November 20, 2024 • 34 mins
Gregg Bell and Christopher Kidd are rocking and rolling on this Hockey Fights Cancer Wednesday. The guys open the show w/ headlines across the sports world. The Boston Celtics handed Cleveland Cavaliers their first loss of the season, plus much more. Dr. Amber Post, is a radiation oncologist at VMFH, she talks about the importance of getting screened for cancer, plus much more. Earl Thomas has been named as a semi-finalist for the Pro Football Hall of Fame, so is he a first ballot??
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Having it themselves. It's a bad deal, to say the least.
And anything we can do to help and head off
the destruction that that insidious cancer can do is that's
what we're here to do. We try to raise the
awareness for that today and doctor amber Post is going
to help us. At ten thirty do that. The crack
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and are ending their six game homestand tonight they're playing Nashville.
It's a seven pm puck drop, six to thirty pregame
show with Mike Benton here on ninety three point three KJERFM.
The Seahawks are practicing without power and the rest of
the building, but they'll have enough the indoor facility, I'm
sure on Generators Sunday's game against Arizona. Of course, the
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Cardinals one game up on the Seahawks and everybody else
in the NFC West. Depending on how the Rams do
with the Eagles and the Packers. If they handle the
forty nine Ers, that game could be for first place
at Lomenfield one twenty five on Sunday, Channel thirteen. Locally
is Earl Thomas, the first ballot Hall of Famer. Well,
he took another step to being one. This morning, we'll
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talk about that. At eleven o'clock, Hugh Mellon's going to
join us, as he always does at this time on
this day, to talk about how he thought the Seahawks
finally beat the forty nine Ers the other day in
Santa Clara, and he's going to talk about doing it.
He's doing a deep dive on Russell Wilson. He's doing
it for the thirty third team, a job he does
for that analytics site, and he's going to break down
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for us the Russell Wilson of the Seattle Seahawks in
his heyday and Super Bowl championship and is it resemble
anything of what eleven years later he is now for
the Pittsburgh Steelers four to ozho as a starting quarterback
for the first place team in the AFC North. We'll
talk about that with Hugh at eleven o'clock. Factor Fiction
today is at eleven thirty five. You can take a
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When it's game time. It's Tully time. Right now, it's
time for frost brewed cors Light Choose Chill to bring
you the headlines. The Seahawks are in team meeting, presumably
if they can see their way to the main auditorium
where the power is out in the team facility limited
electricity the generator. But they'll be on the field practicing
this afternoon for the game Sunny against Arizona. Again. That's
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a one twenty five kickoff of later afternoon window Channel thirteen,
Fox thirteen locally Seahawks six and four excuse me, Cardinals
six and four lean the NFC West the Seahawks five
and five after their huge rally to beat the forty
nine ers last weekend. Remember the Seahawks and Cardinals played
twice in the next three weeks. Next week we all
go over to the Meadowlands MetLife Stadium to see the
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Seahawks play the Jets and then they go to Phoenix
right after that jet strip. So it's home Arizona at
Jets at Arizona for the Seahawks the next three weeks.
Earl Thomas is one of twenty five semi final to
be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame next
summer in Canton. Eli Manning, Terrell Suggs, Adam Vittieri, Luke
Heatley among those also reaching semi final status to fifteen
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finalists for the Hall class of twenty twenty five going
to be named next month. Marshawn Lynch did not make
it past being the among the initial one hundred and
sixty seven initial nominees. We'll talk in the third segment
about Earl Thomas's candidacy as a first time Hall of Famer.
There's a cachet to that. It's a pretty high bar,
cracking nine nine to one, now nine wins, nine losses
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and an overtime loss. Host Nashville to Night six thirty
pre game show, as I mentioned, with Mike Benton's seven
pm puck drop with Everett Fitzhu and Al Kaminski here
on your home for the crack at ninety three point
three KJRFM, once again I want to say if you're
attending the game, it's a pretty good deal. If you're
attending the game. The Cracking and Virginia Mason Franciscan Health
they're teaming up to provide free prostate cancer screening with
a simple blood drop for men forty five and older. Oh,
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he needs a ticket to the game and the smarts
to go get something taken care of before it's too late.
Screenings will be available inside the arena from the time
the gates open till the end of the first period intermission.
So the Cracking are nine to nine in one. Boston
Bruins are eight nine in one and they fired their
coach this morning. Jim Montgomery fired by Boston. Is that
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the eight nine and one doesn't cut it with the Bees.
Assistant coach Joe Saco, former Colorado Avalanche head coach and player,
is taking over the Boston Bruins and college football. The
Washington Huskies off this week. They play at number one
Oregon next week next Saturday. Coach Jed Fish says a
waiting maybe game time before deciding and naming who the
starting quarter. He'll decide probably this week, but he'll name
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it publicly maybe right before the game, whether it's gonna
be Will Rogers, a six year transfer for senior or
the true freshman Demon Williams starting against the Ducks. Three
unbeaten teams remain in college football. I'm gonna keep saying
till it's not true. Oregon, Indiana, and Army. This week
should start with Army, Greg I know, but I like
putting the best last. We'll put to also in first.
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Oh fine, fine, fine, Oregon's rolling on. They're gonna go
to the Big twelve title game. Fifth rank Indiana is at
number two Ohio State in a game that like will
decide who plays Oregon in the Big twelve Big Ten
title Game in a couple of weeks. That's in Columbus.
Ohio State's a twelve point favorite. I took them minus
to twelve on factor fiction, and I'm gonna say it
again because it's going to be a pretty big game.
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Eighteenth rank Army plays a number six Notre Dame in
Yankee Stadium Saturday, four pm Our time on NBC, National TV, NBA.
Last night, Chris all Right, tell us what happened? Cavaliers
are not going eighty two and zero.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Oh unfortunately not man, They just ran into a buzzsaw
and that's the Boston Celtics. It was close early on,
but you could see defensively Boston was just on another level.
And then their shot making ability. They get a stop
four on three on four fast break ends up in
a three point shot.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
They pull up for threes no matter what the situation.
It's part of the game. Now. Fourteen for twenty two
on three point shots in the first half the Celtics,
where they took a seventeen point lead into half time. Me,
you know how NBA games work, Yeah, here come the Calves.
They responded with the second half of a twenty two
to five run, got it down to one. I turned on.
The only part of the game I watched, Chris was
the end of the third quarter when Jason Tatum just
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threw that Calves defender down on the floor to step
back and hit a three at the buzzer throw them.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
It was a nice move.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Kneango, Why you're flopping, man, You're a big fella, all right.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
It's a great movie. From top of the key into
the lad on the Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
More of him looking for a foul instead of giving
credit where credit is due. Just a great step back
and Tatum was on fire. But that's the team that
just won a championship. They they know what it's like
to be the best, and the Calves think they're the best,
and they as they should. They were undefeated going into
the game, and then Boston reminds them that, yo, we
are still the world champs and we're going to show up,
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and they did. So that was a really good game.
I'm hoping they can maybe get to the Eastern Conference
Finals and we get seven more of those type games,
but it's a long season.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
How many threes did Boston take last night? Twenty two
in the first I think it was forty. Let me
go back and look, twenty two in the first half,
and they made fourteen of them. So the twenty fifteen
sixteen Golden State Warriors are the only team in NBA
history to start better than these Calves did. Cleveland is
the fourth NBA team to begin fifteen and oh, they
shot forty one and made twenty two. So they were
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eight for nineteen in the second half from three.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
You can do math. See I went to WSU. We
don't do we don't know what communication. Okay, that's the
major Anything with math in it, you could forget it.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
But they ended up.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Shooting fifty percent from deep and they finished twenty two
out of forty one, so they were effective.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
But he won three point You're right, that's the game. Well.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
The thing is, though a lot of them are good looks,
they weren't contested, like what are you doing. Darius Garland,
on the other hand, the point guard for the Calves,
he had one of those games where I was saying,
what are you doing? He was taking a lot of
tough shots. He was he had been making him There's
a reason why they were fifteen and oh going into it.
But against a team with Derek White defending you, who
was one of the best guards in the league, you
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have to be smarter with your shot selection, and he wasn't.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Did it look like a November game? It was the
intensity kind.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Of No, this looked like a playoff game. It was,
as I mentioned, actually trying. Oh yeah, these games matter,
just because the end season tournament has been such a
success and they're gonna be a couple of teams that
don't care about it. And you might watch him like, oh,
they're not playing basketball, But that game was. The atmosphere
was good. It was at Boston so you can imagine
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those fans were all amped up and the players they knew,
they know what's at stake, but they also just want
to win too.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
You know who's two and oh in this tournament pool
play so far? Give it to me the Portland Trailblazers.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Not surprising young team.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
And that's that's another reason why it's so cool that
they're doing this tournament because a team like Portland, they're
not gonna probably be in the playoff hunt.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
When it gets down to the nitty gritty come January.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
But for right now, being two and oh, that sys
a lot because there's a chance for a lot of
these players to win that extra cash and it means
something to them.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Do they get cash or going out of pool play
advancing into that? I don't even.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
No, no, So I think the top three seeds or
top top three seeds get paid. So it's five hundred thousand,
I believe it's three hundred thousand and one in fifty
thousand or third, but I'll double check and look it
up for you.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Okay, the Lakers Dalton Connect last night's had an NBA
record whin.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
I was so mad that lost power during that man,
I was in the kitchen washing dishes during a timeout.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Good for Zero. I was like, are you serious?
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Good for you? Good for you for having enough so
few dishes you can wash them during an NBA time out.
That's good. Well I'll wait see the kids. So you
can't do that.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
I'll be honest, Greg. This was multiple trips to the kitchen.
I just was finishing up and then Zero.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
See, when you have kids and you're married for a while,
you can't. You have to go into the gameplay. You
can't just leave when the game comes. Where are you going?
That's what your wife still say. Where are you going? Well,
the game's back on, get back in there. Yeah, I
hear you on the text one twenty eight years of marriage,
happily married. I'll take what I got. Connect had nine
three pointers. NBA rookie record, thirty seven points. Let the
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Lakers pass. Utah Lakers are what like twelve and five
or four or something? All right, Greg?
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Here it is championship team. Five hundred grand runners up,
two hundred grand. Players on the losing teams in the
semi finals received one hundred and fifty thousand.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Okay, semi finals, so you top four if you advance
the four, Final four, you get some money. So yeah, yeah,
And as you mentioned yesterday, it's not about Lebron James
and those guys. It's about the players on the bench
who are making NBA minimums getting this five hundred thousand
dollars bonus.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
I know we always talk about greed is just ruining everything,
but in this instance, okay, I'm so you like it.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
I like it.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
It brings out a different energy, especially in November when
everyone's like, oh, I don't watch the play, I don't
watch the NBA until May, right, which I understand.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
I'm not knocking anyone for that.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Adam Silver's genius is what you're saying.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
He's doing a good job.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
How Dalton connect get through all the way to the
Lakers in the middle of the end of the first
round sixteen teams passed them and he was the SEC
Player of the Year last year for Tennessee. It's a
great question.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Maybe we should bring on someone from the SEC and say, hey,
what did the NBA guys scouts miss outside of the Lakers?
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Yeah, miss a guy who can knock down nine three
pointers and is what fifteenth NBA game? So let's talk
about now so we can put it on the text
line about Earl Thomas and his Hall of Fame candidacy.
When you hear first ballot Hall of Famer, I mean
you think what Joe Montana, Peyton Manning back in the day,
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Walter Peyton, Gail Sayers, Earl Thomas, ed Reid, Yeah, I
think ed Reid is it was if he wasn't from
the right, Yeah, I'm not sure about Earl Thomas. Now
in his absolute prime with the Seahawks, he redefined the
free safety position. Before that, free safeties generally were numbers
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to numbers, maybe well hashmarks to hasmarks and then numbers numbers.
Center the field a center fielder. Earl Thomas was when
you say sideline to sideline, you say, okay, he goes
out to the I'm talking sideline boundary to the other
sideline boundary in a given play. The Seahawks schemed that, okay,
Earl Thomas has got that. And what that allowed Cam
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Chancellor to be was Cam Chancellor. If Earl Thomas was
not as wildly ranging and successful and speedy and instinctive
to get the balls and ball carriers from sideline literally
sideline to sideline. I'm talking white line to white line.
Then Cam Chanceller couldn't have lived in the box like
he did and destroyed guys near the line of scrimmage
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and tight ends and running backs. And Cam Chancellor was
Cam Chancellor for the Seahawks. I'm not saying Earl Thomas
made him, but schematically he was able to play his best,
most suited role, which is to be the hammer, the
enforcer near the line of scrimmage because of what Earl
Thomas was ranging behind him. If you get a regular
post free safety plan in between the hash marks, you
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couldn't do what Cam Chancellor did. That's how the Seahawks
defense worked, and Cam Chancellor worked so brilliantly because of
how extra brilliant Earl Thomas was those of us. There
are some twenty five and younger perhaps who think of
Earl Thomas and they think of his fading times Seahawks
and flipping off the Pete Carroll from the back of
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a card in Arizona, which I still think was I
could not believe how hilarious that was. In the moment
watching it live from the press box, I was like,
did you see what he just did? That whole context
of that, and then they saw him go to the
Ravens and now that ended terribly and then you see
him in the news for all these weird things that
have happened since his playing career, some of them sad
and some of them just downright weird. And that's what
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they see Earl Thomas. As I can tell you as
someone who covered him, talked to him a lot, interviewed
him quite a bit, and saw his impact on the field.
He is Hall of Fame worthy. He redefined an era
of free agency, a free safety play like few have
ever done, especially in a league that was so the
rules are so tilted against defensive backs to have that
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kind of impact. But is the first ballot Hall of Fame?
That's a whole another echelon and cut and that's what
he's trying to be this time. He's now one of
fifteen semi semi finalists to do it. Four nine four
five one to tell him, we're doue text line when
it's game time, it's tell time. Is Earl Thomas the
first ballot Hall of Famer? I know I'm speaking to
a group that would appreciate him more than any group
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of listeners in the United States, But still even saying that,
I think it's at least debatable whether he's a first
Ballad Hall of Famer. He certainly thinks he is. If
you saw his comments to Justina Anderson last week, he
said he was better than Troy Paula Maul. I don't
speaking of first.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
I would put him right there with Brian Dawkins if
if there was a legit comparison, I.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Think you put him with Ed Reid or behind.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
I put him behind Red ed Reid probably the greatest
of all time. I know I didn't see the guys
before him, and there's sure I'm sure I can learn
a thing or two, but Ed Reid Man, he's one
of the goats in my.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Eyes, Ripomo ed Reid, I agree, especially in this eeric
with the rules are against.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
I looked at Brian Dawkins and his what he did.
I think he had what three I want to say,
three first team or five first team All Pro and
Earl had four, and then Earl also the Super Bowl champion.
It's I think it's closer with Brian Dawkins and Brian's in.
So I think based on what statistically what Earl did,
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I think he can get in.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
If you're not looking at you know, everything else that
went on.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Right, and some do. There are fifty voters, Yeah, all
of whom are about my age and older. They're fifty voters,
and they will decide whether he's a finalist next month,
and then whether he's inducted by the time the Super Bowl.
They'll announced that the night before the Super Bowl once
again four nine four five one to tell him we
do text on his earl. Thomas a first ballot Hall
of Famer. We'll read back your text at eleven. There
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we'll talk more about this and about how the second
Super Bowl the Seahawks had in that back to back
Super Bowl forty nine against New England, how that affects
all this. We'll talk about that in the third segment.
Coming up, really important talk with doctor amber Posts. She's
a radiation on collegist at Virginia Mason Franciscan Health especialized
in prostate, rector and breast cancers and on our crack
and Hockey fights cancer. Wednesday, We're going to talk to
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doctor Amberpost about prevention, treatment, anything you can do awareness
to head off this insidious disease. Doctor amber Post pleased
to have her with us next ninety three point three
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Virginia Mason Franciscan Health beginning screen screen for breast cancers,
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cervical cancer, collectoral cancer, lung, prostate and skin cancers. Someone
who knows the huge importance of screening and early detective
Doctor Amber posts She's a radiation oncologist at Virginia Mason
Franciscan Health. She joins us now in the Beacon plumbing hoighlight.
I'm sorry, doctor Post to keep you waiting. You have
far more important things to change lives than to wait
(17:37):
on hold for us. Thanks for joining.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
I'm so happy to be here. How are you doing?
Speaker 1 (17:41):
We are well. Thank you. Needless to say the work
you and your colleagues do is hugely important. But statistically speaking,
what's the empirical data say about the importance of testing
and through that early detection of these especially the cancers
you are specializing in, prostate, rectul and breast cancers.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Yeah. Absolutely so. When we detect cancers early, particularly with
things like breast and prostate cancer, the overall survival rate
can be over ninety five percent, So people are very
unlikely to die of cancers when they're detected very early.
It's also the case that the treatment for the cancer
that is recommended by the American Cancer Society is much
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less toxic when treating earlier cancers. We don't need chemotherapy,
we don't need hormone suppression in many of these early
stage cancers of the prostate and breast cancer is less
likely to need chemotherapy, so we just have many more
options when cancer is detected early.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Is there an age at which the cancers you specialize
in that you're recommending people start getting tested, for instance, prostate, rectal,
and breast cancers.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
Absolutely, so for prostate and rectal cancers, I want people
to think of forty five as an important number. So
for rectal cancer, in the past, we had recommended colonoscopy
screening starting at age fifty, so that was a number
that really stood out in people's minds. But for black men,
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that number was forty five. And now that we've been
seen so many more people diagnosed at younger ages, the
universal recommendation has changed in the last couple of years,
so that now we recommend everybody be screened at age
forty five with a kolonoscopy for prostate cancer. For most
men of average risk, we do start blood screening at
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age fifty, and this is just it's just a blood
test that's added on to you know, by your primary
care provider with your annual visit. So this is not
a major it's not a major inconvenience, it's not a
medical procedure. But forty five would be again for black
men who are at higher risk of handing higher gray
prostay cancer as well as anybody who might have had
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a close family relative like a father or a brother
who had prostag cats answer. So today at the Cracking game,
starting at at five thirty, we are going to be
offering screening for men aged forty five and over through
your Virginia Mason Franciscan Health. So we have a free
bullw test that we can offer men who are here
for the game.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
And again, this is just a blood draw. I mean,
it's not very invasive and very extensive. You go bring
your ticket to the game, go through the gate and there's
the blood draw, right.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Doctor post that's right, And you know, I wish that
we had the same blood test for all types of cancer.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
It is.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
It is painless mainly and right right, and it is
it is quite specific, you know, for prostate cancer and
if it's if it's significantly elevated, then we would want
to go ahead for a Buya seat. And if it's
not elevated, then we'll try and then we'll test again
in another year or two. So you know, we we
just want to emphasize that screen for prostate cancer is
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quite easy to do. There are times that we made
reckon men that it's not necessary. Particularly for older folks
who might have a short lifespan, it might not be
worth going up that you know, it might not be
worth a testing. But for most men in their fifties
and sixties, early seventies, healthy men, this is something we
should be doing on an annual basis.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
This is the voice of doctor Amber Post, she's a
radiation on cologist at Virginiaation, Franciscan Health on Hockey Fights
Cancer Day on ninety three point three KJERFM.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Doctor Amber, what advice would you give to those who
are still maybe hesitant about getting screened for cancer and
how do you, I guess, reassure them about the benefits
of early detection.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
So I will say that early detection, say for breast cancer,
could just mean that even something as simple as a
surgery and a short course of radiation would be all
that you might need. Early detection with breast cancer results
in breast cancer specific survival rates of over ninety eight percent.
And with prostate cancer, there's certainly a lot of you know,
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a lot of worries swirling around about the treatment for
prostate cancer. But the earlier that it is detected, the
more likely that surgery can spare the nerves, or that
radiation can be a short course, even implanting radioactive seeds
or just you know, say five treatments of radiation, and
this is much easier to deal with than months and
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months of chemotherapy and radiation and much much likely to
have less side effects. The other thing about getting a
blood test is that for most men, your PSA is
within normal range and you just go back to living
your life. So this is not a you know, this
is not something that that should be frightening. As far
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as the colonoscopy goes, We've got to kind of get
people together to to do this because rectal cancer can
be very very dangerous, and it can it can you know,
occur with young people. And I know that it is
not very fond to think of the idea of going
through a colonoscopy, but rectal cancer is quite dangerous and
it is starting to affect people at younger and younger ages,
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and so I just would really want to implore the
community to consider doing this and to just checking this
off your list of things to do when you turn
forty five.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Doctor post. I have to ask because a lot of
listeners my age and I'm fifty three of fifty three
year old male and a lot of listeners our age
see these ads for take home tests or rectal cancer
tests that you can screenings that you can do in
your home. Is there any decrease or change and effectiveness
then the traditional colonoscopy, what would you recommend about that?
Speaker 4 (23:39):
I think that we need a little bit more time
to say that that is equal to the gold standard.
So my recommendation is again at forty five, just just
take one for the team and go ahead and get
the colonoscopy, and then if that is negative and you
have a low cancer risk, then you can talk with
your physician, you can talk with your primary care doctor
and it might be completely safe for you for the
next time you're up for another screening to just do
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the take home test. But we haven't shown them to
be equivalent as looking at to looking at the entire
colon Early stage rectal cancers can can be growing slowly
without bleeding, you know, and then that's what you're trying
to detect with the take home test with blood and
so you're you know there there can still be earlier.
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There's many times, you know, and it needs to be
advanced enough to cause bleeding.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Right, Greg, And I understand that you enjoy fly fishing
and exploring Washington the natural beauty that it has, and
Greg would probably agree with that because he does so himself.
And I'm curious, how does spending that time in nature,
how does that impact your well being?
Speaker 4 (24:42):
It's it's huge just being able to being surrounded by
a place like this. You know, I grew up in Arkansas,
and there's there's some pretty places to Arkansas, but it's
nothing like that.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
The doctor post also that short.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
But I grew up on the Louisiana borders. It's not
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appreciate good health, you know. It just really makes me
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have good health, and I'm blessed with that. But I
still screen every year and do all of my recommended
screening so that I am absolutely sure when I go
to that everything looks good and that I myself am
not needing to address any cancers that may be out there.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Doctor Post, hats off to you what you and your
colleagues do on a daily basis to change lives and
help against this fight against this insidious disease. We appreciate
you joining us and taking time out to do it
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Doctor amber Post a radiation on colleges at Virginia Mason
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Speaker 5 (26:32):
Up.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Next, we'll talking a little bit more about Earl Thomas's
Candiessey as a first ballot Hall of Famer. That's what
he became a semi finalist for today, and I'm going
to talk to you about what I saw at Super
Bowl forty nine in the locker room at right after
that game in Glendale. What is it ten years ago
that it may have some effect on Earl Thomas's candidacy
and the voting for the Hall of Fame. That is
(26:54):
next at eleven o'clock. Humeil And will join us as
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Earl Thomas today was selected among twenty five semifinalists from
an initial list of nominees of one hundred and sixty
seven for the Hall of Fame. The Pro Football Hall
of Fame class of twenty twenty five. The finalist fifteen
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finalists out of the twenty five semifinals will be named
next month and then The inductees for the Class of
twenty twenty five will be announced the night before the
Super Bowl in February in New Orleans. They will meet
the Hall of Fame Selection Committee. We'll meet in New
Orleans the week of the Super Bowl to discuss the candidacy.
These are twenty five modern year SEMIFINALISTSY are also a
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senior committee that will induct a handful for the class
of twenty twenty. Is Earl Thomas, a Hall of Famer,
A first ballot Hall of Famer. I asked that for
the question we post for the telem or Do text
line four nine, four to five one, some of you say,
absolutely should be somebody brought up the character and post
career issues, and that is a factor here. These are
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human beings, by after all, that have emotions and feelings
and judgments. Fifty people that select the Hall of Fame class,
and some of them will consider what's happened with Earl
Thomas since the Seattle Super Bowl Legion of boom days,
the inglorious end of his career with Baltimore. He ended
up playing ten seasons in the league, all through the
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twenty tens, but then afterwards it just got weird and
sad in many respects to some of the situations he's
been in and found in, and the legal situations and
incidents that we don't need to read detail, but you
know him and there are people who will judge him
for that. And it's in every sport. There is that
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factor when you have human beings judging other human beings.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Chad Johnson off the field stuff, He's definitely a Hall
of Famer, but he had a lot of drama off.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
The field, and Barry Bonds list can.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Go on ark require so some will consider that and
that will be a part And when they discuss it
at the Super Bowl. I know Hall of Fame selectors personally,
they do discuss those type of things too. How relevant
is that? How much should we bring this up? That
is part of the discussion when they vote for the
Hall of Fame, whether you think it should be or not.
(31:28):
Their human beings and that's part of it. But on
the field, I think a factor here that is against
Earl Thomas being a first battle and as we talked
about earlier, first battle, Hall of Famer is a different threshold.
We're talking about generation, once in a lifetime type players.
Super Bowl forty nine, Malcolm Butler's interception at the one
(31:50):
yard line denies the Seahawks' second consecutive Super Bowl. Chris,
when I went downstairs, I had two options. To go
downstairs after the game, I go straight to the press
conferences with Pete Carroll and everybody, or into the locker room.
I know, knowing Pete Carroll, I knew he was going
to take his time and talk to a lot of
people and a lot of players and buddy up and
hug and suffer together. All that. I knew that was
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going to take time. So practically speaking, I knew I
had time to go into the locker room. The locker
room in Glendale was split. The defense was in one
room and the offense was in another. I went to
the defensive side. I wish I could describe to you
what I saw and heard in that defensive side of
the locker room. Ten minutes after Super Bowl forty nine,
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they were hicked, to say the least. They knew right then, Chris,
in that moment, that their legacy had been denied them forever.
They knew that defense, the legion of Boom Defense, knew
that they would have been immortals in League history. Had
they won that game and won a second consecutive Super Bowl,
and those defensive players knew that their legacy, they would
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never get that opportunity back again to be back to
back Super Bowl champions, and they knew that put them
on an entirely different level than what they could have been.
And had they won that game, I think Earl Thomas
has a much stronger case as a first ballot Hall
of Famer. A two time Super Bowl, back to back
Super Bowl champion, on the number one defense in the league.
Speaker 5 (33:13):
All pro, all of that, But because they didn't win
a second Super Bowl, they don't get that cachet. Russell
Wilson would be a sure to me, a surefire Hall
of Famer if he'd won back to back Super Bowls.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Pete Carroll would be a surefire Hall of Fame. He
may both of them make it in eventually, but there
would be no doubt if Pete Carroll won back to
back Super Bowls. But in that locker room, Chris Man,
I would I saw and heard stuff that I've sworn
to secrecy, I've never printed, I've never talked about publicly
on the air. That was that just let's just keep
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it at they were pissed at their coaches for that
play call from the one yard line. That is also
a fact here. It is as we discussed, Chris, it
is a high bar to be a first ballot Hall
of Famer. You mentioned Ed Reid, Troy Paula Malou at
Earl Thomas's position, Brian Dawkins. Brian Dawkins safety, but no
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doubt Earl Thomas redefined how to play free safety. But
Troy Paula Malou to me is the absolute standard bearer
of the safety position in the modern era. The post
all the rules are for the offense era in the
NFL four nine, four to five one on the Telemoved
Do text. I can spend a ton of time talking
about this, but we are now going to go to
Hugh Millan after the break four nine four to five
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one on Telllemood text line. We'll read back your text
about this and other things. In Chenna Nuos injury Update.
I'll get to that on the text line as well.
Hughes Millon is up next an eleven thirty five factor
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And anything we can do to help and head off
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what we're here to do. We try to raise the
awareness for that today and doctor amber Post is going
to help us. At ten thirty do that. The crack
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and are ending their six game homestand tonight they're playing Nashville.
It's a seven pm puck drop, six to thirty pregame
show with Mike Benton here on ninety three point three KJERFM.
The Seahawks are practicing without power and the rest of
the building, but they'll have enough the indoor facility, I'm
sure on Generators Sunday's game against Arizona. Of course, the
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Cardinals one game up on the Seahawks and everybody else
in the NFC West. Depending on how the Rams do
with the Eagles and the Packers. If they handle the
forty nine Ers, that game could be for first place
at Lomenfield one twenty five on Sunday, Channel thirteen. Locally
is Earl Thomas, the first ballot Hall of Famer. Well,
he took another step to being one. This morning, we'll
(01:03):
talk about that. At eleven o'clock, Hugh Mellon's going to
join us, as he always does at this time on
this day, to talk about how he thought the Seahawks
finally beat the forty nine Ers the other day in
Santa Clara, and he's going to talk about doing it.
He's doing a deep dive on Russell Wilson. He's doing
it for the thirty third team, a job he does
for that analytics site, and he's going to break down
(01:23):
for us the Russell Wilson of the Seattle Seahawks in
his heyday and Super Bowl championship and is it resemble
anything of what eleven years later he is now for
the Pittsburgh Steelers four to ozho as a starting quarterback
for the first place team in the AFC North. We'll
talk about that with Hugh at eleven o'clock. Factor Fiction
today is at eleven thirty five. You can take a
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When it's game time. It's Tully time. Right now, it's
time for frost brewed cors Light Choose Chill to bring
you the headlines. The Seahawks are in team meeting, presumably
if they can see their way to the main auditorium
where the power is out in the team facility limited
electricity the generator. But they'll be on the field practicing
this afternoon for the game Sunny against Arizona. Again. That's
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a one twenty five kickoff of later afternoon window Channel thirteen,
Fox thirteen locally Seahawks six and four excuse me, Cardinals
six and four lean the NFC West the Seahawks five
and five after their huge rally to beat the forty
nine ers last weekend. Remember the Seahawks and Cardinals played
twice in the next three weeks. Next week we all
go over to the Meadowlands MetLife Stadium to see the
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Seahawks play the Jets and then they go to Phoenix
right after that jet strip. So it's home Arizona at
Jets at Arizona for the Seahawks the next three weeks.
Earl Thomas is one of twenty five semi final to
be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame next
summer in Canton. Eli Manning, Terrell Suggs, Adam Vittieri, Luke
Heatley among those also reaching semi final status to fifteen
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finalists for the Hall class of twenty twenty five going
to be named next month. Marshawn Lynch did not make
it past being the among the initial one hundred and
sixty seven initial nominees. We'll talk in the third segment
about Earl Thomas's candidacy as a first time Hall of Famer.
There's a cachet to that. It's a pretty high bar,
cracking nine nine to one, now nine wins, nine losses
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So the Cracking are nine to nine in one. Boston
Bruins are eight nine in one and they fired their
coach this morning. Jim Montgomery fired by Boston. Is that
(04:15):
the eight nine and one doesn't cut it with the Bees.
Assistant coach Joe Saco, former Colorado Avalanche head coach and player,
is taking over the Boston Bruins and college football. The
Washington Huskies off this week. They play at number one
Oregon next week next Saturday. Coach Jed Fish says a
waiting maybe game time before deciding and naming who the
starting quarter. He'll decide probably this week, but he'll name
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it publicly maybe right before the game, whether it's gonna
be Will Rogers, a six year transfer for senior or
the true freshman Demon Williams starting against the Ducks. Three
unbeaten teams remain in college football. I'm gonna keep saying
till it's not true. Oregon, Indiana, and Army. This week
should start with Army, Greg I know, but I like
putting the best last. We'll put to also in first.
(04:57):
Oh fine, fine, fine, Oregon's rolling on. They're gonna go
to the Big twelve title game. Fifth rank Indiana is at
number two Ohio State in a game that like will
decide who plays Oregon in the Big twelve Big Ten
title Game in a couple of weeks. That's in Columbus.
Ohio State's a twelve point favorite. I took them minus
to twelve on factor fiction, and I'm gonna say it
again because it's going to be a pretty big game.
(05:18):
Eighteenth rank Army plays a number six Notre Dame in
Yankee Stadium Saturday, four pm Our time on NBC, National TV, NBA.
Last night, Chris all Right, tell us what happened? Cavaliers
are not going eighty two and zero.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Oh unfortunately not man, They just ran into a buzzsaw
and that's the Boston Celtics. It was close early on,
but you could see defensively Boston was just on another level.
And then their shot making ability. They get a stop
four on three on four fast break ends up in
a three point shot.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
They pull up for threes no matter what the situation.
It's part of the game. Now. Fourteen for twenty two
on three point shots in the first half the Celtics,
where they took a seventeen point lead into half time. Me,
you know how NBA games work, Yeah, here come the Calves.
They responded with the second half of a twenty two
to five run, got it down to one. I turned on.
The only part of the game I watched, Chris was
the end of the third quarter when Jason Tatum just
(06:10):
threw that Calves defender down on the floor to step
back and hit a three at the buzzer throw them.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
It was a nice move.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Kneango, Why you're flopping, man, You're a big fella, all right.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
It's a great movie. From top of the key into
the lad on the Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
More of him looking for a foul instead of giving
credit where credit is due. Just a great step back
and Tatum was on fire. But that's the team that
just won a championship. They they know what it's like
to be the best, and the Calves think they're the best,
and they as they should. They were undefeated going into
the game, and then Boston reminds them that, yo, we
are still the world champs and we're going to show up,
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and they did. So that was a really good game.
I'm hoping they can maybe get to the Eastern Conference
Finals and we get seven more of those type games,
but it's a long season.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
How many threes did Boston take last night? Twenty two
in the first I think it was forty. Let me
go back and look, twenty two in the first half,
and they made fourteen of them. So the twenty fifteen
sixteen Golden State Warriors are the only team in NBA
history to start better than these Calves did. Cleveland is
the fourth NBA team to begin fifteen and oh, they
shot forty one and made twenty two. So they were
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eight for nineteen in the second half from three.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
You can do math. See I went to WSU. We
don't do we don't know what communication. Okay, that's the
major Anything with math in it, you could forget it.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
But they ended up.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Shooting fifty percent from deep and they finished twenty two
out of forty one, so they were effective.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
But he won three point You're right, that's the game. Well.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
The thing is, though a lot of them are good looks,
they weren't contested, like what are you doing. Darius Garland,
on the other hand, the point guard for the Calves,
he had one of those games where I was saying,
what are you doing? He was taking a lot of
tough shots. He was he had been making him There's
a reason why they were fifteen and oh going into it.
But against a team with Derek White defending you, who
was one of the best guards in the league, you
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have to be smarter with your shot selection, and he wasn't.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Did it look like a November game? It was the
intensity kind.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Of No, this looked like a playoff game. It was,
as I mentioned, actually trying. Oh yeah, these games matter,
just because the end season tournament has been such a
success and they're gonna be a couple of teams that
don't care about it. And you might watch him like, oh,
they're not playing basketball, But that game was. The atmosphere
was good. It was at Boston so you can imagine
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those fans were all amped up and the players they knew,
they know what's at stake, but they also just want
to win too.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
You know who's two and oh in this tournament pool
play so far? Give it to me the Portland Trailblazers.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Not surprising young team.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
And that's that's another reason why it's so cool that
they're doing this tournament because a team like Portland, they're
not gonna probably be in the playoff hunt.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
When it gets down to the nitty gritty come January.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
But for right now, being two and oh, that sys
a lot because there's a chance for a lot of
these players to win that extra cash and it means
something to them.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Do they get cash or going out of pool play
advancing into that? I don't even.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
No, no, So I think the top three seeds or
top top three seeds get paid. So it's five hundred thousand,
I believe it's three hundred thousand and one in fifty
thousand or third, but I'll double check and look it
up for you.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Okay, the Lakers Dalton Connect last night's had an NBA
record whin.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
I was so mad that lost power during that man,
I was in the kitchen washing dishes during a timeout.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Good for Zero. I was like, are you serious?
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Good for you? Good for you for having enough so
few dishes you can wash them during an NBA time out.
That's good. Well I'll wait see the kids. So you
can't do that.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
I'll be honest, Greg. This was multiple trips to the kitchen.
I just was finishing up and then Zero.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
See, when you have kids and you're married for a while,
you can't. You have to go into the gameplay. You
can't just leave when the game comes. Where are you going?
That's what your wife still say. Where are you going? Well,
the game's back on, get back in there. Yeah, I
hear you on the text one twenty eight years of marriage,
happily married. I'll take what I got. Connect had nine
three pointers. NBA rookie record, thirty seven points. Let the
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Lakers pass. Utah Lakers are what like twelve and five
or four or something? All right, Greg?
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Here it is championship team. Five hundred grand runners up,
two hundred grand. Players on the losing teams in the
semi finals received one hundred and fifty thousand.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Okay, semi finals, so you top four if you advance
the four, Final four, you get some money. So yeah, yeah,
And as you mentioned yesterday, it's not about Lebron James
and those guys. It's about the players on the bench
who are making NBA minimums getting this five hundred thousand
dollars bonus.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
I know we always talk about greed is just ruining everything,
but in this instance, okay, I'm so you like it.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
I like it.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
It brings out a different energy, especially in November when
everyone's like, oh, I don't watch the play, I don't
watch the NBA until May, right, which I understand.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
I'm not knocking anyone for that.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Adam Silver's genius is what you're saying.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
He's doing a good job.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
How Dalton connect get through all the way to the
Lakers in the middle of the end of the first
round sixteen teams passed them and he was the SEC
Player of the Year last year for Tennessee. It's a
great question.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Maybe we should bring on someone from the SEC and say, hey,
what did the NBA guys scouts miss outside of the Lakers?
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Yeah, miss a guy who can knock down nine three
pointers and is what fifteenth NBA game? So let's talk
about now so we can put it on the text
line about Earl Thomas and his Hall of Fame candidacy.
When you hear first ballot Hall of Famer, I mean
you think what Joe Montana, Peyton Manning back in the day,
(11:24):
Walter Peyton, Gail Sayers, Earl Thomas, ed Reid, Yeah, I
think ed Reid is it was if he wasn't from
the right, Yeah, I'm not sure about Earl Thomas. Now
in his absolute prime with the Seahawks, he redefined the
free safety position. Before that, free safeties generally were numbers
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to numbers, maybe well hashmarks to hasmarks and then numbers numbers.
Center the field a center fielder. Earl Thomas was when
you say sideline to sideline, you say, okay, he goes
out to the I'm talking sideline boundary to the other
sideline boundary in a given play. The Seahawks schemed that, okay,
Earl Thomas has got that. And what that allowed Cam
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Chancellor to be was Cam Chancellor. If Earl Thomas was
not as wildly ranging and successful and speedy and instinctive
to get the balls and ball carriers from sideline literally
sideline to sideline. I'm talking white line to white line.
Then Cam Chanceller couldn't have lived in the box like
he did and destroyed guys near the line of scrimmage
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and tight ends and running backs. And Cam Chancellor was
Cam Chancellor for the Seahawks. I'm not saying Earl Thomas
made him, but schematically he was able to play his best,
most suited role, which is to be the hammer, the
enforcer near the line of scrimmage because of what Earl
Thomas was ranging behind him. If you get a regular
post free safety plan in between the hash marks, you
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couldn't do what Cam Chancellor did. That's how the Seahawks
defense worked, and Cam Chancellor worked so brilliantly because of
how extra brilliant Earl Thomas was those of us. There
are some twenty five and younger perhaps who think of
Earl Thomas and they think of his fading times Seahawks
and flipping off the Pete Carroll from the back of
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a card in Arizona, which I still think was I
could not believe how hilarious that was. In the moment
watching it live from the press box, I was like,
did you see what he just did? That whole context
of that, and then they saw him go to the
Ravens and now that ended terribly and then you see
him in the news for all these weird things that
have happened since his playing career, some of them sad
and some of them just downright weird. And that's what
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they see Earl Thomas. As I can tell you as
someone who covered him, talked to him a lot, interviewed
him quite a bit, and saw his impact on the field.
He is Hall of Fame worthy. He redefined an era
of free agency, a free safety play like few have
ever done, especially in a league that was so the
rules are so tilted against defensive backs to have that
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kind of impact. But is the first ballot Hall of Fame?
That's a whole another echelon and cut and that's what
he's trying to be this time. He's now one of
fifteen semi semi finalists to do it. Four nine four
five one to tell him, we're doue text line when
it's game time, it's tell time. Is Earl Thomas the
first ballot Hall of Famer? I know I'm speaking to
a group that would appreciate him more than any group
(14:16):
of listeners in the United States, But still even saying that,
I think it's at least debatable whether he's a first
Ballad Hall of Famer. He certainly thinks he is. If
you saw his comments to Justina Anderson last week, he
said he was better than Troy Paula Maul. I don't
speaking of first.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
I would put him right there with Brian Dawkins if
if there was a legit comparison, I.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Think you put him with Ed Reid or behind.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
I put him behind Red ed Reid probably the greatest
of all time. I know I didn't see the guys
before him, and there's sure I'm sure I can learn
a thing or two, but Ed Reid Man, he's one
of the goats in my.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Eyes, Ripomo ed Reid, I agree, especially in this eeric
with the rules are against.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
I looked at Brian Dawkins and his what he did.
I think he had what three I want to say,
three first team or five first team All Pro and
Earl had four, and then Earl also the Super Bowl champion.
It's I think it's closer with Brian Dawkins and Brian's in.
So I think based on what statistically what Earl did,
(15:21):
I think he can get in.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
If you're not looking at you know, everything else that
went on.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Right, and some do. There are fifty voters, Yeah, all
of whom are about my age and older. They're fifty voters,
and they will decide whether he's a finalist next month,
and then whether he's inducted by the time the Super Bowl.
They'll announced that the night before the Super Bowl once
again four nine four five one to tell him we
do text on his earl. Thomas a first ballot Hall
of Famer. We'll read back your text at eleven. There
(15:48):
we'll talk more about this and about how the second
Super Bowl the Seahawks had in that back to back
Super Bowl forty nine against New England, how that affects
all this. We'll talk about that in the third segment.
Coming up, really important talk with doctor amber Posts. She's
a radiation on collegist at Virginia Mason Franciscan Health especialized
in prostate, rector and breast cancers and on our crack
and Hockey fights cancer. Wednesday, We're going to talk to
(16:10):
doctor Amberpost about prevention, treatment, anything you can do awareness
to head off this insidious disease. Doctor amber Post pleased
to have her with us next ninety three point three
kjr FM. Welcome back to the show, The Greag Belle
(16:33):
Show with Christopher Kidd. Ninety three point three KJR FM
is commemorating Crack and Hockey Fights Cancer Day Today Novembers
Hockey Fight Cancer Months. What's aday in ninety three point
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fight cancer together. Make a play for your health with
Virginia Mason Franciscan Health beginning screen screen for breast cancers,
(17:16):
cervical cancer, collectoral cancer, lung, prostate and skin cancers. Someone
who knows the huge importance of screening and early detective
Doctor Amber posts She's a radiation oncologist at Virginia Mason
Franciscan Health. She joins us now in the Beacon plumbing hoighlight.
I'm sorry, doctor Post to keep you waiting. You have
far more important things to change lives than to wait
(17:37):
on hold for us. Thanks for joining.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
I'm so happy to be here. How are you doing?
Speaker 1 (17:41):
We are well. Thank you. Needless to say the work
you and your colleagues do is hugely important. But statistically speaking,
what's the empirical data say about the importance of testing
and through that early detection of these especially the cancers
you are specializing in, prostate, rectul and breast cancers.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Yeah. Absolutely so. When we detect cancers early, particularly with
things like breast and prostate cancer, the overall survival rate
can be over ninety five percent, So people are very
unlikely to die of cancers when they're detected very early.
It's also the case that the treatment for the cancer
that is recommended by the American Cancer Society is much
(18:26):
less toxic when treating earlier cancers. We don't need chemotherapy,
we don't need hormone suppression in many of these early
stage cancers of the prostate and breast cancer is less
likely to need chemotherapy, so we just have many more
options when cancer is detected early.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Is there an age at which the cancers you specialize
in that you're recommending people start getting tested, for instance, prostate, rectal,
and breast cancers.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
Absolutely, so for prostate and rectal cancers, I want people
to think of forty five as an important number. So
for rectal cancer, in the past, we had recommended colonoscopy
screening starting at age fifty, so that was a number
that really stood out in people's minds. But for black men,
(19:14):
that number was forty five. And now that we've been
seen so many more people diagnosed at younger ages, the
universal recommendation has changed in the last couple of years,
so that now we recommend everybody be screened at age
forty five with a kolonoscopy for prostate cancer. For most
men of average risk, we do start blood screening at
(19:35):
age fifty, and this is just it's just a blood
test that's added on to you know, by your primary
care provider with your annual visit. So this is not
a major it's not a major inconvenience, it's not a
medical procedure. But forty five would be again for black
men who are at higher risk of handing higher gray
prostay cancer as well as anybody who might have had
(19:56):
a close family relative like a father or a brother
who had prostag cats answer. So today at the Cracking game,
starting at at five thirty, we are going to be
offering screening for men aged forty five and over through
your Virginia Mason Franciscan Health. So we have a free
bullw test that we can offer men who are here
for the game.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
And again, this is just a blood draw. I mean,
it's not very invasive and very extensive. You go bring
your ticket to the game, go through the gate and there's
the blood draw, right.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Doctor post that's right, And you know, I wish that
we had the same blood test for all types of cancer.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
It is.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
It is painless mainly and right right, and it is
it is quite specific, you know, for prostate cancer and
if it's if it's significantly elevated, then we would want
to go ahead for a Buya seat. And if it's
not elevated, then we'll try and then we'll test again
in another year or two. So you know, we we
just want to emphasize that screen for prostate cancer is
(20:55):
quite easy to do. There are times that we made
reckon men that it's not necessary. Particularly for older folks
who might have a short lifespan, it might not be
worth going up that you know, it might not be
worth a testing. But for most men in their fifties
and sixties, early seventies, healthy men, this is something we
should be doing on an annual basis.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
This is the voice of doctor Amber Post, she's a
radiation on cologist at Virginiaation, Franciscan Health on Hockey Fights
Cancer Day on ninety three point three KJERFM.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Doctor Amber, what advice would you give to those who
are still maybe hesitant about getting screened for cancer and
how do you, I guess, reassure them about the benefits
of early detection.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
So I will say that early detection, say for breast cancer,
could just mean that even something as simple as a
surgery and a short course of radiation would be all
that you might need. Early detection with breast cancer results
in breast cancer specific survival rates of over ninety eight percent.
And with prostate cancer, there's certainly a lot of you know,
(22:03):
a lot of worries swirling around about the treatment for
prostate cancer. But the earlier that it is detected, the
more likely that surgery can spare the nerves, or that
radiation can be a short course, even implanting radioactive seeds
or just you know, say five treatments of radiation, and
this is much easier to deal with than months and
(22:23):
months of chemotherapy and radiation and much much likely to
have less side effects. The other thing about getting a
blood test is that for most men, your PSA is
within normal range and you just go back to living
your life. So this is not a you know, this
is not something that that should be frightening. As far
(22:45):
as the colonoscopy goes, We've got to kind of get
people together to to do this because rectal cancer can
be very very dangerous, and it can it can you know,
occur with young people. And I know that it is
not very fond to think of the idea of going
through a colonoscopy, but rectal cancer is quite dangerous and
it is starting to affect people at younger and younger ages,
(23:07):
and so I just would really want to implore the
community to consider doing this and to just checking this
off your list of things to do when you turn
forty five.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Doctor post. I have to ask because a lot of
listeners my age and I'm fifty three of fifty three
year old male and a lot of listeners our age
see these ads for take home tests or rectal cancer
tests that you can screenings that you can do in
your home. Is there any decrease or change and effectiveness
then the traditional colonoscopy, what would you recommend about that?
Speaker 4 (23:39):
I think that we need a little bit more time
to say that that is equal to the gold standard.
So my recommendation is again at forty five, just just
take one for the team and go ahead and get
the colonoscopy, and then if that is negative and you
have a low cancer risk, then you can talk with
your physician, you can talk with your primary care doctor
and it might be completely safe for you for the
next time you're up for another screening to just do
(24:01):
the take home test. But we haven't shown them to
be equivalent as looking at to looking at the entire
colon Early stage rectal cancers can can be growing slowly
without bleeding, you know, and then that's what you're trying
to detect with the take home test with blood and
so you're you know there there can still be earlier.
(24:22):
There's many times, you know, and it needs to be
advanced enough to cause bleeding.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Right, Greg, And I understand that you enjoy fly fishing
and exploring Washington the natural beauty that it has, and
Greg would probably agree with that because he does so himself.
And I'm curious, how does spending that time in nature,
how does that impact your well being?
Speaker 4 (24:42):
It's it's huge just being able to being surrounded by
a place like this. You know, I grew up in Arkansas,
and there's there's some pretty places to Arkansas, but it's
nothing like that.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
The doctor post also that short.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
But I grew up on the Louisiana borders. It's not
quite the same. It's incredible to be here. And I
would say that both with my work and with my
time outdoors and the mountains. It just really makes me
appreciate good health, you know. It just really makes me
so grateful for everything that I have. But I do
(25:17):
have good health, and I'm blessed with that. But I
still screen every year and do all of my recommended
screening so that I am absolutely sure when I go
to that everything looks good and that I myself am
not needing to address any cancers that may be out there.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Doctor Post, hats off to you what you and your
colleagues do on a daily basis to change lives and
help against this fight against this insidious disease. We appreciate
you joining us and taking time out to do it
on Hockey Fights Cancer Day. Thank you very much, my pleasure,
Doctor amber Post a radiation on colleges at Virginia Mason
Franciscan Health. As she mentioned, if you're attending the cracking
(25:55):
game tonight against Nashville, the gates open a five point
thirty at Climate Pledgerina, and if you're a male forty
five or older, you are just walk in with your
ticket and then go over and get your arm pricked
and it's a pinch and a blood draw like you've
done with probably one hundred thousand times, however many times
you've been to a doctor, and that can be your
prostrate screening right there for free at Climate Pledgerina tonight
(26:19):
as part of Kraken's Fight Cancer Night at Climate Pledgerreina
in conjunction with Virginia Mason Franciscan Health. Are thanks to
doctor amber Post for joining us here on ninety three
point three KJRFM.
Speaker 5 (26:32):
Up.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Next, we'll talking a little bit more about Earl Thomas's
Candiessey as a first ballot Hall of Famer. That's what
he became a semi finalist for today, and I'm going
to talk to you about what I saw at Super
Bowl forty nine in the locker room at right after
that game in Glendale. What is it ten years ago
that it may have some effect on Earl Thomas's candidacy
and the voting for the Hall of Fame. That is
(26:54):
next at eleven o'clock. Humeil And will join us as
he does every time at eleven o'clock on Wednesdays, Now
eleven thirty five factor fitting your chance to win one
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asked for a tellamore de text line we'll be back
at eleven thirty is ar Old Thomas first battle Hall
of Famer? All that coming up on a Hockey Fights
Cancer Wednesday here on ninety three point three KJARFM. Welcome
(27:22):
back dreg Go with Christopher Kidd Here on ninety three
point three KJARFM. It's Hockey Fights Cancer, the annual day
here on the station let's fight cancer together and remembers
Hockey Fights Cancer Month, and today's a day to spread
that message. Make a play for your health with Virginia
Mason Franciscan Health by getting screens screen for breast cancer, cervical, collectoral, lung,
(27:43):
prostate and skin cancer. Virginia Mason Health locations across Seattle
and the South Sound. You can easily find a screening
location near you, including Climate Pledge Aina tonight. If you
have a ticket to the game and you're a man
forty five years or older, as soon as you go
into the game, you get free screening, a blood draw,
prostate cancer screening free at Climate Pledge Arena tonight. If
(28:05):
you're attending the Cracking game against Nashville, that's a seven
pm puck drop six point thirty pre game show with
Mike Ben to close the six game homestand here on
ninety three point three KJRFM, we had doctor Amber post
the radiation oncologist for Virginia Maation Franciscan Health, joining us
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Earl Thomas today was selected among twenty five semifinalists from
an initial list of nominees of one hundred and sixty
seven for the Hall of Fame. The Pro Football Hall
of Fame class of twenty twenty five. The finalist fifteen
(29:30):
finalists out of the twenty five semifinals will be named
next month and then The inductees for the Class of
twenty twenty five will be announced the night before the
Super Bowl in February in New Orleans. They will meet
the Hall of Fame Selection Committee. We'll meet in New
Orleans the week of the Super Bowl to discuss the candidacy.
These are twenty five modern year SEMIFINALISTSY are also a
(29:54):
senior committee that will induct a handful for the class
of twenty twenty. Is Earl Thomas, a Hall of Famer,
A first ballot Hall of Famer. I asked that for
the question we post for the telem or Do text
line four nine, four to five one, some of you say,
absolutely should be somebody brought up the character and post
career issues, and that is a factor here. These are
(30:14):
human beings, by after all, that have emotions and feelings
and judgments. Fifty people that select the Hall of Fame class,
and some of them will consider what's happened with Earl
Thomas since the Seattle Super Bowl Legion of boom days,
the inglorious end of his career with Baltimore. He ended
up playing ten seasons in the league, all through the
(30:35):
twenty tens, but then afterwards it just got weird and
sad in many respects to some of the situations he's
been in and found in, and the legal situations and
incidents that we don't need to read detail, but you
know him and there are people who will judge him
for that. And it's in every sport. There is that
(30:57):
factor when you have human beings judging other human beings.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Chad Johnson off the field stuff, He's definitely a Hall
of Famer, but he had a lot of drama off.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
The field, and Barry Bonds list can.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Go on ark require so some will consider that and
that will be a part And when they discuss it
at the Super Bowl. I know Hall of Fame selectors personally,
they do discuss those type of things too. How relevant
is that? How much should we bring this up? That
is part of the discussion when they vote for the
Hall of Fame, whether you think it should be or not.
(31:28):
Their human beings and that's part of it. But on
the field, I think a factor here that is against
Earl Thomas being a first battle and as we talked
about earlier, first battle, Hall of Famer is a different threshold.
We're talking about generation, once in a lifetime type players.
Super Bowl forty nine, Malcolm Butler's interception at the one
(31:50):
yard line denies the Seahawks' second consecutive Super Bowl. Chris,
when I went downstairs, I had two options. To go
downstairs after the game, I go straight to the press
conferences with Pete Carroll and everybody, or into the locker room.
I know, knowing Pete Carroll, I knew he was going
to take his time and talk to a lot of
people and a lot of players and buddy up and
hug and suffer together. All that. I knew that was
(32:11):
going to take time. So practically speaking, I knew I
had time to go into the locker room. The locker
room in Glendale was split. The defense was in one
room and the offense was in another. I went to
the defensive side. I wish I could describe to you
what I saw and heard in that defensive side of
the locker room. Ten minutes after Super Bowl forty nine,
(32:31):
they were hicked, to say the least. They knew right then, Chris,
in that moment, that their legacy had been denied them forever.
They knew that defense, the legion of Boom Defense, knew
that they would have been immortals in League history. Had
they won that game and won a second consecutive Super Bowl,
and those defensive players knew that their legacy, they would
(32:54):
never get that opportunity back again to be back to
back Super Bowl champions, and they knew that put them
on an entirely different level than what they could have been.
And had they won that game, I think Earl Thomas
has a much stronger case as a first ballot Hall
of Famer. A two time Super Bowl, back to back
Super Bowl champion, on the number one defense in the league.
Speaker 5 (33:13):
All pro, all of that, But because they didn't win
a second Super Bowl, they don't get that cachet. Russell
Wilson would be a sure to me, a surefire Hall
of Famer if he'd won back to back Super Bowls.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Pete Carroll would be a surefire Hall of Fame. He
may both of them make it in eventually, but there
would be no doubt if Pete Carroll won back to
back Super Bowls. But in that locker room, Chris Man,
I would I saw and heard stuff that I've sworn
to secrecy, I've never printed, I've never talked about publicly
on the air. That was that just let's just keep
(33:50):
it at they were pissed at their coaches for that
play call from the one yard line. That is also
a fact here. It is as we discussed, Chris, it
is a high bar to be a first ballot Hall
of Famer. You mentioned Ed Reid, Troy Paula Malou at
Earl Thomas's position, Brian Dawkins. Brian Dawkins safety, but no
(34:13):
doubt Earl Thomas redefined how to play free safety. But
Troy Paula Malou to me is the absolute standard bearer
of the safety position in the modern era. The post
all the rules are for the offense era in the
NFL four nine, four to five one on the Telemoved
Do text. I can spend a ton of time talking
about this, but we are now going to go to
Hugh Millan after the break four nine four to five
(34:35):
one on Telllemood text line. We'll read back your text
about this and other things. In Chenna Nuos injury Update.
I'll get to that on the text line as well.
Hughes Millon is up next an eleven thirty five factor
fiction your chance to win one thousand dollars from the
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