Transcript
Chris: Welcome back to another episode of the Mythic Giraffe Podcast. I'm Chris.
tauntaunstink: And I am a frozen wasteland that used to be known as on
Chris: Yeah, you guys haven't gotten above freezing, have you?
tauntaunstink: Ron. Well, it was like 34 a couple days ago. And
Chris: Wow.
tauntaunstink: supposed to get 50 today. So I might actually melt some of this snow.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah, I saw that, but then this morning everything is frosted over outside my house, so I don't know.
tauntaunstink: Oh, ah is your house frosted over? Oh, do you have a little bit of frost in your yard? Oh, I am so sympathetic to your plight. I got a wife yelling at me to put a ladder on a frozen sheet of ice to so I can decorate her skeleton for her.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: And know I'm not doing it.
Chris: You need a drone.
tauntaunstink: Oh, please don't tell. No. Let's not have that.
tauntaunstink: I do not want that in my... wife's ear because then she'll get one yeah I just want to be able to like park on my street again be able to take my trash cans out without like a sled dog expedition
Chris: yeah
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
tauntaunstink: rough it's been I need a tauntaun which by the way tangent of tauntauns that was the only Super Bowl ad that was any good this year
Chris: you need You need a taunt on. time
Chris: Yeah, ah it wasn't really a great year for Super Bowl ads.
tauntaunstink: Oh, it was...
Chris: None really stuck out my mind. Yeah.
tauntaunstink: None were good, and most of them just relied on, oh here's a random celebrity in this commercial. Isn't that cool?
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
tauntaunstink: It's like, no, they they're not funny, and they're not interesting.
Chris: Right. Yeah.
tauntaunstink: Oh, it was bad.
Chris: Yeah, it was a boring Super Bowl, too.
tauntaunstink: It was a boring Super Bowl.
Chris: Well, you know, the people who love defense and special teams, yeah yeah I guess, you know, they got the rocks off. But yeah.
tauntaunstink: Yeah. Yeah, everybody loves the Super Bowl, but the score is 3-0 after the first quarter.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: I mean...
Chris: Yeah. I felt the halftime show was delightful.
tauntaunstink: I didn't care for it, but that's because I haven't cared about an artist on the Super Bowl show in 20-plus years.
Chris: Oh, yeah, I'm just saying it wasn't like anything offensive. It was, yeah even though I couldn't understand what he was saying, there was you know great visuals.
tauntaunstink: No, no, no.
Chris: There was a story that was being told.
tauntaunstink: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: Yeah, i what I had the argument on somebody on my shift, and they were like, well, I just want somebody what I know.
Chris: so
tauntaunstink: I'm like, I haven't known somebody on the Super Bowl show since like the 90s. What are you talking about? What could it be an old?
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: like
tauntaunstink: ever we We had just gone over, you and i like the top Spotify artists for the year, and we didn't know any of them.
Chris: Oh my gosh, yeah. Yeah.
tauntaunstink: you know So it's welcome welcome to being out of touch with the world.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah. We're old. Yeah.
tauntaunstink: We're old. They no longer care about us.
Chris: No.
tauntaunstink: And nor should they.
Chris: No. No.
tauntaunstink: and so ah ah The fake outrage about the whole Bad Bunny thing is hilarious me because the the NFL does not give a crap.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
tauntaunstink: Because there are... They already know you idiots are going to watch the the Super Bowl. Now they're trying to get you know Latin America to watch the Super Bowl.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: And they succeeded.
Chris: Yep. Yeah.
tauntaunstink: Yeah, it's the almighty dollar.
Chris: A whole different kind of football. ball
tauntaunstink: Yeah. It is so weird when you see like all these country other countries watch football and the teams that they rep like they rep ah Jaguars are super popular in Britain.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: And like here they're like a joke team. They're like, come on Jaguars.
Chris: it's because over there, a It's a Jaguar.
tauntaunstink: Well, think it's more because they played over there like for few years.
Chris: I know.
tauntaunstink: But yeah, it's always funny when you're like, oh, there's like a football fan club for the Jaguars in London.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: Jaguars?
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
tauntaunstink: I also have discovered, I think I'm just over football.
Chris: yeah
tauntaunstink: was telling that to my buddy. i was like, I just don't care about it anymore.
Chris: Yeah, yeah. Somebody texted me the other day. It was like, oh, did you see you know the Raiders, the big moves in the offseason? I'm like, no, I haven't.
tauntaunstink: When, like, baseball already had kind of died out to me because...
Chris: Oh, yeah.
tauntaunstink: And and this this is just old man ranting, but, like, you used to go to a baseball game for pretty cheap because there's 300 of them a year.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: you know But now if you want to go to a baseball game, you're spending couple hundred bucks to get crappy seats you know between parking and food.
Chris: Right. Yeah.
tauntaunstink: it
Chris: Mm-hmm.
tauntaunstink: No. I'm not doing it.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
tauntaunstink: And I still like... I like going to live baseball games. I'm just not going to go into an MLB game.
Chris: Yeah. Now, it's, yeah. Well, and now it's, well, we sped things up with the you know the pitch timer or whatever. Yeah, but you slowed things down because now you have instant replays and bullshit.
tauntaunstink: Yeah. Mm-hmm. And you sped things up, so my $500 ticket is for a 90-minute show. Cool.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
tauntaunstink: Instead of couple hours. Yeah, like, I remember, like, even going Orioles games with people from work and, like, seeing all the old ladies just, like, to sit out in the field and crochet. Yeah, that's just a thing they do.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: And now they're you're charging them 100 plus bucks a seat.
Chris: Right.
Chris: Yeah. Maybe they get a discount. Maybe if they like crochet like a Orioles beanie or something.
tauntaunstink: Bat warmer.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: Hats for butts.
Chris: uh there's like one person that understood that reference yeah yeah it's a good movie though yeah
tauntaunstink: Yeah, yeah, that's fair. sorry That's fair, that's fair. It's a great movie. Yeah, I just, yeah, and i don't know, after this season of football, just, I barely watched any of the Eagles games.
tauntaunstink: And, oh, wow.
Chris: well it's also so hard to watch games yeah the streaming was supposed to make things so much easier and it's made oh
tauntaunstink: That is a whole, that's a nightmare. Wait. It was supposed to be so much better.
tauntaunstink: Oh, would you like to watch this Thursday night game? Well, you need Amazon Prime football. Would you like to watch this Monday night game?
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: You need YouTube premium special.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: Fuck you.
Chris: Yeah. so this game, know, the Saturday yeah game in the UK? That's on Tubi or whatever. it's
tauntaunstink: Yeah, and like, that's got to be terrible for bars, right?
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: Because people go to bars to watch games. It's a thing, or at least it was back in our generation.
Chris: Right.
Chris: No, I think it still is.
tauntaunstink: You know, I don't know if little kids, I don't think 20 year olds do that anymore.
Chris: Well, they don't drink, so.
tauntaunstink: They don't say don't drink, but for people like us still go to the bars.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: And they have to now have every... Because there's no way... You can't go to a bar in the Philly area and not have the the Eagles game on, right?
Chris: Right.
tauntaunstink: They have to have every one of these stupid services to have the game.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: It's a nightmare.
Chris: They just have each employee. They're like, all right, look, this is your week. We need you sign up for a free trial.
tauntaunstink: Right. Right. yeah yeah it's got to be frustrating, right? Because but they're like, I only need...
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: Because if you're if you're a a Philly sports bar, I'm assuming like they probably have it for everything. Because like you go to a Thursday night, on a so they're going to watch the game.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: they're to have to have every stupid streaming service.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: Ugh.
Chris: Yeah. And you got to have, you Yeah, you you would think you'd be able to, like, at least get it for your market. So it's like, hey, you're getting this package.
tauntaunstink: Right.
Chris: But this is guaranteeing you, like, for Philly, that you're going be able to watch, you know, the Eagles, the Sixers, you know the Flyers, you name it.
tauntaunstink: Definitely not. It does not exist. it's
Chris: But you would think that's how it should be.
tauntaunstink: It should.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: i remember i remember all the guys, and I didn't care, but all the guys at Station 1 were freaking out because we we couldn't get mass in.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: We couldn't watch Orioles games.
Chris: The Mid-Atlantic Sports Network.
tauntaunstink: but they So they couldn't watch Orioles games.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: We didn't in Orioles market.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: like this What? What?
Chris: Let's look at all the people that can't watch the Washington games.
tauntaunstink: mr one
tauntaunstink: Yeah, that's fair.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: it's and And it's got to be bad for the advertisers.
Chris: So it's, yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: Because that's how you advertise. That's how you made money, right? You sold out. You just showed the game. What's the point of having cable now I can't watch the sports game?
Chris: Right.
Chris: Right. Yeah.
tauntaunstink: The sports ball.
Chris: Yeah. Well, and for the advertisers, that you they want to advertise to a local market.
tauntaunstink: Mm-hmm.
Chris: So, yeah. Yeah. I'm sure somebody watching, you know, in Cincinnati cares about Alton Brothers furniture sale next week.
tauntaunstink: Oh my god. the the like The four spots they do that are local spots during the Super Bowl.
Chris: Oh, they're hilarious.
tauntaunstink: oh They were so bad.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: What is going on?
Chris: Yeah. Local commercials are always bad.
tauntaunstink: I guess because I live in Philly area, like we have the Philly market, so they're not like that. We don't get... What was a Carpet Man? I don't even know what like what the one was.
Chris: Matt, the carpet guy or whatever.
tauntaunstink: Yeah, yeah.
Chris: Yeah. yeah
tauntaunstink: Weird.
Chris: Yeah, yeah. I did call them for a flooring estimate the next day.
tauntaunstink: Did you? Well, worked.
Chris: No.
tauntaunstink: One. Yeah,
Chris: yeah ah Yeah.
tauntaunstink: one
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
tauntaunstink: yeah i
Chris: like I went to bed after the third quarter.
tauntaunstink: Yeah, me too.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: Well, was at work. So, yeah.
Chris: Well, yeah. Yeah.
tauntaunstink: Yeah, what once it...
Chris: Yep.
tauntaunstink: Once they had the second interception, I was like, all right, this game's over. I'm going bed.
Chris: Yep. Yep.
tauntaunstink: Then I immediately got back and went on a call.
Chris: yeah yeah yep
tauntaunstink: And then it went back to get... And then immediately got back and went on a call. We were up all night that night.
Chris: tangentially to that so on the medic yesterday the i was like know i did my normal if i'm on the ambulance i took the first patient i'm talking to her and you know that's it she's like oh you know i've been having belly pain you know i said what what exactly describe it she's like i got the gurgles okay that's going in my narrative But I said, well, how long has this been going on? She's like, well, I got out the hospital yesterday and it woke me up this morning at 3.30. I was like, oh, did you go back to bed? She's like, no, i've been up since then, you know, just in, you just kind of uncomfortable. I was like, why did you call at 3.30? She was like, I didn't want to bother you guys at 3.30 because my stomach hurt.
tauntaunstink: Bless your soul.
Chris: I just sat back. I clapped. I was like, God bless you, woman. But she then... Once we got her to said emergency room and put her in triage, she said, wait, I thought if I called an ambulance, I got a room.
Chris: No, Touche.
tauntaunstink: they may in there that how this works?
Chris: Yeah. Yep.
tauntaunstink: Yeah.
Chris: So, but yeah.
tauntaunstink: That is the one PSA that I wish I could get out to a wider market.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: is We are not we're not the reservation for the room. That's not how that works.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
tauntaunstink: Yeah. Hell, some hospitals have special waiting rooms just for anyone's patients.
Chris: mm-hmm mm-hmm yeah
tauntaunstink: You're not you're not guaranteeing anything getting anything faster or better.
Chris: no i mean if you're critically ill yeah or injured but yeah yes yeah yeah yeah yes yes
tauntaunstink: Unless you're really, really right.
tauntaunstink: Yeah. But even if you're critically ill or injured, you walk in the front door, going to take you back. Hopefully. The only difference is we helped triage you at that point.
tauntaunstink: Which apparently said hospital, by the way, was upset with the Salisbury Fire Department the other day because we did not take patients to them instead of flying straight to Baltimore.
Chris: Oh, they can kiss my hairy butthole.
tauntaunstink: But I...
Chris: We followed the protocol and got the patient the right treatment that they needed.
tauntaunstink: I agree.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: i just think it's um
tauntaunstink: funny that they would even make that comment.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: This patient needed a treatment you don't even have in your hospital, but we're going to have it.
Chris: It's because...
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: Well, did you have it that day?
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: Or we're thinking about having it.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: Cool.
Chris: It's, we want money.
tauntaunstink: Yeah. ye Yeah. Yeah.
Chris: Please come here. So. Yeah.
tauntaunstink: Trying to explain to them the timing of landing a helicopter, picking the patient up, landing the hal helicopter again at their facility versus picking the patient up, flying them to Baltimore, and landing the helicopter is impossible.
tauntaunstink: Like, it doesn't save us any time. We could just land them at Baltimore almost as quickly as we can land them at your hospital.
Chris: Oh, hell yeah.
tauntaunstink: And then they're at definitive care.
Chris: Yeah, then they're not yeah they're not getting that midpoint triage that, oh, as soon as you get to the ah the the local ER and they're like, oh, we need to fly them out.
tauntaunstink: Right.
Chris: It's like, this is what we said. But yeah.
tauntaunstink: And it's it's funny because I come from the Delaware system where everything goes. If it's trauma, it has to go to the trauma center, you know.
Chris: Right.
tauntaunstink: So it's easy.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: You don't have these, well, we're a level two trauma. like Are you? Well, we're kind of level.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: I can't pretend at two o'clock in the morning to know the difference between a level two and a level three. I just know the patient needs to go here. You know.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: and just Also, the thing I told that person to tell their they're significant other was we weren't in charge of that decision.
Chris: yeah
tauntaunstink: CISCOM and MSP made that decision. That decision is now out of our hands.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: We're not flying burn patients to you. We're not flying real trauma patients to you because I've watched too many real trauma patients die in your hospital.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. And show me in our protocols where we didn't do the right thing.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: well it's an argument that I've had about that hospital for a long we don't work for them our protocols are not written for us to work for them like they aren't our med control
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Right.
tauntaunstink: there is the sad fact that one of their doctors is our you know medical director but but that's not how it works we don't work for them yeah
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
Chris: Uh-huh.
tauntaunstink: And they made that comment, and i was well, you can tell that person to to suck it, because that's not how it works.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
tauntaunstink: And if you want to spend time going through this protocol, and you find me where we did it wrong, I'll happily entertain you, but I know that they didn't.
Chris: Right. Yeah.
Chris: I can tell you another PSA that needs to go out, which boggled my mind. was on that fire a scene the other day at Parsonsburg, I was talking to the state deputy fire marshal that was there.
Chris: That was the, he said out of the last five fires they investigated, four of them didn't have insurance.
tauntaunstink: Huh.
Chris: Yeah. And one of those was a landlord that it was a double fatal.
tauntaunstink: Oh my god, that was a... He also didn't have a parasite house?
Chris: Yep. Nope.
tauntaunstink: Oh, they're gonna sue the shit of that dude.
Chris: Maybe.
tauntaunstink: Oh. That dude's gonna lose everything.
Chris: So unless he meant that the occupants didn't have insurance, but I don't know, maybe, but still.
tauntaunstink: maybe.
tauntaunstink: Yeah, insurance on your house is...
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: a I thought it was mandatory.
Chris: Yeah. Well, so.
tauntaunstink: guess if you don't have a mortgage?
Chris: Yeah, I guess if your mortgage is paid off, you don't have to.
tauntaunstink: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
tauntaunstink: Huh.
Chris: Yeah, one in Parsonsburg, I mean, it was an outbuilding, so I can kind of say it but he stored like farm equipment or something. that i don't know. it was very confusing. And the poor guy had no idea shut his garage was on fire. Yep.
tauntaunstink: Was the clue that it was on fire? Or...
Chris: Well, it the chief of the airport pulled in his driveway you know, he walked outside. What are you here? And he pointed in the hole.
Chris: My God.
tauntaunstink: Oh, jeez.
Chris: Yeah, pretty much so.
tauntaunstink: We had to go to a very nice couple of dudes who were just out. they were they were It was finally not a windy night. It wasn't even that hot even that cold the other night. So they were just burning some stuff in their backyard.
tauntaunstink: And their nosy neighbor, they're burning stuff. It's close to my fence. And I got there and I'm like... it's in a burn pit 50 50 feet from your from your neighbor's fence because you're the neighbor on the other side of that fence you nosy nosy pricks and they're like are you goingnna make it put it out i said i'm not gonna make you put it out just tamp it down a little bit that's all i want out of you
Chris: Oh my gosh.
Chris: And then you deck gun the other person's house.
tauntaunstink: and then i decked on the other house and house i'm in a sheet of ice
Chris: Yeah. Nosy neighbors.
tauntaunstink: Those are your neighbors.
Chris: Yeah. We had some guy walk up to the ambulance yesterday as we're about to leave and just like comes to the driver's side window and like his head is almost touching. And we had a probie with us and I was like,
Chris: what the hell he was like i can't pull forward i'm gonna run him over us i said put the window down the guy's like what are you doing we're about take somebody to the hospital well who are you taking i can't tell you that what house did you go into i can't tell you that why not because of hipaa and it's none of your business yeah yep oh what's that but you we we're in 16th district yeah
tauntaunstink: Because it's none your business. That's the answer. It's none your goddamn business. Let me... Hmm. Wait, wait. Were you at 16? Were you at 16?
tauntaunstink: So were you at Gateway Village?
Chris: No, no, no, no
tauntaunstink: Oh. So usually it's the old people little neighborhoods that are very nosy.
Chris: no. Yeah, this was ah like Maryland and Light Street. Yeah.
tauntaunstink: I say station one, we get that all the time. Cause there's all those old people, neighbors.
Chris: Oh, yeah. Yeah. Shoemaker and all that.
tauntaunstink: Oh, what's going on? And they, and they come like shuffling across. Like they're going to come help us.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: Like they don't need you.
Chris: Yep.
tauntaunstink: You don't need to be going in this lady's house. She's covered in shit. How about we give her a little privacy?
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. It was all, it was all I could do to not revert back to the just straight street medic days and how I would have talked to that person.
tauntaunstink: oh i just like I just start putting out stickers like, oh, you you came inside of our quarantine zone. Sorry, you have to be quarantined for the next 30 days.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's just, yeah.
tauntaunstink: i I mean, part of me is like, oh, they care about their neighbors. And the other part me like, it's their business. It's not your business.
Chris: Yeah. If they wanted you to know, they'd tell you.
tauntaunstink: you know Right.
tauntaunstink: Though fair... when my neighbor When my older neighbor was living next to me, the animals would shut up there and I'd go help them. so
Chris: Yeah, but you didn't just barge in.
tauntaunstink: No. ah just They knew. a Well, actually, the kids usually came and got me.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: Because I was their emergency plan.
Chris: Hmm.
tauntaunstink: this
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: If anything happens, go over and knock on Ron's door. Come and get him ah over here. I'm glad this is my life.
Chris: Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I've got up a couple people in the neighborhood that have that feeling.
Chris: So I'm like, yeah.
tauntaunstink: I do two. Oh, I like like three of them know that they say that, but I'm like, what do you expect me to do here?
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: Well,
Chris: It's like, I'm start putting a flag up or something that's like been drinking. so Yeah.
tauntaunstink: you clearly need albuterol. Let me just get this out of my bag. I stole from work. I mean,
Chris: Yeah, I had a neighbor the other day their kid messaged me as I was leaving work. Yeah. Yeah. Mr. Chris, you know, mom cut her finger really, really bad. Can you look at it?
Chris: Okay.
tauntaunstink: Sure.
Chris: Yeah. Nope. And I got,
tauntaunstink: Well, to be fair, between you and me, you're in a marked vehicle.
Chris: ah yes, that's true. Yep. I got an AED. I can help you with that. Um, but yeah, I got there.
tauntaunstink: You should have been like, well, this isn't...
Chris: I mean, bleeding was controlled. I was like, maybe, you know, glue it together. Some sterri-strips. Yeah.
tauntaunstink: should have been like, well, this isn't the city of Salisbury and you don't pay my salary, so see ya.
Chris: That's about it.
tauntaunstink: You want to get annexed in the city?
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: That's not how that works. The city just gobbles up territory.
tauntaunstink: No, all the time. Yeah, i just I see the city all the time just forcibly sending their police force out to areas and grabbing it into the city.
Chris: God, I hate that. Yeah.
Chris: No, they've gotten sneakier. They send ah waterworks out there and they put little flags out.
tauntaunstink: That's fair. I give these people plumbing.
Chris: God. Yeah. Yeah.
tauntaunstink: Yeah.
Chris: Reliable plumbing and sewer.
tauntaunstink: Yeah, clean, clean drinking water.
Chris: How dare you?
tauntaunstink: Same city with their damn insidious things.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah. One year, seven months.
tauntaunstink: Two years eight, two years seven?
Chris: something like that.
tauntaunstink: years seven.
Chris: don't know. Maybe it's one eight. i don't know.
tauntaunstink: You ain't going anywhere.
Chris: Yeah. I don't know, man. I don't know.
tauntaunstink: It is funny we have reached the age of, oh, we talked about his retirement.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's like the other day to admin lunch. The entire way to lunch was literally all of us talking about retirement and benefits and how to figure things out. And yeah.
tauntaunstink: I don't know, and I'm warning you now if you're still around, how my last year is going to go.
tauntaunstink: Because a lot of this, we need you to come in on your day off for this crap, is probably not going to happen in my last year.
Chris: uh
tauntaunstink: I'm just warning you.
Chris: yeah well that's why that's why you you know you finish out that year but then you go in the drop knowing that that drop ain't gonna last but that way yeah you are literally retired on duty now yeah
tauntaunstink: Oh.
tauntaunstink: I don't think I would last a day in the drop. I don't think I could make it.
Chris: yeah
tauntaunstink: It'd be, hey, Whismur, we need you to nap. This was a mistake. now
Chris: ah Yeah, but you got to finish your shift. No, don't.
tauntaunstink: oh
Chris: No, no, no, no.
tauntaunstink: no
Chris: What about your uniform? It's there in a pile. See ya.
tauntaunstink: yeah i've I've told my boss, if I have to work on my last day, at midnight, you better come get my shit, because I don't care if we're on a call. I'm i'm leaving.
Chris: What? There's an Uber here. Yeah.
tauntaunstink: yeah yep and whispers getting it and he was in command anybody know what we're supposed to
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. that's weird yeah he just stripped down to his underwear and left yeah
tauntaunstink: to yep put gave up the double guns and was out the door gone yeah i just i don't know i could last even 30 minutes on the drop
Chris: yeah yeah everybody's waiting in a room for like this big like award presentation
tauntaunstink: I would get called uptown for something ah innocuous. And I'd like, nah, nah. Nah.
tauntaunstink: Yeah. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yeah. Yeah. That's going to be rough. That last year is going to be... and Like, it feels right.
tauntaunstink: Because I can tell you, when people who... where in my career were at this point in their careers, they were a hell a lot more retired on duty than I am.
Chris: oh yeah yeah yeah yep
tauntaunstink: You know. so It feels right that at least my last year, I'd say. Nah.
Chris: You're not going to, though.
tauntaunstink: Nah.
Chris: You're big talk. You're not going to. Yeah.
tauntaunstink: Okay.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
tauntaunstink: You see who shows up those mandatory officer meetings. It ain't gonna be me.
Chris: e
tauntaunstink: I can tell you, I'm not showing up to the mandatory officer meeting two weeks before I was retire and then bitch about things.
Chris: ay
tauntaunstink: I could tell you that's not happening.
Chris: yeah
tauntaunstink: An HR needs me to show to something? Not happening. And you're having a training on new monitors? Nah, I'm good. no but you what You want whismur?
tauntaunstink: You get whismur between the hours of 0700 and 0700 D-Shifts.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: Yeah. Especially that last that last few months.
tauntaunstink: It's going to be rough.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
tauntaunstink: You haven't done a report in like three months. Yeah, know. It's a shame.
Chris: It's a shame.
Chris: Oh, God.
tauntaunstink: You better start that paperwork soon.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: you're not You won't have time.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: Ugh.
tauntaunstink: Well, yeah, it's also work-related.
Chris: Well, you're ready for topic one. right. Uh-oh. Okay.
tauntaunstink: It's tangentially work-related.
Chris: Okay.
tauntaunstink: it's
tauntaunstink: we we got a memo from the state saying that we were required to take, think was six classes.
Chris: ah
tauntaunstink: that to be fair i'm sure they sent it out earlier that we were supposed to do these things i don't think i remember ever seeing anything about him so
Chris: They sent it out like last year and I forwarded it and asked everybody to do it.
tauntaunstink: i don't remember that at all and no one else remembers it but i don't remember them saying it was a mandatory thing i don't know has it
Chris: I did.
Chris: It's always been mandatory, but yeah. Yeah. It's the mandatory ALS state content that MIMS puts out every two years.
tauntaunstink: Is it?
Chris: Yes.
tauntaunstink: Never heard of this.
Chris: You've done it though.
tauntaunstink: So anyways, i probably have.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: And I'm not complaining that I had to do the classes. that's not what i'm That's not what I'm about to complain about. What I'm about to complain about is how terrible the classes were.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Oh my. Yeah. Yeah.
tauntaunstink: The two of the classes were clearly AI written with a weird looking avatar thing.
Chris: Yes.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: that didn't know how to say words correctly, like mimes and Kumar.
Chris: Mm-hmm. Yeah.
tauntaunstink: And just the cadence was, this is really, that's what it should have been the test was. At the end of the the class, it should have been, are you pissed off about the cadence of the of the of the content?
tauntaunstink: That's how they know you watched it.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: So I watched those two.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: They're terrible.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: And I'm like, oh, okay, well, they can't get worse than this.
Chris: But per Qmar, MIMES requires these.
tauntaunstink: I was... Akumar. Right, it was that. Akumar, 2346.2 section, mis what You would think someone at MIMS would have said, maybe we should fix that part.
tauntaunstink: Maybe we should make sure that's correct. But no.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: So they they have those two very clearly AI-driven classes.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: Then they have a class on whole blood administration, which was really, this is how Howard County does whole blood class.
Chris: Yes.
tauntaunstink: Not this is how you whole blood administration.
Chris: Right.
tauntaunstink: This is how we do it. which was a weird thing to have as a state content, but whatever. So in that class, they have they have they had test questions that actually, i paid attention to the class and I got wrong.
tauntaunstink: And God help you, they didn't tell you why you got them wrong.
Chris: Really?
tauntaunstink: So like they had little short quizzes in between and it didn't give you the correct answer.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: It was just like, you got this wrong. Well, paul why did I get it wrong?
Chris: Because you're wrong.
tauntaunstink: because I'm wrong, but I would like to learn what I got wrong so I could correct it. And it just feels like if we're gonna...
Chris: Well, i can I can reach out and have their medical director give you a call.
tauntaunstink: Howard Counties?
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: No, I'm good. I don't need to talk to any medical directors.
Chris: OK.
tauntaunstink: Thanks.
Chris: OK. Yeah.
tauntaunstink: But it just feels like if we're gonna send a state level class out, it should be good educational material, right?
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah. Well, I think that should be from any institution or.
tauntaunstink: Well, that's kind of my viewpoint. Anybody that sends little trainings out should be it should be good training. I can tell you, i watch the stuff that comes out of my wife's work, and it is terrible.
Chris: Well, any training, really.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: like My wife's job will be like, hey, we have to have a mandatory meeting, so stop doing your work, right? Stop doing real work, and we have this meeting.
tauntaunstink: And then it's like, oh, we're going to do trivia today. what the fuck are you guys doing it's crazy
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. So it's really continuing education should be relevant and good is what you're saying.
tauntaunstink: yes 100 continue education should well it should be two things it should not be a recurgitation right and it it should be engaging and and and pushing forward your skills right
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Right.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. It should be relevant. It should be, you know, uh maybe yeah i can see some you know being more of a refresher to topics that we don't cover all the time you know but again it shouldn't be writ regurgitation it should be you know hey here's you know like the application of this or you know i i've always thought scenario-based stuff is better than just regurgitation
tauntaunstink: Well, you know who, and um'm he definitely doesn't pay me any money, but who I'm going to say is the best, has done the best continuation training that I've ever taken. Dr. Antebi.
Chris: Yes.
tauntaunstink: That guy, he he, he doesn't come in here and he's like, we're going to talk about your protocols. He's like, we're going talk about the changes in medicine. We're go to talk about how you can apply this stuff to real life.
Chris: Yes.
Chris: Right.
tauntaunstink: And he, he, Clearly gets his audience.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: he could He could draw a little better on his little whiteboard. But he...
Chris: Oh my gosh, his whiteboard is not good.
tauntaunstink: but but he
Chris: Almost as bad as John Madden back in the day.
tauntaunstink: Yeah, almost. But he he he clearly gets his audience and who he's talking to.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: Oh, speaking of whiteboards, there's a tangent to that change it to that tangent. is I watched a nutrition class. It was about firefighter nutrition. And she didn't understand how whiteboards look on camera.
Chris: Okay.
Chris: Hmm.
tauntaunstink: So it was backwards. She put out a whole video where everything was backwards.
Chris: Oh.
tauntaunstink: i was like, God damn it. would have better off not using the whiteboard.
Chris: Was it Meg?
tauntaunstink: Yes.
Chris: o Ooh.
tauntaunstink: Wait.
Chris: Meg Louts.
tauntaunstink: Maggie. Yes. Yeah. Yeah.
Chris: like okay all right oh my god I'll message her
tauntaunstink: Yeah. Somebody said that it might have been on a purpose so people didn't see here her information. Don't do the information then.
Chris: oh yeah I don't know yeah yeah yeah
tauntaunstink: right that then Don't do it. Yeah. so Yes, I think continuing education needs to be
tauntaunstink: but and he's look I'm going to be like, I think that one of those MIMS topics out of the six of them, one of them was actually really important and could have been a really good class.
tauntaunstink: But I think they put zero effort into them.
Chris: but who I thought you said Mimes sponsored it.
tauntaunstink: Mimes, I'm sorry, mimes, mimes, yes, mimes.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: But the one on ethics like and the changes of ethics and how things work could have been a really good class and could have been engaging, but it was so poorly done that you're not get information out of it because you're so focused on hearing Kumar and Mimes that you're not, right?
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
Chris: yeah.
tauntaunstink: Because you're not going to go oh, well, I have to take this seriously because they're not taking it seriously.
Chris: ah yeah
Chris: Yeah, yeah.
tauntaunstink: You know, yeah.
Chris: Well, when you retire and take over education for instance.
tauntaunstink: yeah well it could have been a great class about ethical issues it went really weird because it started out as this is about ethics of patient care and then it was like and let's talk about marijuana use why did he what this is mimes view on marijuana use first off mimes doesn't get to make that justification
Chris: Oh, yeah, yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. yeah
Chris: wouldn't it be nice it wouldn't have been funny though if it was like this is mimes view on Mary Juana
tauntaunstink: Mary Juana. Yeah. it it really It really bugged me on a professional level that it was done so poorly.
Chris: yeah yeah yeah a lot of con ed mm-hmm yeah yeah there is
tauntaunstink: And I feel that about
tauntaunstink: lot of Con Ed. Even The Prodigy, which I've found for the most part to be good, there's a bunch of it that's just bad. Like a bunch of it's just podcasts.
Chris: there is yeah.
tauntaunstink: And that's fine, i guess.
Chris: Mm-hmm.
tauntaunstink: But that's not how people learn.
Chris: Right. Yeah.
tauntaunstink: Like, i got just listening to you guys talk is not great for me.
Chris: Well, I, yeah, I would much rather, you know, for con ed, yeah, go to a seminar or, you know,
tauntaunstink: Great for me, Elise.
Chris: something where i I might actually be able to ask a question, you know, and like a podcast or something that's fine if it's alive, but it's once it's distributed, you know, you can't ask the question you can't, you know, bounce things off.
tauntaunstink: Right. Yeah.
Chris: Yeah. Even yeah like you talk about Dr. Antebi, I mean, some of the hand heavy stuff, the, the conversations that happen in the chat are, you know, some really good things.
tauntaunstink: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Chris: So
tauntaunstink: yeah with When he does his quarterly ones where you get to sit there and ask him questions, they're really good.
Chris: yeah.
tauntaunstink: And I see him a lot on other stuff now, so I just kind of if i see him teaching something i just jump into jump into that which is nice but i just feel like most of the con ed stuff and you and i have been paramedics for lot time right and how many years of our refreshers were just here's the slides we did four years ago we're gonna go through these slides again you know what a waste of opportunity you know
Chris: Yeah. Yep.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Oh, yeah.
Chris: Oh, my god.
Chris: Mm-hmm.
Chris: Mm-hmm.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
tauntaunstink: It was like a...
Chris: Yeah. Well, I mean, even with the, like the, what the legit training that we have to do, like the cybersecurity.
tauntaunstink: We...
tauntaunstink: Mm-hmm.
Chris: Yeah. It's. ah
tauntaunstink: It's a joke.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: It's a joke. Right?
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: It's... It's... Bad. It's done poorly.
Chris: Yeah. Yep.
tauntaunstink: I'm a hacker, quote-unquote. I'm gonna show you how...
Chris: Right.
tauntaunstink: It's...
Chris: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
tauntaunstink: Okay. Cool. Yeah. And I got... Like, some of that stuff...
tauntaunstink: feels like, oh, well, it's mandated, let's check the box. But I just feel like we never should be checking boxes in training.
Chris: Yeah, yeah, yep.
tauntaunstink: we should It should always be useful. Well, but...
Chris: Mm-hmm, right, yeah.
tauntaunstink: you know i
Chris: Yeah, make it relevant, you know, for like that cybersecurity. Have somebody who recently retired, you know, show them, how they logged onto a computer and you know all their issues yeah
tauntaunstink: also like make it relevant to the audience because a lot of the people who like a lot of that legit training is it's clearly meant for people who work in banks and financing like offices you know i remember we took one and it was like and make sure when you open the door you know who's getting into in this into the building with you it's like i work in a fire station i know who's going to the building with me
Chris: oh yeah
Chris: yeah
tauntaunstink: the
Chris: yeah
tauntaunstink: People aren't social engineering their way into the fire station. All they is knock on the door.
Chris: yeah
tauntaunstink: Can I come in? Yes, you can.
Chris: yeah
tauntaunstink: that
Chris: yeah
tauntaunstink: that's what wait We're just from...
tauntaunstink: Maybe because we're also firefighters and firefighting training is so hands-on and you get more out of that, you just feel like when you take these classes, they're just like, this was...
Chris: yeah
tauntaunstink: It was a waste of my time.
Chris: yeah yeah if it was the you know hey here's this and know when you get done here's the hands-on practical application of it or something
tauntaunstink: I didn't get what I could have gotten out of that two hours I spent, you know, doing those classes. And.
tauntaunstink: Well, and like, or I would, I'm going to go back to the ethics one. It was like, here's questions about DNR stuff. And then it was just like, think about this, but then there was no discussion.
Chris: yeah yeah
tauntaunstink: Like, no, think about the ramifications of this and then discuss it, right?
Chris: Right, yeah.
tauntaunstink: That's how you teach ethics.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: You don't just say, well, this is an ethical situation. Yeah, I get that it's an ethical situation.
Chris: Yeah, that's but that's the quandary you got there.
tauntaunstink: Right. it's You got to have a conversation about what it is. Like I said, I was very frustrated taking it.
Chris: Yeah,
tauntaunstink: I've been frustrated because I'm also taking this blue card class. And it is just dragging my soul down.
Chris: yeah. yeah
tauntaunstink: And I just, because i'm I'm reviewing the class for the city, the department.
Chris: Right.
tauntaunstink: I'm trying to give it all of its attention I can give it. I'm just like, this is outdated. It's not even outdated. It's just not well.
Chris: Non-relevant.
tauntaunstink: Yeah. Yeah. It's like Phoenix fire has always had this thing where they have so much manpower that they can do amazing things.
Chris: Right.
tauntaunstink: And whenever they go to teach a class, they're like, you guys need 38 people in the command post.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: We have nine people on scene of the call. Not 38 people in time to go to the command pose.
Chris: Yeah, it's but like you said, it's the relevant and fire department stuff can be very tricky because yeah, one day you're talking to yeah Phoenix that has 85 people and then you're talking to Salisbury that's got, you know, on a working fire dispatch.
Chris: Oh, hey, we get 17 on scene and we're super happy.
tauntaunstink: super happy we we what used to get six and we were like sweet we got six people like you know um and that it's just a tough it is a tough war and like paramedics is the same thing right it's it's super tough because i could spend my entire career in salisbury which i have for the most part i don't think i've i've operated apparently a couple other places but nothing
Chris: So.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: But most of my career has been Salisbury where I've never had a transport over 10 minutes. right So when you talk to me about classes that are like, and 70 minutes into this call, this is what you do.
Chris: Right.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: That's not me. It's not relevant to my career.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: you know
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: It's a tough,
Chris: It's like for the, you would I know it'd be ah pain, but like for the state content, it's like, you know, oh, you work for Hagerstown, Annapolis, Salisbury, you can't count Ocean City because they don't like to do anything.
Chris: Easton, you've got this hospital in your backyard. Here's the how the protocols are going to play out for you.
tauntaunstink: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: Yeah, I mean, it's it's... It's always been a problem with protocols, right? Like, we always...
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: Whenever we get a new medic, you always have to have the conversation of sometimes you're just not going get shit done.
Chris: Yeah. Right. Yeah.
tauntaunstink: Right?
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: you You are thinking 30 minutes into this call that's only going to last three minutes. Right? And I don't want you to forget about that stuff, but I do want you to get the patient to the hospital.
tauntaunstink: you know
Chris: Well, and it's because especially Maryland, we're a very unique layout state that, you know, the the medic in Garrett County has the same training on paper that the medic in Baltimore city has that Salisbury has that, you know, Elkton has.
tauntaunstink: It's even worse than that. They have the same protocols.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
tauntaunstink: It's not just training, it's protocols. Because you cross the state line into Pennsylvania and protocols are by jurisdiction.
Chris: Right.
Chris: Right. Yeah.
tauntaunstink: You know,
Chris: Which I mean, I, I think that would be a delightful thing.
tauntaunstink: yeah, of course.
Chris: Yeah. but Yeah. I have everybody. Yeah. You've got your base, but then, you know, oh, cool. You're in Salisbury. Well, you're not going to focus on yeah the wilderness protocol.
tauntaunstink: Right. Right. This is not a particle you're ever going to look at because why would you?
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: don't
Chris: Right.
tauntaunstink: it i don't know. it's It's really it's a tough wicket because Maryland is so top down.
Chris: Mm-hmm.
tauntaunstink: It's kind of the example of why they put out ah a blood class from Howard County because the guys from Howard County submitted this class saying, this is how we're doing it.
Chris: Mm-hmm.
tauntaunstink: And Maryland was like, cool, top down. We're just going to send this out.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
tauntaunstink: That's not relevant to how Salisbury is going to deliver blood.
Chris: Right.
tauntaunstink: right We're going have different equipment.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: We're going to have different blood storage. you know Why would you, as a state, think that way? But that's just how Maryland has always thought.
Chris: Well, I can see if you put it out there and be like, yeah, here's, you know, one way that's proven to work and, you know, you can.
tauntaunstink: But that's a conversation you send to people like you.
Chris: Right.
tauntaunstink: decision makers why send it to a field paramedic saying hey here's how they deliver blood in Howard in howard County well cool is that how we do it oh no absolutely not no
Chris: Oh, yeah, no, I agree. It shouldn't be.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah. Or. that medic down saint mary's county who's like cool we're not getting blood yeah
tauntaunstink: right yeah yeah we're not we're years and away from blood right even Salisbury we're not really getting blood, we're getting blood to a unit for now, right?
Chris: yeah yeah oh yeah yeah oh
tauntaunstink: And we're gonna have an entirely different deployment model than Howard County does.
tauntaunstink: that's You can't have these top-down decisions driving your protocols and your education and your training. It's it's a sort real problem.
Chris: Yeah, well, it's very similar to the whole, you know, hey, but just our department this month, you're we're going to review engine company operations.
Chris: So that way, if 1D knows that, hey, you know, we really need to work on, you know, pulling, you know, pulling and packing the rear you know, driver's side line, because we've had a couple issues on calls that has been deployed the right way. You focus on that. Whereas, you know, 16B says, okay, you know what?
Chris: We suck at stretching the front bumper line. Whatever it is, you can make it company specific as opposed to, nope, every everybody the department has to do this and this only, and that's what you get.
tauntaunstink: Well, I had that argument with people on my shift because they were, well, we want this to come out. I'm like, well, no, it's I'm the company officer.
Chris: i know.
tauntaunstink: It's my job to train my company.
Chris: Right.
tauntaunstink: And yes, like... the should say hey wizr we want you you we want you guys to focus on this topic maybe but i don't even like that because it's it's my job to look at my crew and say because like we and we didn't have problems but you know we've had new people on my shift so one month a year we just pull hand lines every day yeah right
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Right.
Chris: Yeah. And that's, that's wonderful. That's how training at the company level should be.
tauntaunstink: Right. it's not my It's not the department's job to tell me to do that. that
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: The department's job was promoting me to the position and saying, run your company.
Chris: Exactly.
tauntaunstink: Right? Like, it's not their job to then go, man, we want you to run your company this way.
Chris: Yep. Yep.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. Well, it gets back to that whole micromanagement. So, yeah.
tauntaunstink: oh We only have two two versions of management in Salisbury, micro and shotgun.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
tauntaunstink: That's it.
tauntaunstink: And we all complain about it and then continue to do it.
Chris: Yeah. yeah Yeah.
tauntaunstink: And you can tell when people come out to my shift, guest stars, and they're like, well, what about... and like ah out you're You're a grown-ass adult.
tauntaunstink: You know what your job is.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: Do your job.
Chris: And if you don't know what your job is, let's go back to your FTO paperwork and see where somebody screwed up.
tauntaunstink: Right. And if you don't know what your job is, then what the fuck's your boss been doing? Right?
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
tauntaunstink: It's only my job to intervene when you don't do the right job.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
tauntaunstink: I'm just dumb fireman.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: I just, I'm dumb fireman who wants the next generation to be better than I was.
Chris: Exactly. Yeah. Yeah.
tauntaunstink: That's all it is.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: Like, when I'm complaining about training, it doesn't affect me. I could take every class MIMS puts out for the next three years.
Chris: Mimes.
tauntaunstink: MIMS, I'm sorry. MIMS. Puts out for the next three years.
Chris: yeah
tauntaunstink: It's not going to affect my career.
Chris: Right.
tauntaunstink: Right?
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: But I really would like the new paramedics. Right? So we have a brand new paramedic. I'm not going to show her those classes.
Chris: Right.
tauntaunstink: Right? Because weirdly, she doesn't have to take them. I don't really understand how that their way they wrote it is very weird.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: But those classes should that should not be presented to that person.
Chris: No.
tauntaunstink: They need to be better than that.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: And that's... I think that's really my point of this. It's a serious thing. Training.
Chris: Yes.
tauntaunstink: And education. It should be done more seriously.
Chris: Yeah. Well, when I write the memo up Tuesday and send it off to Mimes, the nominate you.
tauntaunstink: of my no Negative.
Chris: ah no Yeah, no, i agree. Yeah.
tauntaunstink: Yeah, it's... Yeah, I mean, and I don't have the perfect answer because they're never going to get everybody.
Chris: Yeah, but just
tauntaunstink: But you get that one person and make a difference.
Chris: Mm-hmm. Yeah.
tauntaunstink: it It's a pretty good feeling.
Chris: It is. It's a tremendous feeling.
tauntaunstink: Yeah. Yeah. It's just every once in a while, they do something that you trained them on and you're like, a little tear comes down rolling down your cheek going,
Chris: Yep. Yep.
Chris: Yep. That was a part of that.
tauntaunstink: Yep,
tauntaunstink: yep. My boy Quillen still to this day will not let me go when I said, why you giving that lady an IV? Well, she's dehydrated. And you're following which protocol then?
tauntaunstink: Hmm. Okay. Cool. That's what we do at Ocean City.
Chris: m
tauntaunstink: Interesting. but What protocol call is that again?
tauntaunstink: Well, we've educated ourselves to education.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: Oh, side change it.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
tauntaunstink: Side, side change it. Just real quick.
Chris: Mm-hmm.
tauntaunstink: Is Fantastic Four a bad movie or just nobody cared?
Chris: Nobody cared.
tauntaunstink: Okay.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah, thought it was fine.
tauntaunstink: is it just fine or is it... It's just fine, right? It's not like...
Chris: It wasn't like blow my socks off, but I had fun during it. There were couple of slow spots, but overall I had a good time watching it.
tauntaunstink: just nobody cared.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: Okay, that's all it.
Chris: Yep. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
tauntaunstink: There won't be a second one.
Chris: ah I'm sure there will be somehow. So yeah.
tauntaunstink: Okay, moving on. Death
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. um I'm sure we've talked about this in the past. How do we make the Olympics matter?
tauntaunstink: penalty. Death penalty.
Chris: We were talking about this the other day at work. I mean, it's just like, yeah, it's great that, you know, it's the Olympics and, you know, people are watching it and everything, but it's like, yeah oh, so-and-so's got, you know, so many gold and, you know, we've only got this and that, but at the end of the day, it doesn't do anything.
tauntaunstink: No, I don't care.
Chris: Like, it should be one of those, like, oh, you, you know, you won this, so you, you know, your country gets X.
tauntaunstink: Do you remember the 1980s classic film, Battle Jocks?
Chris: No.
tauntaunstink: Oh, so the premise of the movie, think it's called Battle Jocks.
Chris: Battle shock.
tauntaunstink: They were big, like big mechs.
Chris: Hmm.
tauntaunstink: the premise of the movie was that they had these giant worldwide competitions. And if you won, you took over that country. You got their resources.
Chris: Oh.
tauntaunstink: We could do that with Olympics.
Chris: ah Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
tauntaunstink: If you win... Hey, any other country, if you win, you get our president.
tauntaunstink: You can have him.
Chris: Yeah. yeah yeah yeah
tauntaunstink: I think it even goes beyond like that, though. We were watching... Olympic speed skating, right? And I was like, I feel so bad for these people because they have worked their entire lives to this moment.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: And there's nobody in the stands.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: And even me watching it right now, I don't care.
Chris: yeah I mean, there are some.
tauntaunstink: I think part of it is there's just too many sports, right?
Chris: um
tauntaunstink: Like there's just, the Olympics is so much
Chris: yeah
tauntaunstink: There's so much chaff.
Chris: yeah i mean it's almost like it's rent they have to participate around the clock to shove it all in yeah like they added this year what's it called like i something like schemo or something where they have to like
tauntaunstink: Right. And it's just there's there's so much noise to it. You're like, but I don't even.
tauntaunstink: They had.
Chris: cross-country ski up to the top of the slope and then ski down, you know, in a slalom or something.
tauntaunstink: They had mixed snowboard relay hill climb or something like that the other day. And I was like, what are we watching?
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: And they were like, and do you guys remember the epic moment in 2022 where this this couple won Beijing?
Chris: No.
tauntaunstink: No.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: and Well, now they're four years older and he's the oldest person participating in this sport in the Olympics.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: And I use the word sport very loosely.
Chris: He's 23. Yeah.
Chris: Yeah. yeah
tauntaunstink: This sounds like something.
Chris: What, you don't consider curling a sport?
tauntaunstink: get paid
tauntaunstink: I get into curling probably more than any other Olympic event. Yeah.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, but it's like billiards.
tauntaunstink: yeah Yeah. It's just billiard. It's literally shuffleboard on ice.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: Right? Like, I just...
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: Is that the guns with the skis?
Chris: Well, it's like the, what is it the biathlon?
tauntaunstink: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah, but they have these super, you know, they're pretty much air pellets, you know, or whatever.
tauntaunstink: Yeah.
Chris: But it's like this super, no, just, here is a, ah exactly,
tauntaunstink: Get your old paddy Hansi rifle out there.
Chris: Yeah, yeah they' like, yeah, yeah, that'll mix it up.
tauntaunstink: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah, throwing every man into every single sport.
tauntaunstink: Well, that is nice about curling is you can tell those people are not in shape.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: This is like guys with beer belly. Oh, let's get the stone down the line.
Chris: yeah yeah yeah i just yeah
tauntaunstink: Yeah, I don't know how you make them matter because...
tauntaunstink: I guess when we were kids, we're this weird generation because we were like at the tail end of the Olympics being a real thing.
Chris: yeah yeah right
tauntaunstink: Because it was like, you know, it was always the Russians versus the Americans, like the Cold War. The Olympics mattered because of the Cold War, right? And then with the Cold War, it's like, cool, these things are still going, huh?
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: We got snowboarding now and freakdance and
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
Chris: it's like when they say, you oh, you, you know, you won the Olympics. Yeah. The entire world has to eat, know, your cuisine for a month out of a year or something. I don't know.
tauntaunstink: and I mean, that's a harsh one.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
tauntaunstink: guys Yeah, there's just... There's so much crap in Olympics that I don't care about.
Chris: yeah
tauntaunstink: I don't care about any of it, really.
Chris: Right. Oh, my wife despises the Olympics.
tauntaunstink: Oh, really?
Chris: Oh yeah. She doesn't matter. It doesn't count for anything. It doesn't matter. What's the point? but So like, I'll come home and like, oh yeah, did you see so-and-so did this in figure skating today?
Chris: Stupid.
tauntaunstink: I think the problem is it really matters to those people.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Oh yeah.
tauntaunstink: right Those people put so much effort into and work into being Olympic athletes.
Chris: Right.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: And also maybe part of it is like it feels like all the stuff that was cool in the Olympics has already been done so we don't care anymore.
Chris: yeah
tauntaunstink: like i feel like Michael Phelps is the last time anybody really cared about the Olympics in America.
Chris: yeah yeah well because i mean this year you've got people yeah there's the controversy of you know guys in the ski jump who are injecting paraffin into their dick oh yeah you haven't heard about that yeah um yeah they evidently they're testing because
tauntaunstink: What?
tauntaunstink: I have not heard about that.
Chris: Some athletes are accused of injecting either paraffin or hyaluronic acid into their penis before the ski jump to increase their wind resistance.
tauntaunstink: Wow.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: but Just wow.
Chris: Yeah. ah Yeah. I was like, what, what, what? So.
tauntaunstink: my other favorite part about is this fake outrage that the um how dare they turn the olympics into politic politics how dare these olympic athletes make political statements it's like have you not seen any of the olympics ever like the most famous picture of jesse owens is him you know doing the black power thing next to nazis do you guys y'all never seen this shit before that's what the olympics is
Chris: Ever? Yeah. its
Chris: Yeah. Right.
tauntaunstink: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: It is sad how little it matters to pretty much anybody.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
tauntaunstink: I don't know how you...
Chris: But like you said, it it it matters to the athletes and stuff. And like, I'll give, you know, it was, don't charming, heartwarming, whatever. Like the cross country thing the other day, the the athlete from Haiti, i think he finally finished like 30 some minutes behind everybody else, but he finished and he was smiling and, you know, just so proud to finish that event.
Chris: You know, it's, I guess it's because we don't have those, you know, one-offs like that, like the Jamaican bobsled team and, you know,
tauntaunstink: Yeah. In America, it's it's tough because there's always going somebody in every sport.
Chris: yeah
tauntaunstink: Right? Like, just there's how many Americans, right? They're always going to find some guys like, oh, I kind of like skating. Cool, you're now the speed skating guy for America. What?
Chris: yeah yeah yeah maybe that's what we do maybe one year or something it's just there's a random draft throughout the country yep yep seriously
tauntaunstink: You know? It's just not a thing. And I always wonder, like,
tauntaunstink: It's just, they put your name in the bingo barrel and they say, Ron Wismer, bobsled keen captain.
Chris: yeah yep and you have two months to get ready
tauntaunstink: okay Right, right. Yeah. Here's your goggles. What? i don't
Chris: yeah yeah yeah keep it like yeah oh joe schmerkins high dive sir i can't swim that you got two months
tauntaunstink: Ron Wismer, women's beach volleyball. What?
tauntaunstink: butp The ball has spoken. You better learn, buddy. Yeah. It would be a more entertaining Olympics. I can you that.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: Chris Truitt, figure skating.
Chris: Yeah. Oh, I took two years of figure skating lessons when I was in middle school.
tauntaunstink: No doubt you did. Let's see how that, I want to see how it's 46 years old that pays off.
Chris: Yeah. i I mean, I can skate. That's about it. I can't do anything else. I can barely skate backwards.
tauntaunstink: feel but I I definitely can't say backwards on ice skates.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
tauntaunstink: I always feel bad for the Olympic athletes because what do you do after the Olympics?
Chris: yeah
tauntaunstink: right like This is your last time being in the Olympics. You're 26 years old. You're or too old or whatever the fuck. and like You've spent your entire life at this point training for this sport.
tauntaunstink: and It's a sport you can't work in. Right? Like, you can't be... I'm assuming there's no women's beach... Major League Women's Beach Volleyball League. So then what do you do?
tauntaunstink: Just gotta, like, get get a job at Kinko's?
Chris: i mean yeah So a quick Google search after the Olympics athletes typically take a break to recover, then pursue diverse paths, including returning to a regular job training for future competitions, starting a new career or just retiring.
tauntaunstink: But like, retire, you don't have enough money.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
Chris: Hmm.
tauntaunstink: what always blows my mind is, like some of these athletes know they're going to lose, right?
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: Like that, like especially like a lot of the speed trial stuff, they go into that sport knowing they're not the fastest person in this race and they're not going to win. Unless some weird fluke happens.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: You've just trained your whole life for the sport. You you don't even win. Then what? You're just like a barista at Starbucks? Like, I don't... It's weird to me. and always feel that way about, like, college softball players.
tauntaunstink: And I don't say this to other people who work with us.
Chris: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
tauntaunstink: But, like, after college, then what?
Chris: Yeah. a I think you play in like Japan.
tauntaunstink: Is that a thing?
Chris: I think so.
tauntaunstink: Oh, okay.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: Well, see, there's a then what? I didn't know there was a then what?
Chris: Yeah. But yeah, it's.
tauntaunstink: like I have buddy who played college baseball and he knew he wasn't good enough to make it into the majors. Now he works at oh you know a lawyer's office there a doing paperwork.
Chris: Right. Yeah.
tauntaunstink: you know it's just That's got to be a weird feeling that you spent your entire life up to that point training for this thing. And then all of a sudden you're like... I guess I'm going to feel that feeling in three years.
Chris: yeah yeah yeah
tauntaunstink: Right? But at least I'll get a pension out of it. don't know.
Chris: wouldn't it be funny if we're you we're talking about this and we go to work next week and and we figure find out that like one of the guys on c shift was a former olympian
tauntaunstink: It wouldn't surprise me because there's so many events now.
Chris: Mm-hmm.
tauntaunstink: like, oh, yeah, I was at the Junior World Olympics in fencing.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: Whoa, cool.
Chris: yeah Yeah. yeah
tauntaunstink: That and $1.25 will almost get you a cup of coffee.
Chris: Yeah. which Side tangent to that, my stepdad does the senior Olympics sometimes.
tauntaunstink: Oh, that's fun.
Chris: Yeah, he does like discus and shot put, stuff like that. My oldest, this has been a few years ago, but was talking to friends was like, yeah, my step, my grandfather's in the Special Olympics.
tauntaunstink: ah
Chris: Like, you know, those are, those are separate things.
tauntaunstink: That's funny.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
tauntaunstink: Yeah.
Chris: So.
tauntaunstink: Well, we're Olympians.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: That's all I can say.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. I mean,
tauntaunstink: I especially feel bad for Olympians this year because I feel like no one cares this year at all.
Chris: yeah well it but yeah and it it's yeah right yeah yeah yeah it's i guess know the hope was that it would distract the world but it's not going to yeah so yeah yeah just
tauntaunstink: With all the other things going on in the world, the Olympics are like so far down people's list.
tauntaunstink: not going to. Yeah. Never has. Never will. and all all And it's got to be terrible that this is your year and all you get is all the other crap that's going on just overriding your Olympic event.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: It's terrible.
Chris: Yeah. it Mix it up for the last few events, you know, like, you know, at.
tauntaunstink: Take the figure skaters and put them on hockey.
Chris: Oh, yeah. I was going to say, yeah. Figure skate through the hockey game or curl through the hockey game.
tauntaunstink: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: like I like that playing.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. Biathlon on the snowboard halfpipe.
tauntaunstink: Or you have to slalom through the biathlon course. So they're shooting around you.
Chris: Yes. Yes.
tauntaunstink: Yeah.
Chris: Yes.
tauntaunstink: and Now we got to sport.
Chris: Mm hmm. Yeah. Yeah.
Chris: Speed skating, but you have to do two jumps.
tauntaunstink: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: Oh, speed skating hurdles.
Chris: Oh, yes. See? Yes.
tauntaunstink: let's see we could We should just be in charge of things.
Chris: We should.
tauntaunstink: We'd make all this better.
Chris: Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. yeah Yeah. You hear that NBC or whoever televises the Olympics? You want ratings for your guys.
tauntaunstink: Yeah, but they're all going to be death sports, basically.
Chris: They signed a waiver.
tauntaunstink: Grown ass men.
Chris: And women.
tauntaunstink: and women
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You were throwing your body for the Olympics every four years. Yeah. I bet that would cut down the number of people.
tauntaunstink: it definitely cut down a number of sports if you were like if you if if you knew that you signed up for some bullshit event and they could throw you into a death sport i bet a lot of those bullshit sports i bet those snowboard kids would not show up
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
tauntaunstink: I bet that break dance lady doesn't show up for her event when there's like, you might have to break dance yourself through the rowing team underwater.
Chris: yeah yeah Yep. Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: Yeah.
tauntaunstink: Well, I think we've covered all the Olympics.
Chris: I think we have. yeah People are doing well. Hope you thaw out today.
tauntaunstink: Me too. It's not going happen, but I hope.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. But yeah. well the
tauntaunstink: Be warm out there, folks.
Chris: but yeah Yeah, yeah.
tauntaunstink: And the watch out for tauntauns coming near you.
Chris: Take care.
Chris: Yeah, yeah. They're sneaky.
tauntaunstink: They're sneaky.
Chris: Take care, folks.
