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remindaboutinjection: Still didn't do it.
Chris: Welcome back to the next episode of the Mythic Giraffe Podcast. I'm Chris.
remindaboutinjection: And I'm Ron.
Chris: I think now it's just laughing at us. Or me.
remindaboutinjection: like said
Chris: Me.
Chris: So it's a glorious 185 temperature day.
remindaboutinjection: It's hazy here because of the wildfires in New Jersey. So that's fun.
Chris: Yeah. It was hazy this morning when I left for work.
remindaboutinjection: Like,
Chris: so
remindaboutinjection: I legitimately was like, oh, that's bullshit, because they're like, oh, air quality warning. That's never a real thing. I walked outside.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: i was like, what the fuck?
Chris: Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. Well, it's like, I was just setting up the stations for the two people who tested today and I was drenched in sweat.
remindaboutinjection: Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Chris: was like, this is stupid. And then I saw, you know, a couple of the guys off of B shift sitting out there at the table. I was like, I love you. Go get an air conditioning.
Chris: It's not too bad. There's a little bit of a breeze. No,
remindaboutinjection: I don't know how they sit in that engine bay at all when it's hot because the smell of that station is atrocious.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: that
Chris: Yeah. What, it the smell of rotting chicken?
remindaboutinjection: Yeah, yeah. Every time we go up there for something, I'm like, oh, how do you guys work up here?
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And like days like today where it's hot and humid and there's not a lot of breeze, yeah, that smell just sits there.
remindaboutinjection: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: It's funny how little I go on the west side of town anymore.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Well, why would you?
remindaboutinjection: Well, like you would think sometimes calls happen there. They just don't seem to happen over there. So I'm never over there.
Chris: Well, it's because we put the fire station there, so it scares the calls away.
remindaboutinjection: I must have. Well, they didn't move station one about two blocks east of where it is. I can scare the calls away from that area.
Chris: Hey, they weren't the worst offenders last week, though.
remindaboutinjection: Last week.
Chris: Yeah, yeah.
remindaboutinjection: Have you seen the... Have you been to Station 1 in a while? Well,
Chris: I went there, don't know, not too long ago.
remindaboutinjection: we have a counter in the kitchen that says last time we went to that particular place. It's never gotten above 1.
Chris: gotcha.
remindaboutinjection: Yeah,
Chris: Yeah, no. Last couple times I've been out there, it's been in the engine bay or in the engine bay.
remindaboutinjection: yeah. Yeah, it's never been above 1 since we put it up there.
Chris: yeah
Chris: They miss you. That's what it is.
remindaboutinjection: They're incompetent and useless.
Chris: Well, there's that too. Yeah. Yeah,
remindaboutinjection: and And people pay a lot of money for their people to be treated, their family to be treated like that, so.
Chris: yeah it's very frustrating. Yeah. I just don't understand. I mean, I think it's part of the bigger... There's so many people now just that just don't want to be better.
Chris: It's like they wake up in the morning and they're like, yeah, this is it.
remindaboutinjection: ah Yeah. Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: Yeah. yeah This, uh, That describes almost everyone I come in contact with in the greater Salisbury area.
Chris: Yeah, yeah.
remindaboutinjection: I don't know if that's a I mean, I really don't want to say... It's not biased, but it's a little biased of me. they like I just feel like people down there are different that way.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: Self-improvement is not a thing that is encouraged.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: It's kind of sad.
Chris: It is. It is. Yeah, there was definitely, i mean, you can see. from local politics to the way other things go. It's like, well, this is the way we've always done it. Why would we want to change?
remindaboutinjection: right yeah yeah uh because you know i take duolingo every day and i'll give you one guest who said it but one of the firemen on my shift said are you still doing that dumb shit are you doing that just
Chris: Why would we want to be better?
Chris: ah Yeah, this is the senior citizen on your shift.
remindaboutinjection: Yeah, you know what else he they said the other day? Last shift. This this last shift.
Chris: My applesauce tastes different.
remindaboutinjection: Mike. Yeah. yeah we Steak your pills, Grandpa. we ah We were just talking, and talking to the newest firefighter, and he's like, yeah, um I don't really like beer, because, you know, it's kind of like his generation. They really beer. He's like, I don't mind hard liquors. I was like, yeah, yeah that's man after my own heart.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: Hyping up from the old gay
remindaboutinjection: And I was like, does the word heart involve gay to you? What is wrong with you as a person that you would think that like that's where you would jump to?
Chris: Oh my gosh.
remindaboutinjection: It's a pretty normal phrase to say a person after your own heart.
Chris: but
remindaboutinjection: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah, yeah.
remindaboutinjection: Yeah. su
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, the other day, somebody was like, oh, that's a little G-A-Y. I was like, so it's fun and happy?
Chris: you know what i mean i was like no i don't please explain well i no no i'm i'm still trying to understand please explain that's how you really make people uncomfortable
remindaboutinjection: Well, especially when you're the deputy chief of the department, you can do that.
Chris: yeah yeah so yeah yeah so we got the scaredy cats that live down from your station now
remindaboutinjection: doesn't hit as hard comes from me.
remindaboutinjection: The scaredy cats that live down from my station.
Chris: Yeah, down on North Shoemaker. They were up at the city council meeting the other night.
remindaboutinjection: Oh, they're still going off.
Chris: Up in arms.
remindaboutinjection: Oh my God.
Chris: Oh, yeah. like I mean, the one person was like, if this goes through, this will be the first time townhouses are built on the lake.
Chris: so What? What is your problem, lady?
remindaboutinjection: The lake?
Chris: Yes.
remindaboutinjection: You mean the sludge-filled pond?
Chris: Yeah, and just, and there was another one that got up afterwards, like, and you know, if, you know, townhouses, a lot of times those are rentals, and you know, what kind of people that brings.
remindaboutinjection: Oh, boy.
Chris: Again, i would just want to be like, what kind of people is that, ma'am?
remindaboutinjection: Yeah, exactly. what kind of thing you like to say? What try to say here?
Chris: Yep, because then one of the city council members spoke up, was like, I'm actually a renter in Stonegate. Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: yeah Yeah, exactly. There are renters in Stonegate all over place.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: Oh, Jesus.
Chris: So I will say, though, that person got gaveled out of the room.
remindaboutinjection: Nice.
Chris: Yeah, so.
remindaboutinjection: I've also never seen any of the people who live around that scum-filled pond use the pond for anything.
Chris: No, they so date give swimming lessons and they fish in it.
remindaboutinjection: No one has ever swam in that pond in the 22 years I've been here. Never once.
Chris: ah Nah, there was at least one because I fished a body out of that pond.
remindaboutinjection: Anybody fell in the pond or swim in the pond? It's different thing.
Chris: Well, yeah, I guess so. Yeah. Now, according to these people, people do swimming lessons and it's a, it's a draw for the area and the nature and, oh yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: We're talking of the pond that I work on.
Chris: Yeah. Oh yeah.
remindaboutinjection: The one I can see from my station every day.
Chris: Yeah. Yes. Yep.
remindaboutinjection: Okay.
Chris: Yep. Yep.
remindaboutinjection: Sure. Yeah, it's a draw, right?
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: It's a disaster waiting to happen because that dam ever breaks.
Chris: Hmm.
remindaboutinjection: We're all screwed. But yeah, other than
Chris: Which one?
remindaboutinjection: The Shoemaker Dam. The first one.
Chris: ah the one like the one that your station is right on?
remindaboutinjection: Yeah, the one that that one breaks, my station's gone. Yeah, that one.
Chris: yeah let's say Because upstream a little bit are a couple of just natural earth dams that they rely on.
remindaboutinjection: Right.
Chris: So
Chris: I don't know.
remindaboutinjection: Yeah. These people are bonkers.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: Now,
Chris: Yeah. Of all the things to get upset about.
remindaboutinjection: the the only thing I even can sort of agree with them on is that the city and county have done nothing to improve the infrastructure of the east side of the city.
Chris: Correct.
remindaboutinjection: And it is going to be a nightmare for traffic.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: I agree with them on that, but that's a city-wide problem.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: They haven't done... you have Yeah, that's going to solve everything.
Chris: Ah, they'll put another circle in. That's, yeah.
remindaboutinjection: yeah I can't remember how many permits they said they pulled, but it's something like 3,000 permits in the next year.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: It's crazy.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: And single lane roads.
Chris: Oh, yeah, of course. I can't.
remindaboutinjection: Yeah.
Chris: Circles. They fix it all.
remindaboutinjection: circle Circles fix everything. They have...
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: God, they have screwed up so the whole road.
Chris: Oh, yeah. Yeah. would Just wait until they put the snorkel in six points.
remindaboutinjection: It is awful.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: Circle.
Chris: the circle in at um six points
remindaboutinjection: Yeah, that's going to be a nightmare. Thank god that God that will not happen before I retire. I can't imagine it'll get done before then.
Chris: Yeah. yeah Now, now, now.
remindaboutinjection: But that'll be another road the fire department won't be able to use.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: I particularly like the circles on North Park that they didn't think about the fire department for.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Oh, yeah. but What? it What? What? What do those little circles do?
remindaboutinjection: I don't know. and don't know what purpose they serve. I don't know what you're supposed to use them for. They're dumb as anything.
Chris: Uh.
remindaboutinjection: Yeah. You
remindaboutinjection: know, don't worry about fire department. We'll get around.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: We'll get through.
Chris: Oh, yeah. One way or the other. yeah oh i The fire department have to do all these repairs and suspension issues. Can't imagine why.
remindaboutinjection: Can you imagine why we had jump over the curve in the circle? But, you know, that's fine.
remindaboutinjection: Speaking ruining things, I've discovered that my hatred of signing up for things is ruining my life.
Chris: What did you sign up for now?
remindaboutinjection: Well, don't sign up for things, and that's the problem.
Chris: Oh. How did it negatively...
remindaboutinjection: i one I wanted to just order food the other day. I was like out running errands and I was like oh, I like the little Turkish place for my house. I get a G-Row and I'll pick it up on way home.
remindaboutinjection: This just seems like in my lifetime, for the 46 years I've been alive, for 44 of those years, this was something that was easy to do. I would like you to go order food from anywhere.
remindaboutinjection: Without signing up for something.
remindaboutinjection: You can't. you You can't do it.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: It was like, oh sign into your Grubhub account. I don't have Grubhub. Sign it into your Slice account. I don't have Slice. Sign into your... but I'm like, how about you toast or what it whatever it is.
Chris: Yeah. Toast!
remindaboutinjection: Just how about I order the food and I come pick it up.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: it's insane insanely annoying i just gave up was like i'm just gonna eat tuna fish that's fine i want to give myself a little treat fine i'll just eat a po a pouch of tuna fish
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: That's...
Chris: That is... that is Frustrating.
remindaboutinjection: it's insanely and frustrating for me because i'm so stubborn i refuse to sign up for things it's just now making it worse and it's just they're just making it worse and worse and worse for me
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah. Hmm.
Chris: Well, it's like i have signed up for things that I've forgotten about. but So like I'll get done, and I'll pay, and all get a text, you've earned 500 Skippy Jong bucks. I'm like, what the hell is this?
Chris: yeah Click here to redeem. I'm not clicking anything. Sorry.
remindaboutinjection: the the The lady the other day coming to work, you need to sign up for our app. Do I? don't use it for anything.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: I don't need your app for nothing.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: I literally have a life insurance policy through you. That's it.
Chris: Yeah. Why would you? Yeah. Yeah. Not everything needs an app.
remindaboutinjection: Not everything needs an app. i don't I definitely don't need an app to check on the status of my life insurance policy.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: Am I still alive? Check. Cool.
Chris: Yeah, because when you need to check on the status of it, you're not going to be the one checking.
remindaboutinjection: Right. It's not my problem at that point.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: She got real.
Chris: Although I will say, i have i downloaded the 7.11 app.
remindaboutinjection: Oh, I do use this on my map. I do.
Chris: Yeah, because yeah, that exactly.
remindaboutinjection: Because of the gas point.
Chris: There's a clear benefit, an easy route.
remindaboutinjection: Yep.
Chris: I don't have to pull the app out when I fill up. I just punch my phone number in and I'm done.
remindaboutinjection: Yeah, and it's real annoying for me because there's no 7-Eleven's gas stations up here.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: Or if there are, they're not close to me. So it's real annoying.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: So I'm gonna have to get another one. And I'm not using Rofo because theirs is a nightmare.
Chris: Oh yeah, there's just like, oh well, you know, you can get, you get 10 cents off a gallon if you hook this to your savings account.
remindaboutinjection: Right, you have to start a ROFO card with them using your bank account.
Chris: It's like, no.
remindaboutinjection: i'm like not doing this. I don't trust the people that basically almost burn their place down every day making chicken. I'm not doing that.
Chris: Right.
remindaboutinjection: And boy, oh boy, there is nothing worse than being a vegetarian and walking into a ROFO and going, oh, that smells terrible. Oh my god.
remindaboutinjection: I'm not vegetarian anymore, but when I was, was rough.
Chris: Yeah. yeah
remindaboutinjection: Yeah. I just don't want to use apps. We've really ruined everything.
Chris: yeah
remindaboutinjection: it's Like there was a ah nice time where you could just go on the ah places website, say, order this food, pay with your card and move all your life.
Chris: Yeah, exactly.
remindaboutinjection: Yeah. This is terrible.
Chris: Yeah, yeah. But now they try to bamboozle you.
remindaboutinjection: I know.
Chris: They're like, oh, yeah, you know, I signed up for the app and you get 100 bonus points. What do the points give me? Well, once you get 8,000 points, you can cents off a pizza.
remindaboutinjection: Yeah. I wanted to watch the World Cup. It is the only, really the only sporting event that I actually follow anymore in my life.
remindaboutinjection: So I watched the World Cup.
Chris: OK.
remindaboutinjection: I've been doing it for 30 plus years at this point, right? I couldn't watch the World Cup at my house because I gave up. I just gave up.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: It was like, okay, well, it's on Fox. I'm like, okay, cool. So it's not on Peacock. It's not on Prime. But if you go to the Prime website, it lets you sign up to watch the World Cup by getting a new a Fox Sports account.
Chris: Mm-hmm.
Chris: Yep.
remindaboutinjection: The cheapest option to watch the World Cup that I could find was $81 month.
Chris: Yeah. That's ridiculous.
remindaboutinjection: Yeah. So I gave up. I just watched did it at work or watched it out at a bar because it was cheaper to go sit at a bar and watch it than have it in my own house.
Chris: That is craziness.
remindaboutinjection: Yeah, we've ruined everything.
Chris: Yeah, I mean, something like that. You want to watch that? Charge me $10 to watch
remindaboutinjection: Yeah, I would have totally paid. If you had said, hey, it's $30, gets you the World Cup coverage for the next, you know, because it's 39 days or whatever, I'd have been like, that's reasonable, cool.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: But $81?
Chris: Right.
remindaboutinjection: No.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: no
Chris: No. No.
remindaboutinjection: Ridiculous.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: And like, you know, I could have signed up for free for a day, so I would have got to watch like one match.
Chris: Yeah. Well, and then you better damn sure, as you set an alarm or something to your phone to cancel it, because, yeah, if not, I mean, that's like canceling a gym membership.
remindaboutinjection: Cancel it. Yeah. Yeah.
Chris: Hmm.
remindaboutinjection: Which is another thing that's a nightmare and it shouldn't be a nightmare. I yeah actually pay more at my gym so that I can cancel at any time.
Chris: See that now.
remindaboutinjection: Articulous.
Chris: yeah Yeah. You're not buying a house. i mean, yeah.
remindaboutinjection: Right.
remindaboutinjection: I probably signed less paperwork. In my lifetime, I probably signed less paperwork buying my house than I have joining gyms.
Chris: Ugh. But I'm sure at each one of those gyms, they give you like a nice workout t-shirt, you have a towel,
remindaboutinjection: Hell no! Hell no! I've not gotten any free swag from any of these gyms. oh
Chris: locker access.
remindaboutinjection: Well, yeah, I mean, you can get a locker. You have your own lock.
Chris: Yeah, see, that's, yeah, you should have.
remindaboutinjection: and' like And at my old gym, the the lockers had exposed hinge pins, so you could just pull the pin and open the locker.
Chris: Oh, that's cool.
remindaboutinjection: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: So I never put anything in there, clearly.
remindaboutinjection: Yeah.
Chris: Was it you who was telling me about the homeless guy who figured out how to work the system with the gym?
remindaboutinjection: that's what I would ever do. I would just have a gym membership. So I get my lock, my, my, my locker, like a shower, get some free food on Friday.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: So they do pizza Friday. Is it playing fitness?
Chris: Wait, I'm sorry. though The gym does Pizza Friday?
remindaboutinjection: I think it's Friday. Yeah. They do pizza Fridays. I'm playing fitness or they used to, i don't know if they still do it, but yeah, there's always candy at the little thing.
Chris: my gosh.
remindaboutinjection: It's a little counterintuitive to what you're doing, but you know,
Chris: Uh-huh. Yeah, yeah.
remindaboutinjection: But yeah, there's plenty of fitness everywhere.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: You can just walk around, shower.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. I was talking to somebody, and they were like, yeah yeah. There's phone chargers. There's air conditioning during the day. yeah It's like, yeah.
remindaboutinjection: And you get jacked. You're an homeless guy who's jacked.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: What are you going
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: And, uh, well, you got plenty of fitness, can't do it. But some them, like, you can get, they have little bars and snacks protein drinks stuff. Yeah.
Chris: Yeah, or some of them have 24-hour gym access. So you could just, yeah, set an an alarm and just you know fall asleep in a bathroom stall, and an hour later, move to the next one.
remindaboutinjection: I have, when I had a plan to fit, I look. Planet Fitness is not a great gym. It's perfectly fine if you need if you are if you are a amateur and you just need to work out.
remindaboutinjection: It's perfectly fine, depending on your Planet Fitness.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: The one by me sucks, but that's fine. I have used my Planet Fitness bike car when I had it to take shits at gyms before.
remindaboutinjection: Because you're like, I need to use the bathroom and I have a membership to this gym. You just walk in, take a dump, and leave.
Chris: Leave your deposit and walk out. Yeah,
remindaboutinjection: Yep, I have done that.
Chris: yeah because i mean gyms are typically a cleaner bathroom than any gas station you would ever go to.
remindaboutinjection: Uh-huh.
remindaboutinjection: Uh-huh. Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: Good luck going on a wild-wild gas station and not getting the skeeves.
Chris: Oh my gosh.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: I was driving to work late, as usual, the other day.
Chris: Late as in he's worked it out so he doesn't have to come to work till late.
remindaboutinjection: and
remindaboutinjection: Yeah, I have to go to work on time on Saturday, and I'm really bummed.
Chris: ah ah Poor panda.
remindaboutinjection: It's really going to be rough. But anyways, was going to work the other day and I had to just take a whiz and I stopped think it was a Rofo, and their bathroom was out. I'm like, you bastards.
remindaboutinjection: I know. Going like, I don't know, 50 more feet found another Rofo, but it's fine.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: But yeah, it was bad. The bathroom was gross.
Chris: He didn't just use the ladies room?
remindaboutinjection: No. No. What? No. oh
Chris: If you had to go that bad.
remindaboutinjection: I did have to go back. Well, you know, when you wake up late and go to work, it's...
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: Your old guts on a different schedule. It has been glorious going to late going to work late.
Chris: Yeah. I bet. Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: I just want to continue.
Chris: Yeah, I talked to the fire chief and he was like, you know, that whismar, he's got figure it figured out.
remindaboutinjection: Yeah, but yet everybody's fighting me to keep it from happening every day.
Chris: Who's fighting you?
remindaboutinjection: I don't know. The world...
Chris: OK. The world.
remindaboutinjection: I was figuring somebody...
Chris: For your years of service, the city of Salisbury should just lump in three hours of overtime to the C-shift officer just because.
remindaboutinjection: yeah They should do that.
remindaboutinjection: I feel like I'm owed.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: The city screwed me over for 20 plus years. I think that they owe me.
Chris: yeah
remindaboutinjection: No?
Chris: I don't know. I'll bring it up next week.
remindaboutinjection: I'd be happier if they just ah let me retire early.
Chris: Oh, yeah.
remindaboutinjection: That's got to be worth money to that rate, right? Because
Chris: I don't know how that works.
remindaboutinjection: you're paying me X dollars. You're going to get some punk kid who's got like five years on the job to replace me. It's going to way cheaper.
Chris: Yeah. That's true.
Chris: Yeah, but all the wealth of knowledge, they can't afford to lose that.
remindaboutinjection: so They're going to lose it one way or the other.
remindaboutinjection: They, they, for sure. i promise you that.
remindaboutinjection: Just, you know, let me go a little, it's only, what'd I figure out the other day? It's 26 months. It's only 26 months early. Here we go.
remindaboutinjection: So it's like 180 days.
Chris: Well, yeah, actually, you're right.
remindaboutinjection: Yeah, it's, it's, it's actually less than that because of the time off.
Chris: Yeah. yeah let's Yeah. Yeah. You'll yeah. You'll take time off. So, yeah.
remindaboutinjection: Yeah. I only have like, I think I figured out it was like 150 shifts left.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Wow.
remindaboutinjection: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: I'm not counting down or anything.
Chris: Yeah. No. No. Yeah. The sad thing is, I have less time than you, but more shifts.
remindaboutinjection: You do. You do.
Chris: Stupid day work.
remindaboutinjection: Yeah. That's what you get. We only do work.
Chris: Yeah, it is what I get.
remindaboutinjection: I think we should eliminate day work, honestly.
Chris: Oh my God. Oh my God. Could I be the deputy chief of admin and work at 2472? Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: Yeah. Why couldn't that happen? Why couldn't the the three of you um even take one of the the admin assistant chiefs and make a four-person schedule? maybe Maybe the fire chief needs to be around. I don't really know. but then you're Then you're the second-to-chief for the things.
remindaboutinjection: You could get shit done.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: There's only really... and i only one of you that really needs to be there every day. Not like one of the admin people.
Chris: Oh.
remindaboutinjection: This guy kind of has to be there.
Chris: Yeah, the logistics guy, yeah. yeah Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: Yeah. But the rest of you can figure that out.
Chris: But if we automated things,
remindaboutinjection: we are if Boy, boy, if we automated things, it would be better.
Chris: God, yes.
remindaboutinjection: But there's really no reason a lot of admin stuff couldn't be done on as a shift position.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: God, I like the cut of your jib.
remindaboutinjection: Well, when I retire, I'm going to write a very lengthy and sternly awarded letter to Firehouse Magazine about why admin is killing the fire service.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: First off, no one got in this job to be an admin.
Chris: Now,
remindaboutinjection: Just nobody. And if you did, I don't know what you were thinking.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Right, yeah.
remindaboutinjection: And it should not be... I really legitimately believe it should be like a bid thing and you're only in there for like two years and then you move the hell out. Because it's just not good for you.
remindaboutinjection: I see it in my friends who work in Edmund. It's ruining their lives.
Chris: It's not ruining my life, but it's definitely changed.
remindaboutinjection: Yes, it is. It's ruining your life.
Chris: 15 months.
remindaboutinjection: Yeah, but that's the that's the problem.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: ki you You should be... You would think at your position, you'd be thinking, oh, this is the pinnacle of my career.
Chris: Great.
remindaboutinjection: i'm you know I should be enjoying this, but you're not.
Chris: Great. Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: It's freaking brutal.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: It's not a job you wanted. If you wanted an admin job, you would worked.
Chris: I would have gone into politics.
remindaboutinjection: You would done some other bullshit. Right. it's it's it's yeah None of us are built this way.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: And it causes... Real problems, I think. Because we just, you're not, you don't want to be there. not not I gotta be careful i say this.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: so' you you just That's not who you wanted to be when you were growing up.
Chris: Right.
remindaboutinjection: No no kid was like, you know what i want to be?
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: want to be the deputy chief of administration of fire department.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: You know, you want to be a fireman.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: You do fireman shit.
Chris: yeah
remindaboutinjection: Well, ready to move on.
Chris: Well, let's move on. Yeah, topic one. So when my wife gets home and I say, you know what? The hell with it. I'm quitting my job. I'm going to run.
remindaboutinjection: right right well topic one i mean most of the world has heard some of this or what most of my world is there you get to hear the story because i've been purposely keeping it from you oh my god so um it's a couple weeks ago at this point it was whatever shift i worked
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. The origin story.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: thursday the last thursday i worked so i'm going to work late as is my normal thank god i was gonna work late actually at 4 0 1 a.m i hear blood curdling screams coming from the living room and i jump out of bed and i'm like totally not with it but you know
Chris: OK.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
Chris: OK.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Right.
remindaboutinjection: Years of getting up out of bed and just getting into action. I'm used to it.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: Pounce into action. I run into the living room. like, I'm thinking the dog's dead or there's been a murder or I don't know what's going on.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: And my wife is on the couch, just screaming her head off, just screaming.
Chris: no.
remindaboutinjection: And I'm like, What the hell is going And then right about the time I say, what the hell, I see ah fluttering shadow cross across my living room and about at about, I'm going to estimate Mach 1.
Chris: little...
remindaboutinjection: Because boy, oh boy, that thing is fast.
Chris: just here look
remindaboutinjection: you Yeah. So now I'm like, crap, I'm naked and there's a bat in the house.
remindaboutinjection: I run back to the bedroom, put on my fighting shorts.
remindaboutinjection: And I come out and I'm like, all right, well, I gotta get this. The dog doesn't even move, by the way. Didn't even care.
Chris: Oh, yeah.
remindaboutinjection: She was just like, whatever.
Chris: She's just like, whatever. Ah!
remindaboutinjection: Wife screaming, bloody murder. I'm like, oh my God. but My wife, by the way, has the survival instincts of a wombat, I guess, because was like, if anything was actually trying to hurt you, you'd be dead.
Chris: oh
remindaboutinjection: And I said, what would you have done if I had left? Because literally, i could have been on the road. If I was going to work on a normal time, have been on the road.
Chris: yeah yeah yeah oh yeah your problem which why was she up at four o'clock in the morning yeah
remindaboutinjection: Or just walking out the door going, hey, take care of that bat. Bye.
remindaboutinjection: don't know. i think she's i think the bat woke her up. Because she likes to sleep on the couch when I'm going to work. i don't know why.
Chris: yeah okay
remindaboutinjection: I fight with her all the time about it, but that's what she does. And I think the bat fluttered across her face and woke her up. so now i've got like i open the door to the back door of the house and the bats of course not going out the door i'm like i open the front door of course the bat's not going out the front door i'm trying to like swat the bat towards the door you know trying to hurt it it's like my arms like scaring it i don't know
Chris: yeah yeah
Chris: with what yeah oh no
remindaboutinjection: So then bat flies downstairs towards the front door. I'm like, oh, victory. It's going out the front door. Nope.
Chris: yeah
remindaboutinjection: It flies right into the basement.
Chris: oh no
remindaboutinjection: no Now I've got a bat on the second floor or the bottom floor of my house, and I've got to deal with that. So get downstairs, and the bat is just flying everywhere. just They're fast.
remindaboutinjection: They're really fast. like You don't expect to be that fast.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: Luckily, all the doors, because I'm a maniac, all the doors downstairs are closed. It's only in one room.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: So the door front door is open. The bat's downstairs. It's contained to a room. I'm like, all right, I watched the movie Great Outdoors. I know what to do. but So I literally grab a pillow off of the couch, and I'm winging it at the bat.
remindaboutinjection: And I get it once. Knock her down. Flies down the ground. And by the time I could jump over to get it, it already took off again.
Chris: Oh, gosh.
remindaboutinjection: Now it's pissed off. I'm like, oh my God. oh So like a gladiator of Roman ages, I go over and grab a blanket and I've got my pillow and my blanket and I'm just trying to whack this bat with a pillow.
Chris: Oh, God.
remindaboutinjection: I'm not trying to kill the bat. That's not my goal.
Chris: Right, yeah. No, you just got yeah you just want to stun it so you can get it outside.
remindaboutinjection: yeah I'm trying. I'm just stun it. Yep. So I finally, after, i don't know, 20 minutes of doing this, whacked the bat with a pillow, get it on the ground, throw the blanket on it, and I've trapped it.
remindaboutinjection: By the way, they scream. I was not prepared for that.
Chris: Oh, no.
remindaboutinjection: was not prepared for this little bastard to start screaming at me.
Chris: ah
remindaboutinjection: So I'm trying to, like, you know, get it in the blanket, and I'm trying to, you know, get my hands on it so I can get it outside.
Chris: Right. Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: So finally, get outside, you know, get the bat outside and flies away.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: Bat's removed from the house. Cool.
Chris: All is well.
remindaboutinjection: All is...
Chris: While you have. While you had the door open, five more black bats flew in.
remindaboutinjection: Exactly.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: So i go to, i I'm like, well, I so i still got to go to work in like two hours. I'm going to go try to get some sleep because, you know, I try to, it takes a while, but I finally fall asleep for an hour and get up, go to work, whatever.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: I'm at work and just so happens that a news article had come out that day about a kid in Canada who died of rabies from a bat interaction.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: And I was like, right.
Chris: Just an interaction.
remindaboutinjection: I think the bat had bit him, but he didn't know about it. So I was like, fuck. I mean, let me look up what the state, you know, Department of Health says.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: And it's like, oh, if you have a bat in your house, the saliva could carry rabies. They have had they had a little map, a heat map of rabies in Delaware. And of course, there was a bat with rabies within like three miles of my house.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: And i was like, fuck.
Chris: It was that bad.
remindaboutinjection: it could have been
Chris: good
remindaboutinjection: So i tell I tell my wife, I'm like, hey it appears we need to get you need to get rabies shots because you were asleep in a room with a bat and you can't tell that it didn't get saliva on.
Chris: yeah
remindaboutinjection: So she's like, what? And I'm like, yeah, here's here's the number to call. They'll tell you what to do. So of course, like she's like, I got you, motherfucker.
Chris: She threw you under the bus.
remindaboutinjection: She threw me right on the bus and they were like, yeah, he also needs to get rabies shots. I'm like, son of a. And then they said.
Chris: I expected like her to go there. She gets her shot and they're asking her everything and she tells this whole story and like you're at work and two people show up with like a net in a dart gun and we're like, sir, quietly, come quietly.
remindaboutinjection: it's and No, that didn't happen. it's I would have been better.
Chris: come quietly
remindaboutinjection: so the the person from the fortner health says well did you catch the bat and my wife's like no he he didn't he released the bat oh we're gonna send animal control out to see if they can catch the bat and i said well how would they know i didn't get the id of the bat i don't know the name of the bat to tell them yeah i don't know which i know
Chris: They catch like 12 bats. They have them lined up. They're like, which one of these? Can you have bat number three scutter scuttle forward a little bit?
remindaboutinjection: Yeah, could you have that one scream at me? I'll tell you which one screamed. don't...
remindaboutinjection: So...
Chris: Yeah. What was their end goal? I mean...
remindaboutinjection: Well, I'll tell you in a second, because, oh boy, this story gets fun.
Chris: my god. It's already fun. Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: It's already fun for everybody but me.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: So she's like texting me and she's like, well, they're saying you need to go to the get the shots. And I was like, so I call them and i was like, Hey, I'm at work.
remindaboutinjection: What should I do? They're like, what do you have access to a hospital that you could get this done today? Cause you're supposed to get the day zero shots. And I was like, yes, but I'm, you know, I'm down in Salisbury and I won't be down here for the next shot if I need to get the next shot.
Chris: T0.
remindaboutinjection: She's like, well, since you didn't catch the bat so that we can test it for rabies, we have to you have to do the whole series. was like, God bless it. And I said, oh, we'll get there.
Chris: how many How many shots is it now?
Chris: Oh, OK. OK.
remindaboutinjection: We'll get there.
Chris: Because it used to be in the okay used to be in the belly.
remindaboutinjection: Let's not spoil that that little bit of fun. but who will well get there so i texted friend of the show dr carrie forestall and i was like hey do you happen to be at work today and he's like yeah i'm working tonight i was like can you maybe in for a rabies shot and he's like what i said
Chris: Okay. alright Okay.
Chris: Mm-hmm.
remindaboutinjection: I need the rabies, uh, pep, you know, whatever the prophylactic series. And he's like, I guess. So he's like, I'm, he's like, I'm to work at eight. So I'll see you then. i was right, I'll be there at eight ish.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: But at this time, I'm like, I'm trying to see if there's other ways to do this. Cause I don't, I don't want to tie up the hospital. i don't want to be in that guy.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: So I call like Walgreens up in Delaware. i'm like, Hey, I need this. No, you have to go to hospital for that. We can't do that. We can only do the travel rabies vaccine. We can't do that one. I'm like, you sons of bitches.
remindaboutinjection: So then I'm calling like, I called union hospital. This is the weirdest interaction I've ever had in my life. So union hospital is right over the line in Elkton. It's a little smaller hospital. It's like the AGH of the Christiana world. Right.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: And I say, Hey, They're telling me I can come tomorrow to get this. Can I show up tomorrow morning and get the rabies vaccine? We can't discuss that over the phone, sir.
Chris: Weak. Weak.
remindaboutinjection: I said, what?
remindaboutinjection: I have to get the rabies vaccine. The state Delaware says I need to get it. You're a hospital. Do you give the rabies We can't discuss that over the phone. You have to come in and get evaluated.
remindaboutinjection: And I was flabbergasted by this interaction because I'm like, no, no, I don't need to be, if i I'm not sick.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: I just need the rabies vaccine. Do you do this? Sir, I'm telling you, we cannot discuss whether we give you the rabies vaccine until you come in and get evaluated. I said, if I come there and you shit my ass to Christiana after evaluating me, I'm going to burn a goddamn hospital down.
remindaboutinjection: So long story short, my only answer is to go to PRMC at night, which I hate doing.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: I'm on duty. I'm like, and of course, as soon as I get there, we get dispatched for a water rescue. So they kept me in the tracker. i come back from the water rescue and they're like, all right, we'll get you in and take care of.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: Two hours later, by the way, two hours later to get this freaking vaccine.
Chris: What?
remindaboutinjection: was like, man, priority patient care is great.
Chris: hmm.
remindaboutinjection: ah
Chris: Yeah, you would think that's a two minute procedure.
remindaboutinjection: Oh, ah ah so this very nice nurse, I didn't get her name.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: i They got me in one of the triage rooms, which sucks for me because I'm like taking up a triage room and the waiting room is slammed as always.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: This very nice triage nurse comes in. She's like, I'm going to go get your shots. Here's your discharge instructions. We'll get you out here. I said, awesome. I'm thinking, oh, it's not a big deal. couple IM injections. I'm out of here.
Chris: Yep.
remindaboutinjection: She walks in like she's stocking the shelves with needles.
Chris: but
remindaboutinjection: And her hands are like she's literally can't get all of her hands all the way around the needle she's carrying.
Chris: Oh my gosh.
remindaboutinjection: And I said, what is going on? and She's like, oh, these are for you. And I'm not sure I have enough.
remindaboutinjection: I said, what? She said, yeah, you have to get the um you get the the the prophylactic shot for the vaccine, and then you have to get the immunoglobulin response.
remindaboutinjection: So they give you fake rabies, basically.
Chris: Oh my god.
remindaboutinjection: And that is the IM shot for the rabies vaccine, one shot.
Chris: Mm-hmm.
remindaboutinjection: That's one. She's like, cool. That's a one milliliter in your arm. cool i got that can handle that and then she's like these other seven needles are for the immunoglobulin slap she's like i have to get what is she so she gave me 2.5 2.5 2.5 and then no six more it was six wait no it's it was seven because it was 2.5 2.5
Chris: Yeah. Seven?
Chris: Seven?
Chris: Okay.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: two point five two point five 2.5, 2.5, then 2.5. Yeah, so it's five, seven and a half in each leg, and then a one milliliter in my arm.
Chris: Oh my gosh.
remindaboutinjection: So she's like, yeah, she says, we're just trying to figure out how to had a divide up the the the amount of fluid, because want to give you too much fluid in one shot.
Chris: Oh my gosh.
remindaboutinjection: I'm like, fair. And so she's like, she's like, we're gonna give you this one in your arm. Vaccine. Cool. She does that. No problem. And she's like, you're being so brave.
remindaboutinjection: I'm like, just get this over with.
Chris: you're being so brave like you're a little kid
remindaboutinjection: By the way, I'm a grown-ass firefighter in uniform at this point, right?
Chris: yeah
remindaboutinjection: And she's like, all right, and now I've got to put some in your thighs. was like, cool. So i like lift up. Luckily, I'm wearing my first responder shorts.
Chris: yeah
remindaboutinjection: So I lift up my shorts, and she puts it in the side of my thigh. I'm like, man, that didn't feel very good. But she puts in the side of my thigh. Done. And she's like, and I got to put it in the top of your thigh.
Chris: I'm sorry, what?
remindaboutinjection: Yeah. yeah it gets better it gets better so then she does the other leg side of the thigh top of the thigh like okay and then she does the other arm okay then she's like now i have to and this is where it has i'm like my two female firefighters who are laughing their ass off by the way laughing and laughing i'm like out because she's like
Chris: oh
Chris: oh I was about to say.
remindaboutinjection: I have to put these in your ass. and I was like, I'm sorry. What? She's like, yeah, the next ones are going in your in your butt. ah Like, God damn it. So I send Tweedledum and Tweedledidiot out in the hallway. i said, don't open this door or you're fired.
remindaboutinjection: And I pull my shorts down and she gives me one in the ass on each side. so I got eight shots right dead and there there.
Chris: Jeez.
remindaboutinjection: Yeah. So that was fun.
Chris: Yeah, sounds like it.
remindaboutinjection: Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was real fun. That took two hours of my life.
Chris: Hmm.
remindaboutinjection: That was great. Of course, my five are tired. I want to go to bed. i'm like, well, I don't really want to be here either. Wasn't really on my plan of things to do.
Chris: Yeah. ah
remindaboutinjection: so So then, that's eight shots. We're at eight injections so far.
Chris: Yeah. Right.
remindaboutinjection: So you have to come back in day three.
Chris: OK.
remindaboutinjection: So I worked Thursday, so Friday, Saturday, Sunday. had to go back to the hospital for the day three shot, which is, nope, thank God.
Chris: Same hospital or. OK. OK. Shoot.
remindaboutinjection: So I called the state and they were like, no, no, no you you can go to Christiana. And I thought for sure when I showed up at Christiana, they were going to be like, well, you didn't do this here. We got to repeat everything. They could not do that, thank God.
Chris: Oh my God. Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: So we were like, well, it's going Sunday morning. Let's go early.
Chris: yeah
remindaboutinjection: You know, get it done. So we go there at 6 in the morning or whatever. They take us into the little triage room. the The doctor walks in. He's like, what are you guys here for? I'm like, ah we we have to get rabies shots.
remindaboutinjection: By the way, they triaged me, registered me got me, got a set of vitals before they did anything.
Chris: Hmm.
remindaboutinjection: It's like a real hospital there. It's kind of fun.
Chris: Oh, that's easy that's an and interesting.
remindaboutinjection: Yeah. So then they're like, oh, well, you just need ready shots. We're going to put you in a like a fast track room and we'll be right with you.
Chris: OK.
remindaboutinjection: And they let me tell you this. They were right with us. The doctor walks in.
Chris: All right.
remindaboutinjection: He's like, it's stupid that you have to come here. I'm sorry that you can't get it done anywhere else. I'm like, well, I have no choice. And he's like, yep I've already written your discharge instructions.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: The nurse will be in with your shot. Out. By the way, at this point, no one's ever asked for you. Nobody from Christiana ever asked, like, anything. They didn't, like... Who are you?
remindaboutinjection: They just got my name. That's it.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: They never they got my insurance card. No nothing.
Chris: Hmm.
remindaboutinjection: so So nurse comes in. She's like, hey, guys. I'm just going to give you here. At first, it's two nurses. And she's they're like, we're just gonna we'll split this up. And the one nurse like, I think I can handle giving them two IMs.
remindaboutinjection: You go do something else.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: thats Whatever. So she you know jabs me, give me the IM. Move on. We're out. we're We're out the door in 30 minutes.
Chris: Wow.
remindaboutinjection: yeah and i felt like a shit heel because we're like people watch this walk in the front door walk in walk out in 30 minutes and they were all sitting waiting and doing it i'm like suckers
Chris: That's really a rabies. are
remindaboutinjection: yeah yeah
Chris: Yeah. They keep like a cup of water near you, see if you're afraid of it.
remindaboutinjection: the doctor just kept holding one or two when they got
Chris: Yeah, see, that should have been the test. you Day zero, you went to a water rescue and you didn't freak out. So you're fine.
remindaboutinjection: Apparently, by the way, the moment you show symptoms for rabies, you're done.
Chris: ah Yeah. Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: It's a 99.9% fatality rate at that point. You have no recourse.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: So doctor's like, hey, you have to come back in seven days. ah You have to come back on day seven, not on day seven.
Chris: Day seven, OK?
remindaboutinjection: Not seven days, so day seven.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: So the next Thursday.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: So we get up, five in the morning, because Sherry's got it. My wife has to work at seven o'clock in morning. We're going to get this done before...
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: you're gonna get this done before and we were like there's no way this is gonna happen in an hour but let's hope so we get there like 5 25 walk up same thing go to the waiting room that the they put us in the waiting room this time and they're like we'll call you right back and of course we're in the waiting room with all these people who don't need to be the hospital but that's another you know and sure enough like we sit down and they're like hey
Chris: yeah
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: Whispers, come on back. and You can just see the eyes of anger as we leave. But then they put us, this time they put us in their little, ah guess you would call like an express care core.
Chris: OK.
remindaboutinjection: And we we had to sit a little bit waiting in there for probably 10 minutes. And while we're in there, this, I was just, I developed a theory of sick people. If you can't explain to the doctor or nurse what you need in 30 seconds, you do not need to be at the ER.
remindaboutinjection: Because every person was like this and this and then buth blah, blah, blah, blah.
Chris: Mm-hmm.
remindaboutinjection: And I'm like, you're not sick. Get out of here.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: yes
Chris: Yeah. go see Go find a primary care.
remindaboutinjection: right and then this lady comes in because they they pull you from the waiting room to this other little reading area and then they'll put you in a curtain little area right and and they're like all right go ahead and sit over there in the waiting area and she's like i have to sit in another way i'm like you're not sick enough get out of here
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: clearly so you know this time a registrar comes over and she's like how come you're not in the system
Chris: yeah
remindaboutinjection: I said, well, ma'am, I've not been a patient at this hospital for 30 years.
Chris: yeah yeah
remindaboutinjection: Like I've never, I haven't been to this e r except as a provider in 30 plus years. She's like, oh, well, weren't you here last, you know, on Sunday? i was like, yeah, they didn't register me. She's like, oh.
remindaboutinjection: then she's going through the whole, all the whole spiel, you know, gets me registered.
Chris: i'm sorry ma'am my name is whismur
remindaboutinjection: so give give us the shot boom we're at the door we're still at the door there's like 45 minutes this time gone was like this is crazy i can never get out of the hospital in 45 minutes anything else so then so now we're up to 10 shots ah was my 10th shot for this rabies have to get up this morning at five in the morning and go to the to the this time they they got me in and out of there 20 minutes
Chris: OK.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
Chris: OK.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Wow.
remindaboutinjection: Yeah. um I still haven't shown anybody my insurance card, so I don't know how that's going to work. Like,
Chris: Maybe it's one of those, like, it's on the state of Delaware because,
remindaboutinjection: you would think it would be.
Chris: Three. Mm-mm.
remindaboutinjection: But my suggestion to people is get the rabies vaccine beforehand because, boy. Oh, and my wife, by the way, guess how many shots she got when she got her day zero?
Chris: three
remindaboutinjection: Three! She got three shots! I got freaking eight. She got three.
remindaboutinjection: She had less total shots than I got on the first freaking day.
Chris: Oh, gosh. um Yeah, you can get preventative rabies shots.
remindaboutinjection: Yeah, you can have to. Yeah. Apparently when you go traveling, you're supposed to do it a lot anyways.
Chris: Yeah. Oh, insurance usually doesn't cover it. But you can pay the vet.
remindaboutinjection: Well.
Chris: I don't think a vet's going to give a human a shot.
remindaboutinjection: What?
remindaboutinjection: Well, what's this crap? So also the the um state was like, oh, you should probably take your dog to get a rabies booster.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: So we called the vet and said, hey, this has happened. She's like, oh, come on in. We'll just, we'll knock that out. And I'm like, they're never we're never in there for less than 45 to an hour or before that anybody talked to us six minutes we walk in the vet's like here you go gives the dog the shot one shot by the way one shot and then which is you know because i always have to get the bravies vaccine every three years anyways in delaware she's like oh and this is also good for her next three years so you don't have to worry about because we're gonna have to come in next year for it she's like no we got to now
Chris: Right, yeah.
Chris: Wow.
Chris: Yeah, yeah.
Chris: Yeah, yeah.
Chris: OK, yeah.
remindaboutinjection: And I said, is that rabies vaccine different than the one they gave me? She's like, no, it's the exact same vaccine. I'm like, why does that cost $100? And she gets one shot. And I got 11 shots that cost $10,000. She's like, that's the problem with the world. I'm like, what the fuck is going on?
Chris: Huh. Oh
remindaboutinjection: And I was like, do they give different doses? She's like, nah, it's one milliliter for no matter whoever, ah whatever size you are, whoever you are. I'm like, what the fuck?
Chris: my gosh.
remindaboutinjection: That's a scam.
Chris: It is.
remindaboutinjection: Yeah. And the vet said that, because they get, they have to get rabies shots.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: She's like, it's good for life for me because she titers every year.
Chris: OK.
remindaboutinjection: And whenever she gets an exposure, she just goes and they titers her and she's like, I'm good. And they're like, all right. So sometimes it's good for life. Sometimes it's not. I don't know. But
Chris: So it's like the Hep B vaccine we got.
remindaboutinjection: yeah yeah
Chris: Huh. Yeah, so why don't we get rabies vaccines?
remindaboutinjection: i don't know i i'm not i mean i've been craving you know to hang upside down and mosquitoes but other than that i've been fine no i i don't i don't know and it's super cheap so why don't you why don't let you the vaccine
Chris: him Is there like some weird side effect?
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah, it's a... whom Most people don't get routinely get the rabies vaccine because their day to day risk of exposure is extremely low. Additionally, the vaccine is expensive.
remindaboutinjection: It was $100 for the dog. Can't be that bad.
Chris: Yeah, yeah.
remindaboutinjection: i've I've gotten it for my dog at a clinic for $50.
Chris: Right. Yeah, see.
remindaboutinjection: And part of that is paying for the tag. It's not that bad.
Chris: A pre exposure dose ranges from eleven hundred to four thousand dollars.
remindaboutinjection: Can't be that
Chris: That now.
remindaboutinjection: Yeah.
Chris: No, no, no.
remindaboutinjection: For humans. Yeah.
Chris: no
remindaboutinjection: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: Yeah. if do for a dog, same dose.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: Same medication.
Chris: e
remindaboutinjection: Yeah. Mm-hmm.
Chris: Oh, I did look up the common brown bat. Typically flies at about 12 miles an hour. However, when frightened, can fly up to 21 miles an hour.
remindaboutinjection: I'm telling you that's wrong.
remindaboutinjection: That bastard flies at at least 100. And when it's like three inches from your face, it's really fast.
Chris: Yeah, I bet.
remindaboutinjection: Yeah. Apparently the saliva is very contagious for rabies. That's why they recommend this whole nightmare. But it's over.
remindaboutinjection: As of today, I'm done.
Chris: Okay, so you're...
remindaboutinjection: I'm done. No more shots.
Chris: Yeah, okay.
remindaboutinjection: was
Chris: Sure. That doesn't sound fun.
remindaboutinjection: It was not fun at all.
Chris: Hmm. Hmm. i will say, you know, I'm glad they didn't have to give you the shot in the belly because that's how it used to be.
remindaboutinjection: that's how my wife got hers. Hers was really, really.
Chris: Oh, really? ah
remindaboutinjection: Yeah.
Chris: No.
remindaboutinjection: Yeah.
Chris: God, I can't believe that.
remindaboutinjection: I don't know.
Chris: I don't know if I have enough.
remindaboutinjection: She literally said that. I'm like, man, that's insane. She was so mad. And she kept saying, you're so brave. You're so brave. I'm like, what is going on here?
remindaboutinjection: Are people that much of painsies that they can't take their IM shots?
Chris: Carrie Forrestal was in the... yeah the hallway waiting. She walked out. He was, how many shots did you get it get him up to? oh I gave him all seven. You did?
remindaboutinjection: Yeah. Yeah.
Chris: That son of a bitch only needed two. Oh,
remindaboutinjection: ah Yeah, ah probably.
Chris: Shoo. Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: That's probably true. It was rough.
Chris: ah
remindaboutinjection: yeah
Chris: jew
remindaboutinjection: And I will tell you, well, two things out of this besides that. The experience of going to Christiana and watching how their ER operates versus ERMCs ER is insanely different.
Chris: yeah
remindaboutinjection: It's so bad down there. Why is that allowed to continue?
Chris: They just got an award from the state for how great they do.
remindaboutinjection: True. For what? What are they good at
Chris: Timeliness.
remindaboutinjection: of
remindaboutinjection: I'm telling you, i watched I watched them do it. Every patient at ChristianaCare talked to a triage nurse, got a tracking band, and got vitals within two minutes of walking in the door.
remindaboutinjection: Every patient.
Chris: Wow.
remindaboutinjection: That does not happen at PRMC. It doesn't happen. I'm telling you it doesn't happen. I watch it happen. And the second thing I got to notice was this morning, the crew from, I don't know, what ambulance company brought in a homeless guy in ah in a in a wheelchair.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: And I was like, I do not miss that. Because they but they walked in.
Chris: yeah
remindaboutinjection: They put this guy in a wheelchair, put him in the little, in the triage area, and were and they were gone.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: And the nurse is like, I don't know what's wrong with this patient. They just brought him and left. And I was like, I know why they left, because they're tired of with that sumbitch.
Chris: Yeah. They knew Bobby.
remindaboutinjection: Yeah. They've taken that dude fucking 12 times this month. Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: That was my rabies fun exposure time. And the thing I've learned is catch the bat. Because if they catch the bat, they test it. You only have to do the day zero shots. Which is a fun fact.
Chris: That is, yeah.
remindaboutinjection: Or you can run the risk. and Because I think they said you can get up to two days before you get the run. But they have to test the bat.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: no
Chris: So did they ever find the bat?
remindaboutinjection: They never even looked. never came.
Chris: ah There's probably like some old man that's sitting there like, Bill, I got a bat for you to track. All right, let me get my gear.
remindaboutinjection: When they said that, because Sherry just told me that they said that, I'm like, well, how would they know which bat it was? Well, I don't understand. i don't even know how the bat got in the house.
remindaboutinjection: I can't figure that part out.
Chris: Through your attic?
remindaboutinjection: And then where?
Chris: I don't know. if They're slippery little devils.
remindaboutinjection: There's no hole from the attic down into the house.
Chris: I don't know.
remindaboutinjection: So I don't know how we got in.
Chris: Maybe your wife left the door open.
remindaboutinjection: 100% that's what it was.
Chris: Yeah, because most of the time yeah vampires have to be invited into the house.
remindaboutinjection: Uh-huh.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: I literally 20 times in the last two weeks, I've had to tell my wife to close the door.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: Today, after telling her 19 times prior to this, I said, why is the door open?
Chris: Uh-huh.
Chris: Uh-huh.
remindaboutinjection: She's like, well, I was just outside for a couple of minutes. I said, well, the door opens and closes.
Chris: Uh.
remindaboutinjection: You're fine.
Chris: Yeah, it's not like you need a key or a badge to get back in.
remindaboutinjection: right yeah it's it's it's It's literally a turn the handle and walk back in
Chris: oh my gosh.
remindaboutinjection: You're perfectly fine. It's 138 degrees outside. What are you doing?
Chris: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
remindaboutinjection: and That's how I usually find out because i i'll like I'll be downstairs and like, I feel a really hot breath of death coming down the the stairs.
Chris: You born in a barn?
remindaboutinjection: It's my wife with the door.
Chris: Mm-mm-mm.
remindaboutinjection: And i want I'm going to be like the old man going, I'm not paying AC the goddamn backyard.
Chris: born in a barn
remindaboutinjection: Yeah. no Boy.
remindaboutinjection: Well, that was my story that I've been saving up for two weeks at this point.
Chris: Yeah, yeah, that's, ah well, I'm glad you're, yeah, I'm glad you're doing much better with that.
remindaboutinjection: Oh,
remindaboutinjection: i i already told you this part but i thought it was hilarious because the the nurse who my wife says by the way was hitting on me i'm i'm oblivious to the fact you know when you look this way we can but she was like here's a work note so you don't have to go to work for the next three days and i'm like ma'am if i turned up to my job and said i can't go to work cause i got a vaccine i'm pretty sure they'd laugh me out of the station she's like well i'm giving you the note anyways i said okay
Chris: Okay. Yeah, i yeah. Yeah.
Chris: Oh, God. Yeah. Keep that in the old back pocket.
remindaboutinjection: They did offer to me again. They were like, you can have a work note.
Chris: yeah Oh, my gosh.
remindaboutinjection: I'm good, thanks.
Chris: See, you wouldn't have had to come in on time Saturday.
remindaboutinjection: ah that I know. and Look, there's nothing you guys can say to me because I got a note.
Chris: Exactly. oh my God.
remindaboutinjection: I don't even know what the note's for.
Chris: God.
remindaboutinjection: No, I'm not going that to my chef because my chef's already hurting right now.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: so
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: Well, that's that's all I got for you because I've been waiting to tell that story for few weeks.
Chris: Golly day. Yeah. That's been amazing. Well, yeah. well yeah Well, I guess I've got a shorter topic maybe. um So I just noticed this.
Chris: Why is non-alcoholic beer more expensive than regular beer?
remindaboutinjection: Yeah, and it's not even close.
Chris: Right!
remindaboutinjection: Those athletic... I tried it. that Is that athletic brewing, i think it's called?
Chris: Yeah, i'm I'm staring at one right now, or a box across the way, but yes.
remindaboutinjection: They're like $20 for six of them.
Chris: Uh-huh. Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: What is going on?
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: They should be cheaper. There's no alcohol.
Chris: Right!
remindaboutinjection: You took something out.
Chris: Yeah, exactly!
remindaboutinjection: Yeah, I do not...
Chris: That's like my daughter's gluten-free bread should be cheaper than the regular bread because it has no gluten.
remindaboutinjection: Well, that doesn't make sense.
Chris: Yes, it does. Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: You have to use different products. But the the alcoholic beer is the same. Actually, how how do you make non-alcoholic beer?
Chris: I don't know. Isn't it just like juices and things?
remindaboutinjection: And why do you have non-alcoholic beer your house?
Chris: Because sometimes I want a beer, but I don't want alcohol.
remindaboutinjection: Hmm. I mean, that was my theory, too. I'm on board. um weirdly, kind like it, but it is super stupid expensive.
Chris: Yeah. well i Well, the one I got was an IPA, and i just I am over IPAs.
remindaboutinjection: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: Oh, I was just thought about that yesterday too. I am done with IPAs.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: I live in Delaware. I'm a proud Delawarean, but I'm not proud of what Dogfish Head has done to all beer brewing in the state of Delaware because everybody just starts making IPAs because of them.
remindaboutinjection: It's not their fault, but they've unleashed us on the world.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: No, I like the athletic. There's a golden. It's really kind of nice.
Chris: Yeah. I don't know what this is. This is, oh yeah, this is the Upside down upside Dawn Golden.
Chris: don't know. it It still had that piney taste to me.
remindaboutinjection: Well, I think that's what people are looking for in the beer part, right?
Chris: and no See, I like a nice wheat beer.
remindaboutinjection: I'm a big, look, I'm a man of my own heart.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: I'm big fan the wheat beers.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: But I have noticed, I don't know what's going on in my life.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: I'm getting like real bad hangers if I'm like two beers now.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: I just, I don't think I can handle it anymore.
Chris: Yeah. No. No. I drink a beer and I'm like, oh, sleepy, tired.
remindaboutinjection: Right, but yeah. and And I'm with you.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: I just like the taste of it.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: I have not found a non-alcoholic wheat beer yet. If you find that, you gotta let me know.
Chris: So I saw today non-alcoholic Blue Moon, but I was in uniform, so I could not buy it.
remindaboutinjection: Oh.
remindaboutinjection: Why not?
Chris: I don't know.
remindaboutinjection: It's not alcoholic.
Chris: it's it Yeah, it's an image thing.
remindaboutinjection: I know. i I'm so nutso about that because obviously you guys live in a state where you have you know alcohol and groceries in the same place. I purposely don't go down that that aisle while while shopping at work.
Chris: Huh.
remindaboutinjection: I avoid that aisle just for that reason. But yeah, I don't know why it's so bloody expensive. It's insane.
Chris: Non-alcoholic beer is expensive because it goes through a complex, energy-intensive brewing and de-alcoholization process requiring advanced technology like vacuum distillation.
Chris: Huh.
remindaboutinjection: Oh, so they brew beer and then take the alcohol out.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: Huh.
Chris: Huh.
remindaboutinjection: That does explain why it would be more expensive.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: Hmm.
Chris: it's also because of marketing. Marketing has established that premium drinks come with a premium price. Companies position non-alcoholic beers as high quality craft alternatives rather than a cheap substitute.
Chris: Hmm.
remindaboutinjection: I will say the price of beer has gotten nutso.
Chris: Huh.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: Like just a six pack of Yingling is $10 these days.
Chris: Yeah. Jesus. Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: Yeah. I just, put yeah.
Chris: I'm going to make my own still.
remindaboutinjection: We're gonna need a vacuum distillery to take out the alcohol.
Chris: I know. it's a problem.
remindaboutinjection: I mean, i have read lots and lots of people saying that these kids these days don't drink beer.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: So, you know, maybe not-alcoholic beers are going to be a thing, like a real thing.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. Maybe it'll yeah it'll be the new thing. and
Chris: but's say I saw some side tangent. Somebody the other day said, hey, if anyone has tried the non-alcoholic white claws, let me know.
remindaboutinjection: Isn't that just seltzer water?
Chris: Exactly.
remindaboutinjection: What?
Chris: But I'm sure because it's, you know, white claw, non-alcoholic, it's probably, again, like twice as expensive or whatever. it's People are dumb.
remindaboutinjection: So do you you think White Claw makes hard seltzers and then takes the alcohol out and sells that as the non-alcoholic White Claw?
remindaboutinjection: Or do you think they just make seltzer water and sell it as White
Chris: yeah they make seltzer water and sell it in look at what these idiots are buying ah yeah
remindaboutinjection: Right, that's got to be it, right?
remindaboutinjection: Just like, hey, you know that Polar Springs? Same stuff.
remindaboutinjection: Well, I almost got, you know, an HR violation against me at work the other day because I have noticed that seltzers and mixed cocktails and cans have taken over like the beer section of the liquor stores by me.
Chris: whoa
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: So my suggestion is for all these women who want to drink this crap, how about a women's only liquor store? So you guys can have your frou-frou crap and get it out of my beer store.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: Yeah. Yeah.
Chris: Yeah. just Just beer. That's what you do. Just beer.
remindaboutinjection: Yeah. Beer and Jack Daniels. so That's all you need in life to be sad.
Chris: To be sad. It's like they've got this discount beer and wine store in a strip mall here in Fruitland. That is one of the sketchiest places on earth.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: that that
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: Yeah. Man, I kind of feel like I'm to get non-alcoholic beer today. Because I like the taste of the beer.
Chris: Yeah. Well, that's like, I saw like a go brewery has some, I was like, Oh, maybe I'll try some of that.
remindaboutinjection: But don't like it as a dimmer.
Chris: But also it's like, Oh, here's our wacky dacky IPA pack. I'm like, I don't want that. I want a six pack of your wheat beer and that's it.
remindaboutinjection: the The worst one is... Is it Troggs? There's some brewery ah but up here that only does six packs, like the mixed packs, of their 12 different IPAs.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: It's like, oh, you get the Hazy, the Pale. They're all IPAs. I don't care.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: I don't want any of them. Well,
Chris: Yep. Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: that's the only thing from Evo. That's the only beer that I ever see for sale is their IPA.
Chris: ah They have an Evo White, which is a good wheat beer. Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: And ah the trick about Evo is they're brewing the beer for everybody else.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: Tells you that all a scam.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
Chris: A good half-wise. Oh,
remindaboutinjection: Well, now I kind of want to find myself an unalcoholic Hefeweizen because that's that's my thing.
Chris: yes. yeah i good havefean that's that's a
remindaboutinjection: Especially in summertime, it's like the beer for the summertime.
Chris: oh yes
remindaboutinjection: You know, as it cools off...
Chris: But also in the wintertime, it feels good. yeah It's got a good taste. It's it's just a year round.
remindaboutinjection: Well, turns out, weirdly, that the guys who've been making beer for like a thousand years know what they're doing.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Evidently, Athletic Brewing has a Hefweizen.
remindaboutinjection: Really?
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: I'm going to have to look for it today.
Chris: Yeah. Or there's Wehenstaffener.
Chris: Yeah, that's a non-alcoholic. Yeah, they have a lot of them. Yeah. There's Gutmann Dark, non-alcoholic. Huh.
remindaboutinjection: The thing that is going to get me in trouble personally, it's probably not because I'm smart enough to not do it, but the THC beers that they put next to the beers, that's a real problem.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. yeah I almost bought one when I was down the Outer Banks. And yeah, my wife's like, whoa, whoa, whoa, what are you buying?
Chris: I said, don't it's just a seltzer water. She's like, no, it's not.
remindaboutinjection: No, no. Nay, nay, Cheech.
remindaboutinjection: Not October 1st yet, bud. You can't do that.
Chris: Yeah, yeah.
remindaboutinjection: What are we going to do October 1st? Are we playing yet?
Chris: No, because I can't.
remindaboutinjection: Why can't you?
Chris: Because I don't have a card.
remindaboutinjection: yep like You want a card? i get you a card.
remindaboutinjection: I told you how I went, Mike. The first time I went to my new doctor, right? What? you're going to change doctors. And she literally walks in the room and she hands me the form to fill out, to get a card.
remindaboutinjection: And i was like, i I'm not, I'm not here for that. She's like, what? She's like, that's what everybody's here for.
Chris: That's whatever.
remindaboutinjection: Like, no, no, no.
Chris: Wait, I'm supposed to medicine today? this is craziness.
remindaboutinjection: Right, right. And she's, like, by the way, she's great.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: She's the greatest PCP I've ever had to deal with. She's awesome. She's attentive. She doesn't work for the giant hospital, so she's actually, like, taking care of patient care.
Chris: Wow.
remindaboutinjection: But it was just very funny to me that she walked and was like, well, here's your form.
Chris: That's...
remindaboutinjection: I'm like, no, no, no, no.
Chris: a
remindaboutinjection: But now, I'm going to have to go to her and be like, hey, remember that form we talked about? Oh,
Chris: Yeah. My glaucoma's acting up.
remindaboutinjection: my shoulder. Oh, oh, boy. at this prior injuries
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
Chris: Well, I think was a good cast of the old pod.
remindaboutinjection: i'm glad i could share my pain ring for everybody the hear out to the story of manbat is he's got rabies oh oh
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah. yeah Well, the good thing is you're not going to turn into man-bat, so.
Chris: No, but it sounded good.
remindaboutinjection: cause he is a man Is he a man who turns into a bat or is he a bat that turns into a man?
Chris: A man who turns into a bat. Kirk Langstrom.
remindaboutinjection: what Why does he turn into a bat?
Chris: It was all to solve his wife had like a congenital hearing thing or something, and because bats hear better, you figure you know the DNA would help. i That's part of it.
Chris: Yeah.
remindaboutinjection: What?
Chris: him Him and his wife both turned into man bats.
remindaboutinjection: Well, wouldn't it be woman,
Chris: Well, yes. I'm sorry. They turned into bat people. Yeah. he and He was trying to give people sonar. He tested the serum on himself at first. The extracted mutated serum.
Chris: transformed into a monstrous humanoid bat. He struggles with his dual identity as a tragic tragic feral beast and brilliant scientist.
remindaboutinjection: Does he ever get to turn back into human?
Chris: A couple times he has, yeah.
remindaboutinjection: So then he turns into a man bat and he's like, oh, this sucks.
Chris: yeah
remindaboutinjection: Let me turn my wife into a man that seems like a jerk move to me.
Chris: Yeah. Let's see. Francine Schibat.
Chris: Oh, what's she bat?
Chris: data Francine accidentally gets exposed to the bat formula. Huh. She loses her memory and acts on animal instincts alone. Hmm.
remindaboutinjection: I think it's crazy that she knew her name was Francine.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's ah some of the worthless knowledge up there in the old noggin.
remindaboutinjection: Oh.
remindaboutinjection: She is scary looking.
Chris: Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yep.
remindaboutinjection: Whoa.
Chris: Yeah. Even in the animated series, she was freaky.
remindaboutinjection: Yeah.
Chris: Yep.
remindaboutinjection: Whoa.
Chris: Yep. So, yeah. At least you don't have to turn that into that.
remindaboutinjection: I do not want to turn into that.
Chris: No.
remindaboutinjection: I definitely don't want my wife to turn into that.
Chris: No. No, no, no.
remindaboutinjection: Yeah.
Chris: No.
remindaboutinjection: She looks... I don't know that I can get it up for that.
Chris: Probably not.
Chris: sir Well, folks, make sure you stay away from the vats and go find some good non-alcoholic beer.
remindaboutinjection: Yeah. Give it a try.
Chris: Take care, folks.
remindaboutinjection: See you, folks.
