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Episode 67: Interview With Meredith's sister Posey Hunter! | Life as a paramedic | Growing up with Meredith · This Is My Circus

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I'm Stephanie.
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I'm Meredith.
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And welcome to this is my circus.
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So we're chatting today with my sister Posey.
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Hello.
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You look cute.
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Thank you.
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Your hair looks on point.
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It does.
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It was just in a ponytail because it was blowing everywhere and I can't take it.
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So, let's tell the people about you.
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Oh gosh.
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What do we wanna know about me?
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It's okay.
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There's only two people that listen and they probably already know you, so, um, I'm just Well, I know, I just wanna know what's your secret to success?
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No, I'm just kidding.
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So, uh, look, perfect.
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Wait a minute.
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If everybody, if the two people that listen to you know me, no, there is no success.
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Or there's no secrets.
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I There's no secret all over your stuff today.
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I don't know what's wrong.
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I'm, it's usually not over there.
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Can you gimme a drink though?
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One of those cans?
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We're not sponsored by Prime.
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No.
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Wish we were Prime.
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Oh, sorry.
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That was a nice, like crispy crack.
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It was a perfect prime.
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We are here and, and, and available.
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Yeah.
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So do you have a little refrigerator in there?
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No.
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No.
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Nope.
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You need one?
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You need a Prime refrigerator.
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You did?
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I gave, I gave Dylan.
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Well, Dylan has in his room now.
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I have one in my office and Jackson has it now.
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Yeah.
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And I have a name for your refrigerator.
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Ooh Perry.
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Because No, not Midge the fridge.
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Yes.
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That was the one.
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Optimus.
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Optimus Prime.
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That would be perfect.
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That's a, that's a cute name.
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Yes.
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I like it.
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When my friend Kristen and I, we were roommates for a while.
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We named all of our appliances and we had Mitch the fridge and our, uh, ironing board, which I don't know what we were like 21 years old.
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Why are we iron?
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Well, how did you have it in an ironing board?
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I think because I wore scrubs then and like, I don't know.
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I don't, I don't buy anything that needs to Oh, I don't either.
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This was a long, long time ago, but our ironing board was named Seymour.
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I don't iron.
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No, I don't buy anything that needs to be dry cleaned.
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No.
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I, if it takes effort, I don't buy it.
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If it does need to be crop dry cleaned, I wash it into washing machine anyway.
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Yes, but A secret to my success.
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Yes.
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Life changer.
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A steamer, a handheld steamer.
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They're 20 bucks on Amazon and they work.
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It's like a little hair dryer and you undo this and fill it with water.
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It's portable.
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That's steam comes out.
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Yeah.
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20 bucks on Amazon.
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Life changer.
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And you don't have to, and you don't have to have Seymours see more good stuff.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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See more butts.
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See more butts.
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Okay.
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So, which I've seen plenty of.
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Yeah.
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So Rails.
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Rails are gone.
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Oh, think of, yeah.
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Rails are gone.
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No more rails.
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so you're a paramedic.
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Yes.
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Yes.
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Mm-hmm.
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How long, how many years have you been a paramedic?
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I've been a paramedic since 2012.
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You were an EMTA few years before that, since 2009.
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What's the difference between the two?
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So an EMT, well now they like force them out in like eight or 12 weeks ish.
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A shorter paramedic.
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You go to school longer?
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Yeah.
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and, and that's every, somebody going to school every day they do that a lot with the fire recruit classes.
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They'll send them.
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Through EMT class.
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And that's what they do, like a month long or two eight week long program.
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And then they do ride time and then they go take their state test.
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And they're an EMT?
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Yeah.
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They pass.
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Um, paramedic.
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It depends on if you do the degree program or not.
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Yeah.
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There's actually a step in between that is an advanced EMT.
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Okay.
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and that's about six months long.
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Yeah.
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And they can do more skills, they can give more, they can give medicines.
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They can work a cardiac arrest up until there's a return of a pulse.
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So, and then it becomes a paramedic skill.
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Okay.
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Paramedics can do all the skills on the track.
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I was gonna say, so what can, what can you do that other people cannot do because you're the big dog.
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I can cardiovert the patient, which means if their heart's at a rhythm, I can shock them.
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Okay.
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For simple word verbiage?
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Yeah.
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It's called cardioversion, to get their heart back in rhythm.
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are there certain meds you can give that other people can't give?
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Yes, I can give all the meds on the track.
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Not everybody can get, not all the para, not all the e EMTs.
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What's the, the best med on the truck?
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Don't say that.
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'cause then, yeah, they're all terrible.
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It's all terrible.
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It's like, what do you call, what do you mean the best med?
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The men for what?
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Pain, I think Nothing.
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Nothing.
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Nevermind.
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'cause I don't want you to get attacked.
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Ibuprofen.
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Yeah.
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Ibuprofen and Benadryl.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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Mm-hmm.
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All right.
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Text me later.
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There was a time, like, mean like when it was like a big Yeah.
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Whatever that um, it was in the news that a lot of ambulances were getting attacked.
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They were it trying, people trying to get drugs and stuff.
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Well, and a lot of it was they were trying to get, Narcan.
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People were getting attacked because of Narcan.
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We actually have public Narcan that we can give out.
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That's a nasal spray.
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Yeah, which is what if you go to the pharmacy, that's what you're gonna get.
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It's a nasal atomizer.
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Yeah.
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Her hers is does a zoomie stuff.
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Yeah.
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Why is yours doing an automatic zoom?
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I don't know, but I like it.
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I do too.
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I'm so impressed.
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No, not you.
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You don't move.
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Like when you just sat back your camera like auto zoom ded on your face.
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It was really cool.
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It was like super professional.
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It was, oh, it's just not, I don't know.
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That's the secret to her success.
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That's the secret.
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I just hit the, I just say.
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Zoom and my magic Arby's bubble and it zooms.
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I think there's a setting to keep you centered so well It, it's sit all the way back again.
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That was really cool.
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Nevermind.
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That's not flattering at all.
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Okay.
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Lean all the way forward.
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How many pictures have you taken of me like that?
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I see that too many.
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That's cool.
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Yeah.
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And they end up in.
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Uh, AI pictures.
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Yeah.
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we had this thing where we take really unflattering pictures of each other and then turn'em into like memes.
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And You turned me into a boy scout.
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I did.
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She turned me into a boy scout in the middle of the forest.
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I did.
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It was great.
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And you were, weren't you Superwoman One time.
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Oh yeah.
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With the brown slicked back hair.
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Yeah.
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You know why not?
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My siblings just take bad pictures just for black male pictures.
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Well, that's, and then they threaten to throw them on social media.
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Yeah, as is.
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Well, it started that way as just for fun, and I would never put a bad picture of you on social media like that.
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My siblings would.
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They have, well, I just don't put anything on social media, so That's true.
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Consider yourselves lucky.
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Yeah, because I just, I just don't, I think we put our, all of our business out on social, right?
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Yeah.
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It's okay.
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It's okay.
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Yeah.
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Again, that's okay.
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People.
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Yeah, it's okay.
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Wait, so what else?
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What would we talk Oh, the difference in the paramedic answer.
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Yeah.
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So I can, there's, I can give narcotics, I can give cardiac meds.
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I can give you run the truck, right?
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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What?
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Unless there's another paramedic with me.
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And then by all means, do you write paper, scissors, it, rot paper?
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Absolutely.
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Yeah.
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So if there's two paramedics on the truck, we usually take turns riding the call.
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Yeah.
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If there's a paramedic and either, like, my partner at work is an advanced EMT.
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Yeah.
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so if it's something that she can ride, they don't need meds up until a certain point, then she can ride it.
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But there's some stuff that she can't ride.
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Do you ever, like if they need paid management, do you ever look around and you're like, well, I guess I'm the adult in this situation because that's like my life.
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I'm like, man, I need an adult.
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Yeah, you.
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Um, I remember the first time that I realized, oh shoot, I am the paramedic on the truck.
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Yeah.
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But I realized, and I, my partner was actually somebody that was in my EMT class Yeah.
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That I went to, I went to high school with.
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and so I was like, holy cow, wait a minute.
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I was in charge of that call.
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We ended up flying the patient out and it was like.
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I just did an adult thing.
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Yeah.
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Like the first time I remember doing that.
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Yeah.
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proud of you.
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So you have a new partner, right?
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I do.
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I do.
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her name is Kayla.
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What's it like, like having a switch partner?
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Do you like have a partner for a really long time and then Yes.
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So I had, JC was my last partner.
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I had her for two years.
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Then she had a baby and she went PRN.
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So she assisted, stay home with her kiddos and then a lot.
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And PRN means like kinda as, as needed.
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As needed.
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She can, yeah.
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She makes her own schedule.
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Whenever she wants to work, she just puts down a day, says, Hey, I can work this day at this time.
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Right.
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Before her, Olivia.
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Bear And before Olivia I had, I don't remember.
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So if you get a partner, right?
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Like I'm sure you've loved all of your partners, but if you get a partner, you can't stand, can you request a new partner, right?
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What's the process?
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So if there's something that you just absolutely, you're just not vibing, there's some people you just don't, you know, you just can't get along.
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You just put your head, you just put your earbuds in and deal with it.
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It's strictly professional.
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Like, okay, I've been very lucky to not have that problem if there's.
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Ethical things that you need to talk about.
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I mean, obviously then you have to be the adult and say, Hey, can we talk about this?
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This is bothering me.
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Yeah.
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So I guess it's just like any coworker that you don't really like, you just kind of, but when you're working so almost intimately with somebody, I mean that's, so I, I'm on the truck with Kayla more.
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I see her more than I see anybody else in my life.
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Yeah, yeah.
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And we're on a truck, so we're posting at a, in that ambulance for.
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13 hours because we, by the time we get there, check the truck off in the morning and then get online and then by the time we clean everything up at the end of the day, restock, put our stuff up, get fuel, wash it.
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I mean, we're together for 13 hours a day.
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So you've been very lucky with your partners.
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Yeah.
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Yes, I have.
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I haven't replaced Meredith ever.
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Aw, I wouldn't replace you to go.
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So I can tell you that when we were,'cause now we're on 12 hour shifts.
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There was a time when we were on 24 hour truck.
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We were on the truck for 24 hours, but we didn't, we weren't.
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On the truck like we had bases.
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Yeah.
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So we could go into that base or whatever.
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This is a, I got a funny story.
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So my old partner, LJ and I, we would go like, you'd go eat breakfast and I.
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Now you're done eating breakfast.
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You had that cup of coffee and guess now where you gotta go?
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You gotta go to the bathroom.
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Yes.
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And so we would be in the bathroom and we, we'd sit, be sitting there and we'd send each other Pinterest pens or you know, stuff like that.
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And you could hear the other per like, it's like this public bathroom because it's like, and your hearing stalls in the bathroom.
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Ding, ding, ding.
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And then I'm like.
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And I even do this to Abby too.
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I'm like, who are you talking to?
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Like, you know, speaking of, okay, I hate to use the bathroom in public, especially if it's a serious situation.
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But I mean, so this new medicine I'm on, my stomach is, you know, I've told you about it too, Posey, like my stomach is whatever.
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And when I gotta go, I gotta go.
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These public bathrooms, the ones where they're, like Walmart has where there's no doors, you just, everything is open.
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Like I'm so scared.
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Like the register, people are going to hear my disaster because you know, there's no door.
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You just like walk around the corner and it's all so open and I mean, I already feel terrible for anybody that might be in there with me.
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Hey, P with you.
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Yeah, but it's just, well, it's more, yeah, it's all of it.
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It's the multi flushing, it's the sound, it's the, so go in there and like play some music out loud on your.
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The rhythm is gonna get you.
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The rhythm is gonna get you, they not like us.
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That they not, you're gonna have like a, a bathroom playlist.
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I am.
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I'm gonna have to make one.
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Mm-hmm.
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I'll have to make one and I'll have to probably use some of our songs that we did in our nineties challenge.
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You'd be good at that probably.
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Yes.
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Anything you say?
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My sister will have a song for it and sometimes I'm like, wait, come back.
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Say, say, say, yeah.
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Say I got one.
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Yeah.
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so anyway, those open bathrooms are a great concept'cause you don't have the doors and everything, but if you hear somebody have a problem, it's problem.
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But then no, it happens to everybody.
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And then you walk out and there's the man standing there waiting with the yellow sun, like ready to always clean it.
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Like we know you don't clean this bathroom all day.
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Yeah, we can look and tell.
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You might wanna give it a minute.
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You might wanna wait on that.
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Do the men's first.
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Do you like the, do you like the back to your job?
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Do you like the 12 hour shifts?
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Yes.
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Like the, yeah.
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Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm.
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I like sleeping in my bed at night.
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Yeah.
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That's a good thing.
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And your doggie?
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She has two little doggies.
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My dog goes, yeah, they're looking outside right now.
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So are you able to tell us any like crazy stories of.
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just like the basic situation, like you don't have to give super details or, those can be texted to me later.
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Yeah.
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I'm just kidding.
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But, so just don't, obviously just don't give names or locate No, no, never do that.
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But yeah.
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Certain situation, has happened that a person thought they had parasites between their toes.
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It wasn't, it just wasn't.
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I was like, okay, so can you show me your parasites?
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Yeah.
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Keep in mind I have met this person multiple times.
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Yeah.
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Multiple times.
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Outside of the job.
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Mm-hmm.
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Okay.
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Mm-hmm.
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Some people are frequent, like super frequent flyers and some people, oh yeah.
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They'll call to get like a ride to somewhere, won't they?
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Yeah.
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Like, lemme finish this story.
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So, okay.
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Sorry.
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I'm like, okay, so take your shoes off.
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Lemme see your parasites.
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Don't, don't enrail me.
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I'm locked in.
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And so takes the shoes off and I'm, I'm looking at his feet and I'm like.
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Honey, those are not parasites.
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That's toe jam.
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Oh, so of course, what do I do?
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I like, I have on gloves, so I get like a alcohol prep pad and I'm like cleaning between his toes.
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I'm like, see, look.
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He's like, you don't know what you're talking about.
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You don't know what you're talking about.
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I said, okay.
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I said, is your toe feeling better?
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No, it's on fire now.
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Yeah.
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Oh, that's gross.
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But yeah, I had a patient one time.
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it wasn't a patient because they had no medical problem, but, but they, we picked them up from a restaurant parking lot we were dispatched to, and we get there and the person's standing there and.
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The parking lot with a vacuum cleaner.
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What was it, the restaurant right?
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Right.
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Was it the Quincy's?
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No, it was Burger King.
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And so we, we get there and I'm like, well, what's going on today?
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I need a ride.
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A ride for what?
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I gotta go clean my cousin's car in Charlotte.
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I need you to take me to to Charlotte.
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Don't nobody.
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Okay.
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No, I said we don't do that.
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Yeah.
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But you guys like will take people to doctor's appointments and stuff, don't you?
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Yes.
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Yes.
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But that's a whole thing.
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Like they have to fill out this whole medical necessity.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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Thing when that happens, do they ride in the back like a patient, patient?
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Or they ride up front.
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Nobody rides up front that nobody had shotgun, so no.
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What if they ran into the truck?
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Shotgun yeah, so I've had people walk up into the back of my truck with their Diet Coke and a cigarette.
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Oh, that's really good.
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Near the oxygen.
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Yes.
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And so I was like, you gotta put your cigarette out.
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You are gonna take your diet Coke, but you gotta put your cigarette out.
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And so I what?
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Crazy.
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And this pa, this person used to call all the time.
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She'd sit right there in the jump seat and we'd take her to the hospital.
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The jump seat is that like.
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A seatbelt over the chest.
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Like, you know how like that airplane?
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Yeah.
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It's, it's like a race car.
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Yes.
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It's like a race car.
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It has a harness.
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Has actually sign us up for the, oh, we need to take a tour of her ambulance.
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When Papa was still alive, he made medic take him through the drive through at Kentucky Fried Chicken before he would go to the hospital while he was having a stroke.
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Did you know that?
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No.
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That's our grandpa.
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That's our mom's dad.
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Really?
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Mm-hmm.
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I won't go unless you take me through the drive through at KFC and they're Okay, Mr.
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Garris.
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Let's go.
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Oh my gosh.
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That's where I get it from.
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So, I'm telling you right now, if somebody's having a bad day and they need a cigarette before they get in my truck, I'm fine with that.
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But after you have your cigarette Yeah.
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And then we're going to the hospital.
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You know what's so weird to me is that cigarettes are really aren't much of a thing anymore.
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Like, I'm not like warning Jackson about the cigarettes.
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No.
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You know, it's everything else.
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I've had all the conversations with y about what, you know, stuff.
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But he said the same thing.
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people don't really smoke anymore now vaping.
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They're doing nothing in like third grade.
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In the bathrooms.
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Yeah.
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Yes.
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Did I tell you about my conversation with Jackson?
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No.
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Oh, okay.
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So Jackson.
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Objection is I'm not a paramedic.
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No.
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Jackson.
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I would be so bad.
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I, I, yeah, I think I would, I have a lot of compassion.
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I don't, but I wouldn't be able to deal with a lot of this stuff.
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Like, you're too dumb.
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You would be, yeah, because, well, because I like, I'll call you like to debrief my day and you're like, okay, I don't wanna hear about it.
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And I'm like, I just need somebody to talk to.
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It's like, how, and I'm like, Allison, yeah, you've got a new person.
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You could, I want, it's like, gimme some of the details, but I don't want all the details.
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Like I want that there was, you know, we couldn't get him outta the car, da da da da.
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But I don't want to hear, I.
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Their heart was at a rhythm and their tibia was this and their whatever.
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But you know, I've told you I will listen, be, but those are the important things.
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Those are the important things would be like so enthralled.
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'cause I suck at all of the sciencey stuff.
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Yeah.
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And I'd be like, you are so smart.
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Yeah.
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Oh, okay.
18:09
So I do, oh, go ahead.
18:11
Hold on.
18:11
Okay.
18:12
And then I'll let you tell your breathe life into her again.
18:14
Oh my goodness.
18:16
Tapper.
18:17
Somebody tapper.
18:18
so remember I got a Heart and Hands Award back in October?
18:21
October, yes.
18:21
So I was gonna mention that.
18:22
Yes.
18:23
So tell us again what it's called.
18:25
It's a Hearts and Hands award, and it's from a cardiac arrest survivor.
18:28
And I can tell you this because the picture was on Facebook, so it's like common knowledge.
18:32
So tell us about that.
18:34
So.
18:36
A lot of times people say, oh, they're having a heart attack.
18:39
Somebody who's having a heart attack, they think that the person is dead.
18:42
Well, you can be a survivor of a heart attack.
18:45
Mm-hmm.
18:46
And it doesn't, just because you have a heart attack doesn't mean you're gonna die, which is why you need to call 9 1 1 the, if you're having chest pain.
18:53
Yeah.
18:54
That like, just because you have a little flick in your heart, you probably need to get that checked out like in the next like.
19:02
24 to 36 hours.
19:03
If you're having chronic chest pain, you need to get it checked out.
19:07
Yeah.
19:07
At least let paramedics come out, put you on the cardiac monitor and make sure there's nothing else going on.
19:12
Yeah.
19:12
So, this patient, we picked her up and she, went into cardiac arrest on the way to the hospital.
19:19
She was not having.
19:21
A massive heart attack or an mi, a myocardial infarction.
19:24
She was in respiratory distress, and did not have any heart damage, but she coded, which is what, if you watch Grey's Anatomy or whatever, they'll, they're coding.
19:36
I'm now a doctor because of that.
19:37
So because of grace.
19:39
Mm-hmm.
19:40
Um, and so anyway, she coded, we got her back.
19:43
So if you get.
19:45
It's called a return of spontaneous circulation.
19:48
So if you get that and the patient actually has a positive outcome and they come home mm-hmm.
19:53
Then you get an A recognition for it.
19:57
Mm-hmm.
19:57
It's a hearts and hands award.
19:59
Well, after that patient came home, I found out that she is at the same skilled nursing facility where my daughter works.
20:07
So, oh, that's cool.
20:09
Yeah.
20:10
So, does the patient nominate you for that award or is that just because No, it's just a given, but it has to like, meet certain criteria.
20:17
The patient has to come home from the hospital.
20:21
it doesn't necessarily mean they don't have deficits, but like they do have to come home from the hospital.
20:26
Yeah.
20:26
If they can't just like, you get a pulse back and then Right.
20:29
You left them at the hospital with a pulse.
20:31
They actually have to be discharged home.
20:33
And that's not something that's just thrown around.
20:36
That was a big deal that you got that.
20:38
Yeah.
20:39
And so, I'm actually getting another one in March.
20:41
Are you?
20:42
Congratulations.
20:43
I'm Congratulations.
20:43
That's, I'm so, yeah.
20:45
And this one's young.
20:46
This one's like in his forties.
20:48
So super excited about that.
20:49
You get like a little pen or anything?
20:51
Mm-hmm.
20:52
I do.
20:53
So it's a, it's a heart and it's got, I have two that have the Aqua Marine in it.
20:59
It's a, a stone in there.
21:01
I don't know what this one will have in it, So is this, this is your third.
21:04
I feel like you got, this is probably, so I had a drowning, a long time ago that the little boy survived.
21:12
Oh God.
21:13
But he survived.
21:14
Yay.
21:14
He did survive.
21:15
And he did not have any deficits.
21:17
Like, I can't and can't believe that he made it.
21:20
You got an award for that?
21:22
I did.
21:23
I did.
21:24
and then I had.
21:26
Another lady.
21:27
She was actually, um, on the front of the newspaper when that Union County first started doing the Hearts and Hands Awards.
21:33
Mm-hmm.
21:34
She was on the front of the newspaper.
21:36
And I got an award for that one.
21:37
Oh.
21:39
Oh.
21:39
Even that makes me feel so, my life has no meaning.
21:43
My God.
21:44
Why don't contribute at all to society?
21:46
It does.
21:46
It does, but I mean, like, it's like.
21:50
It's a thing, you know, I mean, I don't have the emotional bandwidth.
21:53
I don't think, I wouldn't, I would cr like fold under pressure.
21:56
You think so?
21:57
I do.
21:57
I think I would freeze.
21:58
Have you ever saved anybody's life?
22:00
Um, no.
22:02
I have shut up.
22:04
I have.
22:05
So any who, um, wait, I have to stop you and tell you about my conversation with Jackson.
22:11
I've got Yes, please do.
22:12
Yeah, do it.
22:13
Okay.
22:14
Good kid, right?
22:16
Yeah.
22:16
Relatively.
22:17
No, he's good.
22:17
He's like, I don't think it, yeah.
22:19
So I was, I still check his phone.
22:22
I check his socials that I don't have access to.
22:24
I check all the things, just trying to see what kind of messages are coming through.
22:28
What I was laughing about the time we were in Florida and you're like, Jackson, gimme your phone.
22:33
Oh, and he freaked out.
22:35
Yes.
22:35
And he wasn't even guilty.
22:37
He, he didn't even do anything.
22:38
He wasn't do anything.
22:39
He just got so freaked out about the fact that I was gonna look at his phone.
22:42
and that was, seriously, I'm telling you, I went through all of his messages.
22:45
I went through all of his photos, deleted everything.
22:49
Okay.
22:49
So.
22:50
I'm afraid to do that now.
22:52
Yeah, yeah.
22:53
I'm gonna be there soon.
22:54
So we were sitting on the couch, this was like a week or two ago, and I was like, Jackson And I just checked his stuff and I was like, your stuff is so dry.
23:02
Like there's nothing.
23:03
I was like, mama, do you want me in all the drama and all the girls and whatever?
23:06
And I was like, well no, but it's kind of boring bro.
23:10
So I was like, tell me something, tell me like, we were just sitting on the couch.
23:15
I was like, I'm not letting you get up from here until you give me some kind of juicy scoop something.
23:22
And I should have stopped.
23:24
I should have been like, you know what?
23:26
I'm just gonna let him have privacy.
23:29
And the more he was like, I don't know what to say.
23:32
And you know, he smiles and he just gets this look.
23:35
The more he said that, the more, I dug in more.
23:38
Like, I'm not letting you get up.
23:40
So he was like, I don't know what you wanna know.
23:43
And I was like, well, I, I mean, I know you're not dating anybody you're not talking to anybody?
23:47
He was like, no.
23:47
I said, are you like pre-talk to anybody?
23:49
Are you like flirting with anybody talking pre-game right here?
23:52
Or are you like, are there any cute girls you see and talk to on the regular basis?
23:55
Like, give me something.
23:57
And he was still just so closed lipped about it.
24:01
I was like, okay, let's talk about STDs.
24:03
And he was like, what?
24:05
And I was like, you ever seen pictures of somebody with Omid?
24:10
So I'm just pulling up pictures.
24:12
And he was like, bro, mama.
24:14
And I'm like, look.
24:16
You wanna tell me anything now?
24:17
And Brian sit over there laughing like, you better tell, like make something up.
24:20
Tell her something.
24:21
And I'm like, have you ever seen somebody with scabies?
24:24
Like I'm showing he was finally, I literally got like two cute girls that he sees that he kinda like flirts with on the daily.
24:32
But I was like, that's all you had to say.
24:34
I just wanted something.
24:35
So I'm pressuring my kid with pictures of nasty junk.
24:39
Yes.
24:41
And I'm like, don't want it to fall off to you.
24:42
This is what he is like, oh, ball.
24:43
Because you know, that's what I used to tell the boys.
24:45
Don't put that somewhere.
24:46
It'll fall off.
24:47
Because if you put it somewhere, it's gonna fall off.
24:49
Well, it'll rot and fall off and you have to take a shower because it will rot and fall off.
24:54
And fall off.
24:54
Well I held him a hostage.
24:56
Um.
24:58
By using gross pictures to entice him to give me some sc And you know, boys too, boys don't have much drama.
25:06
Yeah.
25:06
There's usually not a lot going on.
25:09
Once they get out of elementary school, there's no drama.
25:11
Yes.
25:11
But in elementary school, yes.
25:13
And there might be some kind of like, so and so got in a fight today, or, I don't know, that was random, but like, whatever.
25:19
But that's it.
25:20
Like that's, but then it's over.
25:21
That's the whole conversation.
25:23
But then that's over.
25:24
Yeah.
25:24
Yeah.
25:24
They have a, they get into a fight.
25:25
Okay.
25:26
Whatever.
25:26
There's no, they know they're sharing french fries, right.
25:29
Yeah.
25:29
Right.
25:29
And they don't, Jackson won't know why they got in a fight, what their punishment was, who was on whose side.
25:35
What else?
25:36
Yeah.
25:36
No Dylan and I have a very, very, very, very open mm-hmm.
25:40
Dialogue relationship.
25:41
Mm-hmm.
25:41
Where he, me everything.
25:44
Yeah.
25:44
Which is good.
25:45
Mm-hmm.
25:45
And, and that's a, that's a relationship that I have built with him.
25:49
Yeah.
25:49
So I get all the details.
25:51
Yeah, and I know everybody's business and I do well, and so Abby, that's, sorry.
25:57
Abby's birthday is today, and so she tells me everything and some things.
26:02
I'm like, did not even know what XY, Z was until I was a paramedic.
26:08
Like, didn't even know what that was.
26:11
And now you know what blue waffles are.
26:13
I saw something on and it, it just like resonated because I was such a bad teenager.
26:17
I was doing things I had no business to do as a teenager.
26:22
And, and I always thought like, oh my gosh, when he becomes a teenager, I'm in so much trouble.
26:27
'cause you know, they say you get back like 10 times.
26:29
Yeah.
26:30
Worse.
26:30
And Brandon was really like, we were bad together.
26:36
but they don't get into like.
26:38
Not that stuff like that we get into No, I'm, so there was a post a, a dad was like, my daughter asked to go to a party and when I asked like what kind of party it was like her and three friends like going to get their Nissen and having a sleepover and like, it was like legit, like that's saying that like I did.
26:58
But going to a field where there's a bonfire bonfire, he and my daughter is so boring and I would not invite my own daughter to a party.
27:06
And he is like, and I was like, it's so true though.
27:10
Like they don't like, they're not out in the middle of a field.
27:12
No drinking boons farm and doing some stupid ass.
27:15
Yeah.
27:16
What?
27:17
Yeah.
27:17
I'm just kidding.
27:19
Yeah.
27:20
Y'all don't like that?
27:20
No, I was, no, I was, no, she was not.
27:24
So true story.
27:25
Well, I was too busy having kids'cause I was a young mother.
27:30
She's a young mother and I'm an old mother.
27:32
Like I didn't get in trouble.
27:33
Yeah.
27:33
All right.
27:33
Back to your, your profession.
27:35
Yeah.
27:36
Okay.
27:37
So funny story.
27:39
a friend of mine was talking the other day about how like, accidents will shut the road down or whatever, you know?
27:46
and like people will stop and what's going on up there, what's going on up there, you know, they wanna, everybody wants to know, no matter how bad it is, everybody wants to know what's going on up there.
27:57
Mm-hmm.
27:58
All Caterpillar migration road shut down.
28:01
Seriously, people believe that.
28:03
Oh, oh.
28:04
People believe it.
28:05
I was like, I had a mental picture.
28:07
You totally just leave.
28:08
I know you're thinking the hungry Caterpillar going ch across the road.
28:13
Yeah.
28:13
People believe that.
28:15
Caterpillar migration.
28:16
We totally did.
28:17
We, I'm trying to figure out when I could get there and watch it, because do you remember when we were on vacation?
28:23
And I don't remember if it was Florida or South Carolina Beach and there was some migration of like starfish or something.
28:30
Okay.
28:31
There was sand dollars and stuff in the water.
28:34
Like natural?
28:36
Yes.
28:37
But then we had the migratory fish.
28:40
No, nevermind.
28:41
You don't.
28:42
You don't.
28:43
Yeah, I do remember.
28:44
Yes I do.
28:45
I wish she remembered.
28:47
I do remember they weren't fish.
28:50
They, well there was a fish, but there was starfish too.
28:53
It's still fish.
28:55
Star fish.
28:56
Don't they need water?
28:58
Like what are they starfish?
28:59
Yeah.
29:00
Like wouldn't they die?
29:01
Just'cause it's called fish doesn't mean it's a fish.
29:04
What do they eat?
29:06
Stars.
29:09
I don't know, but they, I'm sure they, that you say horse to horse.
29:14
Or is it a, yeah, get that thing a saddle up.
29:17
It.
29:17
Is it a saddle?
29:18
It's a, it's a horse.
29:20
The Little Mermaid.
29:21
Yes.
29:21
They're ridden like a horse.
29:22
They are, but they live in water.
29:25
since we just railed down the Little Mermaid bath and Body Works now.
29:30
Has a Disney addition since, did you smell And they're playing?
29:34
Of course I did.
29:36
How were they?
29:38
I'm, I'm feeling a lot of florals.
29:41
Yes.
29:41
I don't, lot of floral.
29:43
I don't either, but Bath and Body Works was playing under the Sea and the Beast.
29:49
I was dancing in Bath and Body Works earlier today, so it was great.
29:52
I wanted some mermaid sent to smell like, like coconut, like a piece of, yeah, like um, um, tanning lunch and stuff.
29:58
I think it did kind of have some, there was like the ye the green girl.
30:03
Oh, from the Frog and the Prince and the Frog?
30:05
Yeah.
30:05
Yeah.
30:05
Frog Prince or Frog something?
30:06
Her, her, she was floy.
30:10
Okay.
30:11
She was floy.
30:11
Cinderella was very floy.
30:14
Yeah.
30:15
I like, um, like musky and woodsy and stuff.
30:18
Me too.
30:19
Or fruity.
30:19
Like fruity Or like, like super sweet.
30:21
Like, like icing.
30:22
I, I want someone to feel like they need to lick me.
30:26
Wait.
30:26
Goodness.
30:26
Take that out.
30:27
See, you're gonna have to cut that too.
30:29
All of it.
30:29
So Jackson had really gotten, we had talked about that a little bit too.
30:32
He had gotten into clones and the bath and body work.
30:34
Yeah.
30:35
Washes and hair stuff.
30:36
Well, his first block at school is weightlifting and cardio and so they shower after that.
30:42
Mm-hmm.
30:42
Which is great, but he's kinda like salty about it.
30:46
'cause he is like, and he has the little clones.
30:49
He's like, I just don't wanna do it there.
30:50
Like, he's like, I don't have my smell good.
30:53
You know?
30:53
Mm-hmm.
30:54
Did we ever do that though?
30:55
We I never showered.
30:57
I never showered at school.
30:58
No.
30:59
No.
30:59
I was always super lucky.
31:00
Like all his stuff was always at the end of the day.
31:02
Yeah.
31:03
So it was like his last block.
31:05
Yeah.
31:05
Every time.
31:06
Yeah.
31:06
It you, it depends on the season on when they shift him to, so this is football class since it's not football season is first in the day.
31:14
Yeah.
31:15
But they had max week last week.
31:19
That boy squatted 500 pounds.
31:22
You didn't tell me that.
31:23
You told me he was in a thousand pound club.
31:25
He is in the a thousand pound club.
31:26
And I was like, does that mean you like a thousand pound girls?
31:29
He said no, that means that his bench, his squat and something else is over a thousand pounds.
31:34
Yeah.
31:34
And he's the only one in it right now as a freaking sophomore.
31:37
Well, that's how Dylan hurt his knee, so Yeah.
31:39
Careful.
31:41
Luckily he hasn't hurt anything yet.
31:43
Yeah.
31:44
But I was like 500 pounds.
31:45
I was like, you were too young to be getting a cortisone shot.
31:47
Yeah.
31:49
Was he squatting?
31:50
Is that what it was?
31:50
Mm-hmm.
31:51
So I'm trying to think of like stories that I can tell you that are appropriate.
31:55
You don't have to tell anymore.
31:56
Let's step those questions.
31:57
Let's, let's talk about like the crazy, like people like bugging out.
32:03
If they're high, like they think well, okay.
32:05
So on steps, steps, you know, tying all this together, you know, I see videos all the time on TikTok and stuff, but people seriously, like, I forgot what it's called.
32:14
Like it's a Russian something.
32:16
Wait, no, that's not right.
32:18
I don't know.
32:19
Crocodile.
32:20
Oh, that's so bad.
32:21
Do we have that in Union County?
32:23
Like, do you have mm-hmm.
32:24
A lot of people.
32:24
What is it?
32:25
So I don't, do you know what it is?
32:27
It's, like horse tranquilizer.
32:30
Step, I'm talking about just walking down the street like zombies is what?
32:35
Yeah.
32:35
Like you can't, and there's no, you, there's not enough Narcan to reverse that.
32:40
Do you see that a lot or a good amount?
32:43
So there's quite a few people in that I see a lot.
32:50
They are walking, they are walking down the road.
32:51
Like totally out of it.
32:54
Totally out of it.
32:54
They did something like that.
32:56
Mm-hmm.
32:56
Probably so.
32:57
So do you ever get calls like to go because people are thinking that they're ODing?
33:03
Oh yeah.
33:04
Yeah.
33:05
And but like, oh yeah.
33:05
And then they refuse to go with you?
33:07
Yeah.
33:08
Oh yeah, for sure.
33:09
Because they can, and they can answer all their questions appropriately.
33:11
So you can't do anything about it.
33:13
Yeah.
33:14
Mm-hmm.
33:15
That's crazy.
33:16
This is why I wouldn't be a good paramedic'cause I would then just start messing with them.
33:20
Well, so she tells me some stuff that, um, not that she's messing with them, but you almost have to entertain, just like you were talking about the dude with the parasites.
33:32
Like you were like, let me see your parasites.
33:33
Like, you almost have to feed into it sometimes to get them to communicate.
33:38
Yeah.
33:38
With you.
33:39
But you would take it too much.
33:41
You'd be like, well, let me cut your motherfucking toes off then.
33:46
Let me get the tweezing mouth, I mean, yeah, flu.
33:49
Flu.
33:50
Yeah.
33:50
Yeah.
33:50
You know, so like, got one.
33:53
I would because So when you're like on the way to the call, you're like, do they really have parasites?
34:00
So is that what you were caught out there for is paras, tennis toes?
34:04
Yes.
34:05
It wasn't like something else and he was like, Hey, while you're here.
34:08
No, we got caught up because he had a hole in his leg that the parasites were going in and they were coming out of his toes.
34:15
Well, he had sores on his legs that he probably was, I were either meth bugs or he was injecting himself there.
34:28
Probably not.
34:28
They're probably meth bugs.
34:29
And so he thought those sores were where?
34:34
Yeah.
34:35
So meth.
34:36
I've never heard of that before.
34:37
What is that?
34:38
Meth bugs Uhhuh.
34:39
So you know how you see people like on mugshots or whatever, and they have like the sores all over their face, they think that there's, there's bugs underneath their skin.
34:47
They're scratching.
34:47
So they're scratch, right?
34:49
So they're scratching.
34:50
Yeah.
34:50
And you can always tell somebody who is like, on meth because of their behavior.
34:55
They're just like constantly moving and constantly, I mean, I have a DD so I could just as well be a meth person, but, um, like they're, you know, they're always scratching or like picking and there's nothing.
35:08
There's nothing there.
35:08
And so then they'll, you know it, that meth bug is not gonna go away.
35:13
Yeah.
35:14
And still they use again.
35:16
So that's why they use again.
35:19
And then they hallucinate and it's a party, and then the bugs come up.
35:24
Then it's, and then the bugs, when they start detoxing coming off of that, that's when they're so itchy and Oh yeah.
35:31
That's when they're just like, woo.
35:34
How many showers do you take when you get home?
35:38
I take one the night and then one before I go to work again the next day.
35:43
Oh, I know.
35:44
I, like, I just, I would not be a good, like, that would not be my profession, but now I feel like I am like so insignificant because I, no, you're not.
35:53
But I can tell you, like when I had my partner before Kayla, there's some places that have bedbugs.
36:01
Yeah, like bedbugs.
36:03
I can spot'em, I can spot'em real easy.
36:06
Like I'm, I'm cleaning out my truck, gonna turn the heat up.
36:09
Like they, you know, she at one point thought she was gonna go home and give bedbugs to her new baby.
36:16
I was like, they're not contagious like that.
36:19
Well, no, but they could ride.
36:20
But you, and then they get there and then there's no way to get rid of those other than like, throw everything away.
36:26
I would be Exactly.
36:28
Fleas.
36:29
Yeah.
36:29
I sub for like two years when Dylan was in elementary school and.
36:33
A little girl would come in, covered in fleas.
36:37
Oh.
36:38
And it was, I felt so bad for her.
36:40
Yeah.
36:40
But it was so disgusting.
36:41
Yeah.
36:41
And oh, I was like, go to the, go to the nurse.
36:45
Oh God, that's terrible.
36:47
But you can't get rid of'em.
36:48
No.
36:48
Mm-hmm.
36:49
And so when we have either boarded our dogs or for one reason or another, I found like a.
36:58
I freak out.
37:00
Yeah.
37:00
'cause then I start like putting Borax down around the baseboard, like doing all the things.
37:05
Yeah.
37:05
And I mean, it was one, you know, just literally one, they're fine.
37:09
Yeah.
37:09
But it freaks me out.
37:10
Yeah.
37:10
Yeah.
37:11
I could see where like, she would be Oh yeah.
37:14
Like bugging about that because Oh, yeah.
37:15
No pun intended.
37:16
Yeah.
37:18
Yeah.
37:19
But before I got in the car, I mean, I was like searching by my pants.
37:21
Oh yeah.
37:22
And well then it's just like the mental thing.
37:24
You start thinking about it and then you start, start scratching.
37:26
Yeah.
37:26
Oh.
37:26
And then, but if, okay, so, but if you think about all the people that go, and here's what grosses me out, don't you?
37:31
Ready?
37:32
No.
37:32
You're gonna make me never leave my house again.
37:34
Right.
37:34
Am I never gonna, you probably won't tell again, I, I don't, that's why I bought a camper.
37:40
I survived a million parties and I'm not gonna be able to go out in public anymore.
37:45
Never.
37:46
I'm gonna continue to keep myself covered up.
37:49
Well, okay.
37:49
Yeah.
37:50
Let's roll on to the next thing.
37:51
Yes.
37:51
So tell me the best story you have about Meredith.
37:54
No, no.
37:55
You can, there's probably not.
37:56
I was, I was really a nerdy, so growing up, there's just a couple.
38:00
Oh my gosh.
38:01
I got one.
38:01
Quin, there was, she was the pretty one and I was the smart one.
38:06
Am I wrong?
38:07
Yeah.
38:08
But that No, but you were the, definitely the smart one.
38:12
I don't know about the pretty one, but she didn't, she was not a fan of school and so she hated it.
38:17
She is very, I mean, you can hear her talk, she's very smart, but she hated school, so she was the pretty one, and I was the nerdy smarty one.
38:24
Nerdy smarty.
38:25
So that was kind of our roles growing up.
38:29
And now.
38:31
I am both of the things and she can strive to be like me.
38:35
No, I'm just kidding.
38:36
I got, I got nothing.
38:38
I know what you're gonna tell her.
38:39
You're gonna tell her about how I'm not a morning person.
38:42
No.
38:43
Okay.
38:43
Well, she is not a morning person.
38:45
Is that the story you were gonna tell?
38:46
I'm early every day.
38:47
Mm-hmm.
38:47
Because I have no choice.
38:50
No, she's not a morning person to this day.
38:54
No.
38:54
She called me the other day.
38:55
I called her Saturday morning at 11 o'clock yesterday or 1130 and I'm like, Hey, can I talk to you about this?
39:05
Yeah.
39:06
I'm not verbal yet.
39:07
I'm nonverbal.
39:08
Actually, that was not, that was on, that was on Friday.
39:11
Friday.
39:12
Friday.
39:12
That Friday.
39:12
And it was like eight o'clock.
39:14
And you wanted, she is a morning person and she wanted at eight o'clock on Friday.
39:18
I've been up since five o'clock.
39:20
So she, on Monday off, she called to text me or she texted me or something, I don't know.
39:25
But she called and she was like, are you up?
39:27
I was like, yeah, but I'm not verbal.
39:28
Like I'm awake, but I'm not there yet.
39:31
Oh, so you must hate my text at like nine o'clock in the morning.
39:34
Text is fine, but like, she text, she'll text me at like eight 15.
39:39
Call me when you're up.
39:40
15 minutes later she'll call me and I'm like, I, I'm like getting Jackson ready, like yeah.
39:44
Trying to get him out the door.
39:47
Look, look, she's frustrated right now.
39:49
She's like, what were you gonna say though?
39:52
So she is in fact not a morning person.
39:55
We, when we were teenagers, we worked together at Plantation Estates.
39:59
This retirement community, it's a retirement community.
40:00
It's a retirement community.
40:02
And we worked in the dining room.
40:03
So people would come down there, get their breakfast trays, go sit at the table, whatever.
40:08
We rode together because we lived together at that time.
40:11
We had to be there at 6:00 AM.
40:13
Oof.
40:14
What was I thinking?
40:15
I don't know.
40:15
Because you worked there first.
40:17
I know you worked there first.
40:18
And they paid really good.
40:19
So we worked, it was the morning shift from six to 10.
40:21
And we would ride together and we would ride together.
40:25
And she's like, stop talking.
40:29
So we're stop at the stoplight one morning.
40:32
And I look over and this guy's like waving at us and I'm like waving back at him.
40:37
And she's like, where are you waving at?
40:39
I'm like, that man.
40:40
He just waved.
40:40
She was like, it's six o'clock in the morning.
40:43
Why are you waving at somebody?
40:44
And I'm like, I don't remember.
40:45
They waved.
40:46
They waved.
40:47
I don't know.
40:49
So anyway, it was a very quiet ride the rest of the way, and I don't that at all.
40:54
I'm really sitting right there with the old Matthews pottery.
40:56
We were getting ready to turn left and I was like, you're like, who are you waving at?
41:00
No, but everything don't wave.
41:02
Anybody Don't wave.
41:03
And still to this day, anything anybody does before I'm ready for it to happen, annoys me.
41:08
So, when she was in middle school, mama would take us to school and she would literally sit in the passenger seat with a piece of notebook paper with nothing on it and pretend like she was studying so that she would not have to talk to anyone.
41:27
I didn't realize I did that either until they reminded me, her and my mom, what you're talking about.
41:31
I was like, oh my gosh, I can't believe I tried to fake y'all out with a blank piece of paper.
41:36
At least I should have opened a book Yeah.
41:38
Or something.
41:39
But yeah, I'm just no a blank piece of paper.
41:42
Now I'd be like, gimme that.
41:45
I'd be ripping it up.
41:46
Talk to me.
41:48
So, my new partner, she is not a morning person.
41:51
What is the worst shift to work?
41:53
Like the, the weird, like for me?
41:55
Yeah.
41:56
So I worked 7:00 PM to 7:00 AM and I hated it.
42:00
I hated it.
42:01
I'm not a night person.
42:03
People on nights that love nights, love nights.
42:07
Mm-hmm.
42:07
I hated it.
42:09
Hated it.
42:09
Did you get more crazy weird stuff?
42:12
I would assume at night Weird stuff happens.
42:14
Yes.
42:15
Yes.
42:16
I mean, there's people that are weird during the day too, but there's, so how about, how about like Halloween or something like, is that, or 4th of July, like what would you, when you see your name is on like a specific holiday or weekend, are you like, crap, I gotta switch that at, well, you can't switch.
42:33
'cause if you're, if that's your holiday, it was a hypothetical.
42:37
Um, Halloween, not that bad.
42:41
I'm laughing at myself.
42:42
Um, mother's Day.
42:44
Really?
42:44
Mm-hmm.
42:46
Thanksgiving Mother's Day.
42:49
I'm sure 4th of July is not great Thanksgiving.
42:53
People haven't seen their, their grandma or their mama in nine months, or 10 or 11 months since Christmas.
43:02
And they come home and now she's sitting in on the couch and she can't get up.
43:06
And this huge brawl breaks out, why haven't you been doing this?
43:12
And it's like, everybody loves to fight on Thanksgiving.
43:14
Everybody loves to fight on Thanksgiving.
43:17
Same thing on Mother's Day.
43:19
I never would've guessed that.
43:20
I never would've either.
43:20
Would not, would not.
43:22
Mm-hmm.
43:23
I wouldn't.
43:24
Fighting about who's gonna do the dishes?
43:26
It's Mother's Day.
43:27
You do the dishes.
43:27
Well, the mama doesn't want, mama should get a day off during Covid.
43:31
How was that?
43:31
Oh yeah.
43:32
Bad.
43:34
Yeah.
43:35
People and people got mean.
43:37
People got absolutely mean Covid.
43:39
I think people, we've talked about how so much has changed since Covid, but I think people are so mean.
43:44
'cause they were scared.
43:45
No, I just think that they got mean because they didn't see anybody and they didn't have any social skills anymore.
43:49
Well, that too.
43:51
No, just like have lost their minds.
43:52
And still to this day, I, I say it, I like, I don't like going to the grocery store.
43:55
'cause people still have that mentality of Yeah, I'm not a people person.
44:01
I'm not either.
44:03
I'm not either.
44:04
Like, and people will get mad on the ambulance and they're like, well, but you can't talk to me that way.
44:09
I'm like, I'm here to help you.
44:11
I don't want you to help me.
44:12
Then why did you call?
44:14
Yeah, yeah.
44:15
If you need me, I'll be sitting right here behind you.
44:18
I mean obviously if they were a critical patient to where, but people call for some really, like what's the most, like, seriously, you just called for splinter that.
44:30
I got a splinter, and I'm not talking.
44:32
Remember Jackson's birthday party?
44:33
Jordan had that big, huge toothpick.
44:35
Splinter in his foot.
44:35
Yeah, no, I'm talking about a little tiny splinter.
44:39
it's crazy yeah.
44:40
People call for some really, apparently, if you're on your cycle and you have bad cramps, you're supposed to call 9 1 1.
44:48
What?
44:49
Like I would have never.
44:51
No.
44:51
Apparently there's so many people that apparently have never had a stomach virus.
44:58
It's mind blowing.
44:59
If I have a stomach bug, put me in the bathroom floor and leave me there until I'm better.
45:05
Nope.
45:06
Mm-hmm.
45:07
Nope.
45:07
They don't know what to do.
45:08
They're like, there's something wrong with me.
45:11
Are people, are these like.
45:12
20.
45:13
There's old year old both that just left the house.
45:15
I don't know what to do as an adult.
45:17
Right?
45:17
Yeah.
45:18
If an old person calls you and says, I'm sick.
45:20
They're sick.
45:21
You can bet your bottom dollar, they're sick.
45:23
But if a, so like I had somebody call one time because he had used marijuana He was high, but he didn't want his mom to come home and find him high.
45:35
And he kept saying, we got to go.
45:36
We got to go right now.
45:37
We gotta go to the hospital before she gets home.
45:40
His older brother showed up and was like, get in the house.
45:43
Get in the house.
45:44
Mom's gonna be home.
45:45
They gotta take me before mom gets home.
45:47
Nah, mom's in the driveway, get in the house like, oh my gosh.
45:51
Go hide in a closet.
45:53
Mm-hmm.
45:53
Yeah.
45:53
I mean, sometimes it's like watching a Madea movie.
45:56
Yeah.
45:57
Sometimes I try to act, like mad.
45:58
I'm like, what's wrong with you?
46:00
Yeah.
46:00
What is wrong with you?
46:01
So when you said, get in the house, it reminds me of we fought when we were little, like physically fought.
46:07
I don't know how our mom didn't get, like, DSS called because we would claw and scratch each other's.
46:14
You remember this, right?
46:15
Oh yeah.
46:15
Like we, we were evil to each other.
46:19
Just like physically beat the shit out of each other.
46:21
And mom would say, just go to the yard.
46:24
Go to the yard.
46:24
I was actually telling somebody that, I was like, yeah, mommy used to say, go to the yard.
46:28
Like if y'all are gonna fight, go to the yard.
46:30
The yard.
46:30
Yeah.
46:31
Did y'all, did you and your siblings fight?
46:32
We did, but the only time I ever like fought, fought my sis.
46:35
My one sister was,'cause she had like, got in my mom's face and I pushed her.
46:40
Mm-hmm.
46:40
And she swung on me.
46:42
And I had a phone in my hand because I was on the phone with my dad and I hit her over the head with the phone.
46:48
But like, let me tell you, if anybody ever like messed with my family.
46:51
Oh right.
46:51
Like I, I'm like the crazy younger sister.
46:53
Yes Yes.
46:54
That's coming to the wedding with us, by the way.
46:57
Wouldn't that be really?
47:00
I keep telling her she's coming.
47:01
She told me I have to be her security.
47:03
Yes.
47:04
Just you and Jackson and Anthony.
47:06
Apparently we gotta bring her on security.
47:09
yeah.
47:09
We Whose side are you on?
47:11
Meredith.
47:12
So you better act right?
47:13
Wait a minute.
47:14
I thought we were on the same team.
47:15
We are.
47:16
We are a hundred percent.
47:17
As long it sounds like we are until there's a breaking point and then see ya.
47:22
And then I become the mediator.
47:23
I'm just saying, I'm just saying we're not fighting each other.
47:26
We're not, don't make me, I mean, you gonna throw me in the bathtub again?
47:31
I don't do that.
47:31
Wait.
47:31
I need to hear the story of, of the bathtub.
47:34
we were fighting, this was probably like our last big fight.
47:37
Because I thought I broke, like her friends used to want to pay us to fight.
47:40
Some of her friends, like used to want to pay us to fight.
47:45
We weren't even like that.
47:47
We weren't like these, apparently we were, I dunno, I didn't think us being like that.
47:53
So I, I can remember running from you with my back like this because we would hit each other in the back.
48:01
Like it would be over and I would run like this, so you couldn't get me in the back.
48:04
Do you remember doing that?
48:05
But you used to get me in the back all the time.
48:08
Yeah.
48:08
Hmm.
48:08
I did.
48:09
Like, that was my thing.
48:10
So I think that's why I got in the bathtub or was trying to get in the bath.
48:14
I was in the bathroom and we had those sliding shower doors.
48:17
So I'm like, what's she gonna do?
48:18
Break down the shower doors.
48:19
Next thing I know I am.
48:21
In the bathtub.
48:22
I picked her up and threw her, like she wasn't taking a bath and it was like, um, a shower bath combo.
48:27
So, you know, it was like a couple feet high where you sit.
48:30
I had a lip on it.
48:31
Yeah.
48:31
And, um, I picked her up and threw her.
48:34
And you hit her back on the, on the soap thing?
48:37
Yeah.
48:38
And I was really scared I had her, her, and obviously she was fine.
48:44
I don't think, I wonder if that's why my back hurts now.
48:49
I think that's why I have sleep disorders because you don't let me freaking sleep.
48:53
So, see, I could turn it up.
48:54
Maybe you should just get up back around.
48:56
I don't wanna get up.
48:57
Now.
48:57
Do you go to bed super late?
48:58
Yeah.
48:59
Okay.
49:00
No, I'm going to bed early.
49:02
She does go to bed early, but I am that typical.
49:06
You know, there, I think there's a commercial out now.
49:08
Why does mom stay up so late and mom's watching tv.
49:10
Yeah, that is decompressed.
49:12
I finally get the remote.
49:13
I can finally watch what I wanna watch.
49:15
I can sit and do what I wanna do.
49:17
I'm turning into my mother, by the way.
49:19
Mm-hmm.
49:20
I don't sleep.
49:21
Yeah.
49:22
Like we've talked about this, I, if I get three, four hours of sleep at night, I got lucky.
49:27
Yeah.
49:28
I think I was up last night.
49:29
It's Why do you function?
49:30
Like just my nerves.
49:31
Like, I, I get it.
49:33
I get it.
49:34
When I was on nights, on my days off, I would like crash.
49:38
Mm-hmm.
49:38
But then the next night I couldn't sleep.
49:42
I would sleep two or three hours.
49:43
It's gonna be really tough on your body.
49:45
And then like, duh.
49:48
It's, and like a friend of mine sleeps like an hour and a half, two hours a night.
49:52
And I'm like, you even breathing?
49:54
Yeah.
49:55
Yeah.
49:55
Over exaggerated breathing.
49:56
I doom scroll all night long.
49:58
Last night I fell asleep on the couch at about one,'cause I was watching something and at two I got in bed and then was up at about seven.
50:05
Yeah.
50:06
Because I'm house sitting some dogs and I went over to let'em out.
50:08
Yeah.
50:08
I, mm-hmm.
50:09
I don't sleep.
50:10
I don't either.
50:11
And once I'm awake, like if I wake up at four o'clock, hello world.
50:16
Yeah.
50:16
Let's get it going.
50:17
You know?
50:17
And when she's up, she thinks everybody else should be awake too.
50:20
Which is why she calls you pause this.
50:23
That's why she puts it on do not disturb.
50:25
I do too.
50:26
I live with all the time.
50:27
Yeah.
50:27
Everybody, everybody.
50:29
Now if you call me and it's an emergency, it's gonna ring.
50:31
I've got some people as my as that.
50:34
But am I on that list?
50:35
Did I make the list?
50:36
yeah, sure.
50:38
I'm just kidding.
50:39
You are.
50:39
Of course you are.
50:40
But don't abuse it.
50:41
Oh, I was gonna show you my hearts and hands pen.
50:44
You ready?
50:45
Oh yeah, yeah.
50:45
Just so you can see it.
50:46
See the little, Aw, that's cool.
50:50
So it's a different color stone probably for every month.
50:52
I don't know.
50:53
And then I got this at the air show, but then I got Don't be so proud get and Loser.
50:58
And then I have one that says Monster.
51:02
It was on my coffee actually, but I thought it was fitting for my name Batch.
51:08
yeah, of course I'm proud of you for that though.
51:11
That's, that's really impressive.
51:12
It's just, I just get to be, use my hands and my brain to do something.
51:17
Do you get paid more because of this awards, your accolades?
51:22
Do you get like when you're at a party or something like, just like a birthday party, people ask you like weird health questions.
51:31
Like, what is this fungus between my toes?
51:35
I'll say this, and this might jog your memory.
51:39
I don't know if you get approached, but she's always alert.
51:43
Mm-hmm.
51:43
For things for sure.
51:45
Like, for sure where we are.
51:48
Like, she's like on the lookout for somebody.
51:52
I am so scared to get on a plane.
51:54
Yeah.
51:54
And like somebody have a medical emergency.
51:56
Is there a doctor plane?
51:58
Is there a doctor?
51:59
Um, so mm-hmm.
52:01
It's a family thing.
52:02
Yeah, I guess so.
52:04
So I can tell you that I don't sit in a restaurant with my back to the door.
52:08
Mm-hmm.
52:09
I will sit in a corner, like in a corner booth, but I'm gonna be facing the door and I know where my exits are.
52:16
I think some of this is from our trauma maybe.
52:20
I had a guy the other day tried to open my car door and like was yelling, walking up to the car and I was like, yeah, this is not okay.
52:27
Your personal vehicle or my personal, no, my personal vehicle.
52:30
What?
52:31
And I was like, yeah, nope.
52:34
And I stepped on the gas and went around the corner.
52:36
um, do you get a lot of weird questions though, other than by me?
52:40
I don't know.
52:41
Not really.
52:41
I think it's great when people ask me if my hair's gonna fall out, my hair's tingling, is it gonna fall out?
52:47
No.
52:49
Unless you pull it out.
52:50
Yeah, no.
52:52
People will ask you, am I gonna die?
52:54
Like, you know, the, the people that were on, they've eaten half a sheet of brownies, you know, or half a pan of brownies.
53:00
They were like, am I gonna die?
53:02
No, you're not gonna die just don't go to the light.
53:04
That's when you would mess with them, isn't it?
53:06
It would, that's when Steph would be like, do you see the bright light?
53:08
Don't go.
53:10
No.
53:10
I'd be like, go ahead.
53:11
You'd be like, go.
53:13
So people are like, I'm sick, I'm sick.
53:16
Well, if you here's a bag, throw up.
53:18
it's so funny because I put on like this whole different persona when I'm working Yeah.
53:23
Than I do, like when I'm at home.
53:25
Mm-hmm.
53:26
I think you have to, um, uhhuh, you actually have to, I've talked to several people though, so we don't live in the same area anymore, obviously.
53:34
But people that I know that have either worked with Poe or who have seen her working are like, she is so good when she's coming.
53:45
We know it's gonna be okay.
53:46
Like when we know she's on the call.
53:48
And I've had people tell me that too, and I'm like, because I don't see myself like that.
53:52
I see myself as this.
53:52
Do, do, do.
53:53
Yeah.
53:53
Where are my keys?
53:54
Or talk looking for your phone while you're on it.
53:58
Yes.
53:59
Or I'm reading a book and it comes down and falls down and boxing me the, you know, I mean like, I've done that over, I had to like, I'm the person that outside of work, I cannot for the life of me get my shit together.
54:10
Yeah.
54:10
So when people are like, oh, we're so glad you're here.
54:13
I'm like, okay, well at least there's one of us literally got my, foot tangled up in my pocketbook candle earlier, tried to get out of the car with the seatbelt still on.
54:20
Yeah.
54:21
Oh, that's on the daily.
54:22
Yeah.
54:23
Yeah.
54:24
Well just to let you know, and I know that award is great, but when your peers recognize you too, well, yeah, and I'll show up on a call and fire will be there.
54:33
And they're like, well, you have the best paramedic in the county.
54:35
And I'm like, you are such a smoke blower or whatever.
54:38
You know, you should be like, where, when are they coming?
54:41
I can't wait to meet them.
54:43
sometimes I turn into this whole other person I guess where I'm like really surprised.
54:49
Did you on a call with an ex an accent one time?
54:52
Yes.
54:52
And so did my partner, Kayla, and she was like, hello, my name is Kayla and the lady, I love you.
55:00
Yeah, absolutely different accent for every call.
55:02
Uhhuh.
55:03
I don't know if you know that about me, but I love accents and I like if I meet somebody with some, an accent different than mine, I have to know where they're from.
55:12
I ask so many people.
55:13
I I love your, are you French?
55:15
Like I will ask anybody.
55:17
So what was your accent when you.
55:19
Were you just, hello?
55:20
No, of course I was.
55:22
Of course.
55:22
I was like from, yes.
55:24
From England.
55:26
Yes, from England.
55:27
I'd like a nip of tea, please.
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So my partner Kayla, she ran a whole call and the lady eventually was like, where are you from, ma'am?
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And she's like, oh, you know, just overseas, like, couldn't think of anything across the pond.
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She, the lady was from Britain.
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Shut up.
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That's funny.
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So one of the favorite things, we used to have this dispatcher who would, I miss him, dispatch him, but he would come on.
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Welcome to the Hunger Games.
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Maybe odds forever be in your favor.
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Yes, absolutely.
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Especially after it was like a whole poop show of a day.
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Yeah.
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Would, I would be a great dispatcher.
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I'm just gonna go ahead and put it out there I mean, with your helicopter experience, right?
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Why not?
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It would be, it would be so much fun, I think to tell people where to go, but just, I've spent my whole life, someone sitting in a box and telling me where to go and what to do and how when to get there.
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Yeah, like, and I'm a good, it's crazy.
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Tell her what to do her.
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You're a bossy.
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I am.
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You're a boss.
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I'm bossy.
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I'm a real bad, God.
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I own money.
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She don't even know we're leaving it right there.
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Thank you so much.
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You're welcome.
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For, for the insight on my, my friend here.
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Mm-hmm.
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My angry streak and my lack of mourning, awareness.
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So we didn't even hit your angry streak.
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We didn't even get that.
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We can talk about Oh yeah.
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Next time.
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well, congratulations on your accolades.
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Yes.
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And we're so proud of you for that.
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That's awesome.
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Thank you.
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And you let us know what color the stone is.
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Yeah, I will.
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It was so nice to meet you.
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Thank you for doing Thanks.
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Thanks little homey.
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And, and if I'm security at the wedding, I'll see there.
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But I will talk to you later.
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I love you.
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Thank you for being honest.
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I love you too.
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You're welcome.
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It was nice to meet you too, Stephanie.
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Bye bye.
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Bye.