Feel The Heat!

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Welcome to 911 Squirrel, a podcast for all the fine men and women who serve as first responders.
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Stories will be told at training at everyday responder life is explored, all while having a great time doing it.
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So grab your coffee and watch those tales.
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This squirrel shift is about to begin.
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And now, a man who has never once received a ballot for the People's Choice Awards, please welcome your host, Brad Mack.
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Hey, uh, hey, hey there everyone, and welcome to uh episode number 10 of 911 Squirrel, the podcast for first responders.
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As the Cool Tech Voice said, I am your host, Brad Mack, and this episode is called Feel the Heat.
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Oh yeah.
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My temperature is rising.
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I can feel you making me blush at the spot.
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My head hurts as anticipation, making me dizzy.
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I'm going pale and dry.
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The only thing that can save me, baby, is a call to 911 because I'm having a heat-related illness.
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Yep, we're going to be talking about heat-related illnesses and what we can do to prevent it for ourselves for ourselves mostly, uh also patients, but uh mostly for ourselves because we do work outside.
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But first, may the White Cloud Form follow and bless you all with fun and rewarding shifts.
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And as I said, we're going to be talking about heat-related illnesses and uh what we can do to prevent the system.
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Symptoms, not systems.
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Well, prevent the systems from going down in our bodies, but prevent the symptoms.
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Uh we also have two responder spotlights today.
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One with Jake, uh, who was supposed the this interview was supposed to be on the last episode, but thanks to some tech issues, which is my own fault, uh it's gonna be on this episode.
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It also includes uh John from last week, which he was he was a lot of fun to have.
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And so we're gonna probably gonna have him again to help co-host in another one.
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And another spotlight takes us to Kansas City as my friend Darren is out there, and he's gonna he's gonna help us with some heat-related issues and some other fun and exciting stuff.
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But first, we must dance.
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Let me tell you.
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That's right, baby.
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I know.
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Tell them I'm telling I'm next.
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Tell me a fellow suit.
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Uh, ooh, ooh, uh Yeah, I know.
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I keep doing this, and I keep waiting for somebody to want to make videos.
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And I am.
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I'm coming out to grab some people and start making videos.
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So please go do that.
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Get out there, videos yourself or your crew dancing to this song and post it on our Facebook, Instagram, or TikTok.
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Let's see the moves.
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All right, another thing is uh something else that we want to do, and I think I posted about this, but uh just making it all again.
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If you are a follower of 911 Squirrel, uh we want to interview you on Zoom or FaceTime and then put it on our socials.
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You'll get to do the lightning round with us and all that.
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Um so and you might just get an invite from me, or you can message or email us if you want to participate.
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Now, the reason we want to do this is because it's the reason why we do this podcast.
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We want to make you the stars.
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All right.
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Uh but we're gonna have, you know, just tell us how we're doing for crying out loud.
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We we s we wanna we wanna see what you guys want um here on this podcast to uh well basically we just we just want to know how we're doing.
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So please, please, please.
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Now, let's get back to the heat.
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Yeah, we wanted to get back to the heat.
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That's just how we roll.
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No, enough of that.
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Uh because it's making me all f it's making me feel flush and uninhibited and a little creepy.
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Uh but I d I do sound cool with this voice, though.
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Nobody can nobody can top Barry White.
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That's just all there is to it.
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Barry White is just awesome.
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All right.
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The dog days of summer are upon us.
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Especially for the eastern half of the United States the last few weeks.
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The sun is like a double agent.
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It's uh needed for vegetation, our health, and it brightens our days.
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The sun can also double cross us by blinding our eyes, which is kind of on you if you stare at it.
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But more importantly, it's heat.
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While it feels good, it can lead to agonizing pain and even death.
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Now, we all love to get outside during the summer, go boating to the beach, having picnics and so forth, but we have to protect ourselves inside and out because that big ball of fire in the sky is trying to kill us.
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Now, a lot of a lot of our work is outside.
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For law enforcement, you are always outside, hoping your cruiser's AC stays functioning.
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Cruisers?
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Is it is it cruisers or your car, uh your prowler, you know what I somebody somebody make sure you let me know what that is.
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Okay, uh you wear your vest, so back on law enforcement here.
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You wear your vest, hopefully.
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Uh your utility belt, hello Batman, and enough polyester to keep 511 in business.
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All that makes finding shade to park under while writing reports or using radar a priority.
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Now for EMS, you get out in the heat, sometimes, like officers, you are in your ambulance waiting for the next call.
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Uh same remedies still apply.
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Other times you carry heavy equipment to the scene, but then you have to carry patients back to the truck.
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So that is not fun in the sun.
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I mean, seriously.
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And if you get to if you got a station to go to, by all means go to it.
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Now, firefighters have the extremes on both ends.
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Um those nice halls with AC makes it very comfortable if the calls are scarce.
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I mean, let's face it.
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Um you might do some training, but usually that's pretty controlled.
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Uh but then a fire ignites somewhere.
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If it's a field or wildland fire, man, you hike, carry tools, equipment, dig, rake, spray.
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I hated doing wildland fires.
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Because you're constantly walking and you're paddling and you're raking.
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I hated them.
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Now a structure fire?
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Ooh, yikes.
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Wearing turnout gear, carrying an SCBA, wearing a mask, dragging hose 100 feet and 1300 degrees of sheer hell.
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Then you add the heat index of triple digits.
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Gosh, makes you want to get a portable pond out.
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So firefighters, I mean, you guys get you guys have the when you're not doing you know, don't have calls or whatever, it's nice to be in the AC.
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But you guys also get out in this heat to do some do some work.
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Now, dispatchers, uh yeah, you got nothing.
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Y'all are sitting this one out.
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You guys sit you guys sit in a building and then and unless um unless your maintenance guy really sucks at his job with AC, then yeah, you you guys are good.
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Now it all comes down to a few things we already know, but can't emphasize enough hydration and electrolytes.
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First, drink plenty of water.
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Not sodas, but water, Gatorade, uh anything like that.
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Uh sodas are not good.
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Um and well, if you are if you're off a shift and it's hot and you go out there and mow, I realize that some of you like to like have beer when you're outside in this hot weather and stuff.
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I'm gonna be the first to tell you, beer does not help in this hot weather.
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It takes away your fluids and dehydrates you.
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So just saying.
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So, anyway, uh back to this whole thing.
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Uh drink plenty of water, drink plenty of Gatorade, anything like that.
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So much that you have to urinate frequently, which usually gives you a nice break in the AC.
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Uh second, you have to eat.
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You need minerals to keep those electrolytes up.
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You need the salt, the potassium, the other minerals so you can operate at a peak condition mentally and physically.
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So, so simple yet so important.
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I've been there.
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I fell out on a fire ground one time because I did not keep up with my hydration during the day.
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I have also witnessed others who were a bit incapacitated mentally that could have led to bad outcomes.
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So, help each other out this summer.
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Always have water, Gatorade available.
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For leaders and supervisors, keep encouraging your chefs to do what's necessary.
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And I recommend bring bottles to them also.
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I would rather spend my I I used to do this, I would rather spend my own money on water and the because you don't want to have an incident.
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You know?
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You don't you don't want to have to go in front of the director or anybody else, you know, and explain why you weren't hydrated enough to make a good decision.
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Or your crew wasn't hydrated enough to make a good decision.
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If you are a fleet mechanic, that's right, the fleet mechanics, this is for all you test and keep those ACs running at peak performance, please.
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The hot days are here and they will only get hotter.
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August is just around the corner, too.
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So hydrate, eat, stay cool.
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Now, that brings us to our top ten.
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And our top ten this episode is sayings you can use to describe the heat.
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That's right, these are sayings you could use to describe the heat.
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Number ten, it's so hot, our uniform shirts are now two-toned.
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Yikes.
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That's somebody eating way too much salt.
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But you need the salt, don't get me wrong.
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Number nine, it's so hot, even my bullets are literally sweating.
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That's kind of stupid.
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Alright.
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Number eight, it's so hot, the chickens are laying eggs over easy.
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Actually, that's probably true.
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Number seven, it's so hot, the ACs are starting to unionize.
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Oh, I believe that.
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I've seen them get together and have secret meetings.
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Alright, number six, it's so hot, even my shadow is looking for shade.
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That's kind of an old one.
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Uh, number five.
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Excuse me, number five, it's so hot, Sophia Vergara is jealous.
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Hmm.
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If you like Sophia Vergara, if you don't know who that is, look her up, buddy.
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All right, number four, it's so hot I use my mailbox as a toaster oven.
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That's yeah.
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Because you know.
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Uh, number three, it's so hot, birds are picking up worms with pot holders.
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Actually, that's kind of funny.
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Number two, it's so hot, I started to pray every day now that we have a preview of L.
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Yeah, that's that's about right.
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Because let's face it, it's shh.
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All right, and the number one reason, or number one reason.
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What?
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The number one saying you can use to describe the heat.
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It's so hot, I'm thinking of transferring to dispatch.
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Yep.
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And see, dispatch, you guys got it.
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When it comes to heat, you got it easy.
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Don't don't give me this, oh, but you don't understand.
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No, no, no, no.
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If you're in dispatch, you're inside working.
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So I don't want to hear it.
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And that is our top 10.
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If you have a top 10 list or an idea for one, let us know by sending a message to our socials or email at 911 Squirrel Podcast at gmail.com.
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Now, here is this is an interview that w we were supposed to have on last week uh for the July 4th Spectacular.
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But thanks to yours truly, who um well let's just say you think you know what you're doing, and then the next thing you know, something happens and blah, blah, blah.
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Anyway, so we had to wait till this week to get it up.
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Uh, and it also includes John, who was uh our guest co-host uh last week, so or for the last episode.
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So it's a lot of fun.
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But that's why it's on this week, so here we go.
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Ha ha, ladies and gentlemen, uh on the Squirrel Hotline, we have a very special guest.
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He is a former paramedic for the Nashville Fire Department and uh is now getting ready to start his political career.
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Please make welcome Mr.
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Jake Edgar.
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How are you, Jake?
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Thank you for having me, Brad.
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I'm doing good.
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How are y'all?
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Oh, doing good, doing good.
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Um, well, why don't you tell everyone about yourself?
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I'm a good old country boy from Tennessee that loves the Lord.
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I've been a paramedic for the last uh 15, 20 years.
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Uh worked here in middle Tennessee for a long time and live in Hendersonville with my wife and getting ready to celebrate July 4th with the family.
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Very, very, very nice.
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Um now, uh, how is your beautiful bride Lane?
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She is wonderful.
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She's uh actually making banana pudding right now for the family, and I'm getting ready to start making jalapeno poppers and put them on the smokers.
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So life is good.
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Well, if I if we would have known that, we would have come down.
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There's nothing better than jalapeno poppers on July 4th.
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Jalapenos, cream cheese wrapped in bacon on the smoker for three or four hours.
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Man, make a puppy pull a freight train.
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Oh.
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You got some fireworks to shoot off, or are you gonna go watch them somewhere?
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A bunch.
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Oh, yes.
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We have some for the kids and then we have some for the adults.
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So uh I don't even want to know what our firework bill is this year.
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And 911 is on the is ready to go just in case.
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Exactly.
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No, I'll tell everybody if we have to call 911 and we go inside and act like we gotta go to sleep.
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Like we weren't doing anything.
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So no, I'm just kidding.
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Well, since uh since July 4th is here, um I'm gonna ask you this.
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As a first responder, when July 4th came came around, what was something that you enjoyed most working a shift on this holiday?
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And I honestly I tell everybody this.
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I always enjoyed watching the families.
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You know, the fireworks are great, the cookouts are great, but like when I did do that full time, it was cool to be at those events if I was working and see the families just hanging out together with friends and loving one another and having a good time.
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I always enjoyed that.
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It always reminded me of my childhood favorite movie, Sam Lot, like when they're playing on July 4th.
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It was the only night of the year that they could play under the lights.
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And uh so I just I just reminisce with that movie and when I see those things today.
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Yeah.
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Well, we have John Rodriguez here with us, and he has never been a first responder.
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Oh well, I was a lifeguard.
00:18:58.000 --> 00:18:58.799
Oh, you were?
00:18:59.039 --> 00:18:59.759
I was, yeah.
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See, I didn't know that.
00:19:01.279 --> 00:19:05.119
I don't think we ever talked about that, but oh yeah, Red Cross certified and everything.
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I used to work at a summer camp uh when I was in high school.
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Yeah.
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And if you got certified as a lifeguard because we had a big pool and it was on a beach too.
00:19:14.799 --> 00:19:17.359
So if you got certified, it was a little bonus.
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So it's like, yeah, I'm getting certified.
00:19:20.400 --> 00:19:22.720
I mean, never renewed it after that.
00:19:22.880 --> 00:19:28.400
So but there was a there was a solid three summers there where yeah, you could depend on me.
00:19:28.480 --> 00:19:30.319
Thankfully, no one ever had to.
00:19:34.000 --> 00:19:36.480
Well, pardon me for not knowing.
00:19:38.319 --> 00:19:39.519
Maybe do your research.
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I'm just saying.
00:19:40.400 --> 00:19:42.160
All right, I'll get the details down.
00:19:42.400 --> 00:19:42.799
Jeez.
00:19:43.200 --> 00:19:48.240
But you were never a first responder that people would think of.
00:19:48.720 --> 00:19:49.440
No, no.
00:19:49.839 --> 00:19:50.079
All right.
00:19:50.160 --> 00:19:51.519
Well, just just go with me here.
00:19:51.759 --> 00:19:52.400
We'll we'll go.
00:19:52.480 --> 00:19:53.119
I'll go with you.
00:19:53.200 --> 00:19:53.519
I'll go.
00:19:53.599 --> 00:19:54.400
I'm here, man.
00:19:54.720 --> 00:19:55.039
Okay.
00:19:56.160 --> 00:20:00.319
Well, Jake, uh, what would you tell a civilian like John here?
00:20:00.559 --> 00:20:04.880
Uh, something that you as a first responder would want them to know.
00:20:05.279 --> 00:20:08.720
Uh, always like to remind people we're people too.
00:20:09.279 --> 00:20:12.400
Um, so you have first responders that have great days.
00:20:12.559 --> 00:20:14.400
Every now and then they have a bad day.
00:20:15.279 --> 00:20:16.640
Give them a little grace.
00:20:16.799 --> 00:20:27.759
Uh because you gotta think about the things they've seen over the years, the things they've experienced, the scrutiny they go under, and they never, ever, ever stop when that call comes in.
00:20:28.000 --> 00:20:35.200
You know, you can work tirelessly on one, two, three, four calls, and when the fifth, sixth, seventh call comes in, they gotta pick up and go.
00:20:35.440 --> 00:20:37.119
Uh good, bad, or indifferent.
00:20:37.200 --> 00:20:38.160
They've gotta go.
00:20:38.319 --> 00:20:38.640
Yeah.
00:20:38.960 --> 00:20:41.279
And uh so a lot of times people will come back, man.
00:20:41.440 --> 00:20:46.960
We had to call 911 and uh EMS or police or fire was rude or hateful.
00:20:47.599 --> 00:20:50.480
I'm like, look, it's very rare that that happens.
00:20:51.519 --> 00:20:59.039
They're probably dealing with something, whether it's at home, their work life, a bad supervisor, or you know, whatever they are people to.
00:20:59.440 --> 00:21:00.079
Yeah.
00:21:00.640 --> 00:21:02.720
Well, it was yeah.
00:21:03.519 --> 00:21:12.079
I would imagine you're just on edge constantly, you know what I mean, from just you don't know what's gonna happen in this situation.
00:21:12.160 --> 00:21:15.279
You don't know what the you don't know the people you're dealing with, you know what I mean?
00:21:15.440 --> 00:21:22.000
Like you don't know what kind of day someone's having, what they're on the edge of.
00:21:22.480 --> 00:21:31.759
Yeah, that I would imagine that's probably the toughest part is going into that and going like, what what hornet's nest am I walking into right now?
00:21:32.000 --> 00:21:32.640
Yeah.
00:21:35.119 --> 00:21:50.480
Well, it does the the one thing about it is is that it can, you know, you you always wonder when you get to a scene or even on the way to a scene as to whether it's uh you know what what you're going into, and that's where you hope dispatch uh gives you the best information.
00:21:50.640 --> 00:21:53.279
So hopefully that uh clears that up for you.
00:21:53.680 --> 00:21:59.119
Um But you had you had an interesting little uh side story
00:22:01.599 --> 00:22:05.440
I think I told you about the time I went to the gym and there were those firemen working out.
00:22:05.519 --> 00:22:05.759
Oh, yeah.
00:22:06.000 --> 00:22:07.119
Like with the rope workouts.
00:22:07.279 --> 00:22:08.880
Those dudes are jacked, man.
00:22:09.119 --> 00:22:11.359
Those guys are not eating donuts.
00:22:12.720 --> 00:22:15.680
If they are, it's all it's on like cheat day only.
00:22:15.920 --> 00:22:17.440
The only like yeah.
00:22:17.759 --> 00:22:18.319
Oh yeah.
00:22:18.480 --> 00:22:19.759
They like to work out.
00:22:19.920 --> 00:22:23.279
I always joke with them, and it's a like an inner career joke.
00:22:23.359 --> 00:22:31.440
And you know, we can joke with each other whether we're EMS or fire, but we won't allow anybody that doesn't do it to belittle that career.
00:22:31.519 --> 00:22:36.720
But it's like y'all are sitting here working out until you get a fire or a bad wreck or a med call.
00:22:36.960 --> 00:22:39.519
We're going on every call, so we never have time to work out.
00:22:39.599 --> 00:22:44.000
You know, it's just kind of like uh that uh interagency rivalry.
00:22:45.519 --> 00:22:47.599
I always get them worked up about it.
00:22:49.519 --> 00:22:56.640
I always wondered what the point, what the exact point of the fire car was, if you can answer that.
00:22:56.880 --> 00:22:57.680
You know what I mean?
00:22:57.920 --> 00:22:59.119
Give us the skinny.
00:22:59.440 --> 00:23:00.400
Oh my gosh, yes.
00:23:00.480 --> 00:23:04.160
So the fire cars are kind of um used to only chiefs at them.
00:23:04.319 --> 00:23:09.039
Now they'll send them on emergencies that don't necessarily require a fire truck.
00:23:09.119 --> 00:23:20.960
You know, a fire truck is rolling with thousands of pounds of equipment, whether it be the jaws alive, hoses, water, uh, chainsaws, heavy-duty equipment, rope rescue stuff.
00:23:21.200 --> 00:23:21.519
Okay.
00:23:21.759 --> 00:23:30.000
Sometimes uh these departments will send fire cars on simple medical calls, assist a citizen, you know, someone locked out of a vehicle.
00:23:30.160 --> 00:23:30.480
Yeah.
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But anytime it's a serious incident or suspected serious incident, they'll send the whole cavalry.
00:23:36.880 --> 00:23:37.200
Okay.
00:23:37.599 --> 00:23:41.839
But the fire cars are just a way to cut down on a wear and tear on the trucks.
00:23:42.640 --> 00:23:45.279
And uh so that's how they justify that.
00:23:45.440 --> 00:23:45.759
Yeah.
00:23:45.920 --> 00:23:46.240
Okay.
00:23:46.799 --> 00:23:47.680
Very good.
00:23:49.119 --> 00:23:54.880
I'm I you know, it and and I always thought it would it would just be fun just to drive around all day.
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But uh, you know, that's that's just my thought.
00:24:00.640 --> 00:24:12.000
But uh you had John, you had a a uh little thing about uh um the Fourth of July uh and how busy it gets, didn't you?
00:24:12.160 --> 00:24:19.519
That that had me thinking like Fourth of July and Halloween must be y'all worst nights.
00:24:20.000 --> 00:24:21.039
Gotta be, right?
00:24:21.279 --> 00:24:22.160
I think so.
00:24:22.400 --> 00:24:26.960
Um 4th of July, Halloween, New Year's are all pretty busy.
00:24:27.200 --> 00:24:44.480
Uh you know, any shift can turn into a nightmare, but those typically, you know, like 4th of July, you're gonna have a lot of calls for possible shootings because someone thinks they hear gunshots, and then Halloween gets a little dicey with like overdoses and things like that.
00:24:45.599 --> 00:24:47.920
Yeah, Halloween just gets out of hand.
00:24:48.400 --> 00:24:51.200
Um and then New Year's it's just a hodgepodge.
00:24:51.279 --> 00:24:56.079
It could be people drunk, it could be a fight, it could be something worse than that.
00:24:56.319 --> 00:25:00.720
They're all three shifts that um you don't ever forget those.
00:25:00.880 --> 00:25:06.880
If you have to work a New Year's 4th of July or Halloween, you'll never forget those shifts.
00:25:07.039 --> 00:25:08.000
Oh, yeah.
00:25:08.720 --> 00:25:09.920
It's always pretty steady.
00:25:10.160 --> 00:25:10.400
Yeah.
00:25:10.640 --> 00:25:21.920
I always gotta kick out of Halloween when we'd always go to at least one uh well, I wouldn't say at one, I'd say at least a handful of seizures at these like haunted woods or haunted barns.
00:25:22.240 --> 00:25:22.799
Oh, yeah, yeah.
00:25:22.880 --> 00:25:24.559
And then you gotta get in there and get them out.
00:25:24.720 --> 00:25:25.039
Yeah.
00:25:25.359 --> 00:25:35.200
I used to because I was the class clown and I always joked probably more than I should have, but I would keep a Michael Myers mask with me on those days.
00:25:35.440 --> 00:25:45.519
And when we were just not going to a call, we'd pull up next to a car and I'd just look over at him real slow with that Michael Myers mask on, and then we'd drive off with the light turned green.
00:25:45.759 --> 00:25:50.000
I got reprimanded verbally a couple times for that, but it was worth it.
00:25:51.359 --> 00:25:52.480
Oh gosh.
00:25:52.720 --> 00:25:58.240
Well, now we're gonna get now we're gonna get into what we call the lightning round of questions.
00:25:58.400 --> 00:25:59.680
Um here we go.
00:26:00.160 --> 00:26:02.400
Yeah, and these are these are fun.
00:26:03.200 --> 00:26:04.880
All right, so the lightning round.
00:26:04.960 --> 00:26:07.759
Uh, what excited you about the job?
00:26:08.000 --> 00:26:10.240
What excites you about the job?
00:26:10.880 --> 00:26:14.960
The thing that excited me the most was trying to bring a calmness.
00:26:15.119 --> 00:26:17.599
Um, and I'll put it into perspective like this.
00:26:18.240 --> 00:26:21.680
One of the first calls we went on ever is me as a paramedic.
00:26:21.839 --> 00:26:30.319
This uh young man was trapped in a car and traffic's everywhere, and this car comes sliding up off the road, locked it up, and the parents got out.
00:26:30.400 --> 00:26:32.000
I'll never forget it as long as I live.
00:26:32.400 --> 00:26:33.920
And I just kind of wrapped him up.
00:26:34.000 --> 00:26:38.559
You know, I kind of assumed by context clues it was his parents, and I said, Hey, it's okay.
00:26:38.720 --> 00:26:40.160
I said, I think you need to pray.
00:26:40.319 --> 00:26:43.039
He's sick, but it's gonna be okay.
00:26:43.200 --> 00:26:50.720
Um, from that kind of shaped me into when you get on something that was high stress or people freaking out.
00:26:50.799 --> 00:26:52.640
I always like to say, Hey, let's take a breath.
00:26:53.039 --> 00:26:55.279
We have a job to do, and let's work through it.
00:26:55.359 --> 00:26:56.640
So that's kind of what did it for me.
00:26:56.799 --> 00:27:03.039
Other than helping people, uh, I try to be the calm in the storm uh the best I could.
00:27:06.160 --> 00:27:09.440
Well what what excites you in life?
00:27:10.559 --> 00:27:11.279
With life?
00:27:11.519 --> 00:27:17.839
Yeah, in in just in life in general, not not just the job, but as in in personally, what excites you in life?
00:27:18.720 --> 00:27:30.880
I think one of the things that people know about me is being a Christian, I love to let people know they're loved, whether it's through laughter or whatever, let them know the Lord loves them.
00:27:30.960 --> 00:27:33.200
That's probably what excites me the most.
00:27:34.160 --> 00:27:36.960
Um but is it just fun?
00:27:38.160 --> 00:27:40.400
I love to make people laugh.
00:27:40.720 --> 00:27:43.440
How are you two possibly friends?
00:27:46.559 --> 00:27:51.200
It's uh it's just I love being around family and seeing people laugh and getting cut up.
00:27:51.359 --> 00:27:52.000
Yeah.
00:27:52.720 --> 00:27:54.640
Yeah, that's definitely you.
00:27:56.240 --> 00:27:57.839
Yeah, I like to have fun.
00:27:57.920 --> 00:28:03.599
Um if I ever got in trouble in my career, which it was never serious trouble, but if ever did, it was for joking.
00:28:04.880 --> 00:28:08.240
Yes, those are always the fun times to get called down to the office.
00:28:08.319 --> 00:28:09.119
Now look, Jay.
00:28:11.039 --> 00:28:13.839
When you know what you did and you're just gonna have to own it.
00:28:13.920 --> 00:28:14.559
Yeah.
00:28:16.400 --> 00:28:19.759
Well, what was the worst smell?
00:28:19.920 --> 00:28:21.519
The absolute oh my gosh.
00:28:23.200 --> 00:28:25.920
Well, it runs hand in hand with Fourth of July.
00:28:26.720 --> 00:28:32.880
That's a little bit gory, but uh anybody that was ever burned, like a true burn patient, those were the worst.
00:28:33.039 --> 00:28:33.519
Yeah.
00:28:39.680 --> 00:28:44.960
Yeah, it's it's it's not a it's not a great smell whatsoever, the burnt flesh.
00:28:46.000 --> 00:28:46.799
Oh yeah.
00:28:48.559 --> 00:28:57.680
I mean, not to make light of it, but and heartbreaks for those people uh suffer that, but yeah, the burn patients were always the worst.
00:28:57.920 --> 00:28:58.559
Yeah.
00:28:59.279 --> 00:29:04.160
Well, um, what sound always made you just wow, cool.
00:29:04.319 --> 00:29:07.200
What sound did you enjoy as a first responder?
00:29:08.079 --> 00:29:21.920
Um, I tell you that probably the thing that stuck out to me is one time we were on a call, it turned out that the uh one of the people on scene wound up pulling a gun and we had asked for PD to step it up our local sheriff's office in Sumner County.
00:29:22.079 --> 00:29:23.839
This was years and years ago.
00:29:24.559 --> 00:29:33.839
And back then we could all talk to each other on the radio and as soon as we called for help, hearing the sirens kick on from different directions of the city and the county.
00:29:34.559 --> 00:29:38.240
Um because you know, as EMS, we don't we're not armed.
00:29:38.319 --> 00:29:48.640
You're you're at the mercy of the Lord there, and um to hear those men and women kick on their sirens, and you could tell they were I mean, and they came with a vengeance.
00:29:48.799 --> 00:29:51.200
Yeah that's one of the best sounds you'll ever hear.
00:29:52.240 --> 00:30:10.880
You know, especially as unarmed emergency services workers, uh when your brothers and sisters that wear that badge and gum belt every day, when they when they hear that uh call from us and they know this is not just a report issue, it's a pretty daggum good sound knowing they're bringing the cavalry.
00:30:11.039 --> 00:30:11.519
Oh, yeah.
00:30:11.759 --> 00:30:12.720
And they do, buddy.
00:30:12.880 --> 00:30:24.720
If they think one of their people, whether it's a citizen or an emergency responder, is in trouble or in danger, uh, especially in Sumner County, uh, the cavalry's coming.
00:30:24.799 --> 00:30:29.279
And may God have mercy on the person uh that is wanting to be violent.
00:30:29.519 --> 00:30:30.160
Yeah.
00:30:31.039 --> 00:30:31.920
That is true.
00:30:32.240 --> 00:30:39.039
It is it is kind of a uh it kind of brings a little bit of relief, kind of takes that edge off a little bit when you hear that.
00:30:39.279 --> 00:30:40.480
Oh, yeah, yeah.
00:30:40.720 --> 00:30:44.079
Gives you a sense of comfort going like it's gonna be better in just a minute, you know.
00:30:44.319 --> 00:30:44.799
Yep.
00:30:45.039 --> 00:30:45.759
I agree.
00:30:46.000 --> 00:30:46.880
I agree.
00:30:47.200 --> 00:30:51.519
Well, as a former paramedic, what skill did you enjoy the most?
00:30:51.920 --> 00:30:55.599
Um it probably goes back to that being the calm in the storm thing.
00:30:56.000 --> 00:31:03.119
I can remember going on calls for people, um, like children, you know, me and Lane were never blessed with kids.
00:31:03.279 --> 00:31:07.279
Uh God forbid when a child got hurt, those were always the hardest to deal with.
00:31:07.440 --> 00:31:12.160
But um being able to say, hey, we have a job to do, let's focus.
00:31:12.400 --> 00:31:17.599
Because in that situation, everybody's maternal instinct kicks in and they start thinking about their own children.
00:31:17.920 --> 00:31:22.799
I think it was a blessing for me not to have kids because I was able to just separate that.
00:31:22.960 --> 00:31:30.240
Like, hey, we have a job, we know, we're trained very highly on how to handle this, let's focus.
00:31:31.359 --> 00:31:32.240
That was probably it.
00:31:32.799 --> 00:31:34.319
Yeah, I agree with you.
00:31:34.559 --> 00:31:35.200
I agree.
00:31:35.359 --> 00:31:35.759
Yeah.
00:31:36.079 --> 00:31:39.440
Well, what's what skill did you least enjoy?
00:31:39.920 --> 00:31:41.039
Delivering kids.
00:31:41.119 --> 00:31:42.319
It's the worst.
00:31:43.200 --> 00:31:45.920
Uh I joke with everybody about this.
00:31:46.160 --> 00:31:49.759
I know it's a miracle from God, I get it, and I believe it.
00:31:50.000 --> 00:31:54.799
Um, but if I never had to deliver another child, I don't know what would be worse in my mind.
00:31:54.960 --> 00:31:59.200
Delivering another child or having to take a all-inclusive trip to North Korea.
00:31:59.359 --> 00:32:01.519
I just, it was not my thing.
00:32:01.920 --> 00:32:09.440
Um, especially, you know, like you're trying to protect the dignity of the mother and the hoping the dad's willing to help.
00:32:09.599 --> 00:32:11.920
Uh I just did not like doing it.
00:32:16.480 --> 00:32:20.559
It's not a natural act if it's not your wife or child about to be born.
00:32:20.880 --> 00:32:21.440
Exactly.
00:32:21.519 --> 00:32:22.640
And it is a blessing.
00:32:22.720 --> 00:32:25.440
It's a miracle to watch life come into this world.
00:32:25.599 --> 00:32:29.920
They're the most innocent things on the planet, but boy, I did not like delivering children.
00:32:30.319 --> 00:32:31.680
I don't I don't blame you.
00:32:31.839 --> 00:32:32.480
I don't blame you.
00:32:34.799 --> 00:32:44.160
Well, what surprised you most uh when you first started as a first responder, what surprised you the most about the job?
00:32:44.480 --> 00:32:45.920
Oh, how amazing the food was.
00:32:46.000 --> 00:32:47.039
No questions asked.
00:32:47.200 --> 00:32:55.759
Um, I tell everybody still to this day, I don't care if you go to a 10-store dining experience, the best food on the planet is at a fire hall.
00:32:56.079 --> 00:32:56.559
Oh, yeah.
00:32:56.799 --> 00:33:09.680
They have the best food, best it's just, man, everything's cooked in ample amounts of grease plus some um three meals a day, typically, if the calls allow, man, it's the best food.
00:33:10.400 --> 00:33:11.119
I agree with you.
00:33:11.359 --> 00:33:12.720
And you'd never guess it, you know.
00:33:12.880 --> 00:33:13.519
Oh yeah.
00:33:13.759 --> 00:33:20.480
I mean, especially at the fire halls when when you're stationed with fi with other firefighters, those guys know how to cook, man.
00:33:21.039 --> 00:33:24.960
And I joke with friends of mine that owns rest that own restaurants.
00:33:25.119 --> 00:33:37.759
I'm like, look, if you I you know, I know there's a lot of cooking schools and people go and study how to be culinary experts and stuff, but if you want a true cook that's just down and gritty cook, get you a fireman.
00:33:38.000 --> 00:33:38.400
That's right.
00:33:38.640 --> 00:33:44.160
Some of them are the best cooks you'll ever, ever experience their food.
00:33:44.400 --> 00:33:45.519
Yes, they are.
00:33:46.880 --> 00:33:54.400
Well, what profession would you want to do if you were not a first responder?
00:33:55.039 --> 00:33:58.000
My whole life I was gonna be three things uh as a kid.
00:33:58.160 --> 00:34:01.920
I was gonna be a police officer, a preacher, or a pilot.
00:34:02.559 --> 00:34:04.880
Um, so I'd have probably done something like that.
00:34:04.960 --> 00:34:10.800
I'd have been a minister, a Christian minister, or uh I always wanted to be a police officer, but I'll be honest.
00:34:11.039 --> 00:34:12.239
I'm not tough.
00:34:12.400 --> 00:34:28.880
I I'm a big old 6'8 country boy, but I'm I'm pretty passive and laid back, so I don't know that I could write somebody a speeding ticket, or if uh you just got in a scuffle with a neighbor or something, I don't know that I could arrest them.
00:34:29.119 --> 00:34:30.400
I'm just too passive.
00:34:30.639 --> 00:34:35.119
So the Lord protected me from that because I'd probably got fired real quick.
00:34:35.440 --> 00:34:38.719
Because some people just need a good whooping.
00:34:38.880 --> 00:34:39.039
Yeah.
00:34:39.280 --> 00:34:44.400
Um and there's a lot of people out there on the plant that's like, man, they just need to get their tail whipped one good time.
00:34:44.559 --> 00:34:44.800
That's right.
00:34:45.039 --> 00:34:47.440
So I never got into law enforcement.
00:34:48.400 --> 00:34:54.320
See, I I I tell people, yeah, or I remember a couple people telling me, Oh, yeah, you should be a cop, man.
00:34:54.400 --> 00:34:54.880
Blah, blah, blah.
00:34:54.960 --> 00:34:55.679
I'm like, nope.
00:34:56.000 --> 00:34:59.840
Because I'd be I'd be tired of being lied to all the time.
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:00.800
And yeah.
00:35:01.119 --> 00:35:06.320
Because I think sometimes office gets boring, and you need to do a desk pop.
00:35:06.639 --> 00:35:12.719
So it'd be nothing for me to pull out my service weapon and fire off a couple rounds into the ceiling just to get everybody's attention.
00:35:13.599 --> 00:35:17.840
And uh, I can guarantee that a chief or a sheriff probably wouldn't like that too much.
00:35:18.079 --> 00:35:26.239
As much as, you know, it's funny, but uh yeah, I wouldn't have been a good police officer as much as I would have loved to do it, because it would have been an amazing job.
00:35:26.559 --> 00:35:27.599
Oh gosh.
00:35:27.920 --> 00:35:30.400
Well, one final question here in the lightning round.
00:35:30.559 --> 00:35:35.119
When you get to heaven, what do you want God to say to you?
00:35:36.320 --> 00:35:39.760
Well, first I want to say good job, my good and faithful servant.
00:35:39.920 --> 00:35:58.079
Um, but second, I tell people this I was asked this question probably a couple months ago about my treasures in heaven, and I hope that when I get there that one person says, Hey, I came to know the Lord because of something that you said or did, that'd be cool.
00:35:58.159 --> 00:36:06.800
Oh, that would be very, very rewarding and uh something that I would that warm my heart to know in that be my treasure in heaven.
00:36:07.280 --> 00:36:08.079
Very good.
00:36:08.400 --> 00:36:09.840
I like that answer.
00:36:10.239 --> 00:36:11.119
I like it.
00:36:11.360 --> 00:36:14.719
If just one person came to know him, it'd be a win for me.
00:36:16.000 --> 00:36:17.519
Well, one final thing.
00:36:17.599 --> 00:36:26.719
Uh do you have any final thoughts on either as your time as a first responder or any words for anybody that is a first responder?
00:36:26.880 --> 00:36:28.960
Any kind of final thoughts that you have?
00:36:30.239 --> 00:36:33.920
Uh always remind them this because I don't do it professionally anymore.
00:36:34.239 --> 00:36:36.320
But always tell them, remember this.
00:36:36.880 --> 00:36:44.800
That fifty thousandth call that you go on that someone truly in their heart thinks is an emergency and calls 911, remember.
00:36:45.760 --> 00:36:47.039
To them it was.
00:36:47.199 --> 00:36:47.440
Yeah.
00:36:47.679 --> 00:36:49.679
To you it may be another call.
00:36:49.920 --> 00:36:57.039
Um and 911 does get abused, but just remember to them in their heart and their mind, it was an emergency.
00:36:57.199 --> 00:36:58.719
Go out there and kill them with kindness.
00:36:58.800 --> 00:37:01.280
It's I know it's hard sometimes, trust me.
00:37:01.519 --> 00:37:03.679
I struggle just like anybody else.
00:37:03.920 --> 00:37:06.559
But not doing it uh uh full time anymore.
00:37:06.639 --> 00:37:11.119
I try to remind people to them it's an emergency, kill them with kindness.
00:37:11.280 --> 00:37:11.679
Yep.
00:37:11.840 --> 00:37:12.400
I agree.
00:37:12.559 --> 00:37:13.599
You'll always win.
00:37:13.760 --> 00:37:14.400
Yep.
00:37:15.119 --> 00:37:23.039
Well, it was it's always a pleasure having uh talking to you and and uh having you around, just like I always said, man.
00:37:23.119 --> 00:37:30.000
Jake is always one, he's just one of those guys that you just want to have around have around a station or work with or whatever.
00:37:30.239 --> 00:37:34.239
Um because you've always phone everything.
00:37:34.480 --> 00:37:45.840
Everybody says stuff like that, and I tell them it wasn't because of me, he's the good lord, and I was surrounded by people like you that were amazing, and I'm just so grateful that I got to work with so many amazing people and to all your listeners.
00:37:45.920 --> 00:37:48.159
Um, I always like to say this about Brad.
00:37:48.880 --> 00:37:52.719
He genuinely is one of the best that there ever was.
00:37:52.880 --> 00:37:56.239
I dispatched with him, I worked a truck with him in the streets with him.
00:37:56.400 --> 00:38:00.639
Uh I was I always knew that Brad had my back, whether it was a good call or bad call.
00:38:00.719 --> 00:38:01.760
He's one of the best there was.
00:38:01.840 --> 00:38:13.199
And Brad, I know that July 4th is um about America and about the men and women that have fought and died for this country and the freedoms that they uh the blanket of freedom they've provided for us.
00:38:13.440 --> 00:38:14.559
I know you're a veteran.
00:38:14.639 --> 00:38:15.760
Thank you for your service.
00:38:16.239 --> 00:38:19.840
Um and I hope you and your family have a very blessed July 4th.
00:38:20.079 --> 00:38:20.400
Thank you.
00:38:20.480 --> 00:38:21.760
I I hope you all do.
00:38:21.840 --> 00:38:23.199
It sounds like you are.
00:38:23.840 --> 00:38:24.639
Oh, we're going to.
00:38:24.719 --> 00:38:25.280
I'm getting ready.
00:38:25.440 --> 00:38:27.360
The smoker's already smoking.
00:38:27.519 --> 00:38:34.000
Uh, we got Applewood and Mesquite Wood and Hickory all mixed together, so uh the pumpers will go on in just a little while.
00:38:34.320 --> 00:38:34.639
All right.
00:38:35.039 --> 00:38:36.079
Sounds great.
00:38:36.239 --> 00:38:44.159
Well, uh so hang on to line for just a second, but we're gonna let you go here from the squirrel hotline, ladies and gentlemen, Jake Edgar.
00:38:46.400 --> 00:38:47.840
Maybe appreciate it.
00:38:52.400 --> 00:39:03.599
And now everyone's favorite component of the job, the Insta, where we have a discussion on certain prestiges to improve on the performance and deliver better outcome.
00:39:05.360 --> 00:39:07.199
Instintivists begin.
00:39:08.960 --> 00:39:17.119
Ladies and gentlemen, on this first responder spotlight, we're gonna bring in another friend of mine, but he's not here in Tennessee, believe it or not.
00:39:17.360 --> 00:39:20.559
He is in the Northland area of Kansas City.
00:39:20.719 --> 00:39:26.079
Would you please welcome my friend Paramedics Darren Jr.
00:39:34.079 --> 00:39:38.159
This is what you call uh big big introductions.
00:39:38.320 --> 00:39:40.719
We like big introductions here on the squirrel.
00:39:44.480 --> 00:39:46.880
Hey, if it's not a squirrel that doesn't have big nuts.
00:39:54.159 --> 00:39:57.039
As long as we keep it family friendly, I don't care.
00:39:59.760 --> 00:40:01.360
How are you doing, Darren?
00:40:01.920 --> 00:40:02.480
I'm good.
00:40:02.559 --> 00:40:03.199
How are you?
00:40:03.519 --> 00:40:04.320
I am good.
00:40:04.559 --> 00:40:06.800
Everything going well there in Kansas City?
00:40:07.360 --> 00:40:07.840
It is.
00:40:08.000 --> 00:40:12.079
It's very hot today, and uh it's been hot last week and the week before that.
00:40:12.400 --> 00:40:12.880
Oh yeah.
00:40:12.960 --> 00:40:14.880
What's what's the temperatures been?
00:40:15.440 --> 00:40:18.559
We've been running the low 90s, but high humidity.
00:40:18.960 --> 00:40:19.519
Oh, really?
00:40:20.239 --> 00:40:20.639
Yes.
00:40:20.960 --> 00:40:22.960
It's all it's that's what all it always gets you.
00:40:23.840 --> 00:40:25.519
Yep, it's the humidity.
00:40:26.639 --> 00:40:39.920
Well, speaking of heat, uh, I wanted to go over some heat-related illnesses, heat, you know, heat-related issues that first responders always uh encounter, especially since we're in the dog days of summer now.
00:40:40.239 --> 00:40:51.519
And so my first question is um as far as heat related uh heat-related issues, what's what's one that you encounter most as a paramedic?
00:40:51.840 --> 00:40:53.519
Uh that'd be heat exhaustion.
00:40:54.239 --> 00:40:54.559
Okay.
00:40:56.719 --> 00:40:57.039
Yes.
00:40:57.360 --> 00:41:04.960
It's um it's the before of heat stroke and after I'm feeling good.
00:41:07.039 --> 00:41:10.639
And what what are some of those symptoms of heat exhaustion?
00:41:11.519 --> 00:41:19.760
So some of the big symptoms of of heat exhaustion is just tired, dizzy, sweating a lot.
00:41:19.920 --> 00:41:23.760
Um, your temperature could start to rise a little bit.
00:41:24.159 --> 00:41:29.039
Um, some nausea, vomiting, um, and some cramping.
00:41:29.519 --> 00:41:29.840
Okay.
00:41:30.800 --> 00:41:36.239
Now what are those now what are those symptoms turned into right before like heat stroke?
00:41:37.039 --> 00:41:44.800
So a lot of times the person will have been working outside a lot, in the heat.
00:41:45.280 --> 00:41:48.159
Um, sometimes they've been drinking a lot of water.
00:41:48.800 --> 00:41:55.280
Uh, but what happens is the body's uh thermostat just basically starts to go up.
00:41:56.559 --> 00:42:04.559
And it goes up so high that that all that sweating that you go through, you kind of run through it and you become dry.
00:42:04.800 --> 00:42:05.119
Yeah.
00:42:05.920 --> 00:42:10.480
Um you look red, you look you look hot, you look miserable.
00:42:10.719 --> 00:42:11.039
Yeah.
00:42:11.599 --> 00:42:17.760
And I mean that that's the one thing everybody seems to forget is you know, when you stop sweating, you're thinking, oh, I'm used to it.
00:42:17.920 --> 00:42:20.559
Now when you stop sweating, that's the first bad sign.
00:42:22.239 --> 00:42:22.880
Yeah.
00:42:23.199 --> 00:42:43.360
If you're to the part to the point where you are not sweating, and I say, I feel hot and I don't feel good and dizzy, and they look like there's no sweat on them at all, it looks like they put makeup on and their skin looks nice and neat, that's bad.
00:42:46.079 --> 00:42:51.679
So when so when they get the pinup girl looking and ready for their pictures to be taken.
00:42:52.320 --> 00:42:53.679
Yeah, absolutely.
00:42:53.920 --> 00:43:02.239
Although it looks like they put a little bit too blush on, their cheeks are really red and they're so hot to a touch, and it's not because of the look.
00:43:05.280 --> 00:43:07.679
Give me pout, give me pout, click, click.
00:43:10.719 --> 00:43:11.760
Oh gosh.
00:43:12.079 --> 00:43:22.559
Well, see, that's the one thing is since we are in these dog eggs of summer, I mean, um what what are especially us as first responders, we're always outside.
00:43:22.639 --> 00:43:37.199
Uh, especially firefighters, when they're wearing that turnout gear, what are what are some of the things that you can say that you need that what that you can recommend that people do uh not only just before something, but all day long?
00:43:37.280 --> 00:43:41.519
I mean Well, yeah, you know the the the the simple answer is drink water.
00:43:43.039 --> 00:43:51.519
But I'll tell you what um I tell my son who's in Boy Scouts and other scouts when they go to camp and it's hot and humid.
00:43:52.639 --> 00:43:59.199
You can drink all the water you want that day, and it's not gonna do a darn any good at all.
00:44:01.360 --> 00:44:13.920
To really get hydrated and be safe or have better percentage of outcomes of getting through the heat, you really need to start hydrating about a week in advance.
00:44:14.880 --> 00:44:31.280
So if you're drinking, uh I kind of I kind of go by how many um I usually take it by your weight and equal that in ounces.
00:44:32.079 --> 00:44:36.079
So I weigh 230 pounds.
00:44:36.320 --> 00:44:36.639
Okay.
00:44:36.880 --> 00:44:41.199
You should be drinking about 230 ounces a day.
00:44:41.519 --> 00:44:41.840
Okay.
00:44:42.239 --> 00:44:43.199
I take that back.
00:44:43.360 --> 00:44:44.800
Half of that a day.
00:44:45.119 --> 00:44:47.280
So 115 a day?
00:44:47.519 --> 00:44:48.079
Yes.
00:44:48.239 --> 00:44:48.800
Yes.
00:44:48.960 --> 00:44:49.360
Yeah.
00:44:49.519 --> 00:44:52.079
So I drink about three liters a day.
00:44:52.480 --> 00:44:52.880
Goodness, guys.
00:44:53.119 --> 00:44:55.119
So that's 96 ounces.
00:44:55.599 --> 00:45:00.079
The hard part of that is you can't live in the bathroom.
00:45:00.480 --> 00:45:02.159
You're always going to go and pee.
00:45:02.480 --> 00:45:03.119
Yeah.
00:45:04.239 --> 00:45:11.760
So not only that, is when you're drinking that much, you're flushing out your electrolytes.
00:45:11.840 --> 00:45:12.960
And everyone knows that.
00:45:14.480 --> 00:45:26.400
Um what I also tell my scouts too is it's it's important to drink, drink, drink, drink, but you need to eat too, because when you eat, you replace those electrolytes.
00:45:26.719 --> 00:45:36.320
Even though you might be drinking Gatorade, Pyroade, or whatever electrolyte solution you're going to use, you need to get food in you and eat.
00:45:36.880 --> 00:45:38.719
It's a constant cycle in the heat.
00:45:39.440 --> 00:45:43.519
So for firefighters, and I know they eat well because they work hard.
00:45:43.679 --> 00:45:44.239
Oh, yeah.
00:45:44.480 --> 00:45:47.920
Um, they do a really good job about drinking a lot.
00:45:48.320 --> 00:45:52.480
The ones I know, at least the ones I work with right now, they're they're in pretty good shape.
00:45:52.639 --> 00:46:01.440
Uh, once in a great while, and to not their fault at all, they will kind of pass out on us sometimes.
00:46:01.679 --> 00:46:02.079
Right.
00:46:02.320 --> 00:46:02.960
Yeah.
00:46:03.280 --> 00:46:04.079
And it happens.
00:46:04.239 --> 00:46:04.800
You know this.
00:46:04.960 --> 00:46:05.840
Oh, yeah.
00:46:06.400 --> 00:46:08.400
Um, but and it's it's fine.
00:46:08.719 --> 00:46:18.719
We we'll take them aside, we'll strip them, we'll we'll douse them with water and shade them and and wave fans at them and make them drink a little bit.
00:46:19.039 --> 00:46:19.679
Yep.
00:46:20.159 --> 00:46:20.480
Yep.
00:46:20.639 --> 00:46:36.559
Get uh get all those get all those hot clothes off, get them in shade, douse them with what I mean if if there's a if there's a free hose with not too much pressure you know, spray them down, get that, get, get out, get cooled down.
00:46:36.800 --> 00:46:38.480
Ice packs and all that stuff.
00:46:39.679 --> 00:46:40.400
Ice packs, yeah.
00:46:40.559 --> 00:46:41.039
Oh yeah.
00:46:41.199 --> 00:46:50.719
Yeah, I mean it's not it's it's not a good time to take a drink from the fire hose, because if you drink too much water, it it's probably just gonna come right back up.
00:46:50.960 --> 00:46:51.599
Right.
00:46:52.320 --> 00:47:00.800
So it's it's I think it's better to slowly drink water when you're recovering and with ice packs and stuff.
00:47:01.599 --> 00:47:11.119
Yeah, because you're shocking the system if you're drinking drinking a bunch of water when Yeah, and that that the body will not absorb that water really well.
00:47:11.360 --> 00:47:13.599
Here's the other thing I will tell people.
00:47:13.840 --> 00:47:16.320
I know in this hot summertime we love ice water.
00:47:16.400 --> 00:47:22.400
We love to be cool and cold, and we like to wish that we get to work in indoors in the air conditioning.
00:47:22.480 --> 00:47:23.280
We don't.
00:47:24.400 --> 00:47:36.159
Um, so what I tell people to do is drink water at room temperature because it will absorb better than cold water, because cold water is just gonna make your stomach shrink.
00:47:36.320 --> 00:47:36.480
Right.
00:47:36.639 --> 00:47:37.760
You know, it's like a cold pack.
00:47:37.840 --> 00:47:40.000
You put it on and it shrinks the swelling.
00:47:40.400 --> 00:47:50.079
But if you drink uh like lukewarm or luke cold water, room temperature water, it's not gonna shrink your stomach, it's not gonna make you sick.
00:47:50.800 --> 00:47:53.599
Um, and it absorbs into your body quicker.
00:47:53.920 --> 00:48:02.079
Because I remember I remember one uh when when you were here and we we were partners for I don't even know how many years, you know.
00:48:03.039 --> 00:48:05.199
But uh too many.
00:48:05.360 --> 00:48:06.559
Oh yeah, I'll show you.
00:48:06.639 --> 00:48:11.360
Uh no, I'm still trying to get I'm still paying for therapy to get over that.
00:48:15.280 --> 00:48:17.039
Hey, anyway I can help.
00:48:17.280 --> 00:48:29.599
Uh but I remember we had we had a lady that that uh I I guess you could say heat exhaustion or or even heat stroke, because she was passed out after mowing the lawn.
00:48:30.000 --> 00:48:32.880
And I mean we were Yeah, remember that?
00:48:32.960 --> 00:48:45.440
And we were dousing her with all kinds of all kinds of fluids and and I know and in fact I don't think she uh woke up until after we got her to the hospital.
00:48:46.000 --> 00:48:48.480
Right, she didn't know what had happened, yeah.
00:48:48.719 --> 00:49:03.119
So what we did was, and this is the best way to cool someone off, is take their clothes off, at least give them some you know, some respect, like to the shorts or to the sports bra or something like that.
00:49:03.679 --> 00:49:11.119
Pour water on them and fan them because you will cool someone the fastest by evaporation.
00:49:11.440 --> 00:49:12.079
Right.
00:49:12.800 --> 00:49:17.760
So, and that's what we did with her, and she was how do you say it?
00:49:17.840 --> 00:49:19.280
Uh pretty gorked out.
00:49:19.440 --> 00:49:20.079
Yeah.
00:49:20.639 --> 00:49:21.599
Yeah, she was pretty.
00:49:22.079 --> 00:49:23.199
I mean, she had all that blotchin'.
00:49:23.920 --> 00:49:28.400
Yeah, she had all that blotchiness red and the whole nine yards.
00:49:28.719 --> 00:49:36.960
Yeah, we starred fluids on her, we fanned her all the way to the hospital, and I remember she brought cupcakes to us at the station to thank us.
00:49:37.199 --> 00:49:37.840
Yeah.
00:49:40.800 --> 00:49:41.679
Never forget that.
00:49:41.920 --> 00:49:45.199
Yeah, that was that was a few weeks later, but yeah.
00:49:46.400 --> 00:49:48.960
Well, it takes time to get that memory back sometimes.
00:49:50.000 --> 00:49:52.400
Yeah, you gotta recover, you know.
00:49:52.960 --> 00:49:53.519
Right.
00:49:55.519 --> 00:49:56.880
Oh gosh.
00:49:57.280 --> 00:50:06.159
Well, definitely, I mean, uh the whole thing about heat re uh as far as I mean, when you have a patient, that's one thing because you know what to do.
00:50:06.320 --> 00:50:19.199
But for us, being outside all the time, it's just a matter, at least in my thought is, you have to watch, you know, watch the the weather forecasts, see what's coming in the days uh in the future.
00:50:19.599 --> 00:50:25.840
Uh so you prepare for that because you had just said, you know, make sure you drink plenty of water beforehand.
00:50:26.159 --> 00:50:36.639
So if you know if it's gonna be you got heat uh heat indexes over a hundred, uh, like in three days, we'll make sure that you're filling up in those three days prior.
00:50:37.039 --> 00:50:48.800
And the way I see it is once you start hitting in May in Tennessee, uh more June here in Missouri, um you need to start be drinking more water.
00:50:48.880 --> 00:50:50.159
Just be prepared for it.
00:50:50.480 --> 00:50:50.960
Mm-hmm.
00:50:51.199 --> 00:50:51.679
Yep.
00:50:51.920 --> 00:50:56.159
And with this whole eastern half of the United States, the heat they've gone through.
00:50:56.719 --> 00:50:57.440
Oh my gosh.
00:50:57.599 --> 00:50:58.079
Yeah.
00:50:58.400 --> 00:50:59.360
Goodness gracious.
00:51:04.559 --> 00:51:05.360
Yeah, really.
00:51:07.679 --> 00:51:08.800
Oh gosh.
00:51:09.039 --> 00:51:17.280
No, but you know, to be to be honest, I like heat-related um injuries and situations.
00:51:17.519 --> 00:51:21.760
I I think it's kind of interesting the way the body reacts to it.
00:51:22.400 --> 00:51:26.880
Um, I think a lot of us first responders like that morbid part.
00:51:27.039 --> 00:51:37.519
And I'll never forget a few times, I think it was me and you, it was someone working on it at a church, real skinny, and he was pretty close.
00:51:37.599 --> 00:51:44.320
He was kind of on the bubble too, but you could see all of his muscles in his legs just cramp up and redefined.
00:51:44.639 --> 00:51:44.960
Yeah.
00:51:45.039 --> 00:51:49.440
Yeah, that's I mean, I'm sure it didn't feel good, but it was interesting to see.
00:51:49.679 --> 00:52:01.760
Yeah, when the hand, especially you see the first in the hands and the feet where everything just curls up and and and then they can't, you know, and the pain that comes with it is another thing.
00:52:02.079 --> 00:52:11.280
So I believe we had another call where this guy was overheated and dehydrated, and they decided to put him in a coal bath.
00:52:11.440 --> 00:52:17.199
And what had happened was it made the and I understand why they do it, but it made his cramps worse.
00:52:17.280 --> 00:52:23.119
And I sat I sat there and pushed his feet back all the way to the hospital so they wouldn't cramp.
00:52:23.199 --> 00:52:24.400
I didn't do anything but that.
00:52:24.639 --> 00:52:24.800
Yeah.
00:52:25.440 --> 00:52:31.679
I remember that because we were just like, whoa, man, you're gonna put that guy in shot doing that kind of stuff.
00:52:32.320 --> 00:52:33.199
Right, right.
00:52:33.280 --> 00:52:43.679
And I know athletic trainers do that for athletes and stuff, but he was so extreme that his cramping was way beyond helping with the cold bath.
00:52:43.920 --> 00:52:45.119
Yeah, can't don't do that.
00:52:45.440 --> 00:52:47.119
In my in my personal opinion.
00:52:47.519 --> 00:52:52.159
Since we just got by July 4th, as we move on to another subject.
00:52:52.400 --> 00:52:55.039
Uh first of all, how was July 4th for you?
00:52:55.119 --> 00:52:56.800
How was Independence Day?
00:52:57.280 --> 00:53:01.760
Independence Day for us as a family was was pretty good.
00:53:02.000 --> 00:53:02.639
Yeah.
00:53:02.960 --> 00:53:12.639
Uh, this was the first year that I let my two older children kind of take over the fireworks and stuff like that and let them be power maniacs.
00:53:16.239 --> 00:53:23.280
Um, I taught them well up to this point, you know, don't stand over fireworks while lighting them.
00:53:23.760 --> 00:53:26.719
Uh you know, don't hold the firecracker too long.
00:53:27.360 --> 00:53:28.800
And then throw them.
00:53:29.760 --> 00:53:34.639
So uh no, it went really really well.
00:53:35.119 --> 00:53:36.159
But no, it was good.
00:53:36.239 --> 00:53:37.280
We had we had a good time.
00:53:37.360 --> 00:53:40.320
It was just the family, and that was it.
00:53:40.400 --> 00:53:46.960
And we had you know, just our hot dogs and hamburgers, and it was just just the initial family.
00:53:47.039 --> 00:53:48.159
So oh, that's great.
00:53:48.400 --> 00:53:51.599
But no fires started, no uh no injuries.
00:53:52.239 --> 00:53:54.559
No, it's it's too green out here right now.
00:53:54.800 --> 00:53:57.119
Well, maybe we've got a few fires, I don't know.
00:53:58.079 --> 00:54:02.960
La la lay the fire department will find out until now.
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Well, well, I'm glad you had a good 4th of July.
00:54:06.719 --> 00:54:15.679
Oh well, we're gonna get in since we're since we're uh talking to a first responder, now it's time for the lightning round.
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This is where it gets fun.
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That's right.
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I but I mean, love doing this because uh I I love asking these questions just because all first responders they're human beings too, and it's amazing the eclectic array of answers that we get when we ask these questions.
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So we're just gonna go ahead and start off.
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What excites you as a first responder?
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Sleep.
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Sleep.
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Sleep excites you.
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Yes.
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That well, I'm I'm 51 years old.
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I'm still on the truck.
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Sleep excit excites me.
00:54:56.079 --> 00:54:56.719
All right.
00:54:57.119 --> 00:55:03.679
Well, what sound or no or what sound uh do you like as a first responder?
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Well, you know, kind of kind of go along with that that that sleep thing.
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Uh when the garage door goes down in front of my truck and I'm done with the call.
00:55:15.519 --> 00:55:15.920
Oh, okay.
00:55:16.159 --> 00:55:16.880
That excites me.
00:55:17.039 --> 00:55:17.199
Yeah.
00:55:17.760 --> 00:55:19.039
I like that sound.
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I was thinking you were gonna go somewhere that way, like, oh, when I hear the gear shift go into drive, leaving the hospital.
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I thought you were going to go.
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No.
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It's it's when my partner says, are you sure?
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Long story, not getting into it.
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That's a that's an inside joke.
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I'm gonna have to interview her now.
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Just so everybody knows, we had a we had an FTO and her and her name was Cheryl.
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She she was a she was a really good paramedic.
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But when she was when she did um, when she FTO'd you, when she did, you know, to make sure and clinicals and all that kind of stuff, you she would ask you, you know, about everything you did, all the interventions or whatever, and you'd say everything, and then she and then you you would be like, okay.
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And she goes, now are you sure that's all you need?
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Are you sure?
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Are you sure and make you question everything that you just did?
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But she was great.
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She was great.
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She was.
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She really was.
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I still don't know if I was doing everything right, but you know.
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When you're questioning all your training going, wait a minute.
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All right, back to the back to the lightning round.
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Okay, all right, I'm sorry.
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No, that's okay.
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What smell just just makes you just what it what smell?
00:56:54.559 --> 00:56:56.800
Uh alcohol and blood.
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Oh, okay.
00:56:58.559 --> 00:56:59.440
See, that's a new one.
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Mixed together.
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Yeah, I get it.
00:57:01.519 --> 00:57:01.679
Yep.
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That's a good one.
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Now, what profession would you do if you weren't a first responder?
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Okay, this is gonna sound kind of funny.
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Okay, this is I have I've I have three answers.
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Okay.
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So I always enjoyed growing up in volcanoes.
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So a volcanologist.
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Alright.
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And going along with that, uh meteorologist.
00:57:26.639 --> 00:57:26.960
Okay.
00:57:28.159 --> 00:57:29.840
Uh or a pilot.
00:57:30.639 --> 00:57:31.199
Alright.
00:57:31.599 --> 00:57:33.039
Those are good ones.
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Those are really good ones.
00:57:36.400 --> 00:57:41.039
And um what profession would you not like to do?
00:57:41.840 --> 00:57:42.480
Retail.
00:57:46.320 --> 00:57:48.800
I think you and about 90% of the rest of them.
00:57:49.519 --> 00:57:51.920
Yeah, I I don't I don't blame you there.
00:57:52.559 --> 00:57:57.119
Alright, what's uh go back to when you first started as a first responder.
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What surprised you the most?
00:58:00.159 --> 00:58:02.239
So I started in Milwaukee.
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What surprised me the most was the people we picked up who they said they were sick lasted a lot longer than I thought they would.
00:58:16.960 --> 00:58:21.760
In school they tell you all these emergency things you have to do, and do them now.
00:58:23.280 --> 00:58:24.639
No, you don't.
00:58:28.800 --> 00:58:31.360
Most of the time they have more time than you think.
00:58:31.599 --> 00:58:32.079
Yeah.
00:58:32.400 --> 00:58:32.719
Okay.
00:58:33.760 --> 00:58:34.719
Alright.
00:58:35.199 --> 00:58:37.920
Um, what is your favorite skill?
00:58:39.039 --> 00:58:43.920
I don't get to do it very often, but I always enjoy doing um external jugulars.
00:58:44.320 --> 00:58:45.199
Oh, okay.
00:58:46.400 --> 00:58:47.920
I can see that, yeah.
00:58:48.800 --> 00:58:49.119
Yeah.
00:58:49.440 --> 00:58:51.440
What's your least favorite skill?
00:58:52.079 --> 00:58:53.119
Innovation.
00:58:53.440 --> 00:58:54.079
Oh, really?
00:58:54.320 --> 00:58:57.199
And it's not because it's not because I can't do it.
00:58:57.920 --> 00:59:01.920
It's because it's the most scrutinized skill that a paramedic can do.
00:59:02.239 --> 00:59:02.480
Okay.
00:59:02.800 --> 00:59:04.719
Alright, well, final question.
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Okay.
00:59:05.760 --> 00:59:09.920
When you get to heaven, what do you what would you like God to say to you?
00:59:10.800 --> 00:59:22.239
Uh you know, we always make that joke of uh paramedics and first responders use humor to keep our sanity.
00:59:22.800 --> 00:59:27.679
And one of the things we always used to say was, I'm going to sub-level hell this or that.
00:59:27.920 --> 00:59:29.119
Yeah, oh yeah.
00:59:29.760 --> 00:59:35.280
Um, I so I would say, congratulations, you made it.
00:59:38.559 --> 00:59:48.480
I mean, I would love to hear thankful uh uh servant of mine or something angelical about that, but just say, hey, you made it, you're good.
00:59:49.440 --> 00:59:50.480
Step over here, Mr.
00:59:50.719 --> 00:59:51.199
Jeter.
00:59:52.320 --> 00:59:52.880
Right.
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Go to the side where there's not a lever in the floor.
01:00:00.960 --> 01:00:02.400
Oh gosh.
01:00:03.360 --> 01:00:08.880
And if you want to see a good show tonight, there's a couple cool cats named Elvis and Lennon that are showing up.
01:00:11.360 --> 01:00:12.239
Oh, great.
01:00:12.400 --> 01:00:13.760
That was a cool lightning round.
01:00:13.840 --> 01:00:21.760
I like this is why I love asking those questions because it's it's it's interesting uh the answers that you get.
01:00:22.159 --> 01:00:23.920
And they're and they're all different.
01:00:24.079 --> 01:00:28.719
Every everybody's got these different answers, and it's it's actually pretty wonderful.
01:00:28.960 --> 01:00:29.760
Pretty wonderful.
01:00:29.920 --> 01:00:30.639
Yeah, yeah.
01:00:30.800 --> 01:00:33.760
I mean, it's it's that's that's EMS.
01:00:33.840 --> 01:00:35.760
Everyone has an opinion on everything.
01:00:37.039 --> 01:00:43.039
Or they have a everyone does a skill that uh they can do a thousand different ways to get the same thing.
01:00:43.360 --> 01:00:44.000
Yeah.
01:00:45.119 --> 01:00:46.000
Yeah, that's pretty cool.
01:00:46.079 --> 01:00:47.280
I like your lightning round.
01:00:47.440 --> 01:00:48.719
Yeah, it's fun.
01:00:49.039 --> 01:00:55.519
Well, Darren, I want to I really appreciate you uh appearing here on uh 911 Squirrel.
01:00:55.679 --> 01:00:57.360
It's always a pleasure.
01:00:58.880 --> 01:01:00.960
It's always a pleasure to be back with you, Brad.
01:01:01.119 --> 01:01:01.679
Yeah.
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Well, ladies and gentlemen, give a g give a give a warm applause for Darren Cheetah.
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Greetings and welcome to another edition of the Grand Square Theater, where true stories are told, but in a theatrical style.
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In this episode three title, our director has decided to cast myself in the lead.
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Sit back and enjoy what should be my Oscar-winning performance in this wonderful saga entitled I Am a Star.
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Well, hello everyone.
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Allow me to introduce myself.
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I am the Sun.
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Now, according to your scientists, I'm over four billion years old and have another four to seven billion years before I retire.
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I kinda like my work.
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In case you're wondering, I am a star.
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I light up your world every day.
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Despite what some people on your planet might think, I am the center of your solar system.
01:02:44.719 --> 01:02:46.800
You all orbit around me.
01:02:47.280 --> 01:02:56.719
Now I like to think it's my bright personality that keeps you close, but even I have to admit, my size and mass are like tractor beams.
01:02:57.199 --> 01:02:59.840
I watch sci-fi movies too.
01:03:00.320 --> 01:03:02.960
I am usually a pleasant enough entity.
01:03:03.119 --> 01:03:07.679
I just hurl through the universe, bringing my planet friends along for the ride.
01:03:07.920 --> 01:03:14.719
I love to shine my light so you have days to live your lives, and my warmth can be quite soothing.
01:03:15.360 --> 01:03:18.079
I have a special relationship with plants.
01:03:18.400 --> 01:03:23.920
They love the food I provide, which in turn gives you humans oxygen.
01:03:24.159 --> 01:03:27.760
Now, don't be jealous, we're just friends.
01:03:28.079 --> 01:03:37.199
I do get sick once in a while, cough up a solar flare, which I can only say I'm sorry your streaming and communications might be interrupted.
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Just tell me bless you, and we'll get on with our lives.
01:03:41.280 --> 01:03:46.559
With all the good vibes I provide, I am also quite dangerous.
01:03:47.119 --> 01:03:53.599
With the right angles and conditions, I can heat your area up to life-changing levels.
01:03:53.920 --> 01:03:57.360
You cuss me out, you say bad things about me.
01:03:57.920 --> 01:03:58.880
I get it.
01:03:59.199 --> 01:04:03.199
At least my friend Earth rotates to give you relief at night.
01:04:03.519 --> 01:04:08.159
I make you sweat, make it uncomfortable for you to sleep or work.
01:04:08.880 --> 01:04:15.199
You can combat me with water and minerals, which works according to those same scientists.
01:04:15.519 --> 01:04:22.639
With moderation, I can make you look gorgeous, adding pigment to your skin.
01:04:23.039 --> 01:04:27.039
But some of you think you're a steak and want to cook to be well done.
01:04:27.280 --> 01:04:31.679
That leads to cancer and looking like an old pair of leather boots.
01:04:31.920 --> 01:04:33.679
Now, don't blame me.
01:04:33.920 --> 01:04:36.880
You are warned every year on the telly.
01:04:37.199 --> 01:04:43.039
Even though I consider it disparaging against me, you develop sunscreen.
01:04:43.360 --> 01:04:48.239
I urge you to use it, especially if you're going to be in my aura for hours.
01:04:48.800 --> 01:04:51.519
You see, I like to burn things.
01:04:51.760 --> 01:04:53.280
It's in my nature.
01:04:53.599 --> 01:04:58.320
I can make your skin so red, cherries get jealous.
01:04:58.719 --> 01:05:05.360
I enjoy giving you blisters, mostly because of the weirdos that have a morbid satisfaction in popping them.
01:05:05.599 --> 01:05:11.440
Now, after a few days of that, something happens that I call the coup de gras.
01:05:12.159 --> 01:05:13.199
Peeling.
01:05:13.920 --> 01:05:20.960
Those same weirdos then follow you around wanting to quote unquote help you by tearing those dead skins off.
01:05:21.440 --> 01:05:24.559
But really, that's quite disgusting.
01:05:24.960 --> 01:05:28.719
Now I know it's hard to have a love-hate relationship with me.
01:05:28.960 --> 01:05:33.039
You love it when I make clouds disappear or give you a beautiful day.
01:05:33.280 --> 01:05:37.760
You love when I melt ice on the roads or give you amazing sunsets.
01:05:38.480 --> 01:05:43.519
But you also hate me when I call sunbirds or just make you miserable.
01:05:44.079 --> 01:05:46.079
I lead a complicated life.
01:05:46.239 --> 01:05:47.840
I'm always on maximum.
01:05:48.000 --> 01:05:50.320
I don't have any lower settings.
01:05:50.639 --> 01:05:54.880
It'll be a while, but one day you humans will miss me.
01:05:55.519 --> 01:05:59.280
But for now, enjoy all the good I can provide.
01:05:59.599 --> 01:06:04.639
But protect yourself, keep hydrated, eat, cover yourself.
01:06:04.880 --> 01:06:06.880
I won't be offended.
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And one final thought.
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Don't look at me.
01:06:11.199 --> 01:06:12.800
I'm hideous.
01:06:15.519 --> 01:06:16.079
Well.
01:06:16.960 --> 01:06:18.960
That was interesting, wasn't it?
01:06:22.159 --> 01:06:23.519
It was actually that.
01:06:24.960 --> 01:06:25.920
It doesn't matter.
01:06:26.079 --> 01:06:28.159
That was just a fun squirrel figure.
01:06:28.320 --> 01:06:28.800
Alright.
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Well, we have come to the end of this episode of 911 Squirrel.
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Hopefully you've had some fun, and hopefully you also have learned something.
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We want to thank Jake Edgar and Darren Juter for being on the episode.
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They're two wonderful paramedics and really cool guys.
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Help each other, stay safe, especially in this heat, stay hydrated, eat, stay under shade, all that kind of stuff.
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And God bless you all.
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Thank you for listening, and we'll see you on the next episode.