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They've taken over cities before, but this July, they're bringing the X Games League Championship home to New Orleans. July 24th through 26th at the Superdome. Over 100 elite athletes competing for the first ever league title. Plus, Metro Boomin', JID, Subtronics, and Bunt performing live. New Orleans doesn't just host the moment. New Orleans is the moment. Get your tickets now at xgames.com.

Hey, this is Chuck from Stuff You Should Know, and we're submitting our most science-y episodes for your peer review with our new Stuff You Should Know doing science playlist. Out now. You want to know about Occam's Razor? The simplest explanation is usually the right one. We got you covered. Wondered what chaos theory is ever since the first time you saw Jurassic Park? Well, come on down. So, distill a nice pot of tea, everybody. Turn down the gas on your Bunsen burner and slip into your most comfortable lab coat. and listen to the Stuff You Should Know Doin' Science playlist on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

The World Cup is underway, and it's been incredible. On our podcast, The Away End, with Daniel Alarcon and John Green, we're talking about the games that have delighted us, the teams that have inspired us, what we're loving, and what surprised us, all through the lens of being massive fans of the world's most beautiful game.

Daniel, this tournament has been magical so far. There's so much to love, and I can hardly believe the drama that the group stage brought us and now it's time for us to talk about the teams that are left as the field is whittled down to one World Cup champion on July 19th.

Listen to The Way End with Aniel Alarcon and John Green on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

It's Mojo in the Morning Show. Hey, all this month we are recognizing National Heart Healthy Month. Our good friends over at the University of Michigan and Michigan Medicine's Frankel Cardiovascular Center, want to build awareness for you so that you don't just come to them when you need them at the most dire needs. You actually go to them for preventative. And this morning's is one of those ones where I don't even know how you could prevent this. On the phone with us this morning is probably the most relatable of all the people that we've talked to this week. We got a lot of moms that listen to this show and Kristen is on with us right now uh kristen good morning how you doing kristen good morning kristen can you hear me kristen kristen do i have her there oh you know what hold on kristen are you there yes i'm here i had the wrong i had the i i don't yes i almost went into cardiac arrest on that one i i had my phone i'm like i'm like where is my phone line at right now um we can joke about it because kristen's here and she's alive and thank god of this one imagine the mother of a three-year-old daughter at her daughter's dance recital no health issues before this you're there watching the recital

and what happens kristin so the recital had ended and i was going to find my daughter because it was a really small um theater and it was dark and so i had one of the other little dancers by in to find her mom and I was trying to find Madison, my oldest, and all of a sudden, apparently I collapsed. I had no previous feeling of not feeling well. Like I had no clue that this was going to happen. Everything that happened after that was told to me because my husband, my sister, my mom, like tons of our family was there to see Madison's dance performance. And so apparently um, Dr. Sharpie and Dr. Gupta also had daughters at the dance recital. They saw me go down. And so they, um, immediately started doing CPR at me. Man, thank God. Thank God they're there. Right.

I mean, this is, oh my gosh. So Dr. Sharpie, Dr. Gupta, shout out to you, uh, for running to the aid. Um, and anybody that doesn't know how to do CPR, CPR training is so important. So here you are a mom watching your daughter, everything's fine. You get up from your chair, you end up having this cardiac arrest happen to you. Um, you, you moms are amazing. First off, you, you know, you guys lack of sleep, uh, when you're sick, you're never sick, right? Cause you can't call on a sick day when you're a mom uh and taking care of yourself is one of those things and you had no prior at all nothing at all like you weren't tired you didn't have headaches nothing

like that nope nothing at all um and keep in mind like with cardiac arrest it's a little different than a heart attack yeah so that's it's an electrical issue so they still don't know what caused my heart to go into this fatal rhythm i mean thank goodness that they were there to do CPR. They did it for 13 minutes. Dr. Sharpie's wife was there, so she was helping and so was in

another nurse so they did it until um they were able to get there with an aed because back then so this happened in 2007 okay and they didn't have aeds everywhere right so you can just run to the next place and grab one and come back so they actually had to wait for ems to get there and then they shocked me twice and that brought my heart back into a normal rhythm and so and this is big goodness for them yeah thank god no i was just gonna say because they did such great cpr that I didn't have any cognitive issues from that.

Thank God.

So you wake up in the hospital. Is that? And just no clue.

Right. Well, I actually woke up in the ambulance one time and I do remember that. But then they like put me right back to sleep. So I woke up in the hospital the next day and I'm kind of like, what's going on? And everyone has these worried looks. And so then they told me that my heart had stopped and that they had had to resuscitate me. So it was, you know, a pretty overwhelming thing, especially like back in 2007, like out of hospital cardiac arrest, like it was a 93% death rate. So it was, you know, I'm very lucky to be here.

Kristen, you know, you bring up the AEDs and we now are starting to see more and more AEDs out there, but still not enough. Um, we actually last year as a radio station did a fundraiser with all of our employees to try to have AEDs at anywhere that any human is, especially younger kids that are doing sports and things like that, because we're seeing a lot of times where kids are out on fields and there's no AEDs. And we often wonder if, you know, coaches of lacrosse teams should be carrying along with their equipment for their kids, an AED with them. Because what happens if a kid goes into a cardiac arrest?

LeBron, I saw that.

Yeah, LeBron. Absolutely. Yeah.

I mean, he really brought attention to the whole cardiac arresting and healthy people, right? Like he was a big star and he's done a lot of great work to make people aware. Absolutely. Like to your point, like I was always like, um, Madison and Chloe both played soccer. So I was always like, do they have AEDs at the parks they're playing at? Why don't as clubs, why don't we provide them to coaches? But you know, they're expensive and quite honestly, unless it happens to you or someone you don't or someone, you know, it's just not on their radar. They think, Oh, a healthy 12 year old can't go into cardiac arrest. Well, they can, you know, but you're just not hearing about it as much.

So Kristen, since this happened, this has to, has had to change you as a person, because listen, when I had my heart issue, it changed me. Now I, you know, I'm more aware of things. What have you done to yourself and what are you trying to do to build more awareness other than just coming on our radio show?

so i have done i've promoted um hands-only cpr because i know people are very intimidated to do the breathing for people so i will go to classes that are being held there's a michigan sudden cardiac arrest association that i participate in um i don't take any days for granted when people complain that they're getting old i always love to guilt trip i'm like well you know the alternative is you know not as conducive to like you know being happier so they're like I know I know but um I'm really grateful and you know I try to let people know like if you don't feel well you should go to your doctor but you should go to your doctor even if you're like just go for your annual um visits just to make sure everything's okay

we talked about this yesterday yeah we talked about this yesterday off I think it was off the air where we were just talking in the studio and making sure that all of us like and if you have insurance truly there's really no excuse you should go every single year for your for a checkup

just a checkup right you know uh michigan medicine is making this a big priority because the frankel cardiovascular center is such a great place and if you go to their website there's so much going on right now for heart uh healthy month and i have to tell you that it's one of those things where you know everybody always feels the the fear of other things that could happen to them. Right. But the heart, that's where we're seeing a lot of these deaths. And Shannon, I ask you, cause here you are a mom of young kids. When you hear a story like this, to me, it's like, I think moms live forever for some reason. I think only guys get heart attacks. Like I've always thought that. And when I hear a story of Kristen, who's a healthy woman and she's there just watching her kids to think that that could have, what could have happened if the right people

weren't there trained for sure and i think a lot of moms like myself you know and and you said that you had you know no symptoms beforehand i think a lot of moms are so busy just getting through the day and the day-to-day of activities and running kids around going to work and food and whatever that even if there was something small that you're like i

i don't have time i don't have time to deal with this and this is just a reminder that that could

be a really good deal like like we talked mammograms you know what i mean like you yeah you know hey kristen uh you know years later now um you know your your children are older do they have any remembrance of this like does madison remember this no she was not with me and

so i believe they were able to move her out of the area when they were doing cpr on me so she did not see it and then chloe was only five months old so she was actually five months old to the day and so they thought maybe that was part of the cause was they were seeing some research about postpartum

women going into cardiac arrest interesting so but they now they now know about this right so you know they that's that's got to be something for them like you know oh yeah yeah it's yeah it's it's so awesome that you would come on the air and share your story a lot of times people just don't even want to relive that you i you should see my text messages right now of people talking about how much they they love hearing these stories because it makes them more aware that they got to take care of themselves that's awesome thank you thank you chris i appreciate you so much and thank you to everybody over at michigan medicine noah's done a great job this

week of uh building awareness for us they've taken over cities before but this july they're Bringing the X Games League Championship home to New Orleans. July 24th through 26th at the Superdome. Over 100 elite athletes competing for the first ever league title. Plus, Metro Boomin, JID, Subtronics, and Bunt performing live. New Orleans doesn't just host the moment. New Orleans is the moment. Get your tickets now at xgames.com.

Hey, this is Chuck from Stuff You Should Know, and we're submitting our most science-y episodes for your peer review with our new Stuff You Should Know doing science playlist. Out now. You want to know about Occam's Razor? The simplest explanation is usually the right one. We got you covered. Wondered what chaos theory is ever since the first time you saw Jurassic Park? Well, come on down. So distill a nice pot of tea, everybody. Turn down the gas on your Bunsen burner and slip into your most comfortable lab coat and listen to the Stuff You Should Know doing science playlist on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

The World Cup is underway, and it's been incredible. On our podcast, The Away End, with Daniel Alarcon and John Green, we're talking about the games that have delighted us, the teams that have inspired us, what we're loving, and what surprised us, all through the lens of being massive fans of the world's most beautiful game.

Daniel, this tournament has been magical so far. There's so much to love, and I can hardly believe the drama that the group stage brought us. And now it's time for us to talk about the teams that are left as the field is whittled down to one World Cup champion on July 19th.

Listen to The Weigh End with Daniel Alarcon and John Green on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.