things that I didn't know. I was sort of ignorant
to rodeo. How really cool it is, and how incredibly athletic. Really,
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so many, so many of the writers are in the
various things that they do. So how did you get
involved in rodeo? How did you grow up in the
rodeo so to speak?
Speaker 9 (54:55):
Well, I grew up in a small town that was
mostly farmers and ranchers, and the rodeo was the social event.
Festivities went on for a week and I always went
to the rodeo. I was involved with the rodeo parade.
I helped my girlfriend get ready with her saddle and
her silver and just enjoyed it. And then later on
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I met my husband, who is a retired bronc writer
saddle bronk rider, and through him, I've learned a tremendous
amount about rodeo And because of that, we became involved
with the Turquoise Circuit, which is part of the Professional
Rodeo Cowboys Association, and we were actuallyven that and because
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of my activity, I was asked to be a member
of the state board for Missus Rodeo Arizona, and that's
how I was introduced to rodeo queens.
Speaker 1 (55:49):
For you, what is your favorite part about the rodeo
if you actually sit down and you watch different elements
of the rodeo. Because I know you're involved in the
business side, what do you like the best?
Speaker 9 (56:00):
Oh, I love Settle Bronc. I fell in love with
it when I was four, But I love t bone Green.
I have a grandson who's a header and the whole
thing is enjoyed. That people are absolutely wonderful.
Speaker 2 (56:14):
Their's salt of the earth. That's I agree.
Speaker 1 (56:16):
That's what I saw when I got to be behind
the scenes as well and talk to so many of
the people. So your book Rodeo Queen one oh one,
tell us about that, all right.
Speaker 9 (56:28):
I had no intention of writing it, but one day
I was at a rodeo and a queen mother came
to me and she said, you need to write a
book about how to become a rodeo queen. And I
told her, Oh, I don't think I can. She said, oh,
yes you can. So after a long conversation, I agreed
to it, and I use my experience and fortunately I
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know people who are experts in their field, and so
they contributed it a lot to the book, explaining about horsemanship,
care of the horse, modeling, interviews, private interviews, how to
ask for money. You definitely have to go out and
get sponsors, and that is extremely difficult for most of them.
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And I have judges who wrote their opinion on what
they found the most important when they judge. And I
have queen directors on how they run their programs, and
I have comments from his Rodeo America and a very
long statement which is wonderful from its Rodeo USA.
Speaker 1 (57:38):
So you wanted it to be a book that could
really show somebody here's all the things you need to
do if you're doing a rodeo, here's things to look for,
and all the various aspects. And like you said, selling
is one of the hardest things. Sponsorship is tough to get,
isn't it.
Speaker 9 (57:53):
It's very very tough. When I was on the board,
that was my job if I learned firsthand how difficult it is.
But you have to be professional. You can't go in
in your torn jeans, etc. You have to look very
professional when you go in, know what you're going to say,
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appreciate the time that they're giving you. Make an appointment
first before you come in. Have a book with you
that has all of your accomplishments so they can see
that you're a hard worker. Whether or not you're a
Vale Victorian or act even Jim Kenna, or you run
barrels a rodeo, you raise the best sheep. It's just
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all the events that you're involved in and let them
know that you're a hard worker and you're willing to
put their name on their trailer, their horse trailer and
on their truck, and they will be written on the
back of their signature sheets that have their pictures when
they sign when people come up for our autographs, on
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the back of a list of all their sponsors and
where they are. They don't have to be just in
your tone. They can be in your state somewhere. Anyone
who's willing to support rodeo.
Speaker 2 (59:11):
Yeah, and really it's a book that anyone can read.
Speaker 1 (59:14):
Because I thought about this for people starting businesses even,
I think you could just replace some of the rodeo
aspects of it and you could look at it as
this is a great book on how to run a
business like a rodeo that's well tuned.
Speaker 9 (59:28):
Right, Oh, well, thank you, I probably so. I never
thought of it that way.
Speaker 1 (59:34):
Yeah, because what you said about sponsorships and how you
show up and how you show proof of here are
the things that I've done, and being professional and all
that sort of thing. So for people who are listening
who haven't been to a rodeo, I think they should
put it on their list of this is something that
I need to do. What's so magical about it?
Speaker 9 (59:57):
I think you're connected to the path. This is so
much part of our Western heritage. It started with ranch
employees competing against each other when they're training horses, breaking
them and stopping them from bucking all the time, and
who can ride the best, and they just turned into
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what rodeo is today. And the people, the patriotism, the
beautiful openings, the respect for our military and our flag,
and it's very much a family sport.
Speaker 8 (01:00:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:00:33):
I think it's a family sport too. And there are
rodeos all over this country. There's rodeos that are smaller
and bigger, and I you know where there are lots
of sports, and there are lots of as you say,
the fabric of connecting us to the past, there are
a lot of things that are slipping away. I think
the rodeo people are strong in trying to keep this
tradition alive. And do you feel like there's younger people
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interested in the rodeo?
Speaker 9 (01:00:57):
Oh? Yes, yes, it's very fun to go and see
these young people talk to the experienced ropers and barrel
racers for points. And how do I get involved? When
can I join the PRCA or wpr A, which is
the Women's Professional Rodeo Association they're eager to teach, they
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help one another. The camaraderie is unusual too, because they'll
ask you, i've drawn this horse, how does he buck?
And they'll say, well, when you open the shoes, he
takes a run and then he starts bucking to the left,
so you can anticipate how the horse is going to buck,
so you can stay on for your eight seconds.
Speaker 2 (01:01:40):
There you go, eight seconds.
Speaker 1 (01:01:41):
I got to tell you who my favorite eight seconds is, Like,
are you kidding? It's crazy? You know, the mechanical bulls.
I'm on there for like and two seconds and I
fly off and it doesn't look very good. It's so
so ugly the way it looks, but it's so fun
to do. I've done it in the stockyards in Fort Worth,
and I was thinking of yeah, yeah, amazing, and that's
a big rodeo area. And I was thinking about cowboys
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that I've met that I had a chance to interview.
And I interviewed Ty Murray once. Have you ever met him?
What a great guy?
Speaker 9 (01:02:09):
Yes, I have through a friend. I was introduced to him.
A very nice man.
Speaker 1 (01:02:14):
Yeah, and he's done a lot for rodeo because he's
popular and he's well known outside of rodeo, and I
think that even draws more people in as to what
is what the heck is rodeo?
Speaker 9 (01:02:25):
That did exactly. It's a nice exposure to the sport.
Speaker 1 (01:02:29):
Yeah, so you got to be honest with you and
your hey day. If you got on a mechanical bull,
you would probably just crush me, could you? You would
be on more than eight seconds?
Speaker 2 (01:02:36):
Right?
Speaker 9 (01:02:38):
Oh dear, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (01:02:43):
It's so fun. Rodeo is very, very fun. And I'm
glad that you put this book together. Rodeo Queen one
oh one. Why the title Rodeo Queen one oh one.
Speaker 9 (01:02:52):
Because I had a lot of one on one classes
in college. Is at a beginning, a beginning learning?
Speaker 1 (01:02:59):
How I like it because that's exactly what I thought.
I was like, Wow, this is one oh one's that's
it's the primer. It's getting you in the door and
getting you accustomed to some of the things that you
have to do if you're involved in the rodeo. But
like I said, I think any entrepreneur out there would
really draw something else from this too of what they
could do and look at what successfully has happened. And
(01:03:20):
thank you so much for coming on the show. We
appreciate it.
Speaker 9 (01:03:24):
Can I tell you where to buy it?
Speaker 2 (01:03:26):
Sure?
Speaker 9 (01:03:27):
Okay, you can buy it on Amazon and Page Turner
Press and media. And also I'm privileged to announce that
I'm going to be in the New York Times magazine
and they're making a movie of it. So it's going
to be an exciting year next year.
Speaker 1 (01:03:47):
You buried the lead. You're making a movie of the book.
Oh my gosh, it's so wow. Did have they cast
the movie yet?
Speaker 9 (01:03:54):
No?
Speaker 2 (01:03:54):
Not at this point, not yet.
Speaker 9 (01:03:57):
They haven't sent me anything about this, just if they're
going to do it, and I have full approval on everything,
so it's going to be an interesting experience.
Speaker 2 (01:04:07):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (01:04:08):
All right, So you have to promise me I can
sneak in and be at the set with you for
maybe a few minutes or so.
Speaker 9 (01:04:14):
I'll try.
Speaker 1 (01:04:17):
All right, that's good. I love it, and it would
make it would make a good movie. And reason Thank
you so much, Radio Queen one oh one. We appreciate it.
Speaker 9 (01:04:25):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (01:04:38):
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Speaker 2 (00:18):
Finally it's here.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
We've talked about it now this entire week and a
little bit last week, but really we've been talking about
Ukraine and Russia since the President said on the campaign
trail I'm going to fix this thing the second I
get in office, and it has been absolutely a passion
of his. Now it becomes reality as Putin and Trump
will meet in Alaska. Here's one of the last things
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the President said to reporters before he takes off in
the morning.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
We're going to see what happens. And I think President
Putin will make peace. I think President Zelenski will make peace.
We'll see if they can get along, and if they can,
it'll be great. You know, I've solved six wars in
the last six months, a little more than six months now,
and I'm very proud of it.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
I thought the.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Easiest one would be this one. It's actually the most difficult.
We had one war raging, as you know, for thirty
seven years. One into Congo with Rwanda was raging for
thirty one years. We saw six of them made peace,
not just South We made peace. If you look at
Pakistan and India that was planes were being knocked out
of the year, six or seven planes came down, they
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were ready to go. Maybe nuclear we solve that. I
thought this would be maybe an easier one. It never
made sense. This war would have never happened when I
was president. If I were president, this war would have
never happened.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
And so what will be at stake at this summit?
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Already a lot of the Russians are in place, and
what's at stake maybe land and some other things in
a possible cease fire.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
One key party who's not going.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
To be in a tendance Friday at the joint base
in Anchorage, Alaska, as Ukrainian President Voltimore Zelenski, Trump said
Thursday during that press conference, you just heard a little
snippet of it that he hopes the summit will lead
to a second meeting that would include Zelenski. But right
now it's about Putin and what's going to happen with Putin,
(02:22):
And of course some of this is definitely about land,
there's no question. And will there be any kind of
concessions in that sense or not. Secretary of State Marco Rubio,
you know, is preparing for the summit as well, because
he's going to be involved in it. And he said
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they're going very fast because this was put together pretty
quickly and it's in Alaska, so we're headed there. We'll
see how tomorrow plays out. The hope is that there
is some sense and can we get it very quickly
and early, whether peace is possible or or not, we
hope it is. We've heard the word hope a lot,
(03:04):
and the President has been careful about that, saying he
has no idea. Reading the tea leaves what exactly Putin
will do or won't do. But you know, you hear
the air raids go on in Kiev. That's what I've
been told. Drones were flying over key regions of Ukraine
Thursday into Friday. So this is a pretty historic thing,
(03:27):
and a lot is riding on what happens in Alaska.
Without without a doubt, we turned closer to home, really sad.
A couple of creepy, horrible things that happened in this
week and just the tail end of last week. Let's
start in Austin, Texas. There was the shooting in the
parking lot of Target that left three people dead, including
(03:52):
a four year old little girl who was with her grandfather,
sixty five year old Adam Chowd, his four year old
granddaughter and even his wife was shot. And then the
car was stolen by the man who is now the
thirty two year old who police believe killed three people,
including a target worker who was just returning carts and
(04:14):
getting them out to take them into the store. That
the man Ethanninneker, who was in possession of a gun.
Of course, the perpetrator was convicted of minor level family
violence in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
And here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Because of that especially, he was not allowed to be
in possession of a gun. It's just one little element
that is tucked into this, I mean, and the grief
reigns supreme.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
In that area of Austin.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
You can hear the disgust in this policewoman's voice talking about.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
It was an unprovoked and deliberate attack, a deliberate act
of violence.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
So, now as this moves forward, because we're talking about,
you know, capital murder, that's what's on the table here.
And again, the whole idea that once you are convicted
of something like he was convicted of, you cannot own
a firearm for the remainder of your life. That's another
element in this case that of course will all play out.
(05:22):
It doesn't do anything for the families who are just
left talking about their loved ones who happen to be
in the wrong place at the wrong time. The police chief,
Lisa Davis, who you heard there, said several times that
Nyneker had struggled with mental health and appeared to be
experienced in an episode during the attack. And she said,
(05:45):
you know this was missed, but there is no official
tracking system to even make sure people convicted of crimes
aren't carrying. It's almost impossible to police every single person.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
She said.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
That's why when we ask people in the community, if
you're loved one has a mental issue, say what he's doing,
and do not have guns at home.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
This one really hit hard.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
For a lot of people, and it's the story of
what happened to Devil's Den State Park in Arkansas. Just
a slice of heaven there that was absolutely destroyed by
twenty eight year old Andrew James McGann, who was in
a courtroom and he is accused of the teacher of
(06:31):
fatally stabbing two hikers at that state park in Arkansas
last month. Here is what the prosecutor, Brandon Carter, the
prosecuting attorney from Washington County there said about the Devil's
Den alleged murderer.
Speaker 6 (06:49):
He's been charged with capital murder for some time. We
filed the efficient chargers on August first. Today was the
day that the charges were read to him and.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Not guilty, all right, And this mcgaan, as he said,
this is the first time that he was read those charges.
And now this all plays out starting in November. That's
when the case is set. So we're talking about a
double homicide and again a rain that's the new detail
(07:21):
in this on Thursday, and him pleading not guilty. We
need some good news. Here's news that people have wanted
to hear, I think for a long time.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
And you know what the news is.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
It feels like a long time anyway, that the average
rate on a thirty year mortgage dropped to the lowest
level that we've seen since October. So we're talking really
ten months, because I'm talking about last October. So I
looked at the rates and the long term rates fell
to six fifty eight, six point fifty eight percent from
(08:05):
six sixty three. So you can see it's sliding down
a little bit, which is a good thing. And then
of course barring costs on a fifteen year fixed rate mortgage,
which is popular with homeowners for example refinancing their home loans,
also dropped down. So that's good news for people who
(08:25):
have been playing around with this who desperately need to
maybe move. But the elevated mortgage rates have kept the
housing market in a terrible sales slump really since early
twenty twenty two, when the rates started to climb from
rock bottom lows higher and higher and higher and higher.
So yay, that is very very good news. A pregnant
(08:47):
woman attacked by a shark.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
That's next time.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
For a little dollars and cents and maybe no sense whatsoever.
How about Starbucks CEO Brian Nickel. I caught him on
WGN in Chicago. Sales have been down six straight quarters.
Twenty percent of sales are mobile people well, you know,
going through the windows. So what is the problem? He
(09:26):
feels The problem is people aren't getting the customer service
they really desire and what Starbucks was known for. If
you go into one of those stores and they've launched
something new called green Apron, and the idea behind green
apron is you'll get your coffee within four minutes. I'm
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thinking to myself lining up in Washington, d C. Inside
a store, or in New York City in downtown Manhattan. Ooh,
that's a tall, tall task. And then I think of
all the stores, and there's so many of those stores,
you know, over fifteen thousand of them. But this is
(10:11):
the direction they're going on, and he feels pretty confident
they can accomplish this, and it starts within a couple
of weeks.
Speaker 7 (10:18):
And it's centered on putting enough partners on the roster
in the stores and then deployed correctly so they can
provide that customer connection, that experience that frankly, Starbucks really
was founded on.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Well, all right, so we'll see, and you know that
it is one thing they were founded on for sure
when they first came around. I can remember going into
a Starbucks traveling, and especially when you're traveling because they're
inside a lot of airports or just you know, if
you're hustle bustling between places and whatever downtown area. I mean,
it could be a small town that you're in, or
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it could be somewhere a little bit larger, and the
whole idea of them writing your name with the selfie
and you know they I mean at the selfie with
the sharpie. They were and it was pretty quick. It
was a pretty quick turnaround. But then because of the windows,
things got jammed up and he said something I thought
was really interesting. And I can see this if you
were If you were inside and you're seeing all these
(11:18):
people whip through the drive through, then you think, why
am I standing in this line? Should I have just
stayed in my car and gone through because I already
have gotten my order versus standing here in this line.
So we'll see if it works and it turns things
around a bit for them. Would you pay four billion
dollars for an NBA franchise? How about the Portland Trailblazers
(11:41):
for all our Portland Trailblazer fans out there, And we
definitely have them people listening on KBNP at least for
sure the money station, right, they might have a new owner.
And so the idea is because this first thing I
thought of was the guy who owns the Carolina Panthers
is buying the Trailblazers.
Speaker 8 (11:58):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Is he going to take the team to Carolina or
is he going to keep the team there and the
new owner, who it looks like is going to be
the new owner since they've agreed. Paul Allen's estate has
agreed to sell the team to Carolina Hurricanes owner Tom Dundon.
He said that he intends to keep the team in
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the city that's been its home since nineteen seventy and
he just heads the group that wants to buy this.
It includes the capital of like Blue Oul Capital, and
a few other people too are mixed into that. And
even though the specific negotiated sales price wasn't disclosed, let's
just say it leaked out and it's four billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
And he does say that he'll address some of the
specifics once things are finalized, because you know, a lot
of things can happen. Even though there's an agreement in
all of this, a lot of things can certainly happen
that could maybe change that. But it looks like smooth
sailing to me. I don't know what would get in
the way of it. Although the sale needs to be
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approved by the NBA's Board of Governors, and that could
take several months. Like if you remember Bill Chisholm agreed
to buy the Boston Celts in March, and that sale
still is not complete, so it does take a little
bit of a little bit of time. Who knows spin
(13:27):
for the Portland Trail Blazers, it could be something interesting.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
By the way, Dundin I knew that name.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
He lives in Dallas, Texas, and he became the majority
owner of the Hurricanes in twenty eighteen. He was one
of those guys where part of where he made his money.
He was an early investor in top Golf, among other ventures.
So you know, Adam Silver said in July that the
Blazers need a new arena. So that means there's either
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going to be a dramatic renovation of the thirty year
old old palace that they play in now, which is
not a palace, or a new facility altogether. I'm thinking,
if I'm Dundant, it's probably gonna be a new facility,
and let's see if he can breathe some new life
into into the franchise even so to speak, all right,
(14:16):
continuing along dollars and cents, Walmart has expanded its discount
program for Ready for This employees. So I always wonder this,
what do employees get anything for free? Do they get
a lunch.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Do they get? What do they get?
Speaker 1 (14:31):
They they're offering employees discounts on all groceries year round,
versus discounts on specific things during the holiday season, So
I think that's better. They sent out a company memo
just a couple days ago and they said the changes
mean employees get ten percent off all food categories, So
that means dairy and frozen and dry grocery and meat
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and seafood and general merchandise and fashion and all of that.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
And I think that's.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Pretty good for the people that work there because they're,
let's face it, especially if they're hitting the hours hard
and they have families or whatever, easy to easy prices
and easy to whip down a couple of those aisles
and grab what they need and you know, and get
those discounts. I was wondering, how many of you were you?
What are the perks on your job? What are the
(15:23):
perks that you get for your job? And I used
to work at a sandwich place when I was in college.
It was called Hole in the Wall. It was off
of Court Street in Athens, Ohio, and it was so fun.
I loved the people that work there and we got
to eat the free. I mean, so you know, how
many subs can you eat though, especially if you're work
(15:45):
at a lot of hours. But still, I thought that
was pretty good. So you know, you could get a
meal there. And there are other companies like Home Depot
employees get a ten percent discount on all regular priced merchandise, right,
and also that applies to immediate family members. It's the
same thing for Lows. They get the same deal there. Amazon,
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It kind of varies, but they get like ten percent
on purchases too, and they can get they get like
a maximum discount of ten percent off a thousand, So
it's pretty it's pretty interesting, and I wonder if you
crunch the numbers, how many employees take advantage of that, right,
I'm thinking especially with Walmart, the amount of employees they
(16:30):
have across the country, you know, like Georgia, Indiana, Floor,
I mean every state has them, So so what does
that look like?
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Right?
Speaker 1 (16:41):
And then how about this story A dollars and cents.
The Bath and body Works is selling products in six
hundred college bookstores as pretty genius in a sense because
what do they need? What do kids need on college campuses? Right,
So it's kind of back to school that's the thought
(17:04):
for this company. They announce that they're going to do this,
and it's just at least they're probably testing it for
the twenty twenty five twenty twenty six academic years, and
they're trying to strengthen their connection with jen Z consumers.
They were named and this is smart, and I bet
you this is part of what they discussed at their meeting.
If I was a fly on the wall, they were
(17:25):
the number one Fray Grants brand for American teenagers and
the third overall most shopped at beauty stores by teenagers.
Speaker 9 (17:35):
In this.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Taking stock Piper Sandler taking stock with teen survey that
they do every year, the twenty twenty five survey. So
Bath and Bodyworks partnered with ICM distributing company, and so
they work with chains like Barnes and Noble College and
Fullet operated bookstores and other independent campus retailers.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
And they cut that a deal and so they'll get it.
There'll be a whole bunch of different things that will
be offered.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Their hand soaps and candles and those kinds of products
like the tiny hand sanitizers and the diffusers. They're smart,
they're keeping it small what they're offering even like some
lip product kind of things. And I think this is
(18:25):
will probably be a boost to them. I'd be really
curious to see how that all turns out, because that's
a lot of locations that there. That's a lot of
locations that they're talking about, from like Alabama State University
to Ball State.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
To you know, you name it. But I bet, I
bet it goes pretty well.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
And I was in Staples the other day and I
realized this since I was doing dollars and cents for
back to school stuff. They always say they have deals
because that's also a psychological thing. We see deal, right,
and we're we all get roped in. We just take
a hook line and sinker. But they have back to
school sales with things starting at twenty five cents. What
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can you get with twenty five cents? Well, let me
tell you. You can get pencils for less than fifty cents.
You can get Crayola crowns less than fifty cents, So
I'm not talking about a giant thing of it gluticks.
Same thing. I looked around because I was like, okay,
what can I get folders?
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Really is the twenty five cent deal?
Speaker 1 (19:29):
You can grab folders for twenty five cents or even
notebooks and school binders. That's actually pretty good. And they
were pretty good. And does anyone even use a calculator?
I guess they do because they sell calculators.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
If you're in math, can't you just use your phone
or they not let you even pulling out your phone?
I guess then you can't, and then you have to
have a calculator. I'm not really sure. One thing I
know most kids have to have now is they have
to have computers because so much of the work is
done through the computer. It's you're not writing things so
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down so much as you used to. You know, there's
even schools where they have computers donated because some of
the kids can't afford computers. But they have a lot
of laptops on sale at Staples with pretty good deals.
I feel like I'm advertising for Staples. I'm not, but
I just noticed it and I wondered, Yeah, how true
(20:23):
is this back to schools sale?
Speaker 2 (20:24):
I want to see what.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
You can get for what they're saying, And actually some
of it was pretty decent. All right on the flip
your thoughts as we go to the mail bag and
speaking of dollars and cents the pre market bell as well.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
I'm going to the man Cave.
Speaker 8 (20:49):
I'm going to the marri Cave, going to the mar Caves.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Yes, we are in the man Cave.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
This the time of the year where anybody can win
the Super Bowl because we haven't played any games yet.
Who cares about the preseason? Although there will be a
slate of games coming up this week and it's on Friday.
There's a bunch of games and then through the weekend
and before you know it will be into the real stuff,
into the thick of it. So there's a cool thing
that's happening. It's called The Kingdom. It's a six episode
(21:22):
documentary series and it looks at the history of the
Kansas City Chiefs with a focus on what's happened recently,
especially looking at the twenty twenty four season, from the
Super Bowl loss to the Eagles to the prominent role
of Taylor Swift.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
It kicked off on Thursday, and it's.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
On like you can watch it in a lot of
different places, Direct TV, Fubo, Disney plus all a lot
of different places where we can watch this content for
you know, for free. So here's a little sneak on
the Kingdom every year.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
The only goal that you have is winning the Super Bowl.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Don't win it, it's a failure. All this pressure builds up.
Speaker 8 (22:04):
No one's ever got three. When you're winning, people look
at you and they're like, you're the villain.
Speaker 9 (22:09):
Cout Cameron's play.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
It's our life and it's an emotional game.
Speaker 8 (22:17):
I do right, win or lose.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
This team will never do the same team.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
How about those.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
They had a bunch of injuries and so one of
the first episode of the series looks at not just
the season, but also Pat Mahomes and a bunch of
injuries that hit the team during the twenty twenty four season.
I think it's probably going to be well received, all right,
So Taylor Swift, I mentioned her name, and it's interesting
(22:48):
that just of course exploded when it came to downloads
of Taylor Swift being on New Heights, the podcast by
the Kelsey Brothers.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Here's what she said when it came to foot all, Oh.
Speaker 5 (23:01):
My god, I fell in love with it.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
I became obsessed with it.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
I became like a person who was running through the
halls of my house screaming.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
We DRAFTEDXA. If you're worthy and my friends were like,
what is who? Body snatched you? This is?
Speaker 9 (23:15):
This?
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (23:16):
What do you mean we drafted you're worthy?
Speaker 4 (23:20):
I forget you were the first person to tell me
that screeching. No, I was screeching.
Speaker 5 (23:25):
I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
I thought that was a cute moment for sure, in
that in that interview. All Right, a couple of things
to mention quickly. Here about the NFL, and like I said,
we're into the preseason stuff and now it's about, you know,
eventually who who's in and who's out. As the cuts
get made, that becomes a big thing.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Obviously.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
One of the things that's one of the things that's
happening is the Michael Parsons deal. I keep talking about
that because everybody keeps asking about that, even Cowboy fans.
People say, oh, are they really America's team anymore? But
yet so many of you will ask about the Dallas Cowboys,
and you're asking me from Connecticut and New York. And
(24:14):
when I traveled with the Cowboys, I saw that that
there were fans everywhere, I mean absolutely everywhere. All Right,
here's a note on not the Cowboys, because nothing new
with Michael Parsons it's the Packers and it's Jordan Love surgery.
Now looking at surgery, he had surgery so that he
would be ready for Week one. If you remember, after
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dealing with so many injuries last season, and he didn't
want to go in with any kinds of ailment. So
he had surgery on his left thumb that's his non
throwing hand, after he had a ligament injury in a
preseason opener against the Jets, and he said the surgery,
which took place in Los Angeles on Tuesday, was to
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repair his this collateral ligment, his ulnar collateral ligment. And
he said, I think with the timeframe we have right now,
finishing up training camp in preseason heading into the season,
the choice was I want to be one hundred percent healthy,
and I got to make the call. And because I
dealt with all those injuries last year, I wanted to
(25:19):
go into this thing feeling better. Remember last year he
missed the second and third games after he had that
sprain MCL in the season opener against the Eagles in Brazil.
Then he had a groin injury later in the season,
so it made a big difference. But even after the
thumb injury, he took part in Monday's practice with you
(25:39):
know the team. His thumb was taped up and he
could do everything that he normally I guess could pretty
much do. They just have to exercise serious caution when
it comes to that. All right, Major League Baseball, I'm
going to squeeze in some of the scores for you.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Oh boy, do I get asked about scores? I love it.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
So we do have some baseball fans in this audience
listening to the man Cave Orioles beat the Mariners five three.
Ryan Mountcastle nabbed home so the O's pulled off a
double steal, which is one of the coolest things. I
have never seen that live. I've seen it on video.
Blue Jays glide by the Cubbies two to one. They
(26:21):
pick up their seventy first win. Guardians knocked off the
Marlins nine to four. Nationals edged out the Phillies three
to two. Ozzie Alby's big night helped the Braves really
rally past the Mets four three.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
He was mister score.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
The Tigers did it in eleven, beating the Twins four three.
Diamondbacks with a good night as they finally beat up
on the Rockies eight to two. They picked up their
sixtieth win in on the season, and of course this
is where they want to see that add up because
looking at oh, where would you fall into a playoff spot?
(27:04):
That's that's the big thing there, looking ahead, bouncing ahead,
and of course that's you know, that's what that's what
we're looking at. You know, we talked about a little
bit about what's happening in the NFL, but what about
what's happening in college football? There are a couple of
things that are I think pretty interesting that I love
(27:26):
looking at the preseason projections and who's predicted to, you know,
go where. I like absorb all those crazy preseason mags.
I said, I was going to go through the NFL,
and I'll go through as much as I can with
college football in the next couple of weeks. But it's
interesting in looking at the big the big spots like
(27:49):
the Sugar Bowl, the Rose Bowl, the Orange Bowl, the
Cotton Bowl, because you're talking about who's going to be
the national champs. And Texas of course is projected to
being number one, Penn State number two. This is in
some in preseason analysis. Is three is Clemson, four is
(28:11):
Ohio State, and.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
You know, you it's really.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
You know, how does the twelve team see college football
playoff play out? What does that look like? And Notre Dame?
What happens with Notre Dame? What happens with Texas Tech?
I mean, looking at all the top ten, Miami, Alabama,
Squeeze Alabama, how about Oregon? You can't forget the Ducks. Whatsoever?
(28:39):
Texas ranked number one in the preseason AP Top twenty
five for the first time in the program's history.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
The Longhorns have.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Serious pressure and part of that is there's so much
hype over Arch Manning and let's see what happens Penn State.
Can the Knit nee Lyons really accomplish what the expectation
is for them, because of course the bulk of their squad,
(29:10):
they're bringing back the bulk of them after, you know,
a few plays away from playing for a national title
last year. And they have a pretty favorable schedule. And
I talked about Clemson and Dados Sweetey you can't ever
count him out and he's projected to once again. He's
(29:33):
got an Eisman candidate at quarterback and you know, a
hot defense. And I mentioned the Irish and of course
Ohio State and despite Ohio State's loss to Texas at home.
You know, on August thirtieth, they're still talking about the
Buckeyes trying to land a first round by not even
(29:56):
though they didn't win the Big Ten the past fall.
So you know, it's interesting and looking at how this
all plays out. And to me, do I carry those
notes to see? Okay, who's saying what will happen? Even
Texas Tech in so many cases edging in there, and
I mentioned Miami And for twenty two consecutive years there's
(30:18):
been a preseason top ten team from the AP pole
to finish the year unranked. And some are looking at
what's happening with the Hurricanes and how do they fall
in around and of course Oregon and the Ducks when
they take the field in twenty twenty five. You know
(30:41):
last year only unbeaten last season by Ohio State. You
know I think about that, the field's only unbeaten last
season by Ohio State.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
I really watched the Ducks last year and I really
loved watching it. My cousin's kid goes to Oregon and
that became kind of a thing.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
We're gonna watch and see what the Ducks do. Anyway,
I'm getting psyched. We got our duck there.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
I'm getting psyched for football just in general. Probably all
of you are too, or maybe you're not. But that's
what the man Cave is all about. We'll stay with us,
Doctor Clifton Hunt next and then and reason with author's corner.
Speaker 8 (31:26):
I'm going to the man Cave, going to the Merricave,
going to the Merricaves.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Yes, we are in the man Cave.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
This is the time of the year where anybody can
win the Super Bowl because we haven't played any games yet.
Who cares about the preseason? Although there will be a
slate of games coming up this week and it's on Friday.
There's a bunch of games, and then through the weekend
and before you know it will be into the real stuff,
into the thick of it. So there's a cool thing
that's happen. It's called The Kingdom. It's a six episode
(32:02):
documentary series and it looks at the history of the
Kansas City Chiefs with a focus on what's happened recently,
especially looking at the twenty twenty four season, from the
Super Bowl loss to the Eagles to the prominent role
of Taylor Swift. It kicked off on Thursday, and it's on, Like,
you can watch it in a lot of different places,
(32:23):
Direct TV, Fubo, Disney Plus all a lot of different
places where you can watch this content for you know,
for free. So here's a little sneak on the Kingdom.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Every year, the only goal that you have is winning
the Super Bowl.
Speaker 4 (32:39):
If we don't win it, it's a failure. All this
pressure builds up.
Speaker 8 (32:44):
No one's ever got three and you're winning.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
People look at you and they're like, you're the villain
the camera. It's our life and it's an emotional game.
Speaker 8 (32:57):
After right, win or lose. This team will never do
the same.
Speaker 4 (33:02):
How about those.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
They had a bunch of injuries and so one of
the first episode of the series looks at not just
the season, but also Pat Mahomes and a bunch of
injuries that hit the team during during the twenty twenty
four season. I think it's probably going to be well received,
all right, So Taylor Swift, I mentioned her name, and
(33:27):
it's interesting that just of course exploded when it came
to downloads of Taylor Swift being on New Heights, the
podcast by the Kelsey Brothers.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Here's what she said when it came to football.
Speaker 9 (33:41):
Oh my god.
Speaker 5 (33:41):
I fell in love with it.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
I became obsessed with it.
Speaker 5 (33:43):
I became like a person who was running through the
halls of my house screaming, we.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Drafted Xavier, You're worthy. And my friends were like, what
is who? Body snatched you? This is? This is?
Speaker 9 (33:56):
What do you mean?
Speaker 2 (33:58):
We save You're worthy?
Speaker 4 (34:00):
I forget where it was, but you were the first
person to tell me that the question no. I was screeching.
Speaker 5 (34:05):
I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
I thought that was a cute moment for sure, in
that in that interview. All right, a couple of things
to mention quickly here about the NFL, and like I said,
we're into the preseason stuff and now it's about, you know,
eventually who who's in and who's out. As the cuts
get made, that becomes a big thing. Obviously. One of
(34:31):
the things that's one of the things that's happening is
the Michael Parsons deal. I keep talking about that because
everybody keeps asking about that. Even Cowboy fans. People say, oh,
they are they really America's team anymore? But yet so
many of you will ask about the Dallas Cowboys and
you're you're asking me from Connecticut and New York and
(34:54):
when I traveled with the Cowboys, I saw that that
there were fans everywhere. I mean absolutely everywhere. All right,
here's a note on not the Cowboys, because nothing new
with Michael Parsons. It's the Packers, and it's Jordan Love surgery.
Now looking at surgery. He had surgery so that he
would be ready for Week one. If you remember, after
(35:17):
dealing with so many injuries last season, and he didn't
want to go in with any.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
Kinds of ailment.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
So he had surgery on his left thumb that's his
non throwing hand, after he had a ligament injury in
a preseason opener against the Jets, And he said the surgery,
which took place in Los Angeles on Tuesday, was to
repair his collateral ligament, his ulnar collateral ligment. And he said,
(35:46):
I think with the timeframe we have right now, finishing
up training camp, in preseason, heading into the season, the
choice was I want to be one hundred percent healthy,
and I got to make the call. And because I
dealt with all those injuries last year, I wanted to
go into the thing feeling better. Remember last year he
missed the second and third games after he had that
Sprain mcl and the season opener against the Eagles in Brazil.
(36:10):
Then he had a groin injury later in the season,
so it made a big difference. But even after the
thumb injury, he took part in Monday's practice with you know,
the team. His thumb was taped up and he could
do everything that he normally I guess could pretty much.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
Do they just have to.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
Exercise serious you know, caution when it comes to that,
all right, Major League Baseball, I'm going to squeeze in
some of the scores for you. Oh boy, do I
get asked about scores?
Speaker 2 (36:40):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
So we do have some baseball fans in this audience
listening to the man Cave Orioles beat the.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
Mariners five three.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
Ryan Mountcastle nabbed home so the O's pulled off a
double steal, which is one of the coolest things. I
have never seen that live. I've seen it on video.
Blue Jays glide by the Cubbies two to one. They
pick up their seventy first win. Guardians knocked off the
Marlins nine to four. Nationals edged out the Phillies three
(37:10):
to two. Ozzie Alby's big night helped the Braves really
rally past the Mets four three.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
He was mister score.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
The Tigers did it in eleven, beating the Twins four three,
Diamondbacks with a good night as they finally beat up
on the Rockies eight to two. They picked up their
sixtieth win in on the season.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
And of course this is.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Where they want to see that add up because you're
looking at, oh, where would you fall into a playoff spot?
That's that's the big thing there, looking ahead, bouncing ahead,
and of course that's you know, that's what that's what.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
We're looking at.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
You know, we talked about a little bit about what's
happening in the NFL, but what about what's happening in
college football? There are a couple of things that are
I think pretty interesting that I love looking at the
preseason projections and who's predicted to, you know, go where.
I like, absorb all those crazy preseason mags. I said,
(38:15):
I was going to go through the NFL, and I'll
go through as much as I can with college football
in the next couple of weeks. But it's interesting in
looking at the big the big spots like the Sugar Bowl,
the Rose Bowl, the Orange Bowl, the Cotton Bowl, because
you're talking about who's going to be the national champs.
(38:36):
And Texas, of course is projected to be number one,
Penn State number two. This is in some in pre
season analysis is three is Clemson? Four is Ohio State?
And you know, you it's it's really you know, how
(38:59):
does the twelve teams see college football playoff play out?
What does that look like? And Notre Dame? What happens
with Notre Dame? What happens with Texas Tech? I mean,
looking at all the top ten, Miami, Alabama, Squeeze Alabama,
how about Oregon?
Speaker 2 (39:15):
You can't forget the Ducks. Whatsoever?
Speaker 1 (39:19):
Texas ranked number one in the preseason AP Top twenty
five for the first time in the program's history. The
Longhorns have serious pressure, and part of that is there's
so much hype over Arch Manning and let's see what
happens Penn State. Can the Nitney Lions really accomplish what
(39:44):
the expectation is for them, because of course, the bulk
of their squad, they're bringing back the bulk of them
after a few plays away from playing for a national
title last year, and they have a pre favorable schedule.
And I talked about Clemson and Dados Sweetey, you can't
(40:06):
ever count him out. And he he's projected to once again.
He's got an Eisman candidate at quarterback, and you know,
a hot defense. And I mentioned the Irish and of
course Ohio State. And despite Ohio State's loss to Texas at.
Speaker 2 (40:26):
Home, you know.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
On August thirtieth, they're still talking about the Buckeyes trying
to land a first round by not even though they
didn't win the Big Ten the past fall. So you know,
it's interesting and looking at how this all plays out.
And to me, do I carry those notes to see? Okay,
(40:49):
who's saying what will happen? Even Texas Tech in so
many cases edging in there, And I mentioned Miami and
for twenty two consecutive years there's been a preseason top
ten team from the AP pole to finish the year unranked.
And some are looking at what's happening with the Hurricanes
and how do they fall in around and of course
(41:11):
Oregon and the Ducks when they take the field in
twenty twenty five, you know last year only unbeaten last
season by Ohio State. You know, I think about that
the field's only unbeaten last season by Ohio State Wow.
(41:32):
I really watched the Ducks last year and I really
loved watching it. My cousin's kid goes to Oregon and
that became kind of a thing. We're gonna watch and
see what the Ducks do. Anyway, I'm getting psyched. See
we got our duck there. I'm getting psyched for football
just in general. Probably all of you are too, or
maybe you're not, but that's what the man Cave is
(41:53):
all about. We'll stay with us. Doctor Clifton Hunt next,
and then and reason with author's Corner. This time around
(42:15):
an author's corner the name of the book Protector of
the Innocent. Doctor Clifton Hunt joins us to talk about
his book here in America tonight with me Kate Delaney.
His story is a story that is sadly far too common,
and boy, what is he doing to help change that scenario?
(42:35):
And actually, I think this book will inspire you and
make you think of ways that you can reach out
and help people too as well.
Speaker 2 (42:42):
So, doctor Hunt, thank you for coming.
Speaker 8 (42:44):
On, Thank you for having me. Kate.
Speaker 1 (42:47):
What made you write the book? Because you really poured
your heart into this book. What made you decide to
tackle it?
Speaker 8 (42:55):
Well, it started as a child growing up in the
Chicago Housing Authority, the project we would call it projects,
and as a child going to the public school system,
going through that system is where I started. I grew
up in a family with the mother who had multiple
curosis and a father who was a janitor, and so
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as we struggled through those periods of time, and my
mom never I never saw her walk, so but I
experienced at a very young age some traumatic experiences because
she couldn't walk and my dad was a janitor. What
we experienced was we had an older cousin who and
I don't want to give away too much of the book,
(43:40):
who sexually abused me. So that was dramatic. That's where
it started. Experienced abuse as a child and even continued
going into adolescent. When I became older after finishing school,
I saw those sayings type of symptoms in my children
(44:00):
that I was the principal of and the classroom teacher.
I saw those same hurt in their eyes when I
would look at them, I knew something wasn't right.
Speaker 1 (44:10):
Wow, and the hurt in their eyes did you just
know I have to figure out a way to do.
Speaker 8 (44:15):
Something, absolutely, absolutely And it's amazing. At one of the schools.
I was the principal of a kindergarten teacher spoke a
word over me and she said, you're going to be
a mentor of millions of young men. And I started
my first mentoring program and it was so successful there
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was a waiting list to get into the program. It
became so successful in the district that the girls did
begme to come to me and they said, mister Hunt.
I was mister Hunt. Then they said, Principal Hunt, we
want our program too. You spent all the time with
the boys. So what I found out is the same
(44:59):
principles I used to mentor boys worked with girls. So
I started a program for the girls and had the
female teachers run that program.
Speaker 1 (45:09):
Wow, hearing you talk about it and the emotion and
really what you've given to the world and that somebody
saw that in you and that you were able to
then later in your life pursue this. And what does
it mean to these kids, as you said, you could
see that look in their eye, What does it mean
(45:31):
for them to have mentors, to have somebody that can help.
Speaker 8 (45:36):
It's a must in the life of a young boy,
whether he's a boy of color or regardless of what
his ethnic background is or social background is. Every boy
needs a mentor. And the reason I say that is
he needs to see what a man looks like. He
(45:56):
needs to see a positive role model of a man
and how to navigate through life's many difficult challenges that
we face as men. And my head goes off and
I salute all the single mothers who have done an outstanding,
excellent job and raising boys. But we as men need
to partner along with those mothers to show that young
(46:19):
man what it means to be a man. And another
man is the only one who can really show him
that picture.
Speaker 1 (46:27):
Yeah, and we should tell everybody. Protector of the Innocent.
You can get this book on Amazon, Barnes and Noble.
I mean, you can get a Kindle version paperback for
just absolutely a song and it's so important and it's
just what you've poured out in this book and things
that maybe people don't know. I mean, you know, physically,
sexually abused, teased, bullied, you talk about all of that.
(46:51):
What do you hope people take away from reading the book?
Speaker 8 (46:55):
What I hope they take away when they look at
my life story, what they should take way is that
I was not the one who was predicted to be
the successful child in the group. I was the one
that was most likely not to be successful. But because
of an ad Joseph annointing that was placed over my life,
(47:16):
I watched God take me from a high school dropout
to begin from a high school dropout to becoming doctor
Clifton Hunt No One. I'm the first in my family
to receive that type of a title educational background when
(47:38):
I had no mentor. My father only had a sixth
grade education, and my mother, she didn't finish high school,
so I had no one to show me the ropes
and how to navigate through that. And so what I
hope people will take away from my book, regardless of
your beginning, there is a plan for your life and
(48:00):
if you just keep following the dream. And my book
I talk a lot about the dream that pushed me.
I had a desire to be a teacher, and that
was the first dream, and it kept pushing me to
the next level. And after being a classroom seven years,
then I wanted to become an administrator. And it pushed me,
and it pushed me, and it kept pushing me, and
I became work to coordinate over one hundred and six
(48:22):
schools and kept pushing me, and the dream kept pushing
me until I finally finished my doctoral study after going
through two doctoral programs. The book will bring you healing
is what my prayer is. When my person read it,
they will see that there is hope no matter what
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the challenges they have gone through, no matter what the
hurd or pain is, there's healing for them and they
can reach the full potential and the plan that God
has for their life.
Speaker 1 (48:59):
Did you ever imagine? And because you had that dream
and you pursued it, and wow, what an inspiration did
you ever imagine? You would have been in the classroom,
which was great to begin with, then is in your
influencing and you're helping and you're teaching, and then you
become a principal and then you even go hirer Did
(49:20):
you ever see that once you jumped up the education?
Speaker 8 (49:25):
No, I didn't see any of it. And that's the
amazing thing. There's a plan for each of our lives.
And it's probably a good thing that we can't see
that far ahead because we might become afraid and say,
I can't go through all of that. And what I
had to go through to get to this level of
doctor hunt, the many many doors that were closed, the
(49:48):
many hurts and the many pains, and the many people
that said you can't do that, No, you're not smart enough,
and had even one professor said you'll never make it
through this program, and I was like wow. So had
I known all of that, I probably would have became
afraid to said, oh, it's not worth it. But the
(50:10):
dream kept pushing me so that I couldn't see the end.
I just saw a little bit at a time. And
even when the time I was homeless and sleeping out
of my car because I wanted to finish school, it
was that Despert. I was in my last year of
school and doing my student teaching, and I was homeless,
(50:31):
and so I had to sleep in my car for
a while, and the book talks about that, and I
finally humbled myself and had to sleep with my brother
to move in with him and his wife. So No,
to answer your question, Kate, no, I never saw any
of this, never never imagined it.
Speaker 4 (50:51):
Never well.
Speaker 1 (50:52):
And I keep using this word, but it is the
best word. What an inspiration somebody that keeps going, Like
you said and talk about it in your book, it
was worth it, right, Oh yes.
Speaker 8 (51:04):
Yes, because now I look back at my old thirty
years of educational experience as a principal, and one story
that sticks with me that makes it worth it all.
And one of the schools that I was mentoring really quick,
there were two young men of the Hispanic background and
they wanted to be in the program. So I let
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him in the program. I mean go the program was full.
One brother was about ten and his younger sibling was
about six. I let him in the program because he
was always fighting. The ten year old. He was constantly
getting into trouble constantly, teachers couldn't do anything with them,
and so those are the kind of schools that I
had always. So I just sat down one day and
(51:47):
talked to him and tried to figure out what was
going on, and he wouldn't open up. So we let
him in the program. And being surrounded with other boys
and the love that he felt, he began that share
beginning to crack. Then I met with his and I
would meet with my parents, all tell me, said what
is going on with him? She was in my office
with the two boys. She said, I'm going to share
(52:08):
something with you, doctor Hanna. So what is she said?
Both of my sons have been repeatedly sexually abused by
their dad, who was incarcerated, so when he came out,
he would come out sexually abuse him and then get
rearrested and go back to jail. And she said this
has been a pattern for them. That story sticks with
(52:31):
me and one of the reasons why I know God
called me and put me on this earth to be
a protector of the innocence. The innocence are these young
men who are children and adolescents. They're not adults, you know,
they shouldn't have to experience being abused and bullied and
(52:52):
teased like I was. And if more men and more
adults would step up and protect our children, that's our call,
and I know that's mine. So anytime I hear about
anything in the news and I see these teenage boys
that are going around robbing people and hijackie, the first
thing that goes to my mind, Kate, is where is
their mentor, who's spoken to their life, Who's there to
(53:15):
guide them the right way, to let them know there's
a better way. You don't have to do this. And
so that's my passion.
Speaker 1 (53:24):
You are an inspiration. I've used that word so much
and you truly are you own that word. Protector of
the Innocent, Doctor Clifton Hunt. Get this book Amazon, Barnes
and Noble. Thank you for sharing your story.
Speaker 8 (53:37):
Thank you Kay so much for having me spend my.
Speaker 4 (53:40):
Blessure you Mention.
Speaker 1 (54:09):
And reason joins us this time around on author's corner.
She's written a book called Rodeo Queen one oh one
and thanks so much for coming on the show.
Speaker 9 (54:18):
Oh it's my privilege. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (54:20):
So you and I talked off the air, and I'm
fascinated by the rodeo and your life is all about
the rodeo. Explain I am. I got so hooked into
this for everyone listening when I lived in Las Vegas
and the biggest rodeo in the country was there, and boy,
oh boy, the competitions. It just blew me away. The
things that I didn't know. I was sort of ignorant
to rodeo. How really cool it is, and how incredibly athletic. Really,
(54:45):
so many, so many of the writers are in the
various things that they do. So how did you get
involved in rodeo? How did you grow up in the
rodeo so to speak?
Speaker 9 (54:55):
Well, I grew up in a small town that was
mostly farmers and ranchers, and the rodeo was the social event.
Festivities went on for a week and I always went
to the rodeo. I was involved with the rodeo parade.
I helped my girlfriend get ready with her saddle and
her silver and just enjoyed it. And then later on
(55:17):
I met my husband, who is a retired bronc writer
saddle bronk rider, and through him, I've learned a tremendous
amount about rodeo And because of that, we became involved
with the Turquoise Circuit, which is part of the Professional
Rodeo Cowboys Association, and we were actuallyven that and because
(55:39):
of my activity, I was asked to be a member
of the state board for Missus Rodeo Arizona, and that's
how I was introduced to rodeo queens.
Speaker 1 (55:49):
For you, what is your favorite part about the rodeo
if you actually sit down and you watch different elements
of the rodeo. Because I know you're involved in the
business side, what do you like the best?
Speaker 9 (56:00):
Oh, I love Settle Bronc. I fell in love with
it when I was four, But I love t bone Green.
I have a grandson who's a header and the whole
thing is enjoyed. That people are absolutely wonderful.
Speaker 2 (56:14):
Their's salt of the earth. That's I agree.
Speaker 1 (56:16):
That's what I saw when I got to be behind
the scenes as well and talk to so many of
the people. So your book Rodeo Queen one oh one,
tell us about that, all right.
Speaker 9 (56:28):
I had no intention of writing it, but one day
I was at a rodeo and a queen mother came
to me and she said, you need to write a
book about how to become a rodeo queen. And I
told her, Oh, I don't think I can. She said, oh,
yes you can. So after a long conversation, I agreed
to it, and I use my experience and fortunately I
(56:53):
know people who are experts in their field, and so
they contributed it a lot to the book, explaining about horsemanship,
care of the horse, modeling, interviews, private interviews, how to
ask for money. You definitely have to go out and
get sponsors, and that is extremely difficult for most of them.
(57:16):
And I have judges who wrote their opinion on what
they found the most important when they judge. And I
have queen directors on how they run their programs, and
I have comments from his Rodeo America and a very
long statement which is wonderful from its Rodeo USA.
Speaker 1 (57:38):
So you wanted it to be a book that could
really show somebody here's all the things you need to
do if you're doing a rodeo, here's things to look for,
and all the various aspects. And like you said, selling
is one of the hardest things. Sponsorship is tough to get,
isn't it.
Speaker 9 (57:53):
It's very very tough. When I was on the board,
that was my job if I learned firsthand how difficult it is.
But you have to be professional. You can't go in
in your torn jeans, etc. You have to look very
professional when you go in, know what you're going to say,
(58:14):
appreciate the time that they're giving you. Make an appointment
first before you come in. Have a book with you
that has all of your accomplishments so they can see
that you're a hard worker. Whether or not you're a
Vale Victorian or act even Jim Kenna, or you run
barrels a rodeo, you raise the best sheep. It's just
(58:38):
all the events that you're involved in and let them
know that you're a hard worker and you're willing to
put their name on their trailer, their horse trailer and
on their truck, and they will be written on the
back of their signature sheets that have their pictures when
they sign when people come up for our autographs, on
(58:59):
the back of a list of all their sponsors and
where they are. They don't have to be just in
your tone. They can be in your state somewhere. Anyone
who's willing to support rodeo.
Speaker 2 (59:11):
Yeah, and really it's a book that anyone can read.
Speaker 1 (59:14):
Because I thought about this for people starting businesses even,
I think you could just replace some of the rodeo
aspects of it and you could look at it as
this is a great book on how to run a
business like a rodeo that's well tuned.
Speaker 9 (59:28):
Right, Oh, well, thank you, I probably so. I never
thought of it that way.
Speaker 1 (59:34):
Yeah, because what you said about sponsorships and how you
show up and how you show proof of here are
the things that I've done, and being professional and all
that sort of thing. So for people who are listening
who haven't been to a rodeo, I think they should
put it on their list of this is something that
I need to do. What's so magical about it?
Speaker 9 (59:57):
I think you're connected to the path. This is so
much part of our Western heritage. It started with ranch
employees competing against each other when they're training horses, breaking
them and stopping them from bucking all the time, and
who can ride the best, and they just turned into
(01:00:20):
what rodeo is today. And the people, the patriotism, the
beautiful openings, the respect for our military and our flag,
and it's very much a family sport.
Speaker 8 (01:00:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:00:33):
I think it's a family sport too. And there are
rodeos all over this country. There's rodeos that are smaller
and bigger, and I you know where there are lots
of sports, and there are lots of as you say,
the fabric of connecting us to the past, there are
a lot of things that are slipping away. I think
the rodeo people are strong in trying to keep this
tradition alive. And do you feel like there's younger people
(01:00:55):
interested in the rodeo?
Speaker 9 (01:00:57):
Oh? Yes, yes, it's very fun to go and see
these young people talk to the experienced ropers and barrel
racers for points. And how do I get involved? When
can I join the PRCA or wpr A, which is
the Women's Professional Rodeo Association they're eager to teach, they
(01:01:19):
help one another. The camaraderie is unusual too, because they'll
ask you, i've drawn this horse, how does he buck?
And they'll say, well, when you open the shoes, he
takes a run and then he starts bucking to the left,
so you can anticipate how the horse is going to buck,
so you can stay on for your eight seconds.
Speaker 2 (01:01:40):
There you go, eight seconds.
Speaker 1 (01:01:41):
I got to tell you who my favorite eight seconds is, Like,
are you kidding? It's crazy? You know, the mechanical bulls.
I'm on there for like and two seconds and I
fly off and it doesn't look very good. It's so
so ugly the way it looks, but it's so fun
to do. I've done it in the stockyards in Fort Worth,
and I was thinking of yeah, yeah, amazing, and that's
a big rodeo area. And I was thinking about cowboys
(01:02:04):
that I've met that I had a chance to interview.
And I interviewed Ty Murray once. Have you ever met him?
What a great guy?
Speaker 9 (01:02:09):
Yes, I have through a friend. I was introduced to him.
A very nice man.
Speaker 1 (01:02:14):
Yeah, and he's done a lot for rodeo because he's
popular and he's well known outside of rodeo, and I
think that even draws more people in as to what
is what the heck is rodeo?
Speaker 9 (01:02:25):
That did exactly. It's a nice exposure to the sport.
Speaker 1 (01:02:29):
Yeah, so you got to be honest with you and
your hey day. If you got on a mechanical bull,
you would probably just crush me, could you? You would
be on more than eight seconds?
Speaker 2 (01:02:36):
Right?
Speaker 9 (01:02:38):
Oh dear, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (01:02:43):
It's so fun. Rodeo is very, very fun. And I'm
glad that you put this book together. Rodeo Queen one
oh one. Why the title Rodeo Queen one oh one.
Speaker 9 (01:02:52):
Because I had a lot of one on one classes
in college. Is at a beginning, a beginning learning?
Speaker 1 (01:02:59):
How I like it because that's exactly what I thought.
I was like, Wow, this is one oh one's that's
it's the primer. It's getting you in the door and
getting you accustomed to some of the things that you
have to do if you're involved in the rodeo. But
like I said, I think any entrepreneur out there would
really draw something else from this too of what they
could do and look at what successfully has happened. And
(01:03:20):
thank you so much for coming on the show. We
appreciate it.
Speaker 9 (01:03:24):
Can I tell you where to buy it?
Speaker 2 (01:03:26):
Sure?
Speaker 9 (01:03:27):
Okay, you can buy it on Amazon and Page Turner
Press and media. And also I'm privileged to announce that
I'm going to be in the New York Times magazine
and they're making a movie of it. So it's going
to be an exciting year next year.
Speaker 1 (01:03:47):
You buried the lead. You're making a movie of the book.
Oh my gosh, it's so wow. Did have they cast
the movie yet?
Speaker 9 (01:03:54):
No?
Speaker 2 (01:03:54):
Not at this point, not yet.
Speaker 9 (01:03:57):
They haven't sent me anything about this, just if they're
going to do it, and I have full approval on everything,
so it's going to be an interesting experience.
Speaker 2 (01:04:07):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (01:04:08):
All right, So you have to promise me I can
sneak in and be at the set with you for
maybe a few minutes or so.
Speaker 9 (01:04:14):
I'll try.
Speaker 1 (01:04:17):
All right, that's good. I love it, and it would
make it would make a good movie. And reason Thank
you so much, Radio Queen one oh one. We appreciate it.
Speaker 9 (01:04:25):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (01:04:38):
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