Transcript
Chris: Welcome back to another episode of the Mythic Giraffe Podcast. I'm Chris.
pumkinspicemustflow: And I am a confused Ron.
Chris: Because this time it worked.
pumkinspicemustflow: This time it worked.
Chris: ah ah It's because it's not as hot today. Maybe that's what it is.
pumkinspicemustflow: Is it not as hot today? Feel like it's hotter today than it was last week.
Chris: All right. no I really am.
pumkinspicemustflow: It's like 85 degrees here today.
Chris: ah That's about what it was down here. So. Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: It's not as humid.
Chris: I tell you, it was... so yeah it was surprisingly hot and humid Tuesday for that rescue training
pumkinspicemustflow: m Yes, it was at work.
Chris: yeah And that is the longest I've had my gear on. in probably the last eight years.
pumkinspicemustflow: You okay? Do you need...
Chris: Golly day.
pumkinspicemustflow: You counseling?
Chris: yeah Yeah, I did at the end of it. sho Yeah. Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: Well. Yeah. This is way inside baseball for the department, but no one even told me where it was at. They were like you guys can show up if you want but then there was only where it was at.
Chris: Well, that... They were like, oh, yeah, it's off of Gordy Road. I'm like, I don't remember there being a junkyard off of Gordy Road. So I... i'm going up north and the rescue is behind me i was like i'll let them go past me and i follow them It was down off of Harford Road, not Gordy Road.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yep, yep.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: yeah But again, no one ever said anything.
Chris: So.
pumkinspicemustflow: which
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: Personally, I'm glad we didn't go because we were busy. let's fix up the station and
Chris: What? Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: I hate when our engine is that far out of district for so long.
Chris: Oh yeah. Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: Just...
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: I hate it. It gives me...
Chris: I had that. I had that discussion with the fire chief this morning.
pumkinspicemustflow: thank you
Chris: BS in a handful of us. I was like, yeah. you know I talked to. ah the guy that was down from dc helping teach classes he was like yeah they every sunday night everybody in the city gets together in the middle of dc and has dinner together
pumkinspicemustflow: For some reason I think that might be sarcasm.
Chris: There's a lot of sarcasm.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah. My shift is I finally have Whoop that out of them a little bit.
Chris: yeah
pumkinspicemustflow: But they still it's just these these weird little things that they just want to get back together for no good reason.
Chris: Mm -hmm Mm -hmm.
pumkinspicemustflow: And you're just like, this could have been an email.
Chris: Oh, my God.
pumkinspicemustflow: And. And I've told my boss like. For the people don't know Salisbury like our station and the main station are the for the station part.
Chris: hu
pumkinspicemustflow: And it is a nightmare to get from one to the other.
Chris: Mm -hmm
pumkinspicemustflow: It... Legitimately sometimes they'll take you 20 minutes to get. from one station to the other. It don't matter if you got lights on or not.
Chris: oh yeah
pumkinspicemustflow: ah And I'm talking to my boss, I'm like, do something. at The station is in between us. If you have to do something together, do it there.
Chris: Mm hmm. Yeah. Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: No, no, we'll do it here. because More convenient for... you know, the captain I don't care The people who...
Chris: Or here's an... Here's a novel concept. It is the year 2026. If you... want to have that kumbaya everybody Here's a Google Meet.
pumkinspicemustflow: Sure. I mean, why can't we have that for our officers meeting? But that's... A whole other... Whole other point.
Chris: I do what I can.
pumkinspicemustflow: But... yeah i just i'm like
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: The people who live on my side of the town.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: Don't want to hear the excuse that I was uptown for a meeting.
Chris: Hmm. yeah
pumkinspicemustflow: you We do go on calls.
Chris: Yeah. It busiest in the city.
pumkinspicemustflow: We're President of the City. Sorry. It's going to change our patch to it.
Chris: Peace. Beast of the East.
pumkinspicemustflow: Leave to the east. Yeah. Yeah.
Chris: yeah
pumkinspicemustflow: We put that on the new engine. so you guys can't steal it.
Chris: I mean, you guys are getting 16 and 16 -1.
pumkinspicemustflow: I've already made that joke at work.
Chris: Did a certain person with age shift lose their mind?
pumkinspicemustflow: I think actually every one I figured out lost their mind. They did not like that joke.
Chris: we could put the tower out there.
pumkinspicemustflow: Luckily it won't fit.
Chris: but I bet if you like catty corner.
pumkinspicemustflow: ah If we took all the other apparatus out and knocked the pillars out, you could... Maybe squeeze her in there.
Chris: ah yeah
pumkinspicemustflow: um um
pumkinspicemustflow: I'm okay with not having the tower.
Chris: Uh... Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: I feel like the tower was a wasted opportunity for the city.
Chris: hu
pumkinspicemustflow: Like... Why did we buy truck two if we had a perfectly league working tower? Just use that.
Chris: of but Yeah, but the problem is the... The pump on it's wrong. It cavitates when you try to fill the pump.
pumkinspicemustflow: Don't use the pump.
Chris: ah Well, a truck shouldn't have a pump anyway.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah. Soft.
Chris: Check.
pumkinspicemustflow: Bam.
Chris: Yeah. Truck should have five gallons.
pumkinspicemustflow: Feel the time.
Chris: That's it.
pumkinspicemustflow: Fill the concrete. Done.
Chris: like Or just leave it empty. I mean, those are your...
pumkinspicemustflow: I mean, you know. One of the two. I mean, it's slow as hell so it won't notice. He feels concrete anyways.
Chris: ah oh my gosh Yeah. Yeah, that was... Yeah. The fire department rules the country. We're not the only one, but it makes some dumb decisions when it comes to apparatus.
pumkinspicemustflow: ah
pumkinspicemustflow: I don't know. but We might be one of the worst abusers of it.
Chris: ah
pumkinspicemustflow: Because...
pumkinspicemustflow: I guess I would say like some departments like Richmond, they try new things and it doesn't work out, but they were trying a new thing. I like the Quint concept in there.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: They tried it for... a good while and they then they weren't like they were like All right, this console is not working. They weren't like, let's go replace all the quints today, though.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: We would do that.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: we We would be like, no, no, no, we're getting rid of all of them today.
Chris: Mm hmm.
pumkinspicemustflow: you know.
Chris: Oh, there's a new paint scheme on the new one. well Let's repaint everything.
pumkinspicemustflow: Oh my God. All right. That particular... instance is one of the things that has annoyed me. my entire career we We had a paint scheme.
pumkinspicemustflow: across all three stations. And for some reason... We've made the decision to just... Change to a new paint screen.
Chris: a
pumkinspicemustflow: Was it on that? what Was it the tower first?
Chris: What? Yeah. Maybe.
pumkinspicemustflow: And then for some reason we then decided to... Repaint everything in the city.
Chris: ah
pumkinspicemustflow: That means.
Chris: Well, it matches the new helmet fronts that everybody wanted.
pumkinspicemustflow: No, it doesn't.
pumkinspicemustflow: And also I. hate this, my friends.
pumkinspicemustflow: i I'm probably going to be the last to hold out, aren't I? And there was one other holdout.
Chris: ah Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: It's not changed over.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: And. When the... Sergeant who? was really for them said, well, why are you holding on? I said, because I earned this film a front.
Chris: Mhm.
pumkinspicemustflow: This is Biometron.
Chris: huh
pumkinspicemustflow: Not that ugly.
Chris: ah
pumkinspicemustflow: Peace. Because... it's like And that was...
Chris: It looks like something like your leg. Hey.
pumkinspicemustflow: Like a kid drew?
Chris: heyve Hey Pre -K! For arts and crafts today, here's a helmet. I want you to put a shield on the front of it
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah. And...
pumkinspicemustflow: this is i like i'm not like mr no progress i'm all about changing things that are useful
Chris: Mm -hmm
pumkinspicemustflow: That wasn't useful.
Chris: No.
pumkinspicemustflow: We wasted money on that. Because we had perfectly good helmet fronts.
Chris: Well the volunteers paid for it.
pumkinspicemustflow: Okay.
Chris: Bye. Bye.
pumkinspicemustflow: That's a...
Chris: I know it's a... Crappy excuse.
pumkinspicemustflow: It's a crappy excuse we use all the time.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: The volunteers paid for it. Well, that money could have been used for, I don't know. anything else. We've got AEDs that need replacement. Right?
Chris: Ooh, they shipped yesterday.
pumkinspicemustflow: Oh, okay. well Good.
Chris: Yeah. Yep.
pumkinspicemustflow: but that money could have been used for that.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: That money could be used for...
Chris: mm -hmm
pumkinspicemustflow: new training equipment right there's all kinds of stuff that could have been used for besides helmet fronts.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: And I said, good, if you want to change helmet fronts.
Chris: yeah
pumkinspicemustflow: Order 10 of them. As they come in and people need replacements, give them the new ones. There it is. Here I am. And again.
Chris: ah Well... One thing for you. I did hear. that they're trying to get the officers' t -shirts a darker gray.
pumkinspicemustflow: god
Chris: So they're not.
pumkinspicemustflow: Please.
Chris: as noticeable when you sweat.
pumkinspicemustflow: Oh my God.
Chris: But Heather Gray doesn't show any. sweat stains, does it?
pumkinspicemustflow: It shows everything! I look like I'm at a wet t -shirt concert after like... Goodbye. Two minutes. It was crazy.
Chris: ah
pumkinspicemustflow: I come out of the engine and I take my coat off. I'm like. Jeebus Christmas! Let me go change. i I've gone through like four shirts to shift. in one shift this summer.
Chris: truth
pumkinspicemustflow: Because it just looks... and And God helps if you're cooking and you get a little spot on your shirt. You're like, oh, that looks amazing. I'm going to take your shirt off.
Chris: yeah Well, that's why you should just cook.
pumkinspicemustflow: time
Chris: Shirtless.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yes, that's correct.
Chris: What do you think is more dangerous, cooking shirtless... or string trimming in shorts.
pumkinspicemustflow: Well, I string stream in shorts all the time, so I'm going to say...
Chris: Well, yes, sort of. So do I, but...
pumkinspicemustflow: I'm gonna say cooking shirtless. I don't
Chris: Ah.
pumkinspicemustflow: whatever the string turning can hurt my feet i don't my legs who cares it's if it gets in my eye that i'm worried so
Chris: Yeah, I mean, I were.
pumkinspicemustflow: Oh.
Chris: glasses when I string trim.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah. I wear glasses because I'm afraid of that.
Chris: Yeah, because I've had like a rock or something like. kick up and hit me in the cheek i'm like oh my Gah!
pumkinspicemustflow: oh yeah i had a rock like hit me on the lip
Chris: Oof.
pumkinspicemustflow: and like oh i was like oh my god i had to stop a minute i was like i got shot Yeah.
Chris: See, that's what it was. It was the wife actually. She had her BB gun.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah.
Chris: yeah
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah. Yeah, I'm... um i'm
Chris: Hmm.
pumkinspicemustflow: Always worried about my eyes were doing that kind of stuff. I'm not worried about my legs. Who cares?
Chris: yeah
pumkinspicemustflow: but Cook is shirtless, man. like
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: My hair will catch fire.
pumkinspicemustflow: Want that?
Chris: ah yeah I don't understand how bacon. When it cooks, it's just... It's fine. It's fine. I'm fine. Just every now and again, it's like kapow and shoot something five feet across the room.
pumkinspicemustflow: I don't understand you maniacs that cook bacon in anything other than an oven. I don't understand it
Chris: Ugh. well sometimes you don't want to heat the whole oven up
pumkinspicemustflow: That's why I have a micro oven.
Chris: oh
pumkinspicemustflow: A little.
Chris: We don't all have. Ron Wismer lifestyle.
pumkinspicemustflow: My little toaster oven slash. I've actually not been slash. oven oven is i use that thing all the time and it's it's
Chris: ah
pumkinspicemustflow: I don't know Two by...
pumkinspicemustflow: Maybe 3x, 2x. One. It's perfect. You want to cook like three slices of bacon? Throw it in there. Perfect bacon every time.
Chris: Yeah, but if you want to cook a rasher of bacon.
pumkinspicemustflow: You could put a whole ration on there.
Chris: No, you could.
pumkinspicemustflow: it's a little tight. But you might have to do two.
Chris: i
pumkinspicemustflow: You might have to do two.
Chris: Okay.
pumkinspicemustflow: Or you use the big oven.
Chris: Hmm. Yes, it's a yes. How now?
pumkinspicemustflow: And you don't make a huge mess everywhere.
Chris: ah Yeah. i thought I was like, could I just grill the bacon? But that's not going to work.
pumkinspicemustflow: I've smoked bacon on my smoker before.
Chris: that's That's a fire.
pumkinspicemustflow: it's pretty good
Chris: It just seems like a fire waiting to happen.
pumkinspicemustflow: Well, you know. It's in the grill. Girls don't catch fire. I've never seen it happen.
Chris: ah
pumkinspicemustflow: I've never been at a fire station where a grill was rolling black smoke. as it fully involved in flames. It's never happened.
Chris: In the basement.
pumkinspicemustflow: yeah That too. I was thinking it's a new station, but yeah.
Chris: Oh my gosh. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that too. oh gosh yeah yeah that the concrete is still stained to this day
pumkinspicemustflow: yeah
Chris: Hmm.
pumkinspicemustflow: yeah
pumkinspicemustflow: We weren't in that station very long before that happened.
Chris: okay Oh, yeah, no. No. Yeah. What we need to do is we need to put a timer. On the gas line? No, you just need to be not an idiot.
Chris: and clean the grill.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah Yeah. well technically they were trying to clean it by burning it off which is
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: You know. Not also better, but that's what they were doing.
Chris: Yeah. yeah Yeah, I see.
pumkinspicemustflow: You're also supposed to not grill.
Chris: This is why you're that's why you shouldn't use the self -clean.
pumkinspicemustflow: Mr. for Walls. okay I used to self clean my oven all the time.
Chris: ah Yeah, and then the other day at work, you went to a house that had a appliance fire because of self -cleaning.
pumkinspicemustflow: It's true.
Chris: but
pumkinspicemustflow: It is. But nothing happened. It was fine.
Chris: ah fine
pumkinspicemustflow: Put the truck in service, which is... my favorite thing to do.
Chris: Gosh, yeah. do you wait till they're like turning on the block
pumkinspicemustflow: Yes.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: As soon as I hear their siren, I'm like. Thank you for your service.
Chris: Because remember, we used to do that. on the ambulance all the time.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah. Totally.
Chris: Oh my gosh.
pumkinspicemustflow: Cool.
Chris: Essentially give me a medical local. Medical assist.
pumkinspicemustflow: That the...
Chris: Edge of 60s, honestly, you can go in service.
pumkinspicemustflow: The sergeant we were just talking about did it to me. last shift He waited until, because the truck was up in Delmar. He waited until I got to... Robinson.
pumkinspicemustflow: Off Jersey Road.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: Support me in service.
Chris: Ooh.
pumkinspicemustflow: And he waited until we were past the turn. So he didn't couldn't even turn around.
Chris: Oh gosh, that's, yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah.
Chris: Did he lean out and chuckle?
pumkinspicemustflow: but never He never even came out there because he knew I was just going to... Flip them off.
pumkinspicemustflow: But he went all the way. I mean. It was like a 13 minute ride from my station to that call.
Chris: Oh yeah. Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: And then he was just like. You can go, Tyrus. I'm like, you mother...
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: And, of course, it was at dinner time. I was like, wonderful.
Chris: Mm -hmm Yep.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah. i was like yeah give me a medical assist they can go non -emergency though central
pumkinspicemustflow: Okay.
Chris: And then you wait and you hear them. Yeah, you can go in service. We're good.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah, we did we we thought we're gonna need to go we didn't
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. We just want you to drive through traffic. Put everything you're doing down. Get angry.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah, back in the day they didn't do anything all day.
Chris: Yeah. It's the thing, yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah. What were they doing?
Chris: Tally -tay. Not at playing cards.
pumkinspicemustflow: Playing cards.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: Playing spades, more than likely.
Chris: ka Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: Smoking cigars.
Chris: i don't know if i could still play i i'm sure after a couple hands i would pick it back up but i can't remember
pumkinspicemustflow: huh
pumkinspicemustflow: I still play. I'm still keeping. That's stupid.
Chris: ah
pumkinspicemustflow: Keep it trimmed. Just in case one of the new guys wants to throw down.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah.
Chris: Do you think I even know what playing cards are?
pumkinspicemustflow: I mean, I sure they know what they are. Sort of seen him in a museum somewhere.
Chris: um
pumkinspicemustflow: But they've... I doubtfully used them ever.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: no
Chris: That's so deep. Yesterday. America. Coming back from... The rescue training. What is that ute on your shift, Huddy? I said, who is driving that engine? hi Hudson, he's, you know, no, he's not even old enough to drive a car. Ah.
pumkinspicemustflow: it it It feels like it.
Chris: goy day
pumkinspicemustflow: There are.
Chris: I was like... it yeah ah
pumkinspicemustflow: Two people who work on my shift who were born after 9 -11
Chris: Mm hmm.
pumkinspicemustflow: Two.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: And the third one. was like four.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: So... That makes you feel old.
Chris: yeah Sigh. Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah, we're going to watch it.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: Training the other day we watched. What are the documentaries?
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: And I was just like... You have no recollection of any of this. it's like I wasn't even bored.
Chris: mm -hmm
pumkinspicemustflow: I'm like, oh. Ugh.
Chris: Yeah. Hmm.
pumkinspicemustflow: I was 21.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: I can't.
Chris: Yeah. m
pumkinspicemustflow: I had a job. Ugh.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: Ciao. Yeah. Hot kids.
Chris: Yeah. It's like the other night at my daughter's field hockey game. The opposing teams... Parents all were asked to leave the stadium. Um,
Chris: for yelling at the refs and whatnot.
pumkinspicemustflow: Nice.
Chris: Yeah. and But I look at the... sheriff's deputy who's out there you know corralling them out And. I looked over to the fire marshal because he was there. I was like... Tip. parkside's criminal justice class like dress up for the night i mean what the Ah.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah, the... SPD gops that I... interact with on a regular basis now. or all. Babies.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: the literal literal Like. Are you allowed to drive this far with this police car?
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: You didn't have to have a driver's license first, or?
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: Right out of high school?
Chris: yeah
pumkinspicemustflow: How's that work?
Chris: Yeah, is this like some weird OJT for your senior year?
pumkinspicemustflow: For sure. Well, you know, we were
Chris: ah Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: We were that way when we started.
Chris: Oh yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: You know.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: You had hair.
Chris: I know. Somebody said that the other day. They just saw an old picture. like That's you? You had hair? No, I've been bald since I was four.
pumkinspicemustflow: I came out of the room bald, I stayed bald.
Chris: yeah What the hell?
pumkinspicemustflow: Wait. Of course.
Chris: Maniacs.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah.
Chris: say And that's somebody's. Procopter, look. Truett had a lovely Elroy.
pumkinspicemustflow: ha Well, there can't be many people who even remember you when you had hair.
Chris: yeah Yeah, that's yeah very rarely, or very few. Hmm.
pumkinspicemustflow: There's a... 10 of us left?
Chris: it's not much
pumkinspicemustflow: Many? Maybe?
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: There might be more than 10. i can't
Chris: What's like a... I, I. Well, I like when some of the people yeah the the younger people like the middle of the group people are like oh yeah i remember that i was like do you remember that well i've heard stories about it i was like see there you go
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah, exactly Yeah. Yeah.
Chris: Yeah. The end. You heard stories.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah.
Chris: I lived it.
pumkinspicemustflow: I was trying to think the other day.
Chris: Sigh. The Station 2 Secession.
pumkinspicemustflow: we were talking about Well, we're talking about like... the moving from 16 to the new 16.
Chris: Oh yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: And I was like... there's Not many of us left who served in the old building.
Chris: Gosh, yeah. Yeah, because it'd be anybody before, was that June of 08?
pumkinspicemustflow: yes
pumkinspicemustflow: See ya. June of 2008, I think.
Chris: Shoof.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah.
Chris: ah
pumkinspicemustflow: It's not a lot.
Chris: ha Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah, we were
Chris: What?
pumkinspicemustflow: We were telling the youths the... hijinks that... A large. canine person used to be involved in.
Chris: ah But even we've got people now that don't remember the old station too.
pumkinspicemustflow: It's true They were not. They did not work here when the old station 2 existed.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: yeah
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah. Yeah.
Chris: Station one, holding strong since 86.
pumkinspicemustflow: Hold strong. Yeah. 685.
Chris: Whatever.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah. Well, that's when our engine was built, too. so
Chris: yeah
Chris: ah
pumkinspicemustflow: say They said something. About Angel One, they were like... Hey, it just seems like it's having a lot of problems. I said It's... 15 years old, guys.
Chris: yeah
pumkinspicemustflow: it In... In. The horse's ears would be taking it out back and shooting it. What are you talking about?
Chris: Hmm. Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: She's limping along. Let her alone.
Chris: but's say And I love that people are like, well, the mileage is low. Yeah, but the engine hours are through the roof. and those Miles are hard city miles.
pumkinspicemustflow: oh yeah and
Chris: Yeah, if we're not like taking a cruise on the Autobahn.
pumkinspicemustflow: And also... Um, They probably don't make parts for some of this stuff anymore.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: Shit. legitimately started probably get to the point where Parts are going to get hard to find. for that thing
Chris: Well, that was the thing with the rescue.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah.
Chris: Oh, we need that part? We might be able to find it on eBay. All right, time out. So we're looking for a life safety piece of equipment. And we're going to find parts for it on eBay.
Chris: Cool.
pumkinspicemustflow: Mm -hmm.
Chris: Cool. Okay.
pumkinspicemustflow: but You know.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: The tanker.
Chris: to
pumkinspicemustflow: That thing we should just sell. I don't understand why we're still keeping it.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: I don't understand our obsession with having that thing.
Chris: Yeah. Hmm. Hmm.
pumkinspicemustflow: It was fine when there were volunteers.
Chris: There is... Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: What do we need it for?
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: Legitimately
Chris: I mean, we do serve They... I don't know how much of our district is nonhydrant, but we have a nonhydrant district.
pumkinspicemustflow: uh -huh and What does every surrounding company have?
Chris: yeah even but The thing is, we can't rely on them to bring that to us.
pumkinspicemustflow: We can't rely on the tanker getting out.
Chris: If it's daytime, one of us can usually go get it.
pumkinspicemustflow: Maybe.
Chris: Maybe.
pumkinspicemustflow: And if it's nighttime and the engine's out on a call, it ain't getting out.
Chris: yeah
pumkinspicemustflow: So... What do we do with this thing?
Chris: higher
pumkinspicemustflow: It was built in 1996.
Chris: Golly day.
pumkinspicemustflow: Christopher, I was in high school when that thing was built.
Chris: Yeah, we were both in high school.
pumkinspicemustflow: It will be my 30th high school reunion next year.
Chris: ah
Chris: Oh my gosh. Yeah. you're Oh my gosh.
pumkinspicemustflow: yeah
Chris: Shoo! shoo
pumkinspicemustflow: That. Tanker should be retired.
Chris: It should be in a museum.
pumkinspicemustflow: It should be in a museum.
Chris: i ah
pumkinspicemustflow: It has served its time.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: It has done the city proud.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: That's the first piece.
Chris: I tell you what, though, I...
pumkinspicemustflow: Paparazzi drove.
Chris: that is like probably one of the few app piece of apparatus that i can still work on
pumkinspicemustflow: Sure, that's true. Because the engine is...
Chris: There's no computers.
pumkinspicemustflow: you know. from pre -World War II. Amen.
Chris: It's just a system of pulleys and cranks.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah. It was a really loud noisemaker.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: I mean... We're lucky it has seat belts. Because it is definitely of the era of fire engines that didn't have seatbelts.
Chris: Oh yeah. I'm amazed that's a closed cab.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah. Yeah.
Chris: sir
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah. it Yeah. it's ah It's time to let it go.
pumkinspicemustflow: it's time to
Chris: Hmm. Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: Let it go out to pasture and shoot it.
Chris: This is two pieces of apparatus now you've wanted to shoot.
pumkinspicemustflow: Well, there's just a couple more I hear. Let's stop.
Chris: yeah
pumkinspicemustflow: This is... That thing really is...
Chris: yeah
pumkinspicemustflow: is not worth keeping.
Chris: Oh, one ah that was 101, wasn't it?
pumkinspicemustflow: Uh...
Chris: Reset 109.
pumkinspicemustflow: No, what i well, I can't tell you.
Chris: 101 was the tanker and 109 was the engine.
pumkinspicemustflow: When I got here, it was just Angel One and Angel One One. so it It was engine one one. the entire time I've been here. So I don't...
Chris: yeah
pumkinspicemustflow: I know of... The 109 and...
Chris: um there again showing my age
pumkinspicemustflow: What it was called. Yeah, well, you guys. Weirdo. Two, o whatever the hell.
Chris: It's 210.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah. Well, 210 existed while I was here.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: Because that was the fast engine.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: Um, but i think that was the last
Chris: yeah
pumkinspicemustflow: engine numbered like that. when I go see her.
Chris: Yeah, because then you had headquarters, Engine 4 and Engine 5.
pumkinspicemustflow: Right, which were not Engine 4 and Engine 5 when I got here.
Chris: Yeah. Brush. Seven.
pumkinspicemustflow: Makes sense.
Chris: Yeah, it was it was so weird.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah. Yeah. When I got here you had the squad. Squad one. Engine 1 -1 and Engine 1.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: And very shortly after I got here, the squad became the dive unit.
Chris: Yeah. Hmm.
pumkinspicemustflow: And then...
Chris: Remember when we all had to drive that around to get used? to get ready for the new ambulances.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yes. yeah Yeah. So dumb. Yeah.
Chris: Yeah. god those old ambulances you could not kill them
pumkinspicemustflow: Well, we we were talking about that. we were
Chris: god it
pumkinspicemustflow: Talk about the youth again. like man we should try around in 16 -2 and 16 -1 and you would they they were unkillable
Chris: yeah
pumkinspicemustflow: And no one. Could... No one could kill them and no one gave a fuck.
Chris: I mean, the one made its own oil.
pumkinspicemustflow: okay
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah.
Chris: kank's like i don't know how this works but yeah you're good
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah. Yep. Yeah, 16 One was the one I blew up. I can't remember Yeah, they were. They're beasts. I was telling the kids, I was like.
Chris: yeah
pumkinspicemustflow: You don't understand. We were never in the building with these things.
Chris: Oh no!
pumkinspicemustflow: you You would come in. And at a certain time, you didn't even check the... You checked the drugs on your ambulance, but we didn't do the inventories because the... EMS officer did that.
Chris: Mm -hmm
pumkinspicemustflow: That was your only responsibility.
Chris: yeah
pumkinspicemustflow: You came in, you checked the drugs in your ear once, you checked your ear once. Then you left for the day.
Chris: yeah
pumkinspicemustflow: Thank you. Might come back for dinner.
Chris: Right. Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: And then I was telling about, you know. If you were at Station 2 or Station 1... No one saw you on the weekends.
Chris: Mm hmm.
pumkinspicemustflow: At all.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: What were you guys doing all day? We don't know.
Chris: We were saving lives.
pumkinspicemustflow: Peace. We were running around doing something.
Chris: um Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: That's all the homeless guys.
Chris: Oh my gosh. Talking to dispatch on call two.
pumkinspicemustflow: doing there done that.
Chris: ah
pumkinspicemustflow: Um, Just never in the building.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: Just a good old days.
Chris: sneaking out to other stations to pull pranks at 10 o 'clock, 11 o 'clock at night.
pumkinspicemustflow: Especially when the trailer... See you.
Chris: Oh my... gosh yeah
pumkinspicemustflow: Oh, God.
pumkinspicemustflow: Ease up kill the engine Blow the air horn as close as you can.
Chris: Yep.
pumkinspicemustflow: Whoever thought... Putting the...
Chris: Eat all the marshmallows out of somebody's cereal.
pumkinspicemustflow: okay
pumkinspicemustflow: Still the two dumbest people I've ever seen in my entire life. We'll... We don't want to waste them. My belly hurts so much.
Chris: Ah. It's not like it was just a box of Lucky Charms.
pumkinspicemustflow: Oh, it was a bag.
Chris: It was one of those giant, industrial like trash bags.
pumkinspicemustflow: Chai. quick
Chris: feel
pumkinspicemustflow: It was like the BJ's equivalent of Lucky Charms.
Chris: a
pumkinspicemustflow: Like it was meant for like. Three years worth of lucky carbs and you idiots sat there and ate all the Marshalls out in one night.
Chris: Ah. And we didn't even have...
pumkinspicemustflow: I didn't.
Chris: Did we have a TV in the trailer?
Chris: I don't think we did.
pumkinspicemustflow: I don't think we did either.
Chris: Yeah. I think we just amused ourselves.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah.
Chris: And we didn't have Wi -Fi.
pumkinspicemustflow: We'll pop. Pop was reading.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: There we go.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: Is this?
Chris: Oh yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: Apparently it's cell phones for God's sakes.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: You have Wi -Fi.
Chris: which is probably a good thing that we didn't video some of the stuff we did
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah. it's true No, I don't think there was a TV in the trailer.
Chris: Yeah, I think we had... Yeah. you know, the crosswords and... newspaper. Bring a book.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah.
Chris: That was about it.
pumkinspicemustflow: That was about it and you didn't really...
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: You didn't even notice.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: Well, I mean...
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah. You only had one, well you had two TVs in the old building. and all headquarters.
Chris: Right. Well, and the one had to stay on the Weather Channel.
pumkinspicemustflow: but no Right. But nobody was ever in there.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: There's always downstairs there's the one downstairs and then there was one on upstairs in the TV room.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: Nobody was ever there.
Chris: Now.
pumkinspicemustflow: So.
Chris: I remember for a brief time we had. a TV on the main floor at headquarters.
pumkinspicemustflow: Back when there was a... Bed bugs on the sofa.
Chris: Yes. Yeah, we had that little... corner area. that was walled off that they then tore the walls down so we could park more apparatus in there.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yep.
Chris: But we kept the TV for a little while down there.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah. And...
Chris: ah
pumkinspicemustflow: Jammed more apparatus in.
Chris: gosh
pumkinspicemustflow: How are we getting this in here?
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: Just make sure it clips the radiator and then you'll know you're in.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yep.
Chris: Yeah. Ah.
pumkinspicemustflow: If you hear diamond plate hit radiator, you know you're parked correctly.
Chris: Yep.
pumkinspicemustflow: And that was literally the destructions. That I got. for driving that piece of apparatus.
Chris: Mm -hmm Oh yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: I can still put that thing in gear, though, I think.
Chris: Mm hmm.
pumkinspicemustflow: I think I can still do that. I think. I could still put that stick up.
Chris: Oh yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: Okay. And remember to lock the dogs.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: remember to like the dogs Chris
Chris: Yeah. I did!
Chris: i did it was because some idiot turned it to icebreaker mode in the middle of the summer so when i saw the pressure jump i was like oh okay we're engaged God. Ah.
pumkinspicemustflow: Well, that reminiscent note.
Chris: Topic one.
pumkinspicemustflow: Topic 1
Chris: Hmm.
pumkinspicemustflow: So... We talked about this a couple weeks ago. uh non -alcoholic beers and i've been sampling The milieu. Uh,
Chris: Okay.
pumkinspicemustflow: Amen. happened. to go the other day and i was like oh i'll pick up this one It was. What is it called? pumpkin something it's from um
pumkinspicemustflow: athletic. It's their pumpkin.
Chris: Oh, okay.
pumkinspicemustflow: Pumpkins. Peace. non -alcoholic beer
Chris: mm -hmm
pumkinspicemustflow: I tried it. first off it's 86 degrees that outside i don't know why i bought this stupid beer It's 86 degrees outside Let's take off.
Chris: You're trying to encourage the fall to settle in.
pumkinspicemustflow: Right. It's disgusting. And my wife goes, why did you buy this?
Chris: Really?
pumkinspicemustflow: I said, I don't know. Cause it was there and I wanted to try it. She's like, you hate. pumpkin things you hate everything pumpkin i said Yeah, but... You know, it's fall. So.
pumkinspicemustflow: I thought it was disgusting.
Chris: and We still have 12 days before a fall, but yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: And then...
pumkinspicemustflow: And then I started to look around. Everything's pumpkin spice out now.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: Everything is pumpkin spice. It is.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: Crazy.
Chris: Mm hmm.
pumkinspicemustflow: When did this become a thing? Why is this a thing? And how do we stop it?
Chris: Yeah. Um... Well, I think it's also... Tied to the fact that Fall is the most presumptuous of the four seasons.
pumkinspicemustflow: oh
Chris: Because it's the only season that has two names.
pumkinspicemustflow: oh
Chris: Yeah. There's no fancy name for summer. It's just summer. or spring or winter, but fall, oh, it's autumn.
pumkinspicemustflow: It's a thumbnail.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: We get abdominal notes in this.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. Oh, I'll pity. Ooh, look at me. I'm autumn.
pumkinspicemustflow: What do you think? Do you think it's that or that? Fall is the... The dumbed down name.
Chris: Oh yeah, I'm sure fall is the dumb down.
pumkinspicemustflow: Like a thumbnail is. autumn is just like the normal name it's not the fancy name it's just they're not the normal name and then people are like that's too much to spell i'm just gonna call it fall
Chris: Yeah. Hmm. Okay. Yeah. When... And and would I'm sure that's just because of what? Oh, the leaves are falling off the trees.
pumkinspicemustflow: That's 100 % it.
Chris: Let's call it fall.
pumkinspicemustflow: 100 % that's exactly what it is.
Chris: goy day.
pumkinspicemustflow: And it's the only way that the... spring forward fall back thing works because you can't be like spring forward autumn back
Chris: ah Yeah. ah Paramedic 2, you'll be responding for an autumn patient.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah. Oh. Hey. I'll go to the grocery store today. Speaking of. false stuff. It is. A tie recording. September the 10th
Chris: Yep.
pumkinspicemustflow: Right? The frickin the the whole Seasonal part of the grocery store, I guess. I don't know. Every grocery store has like this, this aisle that they. ever receive It's Halloween candy already.
Chris: Yep. Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: there were people looking at it i'm like what are you maniacs doing
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: i want I want Halloween candy.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: For what?
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: Are you buying your Halloween cake?
Chris: Well, it's also because what's because there's maniacs that also probably like candy corn it's like m i want to chew crayons
pumkinspicemustflow: yeah but You're not... Okay. Maybe if you are one of those people those weird maniacs who likes the pumpkin Reese's Maybe.
Chris: Oh, they're too sweet.
pumkinspicemustflow: Well, Reese's sucks anyways. Terrible. So the...
Chris: Reese's Thins are good.
pumkinspicemustflow: Trust me. Reese's is a terrible trash candy made of a terrible trash Food product.
Chris: yeah
pumkinspicemustflow: Everybody knows it.
Chris: Huh. Uh...
pumkinspicemustflow: We're just playing this game pretending like otherwise.
Chris: we're playing this game.
pumkinspicemustflow: But...
Chris: Ah.
pumkinspicemustflow: Maybe if you want that. I could see bonding Halloween candy. Cause you. had Oh, I'm going to treat myself to a pumpkin. Are you going to buy a bag of mini Kit Kats in September?
pumkinspicemustflow: Well... What do you do with that? You take it home and let it... sit in your house for two months?
Chris: yeah
pumkinspicemustflow: Are you worried that I'm going to run out?
Chris: yeah i
Chris: ah Yeah, it's... I don't i don't get it.
pumkinspicemustflow: Peace.
Chris: Yeah. it's I mean, it's just that.
pumkinspicemustflow: um
Chris: thing that Seasons can't stay in their own damn lane.
pumkinspicemustflow: Oh. Halloween. I should not start.
Chris: You know, you know, Halloween stuff's out now, so that means in two weeks...
pumkinspicemustflow: I'll get her first.
Chris: Thanksgiving stuff will be out.
pumkinspicemustflow: I don't know about that
Chris: ah
pumkinspicemustflow: i feel like this giving gets skipped too much i think they just go right to christmas
Chris: but
Chris: No. Oh, no. We'll have our well, no, because they have those weird. candies and stuff for thanksgiving too
pumkinspicemustflow: candies for Thanksgiving.
Chris: Oh my god, Jelly Bellies? The jelly beans they have. The Thanksgiving Feast. They have little jelly beans that taste like... green bean casserole and turkey and gravy.
pumkinspicemustflow: I've never heard of this and this sounds disgusting.
Chris: it It most likely is. I've never tried them, but the next time I find them, I'll send some your way.
pumkinspicemustflow: no Thank you. We're good.
Chris: looks Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: I don't need that.
Chris: ah yeah I did. But the getting back to the pumpkin spice, I mean, it's... I know. Yeah, and we're nice. brisk autumn day? yeah that pumpkin spice smell it's war it's those warming.
pumkinspicemustflow: no Terrible. It's...
Chris: thing.
pumkinspicemustflow: Pirable.
Chris: No.
pumkinspicemustflow: Who is it? You know what I like getting punched in the face with? Cinnamon
Chris: Yes!
pumkinspicemustflow: No.
Chris: Cinnamon, nutmeg, and clove? Mmm!
pumkinspicemustflow: I'm going to say this.
Chris: A little mulled wine.
pumkinspicemustflow: all love With all the love of my heart and the patriotism I... Pumpkin pie sucks. It's the worst buy.
Chris: Yeah, I'll give you that.
pumkinspicemustflow: It's terrible.
Chris: it's a weird It's also a weird consistency.
pumkinspicemustflow: It's a weird consistency that
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: I'm not into
Chris: Yeah. yeah I don't understand how you pour a liquid into a pie shell and it comes out.
pumkinspicemustflow: but
Chris: quote -unquote firm.
pumkinspicemustflow: There's only one Pi. Worse than pumpkin pie. And everybody knows it. And nobody wants to admit it. But everybody knows the worst pie. is sweet potato pie. Disgusting.
Chris: It's the same as pumpkin pie.
pumkinspicemustflow: It's... it's It's literally the same texture.
Chris: Hmm
pumkinspicemustflow: It's gross.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: You know what I like? Mashed potato pie form.
Chris: You know, a big mashed potato pie.
pumkinspicemustflow: No, I don't want mashed potato pie.
Chris: m What do you want for dessert? Mashed potato pie. Yeah. hey hey yeah
pumkinspicemustflow: You know what you can put on that mashed potato pie? Some marshmallows for texture.
pumkinspicemustflow: m Great. Awesome.
Chris: Huh. Yes, I I love my mother. But every year she makes sweet potato souffle. There is no souffle in it. It does not rise. It is Sweet Potato with...
Chris: Some kind of candied nut. and marshmallows on top.
pumkinspicemustflow: That sounds gross too.
Chris: Yeah. I don't need it.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah. Yeah, that's a...
Chris: But... Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: My grandmother used to make what she would call ambrosia. It's not what... you people know as ambrosia It would literally be a canned half peach filled with this.
pumkinspicemustflow: Cool Whip Yogurt mixture on top of a lettuce leaf.
Chris: What?
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah. Yeah. That is what we would eat.
Chris: there's
pumkinspicemustflow: Every Thanksgiving. and it's Disgusting
Chris: For dessert?
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah, like I guess i don't know i didn't eat it it was gross
Chris: Okay.
pumkinspicemustflow: It was literally a canned wet ass half peach.
Chris: um Ah.
pumkinspicemustflow: This white... Goop on it. On a lettuce leaf.
Chris: Was it cottage cheese?
pumkinspicemustflow: No, it was not.
Chris: ah Okay.
pumkinspicemustflow: kind of she It was like literally like. sour cream and yogurt.
Chris: om
pumkinspicemustflow: and cool it mixed or something i don't it was Gross.
Chris: yeah yeah that's
pumkinspicemustflow: The...
Chris: Yeah, a nice fresh peach is one thing, but a canned soggy, mm.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah, like, canned peaches are fine, I guess, in, like, fruit cocktail.
Chris: I guess.
pumkinspicemustflow: i think if you're desperate and you're like i need some sort of fruit in my life it's not great
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. Now.
pumkinspicemustflow: You know what I like my fruit to taste like?
Chris: Hmm. Fruit.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah, the fruit it is
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah.
Chris: It's like, what does fruit cocktail taste like? It just tastes like fruit cocktail.
pumkinspicemustflow: Tastes like syrup with a little hint of bitterness.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: That's what it tastes like.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah, what what fruit are you eating? I have no idea.
pumkinspicemustflow: yeah Were those terrible cherries, those Marciano cherries? Ugh.
Chris: Mm hmm.
pumkinspicemustflow: Good.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: Cherries kind of suck anyways.
Chris: I gotta be in the mood for them. But the problem is they got that seed and you gotta...
pumkinspicemustflow: it Yeah, they get them. it you got to deal with the pit and it's like oh this is not worth the
Chris: You got it. Tch. Yeah, you bite it, you chew it.
pumkinspicemustflow: trouble.
Chris: Yeah, you spit that out.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah. It's not worth the trouble.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: It's weird they don't make pitless cherries.
Chris: Beep. I guess that's...
pumkinspicemustflow: We've got seedless watermelon and seedless grapes.
Chris: Hmm. Hmm. You might be on to something.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah.
Chris: Yep. yeah but we don't have seedless cantaloupes or honeydew or anything
pumkinspicemustflow: but why not
Chris: That's, yeah. Hmm.
pumkinspicemustflow: We're sleeping on some seedless technology here.
Chris: Huh. yeah I... Hmm. seedless cherry. Do not exist for... Huh.
Chris: huh Unlike watermelons or grapes, a cherry seed is closely linked to how the fruit develops on the tree. New technology biotech companies like Pairwise and Sunworld are researching CRISPR gene editing to create a commercial bitless cherry.
pumkinspicemustflow: Hell yeah.
Chris: Hmm.
pumkinspicemustflow: That's the future.
Chris: ah Yeah. Yeah. Okay.
pumkinspicemustflow: Then maybe cherries will be worth eating
Chris: Yeah. up but you can Or you can get a cherry pitter. know a little thing that just pumps it out or i like a diy method You can insert a bent paper clip or hairpin through the stem opening to scoop out the pit.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah.
Chris: Who has ever done that?
pumkinspicemustflow: I hope no one. All right. Don't think. Airclips are food safe.
Chris: What is this?
Chris: I'm going to eat some cherries. Let me get a hairpin.
pumkinspicemustflow: You know what I like in my cherry? A little sliver of aluminum.
pumkinspicemustflow: It's...
Chris: and
pumkinspicemustflow: Definitely on my list.
Chris: home Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah. and chair like even still Let's say that today they invent. The pitless chariot. You can go in and you buy a bunch of... pitless cherries.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: You're not gonna pick that over watermelon or grapes or
Chris: Now.
pumkinspicemustflow: Apples?
Chris: Right.
pumkinspicemustflow: I can do that.
Chris: Yeah. Now.
pumkinspicemustflow: Maybe once in a while you're like... All right, well, I got honeydew or cherry. Pick Cherry, maybe.
Chris: Maybe. Hmm.
pumkinspicemustflow: Maybe.
Chris: yeah
pumkinspicemustflow: Nothing happened.
Chris: ah no is it not a fan of the whole cinnamon nutmeg clove trifecta hmm
pumkinspicemustflow: No. No, I'm not.
Chris: now i can see like with the beer like every now and again i'll get a pumpkin beer But...
pumkinspicemustflow: I don't think I've ever had a good one.
Chris: yeah Yeah. There are some things that just don't need pumpkin injected into them.
pumkinspicemustflow: But it's save pump you're not injecting pumpkin into them.
Chris: Click.
pumkinspicemustflow: You're injecting the fake spice that goes on a fake pumpkin pie.
Chris: It's the... Pumpkin spice.
pumkinspicemustflow: It's not even the real stuff.
Chris: Hmm. Mm -hmm.
pumkinspicemustflow: Like. There are beers that have hint of clove in them, and they are delicious.
Chris: Mm hmm. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: but it's a hint of clove. It's not a...
Chris: Oh yeah. Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: Punch you in the face with cloves and cinnamon.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: And it's like, oh man, what why why make this? Why do this to your people?
Chris: yeah
pumkinspicemustflow: Bye -bye. the I blame you people. You.
Chris: ah
pumkinspicemustflow: Coffee, people. are really the cause of all this crap.
Chris: yeah oh man, pumpkin coffee. It's almost that time of year.
pumkinspicemustflow: I... I understand that your lives are miserable because you're drinking this. black liquid of death that sucks so much that you have to make all kinds of flavors for it.
Chris: ah
pumkinspicemustflow: But... Stop spreading your evil to our - other foods. That's the problem. That's the that's the that's those issue. You people can't drink coffee because it's gross. Everybody knows it.
Chris: Hmm. Oh, my man.
pumkinspicemustflow: Even you. Cool. Drinks. Black? Firehouse Coffee. admit that it sucks because it's black firehouse coffee. And there's some little...
Chris: Oh because I put cream and sugar in it?
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah.
Chris: Nah.
pumkinspicemustflow: Okay.
Chris: a
pumkinspicemustflow: Mm hmm. Mm hmm. You're basically drinking an ice cream sundae.
Chris: No, I don't put that much sugar in.
pumkinspicemustflow: o
Chris: No, I don't I've cut back a lot.
pumkinspicemustflow: i
pumkinspicemustflow: Geek. You don't like coffee.
Chris: ah Yes, I do. I like coffee with a little bit of cream and sugar
pumkinspicemustflow: you like You like cream of sugar with a little bit of... coffee flavor to it.
Chris: No, I am not one of those people. Two cups of coffee in the morning, that's it.
pumkinspicemustflow: You know what I like? I like tea. You know where else to put my tea?
Chris: Nothing.
pumkinspicemustflow: Tea.
Chris: yeah
pumkinspicemustflow: Like a... Just... I like the flavor of tea.
Chris: You can put a little honey in.
pumkinspicemustflow: Nobody likes it. No, never.
Chris: Oh. um
pumkinspicemustflow: yeah That's not true. Never. If I'm sick.
Chris: yeah Maybe a little bit of cinnamon on there
pumkinspicemustflow: No.
Chris: i
pumkinspicemustflow: No.
Chris: Ugh. what was it i saw the other day it was pumpkin spice dude wipes
pumkinspicemustflow: No.
pumkinspicemustflow: Oh, I did see that too.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah. And you know, I'll never put my tea. I don't care if I offend the entire continent of well Great Britain. eight Milk and tea is gross.
Chris: ah
pumkinspicemustflow: It looks gross. It sounds gross.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: It's gross.
Chris: Well, yeah, because I mean... It just curdles the milk.
pumkinspicemustflow: it's Yeah. yeah
Chris: Hmm.
pumkinspicemustflow: What? What are you doing, people?
Chris: Hmm.
pumkinspicemustflow: Is the tea too hot and you need to cool it down? Stop.
Chris: Just let it sit for a minute.
pumkinspicemustflow: So let it sit for a little bit. I do remember. As a kid, we used to go to this Chinese place and they would serve T the temperature of lava?
Chris: Oh yeah. Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: and you'd You'd have to get like... and it would be in those little ceramic cups that would just Hold.
Chris: Yes.
pumkinspicemustflow: like It was like...
Chris: Two tablespoons, if that.
pumkinspicemustflow: Two tablespoons of liquid hot death. And you were like.
Chris: Yep.
pumkinspicemustflow: Can I get some ice? He would put ice cubes in there to cool it down because it it would not cool down on its own.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: It was literally.
Chris: No, no, that ceramic just kind of... Kept it hot. and Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: It was like, oh, do you need to melt some bullets out of this? Because here. This is a crucible of hot death.
Chris: ah
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah.
Chris: m
pumkinspicemustflow: You want to put it in that stuff? Nothing. Because it's tea. It's delicious.
Chris: yeah there's green tea it was good for you
pumkinspicemustflow: No, sometimes it's black tea.
Chris: Hmm.
pumkinspicemustflow: Oolong.
Chris: Hmm.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah.
Chris: Oh yeah, yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: Still good for you.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: has Tea has my favorite of all bullshit ingredients in it. It has.
Chris: Antioxidants.
pumkinspicemustflow: flavonoids.
Chris: Oh, flavonoids. What is a flavonoid or flavonoid?
pumkinspicemustflow: It's some sort of antioxidant, I believe.
Chris: Hmm.
pumkinspicemustflow: But... boy they just they were like we don't I don't know. Call it. Favonoids.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: He gave up.
pumkinspicemustflow: I'm looking forward to my fall weather because I like wearing my sweatshirt.
Chris: Yes.
pumkinspicemustflow: I don't like walking up to the grocery store and smelling cinnamon. outside for some reason.
Chris: Hmm.
pumkinspicemustflow: Because people buy. Pine cones infused with cinnamon?
Chris: Yeah, I don't understand that.
pumkinspicemustflow: I can't wait for this. I don't know what that's up with that. Nope, cinnamon is for cookies.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: Cinnamon is for some... Pork. applications applications
Chris: yeah
pumkinspicemustflow: thumb.
Chris: yeah
pumkinspicemustflow: Cinnamon is for applesauce.
Chris: Yes.
pumkinspicemustflow: That's it.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: End of the cinnamon list.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: or oatmeal oatmeal
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: You can just, you can set it up.
Chris: but Yeah, the applesauce. Nice warm applesauce.
pumkinspicemustflow: No, what?
Chris: you Wait, you don't eat your applesauce warm?
pumkinspicemustflow: now What are you talking about?
Chris: I... I do not like cold applesauce.
pumkinspicemustflow: what
pumkinspicemustflow: What does that mean?
Chris: Because my mother... Makes homemade applesauce. And she would. We would get some right after she made it, so it was nice and hot from the stove. and
pumkinspicemustflow: Okay, all right I can see eating that
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. ahem so i just got used to it and the thought of cold applesauce i mean i will eat it but i'd rather not like if we have applesauce i'll put it in the microwave for a few seconds so it's nice and warm
pumkinspicemustflow: So when you were a kid... and your parents packed your lunch and they gave you a little Tub of applesauce.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: You would then take that applesauce to a microwave and heat it up.
Chris: No, I would just leave it out of the lunchbox.
pumkinspicemustflow: but No you didn't!
Chris: Yes, I did
pumkinspicemustflow: Ow!
Chris: Hmm.
pumkinspicemustflow: I mean, I could, I understand, I guess. right after your mother making it. That makes sense. But then to say I'm not eating cold applesauce, that's... Crazy dog.
Chris: let's say when we have leftover apple pie for thanksgiving i heat up the slices apple pie to eat them
pumkinspicemustflow: Do you hear now?
Chris: I won't eat.
pumkinspicemustflow: Now look.
Chris: I won't eat cold apple pie.
pumkinspicemustflow: This is this is a This is a ah contention here. Do you heat up your cookies or not?
Chris: ah Depends on the cookie.
pumkinspicemustflow: Well, the chocolate chip cookie is the only cookie that matters. and What are we talking about here?
Chris: Ah. ah There's a lot of delightful cookies. Um...
pumkinspicemustflow: they Sure there are, but they're...
Chris: Okay.
pumkinspicemustflow: The only one that matters is...
Chris: Yeah, but the problem is if you try to reheat the chocolate chip cookie, it's just not the same.
pumkinspicemustflow: a type tip
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah.
Chris: Unless you pop it in the oven. And that's too much work.
pumkinspicemustflow: It's the same thing as apple pie.
Chris: No, no throw an apple pie a slice apple pie in the microwave for about 35 seconds Yeah. That's money.
pumkinspicemustflow: I would just.
Chris: and You don't need whipped cream or... a la mode or anything like that just apple pie
pumkinspicemustflow: You don't put cheddar cheese in there?
Chris: No, I've never tried that.
pumkinspicemustflow: I've never tried it either and it kind of disgusts me. so
Chris: Is it cheddar or American?
pumkinspicemustflow: I think it's a maybe American, but it seems like cheddar would make more sense.
Chris: Either way.
pumkinspicemustflow: Good night.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: You want like the sharp, cheddar -y?
Chris: Cheers. Yes.
pumkinspicemustflow: Flavor. All right. Apparently it's a Midwest thing.
Chris: Yeah. Pairing apple pie with sharp cheddar cheese is... historic culinary tradition that balances sweet fruit with savory salty dairy.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah, I mean...
Chris: it started in the 17th century england where cooks paired fruit dishes with but what i mean because i guess yeah like if you get a charcuterie board you know you put like fig jam and stuff
pumkinspicemustflow: yeah yeah put ta on You put jam on.
Chris: Hmm.
pumkinspicemustflow: Cheers all the time.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah. Is it jelly or jam?
Chris: There's an old proverb that states an apple pie without some cheese is like a kiss without a squeeze.
pumkinspicemustflow: That is...
Chris: ah
pumkinspicemustflow: Kinda gross.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: It's... I feel uncomfortable just being involved in this conversation now.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: aye
Chris: Oh, I wonder if blue cheese would be good with it.
pumkinspicemustflow: o It feels like that'd be a balancing line.
Chris: yeah Yeah. Yeah, too much funk.
pumkinspicemustflow: But goa right now Brie in Naples works amazing.
Chris: ah Yeah, that would be good.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah, that's really good. Big brie with apples. Mmm.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: That's pretty good. See apple is a fruit that I can eat hot or cold
pumkinspicemustflow: That's probably the only fruit. that I can eat hot or cold.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah, because, it's like, hot melon. Hmm.
pumkinspicemustflow: No. That sounds wrong.
Chris: I know. ah
pumkinspicemustflow: And like. Hot cranberry sauce? You're not eating hot cranberry sauce.
Chris: No. No.
pumkinspicemustflow: that's That's not, you're not doing that.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yes.
Chris: It loses its consistency.
pumkinspicemustflow: Well yeah. And it just would be weird.
Chris: Yeah. um
pumkinspicemustflow: I guess technically people eat, like... Blueberries hot. and blueberry pie.
Chris: Oh yeah, like blueberry pie, cherry pie.
pumkinspicemustflow: But usually I think...
Chris: They're abominations, but yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: You let those pies, oh no no no no. blueberry pie i will agree that the blueberry pie is abomination but blueberry cobbler is banging
Chris: there Ooh. Now, at Ice Cobbler, yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah.
Chris: Peach cobbler
pumkinspicemustflow: I don't like peach cobbler.
Chris: Yeah?
pumkinspicemustflow: Because usually the peaches are canned crab peaches.
Chris: Hmm. Yeah, if you make it.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah.
Chris: can't
pumkinspicemustflow: Well, because the cobblers are... Me, a fall slash winter thing.
Chris: Yeah. Oh yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: And.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: You just aren't out of season, so you're not going to get...
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: Good peaches.
Chris: yeah that's what kills me if you're like oh no it's not apple or you know apple crumble it's apple crisp no That's just.
pumkinspicemustflow: No, apple crisp is a different thing than apple crumble.
Chris: Yeah. Is it really?
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah.
Chris: No.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah. yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah. A cobbler is an upside -down pie. Right.
Chris: Okay.
pumkinspicemustflow: right and then a crisp is when it's got Like.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: ah topping on top of it and a crumble is when it's got chunks inside of it
Chris: huh
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah, I think that's true
Chris: Did not know that.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah, like. And then you can make apple dumplings. oh oh
Chris: Isn't that just like an apple wrapped in dough?
pumkinspicemustflow: Oh yeah. Oh yeah.
Chris: ah
pumkinspicemustflow: oh yeah Yeah. Apple fritters. Oh, boy.
Chris: ah Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: This is why I'm fat.
Chris: Hmm. Hmm.
pumkinspicemustflow: Apple seasoning was... Apple season is my favorite season.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah. And I do not eat my applesauce hot because I'm not a weirdo.
Chris: Yeah. well look we have learned over the years that's the least of the weird things about me
pumkinspicemustflow: You don't eat tomatoes, which is also weird.
Chris: Damn. No.
pumkinspicemustflow: But you'll eat a banana.
Chris: No.
pumkinspicemustflow: No.
Chris: No!
pumkinspicemustflow: You have any plans at all?
Chris: No. that's a weird taste That's why I won't try pawpaw.
pumkinspicemustflow: I made the observation that I only eat bananas on bike rides.
Chris: hu
pumkinspicemustflow: Because it's usually the fruit that they offer at the... Like... little uh stations on a long bike ride
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: That's the only time I eat a banana.
Chris: Makes sense.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah. Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: And I don't eat pears.
Chris: Yeah, it's It's just that weird gritty texture.
pumkinspicemustflow: It's... A good pear is amazing, but every pear that you eat is going to be a bad pear, and it's not worth the risk.
Chris: yeah Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, because you can't pick up a pear and just give it that little squeeze like you do with an apple and no.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah. yeah
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: Well, Apple's at least like. For the most part, if you know the kind of Apple, it's going to be the same.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: But. Pears are just...
Chris: Mm hmm.
pumkinspicemustflow: There it is. They're like guaca they're like a avocados. I don't even buy avocados anymore because they're never it's just too much trouble
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah. I just buy the pre -made guacamole. It's easier.
Chris: Yeah, because the avocado, you're like, okay, this will be ready. eh it should be ready tomorrow and then five minutes later it's mush
pumkinspicemustflow: right yeah it's like oh this is gonna be ready on friday and then thursday night it's like oh this is a rotten mess great cool
Chris: Mm hmm.
pumkinspicemustflow: There we go. Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: Well... That's a weird conversation.
Chris: Yeah, well, that's what... Yeah. Enjoy the pumpkin spice. Hmm.
pumkinspicemustflow: no No, thanks. You can keep your pumpkin spice.
Chris: yeah
pumkinspicemustflow: And all, hey look. I work with three women. So they will all be drinking their pumpkins, guys. Lattes and... iced coffee abominations.
Chris: Yeah. Now see, I won't drink that iced coffee. No, coffee's hot.
pumkinspicemustflow: My wife only drinks iced coffee. She won't drink regular coffee.
Chris: She's a maniac
pumkinspicemustflow: For many reasons, yes.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: We'll have a... Topic or two?
Chris: Yeah, topic two. It was funny you took... You choked earlier. I said something about DID. We were talking before this, and you're like, too many diagonal acronyms. Because that's what I was going to talk about, some of the weird acronyms.
pumkinspicemustflow: Oh boy.
Chris: that there are. Yeah. Um... Did you know that laser is an acronym?
pumkinspicemustflow: Yes. It's light, amplified. Aww. emitter ray what is the s Solid.
Chris: stimul stimulated.
pumkinspicemustflow: Stimulated. yeah there you go Yeah, yeah, laser's nice.
Chris: Yep. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. How about Taser?
pumkinspicemustflow: Tech. Amplifier. i I don't know. What does Taser stand for?
Chris: that Tom A. Swift electric rifle
pumkinspicemustflow: Huh.
Chris: Yeah. evidently the creator that was like his favorite author Tommy Swift.
pumkinspicemustflow: So the guy who invented it isn't Tom Swift?
Chris: Nope.
pumkinspicemustflow: That's even weirder.
Chris: Yes it is.
pumkinspicemustflow: I...
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: This is my George RR Martin gun. What the?
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: ah ah Radar.
pumkinspicemustflow: Oh, radar is... uh,
pumkinspicemustflow: Radio assisted. directional Array. Ranging or something?
Chris: Sounds better. This says radio detecting and ranging.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah and ranging. I knew ranging was in it.
Chris: Yeah. Yep.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah.
Chris: Sonar.
pumkinspicemustflow: Ooh. Sound... underwater I don't know and ranging
Chris: Yeah. sound navigation and ranging.
pumkinspicemustflow: oh sound navigation
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: Okay.
Chris: Um... Nice. Let's see some other good ones.
Chris: Konus. c -o -n -u -s
pumkinspicemustflow: Croissants on Nutella.
pumkinspicemustflow: Under... sandwiches.
Chris: the continental united states
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: I don't like that one
Chris: Yeah, no.
pumkinspicemustflow: Also... incre Incorrect, by the way Also incorrect. Alaska. is still in the continental us because the continental shelf Sticks out of the coast.
Chris: That's true.
pumkinspicemustflow: Canada is on the same continental shelf. as the as the united states of america
Chris: That's true.
pumkinspicemustflow: So is the Bahamas.
Chris: Um, see
Chris: Ram.
pumkinspicemustflow: a Random access memory.
Chris: and Sim.
pumkinspicemustflow: Like a SIM card?
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: ah Ooh, standard informational memory.
Chris: Ooh, so close. Subscriber Identity Module.
pumkinspicemustflow: That was not close at all.
Chris: Uhhh... bios
pumkinspicemustflow: Oh. It's something operating system. So basic information operating system.
Chris: Basic Input Output System.
pumkinspicemustflow: oh
Chris: Mm hmm.
Chris: Captain. Cha.
pumkinspicemustflow: Oh.
Chris: Yeah, i I didn't realize it was a thing.
pumkinspicemustflow: All right. Didn't know that was an acronym.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: Cool. Ow.
pumkinspicemustflow: capcha
pumkinspicemustflow: computer assisted
pumkinspicemustflow: I don't know. I got nothing.
Chris: Yeah, so evidently, originally, there were three Ts, but they combined them to one. Completely automated public Turing test. telling computers and humans apart.
pumkinspicemustflow: Huh.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: Huh.
Chris: Mm hmm.
pumkinspicemustflow: Huh. the Side tangent. Did you see that like 71... A .I .s escaped their... isolation the other day.
Chris: oh that's good
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah.
Chris: That's good.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah. That's good. Good.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: It's good.
Chris: That's a... Yeah. that's Nothing bad is going to happen with that.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah. So some the the one of the articles I read, people are like. the ones the one expert was like, It's not a good thing if the US builds Skynet faster than China.
pumkinspicemustflow: Because then Skynet was still built. We shouldn't be in a race to build Skynet.
Chris: Yeah. Right!
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah.
Chris: Ugh... Um...
Chris: Nabisco.
pumkinspicemustflow: Nabisco is an acronym. All right. So it's got to be.
Chris: Yep.
pumkinspicemustflow: The co is company.
pumkinspicemustflow: The B is biscuit. I'm assuming. North American. Biscuit Company.
Chris: Oh, you are so close. National biscuit company.
pumkinspicemustflow: oh national biscuit company. Damn.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: I thought it was only something with the... North America there.
Chris: Yeah. Lego.
pumkinspicemustflow: No, that is not an acronym. and and and No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, sir.
Chris: That's what this says.
pumkinspicemustflow: What does LEGO stand for?
Chris: Leggo. which is Danish for play well.
pumkinspicemustflow: But that's not an acronym.
Chris: and that's what they have.
pumkinspicemustflow: It's the word.
Chris: Um,
Chris: Dare.
pumkinspicemustflow: Uh... Oh. oh
Chris: Like the bear pledge.
pumkinspicemustflow: Let's...
pumkinspicemustflow: I know it's an acronym because...
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: I can see it. spot out with the periods.
Chris: Uh -huh
pumkinspicemustflow: It's... drug?
pumkinspicemustflow: recreational enforcement.
Chris: Drug abuse resistance education.
pumkinspicemustflow: oh resistance.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: I resist your resistance. How about that?
Chris: but
pumkinspicemustflow: Did DARE ever work by the way?
Chris: ah
pumkinspicemustflow: Do you think it ever worked?
Chris: No.
pumkinspicemustflow: and don't think whatever I don't think it ever made a difference.
Chris: No. Yeah. oh let's see Hmm.
Chris: MRSA?
pumkinspicemustflow: ah Mr. Sa, so it's Something resistant. Symbiotic Alien.
Chris: methicillin -resistant staphylococcus aureus
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah, that's it
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Abba. Like the band.
pumkinspicemustflow: it's An acronym?
Chris: Yeah!
pumkinspicemustflow: is not just like the first letters of their names.
Chris: It is.
pumkinspicemustflow: Oh, okay
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, Agnatha, Bjorn, Benny, Annie Freed.
pumkinspicemustflow: As you say. There's got to be a Bjorn because they're...
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: You know. Swedish?
Chris: Mm hmm.
pumkinspicemustflow: Right?
Chris: Swedish or Dutch? I don't know.
pumkinspicemustflow: I think they're Swedish.
Chris: Yeah. Um... Yep. Cut.
pumkinspicemustflow: an acronym.
Chris: yeah
pumkinspicemustflow: oh
pumkinspicemustflow: How was, what was it even?
Chris: there yeah
pumkinspicemustflow: Stand for.
Chris: The experimental prototype community of tomorrow.
pumkinspicemustflow: Huh.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: That's ah an acronym
Chris: That is.
pumkinspicemustflow: Unlike Lego.
Chris: Yeah. IMAX.
pumkinspicemustflow: oh
pumkinspicemustflow: movie.
pumkinspicemustflow: Because the I is lowercase in IMAX, too. Which makes it weird.
Chris: Yeah, it's a stupid one
pumkinspicemustflow: Oh. Um...
pumkinspicemustflow: International movie. Audio expansion.
Chris: Image maximum.
pumkinspicemustflow: Oh.
Chris: Yeah, that's why I said it's stupid.
pumkinspicemustflow: Blame.
Chris: um let's see
Chris: ah Yeah, and then they talk about... initialism versus acronyms it's like initialism is if you pronounce every letter like brb diy
pumkinspicemustflow: Abba.
Chris: Uh... No, you don't say ABBA.
pumkinspicemustflow: We say, ah, buh, buh, buh. Ababa.
Chris: Yeah. ahem ASAP is an acronym and initialism. You can say ASAP or ASAP.
pumkinspicemustflow: That. is fair. You can do that.
Chris: Mm -hmm.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah. I only like BRT. And O .M. W.
Chris: You like what?
pumkinspicemustflow: I like BRT and OMW.
Chris: BRT.
pumkinspicemustflow: These are the ones I used. Be right there.
Chris: That would be right there.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah.
Chris: And on my way.
pumkinspicemustflow: No. And on my way.
Chris: Huh?
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: That's probably the two I use the most
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. i don't use
pumkinspicemustflow: So.
Chris: A ton.
pumkinspicemustflow: Is lull? An acronym?
Chris: I guess it's both because you can also say l LOL.
pumkinspicemustflow: It's both, right? Some people say ruffle
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: Which would be a... An acronym.
Chris: right Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: But no one says ORFLOL.
Chris: They don't.
pumkinspicemustflow: I don't think so All right.
Chris: i don't know I'm an old man. I say things.
pumkinspicemustflow: Did you say R -O -R -F -L -O -L?
Chris: and No, I don't. I just don't say that.
pumkinspicemustflow: Cool. you know.
Chris: yeah
pumkinspicemustflow: but That's okay the kids are replacing all of this with Abruzzese.
Chris: oh yeah Yeah. Let's. last night my wife made pumpkin muffins. To which my daughter said, these are fire.
pumkinspicemustflow: And then you smack her.
Chris: Nah.
pumkinspicemustflow: As hard as you could.
Chris: yeah
pumkinspicemustflow: Not in this household.
Chris: It's a non -fire household.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah. The Utes. I... I mean. The. Being old sucks because... People when we were kids complained about things we said.
pumkinspicemustflow: And now it feels like these kids have a whole different language than the language I use.
Chris: Well that's... Yes. So today... We were on a... Meeting. with first do. talking about you know the software stuff. And the Fire Marshal asked about...
Chris: I have. something uh some kind of limit or something to worksheets and like oh yeah you can have unlimited worksheets you know As many as you want and no cap. And I... I waited for a minute. I was like, are they saying no cap because that's like the no lie thing? Are they saying no cap as in there's not a cap?
pumkinspicemustflow: Right.
Chris: Because it was a Ute who was giving this presentation.
pumkinspicemustflow: I see how that could be a problem.
Chris: It was. It was. So I just stared at the screen like an idiot for a second. and
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah. They say words and I'm like, I don't know. words mean.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: And then...
Chris: yeah
pumkinspicemustflow: Then I try to use the words and I feel like Steve Buscemi with a skateboard.
Chris: What up, fellow Utes?
pumkinspicemustflow: What have you done? Yeah.
Chris: ah
pumkinspicemustflow: They're replacing us quicker. It's a... It's terrible for us.
Chris: oh yeah yeah
pumkinspicemustflow: It doesn't make you sad. That there will not be. the Gen X president.
Chris: Hmm. No.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah. Do you think our our whole generation is just beat down too much?
Chris: Yes.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: like i um I would worry now.
Chris: i feel like they would get in there and be like look guys we all know things are screwed up just just Just go out there and don't be dumb, and I'll see you. Somebody else will be here in four years, but yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah, that's kind of i feel like I feel like I don't want a Gen X president because... They're not going to be full of hope. And they're not going to be full of anything good.
Chris: now Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: The boomers have have ruined our generation. And these millennials have... you know taking it from us.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah, I mean... I feel like it would be you know instead of the presidential theme or whatever for inauguration it'd be like the Black Parade or something.
Chris: The Imperial March. I mean, just something.
pumkinspicemustflow: Definitely the Imperial Marsh.
Chris: Sad.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah. We would. Yeah. It's it's it It is weird being this generation going. Yeah, we're just... We're just not going to have our time, huh?
Chris: Yeah. yeah
pumkinspicemustflow: Up there is their time. Down there.
Chris: See you here.
pumkinspicemustflow: Somebody else's time. It's not our time.
Chris: Yeah. Right here in the middle. We got nothing
pumkinspicemustflow: You got nothing.
Chris: ah Valley Day. Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: And the way these kids spell, I'm really worried about it.
Chris: Yep.
Chris: Oh my gosh.
pumkinspicemustflow: ah We went to trivia last week. And. The girl was like, I... I apologize, she always does like a... a theme round where she hands out a paper and she's like my printer wasn't working i couldn't get it printed out so we're just going to do a Name as many states as you can in three minutes you get Points for every state you name, right?
pumkinspicemustflow: And we were like, oh, well, this is easy.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: We'll hand it to the youth that's on our team because it's one of the girls brought her daughter.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: we're like and she's like i got it like i sing the song i know it i'm like all right go ahead
pumkinspicemustflow: I've... been to this state and i don't remember being spelled this way What is the state? where they make bourbon.
Chris: Kentucky?
pumkinspicemustflow: So she spelled that state. K U N
pumkinspicemustflow: K -U -N. T -U -C -K -Y
Chris: Kentucky.
pumkinspicemustflow: I said. I don't think you can say that.
Chris: Hooked on Phonics worked for me.
pumkinspicemustflow: what uh she spelled
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: Virginia right, but West Virginia wrong.
pumkinspicemustflow: She spelt, and this child is born and raised in the state. She spelled Delaware wrong.
Chris: how you Did she put D -A -L -A?
pumkinspicemustflow: Nope. D -E -L. W -E. A -R.
Chris: Delaware.
pumkinspicemustflow: Aware.
Chris: Hmm. Good old Delaware.
pumkinspicemustflow: Good old Delaware.
Chris: m
pumkinspicemustflow: She got Maryland right.
Chris: Well... Okay. well somebody today i saw on a tag wrote something up that said it was intermittent Enter, I -M -T -E -R. I was like, okay. MIT. ONT.
pumkinspicemustflow: nice
Chris: Yep.
pumkinspicemustflow: nice
Chris: Yep.
pumkinspicemustflow: ah This was my favorite of all the states you spell besides Kentucky Uh... It was. A .R .K. A.
pumkinspicemustflow: S -A -W
Chris: are Kiss. Arkansas?
pumkinspicemustflow: I guess not. I guess so. Yeah. We... We're laughing so hard.
Chris: Oh my gosh.
pumkinspicemustflow: We couldn't breathe. And her mother was right there laughing with us.
Chris: Hmm.
pumkinspicemustflow: I was like. Your daughter's a senior in high school. This is not good.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: This is worrisome.
Chris: that's Yeah. Whoa! So, side tangent of that. Why is it Kansas? and Arkansas.
pumkinspicemustflow: Let's go, guys. Talk to you later.
Chris: Shouldn't it be? arkansas
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah, it's Arkham.
Chris: or or cancel
pumkinspicemustflow: ah Yeah, I mean
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: Why is it not Cairns House?
Chris: tenious Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: I dunno.
Chris: as
pumkinspicemustflow: He says, Stupid language.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: And we use... Word's from... other cultures. Intermingling all the time.
Chris: Oh, for yeah, that's a whole nother topic.
pumkinspicemustflow: I don't know the states it's spelled wrong.
pumkinspicemustflow: i I have.
Chris: Ohio.
pumkinspicemustflow: We had the list, but she it was hilarious.
Chris: ah
pumkinspicemustflow: Just...
Chris: Oh my gosh. Hmm.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah. Just got me wrong.
Chris: Yeah. Hmm. Just M -A -N -E?
pumkinspicemustflow: Yep.
Chris: Mm hmm. yeah Yeah, see, it's the fanatics.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah.
Chris: That's it, mate. youngest. I love her dearly. She's a junior, but yeah, she's she knows spell good.
pumkinspicemustflow: It's not good.
Chris: but I know. Ugh.
pumkinspicemustflow: i was like you're about to fill out a college application right she's like yeah You might want to work on this.
Chris: Yeah, but the thing is, they don't know how to handwrite it, so spellcheck gets them.
pumkinspicemustflow: it' That's true.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: Spelljack gets them for everything. Good.
Chris: Spell check grammarly. It all helps them out.
pumkinspicemustflow: It all helps out until the internet crashes.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: Then you're all...
Chris: Then you have somebody like the other day I asked this human. Yeah. you know what three times four is and they count their fingers One, two, three. four five six seven eight nine 10, 11, 12. 12.
Chris: I said, dear God, help us.
pumkinspicemustflow: Good lord.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: Now look.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: I can't do out like. 12 by 12s anymore. I can't do the whole tables probably.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: I don't know, I probably could still.
Chris: yeah
pumkinspicemustflow: Bye. Come on.
Chris: Well, I also asked them, what's 10 times 25? They're like, can I have a calculator? No, you can't have a calculator. Tens are easy. You add a zero.
pumkinspicemustflow: What do you need a calculator for?
Chris: Ah. Yeah. So me being the smart aleck I am, I may or may not have brought one of those little toddler things that has the times table. When you push it down, it shows you the answer.
pumkinspicemustflow: nice
Chris: Yeah. so But yeah, I just, yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: Why my number one rule as a paramedic is everybody weighs 50 or 100 kilograms.
Chris: Oh yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: because then it's the math is easier.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah. now we've got a stupid app that lets us do everything
pumkinspicemustflow: Let's go. That's true.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: People that I... who are not paramedics do not like that joke.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: like you You're going to be doing accurate. Those are Jigga, Mike.
Chris: Oh. Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: First off. Chill out.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: Suck it off I don't have a scale enabled.
Chris: Yeah. Third off, you look to be about three stones.
pumkinspicemustflow: Right.
Chris: yeah
pumkinspicemustflow: What are you, like, 14 and a half stones? What do you want here?
Chris: a yeah
pumkinspicemustflow: And. You know. 100 kilograms is where all of my drugs max out at.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: Chill out.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: You're probably over 100 kilograms.
pumkinspicemustflow: More than likely.
Chris: More than likely. Yeah. And most of the time, I haven't answered it.
pumkinspicemustflow: yeah There's only like... Oh my god. This is... We had a call. I didn't even go on the call. My young paramedic what I call And she's like...
pumkinspicemustflow: Let's go through it. blood pressure was through the was in the crapper so i gave an epi drip and i'm like Cool. she's like what would you done i was like i don't know hang dopamine
Chris: This is like, what's dopamine?
pumkinspicemustflow: was like we don't We don't care. And I was telling it at shift change and the other part of me was like, we haven't carried dopamine in like 10 years. I'm like. wow No, we've had dopamine. We...
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: It's a promise.
Chris: because you gotta use the clock method to figure out how many trips
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah. Hey, just. These are titrate to effect. It's right in the rules.
Chris: Oh. Oh my gosh. Uh...
pumkinspicemustflow: They were like, well, they're having renal failure. I was like, well, that's good because the dopamine has a good... positive renal effect too.
Chris: Yeah, what was it? Less than two mics per minute? It was... or per kilogram. It was renal.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah, whatever
Chris: Two to four, it's... Uh, something and then four and up is just straight pressure repressor or something yeah
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah. Literally never had to give it in my entire career.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: It... I think we threw way more.
Chris: Keep it. I gave it once.
pumkinspicemustflow: Let's say we've probably throw away more dopamine than we ever used
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: And...
Chris: yeah really throw them off next time you're doing acls stuff yeah let's get some procanamide out
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah. Well, then, like... I was thinking about talking about the dopamine. I was like. and we didn't have pumps Like we had a drug that literally could use the pump more than any other drug and we just never got him
Chris: Oh yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: It's just... Didn't do it.
Chris: Yeah. Well, it goes back to that, you know... If you had to look in the book, you were an idiot. so if you had to use a pump you definitely weren't worthy of being a paramedic.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yep. Yep.
pumkinspicemustflow: Could you imagine? how we were 20 years ago. and somebody comes up and say will you go to use this app first off we go what's an app All right.
Chris: wait Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: And you're gonna use this app and it's gonna tell you the drug dosage for stuff like Get that shit out of here.
Chris: Yet.
pumkinspicemustflow: I don't need that
Chris: Take your black magic away.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah. I've memorized all these drugs in my head. Oh.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: let's see
Chris: So at three o 'clock in the morning, when I am sharp as a tack.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah.
Chris: I got you.
pumkinspicemustflow: When I have... Been on. 30 minutes of sleep in the last 30 to 60 hours. I'm taking care of this patient.
Chris: Yep.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah. Yeah. When I can barely open one eye.
Chris: yeah
pumkinspicemustflow: as I'm driving to the Colgar. All right.
Chris: ah
pumkinspicemustflow: I think we got it.
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah. Yeah.
Chris: yeah yeah
pumkinspicemustflow: That's the person you want giving drugs.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. Let's give you some. Lasix.
pumkinspicemustflow: Well, that's why that's why the boxes are color coded, right?
Chris: Yeah.
pumkinspicemustflow: So you can go. All right, that's yellow.
Chris: Yeah. today Everybody out there is cringing now.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah. Yeah.
Chris: Ah. so
pumkinspicemustflow: Oh. You sir look angry. Have a - pink box.
Chris: ah yeah we had this code there they went all the way to a gold box used a gold box ah
pumkinspicemustflow: It was as. Is that PO? Gray box or brown box?
Chris: I always thought it was more gray.
pumkinspicemustflow: Yeah, it's like a grayish. color.
Chris: Yeah. Toop.
pumkinspicemustflow: What? Is this cat? doing in my yard.
Chris: Hmm.
pumkinspicemustflow: move
Chris: Time to release the hound.
pumkinspicemustflow: She doesn't even go after him anymore.
Chris: ah
pumkinspicemustflow: You get out of my gazebo, cat.
Chris: oh you better you better go get that it's gonna go pooping it's gonna poop in your gazebo
pumkinspicemustflow: Hey! Hey! Hey. Gather! You don't live here.
Chris: don't live
pumkinspicemustflow: Hey.
Chris: I'm waiting for the cats to run. Oh, pardon me, sir. I thought this was my cousin's gazebo.
pumkinspicemustflow: Oi!
Chris: hi
pumkinspicemustflow: Care! go and get
Chris: give it
pumkinspicemustflow: Just looking at me. Get out of here!
Chris: Most cats don't speak English. Ah.
pumkinspicemustflow: Vamanos! Vamanos! Vamanos! Vamanos!
Chris: Ah. What shouldn't it be? What is it? Egypt would... They understand Egyptian.
pumkinspicemustflow: Well, I'm not really up on my Egyptian right now.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: ah Well, I think that was a good cast of the panel.
pumkinspicemustflow: Sure ended great.
Chris: Yep.
pumkinspicemustflow: This is me yelling at a cat and the cat looking at me like I'm stupid.
Chris: I just can't wait till you get off the podcast and you're running after the cat.
pumkinspicemustflow: Oh it ran off.
Chris: Oh, okay. Good.
pumkinspicemustflow: I think Rapidite worked.
Chris: Good. Yeah. See?
pumkinspicemustflow: Let's see.
Chris: El Gato.
pumkinspicemustflow: El Gato.
Chris: Ugh.
pumkinspicemustflow: Oui.
Chris: Yeah. uh well folks take care hope you're enjoying pumpkin spice if that's your thing
pumkinspicemustflow: I hope you. You wear your pumpkin spice flavored sweater. with your pumpkin spice latte eating a pumpkin spiced muffin into a pumpkin spice burger.
Chris: Ugh, that doesn't sound good.
pumkinspicemustflow: None of it sounds good to me.
Chris: Ah. Take care folks.
pumkinspicemustflow: See you, folks.
