Podcasts about San Francisco Giants

Looking for the best MLB picks, predictions, and betting tips for Friday, July 18, 2025? Tune in to Total Bases with expert handicappers Adam Trigger, Bryan Leonard and Tokyo Brandon as they break down today's MLB matchups with sharp insights and actionable advice.00:00:00 Introduction00:03:45 Cleveland Guardians vs Oakland Athletics00:12:21 Milwaukee Brewers vs Los Angeles Dodgers00:21:05 Boston Red Sox vs Chicago Cubs00:33:48 Detroit Tigers vs Texas Rangers00:42:06 San Francisco Giants vs Toronto Blue Jays00:52:15 Houston Astros vs Seattle Mariners01:01:50 Parlay of the Day

On this episode of the Forever SF Giants podcast, hosts Schmitty and Christian welcome Carolyn McArdle, the public address announcer for the San Francisco Giants. Carolyn shares her journey from a childhood love of music all the way to being one of the prominent voices of Oracle Park and the Giants. Much like a ballplayer, Carolyn got the call-up from AAA ball to the Major Leagues, experiencing the passion and energy of the Giants and their fans.Carolyn reflects on the importance of women's representation in sports, her game day preparation, the excitement of announcing special events and, her camaraderie with the best broadcast team with best office view in baseball. Carolyn emphasizes the joy of her role and her commitment to inspiring future generations of fans and announcers.Please hit the LIKE and SUBSCRIBE buttons to help us grow and you'll be notified on all our new content.FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM:Forever SF Giants: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.instagram.com/Forever_SFGiants Christian Cooper: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.instagram.com/BlkPrjkt ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Schmitty: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.instagram.com/Schmitty_SF⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠#mlb #podcast #skatersonbaseball #CarolynMcArdle #TheBreeze #PublicAnnouncer #sfgiants #frogskateboards #blkproject #schmitty #winning #skateboarding #baseball #homerun #OraclePark

San Francisco Giants general manager (1996-2015) Brian Sabean joins Silver & J.T. Snow to explain what made the Giants front office one of the best in baseball and why it was important not to rush prospects to the major league levelSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

President of Baseball Operations for the San Francisco Giants, Buster Posey joined Murph & Markus to preview the second half of the season, including who will get the first start on Friday night & the team's expectation to make the postseasonSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

President of Baseball Operations for the San Francisco Giants, Buster Posey joined Murph & Markus to preview the second half of the season, including who will get the first start on Friday night & the team's expectation to make the postseasonSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In todays Crossover, Steiny and Guru are joined by Grandi and Dibs as they share what they liked or didn't like about last nights MLB All Star game. Plus, Steiny and Guru ask the guys if pro athletes care as much as fans about winning championships.

In hour 1 of Willard and Dibs, Dibs and Grandi (filling in for Willard) express how much they enjoyed the MLB All Star Game last night. Randy Rodriguez struggled as Brent Rooker shined. Ending the game on a swing off is something the guys love but are cautious on the ABS challenge system. In hour 2 of Willard and Dibs, Dibs and Grandi (filling in for Willard) go further on what they enjoyed about the MLB All Star Game. Dibs does a "deep dive" and are you IN on the ABS Challenge System. In Hour 3 of Willard and Dibs, Dibs and Grandi (filling in for Willard) get into some sound from FS1 host, Chris Broussard who suggested that Major League Baseball should implement swing offs into the regular season and not just in the all star game. Are you in on this? In the final hour of Willard and Dibs, Dibs and Grandi ( filling in for Willard) end the show discussing all of the different rule changes throughout baseball and basketball and what works and what hasn't. Plus, Grandi thinks he can "fix" basketball with some new rule changes he's proposed. Dibs isn't too sure about them.

In this episode of The Deal, Alex Rodriguez tells Jason Kelly about his experience at the MLB All-Star Game in Atlanta. Then, they speak with Sam Kennedy about his “bold decision making” as President and CEO of the Boston Red Sox. Kennedy tells the hosts how he handles tough decisions like trading Rafael Devers to the San Francisco Giants, why buying Liverpool FC is proof that “there's really no bad ideas,” and why he decided to invest in the PGA Tour. You can also watch this interview on the Bloomberg Podcasts YouTube page.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to the Pinkleton Pull-Aside Podcast. On this podcast, let's step aside from our busy lives to have fun, fascinating life giving conversation with inspiring authors, pastors, sports personalities and other influencers, leaders and followers. Sit back, grab some coffee, or head down the road and let's get the good and the gold from today's guest. Our host is Jeff Pinkleton, Executive Director of the Gathering of the Miami Valley, where their mission is to connect men to men, and men to God. You can reach Jeff at GatheringMV.org or find him on Facebook at The Gathering of the Miami Valley.Tom Roy serves as a team chaplain for Grace College's baseball team. Roy has worked with the Lancers across four different different decades. He was the Lancers' head baseball coach from 1980-83. He led Grace to two winning seasons in 1981 and 1982. He was also the squad's pitching coach from 1970-73 and graduated from Grace with a Bachelor's degree in 1974. He has also assisted the Lancers multiple times over the years.Roy has spent close to 15 years as a scout for Major League Baseball. He was an associate scout for the Philadelphia Phillies from 1976-79 and was an associate international scout for the Atlanta Braves from 1993-99 and for the San Diego Padres from 2000-05.Roy also served as the varsity baseball coach at Tippecanoe Valley from 1974-76 and was the pitching coach at Huntington College from 1987-89. He has visited over 65 different countries teaching and coaching the game of baseball.He is the president and founder of Unlimited Potential, Inc. He played briefly in the San Francisco Giants organization before starting his career. He authored an autobiography about his experience with UPI entitled "Released." He also recently authored another book entitled "Shepherd Coach: Unlocking the Destiny of You and Your Players."Roy has served as a board member for various ministries, including the Warsaw YMCA, Calling for Christ, UPI and Fellowship Mission. He has co-written multiple books, including “Beyond Betrayal” and “Sandusky Bay.”Grace recently renamed its baseball stadium in honor of Roy, calling it the Tom Roy - UPI Park. The Lancers played their first season in the newly renovated ballpark in the spring of 2024.

President of Baseball Operations for the San Francisco Giants, Buster Posey joined Murph & Markus to preview the second half of the season, including who will get the first start on Friday night & the team's expectation to make the postseasonSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

San Francisco Giants general manager (1996-2015) Brian Sabean joins Silver & J.T. Snow to explain what made the Giants front office one of the best in baseball and why it was important not to rush prospects to the major league levelSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

0:10: John Lund joins the show2:55: The 3 biggest sophomore X-factors on the 49ers:28:32: The list that shows how top-heavy the 49ers are — there is no “middle class”32:46: The new NFL power couple — featuring an undrafted 49er and Brock Lesnar's daughter37:56: The All-Star Game: All the misses and the one thing MLB got right57:31: There are a lot of reasons not to trade for Jonathan Kuminga, and teams around the league are telling us that59:32: A WNBA strike would be an absolute disaster for the league — these players don't have the leverage they think they have1:05:00: Today in history:

In hour 1 of Willard and Dibs, Dibs is still live from NBA Summer League in Vegas, they get into what's going on out there in Sin City. They touch base with NBA insider, Marc Stein. He informs the guys on what he's hearing about the Kuminga and Lebron situations. Plus, he believes the Warriors will acquire De'Anthony Melton, Al Horford and possibly...Bradley Beal? In Hour 2 of Willard and Dibs, the guys get big man Trayce Jackson-Davis on the show and he shares what his offseason has been like, playing Chess ( or not ) with Quentin Post, supporting guys in Summer League in Las Vegas and much more! In hour 3 of Willard and Dibs, the guys get into the Giants and what they've seen so far after 97 games and what they think lies ahead for the rest of the season. Plus, they wonder if a big bat just an hour away from Oracle Park is available at the deadline...Brent Rooker anyone? In the final hour of Willard and Dibs, the guys end the show talking to former Warrior, Jason Richardson who provides insight on how Mike Dunleavy is doing as GM, Kuminga, plus why guys aren't playing back to back games as much.

In hour 3 of Willard and Dibs, the guys get into the Giants and what they've seen so far after 97 games and what they think lies ahead for the rest of the season. Plus, they wonder if a big bat just an hour away from Oracle Park is available at the deadline...Brent Rooker anyone?

In the final hour of Steiny and Guru , the guys end the show continuing the discussion of how much athletes care about winning championships and if there's any athletes who haven't cared as much. Plus, do guys care about the pressure of winning or is it only in the fans heads?

In Hour 1, Steiny and Guru react to last night's MLB All_Star Game as Guru HATED the idea of a swing-off to end the exhibition. In Hour 2, Steiny and Guru get into pro golfer, Scottie Scheffler's comments on how golf isn't everything to him. In Hour 3 of Steiny and Guru, the guys continue the discussion about how much pro athletes treat their sport more like a job. When does it seem like their just punching a clock? In the final hour of Steiny and Guru , the guys end the show continuing the discussion of how much athletes care about winning championships and if there's any athletes who haven't cared as much. Plus, do guys care about the pressure of winning or is it only in the fans heads?

We go to San Francisco in The Sports Bar with Danger and Battaglia to check in with Joe Shasky of 95.7 The Game to discuss the current state of the 49'ers and Giants along with a recap of his conversation with one of baseball's most recognizable fans, "Marlins Man." Love the show? Share it! Listen, subscribe, and tell a friend!

Clint Scott and Dr. Mike Gustafson discuss Greg Sankey and Brett Yormark's stances on the College Football playoff seeding, Dallas Cowboys expectations for the upcoming season, Play of the Day highlights former Red Raider Damian Bravo being drafted by the San Francisco Giants, Dallas Cowboys contract situations and what to expect with Micah Parsons upcoming new deal, Pete Nakos On3 article "top 10 biggest spenders in CFB this season."

Cal Raleigh wins the MLB All Star Home Run Derby, the Seattle Mariners will make at the MLB Trade Deadline, F1 the Movie with Brad Pitt, if the PGA had an All Star Game, and the Utah Jazz.  CHAPTERS: 0:00 Cal Raleigh & Mariners 1:53 Sports Deadzone 3:34 F1 Movie 6:16 Intro 6:42 PGA All Star Game? 12:50 MLB Draft Kade Anderson vs Ethan Holiday 19:00 SF Giants & Devers 22:59 MLB Trade Deadline 25:00 Jac Caglianone HR Bet Update 25:22 Utah Jazz 27:17 Outro Text Read Receipts 29:00 Outro ESPN Clickbait Stories   Click to subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@bigbenkwinn_      Follow us on Social Media: https://www.instagram.com/bigbenkwinn_    https://www.tiktok.com/@bigbenkwinn_  https://x.com/bigbenkwinn_?s=21  https://www.threads.net/@bigbenkwinn_    Got feedback? Email us at wstpodcastshow@gmail.com

Matt Peterson, Vice President of Ticket Sales and Premium Seating at the San Francisco Giants, joins Sports Geek. Matt shares insights on the evolution of ticketing from paper to digital, the importance of data-driven decision making in pricing strategies, and how the Giants continue to innovate in premium seating experiences. Discover what makes the Giants' organisational culture special and why so many executives have long tenures with this storied MLB franchise.  Show notes - https://sportsgeekhq.com/the-evolution-of-ticket-sales-matt-peterson-sf-giants/

In hour 4, Steiny and Guru join Spadoni and Shasky for the final hour and play Giants Family Feud where Carter asks questions to both the teams an awards points for the best answer.

In hour 1, Spadoni and Shasky discuss the Home Run Derby and how impressive Oneil Cruz and Cal Raleigh are. Plus are the Giants feeling buyers remorse with Devers?

In hour 2, Spadoni and Shasky discuss whether the Giants have some buyers remorse right now and whether they would do the deal over again now?

Spadoni and Shasky discuss Cal Raleigh's win at the Homerun Derby. Are the Giants having buyers remorse with Devers? Plus 49ers open training camp today for the rookies and Jerry Rice had some choice words for the 49ers offseason. The guys invite Steiny and Guru to join their Family Feud style game show!

In the final hour of Willard and Dibs, the fellas end the show discussing who made the All-Star Game in Atlanta this year. Plus, is it Giants fans fault for selling their tickets during the Dodgers series? Plus, is there anything to see here when it came to Kevon Looney moving on from the Bay to the Bayou? Also, Warriors center, Quinten Post joins the show to pump his Chess-t.

In hour 1 of Willard and Dibs, Willard is in studio while Dibs is live from Vegas at NBA Summer League. They also get into NBA Offseason and while the Kuminga situation still hasn't been resolved, there are plenty of other players haven't decided what they'll do this offseason. Plus, they get into how too many Dodgers fans were in attendance this past weekend at Oracle Park. In Hour 2 of Willard and Dibs, with Dibs in Vegas at NBA Summer League , they get a chance to speak to a couple of new Warriors players, Alex Toohey & Will Richard who are getting their reps in here in Vegas and can't wait to start their NBA careers in blue and gold. In Hour 3 of Willard and Dibs, the guys discuss whether or not it'd be good for the Niners to extend Jauan Jennings to a new deal and whether or not he's deserving of a new contract. In the final hour of Willard and Dibs, the fellas end the show discussing who made the All-Star Game in Atlanta this year. Plus, is it Giants fans fault for selling their tickets during the Dodgers series? Plus, is there anything to see here when it came to Kevon Looney moving on from the Bay to the Bayou?

Crossover: In today's Crossover, Steiny and Guru are joined by Willard and Dibs (who's live at NBA Summer League in Vegas) talk about the fans not showing up for the Giants-Dodgers series. Plus, they discuss how the latest homestand could've been better for the San Francisco Giants.

In hour 1 of Willard and Dibs, Willard is in studio while Dibs is live from Vegas at NBA Summer League. They also get into NBA Offseason and while the Kuminga situation still hasn't been resolved, there are plenty of other players haven't decided what they'll do this offseason. Plus, they get into how too many Dodgers fans were in attendance this past weekend at Oracle Park.

Steiny & Guru take stock of where the best acquisitions in Bay Area sports rank and why they changed their respective franchises.

Steiny & Guru are warmed up from their roundtable with Joe & Joe and ready to ignite the Giants, 49ers, and Warriors!

Steiny & Guru discuss how much blame Rafael Devers deserves for not producing so far through his first 25 games.

Steiny & Guru break down why this era of athlete is more pampered than the old and should be grateful to have grown up in leagues concerned with making money!

Steiny & Guru didn't like, but understood what people meant when the internet trashed Oracle for being mostly blue this weekend. This Dodgers came, saw and conquered and it didn't feel good.

Steiny & Guru get into the Giants vs. Dodgers series before the All-Star Break, Jauan Jennings wanting a contract extension or trade, and the Warriors attempts to maneuver from their standstill. Things get testy in the last hour!

Steiny & Guru recap the tough losses sustained at Oracle Park this weekend to the dreaded Los Angeles Dodgers.

Steiny & Guru go through the close game struggles the Giants displayed in their series loss to the Dodgers this weekend.

July 14, 1916 - Ernie Koob of the St. Louis Browns went the distance in a 17-inning 0-0 tie with the Boston Red Sox. Carl Mays went the first fifteen innings for the Red Sox and Dutch Leonard finished.1956 - Mel Parnell of the Boston Red Sox pitched a no-hitter against the Chicago White Sox for a 4-0 victory at Fenway Park. This would be the first no hitter for the Sox since 1923 when Howard Ehmke would blank the Philadelphia A's.1967 - Eddie Mathews of the Astros hit his 500th home run off San Francisco's Juan Marichal at Candlestick Park. Houston beat the Giants 8-6. Matthews would become only the 7th member of the 500 Club.Hammerin' Hank Aaron collected his 500th home run off Mike McCormick on July 14th 1968 as the Atlanta Braves beat the San Francisco Giants 4-2. As Curt Simmons would say "Trying to throw a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak a sunrise past a rooster".On July 14th 1970 - Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds scored on Jim Hickman's 12th-inning single after bowling over Cleveland's Ray Fosse at home plate to give the National League a 5-4 victory over the American League at Riverfront Stadium. The collision is often blamed for Fosse's shortened career, but the following year Fosse was again an All Star Catcher and also won a Gold Glove.Mentioned in this episode:Classic Baseball BroadcastsClassic Baseball Broadcasts

Eric Topol (00:06):Hello, this is Eric Topol from Ground Truths, and I'm delighted to welcome Owen Tripp, who is a CEO of Included Health. And Owen, I'd like to start off if you would, with the story from 2016, because really what I'm interested in is patients and how to get the right doctor. So can you tell us about when you lost your hearing in your right ear back, what, nine years ago or so?Owen Tripp (00:38):Yeah, it's amazing to say nine years, Eric, but obviously as your listeners will soon understand a pretty vivid memory in my past. So I had been working as I do and noticed a loss of hearing in my right ear. I had never experienced any hearing loss before, and I went twice actually to a sort of national primary care chain that now owned by Amazon actually. And they described it as eustachian tube dysfunction, which is a pretty benign common thing that basically meant that my tubes were blocked and that I needed to have some drainage. They recommended Sudafed to no effect. And it was only a couple weeks later where I was walking some of the senior medical team at my company down to the San Francisco Giants game. And I was describing this experience of hearing loss and I said I was also losing a little bit of sensation in the right side of my face. And they said, that is not eustachian tube dysfunction. And well, I can let the story unfold from there. But basically my colleagues helped me quickly put together a plan to get this properly diagnosed and treated. The underlying condition is called vestibular schwannoma, even more commonly known as an acoustic neuroma. So a pretty rare benign brain tumor that exists on the vestibular nerve, and it would've cost my life had it not been treated.Eric Topol (02:28):So from what I gather, you saw an ENT physician, but that ENT physician was not really well versed in this condition, which is I guess a bit surprising. And then eventually you got to the right ENT physician in San Francisco. Is that right?Owen Tripp (02:49):Well, the first doctor was probably an internal medicine doctor, and I think it's fair to say that he had probably not seen many, if any cases. By the time I reached an ENT, they were interested in working me up for what's known as sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSHL), which is basically a fancy term for you lose hearing for a variety of possible pathologies and reasons, but you go through a process of differential diagnosis to understand what's actually going on. By the time that I reached that ENT, the audio tests had showed that I had significant hearing loss in my right ear. And what an MRI would confirm was this mass that I just described to you, which was quite large. It was already about a centimeter large and growing into the inner ear canal.Eric Topol (03:49):Yeah, so I read that your Stanford brain scan suggested it was about size of a plum and that you then got the call that you had this mass in your brainstem tumor. So obviously that's a delicate operation to undergo. So the first thing was getting a diagnosis and then the next thing was getting the right surgeon to work on your brain to resect this. So how did you figure out who was the right person? Because there's only a few thousand of these operations done every year, as I understand.Owen Tripp (04:27):That's exactly right. Yeah, very few. And without putting your listeners to sleep too early in our discussion, what I'll say is that there are a lot of ways that you can actually do this. There are very few cases, any approach really requires either shrinking or removing that tumor entirely. My size of tumor meant it was really only going to be a surgical approach, and there I had to decide amongst multiple potential approaches. And this is what's interesting, Eric, you started saying you wanted to talk about the patient experience. You have to understand that I'm somebody, while not a doctor, I lead a very large healthcare company. We provide millions of visits and services per year on very complex medical diagnoses down to more standard day-to-day fare. And so, being in the world of medical complexity was not daunting on the basics, but then I'm the patient and now I have to make a surgical treatment decision amongst many possible choices, and I was able to get multiple opinions.Owen Tripp (05:42):I got an opinion from the House clinic, which is closer to you in LA. This is really the place where they invented the surgical approach to treating these things. I also got an approach shared with me from the Mayo Clinic and one from UCSF and one from Stanford, and ultimately, I picked the Stanford team. And these are fascinating and delicate structures as you know that you're dealing with in the brain, but the surgery is a long surgery performed by multiple surgeons. It's such an exhausting surgery that as you're sort of peeling away that tumor that you need relief. And so, after a 13 hour surgery, multiple nights in the hospital and some significant training to learn how to walk and move and not lose my balance, I am as you see me today, but it was possible under one of the surgical approaches that I would've lost the use of the right side of my face, which obviously was not an option given what I given what I do.Eric Topol (06:51):Yeah, well, I know there had to be a tough rehab and so glad that you recovered well, and I guess you still don't have hearing in that one ear, right?Owen Tripp:That's right.Eric Topol:But otherwise, you're walking well, and you've completely recovered from what could have been a very disastrous type of, not just the tumor itself, but also the way it would be operated on. 13 hours is a long time to be in the operating room as a patient.Owen Tripp (07:22):You've got a whole team in there. You've got people testing nerve function, you've got people obviously managing the anesthesiology, which is sufficiently complex given what's involved. You've got a specialized ENT called a neurotologist. You've got the neurosurgeon who creates access. So it's quite a team that does these things.Eric Topol (07:40):Yeah, wow. Now, the reason I wanted to delve into this from your past is because I get a call or email or whatever contact every week at least one, is can you help me find the right doctor for such and such? And this has been going on throughout my career. I mean, when I was back in 20 years ago at Cleveland Clinic, the people on the board, I said, well, I wrote about it in one of my books. Why did you become a trustee on the board? And he said, so I could get access to the right doctor. And so, this is amazing. We live in an information era supposedly where people can get information about this being the most precious part, which is they want to get the right diagnosis, they want to get the right treatment or prevention, whatever, and they can't get it. And I'm finding this just extraordinary given that we can do deep research through several different AI models and get reports generated on whatever you want, but you can't get the right doctor. So now let's go over to what you're working on. This company Included Health. When did you start that?Owen Tripp (08:59):Well, I started the company that was known as Grand Rounds in 2011. And Grand Rounds still to this day, we've rebranded as Included Health had a very simple but powerful idea, one you just obliquely referred to, which is if we get people to higher quality medicine by helping them find the right level and quality of care, that two good things would happen. One, the sort of obvious one, patients would get better, they'd move on with their lives, they'd return to health. But two and critically that we would actually help the system overall with the cost burden of unnecessary, inappropriate and low quality care because the coda to the example you gave of people calling you looking for a physician referral, and you and I both know this, my guess is you've probably had to clean plenty of it up in your career is if you go to the wrong doctor, you don't get out of the problem. The problem just persists. And that patient is likely to bounce around like a ping pong ball until they find what they actually need. And that costs the payers of healthcare in this country a lot of money. So I started the company in 2011 to try to solve that problem.Eric Topol (10:14):Yeah, one example, a patient of mine who I've looked after for some 35 years contacted me and said, a very close friend of mine lives in the Palm Springs region and he has this horrible skin condition and he's tortured and he's been to six centers, UCSF, Stanford, Oregon Health Science, Eisenhower, UCLA, and he had a full workup and he can't sleep because he's itching all the time. His whole skin is exfoliating and cellulitis and he had biopsies everywhere. He's put on all kinds of drugs, monoclonal antibodies. And I said to this patient of mine I said, I don't know, this is way out of my area. I checked at Scripps and turns out there was this kind of the Columbo of dermatology, he can solve any mystery. And the patient went to see him, and he was diagnosed within about a minute that he had scabies, and he was treated and completely recovered after having thousands and thousands of dollars of all these workups at these leading medical centers that you would expect could make a diagnosis of scabies.Owen Tripp (11:38):That's a pretty common diagnosis.Eric Topol (11:40):Yeah. I mean you might expect it more in somebody who was homeless perhaps, but that doesn't mean it can't happen in anyone. And within the first few minutes he did a scrape and showed the patient under the microscope and made a definitive diagnosis and the patient to this day is still trying to pay all his bills for all these biopsies and drugs and whatnot, and very upset that he went through all this for over a year and he thought he wanted to die, it was so bad. Now, I had never heard of Included Health and you have now links with a third of the Fortune 100 companies. So what do you do with these companies?Owen Tripp (12:22):Yeah, it's pretty cool. These companies, so very large organizations like Walmart and JPMorgan Chase and the rest of the big pioneers of American industry and business put us in as a benefit to help their employees have the same experience that I described to provide almost Eric Topol like guidance service to help people find access to high quality care, which might be referring them into the community or to an academic medical center, but often is also us providing care delivery ourselves through on-demand primary care, urgent care, behavioral health. And now just last year we introduced a couple of our first specialty lines. And the idea, Eric, is that these companies buy this because they know their employees will love it and they do. It is often one of, if not the most highly rated benefits available. But also because in getting their employees better care faster, the employees come back to work, they feel more connected to the company, they're able to do better and safer and higher quality work. And they get more mileage out of their health benefits. And you have to remember that the costs of health benefits in this country are inflating even in this time of hyperinflation. They're inflating faster than anything else, and this is one of most companies, number one pain points for how they are going to control their overall budget. So this is a solution that both give them visibility to controlling cost and can deliver them an excellent patient experience that is not an offer that they've been able to get from the traditional managed care operators.Eric Topol (14:11):So I guess there's a kind of multidimensional approach that you're describing. For one, you can help find a doctor that's the right doctor for the right patient. And you're also actually providing medical services too, right?Owen Tripp (14:27):That's right.Eric Topol (14:30):Are these physicians who are employed by Included Health?Owen Tripp (14:34):They are, and we feel very strongly about that. We think that in our model, we want to train people, hire people in a specific way, prepare them for the kind of work that we do. And there's a lot we could spend time talking about there, but one of the key features of that is teamwork. We want people to work in a collaborative model where they understand that while they may be expert in one specific thing that is connected to a service line, they're working in a much broader team in support of the member, in support of that patient. And we talk about the patients being very first here, and you and I had a laugh on this in the past, so many hospitals will say we're patient first. So many managed care companies will say they're patient first, but it is actually hard the way that the system is designed to truly be patient first. At Included Health, we measure whether patients will come back to us, whether they tell their friends about us, whether they have high quality member satisfaction and are they living more healthy days. So everybody gets surveyed for patient reported outcomes, which is highly unusual as you know, to have both the clinical outcomes and the patient reported outcomes as well.Eric Topol (15:41):Is that all through virtual visits or are there physical visits as well?Owen Tripp (15:47):Today that is all through virtual visits. So we provide 24/7/365 access to urgent care, primary care, behavioral health, the start of the specialty clinic, which we launched last year. And then we provide support for patients who have questions about how these things are going to be billed, what other benefits they have access to. And where appropriate, we send them out to care. So obviously we can't provide all the exams virtually. We can't provide everything that a comprehensive physical would today, but as you and I know that is also changing rapidly. And so, we can do things to put sensors and other observational devices in people's homes to collect that data positively.Eric Topol (16:32):Now, how is that different than Teladoc and all these other telehealth based companies? I mean because trying to understand on the one hand you have a service that you can provide that can be extremely helpful and seems to be relatively unique. Whereas the other seems to be shared with other companies that started in this telehealth space.Owen Tripp (16:57):I think the easiest way to think about the difference here is how a traditional telemedicine company is paid and how we're paid because I think it'll give you some clue as to why we've designed it the way we've designed it. So the traditional telehealth model is you put a quarter in the jukebox, you listen to a song when the song's over, you got to get out and move on with the rest of your life. And quite literally what I mean is that you're going to see one doctor, one time, you will never see that same doctor again. You are not going to have a connected experience across your visits. I mean, you might have an underlying chart, but there's not going to be a continuity of care and follow up there as you would in an integrated setting. Now by comparison, and that's all derived from the fact that those telehealth companies are paid by the drink, they're paid by the visit.Owen Tripp (17:49):In our model, we are committing to a set of experience goals and a set of outcomes to the companies that you refer to that pay our bill. And so, the visits that our members enjoy are all connected. So if you have a primary care visit, that is connected to your behavioral health visit, which is great and is as it should be. If you have a primary care appointment where you identify the need for follow-up cardiology for example. That patient can be followed through that cardiology visit that we circle back, that we make sure that the patient is educated, that he or she has all their questions answered. That's because we know that if the patient actually isn't confident in what they heard and they don't follow through on the plan, then it's all for naught. It's not going to work. And it's a simple sort of observation, but it's how we get paid and why we think it's a really important way to think about medicine.Eric Topol (18:44):So these companies, and they're pretty big companies like Google and AT&T and as you said, JPMorgan and the list goes on and on. Any one of the employees can get this. Is that how it works?Owen Tripp (18:56):That's right, that's right. And even better, most of what I've described to you today is at a low or zero cost to them. So this is a very affordable, easy way to access care. Thinking about one of our very large airline clients the other day, we're often dealing with their flight crews and ramp agents at very strange hours in very strange places away from home, so that they don't have to wait to get access to care. And you can understand that at a basic humanitarian level why that's great, but you can also understand it from a safety perspective that if there is something that is impeding that person's ability to be functioning at work, that becomes an issue for the corporation itself.Eric Topol (19:39):Yeah, so it's interesting you call it included because most of us in the country are excluded. That is, they don't have any way to turn through to get help for a really good referral. Everything's out of network if they are covered and they're not one of the fortunate to be in these companies that you're providing the service for. So do you have any peers or are there any others that are going to come into this space to help a lot of these people that are in a tough situation where they don't really have anyone to turn to?Owen Tripp (20:21):Well, I hope so. Because like you, I've dedicated my career to trying to use information and use science and use in my own right to bring along the model. At Included Health, we talk about raising the standard of care for everybody, and what we mean by that is, we actually hope that this becomes a model that others can follow. The same way the Cleveland Clinic did, the same way the Mayo Clinic did. They brought a model into the world that others soon try to replicate, and that was a good thing. So we'd like to see more attempt to do this. The reality is we have not seen that because unfortunately the old system has a lot of incentives in place to function exactly the way that it is designed. The health system is going to maximize the number of patients that correspond to the highest paying procedures and tests, et cetera. The managed care company is going to try to process the highest number of claims, work the most efficient utilization management and prior authorization, but left out in the middle of all of that is the patient. And so, we really wanted to build that model with the patient at the center, and when I started this company now over a decade ago, that was just a dream that we could do that. Now serving over 10 million members, this feels like it's possible and it feels like a model others could follow.Eric Topol (21:50):Yeah, well that was what struck me is here you're reaching 10 million people. I'd never heard of it. I was like, wow. I thought I try to keep up with things. But now the other thing I wanted to get into you with is AI. Obviously, that has a lot of promise in many different ways. As you know, there are some 12 million diagnostic serious errors a year in the US. I mean you were one, I've been part of them. Most people have been roughed up one way or another. Then there's 800,000 Americans who have disability or die from these errors a year, according to Johns Hopkins relatively recent study. So one of the ways that AI could help is accuracy. But of course, there's many other ways it can help make the lives of both patients helping to integrate their data and physicians to go through a patient's records and set points of their labs and all sorts of other things. Where do you see AI fitting into the model that you've built?Owen Tripp (22:58):Well, I'll give you two that I'm really excited about, that I don't think I hear other people talking about. And again, I'm going to start with that patient, with that member and what he or she wants and needs. One and Eric, bear with me, this is going to sound very banal, but one is just making sense of these very complicated plan documents and explanations of benefits. I'm aware of how well-trained you are and how much you've written. I believe you are the most published in your field. I believe that is a fact. And yet if I showed you a plan description document and an explanation of benefit and I asked you, Eric, could you tell me how much it's going to cost to have an MRI at this facility? I don't think you would've any way of figuring that out. And that is something that people confront every single day in this country. And a lot of people are not like you and me, in that we could probably tolerate a big cost range for that MRI. For some people that might actually be the difference between whether they eat or not, or get their kids prescription or not.Owen Tripp (24:05):And so, we want to make the questions about what your benefits cover and how you understand what's available to you in your plan. We want to make that really easy and we want to make it so that you don't have to have a PhD in insurance language to be able to ask the properly formatted question. As you know, the foundation models are terrific at that problem. So that's one.Eric Topol (24:27):And that's a good one, that's very practical and very much needed. Yeah.Owen Tripp (24:32):The second one I'm really excited about, and I think this will also be near and dear to your heart, is AI has this ability to be sort of nonjudgmental in the best possible way. And so, if we have a patient on a plan to manage hypertension or to manage weight or to manage other elements of a healthy lifestyle. And here we're not talking about deep science, we're just talking about what we've known to work for a long period of time. AI as a coach to help follow through on those goals and passively take data on how you're progressing, but have behind it the world's greatest medical team to be able to jump in when things become more acute or more complex. That's an awesome tool that I think every person needs to be carrying around, so that if my care plan or if my goal is about sleeping better, if my goal is about getting pregnant, if my goal is about reducing my blood pressure, that I can do that in a way that I can have a conversation where I don't feel as a patient that I'm screwing up or letting somebody down, and I can be honest with that AI.Owen Tripp (25:39):So I'm really excited about the potential for the AI as an adjunct coach and care team manager to continue to proceed along with that member with medical support behind that when necessary.Eric Topol (25:55):Yeah, I mean there's a couple of things I'd say about that. Firstly, the fact that you're thinking it from the patient perspective where most working in AI is thinking it from the clinician perspective, so that's really important. The next is that we get notifications, and you need to not sit every hour or something like that from a ring or from a smartwatch or whatever. That isn't particularly intelligent, although it may be needed. The point is we don't get notifications like, what was your blood pressure? Or can you send a PDF of your heart rhythm or this sort of thing. Now the problem too is that people are generating lots of data just by wearing a smartwatch or a fitness band. You've got your activity, your sleep, your heart rate, and all sorts of things that are derivatives of that. No less, you could have other sensors like a glucose monitoring and on and on. No less your electronic health record, and there's no integration of any of this.Eric Topol (27:00):So this idea that we could have a really intelligent AI virtual coach for the patient, which as you said could have connects with a physician as needed, bringing in the data or bringing in some type of issue that the doctor needs to attend to, but it doesn't seem like anything is getting done. We have the AI capabilities, but nothing's getting done. It's frustrating because I wrote about this in 2019 in the Deep Medicine book, and it's just like some of the most sophisticated companies you would think Apple, for the ring Oura and so many others. They have the data, but they don't integrate anything, and they don't really set up notifications for patients. How are we going to get out of this rut?Owen Tripp (27:51):We are producing oil tankers of data around personal experience and not actually turning that into positive energy for what patients can do. But I do want to be optimistic on this point because I actually think, and I shared this with you when we last saw each other. Your thinking was ahead of the time, but foundational for people like me to say, we need to go actually make that real. And let me explain to you what I mean by making it real. We need to bring together the insight that you have an elevated heart rate or that your step count is down, or that your sleep schedule is off. We need to bring that together with the possibility of connecting with a medical professional, which these devices do not have the ability to do that today, and nor do those companies really want to get in that business. And also make that context of what you can afford as a patient.Owen Tripp (28:51):So we have data that's suggestive of an underlying issue. We have a medical team that's prepared to actually help you on that issue. And then we have financial security to know that whatever is identified actually will be paid for. Now, that's not a hard triangle conceptually, but no one of those companies is actually interested in all the points of the triangle, and you have to be because otherwise it's not going to work for the patient. If your business is in selling devices. Really all I'm thinking about is how do I sell devices and subscriptions. If my business is exclusively in providing care, that's really all I'm thinking about. If my business is in managing risk and writing insurance policies, that's really all I'm thinking about. You have to do all those three things in concert.Eric Topol (29:34):Yeah, I mean in many ways it goes back to what we were talking about earlier, which is we're in this phenomenal era of information to the fifth power. But here we are, we have a lot of data from multiple sources, and it doesn't get integrated. So for example, a person has a problem and they don't know what is the root cause of it. Let's say it's poor sleep, or it could be that they're having stress, which would be manifest through their heart rate or heart rate variability or all sorts of other metrics. And there's no intelligence provided for them to interpret their data because it's all siloed and we're just not really doing that for patients. I hope that'll happen. Hopefully, Included Health could be a lead in that. Maybe you can show the way. Anyway, this has been a fun conversation, Owen. It's rare that I've talked in Ground Truths with any person running a company, but I thought yours.Eric Topol (30:36):Firstly, I didn't know anything about it and it's big. And secondly, that it's a kind of a unique model that really I'm hoping that others will get involved in and that someday we'll all be included. Maybe not with Included Health, but with better healthcare in this country, which is certainly not the norm, not the routine. And also, as you aptly pointed out at terrible costs with all sorts of waste, unnecessary tests and that sort of thing. So thanks for what you're doing and I'll be following your future efforts and hopefully we can keep making some strides.Owen Tripp (31:15):We will. And I wanted to say thanks for the conversation too and for your thinking on these topics. And look, I want to leave you just with a quick dose of optimism, and you and I both know this. The American system at its best is an extraordinary system, unrivaled in the world, in my opinion. But we do have to have more people included. All the services need to be included in one place. When we get there, we're going to really see what's possible here.Eric Topol (31:40):I do want to agree with you that if you can get to the right doctor and if you can afford it, that is ideally covered by your insurance. It is a phenomenal system, but getting there, that's the hard part. And every day people are confronted. I'm sure, thousands and thousands with serious condition either to get the diagnosis or the treatment, and they have a really rough time. 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In the final hour of Willard and Dibs, Willard and Grandi (filling in for Dibs) end the show talking about how necessary it is to get a series win vs the Dodgers, not just for the standings, but for the sanity of the Giants fans who have felt the wrath of the Dodgers for awhile. Plus, the guys are joined by the worlds best heckler, Trevor Gilmore who goes by Trevs Chirps on social media. He gets into how it doesn't matter who's in left field to heckle, they're all just "props."

In today's Crossover, Guru and Evan (filling in for Steiny) are joined by Willard and Grandi (filling in for Dibs) get into how huge of a weekend it will be for the Giants as they take on the Dodgers before the All Star Break. Are we going to see Devers finally light it up? Also, the guys share what's been bugging them this week in this weeks "What's Bugging You?" segment.

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