What’s Your Emergency

MC has had one hell of a week, gang. First a hot water pipe in his garage bursts, on his birthday no less, costing a few hundred bucks. Then Rory, the eldest of the MC dogs, starts having leg issues on a weekend so needs to be seen at the urgent care. There goes even more cash out the door. Then...termites. Since we were getting ready to record when the "pest guy" climbed into the attic...

Frank Abagnale is famous for being a confidence man, a thief and is convicted of bank fraud. Before being caught he allegedly passed the Georgia bar exam, served as a Doctor and most famously logged millions of miles posing as a Pan Am pilot needing a ride from town to town. Of course in each town he made and cashed fraudulent checks and committed other crimes, many of which are now in question, b...

For those of you still in the 3rd grade, let it be known that there are 2 Kansas Cities. Not, like you know, 2 cities in Kansas, but 2 metropolitan hubs named Kansas City. And they are of course easily distinguishable by the *checks notes* 6 minute drive across the Kansas river from each other. *tosses papers* It takes your hosts 11 minutes just to get to a decent freeway to get anywhere. Well, th...

As you may have heard, hosting a podcast isn't free anymore. When we first started podcasting over a decade ago, you just recorded some audio, uploaded it to the Library of Congress and posted a link on MySpace or the Community Bulletin Board (Remember those!?). To make sure the show can be heard on a variety of platforms at the same time we needed to pull together some scratch every month. A...

EXPLICIT CONTENT AND PARENTAL WARNING This episode uses adult language and discusses addiction and suicide. Parental discretion is advised. If you're new to our podcast you may be thinking we have it in for the Kansas City Fire Department since we seem to gravitate towards stories surrounding strange goings on in that organization. Then this happens. We just this week learned the results of a...

EXPLICIT WARNING - This episode contains descriptions of a shooting from a Police video and expletive language. Parental discretion is advised. By now you've heard the news out of Nashville about the shooting that killed 6, including 3 children, at Covenant School. This week the guys watch the body cam footage provided by the Metro Nashville PD. In the video linked HERE we watch as 4 year Off...

FDIC 2023 in Indianapolis is rapidly approaching and your favorite co-host is excited to be presenting for the 8th year in a row. No, not that one, the other one. Sheesh. Justin, our Fire and EMS expert is back presenting Mass Casualty (MCI) response for first in firefighting companies and shares a few new elements of his presentation that the New York Times called "Please stop emailing us ra...

You know what's great about batch recording? When you realize it's the day of the week where we're supposed to publish a show, but don't have anything in the hopper...unless we totally do! That's right, a few months back, we recorded one of our favorite schticks here at WYE Radio, "Stump MC"! What questions did HM ask MC? Beats us...it was months ago! Maybe MC wi...

When we mention Kansas City, there's a good chance your mind immediately tracks to the Super Bowl Champion Kansas City Chiefs or even Big Jim Slade, former tight end for the Kansas City Chiefs, but lately your feed may include the 2 stories the guys are tracking this week and think of just one Kansas City Chief: The Fire Chief. First from the Kansas City Fire Department: the Paramedic seen on...

Justin and Jason are pioneers in podcasting. You know it, they know it, and the world knows it, mainly based on the evidence presented in the title of this week's show. That's right, Justin is called the Happy Medic and his father, retired Fire Captain Jerry Schorr, is known as...wait for it...the Angry Captain. No joke. This week Jerry is in town so we have to fire up the mics and get h...

In the noted cinematic masterpiece "The Princess Bride", Billy Crystal's character,  Miracle Max, is asked to assess a dead body to see if he can perform a miracle and bring the body back to life. He pokes and prods rather randomly, then declares, "Lucky for you he's only *mostly* dead." In the Monty Python film "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" a man collec...

Marc Hildebrand is a life coach, podcaster, best selling author, father, husband and retired LEO. And while you may look at that list and think "OK, cool" just wait my friends. This week Jason and Justin welcome a man who looked at himself about to become a father and heard a voice tell him he could do better. Struggling with leadership issues at his agency, Marc went into overdrive, pic...

You read that right, listeners. Your hosts have lined up yet another amazing international guest in the field of fire, police, EMS and Emergency Planning. Friend of the show and public health expert, Aram Bronston, is with us this week to talk about how he went from snuggled in bed in Northern California to suddenly sitting in Christchurch, New Zealand, on his way to Antarctica. We had a blast tal...

After a heavy show last week with a total of 7 public safety officers charged with murder, we decide to decompress a bit and fill you in on some local happenings. First off, both of the boys are following in the shoes of Rodney Dangerfield and are heading back to school! Jason is studying music mainly, although Justin thinks some of the classes he's taking are made up, Jason fell asleep while...

It is very unusual to see a story in the feeds as clear cut as the story coming out of Springfield, Illinois, where Paramedics Peggy Finley and Peter Cadigan were arrested and charged with murder after the death of Earl Moore Jr, a patient under their care. Yes, you read that right...murder. Officer Axon is always watching... It turns out these two decided it would be a good idea to approach Mr. M...

Unless you've been under a giant rock you're aware that Buffalo Bill's Football player Damar Hamlin suffered a cardiac arrest during a game against the Bengals recently. While the dark web is flush with conspiracies about the cause, your hosts Jason the law enforcement expert and football fan, and Justin the medical expert and irregular spectator, have narrowed things down and have...

The boys are back in town and they've got some amazing and fun stories to share about their Christmas breaks! While MC was driving north to spend time with his retired Fireman dad (and 3 kids and 3 dogs in 1 car) HM was headed South to warm temps and a respiratory infection mixed with flight delays. In the end they received some fun gifts from family and friends and have a chance to share how...

Your expert hosts have come to the studio with memories of Christmas past to share and wrap up the year. Stories of having dads in the firehouse, traditions added from in laws and practices long past and forgotten.  They discuss their favorite Christmas memories and give you a little taste of next season here at WYE. From all of us to all of you, have a Merry Christmas, Blessed Solstice, Joyous Ha...

In the epic film This is Spinal Tap, the filmmaker notices the band's amplifiers go past 10 to 11. He asks why and they answer, "Well, it's louder, isn't it?" This appears to be the thought behind a new FDA approved medication called Kloxxado , a name HM totally didn't make up on the spot. Kloxxado, aside from having 2 x's in it, is simply...wait for it...Nalaxon...

This week, we dive into the headlines and find a disturbing thread at the top of most of the feeds: We're shooting each other. Both firearm examples today are from the great state of Texas while the honor of having a Battalion Chief punching a subordinate falls to Pennsylvania. First, we visit the parking lot of the Palestine TX Fire Department where one member was so excited to show his gun...

It's Friday night in the summer of 1972 and a new NBC show called "Emergency!" captivates Americans with the idea of little half trained Doctors called "Paramedics" treating patients before taking them to the hospital. For decades we were told they were the first, the OG, the father's of modern EMS. But did you know they weren't even close to the first? Father of...

Justin got an interesting question at the firehouse recently so of course he waits until the microphones are on to Ask MC the same question. On the way to that question we get sidetracked in true WYE fashion and discuss a video sent in from Brendan about never talking to the Police as well as more hilarious things MC has been offered, for free, as part of his Amazon reviewing spree. This week&apos...

Just in case you thought our semi regular series on cops behaving badly was taking a hiatus, in comes some news from a couple of PDs local to the studio. According to the story on Police 1 and in local media outlets, a few Officers have found new and interesting ways to screw up. From the investigation into possibly conspiring to assault people comes evidence of theft of firearms, falsifying polic...

We've all seen the stories about the emotional support peacocks and little fluffy emotional support purse sized dogs but are there any actual regulations when it comes to service animals? Indeed there are and, like most encounters with the public, the first person to say they know the law is usually wrong. This week we find out because Justin (the one who isn't retired) had a call with a...

In a TED talk in Scotland, Elizabeth Loftus shares some of her research about memory, explaining how a man was accused and convicted of rape despite no evidence other than the victim saying initially "He looks the most like the guy." Trouble is, come trial and the victim is 100% sure it was a man who didn't commit the crime. He is convicted and spends a year in prison before the tru...