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Speaker 1: Everyone welcome The Mother Knows Death. Today we are going
Speaker 1: to talk about a freak accident that led to the
Speaker 1: death of Sophia Hutchins, who is connected to Caitlin Jenner.
Speaker 1: Ways you can get hurt on Amusement Rides, a man
Speaker 1: who was awarded millions of dollars for getting injured on
Speaker 1: a subway, a terrible story involving a mother who died
Speaker 1: and her baby who was found luckily alive days later,
Speaker 1: And what happens when city workers that so happen to
Speaker 1: work at the Morgue go on strike. All that and
Speaker 1: more on today's episode. Let's get started with this Sophia
Speaker 1: Hutchins person that I'd never heard about until this week.
Speaker 1: All right, that doesn't surprise me because you're not I
Speaker 1: don't know about any exactly. So this shocking news broke
Speaker 1: last week that Caitlyn Jenner's manager, Sophia Hutchins died after
Speaker 1: she hit the back of another car while driving her
Speaker 1: ATV would send her down a three hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: foot ravine. Didn't we have a story last episode about
Speaker 1: a guy getting getting attacked by a bear and pulled
Speaker 1: into a ravine as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it seems like an absolutely horrific way
Speaker 2: to die. Whether an animal's pulling you down there or
Speaker 2: you're in a car accident that sends you down there,
Speaker 2: neither way sounds good.
Speaker 1: So three hundred and fifty feet nobody's surviving that, it
Speaker 1: must have been kind of horrific injuries. And she was
Speaker 1: pronounced dead at the scene, So like, who is this person?
Speaker 1: Because now I have a lot of questions just because
Speaker 1: wasn't Caitlyn Jenner involved in a fatal car accident years ago?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was gonna talk about that in a little bit.
Speaker 2: So I find it weird that the press keeps saying
Speaker 2: a long time friend. This person's twenty nine years old,
Speaker 2: you know, Like, it's not like Caitlyn's been friends with
Speaker 2: her for thirty plus years. I would consider that a
Speaker 2: longtime friend.
Speaker 1: You're like, they haven't. She hasn't even been alive long
Speaker 1: enough to be a longtime friend.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she's maybe been friends. They've maybe been friends for
Speaker 2: ten years. So like, I don't know why they keep
Speaker 2: saying longtime friend. But Sofia was Caitlin's business manager, so
Speaker 2: they first met when Caitlyn Jenner came out as trans
Speaker 2: and then from there, Sophia Hutchins ended up moving in
Speaker 2: with Caitlyn Jenner after graduating college and became her manager.
Speaker 2: So she's been in that her manager. Yeah, so they're
Speaker 2: not like there's been much speculation that they were in
Speaker 2: a relationship, but they've always maintained that they're platonic.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, and this and this check's like twenty something,
Speaker 1: twenty nine. They're friends and they live together.
Speaker 2: Are like, okay, well they don't live together anymore, but
Speaker 2: they did for a while, and Sofia's been the manager.
Speaker 2: So right now, authorities are investigating speeding as a potential factor.
Speaker 2: They also said they're awaiting toxicology. And then I wanted
Speaker 2: to bring in the point, like you said earlier, that
Speaker 2: Kitlyn Jenner was involved in a fatal car accident back
Speaker 2: in twenty fifteen.
Speaker 1: So what was the cause of that. I don't really
Speaker 1: It's funny. I feel like that was that all over
Speaker 1: or was that kind of buried?
Speaker 2: I don't know, honestly, because I've been following the whole
Speaker 2: Kardashian clan forever, so it's been in my world coming
Speaker 2: up for all this time in the last ten years.
Speaker 2: So I guess for a regular person as yourself that
Speaker 2: doesn't follow pop culture as closely, this might have gotten
Speaker 2: buried a little bit. In twenty fifteen, Kaitlyn Jenner was
Speaker 2: involved in this crash where she hit a seven year
Speaker 2: old woman's car, which then sent the woman's car into
Speaker 2: oncoming traffic, and then the woman's car was hit by
Speaker 2: another vehicle which killed her. So there was no charges
Speaker 2: ever pressed against Kaitlin for that. They couldn't prove that
Speaker 2: she was under the influence or she was distracted while driving,
Speaker 2: like texting or something, so never any charges. But there
Speaker 2: was a civil suit by the family in the car
Speaker 2: that struck the woman like the other car. Oh okay,
Speaker 2: so Kaitlyn Jenner had to end up paying about I
Speaker 2: believe eight hundred thousand dollars out to that family from
Speaker 2: the civil suit.
Speaker 1: So this this friend was riding an ATV on Caitlin's
Speaker 1: property were.
Speaker 2: It said, on a road leading to Kaitlyn Jenner's house,
Speaker 2: so possibly she lived nearby and instead of driving a car,
Speaker 2: people drive ATVs. I don't know what I mean. We
Speaker 2: have an ATV at the cabin.
Speaker 1: So remember aunt Jane had. She used to have the
Speaker 1: lake house that was in a little gated community, and
Speaker 1: one time Louie was like, oh, let me, let me
Speaker 1: show you around here, and we got in that Polaris
Speaker 1: thing and we just drove around. That's considered an ATV,
Speaker 1: so I guess because there's not really major traffic except
Speaker 1: the people that are living in that particular community. A
Speaker 1: lot of times you see it with people like have
Speaker 1: a golf cart or something like that. So I'm wondering
Speaker 1: if it was just something like that, because typically I
Speaker 1: don't think you're supposed to drive those things in the
Speaker 1: street with traffic, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but people do. I mean people do here. So
Speaker 2: the fourth alone, I saw at least three of them
Speaker 2: on the road, which is not to say I mean,
Speaker 2: especially the main roads near us are horrific in a
Speaker 2: regular car, and I know there's.
Speaker 1: Been like swarms of fifty kids on I just really
Speaker 1: don't think those things are street legal. I could be wrong,
Speaker 1: but I don't think that you're supposed to be right
Speaker 1: in those things in the middle of the street with traffic, because,
Speaker 1: especially on Route one thirty, I don't even think that
Speaker 1: they go fast enough to keep up with with don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I could be misspoken. I just I
Speaker 1: don't think that they're street legal. So I mean, think
Speaker 1: about if you're driving on a road that goes forty
Speaker 1: miles an hour, being on one of those things is
Speaker 1: it's just weird and you don't really see them that often,
Speaker 1: and so I don't know why she was in one,
Speaker 1: but sometimes just maybe she was like running Uran's house
Speaker 1: to house. I mean, god, I would never be riding.
Speaker 1: I don't even want to drive a car that's next
Speaker 1: door ravine. That's freaking scary.
Speaker 2: No, I know, that's all I was thinking too. And
Speaker 2: especially if they're thinking that she was speeding or something
Speaker 2: going along that road, You're like, it's so dangerous. I
Speaker 2: can't imagine. But we're gonna find out soon what happened exactly.
Speaker 2: But it's super sad, and I don't know if they're
Speaker 2: thinking she's speeding or something definitely ill advised on a
Speaker 2: windy road like that where you could possibly fall off
Speaker 2: the side. So we're gonna find out what happened sooner
Speaker 2: or later, because obviously they're gonna do an investigation.
Speaker 1: All right, So tell them about this story because that
Speaker 1: will really this is an unexpected thing, but apparently it
Speaker 1: happens all right.
Speaker 2: So at kenny Wood, which is an amusement park in
Speaker 2: Western PA, a person was on the Phantoms Revenge coaster
Speaker 2: when suddenly they were struck by a cell phone and
Speaker 2: had to go to the hospital.
Speaker 1: So there's been a couple of rides at we go
Speaker 1: on at Cannobles, for example, that there they say like,
Speaker 1: I'll have my belt bag on and they're like, we
Speaker 1: want that, and I'm like, no, I'm not leaving my
Speaker 1: designer bag here in your little basket. And they're like, well,
Speaker 1: then you're not going on the ride. They want your phone,
Speaker 1: they want your glasses, which sucks because but I do
Speaker 1: have a story about that. But for me, I can't
Speaker 1: see with how my glass is on, so then I
Speaker 1: can't really experience life enjoyably if I can't see right.
Speaker 1: But that's why. And they did tell us once they
Speaker 1: were just like, we had an incident. It wasn't at Cannobles.
Speaker 1: I think it was when we went to Dutch Wonderland.
Speaker 1: They told us that they had an incident once that
Speaker 1: someone got hit with someone's cell phone. And now they're
Speaker 1: like hardcore about it.
Speaker 2: I yeah, and like I see that the park is
Speaker 2: saying that they have lockers, and they have cubbies at
Speaker 2: each ride, and some of them have locking mechanisms, and
Speaker 2: they have like pouches on the coaster itself. I don't
Speaker 2: think everything at every park is convenient to store stuff away,
Speaker 2: and I don't think they stress how damp it could
Speaker 2: be when things fall out of your pocket.
Speaker 1: Well, it just depends who's operating the ride, Like sometimes
Speaker 1: people just blow. Like I'll tell you recently, within the
Speaker 1: past couple of years, we went on the Guardian of
Speaker 1: the Galaxy ride it Upcot, and I was wearing my
Speaker 1: glasses and nobody told me to take them off. I
Speaker 1: didn't really know what to expect on the ride, and
Speaker 1: like I borderline didn't enjoy the ride, which I thought
Speaker 1: was so cool, because my glasses were like falling off
Speaker 1: so bad and I couldn't even like hold on to
Speaker 1: them good it. I was so scared and I went
Speaker 1: down this rabbit hole of like, my glasses are gonna
Speaker 1: fall off, They're not going to be able to find them,
Speaker 1: and the rest of the trip, I'm going to be
Speaker 1: miserable because I can't see anything. Like what do you
Speaker 1: eat then? I get scared, Like, what do you do
Speaker 1: in a situation like that if you only have one
Speaker 1: pair of glasses with you?
Speaker 2: Well, let me ask you this too, Why even go
Speaker 2: on the ride if you can't see the visual components
Speaker 2: of it? Doesn't it take away a bunch of the experience.
Speaker 1: I yeah, I mean I didn't even think of it,
Speaker 1: and it would have, but I don't. I don't know,
Speaker 1: Like honestly, if I knew that they were gonna fly
Speaker 1: off my face like that, I feel like I would
Speaker 1: just deal with it, because you can't. Like, I don't
Speaker 1: want to lose my glasses because it's it's so physically
Speaker 1: uncomfortable to not be able to see anything. I just
Speaker 1: don't really experience life the same without them, you know.
Speaker 1: Even when I go swimming in the pool with the
Speaker 1: kids and I take off my glasses, I'm kind of like,
Speaker 1: I can't even really like see them and enjoy it.
Speaker 1: But so then I put my sunglasses on, but then
Speaker 1: they splash me. I can't see. It's just like a
Speaker 1: weird thing.
Speaker 2: So is the person responsible for keeping the cell phone
Speaker 2: in their pocket even though there was signs around, or
Speaker 2: is the ride operator responsible for not checking everybody.
Speaker 1: Well, I've been on some rides where they're legit, like
Speaker 1: everything needs to come out of your pocket, like they're
Speaker 1: if they're if they're being responsible about it, they'll say,
Speaker 1: you can't keep your phone in your pocket because that
Speaker 1: could happen, just getting thrown around and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: And imagine getting hit with a I mean, like if
Speaker 1: you were standing in the room across from me and
Speaker 1: I threw my phone at you, it would hurt.
Speaker 2: When I'm holding my phone above my face, when I'm
Speaker 2: laying embedded, it falls, it hurts, like I can't imagine
Speaker 2: any force exactly, like imagine that that would like seriously
Speaker 2: hurt somebody, so especially I just got a new phone
Speaker 2: this week because my other one was broken, and it's
Speaker 2: so much heavier than my old one. I don't understand
Speaker 2: why the iPhones keep getting heavier with each new release.
Speaker 1: Mine and I get like the super what's it called?
Speaker 1: Plus the super big phone.
Speaker 2: I don't get the super big one.
Speaker 1: It's mine, like is a workout to hold it up.
Speaker 1: It is really heavy, and I get all the storage, you.
Speaker 2: Know, since I want to say, like the iPhone six
Speaker 2: or something, my finger cannot reach all the way across
Speaker 2: the screen because I have small hands, so like, if
Speaker 2: I want a text with one hand, like I can't
Speaker 2: do it quickly. I have to like exert all this
Speaker 2: energy in turn my arm. Did you ever play buttons
Speaker 2: on the other side of the screen.
Speaker 1: Do you ever deal with an old person that is like, oh,
Speaker 1: my ringers off, I'm not getting text messages and then
Speaker 1: they hand you their iPhone five? Yeah, I don't like it,
Speaker 1: and I hold it and I'm like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: this is so petite, and like I say this all
Speaker 1: the time, but I think the iPhone five C was
Speaker 1: the best iPhone there ever was. Wait, remember when Cara
Speaker 1: was recently here and she I was doing something on
Speaker 1: her phone and her phone still had a button.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, she had to button on it.
Speaker 1: And I'm just like, I don't even remember how.
Speaker 2: To use this thing. Ricky had an iPhone four probably
Speaker 2: until like three years ago. I'm not even exaggerating.
Speaker 1: Okay, I had mine for a long time until it
Speaker 1: was like, this isn't gonna work anymore. The little one.
Speaker 2: I don't even understand because I feel like most phones
Speaker 2: I get the voicemail stops working, and not the voicemail
Speaker 2: when I'm on calls I can't hear the other person
Speaker 2: unless I'm on speakerphone. That's the most common issue I have.
Speaker 2: Or the battery just starts in like three hours, and
Speaker 2: I'm like, how.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's I feel like mama. Men, pop ups phone
Speaker 1: is so old that like pop pops is just ridiculous.
Speaker 1: The call is like.
Speaker 2: All day.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I get two words out of it. It's
Speaker 1: so annoying. All right, let's get onto what's the next story.
Speaker 2: All right, So, back in twenty seventeen, this man tripped
Speaker 2: on a train platform in New York City, causing him
Speaker 2: to get hit by a train and lose up to
Speaker 2: five toes. So, now, after suing the Metropolitan Transit Authority,
Speaker 2: which US in this area knows the MTA, he's been
Speaker 2: awarded twenty two point seventy five million dollars.
Speaker 1: So when I first read the headlines, I was just like,
Speaker 1: all right, well, if you fell and trip, then that's
Speaker 1: kind of your problem. Why do they owe you money?
Speaker 1: But then when you look into the case and it's like, no,
Speaker 1: the platform, you know those little like yellow things that
Speaker 1: it's like a strip of yellow bumpy things that are
Speaker 1: along the train before you're approaching the train, where you're
Speaker 1: supposed to stand back. They were uneven and not maintained properly,
Speaker 1: and he tripped over that, and I could understand that
Speaker 1: that would be a tripping hazard. Actually, oh yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: So they were trying to settle with him out of
Speaker 1: court for only one hundred thousand dollars, and his lawyers
Speaker 1: kept saying like, no, no, you need to push for it.
Speaker 1: At some point they even and I don't know if
Speaker 1: this is because the EMS when they arrived and the
Speaker 1: people at the scene and stuff, assumed that he had
Speaker 1: jumped onto the tracks intentionally. He had to get analyzed
Speaker 1: by a psychiatrist to prove that he wasn't suicidal and
Speaker 1: he in fact tripped. I'm sure they were able to
Speaker 1: find video of this happening because it was in twenty seventeen,
Speaker 1: Like there was definitely video of well you would hope
Speaker 1: that there was video available on the platform.
Speaker 2: Oh, there definitely was. And you're always gonna have some
Speaker 2: LOOKI lou. It's like the lady with the plane on
Speaker 2: yesterday's episode. There's always some looky Loo that just assumes
Speaker 2: something happened, and they're probably like whispered down the lane, like, oh,
Speaker 2: he jumped I saw it when they don't know what
Speaker 2: they're talking about it all.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I mean, god, that's a very scary thing
Speaker 1: to think about falling on a train track and getting
Speaker 1: hit by train. Like he's lucky he survived, he is,
Speaker 1: and he had I mean, he had his toes amputated on,
Speaker 1: his foot was mangled according to the surgeon. Then had
Speaker 1: he had infection and had to get more of his foot,
Speaker 1: So they said they'd give him a trans metatarsal amputation,
Speaker 1: which is basically cutting your foot across and then you
Speaker 1: only have like an angle basically. So I mean lifelong
Speaker 1: problems he's going to have from this. And I'm glad
Speaker 1: that he's getting such a large settlement because it'll make
Speaker 1: it more serious for them to maintain this stuff.
Speaker 2: You know though, every time I see these massive settlements
Speaker 2: in these lawsuits, like this guy's just awarded twenty two
Speaker 2: point seventy five million dollars, I always think of this
Speaker 2: case of Time Girardi. Who was that Aaron Brockovic lawyer.
Speaker 2: He was married a real housewife of Beverly Hills, Erica Jane.
Speaker 2: He was He worked for a law firm that did
Speaker 2: these massive lawsuits like this for plane crash victims and
Speaker 2: exactly an incident like this, and he stole all the
Speaker 2: money from the victims, like some of them who were
Speaker 2: awarded big settlements like this guy up to twenty three
Speaker 2: million dollars only saw like five hundred thousand of it.
Speaker 2: So when I see these cases, my mind always just
Speaker 2: goes to, like, I hope this guy actually gets this
Speaker 2: money because he needs it to live a comfortable life
Speaker 2: with all the medical issues he had stemming from the accident.
Speaker 1: Well, he's not going to get anywhere near that much money. No,
Speaker 1: But I mean you have to pay. I can't imagine
Speaker 1: what the lawyer gets paid of that settlement. And then
Speaker 1: I mean just think about the taxes on it and
Speaker 1: everything else. Like it is interesting, like if you get
Speaker 1: awarded something like that, do you do you have to
Speaker 1: pay taxes on it? I don't be cause that's kind
Speaker 1: of because that like that right there is like Okay,
Speaker 1: now he's got eleven million dollars, just caught it in half,
Speaker 1: if not more.
Speaker 2: I mean, if it's stem I understand, if you win
Speaker 2: the lottery, you have to pay taxes on it, But
Speaker 2: if it's stumming from a life altering accident, yeah, I
Speaker 2: feel like there should at least be a fixed rate,
Speaker 2: like it shouldn't have to be the fifty percent other people.
Speaker 1: I'm not really sure about that.
Speaker 2: I'm not either. Chime in listeners and let us know
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Speaker 2: This story is horrific. Police were contacted after a woman
Speaker 2: hadn't been seen by her neighbors in a few days.
Speaker 2: So as they're doing the welfare check, no one answered
Speaker 2: the door. They start looking through the windows and see
Speaker 2: that a woman is there, not moving, so they bust
Speaker 2: into the house and find the lifeless woman with her
Speaker 2: baby lying next to her, and the baby was alive.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, it was so sad. They saw this
Speaker 1: baby just laying there, all wrapped up with her little blanket,
Speaker 1: and they picked her up and she was visibly dehydrated because,
Speaker 1: like Maria said, the neighbors didn't see the mother for days,
Speaker 1: so clearly this baby had been there without getting anything
Speaker 1: to eat or drink. It's just so sad. And now
Speaker 1: I don't know if there was a father involved that
Speaker 1: obviously wasn't living there, or what happened to the baby.
Speaker 1: And honestly, we don't even know what the mother's cause
Speaker 1: of death was. But it didn't just on the initial surface,
Speaker 1: it didn't appear to be suspicious, like it didn't look
Speaker 1: like she was shot or stabbed to death, so they'll
Speaker 1: do the autopsy to figure out what her cause of
Speaker 1: death was.
Speaker 2: No, and the article is saying that if the officers
Speaker 2: didn't go in exactly when they did, I mean, the
Speaker 2: baby might not have survived. But they saved this child's life.
Speaker 2: Thank god. I never think, I mean, people can just
Speaker 2: die in this case. We don't know, really, but think
Speaker 2: about a pair that dies in an accident or from
Speaker 2: natural causes and these little kids are left alone. I'm
Speaker 2: sure this happens more often than we even hear about.
Speaker 1: It's really amazing to think about this child growing up
Speaker 1: and then when she becomes like older, to think back
Speaker 1: that that happened to her and actually be able to
Speaker 1: see video of like officers rescuing her. It reminds me
Speaker 1: of There was this case that I read about this
Speaker 1: week in the news about this this gay couple. The
Speaker 1: guy had found this baby in the subway in New
Speaker 1: York City, like twenty or twenty five years ago, and
Speaker 1: he immediately picked up the baby. He didn't even think
Speaker 1: it was it was real, like he didn't know what
Speaker 1: it was. And then he saw the baby moving and
Speaker 1: picked it up and was like, oh my god, this
Speaker 1: is a baby. And it went to the hospital and
Speaker 1: he said he couldn't stop thinking about this baby, and ultimately,
Speaker 1: like him and his partner adopted this baby. And now
Speaker 1: they were showing the article of what he's like twenty
Speaker 1: or twenty five years later. It's just so cute to
Speaker 1: see that he ended up having a really good life
Speaker 1: being in a shitty situation as a baby.
Speaker 2: No, totally. I mean, people that rescue kids like that
Speaker 2: and then end up fighting to adopt them, they're like,
Speaker 2: you know, I'm gonna cry over your stories like that.
Speaker 2: So it's awesome, And like the fact that this kid
Speaker 2: was saved is really awesome and they were able to,
Speaker 2: you know, get it the proper help it needed. It's
Speaker 2: just you don't hear positive outcomes all the time of
Speaker 2: horrific stories like this. So it's not that this story
Speaker 2: was great per se, but at least the baby didn't
Speaker 2: die from it as well. Yeah, exactly. All right, let's
Speaker 2: get onto our last story. So there's been massive strikes
Speaker 2: in Philadelphia right now, and as part of that, employees
Speaker 2: of the Medical Examiner were also on strike. How do
Speaker 2: you think that's going.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, this is this is interesting because we're
Speaker 1: having this conversation. One of our friends brought this up
Speaker 1: our Fourth of July party and said, yeah, like the
Speaker 1: nine one one operators are on strike, and then they
Speaker 1: make it Joe like, it's not like they come anyway
Speaker 1: if you call, like how messed up? Is that? That?
Speaker 1: That's like the first impression that people have that that
Speaker 1: the cops aren't coming anymore if you call nine one one.
Speaker 2: Well, even just a couple of weeks ago, my mother
Speaker 2: in law and father in law got in a car
Speaker 2: accident and on the highway, the main in Philly, and
Speaker 2: they called the police right away and nobody came for
Speaker 2: over an hour.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because they're just like are you dead? No, okay,
Speaker 1: we'll be there when we can get there. That I mean,
Speaker 1: that's that's really unfortunate. But this is this is not
Speaker 1: just nine one one operators. It's sanitation workers. It's so
Speaker 1: trash is piling up people who work in the facility
Speaker 1: that treat the water like major essential services. We need
Speaker 1: to live in a hygienic, civilized society. And what happened
Speaker 1: at the Morgue was when they went on strike. I
Speaker 1: was actually shocked when I heard this, because you know,
Speaker 1: Gabe is a firefighter and they're not like they're not
Speaker 1: allowed to go on strike. They can't even though they're
Speaker 1: on a even though they're union employees, they can't because
Speaker 1: they're they're essential. They can't go on strike. So in
Speaker 1: the sense of not showing up to work, they have
Speaker 1: to show up to work no matter what. So I
Speaker 1: thought I would think that a medical examiner employee, which
Speaker 1: consists of the investigators. They're the ones that go to
Speaker 1: the scenes and they're the ones that oftentimes transport the
Speaker 1: bodies to the mark because if they find a decomposed person,
Speaker 1: the investigator will go and the cops will go and
Speaker 1: then they'll do their thing and then they leave. They're
Speaker 1: not they're not going to put a decomposed body in
Speaker 1: their police car like the medical examiner takes them to
Speaker 1: the MORK. So you have that, you have the technicians
Speaker 1: that are actually performing the autopsies, and secretaries, all these
Speaker 1: people that work there. And it was like as soon
Speaker 1: as it turned twelve oh one am on July first,
Speaker 1: they all just like clocked out and left work, right,
Speaker 1: So what happens like all of these bodies that are
Speaker 1: accumulating every day, Like nobody's going to the scene. People
Speaker 1: aren't sending bodies to the fridge. They're not getting in
Speaker 1: a fridge in an adequate amount of time. It's freakin'
Speaker 1: hot as hell here too, right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, That's all I was thinking about, was these bodies
Speaker 2: not getting picked up and how awfully hot it has
Speaker 2: been the last couple of weeks here.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So I mean, just like it's just this crazy
Speaker 1: thing that's happening. So apparently the more refrigerator in Philadelphia
Speaker 1: is only able to hold one hundred and sixty bodies
Speaker 1: at maximum and rights of as of a couple days ago,
Speaker 1: it had one hundred and eighty bodies and they were
Speaker 1: like double decking bodies on trace, which like think about that,
Speaker 1: like when you're dead, do you want to be?
Speaker 2: I don't know, just can't they can't they use like
Speaker 2: pens right across the street. Can't they be using their facility?
Speaker 1: Well, fridge holds five people, right, Like I'm serious, I'm
Speaker 1: just saying Jefferson's fridge holds five or six people. Like no,
Speaker 1: there's just not enough fridges in the world to hold
Speaker 1: and and like the thing is is like pen Jefferson
Speaker 1: all that they have bodies of their own in their fridges,
Speaker 1: Like there's just no, there's no space for them. They
Speaker 1: just don't have the space. So finally, a couple of
Speaker 1: days ago, they were like ordered, like, you have to
Speaker 1: go back to work. Yeah, now, listen, I don't think
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say this because I interned at the Medical
Speaker 1: Examiner's Office in Philly, and that was like back in
Speaker 1: two thousand and eight, right, and I loved it there.
Speaker 1: I wanted to work there and stuff. And then when
Speaker 1: I found out what they got paid and that this
Speaker 1: was when this was a while ago, so they were
Speaker 1: getting paid like thirty five thousand dollars a year, and
Speaker 1: I was just like, yeah no. And now it's like
Speaker 1: the medians a salary that they pay these people are
Speaker 1: is forty six thousand dollars a year. This is why
Speaker 1: these people are straight, because not only as Philadelphia just
Speaker 1: like it's a it's a higher cost of living city
Speaker 1: as it is, but forty six thousand dollars a year
Speaker 1: to do the job that these people are doing is
Speaker 1: an insult.
Speaker 2: It is insulting.
Speaker 1: It's such an insult, like their job is gross. They
Speaker 1: need to do they have high responsibility, and you could
Speaker 1: see that they weren't working for two days, and what
Speaker 1: a shit show it's turning into. And it's like they
Speaker 1: deserve to get paid a lot more money, and it's
Speaker 1: insulting that they get paid such a low salary, Like
Speaker 1: who can live, like a decent you can live off
Speaker 1: of that, but like you're not really have any extra
Speaker 1: money at all to do anything with your life, and
Speaker 1: you have to work terrible hours, be on call, work
Speaker 1: in the middle of the night in a smelly, dirty environment.
Speaker 2: People.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just like it's just it's just really insulting.
Speaker 1: So I hope, I mean, I know that they had
Speaker 1: to go back to work, and I hope that this
Speaker 1: little like break shows just how important they are and
Speaker 1: that they end up getting an increase in pay. Many
Speaker 1: of the investigators and texts that I worked with while
Speaker 1: I was there would oftentimes have to work so much
Speaker 1: over time in order to just make anywhere near a
Speaker 1: decent salary. But like, okay, so you make a decent salary,
Speaker 1: but you're also working, you know, sixty hours a week,
Speaker 1: what kind of quality of life do you have. I
Speaker 1: just think that they've always at least in Philadelphia, they
Speaker 1: always notoriously have paid so so low. I mean, forty
Speaker 1: six thousand dollars a year, I feel like is a
Speaker 1: price that people are getting paid at Starbucks close to
Speaker 1: at this point.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say that. And it's like crazy because
Speaker 2: these people are dealing with not only death, but some
Speaker 2: of the most horrific death you're ever gonna see. It's
Speaker 2: not like, not that dying in any capacity is good,
Speaker 2: but at the hospital, you know, it's like more natural
Speaker 2: and you see things like that some of these people
Speaker 2: are coming in with out heads, or it's people that
Speaker 2: were horrifically murdered or people in horrific accidents. So you
Speaker 2: have to.
Speaker 1: See the most hard composition. And the summer is is awful.
Speaker 1: The volume at the Federal the Philadelphia Medical Examiner's office
Speaker 1: is awful. I mean, the hours are awful. It's just
Speaker 1: it's it's a lot, it's a very and and it's depressed.
Speaker 1: It's depressing. You're in a room that I haven't been
Speaker 1: to the new Morgue, so I don't know how it's
Speaker 1: set up, but the one when I interned there was
Speaker 1: like you're in the basement, there's no windows, it smells
Speaker 1: like death. It's literally it literally smells like death, like
Speaker 1: it's and you're just down there. You don't even you
Speaker 1: can't even tell what time of day it is because
Speaker 1: there's no lights, and just case after case after case
Speaker 1: you're expected to do, and you know, you just sit
Speaker 1: there and you get mad because that's like a taxpayer
Speaker 1: funded job. But then you're like, you see all the
Speaker 1: money they blow on other stuff, and you're like, you
Speaker 1: really need these people are essential employees and they need
Speaker 1: to get paid a lot more.
Speaker 2: Well, I think it's an extra few when you think
Speaker 2: of the newly proposed sixer stadium and then you see
Speaker 2: everything going on, so I think that's like a lot
Speaker 2: erge coming from that, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: And it's just it's just so insulting in some of
Speaker 1: the things that they've said are like, oh, well, we'll
Speaker 1: give a three percent raise every year, and it's just like, no, dude,
Speaker 1: you need to give them like an extra twenty thousand
Speaker 1: dollars a year millimum. I mean think about this, like
Speaker 1: every single time you go food shopping, it's a couple
Speaker 1: hundred dollars, Like it adds up, and it's just like
Speaker 1: when when other places are paying so high. Why not
Speaker 1: just go be a Barisa and just and right, like
Speaker 1: not that that job's not essential, because trust me, when
Speaker 1: I get a good job at Starbucks.
Speaker 2: Or good yeah, but Starbucks has pretty great benefits apparently,
Speaker 2: so like it might be better to work there. Then
Speaker 2: deal with this if we're depressing, exactly, you have to
Speaker 2: be exposed to horrific things all day long.
Speaker 1: And I know for a fact too that that other
Speaker 1: medical examiner's offices pay decent salaries. So it's and I'm
Speaker 1: sure anybody that's working there is calling their friends that
Speaker 1: are in Baltimore, New York City and just other towns
Speaker 1: and finding out how much their investigators make and their
Speaker 1: technicians make, and and like they're just like I'm not
Speaker 1: doing it anymore, and I don't. I don't blame them,
Speaker 1: like it's it's I've been there, trust me, like it's
Speaker 1: it's not.
Speaker 2: It's not cool, no, And then it trickles down because
Speaker 2: it's like it's not cool for the workers, and then
Speaker 2: they're doing what they feel is right, and then it's
Speaker 2: not fair for the families of the deceased people. It's
Speaker 2: not fair.
Speaker 1: It's not There could be a trickle down effect to that. Too,
Speaker 1: because now you're talking about like people decomposing and that
Speaker 1: could be a problem for funerals. There's just all sorts
Speaker 1: of things. And then the other thing you have to
Speaker 1: take into consideration is that the doctors, so the actual
Speaker 1: medical examiners that work there, they're not union employees, so
Speaker 1: they're there at work, but they there's only a couple
Speaker 1: of them, Like, they can't do all the work. They
Speaker 1: need help. They can't do it. They can't do it all.
Speaker 1: So it's just like it's not cool to the doctors either.
Speaker 1: And then you're putting all this pressure on the chief
Speaker 1: who's now in charge of the whole thing, who's going
Speaker 1: to get blamed for every single thing that goes wrong,
Speaker 1: even though it's not her fault.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because how could mistakes not happen when situations like this, and.
Speaker 1: Not to mention like if you're not you know, I
Speaker 1: don't even know what their volume is at this point,
Speaker 1: but when I was a student there, it was like
Speaker 1: there was anywhere from ten to twenty bodies coming in
Speaker 1: there every single day. So then if you're not doing
Speaker 1: them every day, then all of a sudden, the next
Speaker 1: day you have twenty to forty bodies and then the
Speaker 1: next day, you know, you have thirty to sixty bodies, Like,
Speaker 1: how do you ever even catch up? It's a lot.
Speaker 1: It's just a lot of work, and it's it's not
Speaker 1: cool for everyone involved.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and now they're a court ordered to go back
Speaker 2: to work on Thursday. So I'm sure everybody's miserable. That's there. Yeah,
Speaker 2: well exactly, So I don't know this really sucks, but
Speaker 2: I mean this is what happens sometimes, I guess. Welcome
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