September 9, 2025 • 25 mins
In the firehouse birthdays aren’t marked with parties or piles of presents. Most of the time you’re lucky if someone grabs you a card... or maybe a balloon from the grocery store. (Hold back your excitement folks!) The real tradition? Pranks and hazing. Sometimes hilarious, sometimes questionable, always memorable.
In this episode, Jimmy's sharing some of the funniest stories from his time in the firehouse. From collapsing beds and Kool-Aid-soaked socks, to uniforms frozen rock-solid... these pranks range from clever to absolutely ridiculous. There were even some unexpected lessons along the way, like how humor can keep a team bonded through long shifts, and how going too far can test the limits of respect and trust.
Because in the firehouse, the hazing wasn’t just about fun, it was also about learning how to live, work, and co-exist together under one roof.
This episode is a glimpse at the lighter side of station life. Where brotherhood is built on long shifts, shared laughter, and the occasional prank gone sideways. Because at the end of the day, it’s not the cake you remember, it’s the chaos.
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Jimmy (00:00):
What's happening.
It's another life and safetypodcast with Jimmy and your girl
, megs.
Hello, today we're going totalk about firefighter birthdays
and some firefighter hazings.
We'll talk about some myths andwhat actually happens and what
doesn't happen in the firehouse.
We got the inspiration for thisone from one of my high school
(00:26):
buddies.
I grew up with playing footballwith and hanging out with his
family and things like that andmy boy, louis.
Thank you very much for thissuggestion.
On Facebook I do read thecomments, so to speak, and I
read that one and he said on mybirthday in June.
(00:47):
He said, hey, happy birthday,and I'd love to hear what
happened in the firehouse forbirthdays.
So let's talk about it.
What does happen for birthdaysin the firehouse?
Nothing, nothing, um.
(01:16):
You know, usually when, as weall get older and a lot of us
are, think I turned 23, 24 on abig fire, um, that was close.
That was the Martis fire inoutside of Reno.
It was kind of interestingbecause I was near my childhood
(01:39):
home, lake Tahoe.
I was, um, going into Reno andgoing to high schools and stuff
like that I played football at.
So that was kind of interesting, yeah, since we were out and
about the team, the strike teamthat I was with, they got me a
(02:01):
card and a little balloon fromthe grocery store and like that
was a big deal, like everybody'slike, holy crap, you know.
So for me having a Junebirthday, it's fire season
usually.
So when I was in the firehouseand we were on a fire or there's
, like maybe half the team wasgone on a fire or half of us
(02:23):
were just hanging out, mm-hmm,yeah, no, like cake or nothing.
You know, if somebody's familybrought a cake, you know, kind
of like a kid's birthday, thathas like an event, like in a
karate studio or something likethat, they're like, hey, it's
little so-and-so's birthday, webrought cupcakes, something like
that.
Maybe Mm-hmm or somebody'spartner would bring a cake, or
(02:49):
like after dinner or somethinglike that.
When we got, when we gotvisitors, um, if anything, the
person got hazed a little bitmore, you know.
So maybe somebody put their youknow, put kool-aid in their
socks or something like that anddyed their feet.
Oh my god.
Maybe, um, they took their bedand they short ship.
(03:13):
You know she did it where theytag, took all the sheets on the
bed and made them really shortand tucked them in really tight
so the person couldn't get intothe bed.
That that's so like I feel likethat's a I find that to be a
funny prank, but like on yourbirthday, you want good sleep on
your birthday.
Yeah yeah, the last station Iworked at they have these really
(03:39):
old twin beds and if you riggedthe bottom wooden slots, just
right, it would hold themattress but it wouldn't hold
the person, oh my God.
So when you got messed with oneof the most common things they
do is mess with the person's bed, so he pushed on it or you sat
(04:01):
on it, it just fell through outof the frame.
Oh my gosh.
He pushed on it or you sat onit, it just fell through out of
the frame, oh my gosh.
So I actually took for mybirthday that time because I'd
seen a couple other guys pullthat frame and I knew that that
might come, and I actually tookall of the bed slats out, except
(04:23):
for the one at the very top ofthe head and the one where the
foot was, and I hid them in mylocker and I locked it so they
couldn't mess with my bed andcome to find out we were gone in
another cover station soanother fire engine came to
(04:44):
cover our station and they laidin it station.
So another fire, cover ourstation.
And they laid in it and thinkof it like a taco, like a V, so
the person's late in it.
They got a big piece.
I'm praying, somebody elselocked into the bed.
It was kind of apparently wasreally funny.
I didn't get to see it.
I would have loved to have seenit, but not for me.
(05:07):
One of the things that you seein TV shows and things like that
, where they do really extremepranks, where they throw
fireworks at each other andstuff like that, that doesn't
really happen.
You know, like you gotta beprepared.
(05:29):
You know, and if you burnsomebody or you set a place on
fire or something like that,that's obviously not good for
public relations.
Well, yeah, I imagine thatwould be really problematic.
Yeah, right, and then, like,when they mess with like your
gear, mm-hmm, you got to beemergency ready, so then
(05:54):
nobody's going to mess with,like your helmet or your jacket
or maybe your boots or somethinglike that, right, well, the
boot thing gets messed with alittle bit.
Mm-hmm, I kind of almost lied onthat.
Like, unlace their boots, maybe.
Unlace their boots that's agood one, by the way.
No, the thing is you might putwater in the bottom of their
(06:18):
structure boots so you stickyour foot in this big rubber
boot and your foot just swashesaround in the water the whole
time.
If you actually get to theashesaround in the water the whole
time, yeah, and if you actuallyget to the fire usually the fire
the water will pour out intoyour pants because you're
crawling.
Oh no, it's a little drybecause you're in the fire, so
it's okay, unless it turns tosteam, and I didn't see this.
(06:41):
So this is bro knowledge.
So it's a secondhand, firstkind of a thing.
Like you know, like a brotelling another bro, kind of a
thing, and then somebody gotsteam burned for that.
Oh no, yeah, that was, you know, pretty gnarly, I'm sure.
So that would be pretty bad.
(07:02):
Trying to think One time.
I mean it.
Definitely.
If you got hazed in the firedepartment, it's usually because
you either hazed somebody elseor it's because you deserve it.
You deserve it.
We'll say that I was likeyou're a jerk or you're not, or
(07:26):
maybe you made somebody madbecause you said something at
dinner or who knows what.
Yeah, right, okay, one of theworst things I did.
There was a guy who was anengineer who drove the fire
(07:48):
engine.
So he outranked me at the time.
I was just a regular firefighterand he had a mouth, I'll say
that.
And he liked to, you know,bully people verbally and just
kind of pick on people.
And he was actually a decentenough guy for the most part,
(08:09):
but he was bullied and he wouldreally flex his weight and he
was a larger guy so he kind ofintimidated people.
Well, if you ever hung out withme or met me, I just don't do
that, I'm not that guy.
So he did that and he saidsomething and then he'd like's,
be here, I just don't do that,I'm not that guy.
So he did that and he sentsomething and then he drove away
and we ended up having to coverhis firehouse, and again just
(08:34):
to cover, like if somebody, likeif a fire station's out on a
fire and they pull away andthey're gone for a little while,
they'll move the fire stationup to that station, so their
area is covered, hence coveringfirehouse or covering station,
so we're covering the station.
And he had, like I said, he'dgiven the business to everybody
(08:56):
a little bit.
So his locker was open, likeactually just left open Rough.
So I took his keys and I threwhim in his laundry detergent and
his powder laundry detergentthat he had that special.
And then I shook it and buriedhis keys.
That was laundry detergent.
(09:17):
Come to find out.
It took him two hours to findhis keys and he called our
firehouse going hey, did youguys see my keys?
And I was off duty and this wasbefore cell phones.
So when I came back they werelike, hey, did you hide the keys
(09:38):
?
And I said nope, but I heardthey were in the detergent and
they were like, oh, so he callsback over and they told him and
he looked and I said, well, howdid you get home if you didn't
have the keys?
And he's like I had to call myroommate.
(09:59):
He had to drive like 45 minutesto where I was at to bring my
other keys and this and thatRough.
He also ended up having toremake his apartment key.
He had to get a bunch of hiskeys that made, I would say
(10:19):
about four or five months latersomebody told on me or they just
figured it out that it was me.
The guy was like, you know,really mad at me and then I was
like, well, at least you have anextra set of keys.
You know, like, why are you somad?
Yeah, I mean, if that was hisonly set, yeah, you know so, and
(10:44):
I really came back down to wasif you can dish it, you've got
to be able to take it too.
You've got to be able to takeit too.
Yeah, um, and that's a prettygood lesson in life, I think,
yeah, yeah, I got, um, they took.
So I have a large head, um, andI kept leaving my scva, my mask,
(11:12):
on the fire engine when I leftduty, because it was like in
this weird compartment and youknow, it was just forgetful,
easy to forget.
And the guys got mad at mebecause then put their mask
where my mask was and they werejust like oh, we'll be, you know
, we'll just give Jimmy a hardtime.
So they took it, they hung itin the rockers of our fire
(11:35):
engine garage and I was like allright, point taken, I'll
remember that.
And, hey, sometimes pranks arehelpful because they help you
not make mistakes anymore.
A girl, one of the females inmy firehouse, one of the
firehouses I worked in, um, westill don't know why she did it.
(12:01):
I think the rumor was that shewas dating the firefighter that
she messed with, or we don'tknow, and it's.
I probably shouldn't speculate,or you know, you know like that
.
I don't think any one of theseshouldn't speculate.
Or you know like that.
I don't think any one of thesepeople are going to listen to
this podcast.
It would be cool if they did.
If you do, let us know, say hi,yeah, say hey, leave a comment,
(12:22):
like and subscribe.
So she took all of his uniformt-shirts that were in his locker
at the station and tied them ina knot Each shirt in a knot and
then stuck them in water andfroze them.
(12:44):
Oh, so not only did he have todefrost all of the shirts, but
then he had to untie a wetcotton t-shirt and it was really
interesting.
The best part about it was whenhe pulled them out, all of the
center t-shirt part was creasedand wet and messed up and they
(13:09):
were stretched out.
Oh no, so he had to like, Ithink he ended up having to buy
a couple t-shirts.
A couple t-shirts got salvagedbecause another um, this
happened to be another femaleengineer, another firefighter in
the house.
We had two, uh, we had threefemales in the house and the
(13:29):
engineer was like, if you throwthat in the dryer, it'll
probably help.
And he ended up I think liketwo or three shirts have knots
and I'm still gonna dig afterthey were.
You know, you just put them inthe dryer after he defrosted
them and I think they did.
It be okay, if I remember right.
But they're salvaged.
Interesting, I never would havethought that it would have
(13:52):
messed up the shirt to the pointof needing to get a new one.
Yeah, it was just stretched outand weird looking.
It was really interesting.
I was like that's a good one.
Hey, and if I'm ever mad atsomebody now, I know yeah,
freeze their shirts.
Yeah, he retaliated by doingall of her uniforms her pant,
(14:21):
her underwear that she had leftat the station, her t-shirt,
like it was bad.
I think he like tied them inknots and froze those.
Yes, and yeah, like it was bad.
I think he like tied them inknots and froze those, yes, and
yeah, like it was really bad.
Yeah, I'm trying to rememberlike, how it ended.
(14:44):
Like I want to say like one ofthem or both of them got like in
big trouble.
I would imagine.
Yeah, were there any instanceswhere people were fired because
of like pranks or hazing thatthey did.
I'm actually trying to thinkthat one.
I think somebody actually gotfired because of that.
I know somebody got suspendedfor putting a sex toy in
(15:09):
somebody else's laundry bag, andit was not me.
I was gonna say it was not me.
I definitely watched it happen.
It definitely was not me.
Though there was a guy in ourfirehouse who married young for
religious reasons and you knowthat was his belief and he was
just that's what he wanted to do, and who married young for
(15:31):
religious reasons, and that washis belief, and he was just
that's what he wanted to do, andhe was a really nice guy.
And somebody thought it'd befunny to actually bring the sex
toy to the station and stickthat in somebody else's bed and
(15:52):
actually put it in a pillow, andit was funny.
And whatever guys were guys andthey were being stupid about it
and it was whatever.
So the the guy that the joke Iplayed it was kind of common
(16:12):
knowledge that his wife would dohis clothes for him, wash his
laundry for him and him beingthe only married guy firefighter
we all like.
Tease him about it.
Yeah, because that's whatdummies do.
We tease people about stufflike that Because you're jealous
.
Nobody was doing your laundryExactly, and you know we would
do laundry at the firehouse, orif we had some stuff we'd take
(16:36):
home and wash it, but for themost part we didn't ever wash at
the house, or if you didn'thave laundry at the care
department or wherever it was,depending on the circumstances.
So he teased somebody, he saidsomething to the wrong person.
That person took the sex toyand buried it into the laundry
(17:00):
Rough and the wife washed itwith his clothes and then heard
a dunk thunk in the dryer andshe's like what's going on with
my dryer?
And pulled it out and the sextoy was there We'll say it was
(17:21):
erect Sticking at her, lookingat her.
Oh no, and she was not happy.
I'm sure she was not.
She, yeah.
So she actually came to thefirehouse like his next day,
like after dinner, and she was.
She actually brought I want tosay she brought pies and you
(17:46):
know it's kind of like a peaceoffering, if you will, but she
actually asked everybody, likeall the firefighters, for like
five minutes of our time thatnight and actually was like hey,
I'm really disappointed in youguys.
This was not funny.
Don't make fun of our.
You know our sanctum, our house.
(18:07):
She was like I don't appreciatethat.
Like she really kind of gave usa good telling off and out of
respect for her we weredefinitely like sorry about that
, you know, and we're cool aboutit.
The poor guy though, the nextday just gone, just grief, I'm
(18:31):
sure the rest of the shift, um,yeah, like, and the guy like he
had the problem with that andinstigated it, was actually
asking him like we got on thefire engine like to go to a fire
, and he was like hey, did yourmom I mean your wife sign the
permissions to go and stuff likethat?
Oh, no, so mean to each other.
(18:52):
So mean to each other, bruh,yeah, we were painting one time
the firehouse, the station,because we wanted to save money.
So we were actually doing ourown painting at the fire station
.
Mind you, we're state employees, so if you think somebody would
(19:19):
have done that for us, I wouldthink we were painting the
station.
And one of the younger guysgoes hey, how much money would
you give me if I painted mytongue?
And a couple of the guys werelike and I think the money got
up to like 25 bucks or somethinglike that, and he painted his
(19:39):
tongue with latex paint.
The captain at the time that's acouple of things Crazy.
With that Number one, paintingyour tongue is crazy, but for
only 25?
Mm-hmm, I feel like I not thatI would paint my tongue, but I
would need more money than that.
Yeah, with exterior house paint, yeah, yeah, yeah.
(20:03):
So come to find out that, like,over a long exposure time, you
can actually die if yourtongue's painted.
That's really exciting.
Yeah, the captain madeeverybody that was on shift that
day because nobody would messup to like whose idea it was
kind of a thing Mm-hmm Would doyeah, basically told them.
(20:28):
So we all had to like write aresearch paper and turn it in or
we all had to get suspended andlike lose money.
So we would have to writeresearch papers on why it was
bad to pay for telling.
So come to find out you couldactually die from it.
Yeah, that kid at the end ofhis tongue, he thought I played
(20:51):
a joke on him.
We were actually on a striketeam.
We're out on a big fire up in.
I want to say it was like aboveChico, in the Butte area, the
forest up there, and he wascomplaining on how chafed he was
and I was like man, you justgot bamboo ass, that's just.
It is what it is.
(21:12):
When you hike a lot and you'rewet from sweating stuff, you get
chafed.
You got bamboo ass, you're justred ass.
And the best thing to do aboutit is take some really good
medicated powder and just powderyourself.
So I wore that to the hotelroom and I gave him my gold bond
(21:35):
and I was like dude, just go inthe bathroom and just splash
some of this powder on yourself,don't worry about it.
He's like okay, he came back out.
He's like it tingles.
I'm like, yeah, it's amedicated gold bond, like that's
what it's supposed to do.
And he starts laying down andhe's like oh my God, it hurts.
(22:00):
What did you put in it?
I'm like it's just medicateddude, it's just drying you out,
it's absorbing the things thathe yells.
It felt like 10,000 ninjasstabbing my balls oh no, it was
dying.
I feel like the ninjas arestabbing me.
It's marching towards mybutthole oh my God, that's
(22:22):
marching towards my butthole.
Oh my god, that's very crass.
I'm so distracted.
It's so random that it wasninjas stabbing you.
Oh my lord.
He's like what did you put inthat powder?
And he was like, why would youtease me?
I'm like, dude, it wasn't ajoke, it's medicated gold bond.
(22:43):
It's a tingle that's without afeeling.
Why does it hurt?
I go, maybe you're moresensitive than everybody else, I
don't know.
Oh my, oh God, oh God, okay,back to the paint story.
(23:07):
Yeah, obviously he didn't die.
No, he didn't die.
I feel like I remember youtelling me this story.
Did the paint get stuck on histongue?
So, yeah, so he ran into thebathroom and started like
rinsing his mouth outimmediately, and we ended up
(23:29):
taking the paint mixers for thegalloping things and scraping
his tongue with it to get it off.
Oh my Lord, oh, poor kid.
And then we he's having a roughgo of it, but I fear that's
just like hand soap because itwas taking it off our skin.
(23:50):
So we're like let's just usesoap on your tongue.
Oh my gosh.
Um, this guy definitely broughtit upon himself, though, yeah,
I'm gonna say he sounds like Imean, it was his idea to do it.
Yeah, he was bored.
So you know, you know thesaying you fuck around and you
(24:12):
find out.
Yeah, I fear living example ofthat F-A-F-O.
Alright, tim.
So, boy, I started to lie downto you, entertain you a little
bit.
Thanks for joining us today,peace.
What's happening.
It's another life and safetypodcast with Jimmy and your girl
, megs.
Hello, today we're going totalk about firefighter birthdays
and some firefighter hazings.
We'll talk about some myths andwhat actually happens and what
doesn't happen in the firehouse.
We got the inspiration for thisone from one of my high school
(00:26):
buddies.
I grew up with playing footballwith and hanging out with his
family and things like that andmy boy, louis.
Thank you very much for thissuggestion.
On Facebook I do read thecomments, so to speak, and I
read that one and he said on mybirthday in June.
(00:47):
He said, hey, happy birthday,and I'd love to hear what
happened in the firehouse forbirthdays.
So let's talk about it.
What does happen for birthdaysin the firehouse?
Nothing, nothing, um.
(01:16):
You know, usually when, as weall get older and a lot of us
are, think I turned 23, 24 on abig fire, um, that was close.
That was the Martis fire inoutside of Reno.
It was kind of interestingbecause I was near my childhood
(01:39):
home, lake Tahoe.
I was, um, going into Reno andgoing to high schools and stuff
like that I played football at.
So that was kind of interesting, yeah, since we were out and
about the team, the strike teamthat I was with, they got me a
(02:01):
card and a little balloon fromthe grocery store and like that
was a big deal, like everybody'slike, holy crap, you know.
So for me having a Junebirthday, it's fire season
usually.
So when I was in the firehouseand we were on a fire or there's
, like maybe half the team wasgone on a fire or half of us
(02:23):
were just hanging out, mm-hmm,yeah, no, like cake or nothing.
You know, if somebody's familybrought a cake, you know, kind
of like a kid's birthday, thathas like an event, like in a
karate studio or something likethat, they're like, hey, it's
little so-and-so's birthday, webrought cupcakes, something like
that.
Maybe Mm-hmm or somebody'spartner would bring a cake, or
(02:49):
like after dinner or somethinglike that.
When we got, when we gotvisitors, um, if anything, the
person got hazed a little bitmore, you know.
So maybe somebody put their youknow, put kool-aid in their
socks or something like that anddyed their feet.
Oh my god.
Maybe, um, they took their bedand they short ship.
(03:13):
You know she did it where theytag, took all the sheets on the
bed and made them really shortand tucked them in really tight
so the person couldn't get intothe bed.
That that's so like I feel likethat's a I find that to be a
funny prank, but like on yourbirthday, you want good sleep on
your birthday.
Yeah yeah, the last station Iworked at they have these really
(03:39):
old twin beds and if you riggedthe bottom wooden slots, just
right, it would hold themattress but it wouldn't hold
the person, oh my God.
So when you got messed with oneof the most common things they
do is mess with the person's bed, so he pushed on it or you sat
(04:01):
on it, it just fell through outof the frame.
Oh my gosh.
He pushed on it or you sat onit, it just fell through out of
the frame, oh my gosh.
So I actually took for mybirthday that time because I'd
seen a couple other guys pullthat frame and I knew that that
might come, and I actually tookall of the bed slats out, except
(04:23):
for the one at the very top ofthe head and the one where the
foot was, and I hid them in mylocker and I locked it so they
couldn't mess with my bed andcome to find out we were gone in
another cover station soanother fire engine came to
(04:44):
cover our station and they laidin it station.
So another fire, cover ourstation.
And they laid in it and thinkof it like a taco, like a V, so
the person's late in it.
They got a big piece.
I'm praying, somebody elselocked into the bed.
It was kind of apparently wasreally funny.
I didn't get to see it.
I would have loved to have seenit, but not for me.
(05:07):
One of the things that you seein TV shows and things like that
, where they do really extremepranks, where they throw
fireworks at each other andstuff like that, that doesn't
really happen.
You know, like you gotta beprepared.
(05:29):
You know, and if you burnsomebody or you set a place on
fire or something like that,that's obviously not good for
public relations.
Well, yeah, I imagine thatwould be really problematic.
Yeah, right, and then, like,when they mess with like your
gear, mm-hmm, you got to beemergency ready, so then
(05:54):
nobody's going to mess with,like your helmet or your jacket
or maybe your boots or somethinglike that, right, well, the
boot thing gets messed with alittle bit.
Mm-hmm, I kind of almost lied onthat.
Like, unlace their boots, maybe.
Unlace their boots that's agood one, by the way.
No, the thing is you might putwater in the bottom of their
(06:18):
structure boots so you stickyour foot in this big rubber
boot and your foot just swashesaround in the water the whole
time.
If you actually get to theashesaround in the water the whole
time, yeah, and if you actuallyget to the fire usually the fire
the water will pour out intoyour pants because you're
crawling.
Oh no, it's a little drybecause you're in the fire, so
it's okay, unless it turns tosteam, and I didn't see this.
(06:41):
So this is bro knowledge.
So it's a secondhand, firstkind of a thing.
Like you know, like a brotelling another bro, kind of a
thing, and then somebody gotsteam burned for that.
Oh no, yeah, that was, you know, pretty gnarly, I'm sure.
So that would be pretty bad.
(07:02):
Trying to think One time.
I mean it.
Definitely.
If you got hazed in the firedepartment, it's usually because
you either hazed somebody elseor it's because you deserve it.
You deserve it.
We'll say that I was likeyou're a jerk or you're not, or
(07:26):
maybe you made somebody madbecause you said something at
dinner or who knows what.
Yeah, right, okay, one of theworst things I did.
There was a guy who was anengineer who drove the fire
(07:48):
engine.
So he outranked me at the time.
I was just a regular firefighterand he had a mouth, I'll say
that.
And he liked to, you know,bully people verbally and just
kind of pick on people.
And he was actually a decentenough guy for the most part,
(08:09):
but he was bullied and he wouldreally flex his weight and he
was a larger guy so he kind ofintimidated people.
Well, if you ever hung out withme or met me, I just don't do
that, I'm not that guy.
So he did that and he saidsomething and then he'd like's,
be here, I just don't do that,I'm not that guy.
So he did that and he sentsomething and then he drove away
and we ended up having to coverhis firehouse, and again just
(08:34):
to cover, like if somebody, likeif a fire station's out on a
fire and they pull away andthey're gone for a little while,
they'll move the fire stationup to that station, so their
area is covered, hence coveringfirehouse or covering station,
so we're covering the station.
And he had, like I said, he'dgiven the business to everybody
(08:56):
a little bit.
So his locker was open, likeactually just left open Rough.
So I took his keys and I threwhim in his laundry detergent and
his powder laundry detergentthat he had that special.
And then I shook it and buriedhis keys.
That was laundry detergent.
(09:17):
Come to find out.
It took him two hours to findhis keys and he called our
firehouse going hey, did youguys see my keys?
And I was off duty and this wasbefore cell phones.
So when I came back they werelike, hey, did you hide the keys
(09:38):
?
And I said nope, but I heardthey were in the detergent and
they were like, oh, so he callsback over and they told him and
he looked and I said, well, howdid you get home if you didn't
have the keys?
And he's like I had to call myroommate.
(09:59):
He had to drive like 45 minutesto where I was at to bring my
other keys and this and thatRough.
He also ended up having toremake his apartment key.
He had to get a bunch of hiskeys that made, I would say
(10:19):
about four or five months latersomebody told on me or they just
figured it out that it was me.
The guy was like, you know,really mad at me and then I was
like, well, at least you have anextra set of keys.
You know, like, why are you somad?
Yeah, I mean, if that was hisonly set, yeah, you know so, and
(10:44):
I really came back down to wasif you can dish it, you've got
to be able to take it too.
You've got to be able to takeit too.
Yeah, um, and that's a prettygood lesson in life, I think,
yeah, yeah, I got, um, they took.
So I have a large head, um, andI kept leaving my scva, my mask,
(11:12):
on the fire engine when I leftduty, because it was like in
this weird compartment and youknow, it was just forgetful,
easy to forget.
And the guys got mad at mebecause then put their mask
where my mask was and they werejust like oh, we'll be, you know
, we'll just give Jimmy a hardtime.
So they took it, they hung itin the rockers of our fire
(11:35):
engine garage and I was like allright, point taken, I'll
remember that.
And, hey, sometimes pranks arehelpful because they help you
not make mistakes anymore.
A girl, one of the females inmy firehouse, one of the
firehouses I worked in, um, westill don't know why she did it.
(12:01):
I think the rumor was that shewas dating the firefighter that
she messed with, or we don'tknow, and it's.
I probably shouldn't speculate,or you know, you know like that
.
I don't think any one of theseshouldn't speculate.
Or you know like that.
I don't think any one of thesepeople are going to listen to
this podcast.
It would be cool if they did.
If you do, let us know, say hi,yeah, say hey, leave a comment,
(12:22):
like and subscribe.
So she took all of his uniformt-shirts that were in his locker
at the station and tied them ina knot Each shirt in a knot and
then stuck them in water andfroze them.
(12:44):
Oh, so not only did he have todefrost all of the shirts, but
then he had to untie a wetcotton t-shirt and it was really
interesting.
The best part about it was whenhe pulled them out, all of the
center t-shirt part was creasedand wet and messed up and they
(13:09):
were stretched out.
Oh no, so he had to like, Ithink he ended up having to buy
a couple t-shirts.
A couple t-shirts got salvagedbecause another um, this
happened to be another femaleengineer, another firefighter in
the house.
We had two, uh, we had threefemales in the house and the
(13:29):
engineer was like, if you throwthat in the dryer, it'll
probably help.
And he ended up I think liketwo or three shirts have knots
and I'm still gonna dig afterthey were.
You know, you just put them inthe dryer after he defrosted
them and I think they did.
It be okay, if I remember right.
But they're salvaged.
Interesting, I never would havethought that it would have
(13:52):
messed up the shirt to the pointof needing to get a new one.
Yeah, it was just stretched outand weird looking.
It was really interesting.
I was like that's a good one.
Hey, and if I'm ever mad atsomebody now, I know yeah,
freeze their shirts.
Yeah, he retaliated by doingall of her uniforms her pant,
(14:21):
her underwear that she had leftat the station, her t-shirt,
like it was bad.
I think he like tied them inknots and froze those.
Yes, and yeah, like it was bad.
I think he like tied them inknots and froze those, yes, and
yeah, like it was really bad.
Yeah, I'm trying to rememberlike, how it ended.
(14:44):
Like I want to say like one ofthem or both of them got like in
big trouble.
I would imagine.
Yeah, were there any instanceswhere people were fired because
of like pranks or hazing thatthey did.
I'm actually trying to thinkthat one.
I think somebody actually gotfired because of that.
I know somebody got suspendedfor putting a sex toy in
(15:09):
somebody else's laundry bag, andit was not me.
I was gonna say it was not me.
I definitely watched it happen.
It definitely was not me.
Though there was a guy in ourfirehouse who married young for
religious reasons and you knowthat was his belief and he was
just that's what he wanted to do, and who married young for
(15:31):
religious reasons, and that washis belief, and he was just
that's what he wanted to do, andhe was a really nice guy.
And somebody thought it'd befunny to actually bring the sex
toy to the station and stickthat in somebody else's bed and
(15:52):
actually put it in a pillow, andit was funny.
And whatever guys were guys andthey were being stupid about it
and it was whatever.
So the the guy that the joke Iplayed it was kind of common
(16:12):
knowledge that his wife would dohis clothes for him, wash his
laundry for him and him beingthe only married guy firefighter
we all like.
Tease him about it.
Yeah, because that's whatdummies do.
We tease people about stufflike that Because you're jealous
.
Nobody was doing your laundryExactly, and you know we would
do laundry at the firehouse, orif we had some stuff we'd take
(16:36):
home and wash it, but for themost part we didn't ever wash at
the house, or if you didn'thave laundry at the care
department or wherever it was,depending on the circumstances.
So he teased somebody, he saidsomething to the wrong person.
That person took the sex toyand buried it into the laundry
(17:00):
Rough and the wife washed itwith his clothes and then heard
a dunk thunk in the dryer andshe's like what's going on with
my dryer?
And pulled it out and the sextoy was there We'll say it was
(17:21):
erect Sticking at her, lookingat her.
Oh no, and she was not happy.
I'm sure she was not.
She, yeah.
So she actually came to thefirehouse like his next day,
like after dinner, and she was.
She actually brought I want tosay she brought pies and you
(17:46):
know it's kind of like a peaceoffering, if you will, but she
actually asked everybody, likeall the firefighters, for like
five minutes of our time thatnight and actually was like hey,
I'm really disappointed in youguys.
This was not funny.
Don't make fun of our.
You know our sanctum, our house.
(18:07):
She was like I don't appreciatethat.
Like she really kind of gave usa good telling off and out of
respect for her we weredefinitely like sorry about that
, you know, and we're cool aboutit.
The poor guy though, the nextday just gone, just grief, I'm
(18:31):
sure the rest of the shift, um,yeah, like, and the guy like he
had the problem with that andinstigated it, was actually
asking him like we got on thefire engine like to go to a fire
, and he was like hey, did yourmom I mean your wife sign the
permissions to go and stuff likethat?
Oh, no, so mean to each other.
(18:52):
So mean to each other, bruh,yeah, we were painting one time
the firehouse, the station,because we wanted to save money.
So we were actually doing ourown painting at the fire station
.
Mind you, we're state employees, so if you think somebody would
(19:19):
have done that for us, I wouldthink we were painting the
station.
And one of the younger guysgoes hey, how much money would
you give me if I painted mytongue?
And a couple of the guys werelike and I think the money got
up to like 25 bucks or somethinglike that, and he painted his
(19:39):
tongue with latex paint.
The captain at the time that's acouple of things Crazy.
With that Number one, paintingyour tongue is crazy, but for
only 25?
Mm-hmm, I feel like I not thatI would paint my tongue, but I
would need more money than that.
Yeah, with exterior house paint, yeah, yeah, yeah.
(20:03):
So come to find out that, like,over a long exposure time, you
can actually die if yourtongue's painted.
That's really exciting.
Yeah, the captain madeeverybody that was on shift that
day because nobody would messup to like whose idea it was
kind of a thing Mm-hmm Would doyeah, basically told them.
(20:28):
So we all had to like write aresearch paper and turn it in or
we all had to get suspended andlike lose money.
So we would have to writeresearch papers on why it was
bad to pay for telling.
So come to find out you couldactually die from it.
Yeah, that kid at the end ofhis tongue, he thought I played
(20:51):
a joke on him.
We were actually on a striketeam.
We're out on a big fire up in.
I want to say it was like aboveChico, in the Butte area, the
forest up there, and he wascomplaining on how chafed he was
and I was like man, you justgot bamboo ass, that's just.
It is what it is.
(21:12):
When you hike a lot and you'rewet from sweating stuff, you get
chafed.
You got bamboo ass, you're justred ass.
And the best thing to do aboutit is take some really good
medicated powder and just powderyourself.
So I wore that to the hotelroom and I gave him my gold bond
(21:35):
and I was like dude, just go inthe bathroom and just splash
some of this powder on yourself,don't worry about it.
He's like okay, he came back out.
He's like it tingles.
I'm like, yeah, it's amedicated gold bond, like that's
what it's supposed to do.
And he starts laying down andhe's like oh my God, it hurts.
(22:00):
What did you put in it?
I'm like it's just medicateddude, it's just drying you out,
it's absorbing the things thathe yells.
It felt like 10,000 ninjasstabbing my balls oh no, it was
dying.
I feel like the ninjas arestabbing me.
It's marching towards mybutthole oh my God, that's
(22:22):
marching towards my butthole.
Oh my god, that's very crass.
I'm so distracted.
It's so random that it wasninjas stabbing you.
Oh my lord.
He's like what did you put inthat powder?
And he was like, why would youtease me?
I'm like, dude, it wasn't ajoke, it's medicated gold bond.
(22:43):
It's a tingle that's without afeeling.
Why does it hurt?
I go, maybe you're moresensitive than everybody else, I
don't know.
Oh my, oh God, oh God, okay,back to the paint story.
(23:07):
Yeah, obviously he didn't die.
No, he didn't die.
I feel like I remember youtelling me this story.
Did the paint get stuck on histongue?
So, yeah, so he ran into thebathroom and started like
rinsing his mouth outimmediately, and we ended up
(23:29):
taking the paint mixers for thegalloping things and scraping
his tongue with it to get it off.
Oh my Lord, oh, poor kid.
And then we he's having a roughgo of it, but I fear that's
just like hand soap because itwas taking it off our skin.
(23:50):
So we're like let's just usesoap on your tongue.
Oh my gosh.
Um, this guy definitely broughtit upon himself, though, yeah,
I'm gonna say he sounds like Imean, it was his idea to do it.
Yeah, he was bored.
So you know, you know thesaying you fuck around and you
(24:12):
find out.
Yeah, I fear living example ofthat F-A-F-O.
Alright, tim.
So, boy, I started to lie downto you, entertain you a little
bit.
Thanks for joining us today,peace.
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