EITM: Window Falls Month 7/15/24

Stay safe in July.

Episode Transcript

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July is National fall out of WindowMonth. Uh, the well, they're
not celebrating awareness where awareness awareness awareness, which makes sense because it's the summer.
People would have their windows open andlisten. Unfortunately, unfortunately, you
hear you regularly or or commonly willhear stories about kids falling out of windows.

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And that's that's very sad, veryvery sad. I always hate when
you see one of those stories.But they were also talking about how adults
need to be careful. I getit. I don't know that I've ever
known an adult to fall out ofa window ever. Ever, Ever,

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why do I feel like we knewsomeone who fell out of a witness a
random caller who told a story,like, we know someone who tumbled out
of a window. I thought wedid as as an adult, Like not
as an older child, but asas an adult. We've definitely heard of
like college students who live in highrises that'll fall out. Okay, I'll

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give you that. I'll give youthat, But I feel like we definitely
knew the person. We know someonethat fell out of a window. I
don't think it happened while we knewthem, like it was the retelling of
a story. So somebody we knewthat had kind of recounted a story of
falling out of a window. Yes, and you couldn't believe it. No.

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No, Also, I would neveradmit it if I went tumbling out
of a window. I don't thinkI would tell anybody. Uh, that's
embarrassing. Yes, but what wereyou doing? Were you? Were you
trying to clean the sighting on thehouse by hanging out of one or did
you just walk by and trip andfall out of the window? Okay,
if I tripped, I definitely wouldnot say anything. No. Like,

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and the only time that I caneven remember hanging out of the window is
when when I lived in New York. I was on a fifth floor walk
up and like I had stupid windowunits, but they didn't keep the apartment
cold, so I would have tocrack the windows. And I remember because
we also weren't supposed to smoking theapartment, but I did, so I
would sit like kind of ass outon the window and just so that way

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I was right in the window andit would all go outside. At least
that's what I told myself. ButI never came close to going out the
window. But if kids are fallingbecause they happened to be open, right,
isn't that the reason that adults arefalling? Yes? And they do
point out don't think that adults don'tfall Christian, Will you do me a
favor? Will you see if youcan find me one person who fell out

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of a window as an adult.I mean, I don't know why my
brain went this way, but Tylerwhen he talks about his inflatables, like,
wasn't he a little bit concerned puttingthat one up on the roof?
Good call? You had to hangout of the window. Yeah, so
yeah, and you have to hangout every night to make sure that is
a Santa Sac doesn't get caught.I remember we pulled out two trees Arborviety

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from the front, so now wecan do them ground level or as you
told me, just buy more.It should be a safer holiday season in
terms of decoration. By the way, I never I never thought of that
that people who have inflatables on theirroof would tumble out of a window.

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Yeah, yeah, or just puttingup lights or something like that. Oh
see, I didn't think of thateither, Yeah, because then I was
also thinking why would I put aladder outside when I can do you know,
well, some people also don't havea ladder that would go up that
high. Yeah, so it's Decemberthe second I was just gonna say,
why there's a December fall out ofwindow month? November? No matter what

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level you're on, are you tellingthe story you could go out of the
first floor level that you're still goingout of a window. Maybe I understand
why you don't want to tell thatstory because you've fallen what three feet?
Yeah, it doesn't matter. Youcan get hurt fall out of a out
of a first floor window. Whywould you how would you tumble out of
a first floor window? I keeppicturing someone who trips on the treatment just

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really long curtains and falls out.Or is it people who were like dude
like window washing. Yeah, wesee these people in those scaffolding scaffold I'm
talking about people at their house.Remember though, and it's Kristen. We
owe this thank you to We haveto appreciate when these windows are washed so

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many times a year because there areonly so many window washers in America.
That is true. No, no, but like don't they don't they tell
homeowners that you're supposed to like washyour windows once a year? Maybe HOA
wants you to do that? Ohno, I always thought they said you're

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supposed to wash your window. Imean, I don't. I don't know
I've ever washed my windows, butthat you're supposed to wash inside and out
once a year. Now most peoplewill just get a power washer and spray
it down. But yeah, people, if you're leaning out or something,
you can go out that way.Holy crap, look at all the people
that fell out of the window.Hi Ellie in the morning. Is this

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me? Yes, sir? Whois this? Jack? So? I
was. I was thrown out ofa window during the blizzard of seventy nine.
I was nine years old. Theblizzard covered our house in snow.
So when we opened the door withthe black and of snow, they was

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going to go through it. Butthen my mom was pissed that snow was
gonna get all in the house.So they took me upstairs want of it,
showed me someth there, and theythrew me out the window to clear
the front door. Okay, Idon't talk from me. I don't know.

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I don't know that that is fallinggreat story, but I don't know
if I'm going to count that asfalling out of the window. Also,
not as an adult, like you'rea kid at that point. Yeah,
yeah, no, I just talked. Not a funny, great story.
Great story. Oh and it's definitelyfunny. All right, my friend.
I appreciate it. Thank you,sir, thank you. Where am I

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going? Line two? Hi?Yellaead the morning? Hello? Hey,
who's this? Jeff? Hey,Jeff? What's going on? Sir?
Not much, buddy. Hey,So I fell out, you know,
when I was twenty years old andat Myrtle beach. Yeah, I was
with my girlfriend, but I meta twenty three year old out on the

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beach playing volleyball. So we werekind of talking, doing our thing.
Hey me at this club later on. So I was all drunk, of
course, and then so I climbedout the second story window to try to
go meet this girl, sneak outso my girlfriend wouldn't see me. And
there I went, flew right outthe window, laying in the backyard on
my back my wife or she's notmy wife. But then my girlfriend walks

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around to the backyard and sees melaying on the ground. She goes,
what the f are you doing?I was like, wait, so you
were honest, you were honest withher. I was honest and she's actually
my wife today, been together thirtyyears. So good for you. Good
you got lucky there, dude,I'm both cats. You got lucky.

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You didn't break you back. Itwas a long ride home, let me
tell you, brother, eight hourride home back to Virginia. It was
not a fun ride, all right. Very good, very good, Thank
you, my friend, thank you. Line five, hi Ellie in the
morning, four five. What canI do for you, sir? Oh
yeah, yeah. I'm a windowclear out of Warrel, Maryland. And

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on my first day at the job, guys training it they showing me a
trick. There's the windows that wereinaccessible from the outside, so he was
reaching from the inside across to oneof the windows that you can't get.
I turn away to my first window. Next thing I know, the guy
training is calm, and I hearsomeone yelling outside. He's fallen out of

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the window, reaching to the onehe was trying to get until about twenty
five feet landed in the bush andthe name Keston call us trying to get
the call the phone number the ownerof the company, and I didn't know
who to call. Was my firstday. I ended up having to call
nine to one one hand to theowner of the company asking for arrived.
He took the keys with them inthe truck in the ambulance. Hey,

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so two things. I mean,the guy's okay, right, oh,
yeah, he's fine. I'm gonnawork with him today. I'm going to
see him though twenty minutes. Andit was literally your first day. Hey,
what was it? Was his tricka good one that he just poorly
executed it? It was it wasa good trick and it was just his
hands flipped and the wall shout,he says, But I don't know.

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I don't believe she does. Wow, dude, unreal. All right,
very good, very good, Thankyou, my friend. Thank you.
By the way, what's the othergood lesson that comes out of that,
specifically his call? Yeah, thatfirst day or no, no, no,
no no no. If if youhave to go to the hospital in
an ambulance, give your keys tosomebody like that sucks, Like that work

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truck is that stunt in that house? Wasn't thinking clearly? The no,
And you don't want to look badby digging through the guy's pockets, But
you got to remember that. That'sa good little lesson. That comes out
of that. Let me grab linetoo, Hi, Elliot in the morning,
I can't believe how many people arefalling out of windows. Hello,
yeah, hi, who are you? Hey Elliott? How they go?

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I'm doing well? Did you didyou tumble out of a window? Oh?
Yeah, big time? What'd youdo? So? So I was
twenty five of them forty two now. So we had gotten some big snowstorm,
and I'd been out in the backyardby the fire space drink buddy.

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Oh damn it, damn it.Oh wait, hold on, there you
are, there, you are Youwere out back drinking with a buddy and
the snowstorm. Yeah, and Itried to sneak up in my bedroom and
get pen on some pajama pants withoutwaking the wife up. Put it this
way, she's an ex wife.Now. I put two feet in one
leg, toppled back straight out thesecond story window, right back in the

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backyard. Yeah, yeah, hey, did you jack yourself up? Pretty
good? Yeah? I mean itwas I knocked the wind out of him.
But once I got my once Igot my stuff back together, I
put my tail between the legs andslept on the couch. Dude, that's

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pretty good. That's a good one. I like that one. I like
that one. The two feet goin a little stumbling out you go.
Don't get dressed near the sides ofyour home. It's twenty five feet.
I mean you're gonna survive that,you can be seriously insured. Well,
that's what I was gonna say.Life changing, possibly, But nobody's gotten
hurt yet. I think people arefocusing on the more humorous of the of

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the fall. Or is that justalcohol relaxing the Bible problem? My drinking
has been involved in most of them. So is that where it just relaxes
the body. That's a pro drinkingargument. Could you imagine going out of
a window though, No, couldyou imagine your life would flash before your
yeah eyes. I just I thinkonce you landed and knew you were cool,

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I think I would never stop laughing. I'd be laying the going oh
my god, am I paralyzed?No, that's what I mean, Like,
I want to be able to move, like obviously, no, I
want to be able to move.But once you did, like, that's
what you're known for. Remember Itold you and you didn't believe me.
But a few years ago, whenI fell it tripped in the backyard.

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So I was standing on the groundand I fell. I saw everything,
okay before I hit from tripping inthe backyard. So if you are going
out a second or a third storywindow, holy moly, no, that
would be that would be scared.First story window. I wouldn't even think
twice about. I'd be mortified thatI fell out of the window line no

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doorbell, ca Hi Ellie in themorning. Hey, who's this? This
is tolling? Yes, Tom,what can I do for you? I
had a girlfriend fall out of thewindow. What happened? So we were
all drinking one night and I'll bringher back to my house. And it

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was just a single floorhouse, andthe way the window was set up and
the way my bed was in thecorner of the room. So she tried
to get all sexy on me andflung herself on top of me to straddle
me. And she was so hammered. She just went to Thom, I
found off the bed out the window. Oh God, obviously she's okay.

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Yes, she was really embarrassed.She said to me, how I was
gonna say? Was she was?She but asked naked out out inside of
the house, ball naked waterball naked. My god, that is that's good.
You want to go on top ofme to ride me, and she
trying to plung her hair like astripper, be all sexy right off the

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window. That's a great one.That's a great one. All right,
very good, very good, Thankyou, my friend, Thank you,
sir. Line six, Hi jolyhad the morning four or five six?
What can I do for you?Please? Hey, I got I got
thrown into a restaurant. I gotthrown through a window in Charleston a couple

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of years back. Alcohol might havebeen involved, but I ended up.
I ended up getting arrested and goingto the hospital all that night to get
a bunch of staples in my backbecause they got a pretty bad cut from
it. Wait a minute, whatrestaurant were you at? This is Charleston,
South Carolina. Charleston, South Carolina, I said, a couple of
years ago. It would have beenlike maybe ten years ago. So the

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restaurant is currently closed, but itwas called Low Porchett on King Street,
right, So yeah, I gotthrown right through the window. They were
closed at the time, so Idid not disturb dinner service. But the
but you said you had to goget your back stapled up. Yeah,

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yeah, I was. I waspretty intoxicated. So after they got me
to the hospital, I was justyou know, hanging out and I turned
to the doctor and said, hey, man, I'm ready when you are,
and he said, sir, youhave six staples in your back or
doing eleven? They don't read ajail afterwards, because I guess the other

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guy said it was like a fight, but I didn't even see him,
so that sucks. Hey, bythe way, hey, thank you,
sir. Tyler just looked it up. It's right next to holes where we
eight. It is their neighbor,like literally, it was their name,
right next door. Yeah, rightacross from Junia Greenberg is and not Cho

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Royal. Wait what is juan Nitais known for? Oh underage stream?
But yeah, it literally is rightnext door. Yeah? Was that a
French restaurant has to be sounded likeit? By the title, isn't today
best field Day? Is that today? So July July is National jump out

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of the window Day? Yesterday wasyesterday? No fourteenth? Is it really?
Oh? But so we're all theFrench restaurants celebrating today, though,
aren't a lot of restaurants closed onmondays, I mean some are, yeah,
but I thought I thought a lotof them were doing a lot of
them were doing best Fiel day fortoday, maybe to get in a Monday
crowd. They wouldn't usually see whatwas the what was the French thing we

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wanted? Oh escargo? Well youwanted to get a slider from Richmond?
The Oh that, well that's caviar. I know, caviar. I wanted
to get that. Yeah, we'vehad a DS cargo escargoes so good,
so good that and some French onionsoup. Diane, please, maybe some

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nachos from Wendy to Greenberg? CanI go to line one? Hi Ellie
in the morning, smell it good? Who is this? I'd rather not
saying. This is actually a reallysad story. Oh no, ma'am,
come on, don't end on adowner, all right, Well then I

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don't have to tell you, allright, I gotta go. Then,
uncles, wait, so what whathappened? So? I live in a
townhouse community. That are my townhousesare three levels. The base is not
underground, right, And unfortunately aneighbor of mine had her windows open on
the second floor and her dog actuallyjumped out of it. Oh, okay,

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well that's not a person, althoughthat is that is sad. I'm
assuming it's a sad story because thedog didn't make it. Yeah, and
the dog was really messed up,like screaming and stuff like that. Well,
that's horrible. That's horrible, bythe way, there that that is
something that I never think about.And I like, I mean, we

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have the open, we have ourwindows open like every so often, but
I never I never think about that. But the like, we have screens.
Now, I don't know if ascreen is going to stop the dog
jump and that's not going to stopthem the no, but I'm it may,
I mean it may, it maystop them. I told you I
watched the dog jump out of asecond story window to the Oh try your

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neighbor, and they busted through thescreen. The together. I never think
of that. I never think ofthat. You no, like for apartments,
and maybe it's the same thing formaybe it's the same thing for for
townhouses. What are those what arethose kid gates that you're supposed to put
on windows where it looks like thosekind of like tic tac toe bars that

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you're supposed to install on the outside. Do you know what I'm talking about.
Yeah, but I don't know whatthey're called, but it's it's metal
and they go like in the windowframe and yeah, they look like like
like a tic tac toe board.I don't know what guards keep coming up
as the name of. Is thatjust what they're called? Window guards?
Window bars? Yeah? Do theydo? Those work for animals? Can't

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hurt right, Like I wouldn't evenknow. Yeah, I mean now it's
like an animal could probably jump it, because sometimes they only go half her
way way up the window. Butthen they'll tell you if you have those,
you're not supposed to open the windowtaller than the tic tac toe bars?
What if the windows open not thatway but they push out sort of
like on a hinge as I go, oh, I see what you're saying.

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Yeah, well that's fancy. Idon't have that all right, very
good, but that's still that's goodto pass along though. That's good to
pass along. And then obviously forkids, everybody has to have those things
in the window. Well you're supposedto anyway, Like you said, this
is the month sadly where the windowand jump by prevent prevent falling and jumping

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out of windows. Skylights too.You gotta be careful with jeans rites.
My dad fell twenty five feet througha skylight, lived for a week,
but eventually passed from the injuries.Happy Monday. Oh my god, was
that somebody on the roof who camewell, no, Elliott, he jumped
up and went through it. Yeah, that's somebody up on the roof.

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Yeah, so it fell in,not out, and not a window,
but a skylight. Tragic ending skylights. By the way, I'd love to
have a skylight. I've never hada skylight. Something that our real estate
agent told us now was he's neverseen one that hasn't eventually leaked. They
all leak, do they really?Yes? Oh, but don't they don't,

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don't they don't they look she sheWell, yeah, when you put
them in and then within a fewweeks a leaked development, they don't leak
in a couple of weeks, there'sno way. Or maybe not in a
few weeks, but definitely in thefuture. But is that in or route,
like if I went through Zillo?No, yeah, like if I
went through Zillo, would would theytell me that having like having a skylight

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is in? Like I feel likeyou don't see that like that's old school.
It definitely had a time where itwas very in But so often when
it comes to house features, what'sold is zanu again, So it's back
I wanted. I didn't say that. I did say that the person's back
to fix it. Yeah, youknow where I would want one. I

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would want to, oh boy,double the trouble, the no, and
I would I would use them allfor the main bedroom, the master bedroom.
I want one over the bed soyou can see when it rains.
The no, like on the no, but like, wouldn't that be wouldn't
that be a nice way to wakeup? Like it's the sun comes up

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and you and it's it's over thebed. I have it if you don't
want to wake up yet, rightthe okay, that's why God made shutters.
The put a shutter on your skylight. And then I want one in
the master back. And then there'san unsightly string that hangs down that you
just yank the no, No,don't they have it? Is that your
addict? No, it's my window, my skylight. Aren't there aren't there

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aren't there like covers for those fora skylight? Yeah over your bed?
The yeah, don't pull down mydream caper. No. And then I
want one in the master bathroom.That's where my brother has one that leaks.
No, you know what I mean, Like to sit on the toilet
and dump but feel like but feellike, am I pin on my leg?

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That's going on.