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13. People Be Peopling: The People Behind the Sirens - PART 2 · We Didn't Plan for This Podcast

• 0:00
  SPEAKER_04: Uh I wanna kinda now get into the questions of people be peopling.
• 0:09
  SPEAKER_04: So, what is the strangest reason someone has ever called 911?
• 0:15
  SPEAKER_01: Like are we more on the funny side or just any kind of strange?
• 0:19
  SPEAKER_04: Funny's always good, but whatever.
• 0:21
  SPEAKER_04: Anything.
• 0:23
  SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna say it's funny.
• 0:24
  SPEAKER_02: I don't think it was so much funny for him, but I thought it was funny.
• 0:29
  SPEAKER_02: Uh this was in Bear County, which is the county that encompasses San Antonio.
• 0:35
  SPEAKER_02: But uh we got a guy for call for a guy who was beaten off and decided that maybe slapping his dick against a belt sander was a good idea.
• 0:45
  SPEAKER_02: What?
• 0:46
  SPEAKER_02: I thought it was funny as hell.
• 0:49
  SPEAKER_02: It didn't look so funny from him for him.
• 0:52
  SPEAKER_04: But oh if I had a business.
• 0:55
  SPEAKER_04: Oh my god.
• 0:57
  SPEAKER_02: It's it sounds worse than it actually was.
• 1:00
  SPEAKER_04: Did he just get like scuffed up a little bit?
• 1:02
  SPEAKER_04: Like drug bear.
• 1:04
  SPEAKER_02: I mean yeah, he's not gonna turn into snap-on tools or anything like that, but um uh I thought it was hilarious.
• 1:15
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, who the hell comes up with that?
• 1:17
  SPEAKER_02: That is the dumbest.
• 1:18
  SPEAKER_02: And you know, I thought for sure I'd be in there and he'd be on drugs or higher.
• 1:22
  SPEAKER_02: No, that dude seemed pretty sober to me.
• 1:24
  SPEAKER_02: So I don't know.
• 1:26
  SPEAKER_02: I have a beltander in my room now, so that's why you bought it.
• 1:32
  SPEAKER_02: Exactly.
• 1:32
  SPEAKER_04: He's not doing any woodwork.
• 1:34
  SPEAKER_02: I would say that's probably the well, it's not the it's up there in the strangest.
• 1:39
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I'm sure I've got some more.
• 1:41
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 1:42
  SPEAKER_02: What about you, Colton?
• 1:43
  SPEAKER_02: What do you got?
• 1:44
  SPEAKER_01: Uh yeah, like Denny said, like we usually when I'm called out about, hey, what's the craziest call?
• 1:49
  SPEAKER_01: I'm thinking, uh, you know, because I've been on thousands of calls and I'm sure there's something.
• 1:54
  SPEAKER_01: I think the one that stuck out though was strangest.
• 1:58
  SPEAKER_01: Uh we got called for uh an elderly lady.
• 2:01
  SPEAKER_01: She was concerned because she uh misplaced her dental glue her for her dentures, uh, but she put hemorrhoid cream in them.
• 2:10
  SPEAKER_01: Oh so she put hemorrhoid cream in her mouth and thought it was glue, and then I don't I think it was a family member that says, Hey, did you put this in on your dentures?
• 2:19
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's like this is for hemorrhoids.
• 2:21
  SPEAKER_01: Oh no, so they freak out and they call us.
• 2:23
  SPEAKER_01: Oh my god.
• 2:24
  SPEAKER_05: Oh my god.
• 2:25
  SPEAKER_05: Okay, this is a good one.
• 2:27
  SPEAKER_05: Oh um, what's the most creative explanation that you've ever heard for an injury?
• 2:33
  SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna be honest.
• 2:35
  SPEAKER_02: I typically don't want to hear what they were doing.
• 2:38
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 2:38
  SPEAKER_02: So I don't typically ask unless it's like very pertinent.
• 2:43
  SPEAKER_02: Because most of the time I find I'm probably not gonna get the truth.
• 2:48
  SPEAKER_01: Um I think one years ago I still worked for my old department, was a uh a vehicle that rolled over, and they're not that hurt.
• 3:00
  SPEAKER_01: I think the guy had a busted mouth or the female had some cuts, but we're putting all the pieces together.
• 3:07
  SPEAKER_01: Notice the guy's zippers undone, and he was the driver.
• 3:11
  SPEAKER_01: And long story short, this is going he was uh having a little fun driving down the road and uh got a little too distracted and flipped the vehicle because their story was like yeah, it was uh everyone says it's a deer that ran out in front of me.
• 3:26
  SPEAKER_02: Like a raccoon, yeah.
• 3:28
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's always an excuse.
• 3:30
  SPEAKER_04: Oh my god, hold on one second.
• 3:32
  SPEAKER_04: Hey, are you going?
• 3:34
  SPEAKER_04: I'm doing a podcast.
• 3:35
  SPEAKER_04: I got Nora Denny Colton.
• 3:37
  SPEAKER_04: This is Mallory.
• 3:39
  SPEAKER_04: Hey Mallory, she can't hear you.
• 3:41
  SPEAKER_04: What's something someone did that absolutely made no sense at the time?
• 3:45
  SPEAKER_01: Usually when they're on drugs.
• 3:47
  SPEAKER_01: Do you see?
• 3:49
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 3:49
  SPEAKER_01: Like it doesn't make sense, but they try to tell you, no, this is what happened, and now and but they're our suspicion is yeah, no, you're just high as a cat right now.
• 3:57
  SPEAKER_02: And in some areas of Bear County, it's also you did that for him.
• 4:03
  SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
• 4:03
  SPEAKER_02: You know, uh, we got a this was a few years back, we got a girl shot in the face.
• 4:09
  SPEAKER_02: Um she was still alive, but um we're sitting there treating her and her friends with her.
• 4:19
  SPEAKER_02: And it's a gunshot, so law enforcement's there, of course, but uh her friends admits to shooting her uh over a guy.
• 4:29
  SPEAKER_02: And the guy's there too, and I'm looking over at this scrawny little Edgar looking and I'm like, what the fuck over him?
• 4:39
  SPEAKER_02: Really?
• 4:40
  SPEAKER_02: God, that's you just ruined your whole life over over him?
• 4:44
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 4:45
  SPEAKER_02: Over that yeah, I was like, he must have the really good weed.
• 4:50
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know.
• 4:51
  SPEAKER_02: Either that, or you know, his scrawny little ass is hung down to his knees or something.
• 4:55
  SPEAKER_04: That's insane.
• 4:57
  SPEAKER_04: That's insane.
• 4:58
  SPEAKER_04: Like maybe just the last couple of calls you've been on, even.
• 5:02
  SPEAKER_04: What is some of the states of people's homes?
• 5:05
  SPEAKER_04: Like, I think about this a lot.
• 5:07
  SPEAKER_04: Like my house, I ask my kids this all the time.
• 5:09
  SPEAKER_04: Like when you go to your friend's house and then you go to you come back to your house, like, do you think you live in a clean house or do you think you live in a dirty house, comparatively speaking?
• 5:18
  SPEAKER_04: Right?
• 5:18
  SPEAKER_04: Like, I ask my kids that a lot.
• 5:20
  SPEAKER_02: I would also say it depends on where you work, but you know, if you work in a larger area, like say Bear County or something like that.
• 5:28
  SPEAKER_02: I would say if you picked up your house, mopped and swept and did your dishes, you'll never have to call 911.
• 5:37
  SPEAKER_02: Because you never go in a house that's clean.
• 5:39
  SPEAKER_02: No, yeah.
• 5:40
  SPEAKER_01: That's my previous department, same thing.
• 5:42
  SPEAKER_01: We had always used to place bets, like float but five dollar bets of hey, this house is going to smell like cat piss.
• 5:48
  SPEAKER_01: This one's gonna smell like shit.
• 5:50
  SPEAKER_01: And 99.9% of the time, we were right.
• 5:52
  SPEAKER_01: So like Benny said, depends on where you work.
• 5:56
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you know, where I work now, there's a little bit more pristine people.
• 5:58
  SPEAKER_01: When we go to a lot of really nice, pristine houses.
• 6:02
  SPEAKER_01: I hey, if I hit the stretcher on this and it breaks, I owe them ten thousand dollars, you know.
• 6:07
  SPEAKER_02: So a lot where I'm thinking to myself, hey, if this one croaks, I bet I could get a good deal on this house.
• 6:13
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, exactly.
• 6:15
  SPEAKER_01: I I'm waiting for the little grandma that thinks I'm the cutest and sweetest thing to put me in her wheel.
• 6:20
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, exactly.
• 6:22
  unknown: Exactly.
• 6:23
  SPEAKER_01: I'll take care of the land for you.
• 6:24
  SPEAKER_01: I'll do whatever you can.
• 6:27
  SPEAKER_02: I know you're I know you're 87, but they've got my number a couple times.
• 6:31
  SPEAKER_01: Oh my god.
• 6:33
  SPEAKER_01: Just to oh yeah, here you go.
• 6:35
  SPEAKER_01: Here's my bank account and my routing number.
• 6:37
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, how is it the bank number?
• 6:40
  SPEAKER_02: How is it said?
• 6:41
  SPEAKER_02: I don't I don't I rarely get hit on at work, but when I do, it's by a 90-year-old with dementia.
• 6:47
  SPEAKER_07: That's right.
• 6:49
  SPEAKER_04: So, like when you walk into this, what's like a crazy situation with a house?
• 6:54
  SPEAKER_04: Like when you walk in and you're like, okay, we got a call for like if it's a domestic violence call, let's say, the police go first, then you go in.
• 7:06
  SPEAKER_01: They're supposed to, but I learned a couple shifts ago they didn't want to.
• 7:10
  unknown: Yeah, yeah.
• 7:11
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it was a strange call.
• 7:13
  SPEAKER_01: It was a I listened to that call unresponsive, didn't know if it was a suicide attempt.
• 7:19
  SPEAKER_01: He has blood from his head.
• 7:21
  SPEAKER_01: We weren't told anything.
• 7:22
  SPEAKER_01: So we, you know, called a helicopter just in case if this guy's critical or if he's still alive, and then they tell us um law enforcement won't go in the house because family won't let them.
• 7:32
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, we don't know if this is a you know, if the guy shot himself or got shot.
• 7:37
  SPEAKER_01: We don't know what's going on, but I basically told dispatch we'll let them know that they're going in one way or the other because that's what law enforcement's for.
• 7:45
  SPEAKER_01: They're there to clear a scene.
• 7:46
  SPEAKER_03: Right.
• 7:47
  SPEAKER_01: And we get on scene and I'm like, hey, have y'all gone in it?
• 7:50
  SPEAKER_01: They said, no, they won't let us.
• 7:51
  SPEAKER_01: I said, well, y'all need to go in because we're not going in until y'all do.
• 7:54
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 7:54
  SPEAKER_01: And I think they were just trying to keep the peace because the the family members, I guess, didn't maybe they didn't like law enforcement, had issues with them before, and they were freaking out because of their their son or it was the brother.
• 8:09
  SPEAKER_01: He he just he ended up just taking, he was on something.
• 8:12
  SPEAKER_01: He was perfectly fine, but he was tripping out of the hit, like he was basically like if he was paralyzed.
• 8:17
  SPEAKER_01: Wow, like he would try to talk, and you could tell he couldn't, and he'd start crying, and you tell he was in a paralytic state.
• 8:23
  SPEAKER_01: He could breathe on his own, his vitals were way better than my own.
• 8:27
  SPEAKER_01: And but he was, I don't know what he took, but he was on something and he was fine.
• 8:32
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, but you know, it's like we need we don't know what's around that corner, so you're you know, so we had one of the deputies go in with us, but you know, I'm like it's that that doesn't happen too much.
• 8:47
  SPEAKER_02: But yeah, you know, again, I'm I'm way too pretty to be going in there like that.
• 8:52
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I'm trying to get cut up or nothing.
• 8:55
  SPEAKER_02: No, uh uh.
• 8:56
  SPEAKER_04: No.
• 8:56
  SPEAKER_04: Have you ever been attacked by a patient?
• 9:00
  SPEAKER_02: Oh yeah.
• 9:01
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 9:04
  SPEAKER_02: Most of the time when it happens, it's not I'm I'm empathetic with the patient because it's not something that they're doing on purpose.
• 9:14
  SPEAKER_02: You know, maybe it's a uh head injury and they're you know lashing out or trying to protect themselves, you know, or they just have no idea what they're doing.
• 9:24
  SPEAKER_02: Right.
• 9:25
  SPEAKER_02: I'm I'm I'm empathetic with people like that, but if you're intoxicated, I have zero patience, absolutely zero patients.
• 9:33
  SPEAKER_02: That's just same.
• 9:34
  SPEAKER_02: I'll put the boot leather to you.
• 9:35
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yep.
• 9:36
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, they we get called for intoxic.
• 9:38
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, there's a lot of alcohol where we wear a lot of alcohol, and especially on holidays, so officers call us because they are in a bar fight.
• 9:46
  SPEAKER_01: They oh dangers, you need to clear them and check them out.
• 9:49
  SPEAKER_01: Well, it's not our job to medically clear anybody.
• 9:52
  SPEAKER_01: A doctor is legal, is that is his responsibility.
• 9:56
  SPEAKER_01: We're not doctors, but we can tell you okay, this is yeah, his nose bleeding, it's broke.
• 10:00
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, he's already in the cop carts, then take him to the hospital.
• 10:03
  SPEAKER_01: We don't have to.
• 10:04
  SPEAKER_01: And like Denny said, when they start being belligerent, yelling, screaming, I just slam the door in their face, walk off, and we're done.
• 10:10
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 10:10
  SPEAKER_01: So yeah, it's mainly the drunks, but uh or someone on some some bad stuff and they're fighting us.
• 10:17
  SPEAKER_01: But like Denny said, like they're gonna come out of that high or whatever, and they're gonna be like sore as hell because we have to sit on them, we have to tie them down, we have to, you know, and they're gonna be like, what the hell happened?
• 10:28
  SPEAKER_01: They're probably a good person, but they they're they're just not in the right mind.
• 10:32
  SPEAKER_02: Most of the time they're they're not that kind of person in their right mind.
• 10:35
  SPEAKER_02: Wow, but again, if you start hitting on me and not in the fun way, yeah, um uh yeah, I'm not putting up with no yeah, which we okay, we rarely run into that, but it it does happen.
• 10:48
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 10:50
  SPEAKER_05: What about um calls specific to rural central Texas?
• 10:56
  SPEAKER_05: Like, have you been called to anything where um it's like livestock related or yeah, an abeline, Colton?
• 11:09
  SPEAKER_01: Oh yeah, I was having fun.
• 11:11
  SPEAKER_01: Denny was working, he was running all my calls while I was sitting on the side of the highway, uh wrangling cows.
• 11:17
  SPEAKER_02: Babysitting cows, and I'm getting my dick kicked in.
• 11:21
  SPEAKER_01: He sends me a text like, How many calls?
• 11:23
  SPEAKER_01: I'm at six, how many of you?
• 11:24
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, one.
• 11:25
  SPEAKER_01: I'm just gonna stay here as long as I can.
• 11:27
  SPEAKER_01: No, it was a cattle truck.
• 11:31
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah.
• 11:31
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we were both working there through another service, and uh we were working the same day on different trucks, and a cattle haul, a big semi-cattle hauler flipped over at an intersection, and uh so everybody was fine, but we were we main reason we were there for so long was because our patient that was the driver was in our ambulance and he had nowhere to go.
• 11:51
  SPEAKER_01: So we're waiting on someone to hey, can we put him in your vehicle?
• 11:54
  SPEAKER_01: Because he didn't want to go to the hospital.
• 11:56
  SPEAKER_01: Um, the boss got there and he's like, No, he doesn't want to see me right now.
• 12:00
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm like, Well, we kind of want to get out of here.
• 12:03
  SPEAKER_01: So I just sit there and watch them.
• 12:06
  SPEAKER_01: They had to shoot a couple cows and then they had to manangle the other.
• 12:09
  SPEAKER_01: I think they had one had a broken bag.
• 12:12
  SPEAKER_01: I know, but fresh food.
• 12:13
  SPEAKER_01: I know, but I can't they had to get the officer over there and do that.
• 12:18
  SPEAKER_01: They just had when like one had a broken back, and I don't know about the rest, but they got them all out.
• 12:23
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, had like 40, 40 head of cattle in the trailer, and three of them were already escaped and roaming new pastures all by themselves.
• 12:30
  SPEAKER_01: And the funny thing is was that night they showed back up and one or two of them got hit got hit on the highway.
• 12:35
  SPEAKER_01: So we were getting called to that, and there's just a cut a cow that we just barely passed right on the highway.
• 12:41
  SPEAKER_01: So, well, they didn't make it too far.
• 12:43
  SPEAKER_02: Oh my god.
• 12:44
  SPEAKER_02: Right, why he's playing cowboy watcher.
• 12:46
  SPEAKER_02: I'm in there in the city getting my dick kicked in.
• 12:48
  SPEAKER_01: Giving everybody drugs.
• 12:51
  SPEAKER_04: Mostly like, are you seeing when you were in that getting your dick kicked in, as you say?
• 12:56
  SPEAKER_04: Were you seeing like mostly like alcohol, drug?
• 13:00
  SPEAKER_04: What kind of cases were you seeing?
• 13:02
  SPEAKER_02: No, I had one dude that was bradycardic.
• 13:05
  SPEAKER_02: I had to pace him and tube him and bring him in.
• 13:08
  SPEAKER_02: I had a oh yeah, I had a pregnant girl that was slammed face and belly first down onto the concrete by a cop.
• 13:17
  SPEAKER_04: I remember you told me about that.
• 13:19
  SPEAKER_02: Oh see what else was there?
• 13:21
  SPEAKER_02: I had a dude break his leg?
• 13:23
  SPEAKER_02: Hell yeah.
• 13:26
  SPEAKER_02: Oh yeah, but that was a different day, though.
• 13:27
  SPEAKER_02: That was a different that was all why he was playing cowboy.
• 13:33
  SPEAKER_04: So, like, what is what are some of the weird things that you find on scene?
• 13:38
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, go ahead, Diddy.
• 13:40
  SPEAKER_02: If you know this guy, I'm not gonna mention his name, but I worked with him at a different agency in Bear County.
• 13:47
  SPEAKER_02: Um He's more of a goofball than I am.
• 13:52
  SPEAKER_02: But we're on a call, we're actually in a different county out in Frio County.
• 13:56
  SPEAKER_02: And we're on a call for a 96, I think it was 96, could have been 90, I don't remember.
• 14:01
  SPEAKER_02: So it had a nine at the beginning of it.
• 14:04
  SPEAKER_02: Old lady not feeling well in her bed, right?
• 14:07
  SPEAKER_02: So we go in the master bedroom and her husband's kind of piddling around, you know.
• 14:13
  SPEAKER_02: Husbands never know what the hell's going on, but uh I'm sitting there trying to treat the lady, and I look over, and my partner is over there, got this shit-eating grin, trying not to laugh, and I'm like, all right, what the hell's going on?
• 14:27
  SPEAKER_02: And so I'm looking at him and he's doing he's cutting his eyes over to the headboard, and I'm like, I don't want to look over there.
• 14:32
  SPEAKER_02: What what the hell?
• 14:34
  SPEAKER_02: And I follow his eyes over, and there's a big old dildo sitting there in a big bottle of KY right next to this old ass lady.
• 14:42
  SPEAKER_02: Oh my god.
• 14:43
  SPEAKER_02: And I'm just like, you know, if you hadn't pointed that out, I would have never noticed it, yeah, and this would have been a hell of a lot easier.
• 14:50
  SPEAKER_02: Oh my god.
• 14:53
  SPEAKER_01: That's the therapy that we we go to.
• 14:55
  SPEAKER_01: Is it's because of calls like that.
• 14:57
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, exactly.
• 14:58
  SPEAKER_04: Exactly.
• 14:58
  SPEAKER_04: Like, how can you not?
• 15:00
  SPEAKER_04: Fuck.
• 15:01
  SPEAKER_04: Jesus.
• 15:03
  SPEAKER_04: I mean, good on you, old lady.
• 15:05
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, I guess.
• 15:06
  SPEAKER_04: Oh my god.
• 15:07
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 15:07
  SPEAKER_04: Or good on him.
• 15:09
  SPEAKER_05: Well, you just got finished telling us how clueless husband is.
• 15:12
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 15:12
  SPEAKER_05: Clearly, she needs to take care of business.
• 15:16
  SPEAKER_04: Caller, what story did you have weird stuff on scene?
• 15:20
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, mine involves dildos, more than one.
• 15:23
  SPEAKER_01: Um it's basically I I can't remember why we were called.
• 15:27
  SPEAKER_01: I probably she had uh the lady just wanted not didn't want to go to jail or something, and so she calls us for chest pain.
• 15:34
  SPEAKER_01: But it was a it was a it was a traffic stop that the officers uh initiated and they called us for for her.
• 15:41
  SPEAKER_01: And that's when I learned you can't have I and Denny, you you you should know this.
• 15:45
  SPEAKER_01: Uh I think it's like six or eight dildos in your vehicle because it's against a it's a state felony or state like state.
• 15:53
  SPEAKER_02: Wait, I think it's a class A misdemeanor.
• 15:55
  SPEAKER_02: Wait, that's how I got my page.
• 15:58
  SPEAKER_02: Hold on, wait, go back, back, back, back.
• 16:00
  SPEAKER_02: Wait.
• 16:00
  SPEAKER_01: So she had uh like I don't know, 20 or so dildos in her car.
• 16:04
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know if she was a seller.
• 16:06
  SPEAKER_04: Uh were they in packaging or were they just like randomly thrown in the back?
• 16:10
  SPEAKER_01: But it sounds like they were a little bit of both because one of the one thrown in the back window.
• 16:16
  SPEAKER_06: There's a floorboard, one in the front seat.
• 16:20
  SPEAKER_06: They were there's one in the door.
• 16:22
  SPEAKER_06: What the hell?
• 16:23
  SPEAKER_02: Somebody wanted to be airtight.
• 16:25
  SPEAKER_01: The canine did a search on it, and then they realized the canine's pretty worthless because it was in there trying to play with one.
• 16:32
  SPEAKER_01: Put it in the mount, and he was he had one in his mouth down beh.
• 16:37
  SPEAKER_04: What did they think was in there?
• 16:39
  SPEAKER_04: Why did they have the canine go in?
• 16:42
  SPEAKER_01: I would the only thing I could think was if they had all those dildos, they were probably some kind of like a vendor.
• 16:48
  SPEAKER_01: So, like your THC, you know, stuff like that.
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_01: So they thought maybe there's something else, or she could have had drug charges or something.
• 16:55
  SPEAKER_04: So my god.
• 16:56
  SPEAKER_01: That was a pretty hysterical.
• 16:58
  SPEAKER_04: But wait, let's go back to the felony charge again.
• 17:01
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's when I learned you get I can't remember how many it is.
• 17:04
  SPEAKER_01: I think it's more than eight or something.
• 17:06
  SPEAKER_01: You can't have that many in your vehicle.
• 17:08
  SPEAKER_01: It's a it's against the law.
• 17:09
  SPEAKER_04: Is it against Texas law or is that like a federal I think it's Texas?
• 17:14
  SPEAKER_04: Oh my god.
• 17:15
  SPEAKER_02: I don't have to Google it, but oh shit.
• 17:17
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, we need to look that shit up.
• 17:19
  SPEAKER_04: I I need to know the law in the world.
• 17:21
  SPEAKER_04: Oh my god, that's ridiculous.
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_05: I want to know what's what's wrong with having nine.
• 17:25
  SPEAKER_05: I mean, if I can have eight, why can't I have nine?
• 17:28
  SPEAKER_01: I I agree.
• 17:29
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
• 17:30
  SPEAKER_01: Well, who decides this?
• 17:31
  SPEAKER_02: How many dildos it makes us men feel inadequate?
• 17:36
  SPEAKER_06: Oh, but I can have seven.
• 17:37
  SPEAKER_06: Can I have in my car?
• 17:39
  SPEAKER_06: And that and that you're completely secure if I have seven with me on my person at all times.
• 17:44
  SPEAKER_06: In my car.
• 17:46
  SPEAKER_02: Comedian say it once.
• 17:47
  SPEAKER_02: He's like, we can't compete with shit like that.
• 17:48
  SPEAKER_02: Don't ask a doctor, can't put a motor in my wiener, can't be done.
• 17:52
  SPEAKER_06: Oh my god.
• 17:53
  SPEAKER_06: You can't compete.
• 17:54
  SPEAKER_06: Oh god, I thought it was just fox worthy.
• 17:58
  SPEAKER_04: No, uh, it was one of the things.
• 17:59
  SPEAKER_04: It is illegal to own more than six dildos in Texas.
• 18:04
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, what the hell?
• 18:05
  SPEAKER_04: Okay, wait, hold on.
• 18:09
  SPEAKER_00: Wait, this is just from if it's your house.
• 18:11
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, wait.
• 18:12
  SPEAKER_04: So I asked.
• 18:14
  SPEAKER_04: I asked chat.
• 18:15
  SPEAKER_04: Or not chat, I asked Google.
• 18:17
  SPEAKER_04: I said, how many dildos can I have in my car at one time?
• 18:21
  SPEAKER_04: And it said from, well, this is from Reddit, but it says the old, this is Google now.
• 18:26
  SPEAKER_04: The old law, section 43.23 of the Texas Penal Code Code historically stated that possessing six or more obscene devices, that's in air quotes for our listeners, defined as items like dildos or artificial vaginas, created a legal presumption that you intended to sell or promote them.
• 18:50
  SPEAKER_04: Okay.
• 18:51
  SPEAKER_04: Oh my God.
• 18:53
  SPEAKER_04: So you know what Google just asked me?
• 18:54
  SPEAKER_04: I got seven fleshlights.
• 19:00
  SPEAKER_01: I like this one.
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_04: Okay.
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_04: It says, although, okay, so federal ruling, the the U.S.
• 19:04
  SPEAKER_04: Court of Appeals for the Fifth uh Circuit ruled in 2008 case reliable consultants versus Earl that penalizing the promotion and private use of these devices violates the 14th Amendment.
• 19:18
  SPEAKER_04: So, but what's funny is at the end of the conversation with Google here, it says, if you want, tell me, are you planning a long-distance road trip through multiple states?
• 19:30
  SPEAKER_04: Wait, it gets better.
• 19:33
  SPEAKER_04: Are they in their original packaging or loose?
• 19:39
  SPEAKER_06: Did Google ask you?
• 19:41
  SPEAKER_06: Is your AI assistant trying to help you with your planning?
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_06: Oh my God.
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_04: I can let you know if neighboring states have any specific transport or obscenity rules you might cross into.
• 19:55
  SPEAKER_04: Oh my God, now I'm totally screwed because now my algorithm is fucked.
• 19:59
  SPEAKER_04: I'm gonna get ads.
• 20:01
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, wait till I start sending you Instagram.
• 20:03
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, no, don't get his Instagram.
• 20:05
  SPEAKER_01: Mine's completely fucked.
• 20:07
  SPEAKER_01: Mine is screwed.
• 20:09
  SPEAKER_00: But I've send a lot of.
• 20:11
  SPEAKER_05: Denny's algorithm takes everyone down with him.
• 20:13
  SPEAKER_05: Oh my god.
• 20:14
  SPEAKER_04: I mean, okay, so we got off on a little tangent there.
• 20:18
  SPEAKER_04: A little but that's fucking ridiculous.
• 20:21
  SPEAKER_00: A little knowledge.
• 20:22
  SPEAKER_04: Uh, I know.
• 20:23
  SPEAKER_04: Uh okay, so what other laws do we don't know that we need to know?
• 20:28
  SPEAKER_04: That's pretty much what I'm learning right now.
• 20:30
  SPEAKER_04: When was the last call that you had that reminded you why you do this work?
• 20:35
  SPEAKER_02: I had a very nonner type call, uh, but I had a young EMT with me who didn't fully understand exactly why we're really here.
• 20:51
  SPEAKER_02: Um and we got a call for a lady who had a blister pop.
• 20:57
  SPEAKER_02: That's all we got from the dispatch.
• 21:00
  SPEAKER_02: And he threw a fit about, you know, that's not what EMS is here for, and you know, this, that, and the other.
• 21:07
  SPEAKER_02: And we went to her house.
• 21:08
  SPEAKER_02: Nice lady.
• 21:10
  SPEAKER_02: Not a c but uh it was it was not just like a little you got a little blister on your finger, it was a pretty big sore that needed to be bandaged on her leg, right?
• 21:23
  SPEAKER_02: And I had him bandage it, and as we were leaving, I was like, you know, we ran quite a few calls today, and of all the calls we ran, uh you probably helped her more than we've helped anybody else today.
• 21:38
  SPEAKER_02: And you threw a fit about it kind of situation, and it's like, you know, little things like that, she she couldn't have bandaged that herself, right?
• 21:46
  SPEAKER_02: Um and it's like, yeah, no, that wasn't a heroic life saving type of thing or anything like that.
• 21:53
  SPEAKER_02: We didn't even transport her or anything like that, but of of all the shit we did that day, we probably helped her the most.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_02: You know, and that's kind of a little reminder that it's it is emergency medical services, but the whole goal is to help people.
• 22:09
  SPEAKER_02: So if you're like truly helping somebody, that's that to me is the important part.
• 22:15
  SPEAKER_02: Like helping some 30-year-old pussy who can't realize that he's got the sniffles, that's yeah, that's not my that's not my jam at all.
• 22:23
  SPEAKER_02: But um you know, somebody who truly needed help, no, was it an emergency?
• 22:27
  SPEAKER_02: Absolutely not.
• 22:28
  SPEAKER_02: Should she have called 911?
• 22:30
  SPEAKER_02: No, probably not.
• 22:31
  SPEAKER_02: But I actually helped somebody, which, well, he did it because I didn't want to do it.
• 22:37
  SPEAKER_04: But um you were teaching.
• 22:39
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that's that's what we're going with.
• 22:41
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it's a teachable moment.
• 22:42
  SPEAKER_02: Um but you know, it I think things like that are you know kind of where it's at sometimes.
• 22:51
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 22:52
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's it's a good reminder to know that we signed up to do this for a reason, and yeah, we all have our shifts and we're just burnt out, we're grumpy, and we just oh, this is bullshit, this is bullshit, whatever.
• 23:05
  SPEAKER_01: But exactly what Den Denny said is that little reminder from our patients or from family that we treat as our job.
• 23:15
  SPEAKER_01: Like you see it as how can you do that?
• 23:18
  SPEAKER_01: Like, you know, I I can never do that.
• 23:20
  SPEAKER_01: But like we do it like if we were doing any other job.
• 23:24
  SPEAKER_01: Like it's just it comes natural.
• 23:26
  SPEAKER_01: And then it's that little reminder, you know, from family or whoever uh maybe they send an email to the the chief saying, you know, they did excellent.
• 23:35
  SPEAKER_01: And you know, and I'm thinking, I mean, I just did my job, you know.
• 23:38
  SPEAKER_01: I I didn't think I didn't went above and beyond, but I'm but it just remember that call.
• 23:44
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
• 23:45
  SPEAKER_01: So it just it's the it's just those little things that and there's been many times I took a step back and like realize I'm working one of the best jobs in the world, uh not for pay or a lot of things, but just there's you not many people that can say I go work for two days and then I get four days off.
• 24:08
  SPEAKER_01: You know, they're working eight to five by the weekend, they're tired.
• 24:11
  SPEAKER_01: So we have it nice.
• 24:12
  SPEAKER_01: And there's some that complain about it.
• 24:14
  SPEAKER_01: And the what I what I've heard before and what I tell them is like, look, we might that's a third of our life, if not more, that we're spending away from home, and we may not do shit.
• 24:23
  SPEAKER_01: We might play video games or watch dirty videos on Instagram, whatever.
• 24:28
  SPEAKER_01: You know, we're and you're thinking, Man, I got paid doing this, it's pretty easy.
• 24:32
  SPEAKER_01: But that's 28-hour play date.
• 24:34
  SPEAKER_01: It happens a lot.
• 24:36
  SPEAKER_01: But that one call will make up for a whole entire year's of your salary and of all that downtime.
• 24:44
  SPEAKER_01: So that one call that you might have in the next five minutes will make up for all of that that you just spent playing video games or whatever.
• 24:53
  SPEAKER_01: So that's that's what I was told before, and it's definitely something I take into perspective perspective now because there's times where I'm like, man, I haven't been doing anything.
• 25:02
  SPEAKER_01: I'd rather be like, you know, doing or pacing somebody or uh doing some kind of cool stuff, giving them drugs, you know, doing stuff like that.
• 25:12
  SPEAKER_01: But then I realize, hey, that time always comes around.
• 25:16
  SPEAKER_01: So enjoy what we're doing now, but that one call can make up for everything.
• 25:21
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 25:22
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I think I think that's something that everybody, EMS, fire, law enforcement, whatever it may be, tends to forget is you know, sometimes we're we're we're we're not being paid.
• 25:37
  SPEAKER_02: Well, we are.
• 25:38
  SPEAKER_02: We're we're being paid to run the call and and and and do everything like that.
• 25:42
  SPEAKER_02: But one of the main reasons why we're being paid is to be ready for the call.
• 25:46
  SPEAKER_07: Yeah, yeah.
• 25:47
  SPEAKER_07: Exactly.
• 25:47
  SPEAKER_02: You know, so you know, it it it doesn't matter if you're in a service that you know you get one call a day.
• 25:53
  SPEAKER_02: Well, you have to be there for that one call.
• 25:56
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I mean?
• 25:57
  SPEAKER_02: And I think I think a lot of people forget that.
• 25:58
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah.
• 25:59
  SPEAKER_07: Call a day.
• 26:00
  SPEAKER_05: Most people expect when nine one when you call 911, they expect somebody to answer.
• 26:04
  SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
• 26:05
  SPEAKER_07: Absolutely.
• 26:06
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, exactly.
• 26:07
  SPEAKER_04: So like thinking back along your careers, if you were to say like this was the moment in my career where I saved somebody's life, like really truly saved their life in that moment.
• 26:22
  SPEAKER_04: I know you do it every day, but I'm talking about like a moment where you're like, dude, I thought you were dead and we pulled you back.
• 26:31
  SPEAKER_02: I think for me, that moment uh I didn't know it at the time, but uh we got a mutual aid call in Leon Valley, which is a small little city inside of San Antonio, right?
• 26:43
  SPEAKER_02: Uh their their department was on some other calls.
• 26:46
  SPEAKER_02: Uh I don't even know.
• 26:47
  SPEAKER_02: I don't I don't pay attention to that.
• 26:49
  SPEAKER_02: But uh so we got a mutual aid call to go over there, and it was a cardiac arrest in the park.
• 26:56
  SPEAKER_02: Uh we got there.
• 26:58
  SPEAKER_02: Well, the am I was a supervisor, so I was on a chase truck, but uh we got there about the same time.
• 27:05
  SPEAKER_02: It was an ambulance, and then me and uh we got him in the truck.
• 27:10
  SPEAKER_02: You know, we got Ross, which is return of spontaneous circulation, and you know, we we treated him the way we would treat any other code, but uh I'd say about four or five days later, I got a call from my boss's boss, and she's like, Hey, you know, uh that dude just walked out of the hospital neurologically intact, meaning that he walked out of there healthy and fine and full brain function and everything like that.
• 27:38
  SPEAKER_02: And that's a very rare thing when when it comes to cardiac arrests in the field.
• 27:43
  SPEAKER_02: Uh so I would say that would be the one time I'm like, I really made a difference in that dude.
• 27:48
  SPEAKER_07: That's cool.
• 27:48
  SPEAKER_02: So that's very cool.
• 27:51
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I think same.
• 27:52
  SPEAKER_01: I think our uh our saves, what we call it on a cardiac arrest is always like it's it feels amazing.
• 27:59
  SPEAKER_01: It's like because we were doing the amazing things that were taught to save a life, and then it works compared to like I mentioned earlier about doing these calls that you know, why are we here?
• 28:12
  SPEAKER_01: There's you know, so doing the critical things of the given the medications, given the uh shock in somebody because their heart's out of rhythm, and then you don't know the outcome, but you maybe they come to the station one day and you're like, Well, I didn't know you survived.
• 28:29
  SPEAKER_01: And um, you know, or I didn't I thought maybe you're gonna be paralyzed because you couldn't feel anything from the chest down.
• 28:34
  SPEAKER_01: And I would have sworn you're paralyzed, but here you are, you're walking, you're totally fine.
• 28:37
  SPEAKER_01: Uh it's those rewarding things, you know.
• 28:40
  SPEAKER_01: And there's not a specific one that just sticks out to me right now, but just this those similar calls.
• 28:47
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I've had those calls where someone's in cardiac arrest and we get them back, but it doesn't mean they're up and walking, talking, get them back, they're doing good.
• 28:58
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, like their heart's beating, they got normal vitals, but they're still unconscious.
• 29:01
  SPEAKER_01: And the reason why they're still unconscious is because they're brain dead.
• 29:04
  SPEAKER_01: They went way too long, which is not long, uh, minutes without oxygen.
• 29:09
  SPEAKER_01: You know, and again, we cover a whole county.
• 29:11
  SPEAKER_01: So if this cardiac arrest happened 20 minutes, 15 minutes on the county, you know, and if they're not receiving any CPR or anything, that brain is deoxygenated and it's dying every second.
• 29:25
  SPEAKER_01: So getting those back is amazing, but then you realize they're brain dead.
• 29:31
  SPEAKER_01: And then I guess what helps me on those calls is knowing that we gave the family that much longer to spend time with them and say their goodbyes.
• 29:40
  SPEAKER_01: I feel more, I feel way better able to save this person so they can grieve and they can say their goodbyes without knowing we came into their house and they see all this equipment, they see us doing CPR pumping chest on somebody that's their family member, and that's traumatizing.
• 29:57
  SPEAKER_01: But then we get them saved, and then it gives them the time to see them again in a more of a neutral state where they're comfortable in a bed.
• 30:04
  SPEAKER_01: They might be they might be brain dead, they might be unresponsive, but they they're able to spend that much longer with them.
• 30:10
  SPEAKER_01: So that that's a biggie for me, even though if we don't get them, but that's the case, that's a real biggie because we just that's I had one of the guys, you know, you know, saying, Well, man, yeah, I wish you know we we could have had or we could have had her, you know, and they get frustrated because it's not our fault, but they get frustrated that man, if they were getting CPR, they got this, and I just tell them, I tell them, look, we prolong their life for the family to grieve and say their goodbyes.
• 30:36
  SPEAKER_01: I said just that's the only most thing we could be happy about.
• 30:40
  SPEAKER_04: Absolutely.
• 30:40
  SPEAKER_04: I agree.
• 30:42
  SPEAKER_04: So, like when you're in the situation of going into work and you have all these calls and then you drop them off and you you leave them at the ER, you don't know what happens.
• 30:53
  SPEAKER_04: Like, how do you deal with that?
• 30:54
  SPEAKER_04: Like, do you have um like some way of at the end of your shift, like I don't know, a ritual or something that you do to kind of like let that go almost?
• 31:05
  SPEAKER_04: Or do you go to the hospital or do you have friends throughout the you know ER that you could call and ask and see what's going on?
• 31:15
  SPEAKER_02: Uh and in some areas, some of some of our reporting systems are linked with the hospital, so we can follow them.
• 31:21
  SPEAKER_02: Uh in some areas that's just not the case.
• 31:24
  SPEAKER_02: And sometimes you'll go back in the hospital and they'll tell you, hey, oh, this is what happened with that person or something like that.
• 31:30
  SPEAKER_02: But for the most part, I don't know.
• 31:33
  SPEAKER_02: I just got used to the idea that not my problem anymore.
• 31:37
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 31:37
  SPEAKER_02: Kind of kind of thing, you know.
• 31:39
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 31:39
  SPEAKER_02: Uh sounds callous, but it's, you know, it's it's easy to quash curiosity when you're just like, eh, that's that's that's that.
• 31:47
  SPEAKER_02: I did hey, they were alive when I put them on your bed kind of situation.
• 31:50
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I mean?
• 31:51
  SPEAKER_02: Right.
• 31:52
  SPEAKER_04: Well, also it's like your job, right?
• 31:54
  SPEAKER_04: So you said before, it's like this is my job.
• 31:56
  SPEAKER_04: It's like, well, if if a bank gets robbed at midnight, is it my fault the bank got robbed at midnight?
• 32:01
  SPEAKER_04: You know, I wasn't the bank teller that day, you know?
• 32:04
  SPEAKER_04: It's like the same kind of thing, like you did your job.
• 32:07
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I I totally agree.
• 32:08
  SPEAKER_01: And I was gonna say the exact same thing.
• 32:10
  SPEAKER_01: I I don't want it to come out like this being sound bad or rude.
• 32:14
  SPEAKER_01: I said, but there's majority of them.
• 32:15
  SPEAKER_01: It's like, hey, there I it's not like we don't care.
• 32:19
  SPEAKER_01: We care about what we do in our patients, but it's just something we're numb to.
• 32:24
  SPEAKER_01: But there are a couple that you're just like, you know, you that really stick to you, and you kind of wish you could hear updates.
• 32:31
  SPEAKER_01: And I think the one that stuck out was recently.
• 32:33
  SPEAKER_01: I just got done working in Abilene, which I ran 80 calls in like seven days, so I'm just burnt out.
• 32:39
  SPEAKER_01: And I go on my normal shift, and I'm like, you know, if I'm used to running that many calls, it's nothing here.
• 32:44
  SPEAKER_01: And our first call, as soon as seven o'clock in the morning hits, was a guy with back pain and he's can't he has cancer.
• 32:50
  SPEAKER_01: He's like 36 years old, so he's like three years older than I am.
• 32:54
  SPEAKER_01: And this guy, he's knocking on Heaven's door.
• 32:56
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, he just looks terrible.
• 32:58
  SPEAKER_01: And and he was telling me his story.
• 33:00
  SPEAKER_01: I was talking to him and how that all this started in January, and he had lost a lot of weight because he'd been eating better, and he just had all these issues, and he's just riddled.
• 33:09
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm just thinking, I mean, that was that emotionally set with me pretty hard because I'm thinking this guy's really cool.
• 33:14
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, we're talking like we're best buds to this guy might not be alive next week, you know.
• 33:19
  SPEAKER_01: So those are the ones that really though and the you know, the kiddos, stuff like that.
• 33:23
  SPEAKER_04: So yeah, that's gotta be hard.
• 33:25
  SPEAKER_04: I can't even imagine.
• 33:27
  SPEAKER_04: I mean, and I think too, like like you said earlier, you have to have some sort of coping mechanism to get through, you know, this shit that you see.
• 33:37
  SPEAKER_04: So it's like if that coping mechanism is, you know, I'm hanging out with my friends, or I'm going to the gym, or I'm using humor, you know, we're gonna joke about it, just something to kind of grieve it.
• 33:50
  SPEAKER_02: And and sometimes it's easier not to know.
• 33:53
  SPEAKER_02: Like I remember this was a couple years back, uh, we had a two-year-old that drowned out uh in Medina County.
• 34:02
  SPEAKER_02: And that two-year-old coded on me three times.
• 34:06
  SPEAKER_02: And where we were at, we had to fly them.
• 34:09
  SPEAKER_02: So when the air crew got there, that she coded on them as well, and it's just easier to know or not to know what happened when she actually got to the hospital.
• 34:22
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, you know, it's like, all right, well, she had a pulse and was breathing when she left me, so that's that's where I'm gonna leave that memory at.
• 34:29
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, you know, it's always kind of like you know, the story always has a happy ending depending on where you when you end the story.
• 34:34
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 34:35
  SPEAKER_02: So sometimes it's just easier to end the story right there.
• 34:38
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that makes a lot of sense.
• 34:39
  SPEAKER_01: That's the listening.
• 34:40
  SPEAKER_01: That's yeah, better not to know.
• 34:42
  unknown: Yeah.
• 34:43
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, I really appreciate you guys doing this with us.
• 34:46
  SPEAKER_04: I mean, I really appreciate you kind of taking so much time too on a Friday night, and like, especially since you've been working your asses off lately.
• 34:53
  SPEAKER_04: Let's wrap this up.
• 34:56
  SPEAKER_04: I do too.
• 34:56
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, yeah, I forgot.
• 34:57
  SPEAKER_04: I gotta be on the go on shift tomorrow.
• 34:59
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, I gotta be I gotta be on shift tomorrow.
• 35:04
  SPEAKER_01: At my station now, yeah.
• 35:07
  SPEAKER_01: We work at different stations, but one station is hazmat controlled right now.
• 35:12
  SPEAKER_01: So he's well.
• 35:13
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I didn't even get to tell you about it.
• 35:15
  SPEAKER_02: What's that mean?
• 35:17
  SPEAKER_02: They found a bunch of black mold in the station, so we're we're out of the station, so now we're we're we're sharing a station.
• 35:24
  SPEAKER_01: That also has black mold.
• 35:25
  SPEAKER_02: Doubling up.
• 35:26
  SPEAKER_02: Bet it does, exactly.
• 35:28
  SPEAKER_02: Fortunately, he makes a really good little spoon, so yeah.
• 35:32
  SPEAKER_00: I need a bigger bit.
• 35:34
  SPEAKER_04: All right, so this is gonna be rapid fire.
• 35:36
  SPEAKER_04: Finish the sentence questions, okay?
• 35:40
  SPEAKER_02: You know it's gonna be a long shift when uh the crew, the offgoing crew says they didn't do shit the night before.
• 35:49
  SPEAKER_02: The universe is gonna correct that real quick.
• 35:54
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, well or when someone says have a have a good quiet shift.
• 36:00
  SPEAKER_04: You're like, fuck off.
• 36:01
  SPEAKER_01: That's the Q word we don't use, but some guys do it intentionally.
• 36:04
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 36:05
  SPEAKER_01: So we do run our ass off.
• 36:06
  SPEAKER_01: And it usually works.
• 36:07
  SPEAKER_02: Or you or you pull up and you find a backup truck where your truck's supposed to be.
• 36:12
  SPEAKER_02: Oh no.
• 36:13
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 36:15
  SPEAKER_04: Alright.
• 36:15
  SPEAKER_04: One thing you should never do before calling 911 is no attempt to take the cock ring off yourself.
• 36:31
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I had that call.
• 36:33
  SPEAKER_02: I had that call where he took a grinder to it to try to cut it off.
• 36:36
  SPEAKER_02: And it's what is with these power tools in their penises?
• 36:40
  SPEAKER_02: Was that the one at the hospital?
• 36:42
  SPEAKER_02: No, this was one here in the county I live in.
• 36:45
  SPEAKER_02: And so advice to anybody listening it if you want to put a cock ring on, go right ahead.
• 36:53
  SPEAKER_02: No judgment or anything like that.
• 36:54
  SPEAKER_02: But make it out of silicone or something that you can cut.
• 36:57
  SPEAKER_02: Don't use tungsten or stainless steel or titanium.
• 37:00
  SPEAKER_02: Oh my god.
• 37:02
  SPEAKER_02: Public service announcement here.
• 37:04
  SPEAKER_04: That's right.
• 37:05
  SPEAKER_04: You heard it here first.
• 37:08
  SPEAKER_04: All right.
• 37:08
  SPEAKER_04: What is the strangest thing I've ever been asked to do on a call?
• 37:13
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, actually, at Burning Man, the strangest thing I was asked to do was taking a dude.
• 37:18
  SPEAKER_02: We were flying out.
• 37:20
  SPEAKER_02: I'm trying to remember what was wrong with him.
• 37:23
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, yeah.
• 37:24
  SPEAKER_02: He is spleen.
• 37:26
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, he ruptured his spleen from falling down.
• 37:28
  SPEAKER_02: Where did he fall?
• 37:29
  SPEAKER_02: And uh he was he was acting on no, yeah, this guy was actually, I think he was riding a scooter or something like that.
• 37:36
  SPEAKER_02: Um, ruptured his spleen and was bleeding out on the inside.
• 37:40
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, he had us stop in the ambulance on the way to the helicopter so that he could clean up and pack up his camp before we got to the helicopter.
• 37:48
  SPEAKER_05: Radical self-reliance.
• 37:49
  SPEAKER_05: Right.
• 37:50
  SPEAKER_02: Wow.
• 37:51
  SPEAKER_02: It was it was the weirdest thing.
• 37:52
  SPEAKER_02: And then when we get to the helicopter, he wants to take pictures with the helicopter crew before he gets on the helicopter posing.
• 37:59
  SPEAKER_02: And I'm like, well, this is a first.
• 38:01
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, that's kind of cool.
• 38:02
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, I've never had this happen before either.
• 38:05
  SPEAKER_05: I told him it's his story.
• 38:07
  SPEAKER_05: Like, do you not understand that everyone he knows is gonna find out that he got flown out from Burning Man, yeah, Sereno for surgery.
• 38:15
  SPEAKER_05: That's gonna have photographic evidence for his story, you know.
• 38:19
  SPEAKER_05: That's crazy.
• 38:21
  SPEAKER_01: Mine was uh a guy that was severely constipated, and he asked for assistance on giving him an enema.
• 38:27
  SPEAKER_01: Oh which thankfully my partner was a female and she's worked at the hospital, the clinic, and she's done them a thousand times, and she was more than happy to help him, and I stayed outside.
• 38:36
  SPEAKER_02: Wow, yeah, that would have been a hard no for me.
• 38:38
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, no, no, no.
• 38:40
  SPEAKER_01: And it still didn't work.
• 38:42
  SPEAKER_04: Oh god, people are so pent up.
• 38:46
  SPEAKER_02: Um, okay, you know you're working in rural Texas when uh you have a drunk guy and you walk in his house and you have to clear more than 10 firearms on your way to him.
• 38:59
  SPEAKER_02: God it it happened, it happened in the middle of the freaking night.
• 39:04
  SPEAKER_02: I'm like, and this dude's drunk out of his mind, and I'm telling my partner, I'm like, hey, keep him distracted because they're all over the damn place.
• 39:13
  SPEAKER_02: Oh my gosh.
• 39:14
  SPEAKER_02: That that was a good thing.
• 39:16
  SPEAKER_01: Wheel the stretcher through uh cow shit, goat shit, all kinds of shit, and it's all over the stretcher, and now it's in the back of the truck with us.
• 39:27
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, yeah, that would be awful.
• 39:28
  SPEAKER_02: And you'd be shocked how long a cow patty will burn.
• 39:31
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, they burn for a long time.
• 39:33
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 39:34
  SPEAKER_01: We used to warm up our uh frozen bologna sandwiches on grass fires on top of them.
• 39:42
  SPEAKER_06: That's Texas right there.
• 39:44
  SPEAKER_06: There you go.
• 39:47
  SPEAKER_01: No, that was the most like the thing you could call if I could say when you see a Texas um field on fire that has cattle, you the only things you'll see still burning and smoldering is the cow patties.
• 39:59
  SPEAKER_07: Oh my god.
• 39:59
  SPEAKER_01: And then when the grandma that's very nice to the local fire department brings us sandwiches that she puts in her deep freeze so she has them ready.
• 40:07
  SPEAKER_04: I mean, such occasion.
• 40:10
  SPEAKER_04: Oh my god.
• 40:12
  SPEAKER_04: Okay, that is definitely rural Texas.
• 40:15
  SPEAKER_04: Okay, the sentence I never want to hear from a patient is I'm gonna die.
• 40:22
  SPEAKER_01: Because usually they do.
• 40:23
  SPEAKER_02: They know, yeah.
• 40:24
  SPEAKER_02: If they say that, they're gonna die.
• 40:26
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I'm gonna die, and you're like, Yep.
• 40:28
  SPEAKER_02: Wow.
• 40:28
  SPEAKER_02: Yep.
• 40:29
  SPEAKER_02: You are now.
• 40:30
  SPEAKER_02: Thanks for speaking up.
• 40:32
  SPEAKER_01: See ya.
• 40:34
  SPEAKER_04: That's awful.
• 40:35
  SPEAKER_01: But so can you can you wait till we get to the last one?
• 40:40
  SPEAKER_04: Um, my partner knows it's going to be bad when I say usually when your partner says this ain't good.
• 40:47
  SPEAKER_01: Because if they're saying it, majority of the time it's probably not good.
• 40:50
  SPEAKER_01: And it could be anything.
• 40:52
  SPEAKER_02: Or when you have an EMT partner holding a rhythm strip saying, Oh, you need to look at this.
• 40:57
  SPEAKER_02: Oh fuck.
• 40:59
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, because all they know is the squigglies.
• 41:01
  SPEAKER_01: And the squigglies are sometimes not that, or most of the time not that good.
• 41:06
  SPEAKER_04: If I could give the public one piece of advice, it would be think before you call down on one.
• 41:14
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, I was gonna say, think before you call down.
• 41:16
  SPEAKER_02: Always use something with a flared base.
• 41:21
  SPEAKER_04: Wait, I do have a question about that.
• 41:23
  SPEAKER_04: Because people sticking things inside of them, is it mostly a male thing or is it mostly a female thing that you run into?
• 41:31
  SPEAKER_02: Uh personally, you know, it doesn't happen as often as we joke about it, but uh it's I would it's never happened to me where I work now, but it's happened several times in Bear County, but um I'd say it's 50-50.
• 41:46
  SPEAKER_02: If it's a female, it's in a vagina.
• 41:48
  SPEAKER_02: If it's a dude, it's up his ass.
• 41:51
  SPEAKER_02: I would say the dudes are typically the ones that are like, why would you that particular object?
• 42:01
  SPEAKER_02: What made you think you that was a good idea?
• 42:04
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, the females, it's most of the time it's like, yeah, you know, I I I kind of understand.
• 42:09
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, I'm not saying I understand, but you know, at least it's not some oddball fucking thing that they just found and was like, hey, this I you know what, you know what?
• 42:17
  SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna stick this to my ass.
• 42:19
  SPEAKER_01: And it's typically males because the the pooper sucks it in.
• 42:23
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah.
• 42:24
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and that's why.
• 42:26
  SPEAKER_01: So there's oh, it's not going back out.
• 42:28
  SPEAKER_02: I've had many, many calls with females that most of the time it's a tampon stuck up there and they're freaked out about toxic shock syndrome or something like that.
• 42:38
  SPEAKER_02: It's like, well, that's that's cool and all, but there's not a snowball's chance in hell I'm reaching up in there and grabbing that for you right now.
• 42:44
  SPEAKER_02: Like, we'll figure the hospital.
• 42:46
  SPEAKER_02: It's gonna happen.
• 42:46
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, happen.
• 42:47
  SPEAKER_04: Oh my god, I would die.
• 42:49
  SPEAKER_01: Even if it's a baby, as long as I don't see hair or any skin coming, you're good.
• 42:53
  SPEAKER_01: Keep them closed, we'll get you to the hospital.
• 42:55
  SPEAKER_01: Oh my god.
• 42:56
  SPEAKER_01: Plus, it was like two shifts ago where she already had the baby and it was laying on the bed when we got there.
• 43:01
  SPEAKER_01: That was that was something.
• 43:02
  SPEAKER_01: What she already yeah, as a 26-year-old female, she was she was an illegal, she was standing at an RV.
• 43:09
  SPEAKER_01: And so dispatch couldn't get any information because she she only spoke Spanish, but even when they were able to translate, she's just just running her mouth, didn't like not making sense.
• 43:21
  SPEAKER_01: And they were able to say that she's in labor, um, she's had five kids.
• 43:26
  SPEAKER_01: That's basically all we know.
• 43:27
  SPEAKER_01: Um we go into the RV and there's the mom standing up.
• 43:31
  SPEAKER_01: Like we had to pry into the RV, she could have easily unlocked it, but she's just rambling.
• 43:35
  SPEAKER_07: Oh my god.
• 43:36
  SPEAKER_01: There's blood all down her legs, she's standing up, and there's a placenta and an umbilical cord hanging off the side of the bed, and the baby's just laying there, and the baby's fine.
• 43:43
  SPEAKER_01: The baby's completely fine.
• 43:45
  SPEAKER_03: Wow.
• 43:45
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm like, great, I don't have to deliver a baby.
• 43:48
  SPEAKER_01: That's awesome, it's already here.
• 43:50
  SPEAKER_01: But that was just a cluster because even the translator couldn't even give us information.
• 43:55
  SPEAKER_01: So I think she thought we were iced or somebody because she was not letting us touch the baby.
• 43:59
  SPEAKER_01: She didn't Want to be around law enforcement and had numerous of other you know CPS cases and drugs and everything.
• 44:06
  SPEAKER_01: So I think she only cared about that, not this baby she just spit out onto the bed.
• 44:12
  SPEAKER_04: But why do you guys not want to deliver babies?
• 44:14
  SPEAKER_02: Well, my thing is like if I m most of the time I have an EMT partner, you know, it's typically a paramedic and an EMT.
• 44:22
  SPEAKER_02: And some of the nicer places you get dual medic trucks.
• 44:26
  SPEAKER_02: But like I always anytime we hear an active labor call or something like that, I look right over at my partner and say, hey, remember, labor and delivery is a BLS skill.
• 44:35
  SPEAKER_01: It is a BLS skill.
• 44:37
  SPEAKER_01: Basic laugh support.
• 44:38
  SPEAKER_02: Right, right.
• 44:39
  SPEAKER_02: So you make them do it.
• 44:42
  SPEAKER_02: No, I typically do it because I have I have critical care experience and neonatal care and stuff like that.
• 44:48
  SPEAKER_02: So I typically actually do it, but it's it's gross.
• 44:51
  SPEAKER_02: That's it is just gross.
• 44:54
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 44:55
  SPEAKER_01: It's an easy process typically.
• 44:57
  SPEAKER_01: It's just gross.
• 44:58
  SPEAKER_01: My reasoning is because that's just another report I have to do.
• 45:01
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 45:01
  SPEAKER_04: Well, there's that.
• 45:02
  SPEAKER_01: One to another.
• 45:04
  SPEAKER_04: Wow.
• 45:04
  SPEAKER_04: I mean, I can't even believe it.
• 45:06
  SPEAKER_04: Well, I really appreciate this, you guys.
• 45:08
  SPEAKER_04: I I'm trying to think if I have any other questions.
• 45:09
  SPEAKER_04: I know I probably do, but we'll have to do this again.
• 45:11
  SPEAKER_04: Nora, you've been pretty quiet because you've had to hand Daddy the mic most of the time.
• 45:16
  SPEAKER_04: What are your thoughts?
• 45:17
  SPEAKER_04: What is what did we miss?
• 45:22
  SPEAKER_05: Um, I would say the biggest thing that people don't know about EMS that they're not into it.
• 45:27
  SPEAKER_05: He already talked about it's that it's not a um, you know, it's not like police and fire.
• 45:33
  SPEAKER_05: It's not um, what did you call it?
• 45:35
  SPEAKER_05: National Essential Service, right?
• 45:37
  SPEAKER_05: In in in a lot of the states.
• 45:39
  SPEAKER_05: Um and so people don't understand um that and also the lack of understanding with their compensation.
• 45:50
  SPEAKER_05: Like the compensation for these guys is disgusting.
• 45:54
  SPEAKER_05: The fact that Chick-fil-A can hire a high school student for the for more dollars per hour than a trained EMT makes hourly is disgusting to me.
• 46:07
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 46:09
  SPEAKER_05: And I think people I think everybody needs to note that.
• 46:11
  SPEAKER_05: It's you know, that that and this is nationwide.
• 46:14
  SPEAKER_05: This isn't just in our area.
• 46:15
  SPEAKER_05: This is like this is a whole thing.
• 46:17
  SPEAKER_05: Um, and they they most people they have no idea.
• 46:20
  SPEAKER_05: They think that their salary, they're not, they're hourly employees, they have to work insane shifts and over time and pick up shifts on from other agencies just to make ends meet.
• 46:30
  SPEAKER_05: And that's ridiculous.
• 46:31
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, it is.
• 46:32
  SPEAKER_05: This is a this is a required essential service um that should be funded, and these people should be taken care of for the job that they do.
• 46:41
  SPEAKER_05: 100%.
• 46:42
  SPEAKER_05: And that's it.
• 46:43
  SPEAKER_05: That's what I think.
• 46:44
  SPEAKER_01: There's a there's a really good movie that just came out, and I can't even think of the name of it.
• 46:47
  unknown: I don't know.
• 46:48
  SPEAKER_01: Code three?
• 46:49
  SPEAKER_01: Code three, yeah.
• 46:49
  SPEAKER_01: I think so.
• 46:50
  SPEAKER_01: Code three.
• 46:50
  SPEAKER_01: And uh the actor did amazing, the the main actor, the main dramatic.
• 46:55
  SPEAKER_01: And uh a lot of what you see in that movie is.
• 47:02
  SPEAKER_05: You need to, everybody needs to.
• 47:04
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
• 47:05
  SPEAKER_01: Everybody does.
• 47:05
  SPEAKER_01: It's it shows 100% of what we deal with and the humor behind it, but like this is what we're getting called to.
• 47:12
  SPEAKER_01: People like think, no, there's no way, like what we talked about earlier.
• 47:15
  SPEAKER_01: But even that actor uh said afterwards, I interviewed him, he says, I didn't realize what these guys go through, like the bullshit stuff that burns them out, not the the life-saving stuff.
• 47:25
  SPEAKER_01: That's what we want to do.
• 47:27
  SPEAKER_01: The stuff they go through day in, day out, he says, and you know, obviously the the compensation, how much they make, um, is crazy because we're not just paramedics, we're we are multi-certified firefighters, uh, hazmat techs, wildland, um uh advanced life support, uh, all kinds, all kinds of stuff.
• 47:47
  SPEAKER_01: We have I have a whole binder full of just certs.
• 47:51
  SPEAKER_01: And but yet even a nurse, a nurse makes two to three times more than what we do just you know, at a hospital.
• 48:01
  SPEAKER_01: So we there's a why is there a shortage of medics?
• 48:04
  SPEAKER_01: Well, the answer is already there.
• 48:05
  SPEAKER_01: We've been answering it for a long time.
• 48:06
  SPEAKER_01: Is that well, I can go get my RN and go make way more money, so I'd rather do that.
• 48:12
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, for me, I'm like Denny, you can't get me in the hospital.
• 48:15
  SPEAKER_01: I cannot stand being behind four walls.
• 48:17
  SPEAKER_01: I got the field chance.
• 48:18
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I love the field, I love the job.
• 48:20
  SPEAKER_02: But I think we need to make I also think one of the biggest quotes in that movie that I remember was those uh what what did he say?
• 48:29
  SPEAKER_02: Those who don't need us call us, and those who need us don't call us.
• 48:33
  SPEAKER_01: Absolutely, yeah.
• 48:34
  SPEAKER_02: I think that makes sense.
• 48:38
  SPEAKER_05: Because we we want to watch, but you know everybody go see go watch code three, it's on Amazon Prime.
• 48:45
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, please.
• 48:46
  SPEAKER_05: And it's a fantastic film, but it it absolutely does.
• 48:50
  SPEAKER_05: Okay, that sounds fucking awesome.
• 48:52
  SPEAKER_05: I know.
• 48:52
  SPEAKER_05: Thank you, no, thank you so much, thank you guys.
• 48:54
  SPEAKER_04: I really appreciate it.
• 48:56
  SPEAKER_01: I'll be more than happy to come back.
• 48:58
  SPEAKER_04: Absolutely, and then just remember you can grab my number and text me all the gross things.
• 49:04
  SPEAKER_04: Like, I love all the things.
• 49:06
  SPEAKER_04: I'll send you one.
• 49:07
  SPEAKER_04: You'll be like, yeah, never mind.
• 49:09
  SPEAKER_04: No, no, no, I love it.
• 49:10
  SPEAKER_04: Well, thanks, guys.
• 49:11
  SPEAKER_04: I really appreciate it.
• 49:12
  SPEAKER_04: This was fun.
• 49:13
  SPEAKER_05: All right, you guys have a fantastic fucking night.
• 49:15
  SPEAKER_04: Yes, peace.
• 49:16
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, yeah.
• 49:17
  SPEAKER_05: Thank you, thank you.
• 49:18
  SPEAKER_05: Follow us on the gram at wdpftpodcast.com.
• 49:24
  SPEAKER_05: Perfect.
• 49:25
  SPEAKER_05: That was not perfect because I said dot com.
• 49:27
  SPEAKER_05: Okay, one more time.
• 49:28
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 49:30
  SPEAKER_05: Because it's like an Instagram.
• 49:31
  SPEAKER_05: Hold on.
• 49:32
  SPEAKER_05: No, it was not perfect.
• 49:33
  SPEAKER_05: Hold on.
• 49:33
  SPEAKER_05: See, third time's a charm.
• 49:34
  SPEAKER_05: Exactly.
• 49:35
  SPEAKER_05: Okay.
• 49:36
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