!Please Remain Calm!

We talk with former Firefighter/Paramedic & current LA Dodgers Infield Coach Petie Montero about baseball, living at our parents house for 2 years, Danny duping him into a 48 hour ride along on Skid Row when he only had to do 8 hours, working as an EMT while playing in the Independent League, passing 2 out of 3 drill towers, losing a good friend in a tragic fire, Mexican Barnstorming, hall ball, hanging up on a GM, starting as a Firefighter/Medic & then getting hired by the freaking Dodgers, how Minor League Baseball works, Top Golf with Mike Trout, our moms banana bread, & why Ben sits in the handicap seats at Dodger games. 

Comedian Joe Praino of the Dirty Sports podcast tells us how one of the best comedy club weekend gigs, the Improv at Lake Tahoe CA/NV, became a mountain of madness for him not once, but twice. Whats it like to take the stage with severe altitude sickness? How do you break the most painful part of your knee on a mountain & then try to "walk it off" multiple times. What if you gave your buddy instructions on when to kill you, & then that scenario happens? We also learn how snowboards will kill us all, tree wells, when ski patrol gives up on you, being cursed on a mountain, when surgeons turn you down, & who are the most dangerous people on the slopes. Its a black diamond episode, see you at the bottom.

We have 2nd year LAFD firefighter Hunter Feldman & OCFA rookie Robbie Hays. These guys were both LAFD explorers under the tutelage of Danny as well as both being paramedic interns under him. We learn their 2 different paths to the FD, what Danny is like as a teacher, how scared each of us have been in a fire station at different times and why, & if Ben used to be in shape. We learn the best way to get on the FD, & the difference in the process between now & the early 2000's. We also get to feel super old in this one, like old old. Strap in & learn something useful.

Meet Bruno, executive director of the STP Foundation in LA. He tells us what its like to start and run a diversion program with City Hall during a pandemic & how funds that would've gone to the PD can be used to turn lives around. We learn the steps he took to help get the houseless people off of the "Skid Row of Venice" (the 2nd highest concentration of people living on the streets in LA). What about the history of the most famous graffiti walls in the world (he's in charge of those too), & what its like to go to CYA instead of high school (he tells us). How do you go from CYA & county jails to GOOGLE calling you in to meet you because GOOGLE  Googled you? We hear it all plus a deep dive into the homeless situation in LA & Venice as Bruno is also on the Venice neighborhood council. Theres also a stabbing story & a bunch of memories of Venice back in the days. 

LAFD Captain Andy Raya and Paramedic/Apparatus Operator Stan Minor tell us the story of the day Captain Raya literally dropped dead in the front seat of LAFD Truck 61 while driving back to the station. Hear how an experienced paramedic dismissed ALL the signs of his own HEART ATTACK, & how he was saved by the IMMEDIATE actions of his friends. Stan Minor gives us a rare insight as the lead paramedic on the craziest still alarm of his life. What's it like to have to save your friends life, on duty? Strap in & check your rhythm. 

Daniel Garcia was training to be a utility worker when he fell 45 feet from a utility pole, shattering his back & rupturing organs. Presumed dead, then given the worst prognosis possible, then told he'd be a quadriplegic. HE WALKED INTO THE STUDIO & told us he went from near death to become an IRONMAN para-World CHAMP. An incredible guy with an amazing story you can't miss.

WOW! You get to meet LAFD Engineer, Outrigger Canoe WORLD CHAMP, Bodybuilder, mom, & all around bad ass MF, Julie Wolfe! Julie tells us how she was one of the 1st LAFD women, working the toughest houses & promoting to engineer. She shares an incredible rescue story from a hotel fire, then drops in her own WILD rescue story as an Outrigger Canoe'r. This interview BLEW US AWAY, US. 

We answer questions sent in by our audience & learn: how to give a great (medic) radio report, why standup comedy is brutal, how Danny was "Mr High School", which one of us can rap, which LAFD station is the best, the different levels of help you can ask LAPD for, how many patients have attacked Danny, & who threw rocks at the rig & how many did they throw?

We talk to Psychiatric LCSW Stacy Sasada, who works for LA's 24 hour psychiatric emergency hotline. We talk Psych runs, what to do, what happens after, how do you decide when to put someone on a psych hold? How do they decide if you're about to kill yourself vs just having a bad day? What about having to care for someone with these issues in your home?

Comedian Chris Cope talks about surviving an event that almost no one survives. The biggest blood vessel in his body sprung a major leak, and the clock was ticking, on his LIFE. Whats it like to be INTERROGATED by a cop when you're LITERALLY DYING? How do you have OPEN HEART SURGERY with NO narcotic painkillers? Why would a nurse make sure you call your MOM, AGAIN? We also talk about how an Aortic Aneurysm works, Hershey Park, Pennsylvania EMS, fat crack addicts, & weird corporate comedy gigs. Strap in.