April 29, 2025 • 29 mins
Healthcare deserts are spreading across Delaware County as hospital closures leave half a million residents with just two emergency rooms and zero trauma centers. This crisis sits at the heart of our latest conversation, where we dive deep into the troubling reality of what happens when medical care becomes primarily a business decision rather than a community service.
The shuttering of Taylor Hospital in Ridley Township follows a pattern of closures throughout the region, all stemming from a California-based healthcare company's financial mismanagement. We explore how a 30-minute drive to emergency care becomes a life-or-death gamble for heart attack victims, and how healthcare workers—including Kevin's close friends—are forced to abandon careers they've spent years building. Meanwhile, local communities shoulder crippling tax increases while state government intervention falls woefully short.
Beyond the hospital crisis, we tackle the growing problem of illegal car takeovers disrupting Philadelphia neighborhoods. As automotive enthusiasts ourselves, we distinguish between responsible car culture and these dangerous exhibitions where participants follow a disturbing "no-snitching" code even when injuries occur. The conversation highlights how these events are organized through social media and often involve unmarked vehicles that are later abandoned.
We close with concern for communities affected by the wildfires threatening historic Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania—a picturesque town known for its scenic train rides and cultural significance—and the ongoing fires in Ocean County, New Jersey. Throughout the episode, our perspective remains grounded in community care and the importance of addressing these local crises that might otherwise go unnoticed by national media.
Whether you're concerned about access to healthcare, frustrated by dangerous driving behaviors in your neighborhood, or simply want to stay informed about issues affecting our region, this episode provides insight into the challenges facing our communities and the resilience required to overcome them. Listen now, and join the conversation about these vital local matters that deserve our immediate attention.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
hey, guys, guys and gals, how you doing?
I think we're back again.
We are always back.
Uh, we all returned.
We gave you three beautifulepisodes and we're gonna give
you three more.
Yeah, uh, and that's that's howthat's going to go.
So, for those listening on thepodcast, you know how this goes
we release every Monday, onceweekly, and three episodes at a
(00:33):
time to make sure that you guyshave ample enough content, just
in case you guys know, lifehappens and we're unable to give
you content.
Anyway, ladies and gentlemen,welcome to the rambling den.
And um, with rambling men, arewe rhyming now?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
yes, okay I'm not gonna rhyme anytime, didn't even
know it welcome to the ramblingden.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
We are your host, brand Brandon, and that is Kevin
, and we are based inPhiladelphia, pa, in the good
old US of A, and you can beanywhere in the world, but
you're here with us.
Thank you very much, eventhough my chat is dead and I'll
kill all of you for not beinghere on time.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Anyway, Actually it says there's three people, but
for some reason I'm not seeinganything.
I'm not seeing anything either.
I don't get it I don't get iteither.
Oh my God.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
We're having technical difficulties.
We lost our light bulb.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Yeah, we did.
So you're going to tell thatthe background does not look as
peculiar as last time.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
So last time the background rocked, but at the
end of our show last time, forsome reason, the bulb took a
shit.
Yeah, so we haven't been ableto replace it, but we will, we
will.
I would like to shout out youguys can't see what he has on
(01:54):
his hat.
Oh yes, it's written Health isWealth and it's by a company
called Find the Good you hearthat, asmr, I hear it.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
That's the hat, by the way.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
It's a company called Find the Good.
I happen to be an ambassadorfor Find the Good.
It's a great company.
What they want you to do isliterally just go around in life
and find the good in life,because there's so much negative
and they want you to take timeto really find the things that
are good and that make you happy.
And I saw their statement, Isaw what they were all about and
(02:31):
they were asking forambassadors.
And I jumped on it because Isaid, hey, that sounds like a
message that I would like topromote.
And I told Kev and Kev was likehey, I like that.
And so the health is wealth,the health is wealth.
Hat in olive is on Kev's head.
The health is wealth in beigewill be on my head fairly soon.
Great company.
(02:54):
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message, all you have to use ismy discount code, and that is
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good dare I ask what FTG standsfor?
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Speaker 2 (03:15):
I'm an idiot.
Ah, I thought it was like fuckthis guy.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
No, that's see.
Look, they're gonna dig intothat.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
You know we don't want this guy no, yeah, aka mine
is ftg for a different reasonbut um, yeah, so we're gonna
jump right into it.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
We have um some things going on in the area
right now and we're gonna jumpright into kent area, into Delco
, into Ridley Township.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Representing, by the way, today with my Delco shirt.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Went to the Delco prom recently.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
This is actually last year's shirt, oh okay.
But yeah, the Delco prom waspretty rad, as always.
It was a big good time.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
So here we go, hey.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
EAD's there.
I was about to say I saw EA.
It says we have.
It says we have.
Oh well, there was six.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Hey, they can come back.
Yeah, they'll come back.
I'll probably live stream onFacebook for another episode or
anything, but this is what we'retalking about.
Let's get down into it, because, remember guys, 30 minutes is
all we have.
Kev, please, let us know thestate of emergency that is
happening in Delco right now.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
So what I'm going by with everything is that,
basically, my town, where Ireside, is actually specifically
the Ridley Park borough, sothat is obviously not connected,
believe it or not.
To those who don't know, ridleyPark is not a part of Ridley
Township now.
(04:44):
Ridley Park is not a part ofRidley Township now.
However, we were in a state ofemergency about two weeks ago
because we have a communityhospital that is owned by
Crozier, called Taylor Hospital.
It's very small.
Honestly, I hate to say it doesnot have the best reputation,
but it was close, relevant, itwas.
(05:06):
You know, obviously, for peoplewho needed to get to a place
very quickly it's obviouslyright there who couldn't use an
emergency room as close aspossible.
Excuse me, here we go, here wego, here comes the burps as soon
as possible for a timely matterlike so, for something like a
heart attack, god forbid, or oryou know anything else.
(05:27):
Um, but yeah, no.
So I work at a hospital that isowned by a different
organization called MainlineHealth and um, crozer, keystone
and Mainline Health, obviously,are indeed probably rivals.
They might they, they might aswell be, but, however, it's
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going to heavily affect RiddleHospital, because Riddle
Hospital is only now one of twohospitals in Delaware County
that is going to be open to thepublic because it's going to be
that and Mercy Fitzgerald inDarby and that's it.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
What has happened basically is that thousands of
people they're actually sayinghalf a million.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Half a million people within Delaware County are now
with only two emergency rooms,both not even having a trauma
unit.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
So what you have to understand for those people who
don't understand what that meansis OK.
So I'm in Philly.
So I'm about 35 minutes away ina decent car ride.
So I'm about 35 minutes awayfrom Ken.
I'm in Philly.
So I'm about 35 minutes away ina decent car ride.
So I'm about 35 minutes awayfrom Kent.
I'm in Philly, immediately fiveminutes away from my address.
Where I'm at right now you'llget to St Christopher's Hospital
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is another hospital which isdown on.
It's like Kensington Hospital,but down by the last stop on the
L for Kensington.
Then what I do have at about a20-minute drive more or less, if
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the traffic's okay at about a20-minute drive, I've got
Jefferson available to me, I'vegot Penn Medicine available to
me and then I have theUniversity of Pennsylvania,
which is in the same hospitalcomplex as Children's Hospital.
So we take my son to Children'sHospital.
They go through everything toChildren's.
But what I'm trying tohighlight here is that in my
immediate area four of me allhave trauma centers.
(07:23):
Oh, there's Temple Hospital aswell.
So I have like five or sixhospitals I can run to now
here's a question how far is thefurthest on away?
Speaker 2 (07:33):
the furthest one would probably be uh, you can
okay, so how long roughly wouldthat take you to get there right
now?
Speaker 1 (07:39):
if we were to leave right now, hit mile traffic, I
would, I would say, about 25-30minutes Okay.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
So obviously let's take that one out of the mix.
Okay, just out of examples.
So let's go Riddle to Crozierdistance apart-wise, probably
only about 15 minutes apart fromeach other.
Now you take that away.
You got Taylor.
You got Taylor apart from eachother.
They're also only about 15-20minutes away.
(08:05):
Okay, now you take Taylor.
You got Taylor apart from eachother.
They're also only about 15-20minutes away.
Now you take Taylor away.
You only got Riddle away fromMercy Fitz and Mercy Fitz is all
the way in Darby.
That's probably at least 30minutes.
30 minutes.
With a heart attack you're dead.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Just saying, for example there was Do your
hospitals have airlift at all?
Anyone have airlift, we do.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
We actually have Medivac.
Have airlift at all?
Anyone have you, okay?
So you guys do airlift, weactually have.
We have met about that medevacum fairly often, but okay.
However, obviously those aregoing going to be having to go
to some place down downtown.
You know, like that's uh, eitherlike you know, lankan all or um
, and mind you, lankan all isnot a part of delaware county.
That's a lot of people getconfused.
It's not.
It is montgomery county right,which is on the cusp of Delaware
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County, but it's still notquite there.
So that leaves you with thosetwo a part of Mainland Health,
which is Lankanall and Bryn Mawr, which are probably within only
maybe if 10 minutes of eachother.
And then you got Paoli, whichis also Mainland Health, but
that's all the way out inChester County, which is not
close either.
So yeah, it's a big thing,because Springfield Hospital
(09:09):
already closed years ago, aswell as Delaware County
Community Hospital closed acouple years ago and that was in
Upper Darby.
Those were all part of Courageof Keystone as well.
So now that none of them existand you got no trauma centers
within delaware county, there isa major problem.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
So, with the township just through a state of
emergency today and I'm certainthat the rest of the townships
amongst delaware county alsohave, with the exception of,
maybe, media, because media isright there where riddle is so
my thing is is and and I'm notpointing fingers and I don't do
the whole political like Ialways call call things down the
middle, as I see them my thingis is that I think that the
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state government should haveseen this happening and the
state government should haveintervened in some way, shape or
form, because of how manypeople this affects.
I mean, you're talking aboutpeople who need surgeries,
you're talking about people who,uh, maybe could have been in
hospital receiving care, andthen it's closed, they've got to
be moved to a differenthospital, and the major
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inconveniences and thoseinconveniences could be life
threatening.
So my question is where's thestate government?
Where are they at?
Where is our governor?
Where's Shapiro?
Where's our newly electedsenator?
They need to pay attention tothis crisis that is happening
right now, because I'm fairlysure somebody, unfortunately,
will lose their life because ofthis, and that's an unfortunate
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turn of events which shouldn'thave happened, which shouldn't
happen anyway.
I'll never understand hospitalpolitics because I don't work in
a hospital, so you do, so.
Maybe that's something you canenlighten us on.
What is it, in your opinion?
Bad business, bad owner?
A combination of the both?
Why did these hospitals shutdown?
Speaker 2 (10:56):
It literally does start strictly right from the
owner who bought them.
I don't even know how long ago,but the name of them is
Prospect and they are aCalifornian company.
They have no business having,let alone across the damn
country, to own hospitals, butlet alone they have no
(11:16):
experience within healthcare toeven own not only one hospital.
But you had a chain ofhospitals and they started
knocking off and then all of asudden filed for bankruptcy.
And look at this, the state wasso to piggyback what you're
going to say the state wastrying to save.
They went to Harrisburg foremergency funding multiple times
(11:38):
.
Did they get it?
They did, but it wasn't enough.
They needed multi-million.
You don't understand.
This is a major, major, majorloss because they were losing so
much money that they had.
And here's the thing these Idon't even know.
I don't even want to call thempeople because they seem like
pieces of shit to me.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
It doesn't seem like people.
No, they don't care.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
All they're seeing is dollar signs.
So they invested in this andnow they're going to probably go
ahead and watch people droplike flies because they did not
want to dump out the money.
So, in my opinion, first of all, they left Ridley Park Borough,
where I live in a 17% taxdilemma because we had to now go
ahead and pay their taxes forwhat they screwed up with the
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Taylor Hospital.
Really, it's still happening,so they're leaving us with that
mess, but yet they don't haveany rebuttals for anything.
They're not getting anyrepercussions.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
But then so financial all that stuff.
But then let's talk about thephysical labor.
That now comes into theovertime you're probably going
to have to pull from doing oneto maybe I don't know maybe one
to four cases a day.
Maybe now you're doing six,seven cases a day because these
people still have the right tomedical attention.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Well, yeah, so Crozier is obviously known for
trauma, burn and a lot of GYNstuff which obviously is female
stuff, gynecologists, this andthe third.
Apparently we already haveabout six doctors who have
already transferred over becausethey knew it was coming.
But along with those sixdoctors they are estimating at
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least over 500.
And that's only one department.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
And this wanes on the resources of your hospital.
Yeah, like you're, you're themoney the money now is like, and
so what people don't understandis it's a trickle-down effect
of any business, right?
So what that means is kev couldhave been on the line for a
bonus or a raise.
Let's just just say, right, butnow because we're taking on an
influx of not customers but ofclients, and now we're taking on
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doctors who clearly get paidthere, so now maybe that bonus
that Kev was looking at or thatraise that Kev was looking at,
it's not coming because theyneed to pay these new doctors
and they need to be able to payfor the medical supplies for all
of the patients coming in right.
So it's bonkers, it's.
It must be a very frustratingand nutty situation, like it
(14:15):
must be oh, it totally is.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
It's, it's, it's a nightmare is what it is and
honestly I I feel bad, mostlyobviously for the ones who
really are losing their jobs.
And I also have a dear friendwho is losing his job he walked
in today for the last time and Ialso have another friend who's
an EMT who is losing his job,and now my one buddy who and I'm
(14:42):
leaving everybody nameless.
I just don't want to throw himout there, of course, but I know
, you know he's.
He's a good friend of mine andhe is now has to basically
completely change his careerpath, Like he.
He's like you know what.
Maybe this just wasn't meant tobe.
So now he's going to dosomething that he's not even
familiar with.
He's probably gonna have to goto school for, just like he did
(15:02):
for nursing to pivot onto now,like more local events?
Speaker 1 (15:13):
well, more local events that's happening right
now.
So a couple of nights ago,you're gonna love this.
A couple of nights ago, rightthere at uh, around my area, I'm
going to not give, I'm going togive you a fake, fake street,
but around there, you don't know, people are weird anyway.
(15:34):
Um, let's just say on huntingpark avenue.
Okay, on hunting park avenue,not too far from me, there was a
which is despicable anddisgraceful to car culture was a
takeover.
Uh, it wasn't like a takeover,massive like where you had
hundreds and thousands of people.
It was like a wildwood one likea wildwood one that happened
(15:57):
yeah, oh god, and they were justin deaths too they were just
spinning and spinning andspinning and, oh, I've got the
srt, I got the hellcat look atme.
And spinning and spinning, and,and tony man, it's always those
cars I don't know why theyalways end up in the mix somehow
at 11 o'clock at night, youknow, 11 o'clock, 12 o'clock,
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kids are trying to go to bed,people are trying to go to sleep
and you know, I love proper carculture and I'm just gonna say
like I love proper.
You, kev knows a lot aboutproper car culture.
He had netvo, which was, uh, acar group that he used to run
and he used to run meets, and hewas either you met up at so
(16:41):
besides, or what was that?
You met up at the creek statepark yeah, the car wash it was.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
It was a lot of fun like and honestly but honestly,
like you said, yeah, there isalways groups to to butcher the
the fun out of it.
Then it comes down tocompetitions and my car is
better than yours.
You know why do you have thatcar, why don't you have this car
?
It becomes down to a judgmentalthing where you're just out to
have fun.
(17:06):
That's why I'm not in itanymore.
I'm not in the scene anymore.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Or it could be.
It's just this takeover aspectnow has just become this ugly
monster that now they just wantto replicate and a lot of things
.
With takeovers, people will saythey aren't local people, they
come in from other states andit's a very elaborate plan.
Oh yeah, it's extremelyelaborate 100%.
(17:34):
And invitations go out throughInstagram, facebook, social
media, whatever, you're part ofa group, discord, whatever and
then they say, okay, here's thelocation, and it's kind of like
a flash mob.
Everybody just shows up, yep,and then you've got these Pure
chaos.
Quite often it seems likeunmarked vehicles Yep.
Quite often it seems likeunmarked vehicles Yep, because
what happens at these things areyou're in an unmarked vehicle,
(17:56):
you're drifting.
Apparently these areprofessional drifters that all
should have been drivers in theFast and the Furious, but what
happens?
Speaker 2 (18:04):
more With a 10 shift gearbox.
Fuck, just saying.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
But what happens more often than not and you can see
it on social media is peoplegetting hit and people getting
hurt.
And now it's an unspoken ruleat these takeovers that if you
do get smacked by a car, that'syour fault and you don't snitch
and you don't say anything.
If you have serious injuries,you go to the hospital and you
say you don't know, you felldown the steps or some stupid
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shit like that.
It's a great place, apparently.
If you want to figure out howto master the craft of vehicular
manslaughter.
You go ahead and go to atakeover, because people don't
snitch.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
They will not snitch.
They don't care how bad youwere hurt.
They don't care if you die.
They will not snitch on theperson that was driving the car.
And a lot of these times, likeI said, these cars are unmarked
vehicles that are often dumped.
There was a kid who died on 95,wasn't there.
They did a takeover in themiddle of 95 and he died right
it was a legitimate street race.
(19:12):
Oh it was a legitimate streetrace.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
It was an actual street race and they ended up
driving off the damn highway.
They literally flew over theside of the highway.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
That's a street race.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Yeah, they were just being downright.
I'm sorry, I hate speakingabout people who died, but
that's just mindless.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Well, yeah, it was an unnecessary death.
He could still be alive.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
I think it was two of them.
I think it was two brothers whodied, yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
It's a shame what we have.
You know, there was onedowntown Center City.
It happened.
There was a takeover not toolong ago.
That happened in Center City,philadelphia, and I get it.
We were both younger.
We're not old, right?
I don't subscribe to thatmentality.
I might be turning 37 this year, but I'm still a young man.
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So when we were younger, sure,oh man, drifting, that's cool oh
, man don't get me twisted.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
It's cool In the proper environment.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Yep In the safest environment.
Yep, I'll go to a drag show.
I'll go to like a drag, likethat isn't a drag in the drag
queen, but I'll go to a drag.
Oh, why not Me all day?
Speaker 2 (20:23):
I can do a little drag show for you.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Okay, not right now.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Now we're can no but that being said, you understand
what I'm saying.
Like, in the proper environment, I've done snow donuts by
myself, um, I don't have anybodyelse around.
Like, I've done snow donutsdonuts in my, in my subaru, like
you know, in like empty parkinglots, shit like that.
I'm not, I'm not, I'm nothurting nobody.
I'm not around nobody, the onlyperson.
If I screw up, that's on me,right, that's on me.
If I wreck my car, that's on me, right, that's on me.
If I wreck my car, that's on memyself.
I'm not hurting nobody else.
What?
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Lone drifter, lone drifter.
Lone drifter crashes in emptyparking.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Looking for a reason to use his tow hooks.
This slow son of a bitch is asorry asshole.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
You're just going to give even worse names to the
Subaru owner.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
There's a lot of them that already do that for me.
I don't even have to.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
It's such a shame, because Subarus are great cars.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Some of their drivers are dicks.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
for sure there's stuff they are, but I just don't
.
I mean, some of their driversare dicks for sure.
Yeah, there's stuff that?
Speaker 2 (21:36):
no, I got to be honest with you, though.
Some of them are awesome, someof them are great, but I'm sorry
to anyone who owns Beamers.
You guys have the worstreputation by far.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Silvio used to own a Beamer by far.
I know to be a part of those.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
But he was not.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Yes, he was, yes, he was.
I remember one day.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
But did he use a turn signal?
That's the number one thing.
If he used a turn signal, youcan answer us right now.
I think you're in the groupchat, Silvio if you have used
the turn signal in your BMW,please let us know in the group
chat, Because otherwise you'dthe group chat because otherwise
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you fit right in um.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
I know you do now, but you own hondas now, so you
actually are respectable.
He's a honda man.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
He's never going back I mean, I understand it he is
100 on board.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
He even told me he's done with leasing.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Apparently he's finished he's gonna buy out,
right, he's gonna keep it, he'sgonna keep.
He's liking that hrv so anywayso the crossover world is nice
man takeovers are not not funfor anybody.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
They might be fun in that moment, but people get hurt
and then there's no snitchingaspect of it which is retarded,
because I mean, think about itlike somebody could die and then
everyone there is just supposedto shut up and not say anything
.
I mean it's kind of it's acrappy part of the car culture
that ruins the car culture.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Uh, so much um that's not even car culture shit, man.
That's just downright deviantshit.
That's just, that's just dumbit just doesn't make sense.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
uh, anyway, and and let's see, we always check the
time here now, because we're,you know we're, so we're 23
minutes, we got about fiveminutes for this episode.
In other news, if you areChristian or Catholic, then rest
in peace to the Pope.
I'm hurting over that one he didfinally pass away after a very
(23:28):
long fight, and so may he restin peace.
May he rest well, and theconclave is going to start soon.
Soon we will have a new leaderof the Catholic slash Christian
world, because people I wouldsay Catholic but
Catholic-Christian.
Apparently there is a.
It's a fine line, but it is adifference that people like to
(23:51):
acknowledge, like oh, I'm notCatholic, I'm Christian.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
But if you follow the same box, well, that's not
something I want to get into.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
And last thing I just want to throw out, like anyone
who's going on with the JimThorpe fires or the fires in
Ocean County in New Jersey, wehope the best for you guys.
If any of our listeners are inthat area or have people who are
in that area, I really hopethey're okay.
I hope they're able to containboth of them.
Ashley sent me a horrifyingphoto earlier of a fire going
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down the hill right towards thetown that we were just in
recently in the Poconos, andit's just scary.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
I would be devastated because Jim Thorpe is a town
that I've always wanted to getto.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Oh, it's a beautiful town.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
I don't want anything to happen.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
No, absolutely not.
It's iconic, it's a gem, it'svery iconic.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
When you come to PA, one of the places they tell you
to go- is Jim Thorpe.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Yep, 100%.
It's a beautiful picture.
It's very scenic.
It's old.
Yep, yeah, Perry.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
I've seen some fantastic photos.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Oh, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
And the train ride is iconic.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Oh, it is.
Yeah, we did that.
We want to do it again.
We want to do it again becausewhen we went it was summertime,
so it wasn't exactly so like itwas just we need more like fall
vibes.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Oh, steam engine ride during the fall.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Oh, yeah, absolutely 100% yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Absolutely 100%.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Yeah, absolutely.
And then the fires in OceanCounty right now.
You know there's like a massiveamount of Garden State Parkway
that's blocked off.
So you got the.
Let's see, I think it was11,500 acres is on fire right
now, which is absolutely insane.
And if you're wondering if we'regoing to talk about anything
(25:33):
else, no, we don't touch onpolitics, so that's not
something we're into and if wetouch on it, first of all, just
be warned if you ever want totouch JD Vance's hand, you know,
take, shake his hand oranything.
All I'm going to say is thePope was the last person to do
that, just saying oh my god.
I had to throw a littlesomething in there.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Oh my god, here comes fucking secret service at my
fucking door, oh my god, listen,you don't gotta go, it'll just
be me.
I'll straight up be like yep, Isaid it, my bad um, but yeah, I
mean so for those who arelistening from outside.
You know, pa, or you know,we're just giving you like a
(26:19):
little look.
There's always stuff going on,and there's always.
I mean, there's good stuffgoing on too.
But you know the media, theyalways kind of just drone on the
things that are important andthat is important.
We have, you know, a state ofemergency going on right outside
of Philadelphia and you don'tever want to see that because
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hospitals keep you alive.
Hospitals are so important.
Without them we don't getbetter, we don't get the
treatment that we need.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
And right now, you know, and it's a matter of also
a timely matter too, of beingthere on time.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
You know it's funny.
You want to talk about ethicaloh wow, that was loud.
I was checking something.
Clearly ethics was lacking inthese.
Apparently somebody wasn'tbeing ethical.
I don't understand what acompany from California is doing
in Pennsylvania.
They don't understand.
The people here mean it's sofunny, like we're all you know,
(27:19):
say oh, but we're all americans.
Yes, we're all americans, butlife in pennsylvania is 10 times
different than it is life incalifornia, which is 10 times
different than life in texas,like it's so funny, like, don't
leave out, don't leave out,florida, oh yeah.
But each state, literally, insome ways it's like its own
country, and so what Californiais doing in Philly or in Delco
(27:43):
makes no sense to me.
But God bless every singleperson, god bless every single
doctor that was smart enough,got ahead of it to make the move
.
God bless those who have losttheir jobs, god bless those who
are waiting for surgeries and Ihope you get every single one.
God bless those who arefighting for their lives, that
have to, you know, betransported to all these
(28:04):
different locations that couldbe inconvenient for them and
their family.
But you know, just God blesseveryone that isn't the board of
directors, everyone that isn'tthe board of directors and don't
be scared to come on over.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
If you are in the affected region and if you are a
part of not having a provideranymore at Croger and stuff like
that, don't be scared to try tocome on to Riddle because I
know we're going to get it done.
We'll take good care of you.
Everything will be okay.
It is a nightmare but it willbe okay.
I promise they're going to getit done.
We'll take good care of you.
Everything will be okay.
It is a nightmare but it willbe okay, I promise.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
They're going to work hard for you, they're going to
continue being the heroes thatthey are in the hospital and
they're going to go day andnight for you, just like they're
supposed to do Thankless job,but they do it all the same.
So, with that said, that is thecurrent events episodes.
That's episode four.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
That is episode four.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
And we will be back shortly with episode five.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Talk to you in the next one.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Man, that boom was like really low, it was like
boom, it was like boom.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
There it is.
I was going to say I wasconfused at first on if I was
farting or not.
See you in the next episode,guys, Adios.
hey, guys, guys and gals, how you doing?
I think we're back again.
We are always back.
Uh, we all returned.
We gave you three beautifulepisodes and we're gonna give
you three more.
Yeah, uh, and that's that's howthat's going to go.
So, for those listening on thepodcast, you know how this goes
we release every Monday, onceweekly, and three episodes at a
(00:33):
time to make sure that you guyshave ample enough content, just
in case you guys know, lifehappens and we're unable to give
you content.
Anyway, ladies and gentlemen,welcome to the rambling den.
And um, with rambling men, arewe rhyming now?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
yes, okay I'm not gonna rhyme anytime, didn't even
know it welcome to the ramblingden.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
We are your host, brand Brandon, and that is Kevin
, and we are based inPhiladelphia, pa, in the good
old US of A, and you can beanywhere in the world, but
you're here with us.
Thank you very much, eventhough my chat is dead and I'll
kill all of you for not beinghere on time.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Anyway, Actually it says there's three people, but
for some reason I'm not seeinganything.
I'm not seeing anything either.
I don't get it I don't get iteither.
Oh my God.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
We're having technical difficulties.
We lost our light bulb.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Yeah, we did.
So you're going to tell thatthe background does not look as
peculiar as last time.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
So last time the background rocked, but at the
end of our show last time, forsome reason, the bulb took a
shit.
Yeah, so we haven't been ableto replace it, but we will, we
will.
I would like to shout out youguys can't see what he has on
(01:54):
his hat.
Oh yes, it's written Health isWealth and it's by a company
called Find the Good you hearthat, asmr, I hear it.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
That's the hat, by the way.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
It's a company called Find the Good.
I happen to be an ambassadorfor Find the Good.
It's a great company.
What they want you to do isliterally just go around in life
and find the good in life,because there's so much negative
and they want you to take timeto really find the things that
are good and that make you happy.
And I saw their statement, Isaw what they were all about and
(02:31):
they were asking forambassadors.
And I jumped on it because Isaid, hey, that sounds like a
message that I would like topromote.
And I told Kev and Kev was likehey, I like that.
And so the health is wealth,the health is wealth.
Hat in olive is on Kev's head.
The health is wealth in beigewill be on my head fairly soon.
Great company.
(02:54):
If you want to purchaseanything and you like the
message, all you have to use ismy discount code, and that is
FTG215.
That's FTG215, that's FTG21510% off and you can find the
good dare I ask what FTG standsfor?
find the good.
Find the good 215.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
I'm an idiot.
Ah, I thought it was like fuckthis guy.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
No, that's see.
Look, they're gonna dig intothat.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
You know we don't want this guy no, yeah, aka mine
is ftg for a different reasonbut um, yeah, so we're gonna
jump right into it.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
We have um some things going on in the area
right now and we're gonna jumpright into kent area, into Delco
, into Ridley Township.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Representing, by the way, today with my Delco shirt.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Went to the Delco prom recently.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
This is actually last year's shirt, oh okay.
But yeah, the Delco prom waspretty rad, as always.
It was a big good time.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
So here we go, hey.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
EAD's there.
I was about to say I saw EA.
It says we have.
It says we have.
Oh well, there was six.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Hey, they can come back.
Yeah, they'll come back.
I'll probably live stream onFacebook for another episode or
anything, but this is what we'retalking about.
Let's get down into it, because, remember guys, 30 minutes is
all we have.
Kev, please, let us know thestate of emergency that is
happening in Delco right now.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
So what I'm going by with everything is that,
basically, my town, where Ireside, is actually specifically
the Ridley Park borough, sothat is obviously not connected,
believe it or not.
To those who don't know, ridleyPark is not a part of Ridley
Township now.
(04:44):
Ridley Park is not a part ofRidley Township now.
However, we were in a state ofemergency about two weeks ago
because we have a communityhospital that is owned by
Crozier, called Taylor Hospital.
It's very small.
Honestly, I hate to say it doesnot have the best reputation,
but it was close, relevant, itwas.
(05:06):
You know, obviously, for peoplewho needed to get to a place
very quickly it's obviouslyright there who couldn't use an
emergency room as close aspossible.
Excuse me, here we go, here wego, here comes the burps as soon
as possible for a timely matterlike so, for something like a
heart attack, god forbid, or oryou know anything else.
(05:27):
Um, but yeah, no.
So I work at a hospital that isowned by a different
organization called MainlineHealth and um, crozer, keystone
and Mainline Health, obviously,are indeed probably rivals.
They might they, they might aswell be, but, however, it's
(05:47):
going to heavily affect RiddleHospital, because Riddle
Hospital is only now one of twohospitals in Delaware County
that is going to be open to thepublic because it's going to be
that and Mercy Fitzgerald inDarby and that's it.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
What has happened basically is that thousands of
people they're actually sayinghalf a million.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Half a million people within Delaware County are now
with only two emergency rooms,both not even having a trauma
unit.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
So what you have to understand for those people who
don't understand what that meansis OK.
So I'm in Philly.
So I'm about 35 minutes away ina decent car ride.
So I'm about 35 minutes awayfrom Ken.
I'm in Philly.
So I'm about 35 minutes away ina decent car ride.
So I'm about 35 minutes awayfrom Kent.
I'm in Philly, immediately fiveminutes away from my address.
Where I'm at right now you'llget to St Christopher's Hospital
(06:39):
is another hospital which isdown on.
It's like Kensington Hospital,but down by the last stop on the
L for Kensington.
Then what I do have at about a20-minute drive more or less, if
(07:00):
the traffic's okay at about a20-minute drive, I've got
Jefferson available to me, I'vegot Penn Medicine available to
me and then I have theUniversity of Pennsylvania,
which is in the same hospitalcomplex as Children's Hospital.
So we take my son to Children'sHospital.
They go through everything toChildren's.
But what I'm trying tohighlight here is that in my
immediate area four of me allhave trauma centers.
(07:23):
Oh, there's Temple Hospital aswell.
So I have like five or sixhospitals I can run to now
here's a question how far is thefurthest on away?
Speaker 2 (07:33):
the furthest one would probably be uh, you can
okay, so how long roughly wouldthat take you to get there right
now?
Speaker 1 (07:39):
if we were to leave right now, hit mile traffic, I
would, I would say, about 25-30minutes Okay.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
So obviously let's take that one out of the mix.
Okay, just out of examples.
So let's go Riddle to Crozierdistance apart-wise, probably
only about 15 minutes apart fromeach other.
Now you take that away.
You got Taylor.
You got Taylor apart from eachother.
They're also only about 15-20minutes away.
(08:05):
Okay, now you take Taylor.
You got Taylor apart from eachother.
They're also only about 15-20minutes away.
Now you take Taylor away.
You only got Riddle away fromMercy Fitz and Mercy Fitz is all
the way in Darby.
That's probably at least 30minutes.
30 minutes.
With a heart attack you're dead.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Just saying, for example there was Do your
hospitals have airlift at all?
Anyone have airlift, we do.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
We actually have Medivac.
Have airlift at all?
Anyone have you, okay?
So you guys do airlift, weactually have.
We have met about that medevacum fairly often, but okay.
However, obviously those aregoing going to be having to go
to some place down downtown.
You know, like that's uh, eitherlike you know, lankan all or um
, and mind you, lankan all isnot a part of delaware county.
That's a lot of people getconfused.
It's not.
It is montgomery county right,which is on the cusp of Delaware
(08:45):
County, but it's still notquite there.
So that leaves you with thosetwo a part of Mainland Health,
which is Lankanall and Bryn Mawr, which are probably within only
maybe if 10 minutes of eachother.
And then you got Paoli, whichis also Mainland Health, but
that's all the way out inChester County, which is not
close either.
So yeah, it's a big thing,because Springfield Hospital
(09:09):
already closed years ago, aswell as Delaware County
Community Hospital closed acouple years ago and that was in
Upper Darby.
Those were all part of Courageof Keystone as well.
So now that none of them existand you got no trauma centers
within delaware county, there isa major problem.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
So, with the township just through a state of
emergency today and I'm certainthat the rest of the townships
amongst delaware county alsohave, with the exception of,
maybe, media, because media isright there where riddle is so
my thing is is and and I'm notpointing fingers and I don't do
the whole political like Ialways call call things down the
middle, as I see them my thingis is that I think that the
(09:50):
state government should haveseen this happening and the
state government should haveintervened in some way, shape or
form, because of how manypeople this affects.
I mean, you're talking aboutpeople who need surgeries,
you're talking about people who,uh, maybe could have been in
hospital receiving care, andthen it's closed, they've got to
be moved to a differenthospital, and the major
(10:11):
inconveniences and thoseinconveniences could be life
threatening.
So my question is where's thestate government?
Where are they at?
Where is our governor?
Where's Shapiro?
Where's our newly electedsenator?
They need to pay attention tothis crisis that is happening
right now, because I'm fairlysure somebody, unfortunately,
will lose their life because ofthis, and that's an unfortunate
(10:35):
turn of events which shouldn'thave happened, which shouldn't
happen anyway.
I'll never understand hospitalpolitics because I don't work in
a hospital, so you do, so.
Maybe that's something you canenlighten us on.
What is it, in your opinion?
Bad business, bad owner?
A combination of the both?
Why did these hospitals shutdown?
Speaker 2 (10:56):
It literally does start strictly right from the
owner who bought them.
I don't even know how long ago,but the name of them is
Prospect and they are aCalifornian company.
They have no business having,let alone across the damn
country, to own hospitals, butlet alone they have no
(11:16):
experience within healthcare toeven own not only one hospital.
But you had a chain ofhospitals and they started
knocking off and then all of asudden filed for bankruptcy.
And look at this, the state wasso to piggyback what you're
going to say the state wastrying to save.
They went to Harrisburg foremergency funding multiple times
(11:38):
.
Did they get it?
They did, but it wasn't enough.
They needed multi-million.
You don't understand.
This is a major, major, majorloss because they were losing so
much money that they had.
And here's the thing these Idon't even know.
I don't even want to call thempeople because they seem like
pieces of shit to me.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
It doesn't seem like people.
No, they don't care.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
All they're seeing is dollar signs.
So they invested in this andnow they're going to probably go
ahead and watch people droplike flies because they did not
want to dump out the money.
So, in my opinion, first of all, they left Ridley Park Borough,
where I live in a 17% taxdilemma because we had to now go
ahead and pay their taxes forwhat they screwed up with the
(12:25):
Taylor Hospital.
Really, it's still happening,so they're leaving us with that
mess, but yet they don't haveany rebuttals for anything.
They're not getting anyrepercussions.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
But then so financial all that stuff.
But then let's talk about thephysical labor.
That now comes into theovertime you're probably going
to have to pull from doing oneto maybe I don't know maybe one
to four cases a day.
Maybe now you're doing six,seven cases a day because these
people still have the right tomedical attention.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Well, yeah, so Crozier is obviously known for
trauma, burn and a lot of GYNstuff which obviously is female
stuff, gynecologists, this andthe third.
Apparently we already haveabout six doctors who have
already transferred over becausethey knew it was coming.
But along with those sixdoctors they are estimating at
(13:21):
least over 500.
And that's only one department.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
And this wanes on the resources of your hospital.
Yeah, like you're, you're themoney the money now is like, and
so what people don't understandis it's a trickle-down effect
of any business, right?
So what that means is kev couldhave been on the line for a
bonus or a raise.
Let's just just say, right, butnow because we're taking on an
influx of not customers but ofclients, and now we're taking on
(13:50):
doctors who clearly get paidthere, so now maybe that bonus
that Kev was looking at or thatraise that Kev was looking at,
it's not coming because theyneed to pay these new doctors
and they need to be able to payfor the medical supplies for all
of the patients coming in right.
So it's bonkers, it's.
It must be a very frustratingand nutty situation, like it
(14:15):
must be oh, it totally is.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
It's, it's, it's a nightmare is what it is and
honestly I I feel bad, mostlyobviously for the ones who
really are losing their jobs.
And I also have a dear friendwho is losing his job he walked
in today for the last time and Ialso have another friend who's
an EMT who is losing his job,and now my one buddy who and I'm
(14:42):
leaving everybody nameless.
I just don't want to throw himout there, of course, but I know
, you know he's.
He's a good friend of mine andhe is now has to basically
completely change his careerpath, Like he.
He's like you know what.
Maybe this just wasn't meant tobe.
So now he's going to dosomething that he's not even
familiar with.
He's probably gonna have to goto school for, just like he did
(15:02):
for nursing to pivot onto now,like more local events?
Speaker 1 (15:13):
well, more local events that's happening right
now.
So a couple of nights ago,you're gonna love this.
A couple of nights ago, rightthere at uh, around my area, I'm
going to not give, I'm going togive you a fake, fake street,
but around there, you don't know, people are weird anyway.
(15:34):
Um, let's just say on huntingpark avenue.
Okay, on hunting park avenue,not too far from me, there was a
which is despicable anddisgraceful to car culture was a
takeover.
Uh, it wasn't like a takeover,massive like where you had
hundreds and thousands of people.
It was like a wildwood one likea wildwood one that happened
(15:57):
yeah, oh god, and they were justin deaths too they were just
spinning and spinning andspinning and, oh, I've got the
srt, I got the hellcat look atme.
And spinning and spinning, and,and tony man, it's always those
cars I don't know why theyalways end up in the mix somehow
at 11 o'clock at night, youknow, 11 o'clock, 12 o'clock,
(16:19):
kids are trying to go to bed,people are trying to go to sleep
and you know, I love proper carculture and I'm just gonna say
like I love proper.
You, kev knows a lot aboutproper car culture.
He had netvo, which was, uh, acar group that he used to run
and he used to run meets, and hewas either you met up at so
(16:41):
besides, or what was that?
You met up at the creek statepark yeah, the car wash it was.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
It was a lot of fun like and honestly but honestly,
like you said, yeah, there isalways groups to to butcher the
the fun out of it.
Then it comes down tocompetitions and my car is
better than yours.
You know why do you have thatcar, why don't you have this car
?
It becomes down to a judgmentalthing where you're just out to
have fun.
(17:06):
That's why I'm not in itanymore.
I'm not in the scene anymore.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Or it could be.
It's just this takeover aspectnow has just become this ugly
monster that now they just wantto replicate and a lot of things
.
With takeovers, people will saythey aren't local people, they
come in from other states andit's a very elaborate plan.
Oh yeah, it's extremelyelaborate 100%.
(17:34):
And invitations go out throughInstagram, facebook, social
media, whatever, you're part ofa group, discord, whatever and
then they say, okay, here's thelocation, and it's kind of like
a flash mob.
Everybody just shows up, yep,and then you've got these Pure
chaos.
Quite often it seems likeunmarked vehicles Yep.
Quite often it seems likeunmarked vehicles Yep, because
what happens at these things areyou're in an unmarked vehicle,
(17:56):
you're drifting.
Apparently these areprofessional drifters that all
should have been drivers in theFast and the Furious, but what
happens?
Speaker 2 (18:04):
more With a 10 shift gearbox.
Fuck, just saying.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
But what happens more often than not and you can see
it on social media is peoplegetting hit and people getting
hurt.
And now it's an unspoken ruleat these takeovers that if you
do get smacked by a car, that'syour fault and you don't snitch
and you don't say anything.
If you have serious injuries,you go to the hospital and you
say you don't know, you felldown the steps or some stupid
(18:35):
shit like that.
It's a great place, apparently.
If you want to figure out howto master the craft of vehicular
manslaughter.
You go ahead and go to atakeover, because people don't
snitch.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
They will not snitch.
They don't care how bad youwere hurt.
They don't care if you die.
They will not snitch on theperson that was driving the car.
And a lot of these times, likeI said, these cars are unmarked
vehicles that are often dumped.
There was a kid who died on 95,wasn't there.
They did a takeover in themiddle of 95 and he died right
it was a legitimate street race.
(19:12):
Oh it was a legitimate streetrace.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
It was an actual street race and they ended up
driving off the damn highway.
They literally flew over theside of the highway.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
That's a street race.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Yeah, they were just being downright.
I'm sorry, I hate speakingabout people who died, but
that's just mindless.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Well, yeah, it was an unnecessary death.
He could still be alive.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
I think it was two of them.
I think it was two brothers whodied, yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
It's a shame what we have.
You know, there was onedowntown Center City.
It happened.
There was a takeover not toolong ago.
That happened in Center City,philadelphia, and I get it.
We were both younger.
We're not old, right?
I don't subscribe to thatmentality.
I might be turning 37 this year, but I'm still a young man.
(20:03):
So when we were younger, sure,oh man, drifting, that's cool oh
, man don't get me twisted.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
It's cool In the proper environment.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Yep In the safest environment.
Yep, I'll go to a drag show.
I'll go to like a drag, likethat isn't a drag in the drag
queen, but I'll go to a drag.
Oh, why not Me all day?
Speaker 2 (20:23):
I can do a little drag show for you.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Okay, not right now.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Now we're can no but that being said, you understand
what I'm saying.
Like, in the proper environment, I've done snow donuts by
myself, um, I don't have anybodyelse around.
Like, I've done snow donutsdonuts in my, in my subaru, like
you know, in like empty parkinglots, shit like that.
I'm not, I'm not, I'm nothurting nobody.
I'm not around nobody, the onlyperson.
If I screw up, that's on me,right, that's on me.
If I wreck my car, that's on me, right, that's on me.
If I wreck my car, that's on memyself.
I'm not hurting nobody else.
What?
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Lone drifter, lone drifter.
Lone drifter crashes in emptyparking.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Looking for a reason to use his tow hooks.
This slow son of a bitch is asorry asshole.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
You're just going to give even worse names to the
Subaru owner.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
There's a lot of them that already do that for me.
I don't even have to.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
It's such a shame, because Subarus are great cars.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Some of their drivers are dicks.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
for sure there's stuff they are, but I just don't
.
I mean, some of their driversare dicks for sure.
Yeah, there's stuff that?
Speaker 2 (21:36):
no, I got to be honest with you, though.
Some of them are awesome, someof them are great, but I'm sorry
to anyone who owns Beamers.
You guys have the worstreputation by far.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Silvio used to own a Beamer by far.
I know to be a part of those.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
But he was not.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Yes, he was, yes, he was.
I remember one day.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
But did he use a turn signal?
That's the number one thing.
If he used a turn signal, youcan answer us right now.
I think you're in the groupchat, Silvio if you have used
the turn signal in your BMW,please let us know in the group
chat, Because otherwise you'dthe group chat because otherwise
(22:16):
you fit right in um.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
I know you do now, but you own hondas now, so you
actually are respectable.
He's a honda man.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
He's never going back I mean, I understand it he is
100 on board.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
He even told me he's done with leasing.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Apparently he's finished he's gonna buy out,
right, he's gonna keep it, he'sgonna keep.
He's liking that hrv so anywayso the crossover world is nice
man takeovers are not not funfor anybody.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
They might be fun in that moment, but people get hurt
and then there's no snitchingaspect of it which is retarded,
because I mean, think about itlike somebody could die and then
everyone there is just supposedto shut up and not say anything
.
I mean it's kind of it's acrappy part of the car culture
that ruins the car culture.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Uh, so much um that's not even car culture shit, man.
That's just downright deviantshit.
That's just, that's just dumbit just doesn't make sense.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
uh, anyway, and and let's see, we always check the
time here now, because we're,you know we're, so we're 23
minutes, we got about fiveminutes for this episode.
In other news, if you areChristian or Catholic, then rest
in peace to the Pope.
I'm hurting over that one he didfinally pass away after a very
(23:28):
long fight, and so may he restin peace.
May he rest well, and theconclave is going to start soon.
Soon we will have a new leaderof the Catholic slash Christian
world, because people I wouldsay Catholic but
Catholic-Christian.
Apparently there is a.
It's a fine line, but it is adifference that people like to
(23:51):
acknowledge, like oh, I'm notCatholic, I'm Christian.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
But if you follow the same box, well, that's not
something I want to get into.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
And last thing I just want to throw out, like anyone
who's going on with the JimThorpe fires or the fires in
Ocean County in New Jersey, wehope the best for you guys.
If any of our listeners are inthat area or have people who are
in that area, I really hopethey're okay.
I hope they're able to containboth of them.
Ashley sent me a horrifyingphoto earlier of a fire going
(24:23):
down the hill right towards thetown that we were just in
recently in the Poconos, andit's just scary.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
I would be devastated because Jim Thorpe is a town
that I've always wanted to getto.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Oh, it's a beautiful town.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
I don't want anything to happen.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
No, absolutely not.
It's iconic, it's a gem, it'svery iconic.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
When you come to PA, one of the places they tell you
to go- is Jim Thorpe.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Yep, 100%.
It's a beautiful picture.
It's very scenic.
It's old.
Yep, yeah, Perry.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
I've seen some fantastic photos.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Oh, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
And the train ride is iconic.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Oh, it is.
Yeah, we did that.
We want to do it again.
We want to do it again becausewhen we went it was summertime,
so it wasn't exactly so like itwas just we need more like fall
vibes.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Oh, steam engine ride during the fall.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Oh, yeah, absolutely 100% yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Absolutely 100%.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Yeah, absolutely.
And then the fires in OceanCounty right now.
You know there's like a massiveamount of Garden State Parkway
that's blocked off.
So you got the.
Let's see, I think it was11,500 acres is on fire right
now, which is absolutely insane.
And if you're wondering if we'regoing to talk about anything
(25:33):
else, no, we don't touch onpolitics, so that's not
something we're into and if wetouch on it, first of all, just
be warned if you ever want totouch JD Vance's hand, you know,
take, shake his hand oranything.
All I'm going to say is thePope was the last person to do
that, just saying oh my god.
I had to throw a littlesomething in there.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Oh my god, here comes fucking secret service at my
fucking door, oh my god, listen,you don't gotta go, it'll just
be me.
I'll straight up be like yep, Isaid it, my bad um, but yeah, I
mean so for those who arelistening from outside.
You know, pa, or you know,we're just giving you like a
(26:19):
little look.
There's always stuff going on,and there's always.
I mean, there's good stuffgoing on too.
But you know the media, theyalways kind of just drone on the
things that are important andthat is important.
We have, you know, a state ofemergency going on right outside
of Philadelphia and you don'tever want to see that because
(26:42):
hospitals keep you alive.
Hospitals are so important.
Without them we don't getbetter, we don't get the
treatment that we need.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
And right now, you know, and it's a matter of also
a timely matter too, of beingthere on time.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
You know it's funny.
You want to talk about ethicaloh wow, that was loud.
I was checking something.
Clearly ethics was lacking inthese.
Apparently somebody wasn'tbeing ethical.
I don't understand what acompany from California is doing
in Pennsylvania.
They don't understand.
The people here mean it's sofunny, like we're all you know,
(27:19):
say oh, but we're all americans.
Yes, we're all americans, butlife in pennsylvania is 10 times
different than it is life incalifornia, which is 10 times
different than life in texas,like it's so funny, like, don't
leave out, don't leave out,florida, oh yeah.
But each state, literally, insome ways it's like its own
country, and so what Californiais doing in Philly or in Delco
(27:43):
makes no sense to me.
But God bless every singleperson, god bless every single
doctor that was smart enough,got ahead of it to make the move
.
God bless those who have losttheir jobs, god bless those who
are waiting for surgeries and Ihope you get every single one.
God bless those who arefighting for their lives, that
have to, you know, betransported to all these
(28:04):
different locations that couldbe inconvenient for them and
their family.
But you know, just God blesseveryone that isn't the board of
directors, everyone that isn'tthe board of directors and don't
be scared to come on over.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
If you are in the affected region and if you are a
part of not having a provideranymore at Croger and stuff like
that, don't be scared to try tocome on to Riddle because I
know we're going to get it done.
We'll take good care of you.
Everything will be okay.
It is a nightmare but it willbe okay.
I promise they're going to getit done.
We'll take good care of you.
Everything will be okay.
It is a nightmare but it willbe okay, I promise.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
They're going to work hard for you, they're going to
continue being the heroes thatthey are in the hospital and
they're going to go day andnight for you, just like they're
supposed to do Thankless job,but they do it all the same.
So, with that said, that is thecurrent events episodes.
That's episode four.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
That is episode four.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
And we will be back shortly with episode five.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Talk to you in the next one.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Man, that boom was like really low, it was like
boom, it was like boom.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
There it is.
I was going to say I wasconfused at first on if I was
farting or not.
See you in the next episode,guys, Adios.
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