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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff you Should Know from how Stuff Works

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Speaker 1: dot Com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. Beep beep.

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Speaker 1: I'm Josh Clark. There's Charles w Fire Chief Bryant, and

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Speaker 1: there's Jerry Fired Commissioner Rolling. I'm just a Class one firefighter.

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Speaker 1: But that's okay, because this is stuff you should know.

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Speaker 1: The fire Truck Edition, I should say, I think every

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Speaker 1: time we say fire truck, we should say fire twalk

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Speaker 1: okay for the whole episode, because that's about the level

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Speaker 1: of engagement that everyone can expect from us this episode,

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Speaker 1: because I love fire trucks, Like my inner three year

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Speaker 1: role is like, yes, let's do this and give me

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Speaker 1: like a Fisher Price drum to bang on while we're

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Speaker 1: talking about it could be one of those xylophones. And

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Speaker 1: if you hear me sighing repeatedly, just to give you context,

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Speaker 1: it's elect and day and I'm just in a bad movie.

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Speaker 1: Don't get political, Chuck, I'm not. I'm just oh hard.

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Speaker 1: What was it I said? I said, I'm already dreading

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Speaker 1: my hangover that I'm gonna have tomorrow and I haven't.

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Speaker 1: I was like, I'm not going to drink for a

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Speaker 1: few days. Proceeding Tuesday. Oh you're saving your liver up. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: just because man, let's do let's talk about fire trucks.

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Speaker 1: They're happy. Let's have you been on our our fire truck. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: our company fire truck. It's the way back machine is

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Speaker 1: now he tricked out fire truck. Uh. Yes. And you

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Speaker 1: know what's funny to bring this full circle, we have

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Speaker 1: in one of our little quiet rooms. We have little

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Speaker 1: quiet rooms you can go like take a phone call sometimes. Um.

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Speaker 1: And we have one of our old school illustrations that

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Speaker 1: we used to blow those up and frame them a truck. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the old house stuff works website, Dempsey and it looks great.

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Speaker 1: And so I was on the phone this morning. I

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Speaker 1: got up early to go vote Emily. Emily texted me, um, which,

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Speaker 1: by the way, is I mean, I got it out

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Speaker 1: of the way, but I waited in a longer line

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Speaker 1: than you know, that first rush. It's a longer line

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Speaker 1: than at like nine fifteen. Emily was like, yeah, so

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Speaker 1: I guess I kind of had to I go vote.

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Speaker 1: Emily calls me and says that my daughter is upset

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Speaker 1: because she thinks I went to vote, and she's upset

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Speaker 1: because I didn't take her sailing, so she's crying. Emily's like,

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Speaker 1: I don't know what to do. Can you get on

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Speaker 1: FaceTime at least and show her that your work. I

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Speaker 1: was like, yeah, and not sailing, and they're like, let

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Speaker 1: me put on my captain's head just a message. I

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Speaker 1: thought about that. So I go in the quiet room,

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Speaker 1: get on FaceTime, and in the background of FaceTime, is

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Speaker 1: that fire twuck? And that immediately took over the conversation

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Speaker 1: because she was like fire truck and all kids love

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Speaker 1: fire trucks. Jerry's just talking about her her daughter loves

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Speaker 1: fire trucks, and so in a weird way, Uh, it

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Speaker 1: all just sort of came around. I want to get

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Speaker 1: in on this too. Mama loves fire trucks as well.

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Speaker 1: Most dogs hate fire trucks. Oh she loves them. Man,

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Speaker 1: My dogs howl at the moon. Oh yeah, doesn't do that. Really.

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Speaker 1: Sirens don't. Yeah. I does not big on thunder. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: my dogs don't mind thunder, but they hate their sirens.

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Speaker 1: Let's just hit there. Their hearing just right, I guess,

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Speaker 1: or maybe they're singing songs of love. Yeah, They're like

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Speaker 1: I didn't I've never asked, to be honest, but they

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Speaker 1: howl at sirens. So I want to settle something right

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Speaker 1: out of the gate that I never understood. You've heard

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Speaker 1: of a fire truck, you've heard of a fire engine.

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Speaker 1: You've probably heard somebody point to a fire truck and go,

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Speaker 1: there's a fire truck, and then somebody else points to

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Speaker 1: that same fire truck and says, there's a fire engine. Yes,

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Speaker 1: it's interchange bowl. That's actually wrong. There is a difference

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Speaker 1: just people and kids, largely semantical, but yeah, there is

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Speaker 1: let me let me say this. We will explain to

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Speaker 1: you the difference, and then it's up to you if

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Speaker 1: you want to go around to people and say that's

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Speaker 1: a fire truck not a fire engine. Actually, we should

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Speaker 1: advise you now not to do that. Don't do it,

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Speaker 1: but just hold that knowledge in your in your brain. Sure,

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Speaker 1: So what's the deaf uh just saying it to yourself

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Speaker 1: is if that's a big difference, Well, one actually holds

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Speaker 1: water and that the main diff Yeah, if you take

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Speaker 1: away the word fire right from fire truck and fire engine.

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Speaker 1: You've got an engine and a truck, and if you

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Speaker 1: understand the origin of fire engines, it will make total sense.

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Speaker 1: Fire engines were originally just a water pump used to

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Speaker 1: pumping water. Right, yes, and if today, if you are

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Speaker 1: appropriately using the word fire engine, what you're talking about

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Speaker 1: point wheels. It's to five wheels, four and a half.

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Speaker 1: You got a one in the center. Is to is

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Speaker 1: to move a giant amount of water and pump and

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Speaker 1: Same thing as it was in the sixteen eighties, it

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Speaker 1: more easy to get it from point A to point B. Right,

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Speaker 1: that's a fire engine. What's a fire truck. Well, a

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Speaker 1: fire truck doesn't have that water tank full of water, right,

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Speaker 1: it has like ladders firefighters. Um. It can even be

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Speaker 1: you're your little farmhouses on fire, which is super sad.

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Speaker 1: But in other words, if you don't live near a

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Speaker 1: fire hydrant, you can still get that fire put out

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Speaker 1: if you have a fire engine nearby. Right, And usually

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Speaker 1: if there's like a structure fire something, the first truck

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Speaker 1: depending on how the fire engine does controlling the fire

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Speaker 1: But the fire truck, if it does show up, it'll

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Speaker 1: gonna mess with any hoses. They're gonna run in there

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Speaker 1: assisting the people with the hoses and we'll get much

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Speaker 1: about the history of fire engines a little bit. You're

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Speaker 1: ready for that, yeah, because, like you said, they were

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Speaker 1: that helps all problems. But it was really the advent

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Speaker 1: So when you when you had like horses finally pulling stuff, um,

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Speaker 1: And like, man, I was having fun building a shopping mall,

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Speaker 1: to hear it wasn't the SIMS, was it. It was?

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Speaker 1: It was much less sophisticated than the SIMS, but very

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Speaker 1: engrossing for sure. I've never played one of those. I

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Speaker 1: think that was actually the slogan the quote on the box.

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Speaker 1: is of the essence, of course. Um, So all these lines,

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00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:52,480
Speaker 1: it's really kind of beautiful in its simplicity. These lines

425
00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:58,160
Speaker 1: are color coded, so the hoses and the lines all

426
00:23:58,240 --> 00:24:01,719
Speaker 1: have color, so the purse and up there doesn't have

427
00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:04,720
Speaker 1: to like you know, again, with time being of the essence,

428
00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:07,760
Speaker 1: it's very simple. Which, uh, because they're in control up

429
00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:10,479
Speaker 1: there on that board of which hoses are being enacted

430
00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:14,600
Speaker 1: at any given time, and there are you know, their

431
00:24:14,680 --> 00:24:18,160
Speaker 1: relief valves built in, so if you shut off one

432
00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:22,679
Speaker 1: one hose, the other one doesn't go. Whoa yeah, all

433
00:24:22,680 --> 00:24:24,359
Speaker 1: of a sudden, it's all the waters going to that

434
00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:27,520
Speaker 1: one turns into like a cartoon fire hose, you know,

435
00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:30,600
Speaker 1: like eight people. It's like that. What was that? Uh?

436
00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:34,040
Speaker 1: Oh Roxanne the Steve Martin movie. Yeah, did that happened

437
00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:35,960
Speaker 1: to that? Yeah? That was sort of the updated version

438
00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:40,480
Speaker 1: of Cyrano diverge diversion diversia irac Oh. I'm familiar, no,

439
00:24:40,560 --> 00:24:43,639
Speaker 1: but I couldn't pronounce it right. It wasn't that all right.

440
00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:46,399
Speaker 1: But they were firefighters, But did they end up like

441
00:24:46,960 --> 00:24:50,800
Speaker 1: being There were some funny scenes where Steve Martin's like

442
00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:53,400
Speaker 1: on the telephone and in the background at a at

443
00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:57,480
Speaker 1: a practice fire like zane nous is going on in

444
00:24:57,520 --> 00:25:00,480
Speaker 1: the background. I don't remember that at all. A good movie.

445
00:25:01,560 --> 00:25:06,680
Speaker 1: Block that out the whole movie, at least that part. Uh,

446
00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:10,280
Speaker 1: all right, So that's that's what's going on with the water. Um.

447
00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:13,480
Speaker 1: There's also foam like you were talking about. Uh, these

448
00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:17,359
Speaker 1: days this this foam. Uh, fire retardants do a great

449
00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:20,600
Speaker 1: job of Sometimes they'll spray it on to make sure

450
00:25:20,640 --> 00:25:24,159
Speaker 1: something doesn't catch on fire. I don't get the picture

451
00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:26,520
Speaker 1: that it's always to put out a fire, is that right?

452
00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:30,080
Speaker 1: I think they use phone to make sure stuff doesn't reignite. Yeah,

453
00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:32,560
Speaker 1: depending on the type of foam, or depending on the

454
00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:34,840
Speaker 1: type of fire, you'll use a different type of foam,

455
00:25:35,560 --> 00:25:41,320
Speaker 1: like one prevents. Class A I think is to prevent reignition,

456
00:25:41,600 --> 00:25:44,439
Speaker 1: right of like maybe like a hot wood fire. Maybe

457
00:25:44,520 --> 00:25:47,160
Speaker 1: it says here Class B is more for car fires

458
00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:52,440
Speaker 1: or where if there's like gasoline that could you know, ignite. Yeah,

459
00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:55,280
Speaker 1: and I was looking into very I think actually foam

460
00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:58,840
Speaker 1: deserves its own podcast because apparently it's like fire for

461
00:25:59,280 --> 00:26:04,840
Speaker 1: super Tixic and like routinely destroys water supplies when it

462
00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:07,560
Speaker 1: gets in it. But I also saw that they make

463
00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:11,159
Speaker 1: some from proteins, which is, you know, it's natural, so

464
00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:12,920
Speaker 1: I'm sure it's fine. You can probably eat it after

465
00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:14,560
Speaker 1: a fire or something. What does that mean? Is it

466
00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:19,480
Speaker 1: like we turned a cow into foam? Probably that's what

467
00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:30,760
Speaker 1: glues from. Oh in jello? Yeah, jellouh? Wait? Did we

468
00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:33,680
Speaker 1: I think we did? No? That was lego? No, dude,

469
00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:37,919
Speaker 1: I think we did remember jello molds? Did we? Yes? Oh?

470
00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:39,960
Speaker 1: Good lord? Oh it was a good one. If I

471
00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:43,679
Speaker 1: remember correctly, I have no memory of that. I really

472
00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:46,399
Speaker 1: believe that we did an episode on Jello, all right,

473
00:26:46,560 --> 00:26:48,520
Speaker 1: and I think it was good. See this is why

474
00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:51,280
Speaker 1: when people ask us on stage, like what was your

475
00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:54,760
Speaker 1: favorite episode, it's like I say Disco every single time

476
00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:58,080
Speaker 1: because it's the only one I can remember routine ley.

477
00:26:58,359 --> 00:27:02,480
Speaker 1: But there's so many, literally hundreds of episodes that I

478
00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:05,720
Speaker 1: love that we've done, which makes me feel very proud

479
00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:07,640
Speaker 1: of our work. You know, the fact that we don't

480
00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:11,000
Speaker 1: look back on it and say, like, you know, just

481
00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:15,960
Speaker 1: jackhammers basically, um that I think it's great. I agree

482
00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:18,000
Speaker 1: not to pat ourselves on the back or break our

483
00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:20,320
Speaker 1: arms doing so. I'm just saying I'm kind of proud

484
00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:25,639
Speaker 1: of what we've done over the last decade. Agreed. Congratulations, congratulations?

485
00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:30,080
Speaker 1: Um So the hostes, Yeah, yeah, I forgot that. She

486
00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:34,440
Speaker 1: just gave you a little She's got a salad she's eating.

487
00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:39,080
Speaker 1: She's not even paying attention. Um So, hoses are called blinds,

488
00:27:39,119 --> 00:27:42,560
Speaker 1: I think on the job, um like on firefighters don't

489
00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:45,520
Speaker 1: calm hoses now they call them line. Yeah, yeah, you're

490
00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:47,600
Speaker 1: a chump if you call it a hos Hey, what

491
00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:50,000
Speaker 1: kind of hoses that you'll get laughed out of fire.

492
00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:54,920
Speaker 1: So cross lay hoses are hoses. Um well, I think

493
00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:57,640
Speaker 1: that you are laid on the ground, is that right?

494
00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:02,960
Speaker 1: I believe that they are coiled up, laying over one another,

495
00:28:03,119 --> 00:28:04,960
Speaker 1: and they're easy to get to on the side of

496
00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:06,760
Speaker 1: the truck. You can just grab the end of it

497
00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:10,520
Speaker 1: and run. And they may even be pre connected. There's

498
00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:16,040
Speaker 1: a type of hose that's it's pretty appropriately named pre preconnect.

499
00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:19,520
Speaker 1: It's already connected. So if you're the pump operator and

500
00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:22,120
Speaker 1: you see one of your guys running with the preconnect three,

501
00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:27,840
Speaker 1: you turn on Indigo Lever three, that's right, maybe yellow four,

502
00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:29,880
Speaker 1: whatever it is, and now all of a sudden they've

503
00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:32,920
Speaker 1: got water coming through it. Yeah, they have booster lines.

504
00:28:33,119 --> 00:28:35,199
Speaker 1: I mean again, we're not going to go through all

505
00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:38,520
Speaker 1: these different lines, but it's just very easy to say.

506
00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:41,800
Speaker 1: They all vary in diameter and link depending on what

507
00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:46,160
Speaker 1: your needs are. Depending on the diameter, um that that

508
00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:48,800
Speaker 1: will that will determine how much water can come through

509
00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:51,760
Speaker 1: at a time. And some of them are up to

510
00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:55,480
Speaker 1: a thousand gallons a minute. But again, that's your whole

511
00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:57,640
Speaker 1: tank in a minute. And I was like, gosh, that's

512
00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:01,200
Speaker 1: so fast. That's that must be like Olympic pool in

513
00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:04,480
Speaker 1: in an hour or something. No, it's eleven hours. So

514
00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:07,640
Speaker 1: if you're a firefighter and you are putting out a

515
00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:13,040
Speaker 1: fire next to an Olympic sized pool, you're like jack, yeah,

516
00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:17,120
Speaker 1: ye swimmers are bummed. Though, Yeah, it would take to

517
00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:19,960
Speaker 1: fill in those things up. Uh, well, it depends on

518
00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:24,120
Speaker 1: what kind of hose. I'm sorry line right. Uh. The

519
00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:28,040
Speaker 1: real fun part though, like if every child an adult alike,

520
00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:32,840
Speaker 1: um always wants to look at that deluge gun and

521
00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:35,120
Speaker 1: that is the thing that is not a hose, but

522
00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:37,120
Speaker 1: it is the thing that sits atop of the fire

523
00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:41,240
Speaker 1: engine that is like uh, sort of the equivalent of

524
00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:44,400
Speaker 1: the the Gatlin gun on top of the tank in warfare.

525
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:47,920
Speaker 1: That you can just point that thing and water is

526
00:29:47,960 --> 00:29:52,160
Speaker 1: being sucked from the the hydrant straight through. So it's

527
00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:56,800
Speaker 1: regulated an into that deluge gun and just a massive,

528
00:29:56,920 --> 00:29:59,440
Speaker 1: massive amounts of water can go really really high and

529
00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:03,360
Speaker 1: far up. It's kind of that simple, it is, And

530
00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:06,160
Speaker 1: I imagine that's you know, I don't know if everyone

531
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Speaker 1: I am curious to hear from firefighters, like if you

532
00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:12,040
Speaker 1: have a permanent designation or if it's a tiered thing,

533
00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:14,640
Speaker 1: like you work your way up to deluge gun or

534
00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:19,240
Speaker 1: if that's the lowest job, because it is, because it's

535
00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:22,080
Speaker 1: because you're just there on the truck, and maybe the

536
00:30:22,080 --> 00:30:24,840
Speaker 1: more experienced firefighters are on that ladder going into the building,

537
00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:27,840
Speaker 1: or if they just take turns or drop straws, like

538
00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:29,880
Speaker 1: that's what. I don't know. I don't know either, but

539
00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:31,920
Speaker 1: I would guess that if you're manning the daily or

540
00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:36,440
Speaker 1: human ng the deluge gun, you are pretty experienced because

541
00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:39,080
Speaker 1: you've got basically the whole truck's about the water at

542
00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:42,040
Speaker 1: your fingertips or whatever water you know, all the water

543
00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:44,640
Speaker 1: in the world. Sure connected, But if you haven't connected

544
00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:46,640
Speaker 1: up yet, and they're like, start with the deluge gun,

545
00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:49,280
Speaker 1: which from what I understand, would be something that they

546
00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:51,400
Speaker 1: would do because use the day luge gun to kind

547
00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:54,760
Speaker 1: of dampen down the fire that initial you can get

548
00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:59,000
Speaker 1: closer to it with the lines, you know, and the personnel.

549
00:30:59,320 --> 00:31:01,480
Speaker 1: So yeah, it might be like the first thing you

550
00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:03,400
Speaker 1: hit a fire with the pen. So maybe the most

551
00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:06,800
Speaker 1: experienced firefighter because if you put the rookie back there,

552
00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:09,640
Speaker 1: they're like, you're that building is not even on fire

553
00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:13,840
Speaker 1: and you just in your pointing the wrong way Jackson,

554
00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:18,760
Speaker 1: because they go by last name. I think somebody's there's

555
00:31:18,760 --> 00:31:22,520
Speaker 1: got to be a firefire named Jackson, firefire Jackson the rookie.

556
00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:29,520
Speaker 1: Uh again. More hoses. They have hoses called curb jumpers

557
00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:34,520
Speaker 1: because they're on the curb. They have hoses that that

558
00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:38,640
Speaker 1: are just carried up like that you can put over

559
00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:41,440
Speaker 1: your shoulder. It's called a hose pack. It's like all

560
00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:44,440
Speaker 1: bundled together, so you might carry that on your shoulder

561
00:31:44,560 --> 00:31:47,400
Speaker 1: up the ladder in order to once you get in there,

562
00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:49,440
Speaker 1: you're like, I need another fifty ft hose. Man, I'm

563
00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:53,400
Speaker 1: inside and you've got one slung over your shoulder, bundled together,

564
00:31:53,560 --> 00:31:56,040
Speaker 1: ready to go. They also have hoses that will run

565
00:31:56,160 --> 00:31:59,320
Speaker 1: up ladders too, so there's a line that will run

566
00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:02,800
Speaker 1: alongside the are usually a five inch diameter line, which

567
00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:08,320
Speaker 1: I think five I d um. I think pumps two

568
00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:13,280
Speaker 1: and fifty gallons a minute. It's a significant um, that's all.

569
00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:15,200
Speaker 1: I mean. That's a lot of water. But they do

570
00:32:15,280 --> 00:32:18,200
Speaker 1: that so that, if you know, you can shoot water

571
00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:21,400
Speaker 1: down onto a fire, which can be helpful for like

572
00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:23,680
Speaker 1: a roof fire or something like that. And then they

573
00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:26,840
Speaker 1: also have a lot of different nozzles too. You know,

574
00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:30,600
Speaker 1: a different nozzle does different jobs, like, um, if you

575
00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:33,440
Speaker 1: have a piercing nozzle, I hadn't heard about one of these.

576
00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:37,120
Speaker 1: They sound extremely dangerous. It can shoot right through walls

577
00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:40,840
Speaker 1: and I'm guessing like drywall walls, probably not a brick wall,

578
00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:43,480
Speaker 1: but who knows. I'm sure it could shoot right through

579
00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:46,200
Speaker 1: a window. But if you have um a fire in

580
00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:48,719
Speaker 1: another room and you can't get to it, you just

581
00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:51,000
Speaker 1: use one of those piercing nozzles and it shoots right

582
00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:52,640
Speaker 1: through the wall. You know what I call that? If

583
00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:56,000
Speaker 1: I was a fire person a master blaster. To get

584
00:32:56,040 --> 00:32:58,680
Speaker 1: the master blaster up here, you gotta shoot through some

585
00:32:58,760 --> 00:33:03,280
Speaker 1: sheet rock. Wasn't that the guy with the small guy, yeah,

586
00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:09,200
Speaker 1: controlling the bigger guy. And beyond the Thunderdome, right, that

587
00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:11,280
Speaker 1: was the only one they appeared in, wasn't it. You

588
00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:15,120
Speaker 1: just nailed all of that. Thank you. I didn't spoiled

589
00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:18,560
Speaker 1: beyond the Yeah, except you have to say it like

590
00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:22,040
Speaker 1: Tina Turner. You have to say massa blasta. I can't

591
00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:25,120
Speaker 1: improve on what you just did. Uh. And then there's

592
00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:28,000
Speaker 1: the ladders. Of course, like you said, some of these

593
00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:32,400
Speaker 1: bad boys can go like a hundred and fifty feet

594
00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:37,520
Speaker 1: in the air via hydraulics, which is totally frightening. If

595
00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:39,640
Speaker 1: you're going that high up, the truck is going to

596
00:33:39,720 --> 00:33:44,960
Speaker 1: have what are called out riggers, and those are basically

597
00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:50,280
Speaker 1: just these huge, um heavy metal legs that come out

598
00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:52,920
Speaker 1: from the side of the truck and land on the ground.

599
00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:56,720
Speaker 1: To really stabilize that truck, they expanded center of gravity

600
00:33:56,800 --> 00:34:00,280
Speaker 1: so it doesn't tip. Yeah, but there's so it's so

601
00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:03,240
Speaker 1: much pressure and force. They actually have to put down

602
00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:05,960
Speaker 1: pads in between the out rigger and the ground so

603
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:08,759
Speaker 1: that doesn't just go right through the ass crushed the

604
00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:12,799
Speaker 1: concrete sidewalk. Ye, it's pretty pretty cool. Um, this is

605
00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:15,319
Speaker 1: all cool. Yeah, it's so funny how the little kid

606
00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:18,600
Speaker 1: comes out when you start talking about this stuff. Just

607
00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:21,960
Speaker 1: like big heavy things. You want to take an ad break.

608
00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:25,080
Speaker 1: I need to settle down. Yeah, we need to put

609
00:34:25,160 --> 00:34:57,759
Speaker 1: our inner five year olds in time out. Okay, we're back.

610
00:34:58,000 --> 00:34:59,920
Speaker 1: Our inner five year olds are being very quiet and

611
00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:05,320
Speaker 1: and they're behaving. Yes, So we've got the fire engine done,

612
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:09,840
Speaker 1: fire or ladder truck done basically right, that ladder is

613
00:35:09,840 --> 00:35:13,319
Speaker 1: telescoped up, you got the outriggers in place. It's a

614
00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:18,240
Speaker 1: four alarmed fire and things are going well. So um,

615
00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:22,840
Speaker 1: you're probably going to see other fire trucks show up. Yes,

616
00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:26,320
Speaker 1: this is the classic literal version of the fire truck,

617
00:35:26,719 --> 00:35:32,439
Speaker 1: which is basically a UM human and equipment transporter. That's

618
00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:34,640
Speaker 1: what it's for. Yeah. And you know if you look

619
00:35:34,680 --> 00:35:37,000
Speaker 1: at a fire truck and they've got all those compartments

620
00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:40,799
Speaker 1: running along the sides, they are all full of goodies, um,

621
00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:45,800
Speaker 1: all kinds of fun stuff. You're talking about the nozzles.

622
00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:48,200
Speaker 1: Of course, there's something called a barrel strainer. So if

623
00:35:48,239 --> 00:35:50,480
Speaker 1: you have to throw, uh, if you have to suck

624
00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:52,840
Speaker 1: water out of a lake, um, you don't want to

625
00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:55,600
Speaker 1: suck up fish through there. While that would be kind

626
00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:58,080
Speaker 1: of funny looking, it would be mean. It would be

627
00:35:58,120 --> 00:36:01,440
Speaker 1: super mean. Have you ever seen video they salmon ladder?

628
00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:05,120
Speaker 1: Now I've seen that. Yeah, that's pretty amazing. Fish ladders. Um,

629
00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:08,400
Speaker 1: but when they when they it's not seed of stock,

630
00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:10,680
Speaker 1: when they stock a lake. Oh yeah, sometimes they do

631
00:36:10,719 --> 00:36:13,120
Speaker 1: it from airplanes. And have you seen the one of

632
00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:16,520
Speaker 1: the close up of the fish just going like I

633
00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:20,000
Speaker 1: have not? It's it's something to see. It's either animal

634
00:36:20,040 --> 00:36:22,319
Speaker 1: abuse or it's a wild ride that the fish is like, Man,

635
00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:25,480
Speaker 1: that's cool. I think it's both. Yeah, and now I'm

636
00:36:25,480 --> 00:36:28,080
Speaker 1: in a big new home and then someone will catch

637
00:36:28,080 --> 00:36:31,080
Speaker 1: me by putting a hook through my mouth, right, and

638
00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:35,080
Speaker 1: they're like, you'll never really far guard here. Emily gets

639
00:36:35,080 --> 00:36:38,520
Speaker 1: so sad when she sees fisher fisher people. Yeah, yeah,

640
00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:40,439
Speaker 1: she just can't help. But think of the fish, even

641
00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:44,080
Speaker 1: catching release. Uh yeah, and I've said that. It's like,

642
00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:46,360
Speaker 1: what about catching and leash? She's like, what would you

643
00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:48,839
Speaker 1: want someone to hook you, pull you out of the water,

644
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:50,759
Speaker 1: and then just remove the hook and throw you back in.

645
00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:54,239
Speaker 1: She makes a good point. She does what else? There's

646
00:36:54,239 --> 00:36:57,800
Speaker 1: all sorts of of tools to like bust through walls

647
00:36:57,880 --> 00:37:01,120
Speaker 1: and pull down ceilings. Yeah, well that's so okay. Let's

648
00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:03,200
Speaker 1: just let's put this out there. If you show up

649
00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:05,200
Speaker 1: on a fire engine, your job is to run lines.

650
00:37:05,200 --> 00:37:07,960
Speaker 1: You're running the pump. You're the captain being like do this,

651
00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:10,759
Speaker 1: do that? Somebody light my cigar, that kind of thing.

652
00:37:11,120 --> 00:37:13,840
Speaker 1: If you show up on a ladder truck, you're probably

653
00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:16,440
Speaker 1: working a ladder. Um. If you show up on a

654
00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:20,160
Speaker 1: fire truck, you are there to work the fire. You're

655
00:37:20,200 --> 00:37:23,400
Speaker 1: there to rescue people inside the fire. Same with the

656
00:37:23,480 --> 00:37:27,680
Speaker 1: ladder truck, probably too. Um, you're there to manage the fire.

657
00:37:27,760 --> 00:37:30,319
Speaker 1: You're tracking it to see if it's moving from one

658
00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:32,839
Speaker 1: place to another or if it's starting to die down.

659
00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:36,399
Speaker 1: You're in there pulling down sheet rock with a pike

660
00:37:36,520 --> 00:37:39,560
Speaker 1: pole yeah, um, if you're pulling it from the ceiling

661
00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:42,439
Speaker 1: or a Halligen tool. Yeah, if you're pulling the walls down,

662
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:48,279
Speaker 1: that maybe Helligan actually probably sounds irish, right um, which,

663
00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:50,840
Speaker 1: by the way, I want to say, Rescue Me is

664
00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:54,879
Speaker 1: probably the greatest firefire related TV show of all time.

665
00:37:55,040 --> 00:37:59,400
Speaker 1: I've never seen it. The Dennis Leary Show. Oh it

666
00:37:59,520 --> 00:38:02,759
Speaker 1: was really good. Really, yeah, it was bonkers, but it

667
00:38:02,920 --> 00:38:05,920
Speaker 1: was very good, very and Dennis Leary does a great job.

668
00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:08,279
Speaker 1: I'm surprised you watched that. It just doesn't seem like

669
00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:09,840
Speaker 1: a Josh show. Yeah. I was into it for a

670
00:38:09,920 --> 00:38:13,960
Speaker 1: while that and then the shield too interesting. Yeah all right,

671
00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:18,920
Speaker 1: you know me that much better now, So, uh, it

672
00:38:19,040 --> 00:38:21,160
Speaker 1: probably is. The Halligan tool is my point. But you're

673
00:38:21,239 --> 00:38:23,239
Speaker 1: in there, if you're a firefighter who showed up on

674
00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:25,839
Speaker 1: a fire truck, you're messing with the fire to make

675
00:38:25,880 --> 00:38:30,600
Speaker 1: it easier for the line operators to get water onto

676
00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:35,920
Speaker 1: the fire where it's needed, right, Yes, exactly. Depending on

677
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:40,000
Speaker 1: how advanced your truck or how much dough your municipality has.

678
00:38:40,080 --> 00:38:42,600
Speaker 1: You might have the jaws of life on your truck,

679
00:38:42,760 --> 00:38:45,399
Speaker 1: which I thought about. I even looked at that article

680
00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:48,960
Speaker 1: to see if that was worth doing one on. Well, uh,

681
00:38:49,280 --> 00:38:52,560
Speaker 1: it may just be thirty minutes of us talking about

682
00:38:52,640 --> 00:38:55,760
Speaker 1: how the fact that it is a super high powerful,

683
00:38:55,840 --> 00:38:59,800
Speaker 1: hydraulic powered uh can opener. Okay, so I think the

684
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:03,719
Speaker 1: sounding very good. It might have been like jackhammers. Okay, no,

685
00:39:03,880 --> 00:39:06,399
Speaker 1: we'll steer clear that. Yeah, but the jaws of life

686
00:39:06,440 --> 00:39:10,600
Speaker 1: everyone knows is that super high powered hydraulic can opener

687
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:14,520
Speaker 1: that can cut someone out of a car, which is great. Uh.

688
00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:17,520
Speaker 1: Exhaust fans never really thought about that, but um, there

689
00:39:17,560 --> 00:39:19,640
Speaker 1: are a couple of types of fans uh. And exhaust

690
00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:21,960
Speaker 1: fan is when you would put in an entry way

691
00:39:22,040 --> 00:39:25,280
Speaker 1: to suck out smoke. They also have positive pressure fans

692
00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:29,560
Speaker 1: to blow air through and out the other side. And

693
00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:31,520
Speaker 1: I imagine they can work in concert with one another

694
00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:34,320
Speaker 1: depending on their placement. Do you remember Greg who was

695
00:39:34,360 --> 00:39:37,879
Speaker 1: an illustrator for a while too. It's like illustrator day

696
00:39:38,120 --> 00:39:41,040
Speaker 1: that worked with us. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he had a

697
00:39:41,120 --> 00:39:43,600
Speaker 1: house fire and he said, like his house is generally fine,

698
00:39:44,160 --> 00:39:48,280
Speaker 1: but the insurance companies considering totaling his house just because

699
00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:54,000
Speaker 1: of the smoke damage. Yeah, like it just gets everywhere forever. Yeah,

700
00:39:54,120 --> 00:39:56,359
Speaker 1: and you can't do anything about it. It's actually really

701
00:39:56,440 --> 00:39:59,520
Speaker 1: not good for you, yeah, to to like live with

702
00:39:59,719 --> 00:40:02,799
Speaker 1: that as it's dissipating for years and years and years.

703
00:40:02,840 --> 00:40:05,239
Speaker 1: You know, I never really thought about that. You always think, like,

704
00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:08,520
Speaker 1: you know, the structures damaged and compromise, but right, the

705
00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:12,480
Speaker 1: structure can be intact and the smoke can can total

706
00:40:12,560 --> 00:40:15,120
Speaker 1: a house. I when I worked as a p A,

707
00:40:15,239 --> 00:40:17,880
Speaker 1: I did an errand one time for a very uh

708
00:40:18,120 --> 00:40:22,440
Speaker 1: not wealthy, but pretty rich producer to his condo in

709
00:40:22,520 --> 00:40:26,000
Speaker 1: Santa Monica, which had to have caused like a couple

710
00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:29,160
Speaker 1: of million bucks. And I walked in by myself. He

711
00:40:29,200 --> 00:40:32,400
Speaker 1: wasn't there gaming the keys, and it was the stinkiest.

712
00:40:32,800 --> 00:40:36,440
Speaker 1: He was a smoke cigarette smoker, and he had been

713
00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:39,080
Speaker 1: smoking in that place with the window shut for years.

714
00:40:39,840 --> 00:40:44,719
Speaker 1: And this two million dollar sweet ocean view condo was

715
00:40:44,840 --> 00:40:48,239
Speaker 1: the most discuss It smelled like a bar, like the

716
00:40:48,320 --> 00:40:51,719
Speaker 1: next morning was ruined, ruined, And I just can't imagine, like,

717
00:40:53,360 --> 00:40:55,719
Speaker 1: I mean, do you desensitive used used to smoke? It

718
00:40:55,760 --> 00:40:58,080
Speaker 1: doesn't matter was he not notice it or just not care? No,

719
00:40:58,200 --> 00:41:00,680
Speaker 1: he doesn't notice it. Interesting, he has not knows it.

720
00:41:00,800 --> 00:41:03,040
Speaker 1: Maybe if he comes back from a vacation or something,

721
00:41:03,120 --> 00:41:05,040
Speaker 1: you might be like, oh it smells a little like

722
00:41:05,640 --> 00:41:09,359
Speaker 1: vaguely smokey. I better get it going again or something. Man,

723
00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:12,279
Speaker 1: it was so stale and gross man like, yeah, like

724
00:41:12,440 --> 00:41:14,239
Speaker 1: for any if he wants to sell it, you would

725
00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:16,680
Speaker 1: have to sell it to a smoker, because any savvy

726
00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:20,520
Speaker 1: person who understands the health risks of that is like this,

727
00:41:20,760 --> 00:41:22,880
Speaker 1: this place is done. You would have to pull up

728
00:41:22,920 --> 00:41:26,560
Speaker 1: the floors, pull out the wall um, pull out the ceiling,

729
00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:32,120
Speaker 1: just strip it to its bones. Yeah, I'm scratch remember

730
00:41:32,160 --> 00:41:37,480
Speaker 1: thinking man and he had a balcony. It's like it's

731
00:41:37,520 --> 00:41:43,000
Speaker 1: so lazy. Uh. What else do they have? Bolt cutter, sledgehammers, chainsaws,

732
00:41:44,080 --> 00:41:45,920
Speaker 1: small ladders? You know you see him running with a

733
00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:48,000
Speaker 1: ladder over their shoulder like a ten or twelve footer.

734
00:41:48,400 --> 00:41:50,960
Speaker 1: They still have those little guys. Uh, And it's all

735
00:41:51,080 --> 00:41:53,799
Speaker 1: very useful. They basically have everything. A lot of them

736
00:41:53,840 --> 00:41:57,640
Speaker 1: have E M. S equipment or repelling rope. It's just

737
00:41:57,840 --> 00:42:01,280
Speaker 1: like everything you can think of. Yeah, basically to save lives.

738
00:42:01,440 --> 00:42:03,360
Speaker 1: That's why you'll see like a fire truck at the

739
00:42:03,400 --> 00:42:05,360
Speaker 1: scene of like a heart attack or something like that,

740
00:42:05,600 --> 00:42:10,439
Speaker 1: because the ambulance might actually not have everything they need

741
00:42:11,160 --> 00:42:14,200
Speaker 1: for a medical emergency, so they'll send the fire truck out,

742
00:42:14,280 --> 00:42:18,000
Speaker 1: which seems like a colossal waste of resources and money.

743
00:42:18,480 --> 00:42:20,759
Speaker 1: But I think I think something you said earlier might

744
00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:23,440
Speaker 1: explain it a little bit. They're a little bit bored.

745
00:42:23,800 --> 00:42:26,960
Speaker 1: Maybe they're like, oh, hard attack, let's go. I'm sure

746
00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:29,719
Speaker 1: it's nothing like that. Okay. What what my hope is

747
00:42:29,760 --> 00:42:31,960
Speaker 1: from the show that we'll hear from firefighters that are like,

748
00:42:33,160 --> 00:42:34,759
Speaker 1: you guys got kind of most of it right, and

749
00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:36,560
Speaker 1: thanks for shining a light on us. It's the best

750
00:42:36,680 --> 00:42:41,960
Speaker 1: we can hope for. Uh have you heard of did

751
00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:44,160
Speaker 1: you look up these tiller trucks? You know that, like

752
00:42:44,320 --> 00:42:48,719
Speaker 1: the coolest job is to drive the back of that thing. Yeah,

753
00:42:48,840 --> 00:42:55,200
Speaker 1: those are called tiller trucks and tiller drivers, uh drive them.

754
00:42:55,360 --> 00:42:59,319
Speaker 1: And it's a little cockpit, one person cockpit. I got

755
00:42:59,400 --> 00:43:02,719
Speaker 1: this from Hot Odd magazine. And you have to, of course,

756
00:43:02,760 --> 00:43:05,520
Speaker 1: take a certification test to make sure you can drive it.

757
00:43:06,560 --> 00:43:09,040
Speaker 1: And as everyone knows, or maybe you may not know this,

758
00:43:09,239 --> 00:43:11,839
Speaker 1: but the whole trick to those things. Is you gotta

759
00:43:11,840 --> 00:43:14,000
Speaker 1: steer the You gotta get into your head that you

760
00:43:14,080 --> 00:43:17,239
Speaker 1: steer opposite. So when you're making a right hand turn

761
00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:21,000
Speaker 1: up front, um, you've got to turn that wheel left.

762
00:43:21,440 --> 00:43:23,680
Speaker 1: I could not do this. They don't have that kind

763
00:43:23,719 --> 00:43:26,160
Speaker 1: of coordination. It would be tough. Huh yeah, as you

764
00:43:26,239 --> 00:43:28,080
Speaker 1: do it, yeah, I mean I think you get used

765
00:43:28,120 --> 00:43:30,680
Speaker 1: to it if that's your job, Like you wouldn't want

766
00:43:30,680 --> 00:43:33,120
Speaker 1: to be like right again. But when you're driving your car,

767
00:43:33,200 --> 00:43:35,719
Speaker 1: you just crashing this stuff all the time. Maybe it

768
00:43:36,719 --> 00:43:38,320
Speaker 1: like you gotta be able to flick that switch in

769
00:43:38,360 --> 00:43:41,879
Speaker 1: your head because you know, obviously if they're turning right,

770
00:43:42,200 --> 00:43:44,120
Speaker 1: you're turning that back wheel left. It makes it much

771
00:43:44,160 --> 00:43:47,680
Speaker 1: more maneuverable. And apparently they are as long as they

772
00:43:47,719 --> 00:43:51,759
Speaker 1: are if you've got an experience uh tiller person back there,

773
00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:54,960
Speaker 1: they are really super maneuverable on city street. Well that's

774
00:43:55,000 --> 00:43:57,880
Speaker 1: why they exist. Yeah, It's like it's way easier to

775
00:43:57,960 --> 00:44:00,279
Speaker 1: get a very long truck that's cut into two. They

776
00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:04,319
Speaker 1: can take tight corners rather than one long truck that's

777
00:44:04,480 --> 00:44:07,399
Speaker 1: one you know, one long length of truck. Yeah, that's

778
00:44:07,600 --> 00:44:09,800
Speaker 1: that's the whole reason they're there. I never understood that

779
00:44:09,880 --> 00:44:13,160
Speaker 1: until like yesterday. Yeah, and apparently they really work well,

780
00:44:13,560 --> 00:44:17,080
Speaker 1: um in in cities especially. Uh. And here's a couple

781
00:44:17,120 --> 00:44:19,480
Speaker 1: of little tricks that I never thought about. There's a

782
00:44:19,640 --> 00:44:22,560
Speaker 1: light on a rod at the on top of the

783
00:44:22,719 --> 00:44:26,360
Speaker 1: front cab and as that's your that's there for the

784
00:44:26,520 --> 00:44:31,120
Speaker 1: tiller driver tiller steerer to look at as their center point.

785
00:44:31,520 --> 00:44:34,080
Speaker 1: Like that's how they center their wheels. And if they

786
00:44:34,160 --> 00:44:36,680
Speaker 1: make a turn, they count because you know, you gotta

787
00:44:36,680 --> 00:44:39,520
Speaker 1: straighten back out afterward. They count like two and a

788
00:44:39,560 --> 00:44:42,120
Speaker 1: half rotations on the wheel for this turn, so two

789
00:44:42,160 --> 00:44:44,399
Speaker 1: and a half back in the other direction to get

790
00:44:44,480 --> 00:44:48,560
Speaker 1: straight again. I'm you're actually making me anxious right now.

791
00:44:48,719 --> 00:44:51,480
Speaker 1: I'm imagining myself having to do this like on the

792
00:44:51,520 --> 00:44:54,319
Speaker 1: way to a fire on a busy city street. Well,

793
00:44:54,320 --> 00:44:56,600
Speaker 1: they're usually apparently the first person of the ladder two,

794
00:44:56,640 --> 00:44:59,200
Speaker 1: So that is not the job for you, tiller driver

795
00:44:59,400 --> 00:45:03,440
Speaker 1: and lader guy. I quit. Yeah. Uh. And it's funny

796
00:45:03,560 --> 00:45:06,440
Speaker 1: they they interviewed and and took a like a coarse

797
00:45:06,520 --> 00:45:10,920
Speaker 1: test the hot rod author and they asked, so you're like, well,

798
00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:14,439
Speaker 1: what happens if if you turn it the wrong way?

799
00:45:14,800 --> 00:45:17,440
Speaker 1: And they're like, well, then you're on the curb and

800
00:45:17,440 --> 00:45:21,719
Speaker 1: you're knocking out cars and people. They're like, it's not good. Um,

801
00:45:22,880 --> 00:45:26,440
Speaker 1: pretty cool though, Yeah, I think they said the Here

802
00:45:26,600 --> 00:45:30,440
Speaker 1: here's another stat the operating angle for a ladder. Normal

803
00:45:30,520 --> 00:45:35,560
Speaker 1: operating angles about six seventy degrees. And the biggest hassle

804
00:45:35,640 --> 00:45:39,440
Speaker 1: of the ladders is uh wiring. Oh I could I

805
00:45:39,560 --> 00:45:41,759
Speaker 1: ail bet anything about that? You don't want to get

806
00:45:41,800 --> 00:45:47,520
Speaker 1: it tangled up? And no? No, good, very interesting. Don't

807
00:45:47,520 --> 00:45:50,160
Speaker 1: got anything else. I'm fired twalks. No, I want to

808
00:45:50,280 --> 00:45:53,480
Speaker 1: try out tiller truck. I wonder if they let civilians

809
00:45:53,560 --> 00:45:56,480
Speaker 1: like us just like get out in a big, close

810
00:45:56,560 --> 00:45:59,759
Speaker 1: down parking lot. It probably depends on, um, the level

811
00:45:59,800 --> 00:46:01,800
Speaker 1: of corruption of the mayor of the town that the

812
00:46:01,920 --> 00:46:04,520
Speaker 1: fire truck lives in. Well, they let the hot Rod

813
00:46:04,600 --> 00:46:07,359
Speaker 1: magazine guy do it. Oh he's a journal Yeah that's

814
00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:09,040
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Like they cooked it up for like

815
00:46:09,120 --> 00:46:11,439
Speaker 1: we could probably cook up a reason. Right. Yeah, we'll

816
00:46:11,480 --> 00:46:14,680
Speaker 1: be like, uh, we're doing another episode on fire trucks

817
00:46:14,719 --> 00:46:16,920
Speaker 1: and we need to do this tillar tests. Yeah, and

818
00:46:17,040 --> 00:46:20,720
Speaker 1: they went, don't you mean fire twalks? Like you're speaking

819
00:46:20,760 --> 00:46:23,640
Speaker 1: our language, buddy. If you want to know more about

820
00:46:23,680 --> 00:46:28,200
Speaker 1: fire twalks, go down to your local fire station, maybe

821
00:46:28,600 --> 00:46:30,799
Speaker 1: ask them for some chili. They'll love for They'll love

822
00:46:30,840 --> 00:46:32,400
Speaker 1: you to ask them for a tour. I guarantee you

823
00:46:32,480 --> 00:46:34,320
Speaker 1: they'll if they're not busy, they'll say sure, come on

824
00:46:34,400 --> 00:46:38,200
Speaker 1: in and they'll they'll probably give you some chili without asking. Yeah. Um,

825
00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:41,719
Speaker 1: and since I said chili, it's time for a listener mail,

826
00:46:44,440 --> 00:46:47,600
Speaker 1: I'm gonna call this one on war Masks that I was.

827
00:46:48,400 --> 00:46:51,040
Speaker 1: I thought that was pretty good episode. Hot off the presses. Yes,

828
00:46:51,080 --> 00:46:54,200
Speaker 1: it was a good episode, Chuck, Greetings from Dublin. Hey guys,

829
00:46:54,280 --> 00:46:57,200
Speaker 1: fairly recent listener. I moved to Ireland from the UK

830
00:46:57,280 --> 00:46:59,200
Speaker 1: about a year ago, and not knowing many people, you

831
00:46:59,239 --> 00:47:02,279
Speaker 1: guys have kept me uh provided a real comfort for me.

832
00:47:03,480 --> 00:47:05,200
Speaker 1: I just listened to the episode on war mass something

833
00:47:05,239 --> 00:47:07,120
Speaker 1: already kind of knew about. I used to work for

834
00:47:07,160 --> 00:47:10,080
Speaker 1: a publisher specializing in military history, and while I found

835
00:47:10,120 --> 00:47:12,640
Speaker 1: the glorification of war it's sickening, it was weird. It

836
00:47:12,760 --> 00:47:16,320
Speaker 1: was weirdly interesting to me, the effective injury mental and

837
00:47:16,440 --> 00:47:19,239
Speaker 1: physical on the on the soldiers. We published a book

838
00:47:19,239 --> 00:47:24,440
Speaker 1: called The Whistlers Room about so called uh deformed German soldiers,

839
00:47:24,960 --> 00:47:26,879
Speaker 1: and she puts that in quotes as if to say,

840
00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:31,040
Speaker 1: you know, it's not the proper nomenclature. Yeah, getting medical

841
00:47:31,080 --> 00:47:33,879
Speaker 1: treatment at a hospital before heading back out into the wider,

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Speaker 1: les Chambre the Officia based on a novel based on

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Speaker 1: Keep up the cracking work. Love that. Uh So it's

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Speaker 1: Good work, Thanks Hannah. Great name to Hannah McAdams, kind

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