♪ Music Playing ♪ >> Coming up next on "Arizona Horizon", a look at how the war in Iran is impacting volatility on Wall Street.

Also tonight, the Arizona cardinals look to help give students a year-round civics education.

And a new documentary features the joy bus, a local nonprofit that delivers meals to cancer patients.

Those stories and more next on "Arizona Horizon."

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>> Good evening and welcome to "Arizona Horizon."

I am Ted Simons.

It was another positive day on Wall Street, with the Dow closing up 276 points, the NASDAQ up 187-points, and the S& P 41-points to the better.

This follows yesterday's massive rally that saw the Dow with its biggest increase in a year.

How much is the war in Iran impacting the recent highs and lows on Wall Street?

Joining us now is Jay Spector, founding partner and co-CEO of Evervest Finalcial thanks for joining us.

>> Pleasure to be with you, we have the numbers today, yesterday they were outrageous, 1,300-point advance for the Dow, that's the biggest in a year.

Again, NASDAQ, S and P all showing up in the rear view Meyer.

Is the war in Iran driving the bus here?

>> It is driving the market right now.

It's completely -- the volatile is incredible.

Completely different by the geopolitical event.

Going on in the middle east.

That's what we are seeing and the market is swinging both up and down based on what we are seeing coming out of the warzone.

>> I was also seeing that oil prices are pushing a little bit lower.

That's good.

Gas prices are pushing higher, not so good.

What's that all about?

>> Yeah, when you see the prices on oil, the futures of oil, those are future deliver contracts oil come from the U.S.

or middle east.

When you see a lag with gas prices that we see at the pump.

Oil prices are spiking and there is a lot of volatility in oil prices because of the strait of Hormuz closure.

20% of the world's crude oil comes through that narrow passage.

And you are not seeing many ships coming through, evening with the recent announcement of the ceasefire you are only seeing primarily dry cargo tankers and freighters going through the State, not the more volatile crude and other chemicals that could be attacked and cause issues.

So we are not seeing relief on the crude oil part.

Which would translate into relief at the pump for consumers.

>> And yet we are seeing relief as far as Wall Street is concerned.

Are the market et cetera getting better at figuring out president trump's next move?

>> That is a great question.

I think the markets are moving on the hope there will be a long-term ceasefire deal.

But as soon as there is detrimental information or seeing a break in a ceasefire or a break in continued hostilities, you are seeing the market react to that.

It is being very reactionary.

This is not a -- an exhibit issue that we are seeing in the market.

This is geopolitical tensions driving the day-to-day action in the market.

>> So which markets are handling things the best.

You have Dow, S&P and mass damage where do people have the best item of what's going on?

>> All of the markets are moving in tandem, we have seen a huge spike in interest rates, interest rates have on a 10-your fresh eye increased to well before 3.4%, settling in the mid 420s the Dow Jones had the massive 1,300-point move another day.

Remember, the Dow Jones average is only 30 stocks, that doesn't really represent the breadth, width and breadth of the mark, the S&P 500 is a broader 500 stocks and the NASDAQ 500 is 100 technology stocks, you have to look at all of those in context.

You need to look at the bond market.

You can look to see the word safe haven assets like gold and silver are traded a long with other commodities that people are focused on.

>> I want to get to what people should look for as far as retirement accounts and equities and these things.

As far as stocks are concerned and the market, are energy stocks feeling the -- I mean, where do you go where do you not go.

Seems like energy might be the place not to go right now or what do you think?

>> That's a great question.

Investors need to focus their long-term plan.

Short-term volatility will be there and be pervasive.

Retirees need for focus, disciplined and focused on their long-term plan, not the short-term global economic impact.

Or global war impact on what's happening in the market.

It's too hard to pick winners and losers, people need to think of their long-term strategies and goals.

>> Yesterday and today do you see that is a song base for the future or is volatility, you think it's very much likely.

>> Volatility is very much likely.

The piece -- what we are seeing coming out of Iran with the U.S., I think that is very fragile.

And I think we'll see any blip can cause the market to go down a thousand points, it can cause it to go up a thousand points.

And I think that's going to be pervasive for the next several months and don't forget we are in an election year so you have electioneering in politics that come in to play with this that have an impact on the market.

The markets want certainty.

And we have anything but certainty right now.

>> You touched on it, but I want to hear more about equities and retirement accounts.

Do you -- do you stay the course?

We always hear this.

But goodness, the course is awfully bouncy right now.

What do you tell folks that are looking at their 401Ks and don't know which way it's going, this way, that way, or some point in between.

>> The one word is discipline.

It's also people -- it's time in the market.

Not timing the market.

We want to make sure that investors stay focused, stay disciplined on what their goals are.

That's going to drive them to more longer-term successful if you deciding to to cash, and you miss what could be the recovery day, you have really missed a good opportunity for your portfolio.

It's also very hard to time what is going on any given day, any given minute in the market, so it's better to stay the course with your plan.

And continue to be disciplined moving forward.

>> You talked about the bond market here.

As far as interest rates are concerned, are we likely to see the fed do something by the end of year and how does that play into all of this?

>> That's another great question on everybody's mind.

Inflation is still high.

If oil prices remain high, that could -- continue to cause inflation to be high.

If inflation continues to be high, then the fed is going to have to keep into rates at a higher level.

If the fed has to keep interest rates higher that has other detrimental impact on the U.S.

economy pitch I believe the U.S.

is more resilient than international partners but what it comes to interest rates, it has the snowball effect.

The war in Iran will have a detrimental effect on the U.S.

overall economy if soil stays high, gas is high, consumers lose canopy it defense in what's going on, causing rates to be higher for longer.

>> And bottom line, Jay, volatility, the new normal.

>> Come till at this has been the new normal and will continue to be the normal for the weeks and months to come.

>> All right, Jay specter co-CEO and founding partner of Evervest Finalcial, thanks so much for joining us.

>> Thank you, Ted, nice to see you.

>> A program called civics matters Arizona is an effort by the Arizona cardinals to to help gift student a year-round civics education.

The goal is to empower young people to lead, serve, and shape the future of American democracy.

And to learn more we welcome Shaun Mayo he leads the cardinals' civics matters team.

Shaun, good to have you here welcome to "Arizona Horizon."

>> Thanks to having us.

>> Civics matters Arizona, am I close with that description.

>> You are there, that's it.

>> Tell me more.

>> Yeah, so, you know, this is a brainchild of Michael Bidwell's.

About five years ago now, thinking about how do we use our assets to do good in the community.

We acquired new assets one being a plane and wanted to figure out how do we pour into the youth, help them be more engaged citizens.

And so almost five years ago, we took our first 275 students to Washington, D.C.

on an all-expense paid trip to get up close and personal to see how government works with the hope to empower them, inspire them to come back and get really involved locally.

And make a difference in their local communities.

>> These are 6-12th graders.

>> The trip itself.

Takes primarily high schoolkids >> Okay.

>> The last year we expanded to a year round program where we think about civics matters, Arizona, and really three distinction pillars.

We have a civics learning hub that is targeted 6-12th graders.

We do a -- we had our first inaugural civics summit with 4500 students at State Farm stadium think of it as a civics fair.

Civics seminar, civics conference if you will.

And then we've got our civics are trip that we'll do every year in June in collaboration with the governor's office as well as the close-up foundation.

>> Again, this is civics, we talk a lot about this on the show.

Especially justice Sandra day O'connor was here she was a very big part of that push.

But the idea is to empower folks and to realize civics is more than just the politicians they see doing commercials and stuff it's getting solved.

>> That's a lot about it.

Teaching students how to use their voice, get involved, be engaged.

And how to move beyond just what they are learning in the classroom to take meaningful action in their local communities.

>> We are seeing some of the folks there back in Washington.

And meeting obviously congressional and folks on Capitol hill.

How does it all work?

I mean, what do students do?

Besides the great plane trip to D.C., what do students do?

>> Yeah, so I'll breakdown the three pillars and talk about those.

Civics learning hub has five different interactive modules where we encourage students to get involved there and they get some meaningful choices, they get to do playing out real-life scenarios where they could have a voice.

And so we tie that in with historical elements, so they can understand like this isn't new.

Right?

So that's our civics learning hub.

Lots of partners helping to make that happen.

Including Arizona PBS here.

And so that drive the learning piece, 6-12th graders.

Completion five modules lots of students involved there.

>> The State summit.

>> The summit.

That session think of it main session, 4500 students, civics fair a lot of partners come to the space to get students interested in the things they have to offer.

Think of that as the convener of all the civics people in Arizona that is doing great work.

We don't want to be the experts in all things civics.

We want to use our platform to attract those that want to her more about civics they go through a different sessions and go back and try to put it in to play.

Then you have the trip.

You are seeing some video there from the trip.

So we go to Washington, D.C.

Four days, three nights and tour Washington, D.C.

And look at all of the cool monuments, but also learn, right?

Students are broken down in small sections and they have an instructor with them the entire time.

>> Is the trip to D.C., isn't there some sort of challenge to earn that trip.

>> There is.

They have to earn that trim.

There is a leadership challenge that we do.

Think about tying this back into the civics learning up, complete a question modules and then get an opportunity to produce some content either written, video, or audio form where they answer a couple of different prompts we have about how to get within their local communities.

>> Why is this needed?

Compare this to traditional civics education?

>> Yeah, I think it's a company Different things, we believe fundamentally as the platform that we have here locally, that we value an obligation to help develop the next generation of leaders for not only Arizona, but for this country.

And so how can we do that?

How can we use that platform and how can we help people understand that it moves just beyond, you know, voting and running for office and things of that nature.

And so teaching them ways to not only, again, think about civics educationally but how do we become responsible sent sense and die in things from our part that help it ham.

Desert financial say big partner here.

Gallagher is a big partner of ours here they help us, how do we help round out students to be engaged citizens.

And be responsible citizens.

>> And I imagine the cardinals' logo is a -- helps doesn't it?

>> It does.

That's a part of it.

It grabs their attention and pull in the great civics education partners that can help different the content.

>> Are schools onboard?

All schools, most schools what have you got?

>> Absolutely.

We have quite a few schools, up to 80 now.

That are engaged across air I was looking at numbers earlier we have engaged with close to 10,000 student across our five years.

With our sum I believe this year.

We have Australia aggressive goal.

To really get our arms around 6-12th graders in Arizona to get them engaged in this program.

>> Shaun Mayo -- you are the cardinals' chief people officer is that true?

>> That is very true.

>> Congratulations.

I don't know what you do.

>> All things HR.

>> Very good.

>> All things HR.

>> Thank you so much for sharing on this and congratulations on the cardinals great project, we appreciate it.

>> Thank you.

♪ Music Playing ♪ ♪ Music Playing ♪ ♪ Music Playing ♪ >> A new documentary follows the joy bus, a local nonprofit that delivers free medically-tailored males to cancer patients the film is titled "Meals that Matter" and it's an official selection of the 202016 I can film festival.

Jennifer Caraway is the founder and CEO of the joy bus, and also with us is film maker Steypahn Alaupovic, who directed and produced the project.

Good to have you both here.

Thanks, congratulations on this project, too, by the way.

Jennifer, I want to start with you.

Because maybe there might be some people out there that don't really know what the joy bus is all about.

Talk to us.

>> Yeah, so we have been in the valley for over 16 years now.

And what we do is we prepare and deliver fresh medically-tailored meals to home tuned cancer patients.

We have 200 something volunteers who show up every week and pick up the meal asks take them to the clients' home.

>> How many meals do you think you deliver over the course of the year.

>> Holy cow.

To give you an example, we did 1800 yesterday.

>> Whoa.

>> Yeah.

And we include the caretaker as well.

The caregiver as well.

And the family and the children if they need meals as Welcome.

>> And, again, these are all specifically design today that cancer patient.

>> Real food.

We work with local partners that include farmers and ranchers that we get all of the food donated and that's what we make the meals with.

>> Steypahn you made a film of this activity and it's tremendous.

And we have had you on before to talk about this you decided to make a film, what was that all about.

>> It was never to make a film about cancer but care and what it looks like during the most uncertain period of someone's life.

>> And what were you looking to show?

>> Watching the meal process unfold.

Everything is done with intention.

From the kitchen prep line to the volunteers coming in.

To the recipients reaching the meals.

>> Yeah.

And as far as that, there is a lot -- I imagine there's a lot to shoot, a lot of information to get in there.

How did you decide what to include and what to emphasize?

>> Yeah, I think, you know, for us, that was the kind of the dilemma you face with everyone project coming in.

But it was really about the patients, we wanted these to be honest stories to really show the weight behind the joy bus's mission.

>> Yeah.

And Jennifer, when you saw the film, is it -- when you envisioned the film, when you heard about the film and then you actually saw it, was it what you expected it.

>> It was way better than I expected I was hesitant in the beginning because I didn't want -- I wanted to be respectful of their stories.

And the way that he shot it, the way that he spoke, it was -- I mean, I was just bawling.

It was beautiful.

It gave our clients an outlet to express what they are going through.

And highlight and showcase them as humans.

And he is amazing.

He did an amazing job.

>> Were there any surprises along the way?

>> One thing I think that came out a lot in the film was that oftentimes, the people navigating cancer sometimes the only conversation they are having outside of a medical setting is with a joy bus volunteer or driver.

And I think that just was a real powerful human moment that comes out in the film.

>> But that's also what you were talking about the emphasis of the ill film, not the illness itself but the human connection.

>> Correct.

Yeah, I mean, that's what it's about the relationships at a time when we feel incredibly disconnected for so many reasons the joy bus is a shining example of what community and being there for your neighbor could look like.

>> For the film, was it difficult to get past the illness?

>> Absolutely.

With any time you are dealing with a subject like this, you know, it's all about earning trust.

Right?

We have to move at the level of comfort of the subjects we are working with.

Beyond any production skill it required patience.

>> Was it difficult, Jennifer to get some folks to appear on camera?

>> No.

They wanted to share their story which was my biggest surprise.

And which is why I was so hesitant I didn't want to push anyone in front of the camera.

They were so willing to share their journey.

>> This is very personal stuff here.

>> Extremely.

Extremely.

>> And when they saw the film, or at least some of the folks in the film, have they seen it so far?

>> Yes.

>> What was their response?

>> Worse than mine.

We could just ugly cry together It's beautiful.

It's -- he did an amazing job.

>> You wanted to honor dignity I say you that quote, you wanted to honor dignity with this film.

What does that many?

>> I think going back to what we said earlier, it's -- it was about showing care.

And, again, working with your neighbor, and in a time when things just feel uncertain.

Being able to rely on a meal or a conversation.

It can really make or break someone's day.

Especially when they are going through chemo and everything else they are going through.

>> You also mentioned that you want to build trust through intentional storytelling.

What does that mean?

>> Yeah.

For us, it just meant, you know, keeping the conversations honest.

There wasn't a lot of glitz and glamour to the documentary.

It's an honest story.

The joy bus is a part of it but it's real by the care that they get and getting the meals.

>> We have had you for the restaurant and cookbook and everything like that.

How are things going for the joy bus?

>> It's going great.

Literally in the past nine months we went from 250 meals delivered per vehicle to upwards of 1800 in a week, so we are growing the goal is to be all the way down south Tucson, up to the reservation in northern Arizona.

Within the next couple of years There is no stopping us.

>> And you have a restaurant.

>> We do.

>> How is the restaurant doing?

>> The restaurant is doing fantastic.

Any time we are on PBS, it does even better.

>> Really?

>> Yes.

So thank you.

>> That's good to hea.

Think I am so glad to hear that And I am glad to hear as well, 2026 selection for the Phoenix film festival, huh?

>> That's right.

We are incredible excited screening on April 11th, 14th and 18th in the Arizona short category.

Harkens 101 Scottsdale.

>> A 21 minute film.

>> 22 mountains.

>> Can I ask you a film techy question.

>> Of course.

>> Did you shoot it on I a cellphone, reflection camera.

How did you shoot this?

>> We'll get into the logistics We shot it on cannon cinema cameras.

Yeah.

>> Is that the way people do things these days?

>> I can't speak for everybody, but it's what we use.

In our client work and so it was a natural fit to do in the documentary with the joy bus.

>> We should mention you are local based here in town.

>> Yes.

>> You are a Cronkite graduate.

>> That's right.

>> Alum.

>> Special place in my heart.

>> The film festival.

With where can we see?

>> Just at the film festival premiering Saturday.

>> Premieres Saturday then can we see it somewhere.

>> Yes, yeah, the plan is we'll do another joy bus community event with everybody who was involved and then following that, we'll have it on the joy bus YouTube channels social champions.

>> Steypahn, Jennifer, thank you for being here and sharing your story and congratulations to you both.

>> Thank you.

>> You bet.

>> It's ants honor.

>> That's it for now, I am Ted Simons, thank you so much for joining us being, you have a great evening.

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