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All right. Good morning, y'all. If you were tuning in for Dixon and Vining this morning, I've got good news or bad news. It's Dustin Chandler filling in for Dixon and Vining. It's all in the perspective, right? Depends on which side of the river you live on or which van you live in down by the river.
So it's me and Steve West behind the glass this morning. 606 in the ham. Good morning. Everyone. Top of the morning to you. New years around the corner. What is today? I don't even know what today is. Day after Christmas. Close December 30th. So tomorrow, New Year's Eve. New Year's Eve tomorrow. So happy New Year to everybody. You know, we are in that.
Weird time, I think, every year between Christmas and New Year. Like those days, like today, you don't know really what today is. Tomorrow's New Year's Eve, the day after Christmas and then until New Year's day and then probably after that until you recoup from your whatever you're doing in New Year's. That's kind of a weird time. Does anybody but us and everybody
You know, this, you know, us here, does anybody else really go to work during that time? Because the traffic's kind of non-existent. I'm really only kind of half here. That's what I mean. So because it's these days of the week. So New Year is coming up. You got big New Year's plans.
New Year's Day, no. Tomorrow New Year's Eve is my wife and I at the anniversary, so we'll go out and we'll celebrate that. But otherwise, no, no barely big plans. Well, happy anniversary to you, pal. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. 23. A couple years? 23. A couple decades. Yeah. Man, so maybe this should just be the hour of Steve telling us how to survive a marriage. Say, I'm sorry. A lot.
Yeah, you know, it's funny. I've learned myself that it is better to just, it's better to just do. And then, you know, sometimes you can say you're sorry. Then other times, you know, sometimes I don't want to say that, you know, I just do what I'm going to do. But then if I don't come back and apologize that if it was something she didn't want me to do, then I mean, it's like a three day kind of stare down. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So yeah, you're right. Say sorry a lot.
You know, happy wife, happy life. Is that where it is? That's pretty much right. Absolutely. So 23 big ones, huh? Wow. Congratulations. You know, I'm not going to sit here and tell you it was the smoothest road all the time, but yeah, it's been a good one. If marriage is a smooth road, something's going on.
Yeah, that's probably true. Just kidding. If you have a smooth marriage and it's been perfect, then you guys have found the secret. And I don't know where that secret is. My marriage has not been smooth either. So maybe I'll make it 23. I'm getting fairly close. OK, not too close. I'm trying to add it up for a quick. OK, it's early. Nobody told me there'd be math. Dang it. Um, let's see. Yeah, nobody told me there'd be math.
Um, I'm going, yeah, I'm not, I'm not even close to 23. So we're at 17. Actually, you're not all that ridiculously far. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's, it's amazing marriage. You know, it's, um, I will say, you know, I thought, you know, everybody should get married and do the family thing, but really, I don't know if it's for everybody not to turn this into a marriage counseling session.
But, you know, it's interesting. And then, you know, you know, homeownership, if you look at homeownership, that age has risen to 38 years old for first-time home bars. Really, literally from the, I mean, you know, because I'm in real estate and you keep up with those things. So 38 years, you know, it used to be in your 20s and now it's 38 years old. So I wonder, so that makes me think
Are people getting married later or are they just not getting married at all? I think there's probably statistics out there that we could Google, but just people just not getting married or they're waiting till way later to start even start a family. Are people even starting families these days? That's changed a lot from when you and I were kids. I know that. I mean, the number of people that are actually getting married, yeah, that's actually dropped quite a bit. It has. So then that begs the question.
Why right is why is it draw? And you know, why are people not getting married? Is it because the divorce rate is so high? So they're like, you know what? Save ourselves the trouble. Just don't even get married. Because divorce rate is pretty high.
Yeah, you know, they're just happy, maybe cohabitating for a little while. And when they get tired of each other, instead of having to worry about a divorce, you just tell one of them to move out. Let's quit and split, huh? That's what I'm thinking. Yeah, I get it. Um, you know, Elon Musk had a big thing to do about that. The population decrease in America and people not having kids, you know, and then having kids is totally different than marriage. Very much so.
So you can get married, then you can have a kid, which you're still good. You can have two kids. You're at man-to-man defense, as they say. If you have three kids, you're in zone defense, and then it's pretty much, if it's after three, I don't know what you do. I only have three kids. You punt. Yeah, you punt. Absolutely you punt. In fact, you got to also go to the sideline and rethink what in the heck just happened. What are we doing?
Just kidding. Kids are great. I love my kids. They're awesome. They're great. In fact, I went and played golf. You know me and my son, I've got into golf. I used to play a lot of golf. You know, do you know Matt Murphy? You ever heard of Matt Murphy? Yeah, I know a little bit about him. Matt Murphy thinks he's good at golf. Why am I not surprised by that? Yeah, he thinks he's good. He thinks he's good at everything. But man, you know, Matt, I played a little bit with Matt, then that kind of
kind of teetered off. Now my son's getting old enough. He's wanting to play golf. He got a set of clubs from his parents for Christmas. And so that means I have to go play golf with him. You make it sound like it's some sort of massive chore. Well, it's all I love being with my son out on the golf course because that's me and my dad played a lot of golf. I played one year collegiate golf with just one year. Okay. In fact, I was stupid and didn't really focus on that. I was
Too busy having fun doing other things. So I love college kids. It is, you know, when you're 18, you have no clue. You really have no clue at 18, what you want to do, what you're doing or anything else. But a lot of being on the golf course with my son, no doubt, 100%. What becomes a chore?
You should my age and the shape I'm in as far as my, I guess just the muscles and spine you use to swing and golf club just does not feel quite like it used to. It kind of hurts. Amen. Yeah. I mean, everyone sits there and wonders whether like Tiger Woods had that back problem for a long time before he had the car crash. What was that last year?
Yeah, I understand. I mean, do you think about how much torque he was putting on his back to create the drives that he was creating? Yeah, it's amazing. He didn't have back problems earlier, truth be told. It really is. Actually, you know, just playing a lot of golf in my lifetime, how hard he swings. And like you said, the torque on his just his entire body, but obviously his spine and everything else. Oh my goodness. But I will tell you, since you bring up Tiger Woods,
I guess this is debatable. Everybody debates this. I believe, in my opinion, the greatest golfer will ever see. Me personally. I didn't grow up watching. I mean, I did see, I guess, Jack at the end of his career, a long time ago. Yeah, not necessarily the height. It wasn't the height of his career, so I didn't see that. I didn't see Arnie or Hogan or any of those guys or whoever else played back then that was awesome to them. They were playing wooden sticks
I get it, technology changed, but Tiger was at, he absolutely 100% unequivocally changed the game forever when he came along. Yeah, absolutely. And you can tell, and again, this is no disrespect to the Jack Nicholas's or the Arnold Palmer's of the world or any of them, but if you watched the television ratings of specific tournaments, if Tiger was in it, the ratings were much higher than if Tiger wasn't in it.
And that's a big, big way of being able to tell how much of a personality, how much of an influence that particular person in this case, Tiger Woods had on the American psyche. Same thing is true in every sport. If a certain player is playing, whether it's football, baseball, basketball, hockey, you can tell that the ratings will go higher
And, you know, I've made no mistake about this, obviously, working out at Talladega, the ratings were higher when you had a rivalry like a Dale Earnhardt versus a Jeff Gordon versus now where there's no real rivalry. That is true. No, 100%. I mean, in fact, I mean, the number, you could read the numbers every week. If when Tiger was playing, it was off the charts, the crowds
during those rounds of golf were ginormous. Unreal. I mean, it is fascinating to think back because, you know, we all watched, if you followed golf, you were watching Tiger in his prime and it was fun to watch. It really was because golf was in a, what I would say, just a, it was kind of in a boring spot before Tiger.
And that's the, that is the environment I grew up in playing golf. I'm not, you know, my, I played high school golf. I played one year collegiate golf. I played a lot of golf on my day. And when I was playing, it was really boring. Nobody was into golf. Nobody. I mean, that was kind of the, I mean, I hate to say this and I don't mean this to be really, really crude, but it was kind of the dork sport.
I mean, it really was. I mean, if you, if you played football, you were cool, baseball, you were cool. If you played any other, but if you played golf, yeah, but what's funny is all the people that kind of gave the golfers a hard time in high school, especially if you were decent at golf, they all wanted to learn how to play golf after high school. It's kind of funny. Well, you didn't like it in high school, but now, and now they think golf is the
is a cool sport and everything. But I think Tiger changed that. But when I was watching him, I mean, it was in a, it was in a boring spot. You had, I looked this up just the other day as a matter of fact, you had players like Corey Paven. I don't know if you've ever followed golf, Steve, but loosely. Yeah. So you had players like Corey Paven, you know, the Fred couples of the world, you know, these guys, I mean, Corey Paven,
I think he averaged, I looked it up just the other day, he averaged off the tee, off the tee box, like 274 yards off the tee, 280. Okay. On his drive. Okay, so, income's tiger. And you look at tiger when he was in his, I don't even know if this was in his prom, this is more, well, it could have been early 2000s-ish, I don't know, right in there, he was averaging over 300.
It's just amazing. It just changed the game. It changed everything. It's just like, I guess, Michael Jordan did for basketball, maybe. I don't know if that's a direct comparison, but it's pretty close. People wanted to watch basketball when Jordan was on the court. Sure. Yeah. I mean, I did. I remember as a kid, it was on WGN, wasn't it?
could be yeah and before that you know the bird versus magic rivalry in the 80s yeah and I called that at the end so I like my I was right there in the middle yeah and I like magic Johnson I did like him Larry Bird was cool but I thought magic was cooler I think it's I thought that the Lakers were cooler
Okay, I remember getting a Lakers t-shirt and I thought it was the coolest thing all the team on it with caricatures on it I just thought that was not a boring kid so I Oh my goodness. So you hate my goods now. No, I don't hate you. I just hated the Lakers. Do you still hate the Lakers? Absolutely. Yeah, I'm not a big fan of the Lakers anymore. I'm not a big fan of what's his name? Yeah, I don't I'm not a big fan of his a lot of stuff that he said and
just him as a person. I don't know. I don't think me and him would get along. So I'm not a Lakers fan, but I was, I thought it was cool back then. But yeah, Tiger, it was, it was amazing watching him come up and, and watching him drive. And some of the shots that he made in golf was just unbelievably, like I couldn't imagine putting myself in that position at the age he was doing it. And me and him around the same age is like, man, there's, there's no way, you know, an average golfer,
or even a superhuman golfer could do that. And yet Tiger Woods was doing it. So yeah, it's, it's, it's interesting to see, you know, all those back issues. And then he did whatever he did. I don't remember what he did at his house, but if you're being chased out of your house. Well, oh, yeah. In reverse. Yeah. He was a golf club. He was cheating on his wife and his wife grabbed his golf clubs and pretty much went right after him. And you know, kudos to her.
I mean, really, I mean, yeah, you know, you deserved it. Exactly. You did. He did. I just remember, I remember hearing that news of what I think he was going in reverse. Maybe he was just hauling out of there really quick and he hit a tree, whatever it was. And I was thinking to myself, that's just not right. Something else is going on here. And it happened to be as wife chasing him down.
the driveway with a three wood or whatever it was. That was pretty funny, actually. And then really, if you look at it, that was a downfall of his career. Then it just kind of fell off. Kind of fell bad. I mean, I think it was a little bit of his back surgeries, everything else was going on, but then he was doing all that other stuff that obviously had been going on longer than a couple of weeks and his career tanked. And now I don't even know who matches Tiger.
I don't even know who I would turn on the TV to say, ooh, I want to see him play. I know sheffler's up there, number one, he had some injury over the week over Christmas day or whatever and he's kind of, I don't know who I would tune in on the PGA tour to say, you know what? I want to watch this guy play and I'm going to go buy a ticket to watching play around and golf in person. I don't even know who that would be now. Tiger Woods, I would, in fact, I would do it today. If Tiger said I'm coming to
I don't know. Oak Mountain State Park golf course to play around. If Tigerwood, I would be at Oak Mountain State Park. If and when Tiger Woods joins, what do they call it now? The champion store used to be called the senior store. Regions. It's going to be packed. You go there. Oh my goodness. If he comes to regions, I think he'd be parking it the summit to ride in. If it was at Greystone or Legacy or wherever they play it.
That is interesting. That's a good question, Steve. Is he going to go off? I think he'll play a few more tournaments if he can get in shape. And then does he play in the seniors tour? Does he play that? It'd be interesting to find out. And when I was younger, I thought the seniors tour was like all these old, old golfers at play. And I think the age to become qualified for the champions tour is like 50.
That's not so old. It's so tough now, isn't it? That's not so old. In fact, I think that's very young. But yeah, Tiger was unreal. But me and my son went out and played. My son is learning golf. So he is not played golf. So he's new to the game.
And I'm trying to teach him all these things. Golf is probably, Steve, would you agree that golf is one of the hardest sports to play? I don't know if you've ever played. I have, yeah. Is it not one of the hardest games to really? Oh, absolutely. I mean, it's, in my opinion, it's probably the hardest sport. Yeah, it's, you know, you can kind of get to the point where you get a hold of one aspect of the game, but there's another aspect that you're probably never gonna get a hold of. Right. Like if you can get a hold of putting, you're probably never gonna get a hold of driving.
and then vice versa. So you can be really good to draw in the old saying as you draw for show put for doe man. Yeah. Exactly. All right. This is Dustin Chandler filling in for Val and Richard Dixon on talk. Ninety nine five. All right, y'all. Dustin Chandler filling in for Val and Richard talk. Ninety nine five. I'm trying to name this van. Is that a band? Do you even know who that was? Oh, I do autograph. Yes.
Turn it out. Nicely done. Maybe this will wake people up. And you did. You know, if only we sit there and listen to the whole thing, now we gotta go to another one. We could. You know, it's interesting, that was a short segment. One of the shortest segments you over here on radio.
until you get to Leland's show when he comes back from vacation. That's true. And he will be back. The whole gang will be back soon. Y'all, this is Dustin Chandler, talk nine and I'm five filling in for Val and Richard. We will have an exciting show. I'll explain who's going to be our guest moving forward in the show when we return on the other side of the bottom of the hour break. Talk nine and I'm five. All right, y'all. We're back. Talk nine and I'm five Dustin Chandler filling in for Val and Richard.
You guys, it is a new year. Coming up, 2024 will no longer be. That's as deep fizzled esophically as I'm going to go about it. So bye-bye to 24. Hello to 25, which in my experience will be a lot like the previous year. You know, I mean, we can all say we're going to make resolutions. Are we really? Maybe there's one or two things we'll look at the change. I don't know.
The country, the president is going to change. We did see over the weekend, I guess this was yesterday, um, breaking yesterday about Jimmy Carter. He lived to be 100, 100 years old. And that is a long time, 100 amazing. So condolences to his family, um, and everything that's going on there. So,
Uh, he passed away. Somebody won the, I heard in the, in the break mentioning the jackpot. I think one winner won the jackpot. Did I read that? Some guy in California. Yeah. One point loser. 1.2 billion. I think 1.22 billion. I talked about that the other time I was on the air. I don't, I don't know what I would do with that much money. It'd be, I think it's 564 million you'd get in one time payout. Sure. You know, and then you pay the taxes on that.
Well that's, yeah, you pay taxes on it. It's 1.22 billion. You pay tax. I think your take home is 564. And then if you own anything else, I think we went over the states that you owe state tax on that. Like New York would take 60 million of it. Youch. I mean, I'm not giving New York 60 million.
I was looked at it this way because they'll tell you like, you know, the one time payout, not old enough. I'm sorry. I'm not going to do the annuity. Oh, sure. You will make it. You know, so I mean, you would make it. So you say what 500. Yeah, it's like 560. We'll just say $550 million. I will automatically cut that in half in taxes. And if I'm overestimating great.
But, you know, figure probably 250 million is probably an extra 250 million is coming out of that. I think I could live on that rest of the 250 to 300 million. Probably so. Trying to think.
Yeah, I could. I would like to try, wouldn't you, Steve? I would be pretty happy trying to give that shot. Just give me a chance. But as I've talked about before, you can't play lottery here. Sorry. No, thanks. Not going to happen. You live in Alabama. You'll have to go spend your money elsewhere and somebody in California want it. So we spend all this money in Tennessee, Florida, Georgia, wherever they play this.
lottery game and somebody wins it in a way out west so we all wasted our money i didn't even play it i get sick of trying to find somebody that's going to go to the border of the state to buy me a ticket i can't find them well richard went down uh... and he made no secret of this he said he was going to go down and spend the holidays christmas and new years down by the beach just quiet recharging himself and he did actually by
The lottery ticket's not only for himself, but assigned a buy sheet for myself and assigned one for Valerie too. And we do. We have that deal that you just heard in that promo, if you were listening on the radio station and not on the podcasting, in that we state that if we win some major jackpot, we will make sure that we take care of the other two. Take care of the coworkers. Yeah. That's fair. That's fair. I don't know if I'm that nice.
If I went in 200 or 500 or maybe a thousand dollars, no, it's he's assigning tickets to each one. So if somebody wins, I get it. No, I may do that. You know, it's always, we all talk the good game that we're going to take care of each other. And then you see that 500 million come in on a check. And then the rubber hits the road. Sometimes literally we're like, you know what? Yeah, I'm out. And you never see Steve West again.
And I'm often said that that probably would be the way it would go. Where is Steve? Well, he's supposed to be here. Yeah, well, I didn't even get to play it. So what am I talking about? Today's show, it's going to be a good show today moving forward. It's already a great show talking about Tiger Woods. I don't want to give that any kind of thorny shade on that. At 7 o'clock, 7 a.m., coming up in 20 or so minutes, I am having on from regional training institute Leo Decen.
Now Leo is one of the smartest people I know in the EMS community. And I want to bring him on to talk about the paramedic shortage that we've had in Alabama, kind of explain that in detail what that truly means for the communities in our state.
I don't think people truly realize what is going on in pre-hospital care across our state. And I'm just being upfront with you. And this is full disclosure, obviously. I went over this the other day. I went to RTI, Regional Training Institute, and I became an EMT. I'm currently licensed at EMT, just at the basic level.
and I learned in those classes that we do have a huge shortage and I need that beforehand so I heard there was a shortage and I wanted to help that shortage out but I had kind of a for me getting into EMS me personally and I and we'll go over this again when Leo gets here is you know my daughter has multiple disabilities she has frequent seizures
I used to have them two to 300 per day. And it's, we've got them somewhat under control, but shoot, when she does have a seizure, she'll have a really bad one. And we have, we've had to call 911 a couple of times. And really the last time that we had to do that, I felt really ill-prepared as a dad.
really ill-prepared on, you know, this is a medical emergency because it wasn't just a seizure. We are very familiar with seizures. We understand them as they impact our daughter in the disorder that she has. But I just felt just, I just was ill-prepared as a dad. What if something else happened because there was a lot of the things going on, respiratory issues going on. And I was like, you know what, I don't really know
You know, I was in law enforcement for a long time, but we really didn't get taught anything from, you know, the medical side. So that was a reason I looked into EMS and then I found out there was a shortage. There's a huge shortage. Just reading about it. And I went to RTI because of schedule and I'll let Leo explain how they do things, but I want Leo to come on and really explain what this truly means to the people of Alabama and why we need to start filling that gap and what RTI is doing about it.
You know, in my opinion, when you've got issues, when you've got things that you know could be a problem, not only obviously for yourself personally, but for the community and the state as a whole, and you think that you can do something about it, you know, with your background, with your knowledge, with the toolset that you have, or you've been blessed with, what could you do about it? How can you fill that
that void or that, that issue, what is the solution going to be? And I think RTI has come up with, you know, really trying to put paramedics, what I would say is get paramedics on the street, get them ready. Um, we'll talk about that at the seven o'clock hour, what it takes to become a paramedic. And I think is one of the, uh, a really good profession for you, you people that are looking to get in. And I don't care what age you are.
You know, I became an EMT in my late 40s. So, you know, it's kind of, you know, I'm too old for that. I'm past that. Well, not really. And again, we'll talk about it in the seven o'clock hour. It's set up to where you can do this. Now, it's not easy. I mean, you can't just breeze through and say, oh, I know all this and get it done. I mean, you have to study. You got to put in the time and do it. But we need good people to do it. We need people to put in and do that kind of work.
because there's a shortage. We'll be talking about that at the 7 o'clock hour with Mr. Leo Decin from RTI. And then I've got a good friend coming on at 9 a.m. His name is George Merchant. We will be talking about
just really about his passions, what he's all about. His mom will be joining us as well. Corey Merchant, we'll have a couple of guests on within that hour to talk about. I believe it's some representatives from our home is going to be in studio with us talking about helping people with disabilities live as independently as possible because I'm a big proponent of that. So in our society, we have disabilities and
We understand that. I didn't know the world of disability existed until my daughter was blessed to me and God gave me my daughter, Carly. And when he did, and she received the diagnosis and whatever that comes along with all this, and which is a whole long story, I'll say whatever. There's just a lot of stuff that comes on with the diagnosis. I mean, it's a life changing, okay? It's absolutely life changing.
So all that comes along with it, I didn't understand the disability along with having a child with a diagnosis. I don't care what the diagnosis is, it's going to change your life as a parent. And depending upon what the diagnosis is, how is that going to impact your child? So I didn't know how that really, really that world existed as it does. And guess what? People with disabilities, children with disabilities in our schools are human beings.
They are human beings and they can learn and they can do things and they can live independently. And I want to talk a little bit about that. And George is going to help me do that. Corey is going to help me do it and some other folks going to be joining us at nine o'clock hour to talk about what is being done to help that cause. Because we get into a point in society where we think if people have certain disabilities or certain things that are going on that they just can't do certain jobs,
They can't learn like other students can and get to certain places. And to me that is just a terrible way to think and it's just not true. Now I am a believer now and knowing that we don't all learn the same way. We don't learn the same way.
I learned different than Steve, Steve learned different than me, vice versa. Here we go, compares to everybody else. We all learned differently. So I think there's a discussion that has to be had in Alabama education for our students with disabilities on how are we really going about teaching them and getting them and getting them to where they need to be, not quitting on them, not saying they can only learn to a certain level, but where are we going to raise that bar to?
and are we doing everything that we can to make sure they have the best education that they can that they can have and I've got a lot of obviously a lot of opinion on that I don't know if we're doing the best job here in Alabama for that though if you talk to the people at the State Department they're doing wonderful work and doing everything they can which
If they're doing everything that they can and our numbers are still not very good for our students with disabilities, then we're not doing it right. However, I will tell you the general population, general education, it obviously out numbers the students with disabilities and not all parents, not all students, not the entire community knows about these issues. They don't know about them.
You don't know about the deficiencies in education for our students with disabilities. You don't understand how hard it is with people with disabilities in general just to get a ride to work. You don't understand the transportation issues. And you know what? I understand that. I understand that because you've never been around it. So we talk about these issues every once in a while to try to bring it to the forefront.
for people to start making decisions that benefit everybody. And what are we going to do for the people that need transportation to work? And that's a really big issue here in Birmingham, because as you know, if you have been around in Birmingham a lot, our transportation system is not very good. How do you get around in Birmingham?
I mean, seriously, how do you get around? Well, you have to drive a car. Not everybody has the capabilities or maybe can can even have a car. Maybe they can't. Well, how do they get there? I mean, it's just the transportation is just not it's really not where it needs to be. So then we talk about employment.
And then if people can't get to work, well, then where does that leave them? Well, then in my opinion, we say, well, this is going to leave all you people with disabilities and people that all the transportation and whatnot. Well, this just leaves you over here. I'm sorry. And we just tend to forget about them. And I just don't think that's right.
So I do talk about it a lot and I'm an advocate for people with disabilities because sometimes people need to be some people just, you know what? I'll tell you this before we get to break. It is hard. If you've been an advocate for the disability community or you may be a self advocate, it becomes very hard and tiring and a long long. It's a slog of trying to fight for what you think that you need or fighting for your rights and everything else. And sometimes you just get worn down.
And it's just hard. So I don't blame a lot of people for, you know what, I just can't do this anymore because it's long. They've been doing it for 20, 30 years. And either things have changed, which I think things have gotten better in certain areas, and then there's a lot more work to do.
So I think it's up to people like me and other advocates. And I stand on the shoulders of giants. There's people that have done a lot of things a lot better than me. I just bring up the issues. So we're going to talk about some of those from nine to 10, but at seven o'clock, we're going to have Leo Dyson from RT out to talk about EMS, paramedic shortage. We'll get to that here soon on talk 99 five. All right, everyone. We are back. Speaking of back, Steve is
reaching back and some of this music on the bumpers. So we're back talk nine and nine five. This is Dustin Chandler filling in for Val and Richard. If you ever want to speak with us, share your opinion or just ask questions, you can always dial in 205-545-9950.
And you know what, real talks on Facebook, they have a website, Instagram, Twitter, real talk, nine on five, nine on five. You can find talk 99 five everywhere. Uh, so if you want to join in, call in five, four, five, nine, nine, five, zero. So we're going to have a cool show. Seven o'clock. Like I said, coming up shortly, I think Leo is actually in the building. Leo is going to join us man. He is such a, an intelligent guy in the EMS community. I don't believe me doing the short EMS work I've done.
Uh, riding on the back of an ambulance and doing stuff like that to get the experience that I've gotten. Uh, I think everybody knows Leo. Uh, and I'm going to mention that when he's in the studio, uh, just a really great guy, knows his stuff. Uh, and I want him to explain, like I said before the break, just explaining the, the shortage that we have and the importance of that. Uh, you know, it's, it's very important to understand these issues that we're having and how can we do our part, uh, to help this out and,
You know, I know people will say, you know, certain ages. I mentioned it earlier. You know, I'm too, I'm too, too old or I'm too far, you know, into something else. Well, I understand that. I get it. You may be off doing something else and it's just not part of God's plan for you and I get it.
We have a younger generation coming up as well, and there's been a lot of discussions on what are we going to do for, what is some of that generation going to be doing for work and everything else? And I just think a good thing to be looking at to help out is with the shortage.
And that's kind of what we're going to be talking about here very soon with Leo Decin and what RTI is doing and why I think it's such a great thing to get into and how if it is something that you choose to do, how that impacts the community and that's really what we're going to be talking about during the seven o'clock hour and just kind of explaining this. It is something like I said earlier before the break that I did not know
truly existed kind of how it does in the reality of it on on the shortage of of not just not just paramedics really i mean paramedics is that's really the highest level of of the kind of pre-hospital care that you can get in licenses and everything and i'll let leo explain all that but you know yes we do have a shortage there which you really have a shortage uh... on down the line uh... before that and so if we have this shortage of of pre-hospital care how does that impact you well
A lot of people, you know, are going to live in areas that have very quick response times and can get to a hospital and they get to a really good hospital. Well, what does that mean for the rest of the state?
And to me, when you look at it and you think, and now me actually have been in it, I can speak from this personally, man, it can be, you know, it's kind of scary. I mean, it truly is. I'm not trying to scare anyone. I'm just saying it can be scary that if you have a loved one,
that is having some kind of event, a medical event, especially something as serious as a cardiac arrest or who knows what and the response time to get to your house is, you know, 30 minutes.
You know, that's a scary time. And why is that? And why do we have a shortage and everything else? So we're going to be talking about that. It's going to be a good time. And Leo is actually sitting in front of me. So I'm going to get him ready to go for the next segment coming up at the top of the hour, 7 o'clock. And we're going to be talking about it. So if you have questions or want to share your experiences, please call 205-545-9950. This is Dustin Chandler, filling in for Val and Richard on talk, 995.
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