August 13, 2025 • 44 mins
Regional Emergency Management Coordinator Lauren Sanchez talks about her deployment to Kerr County for flood relief, her role as planning Director for the Dallas 911 Memorial stair climb, and LOTS OF LAUGHS about how to feed predators at the zoo, radio active wasps, and MORE!
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Speaker 1 (00:26):
Welcome, Welcome to Offbeat, the Light Side of Law Enforcement,
part of the tree Al podcast network. On today's show,
we're gonna be talking about stair climbing, not just stair climbing.
I am not the stair climber no, yeah, but we
did have the Master's stair Climber on not that long ago.
(00:47):
We're gonna touch on stair climbing again. I understand that
we've got a zoo in Denmark has a special request
they do, and who knows what else we might might
find ourselves talking about today. Steve here co host for
today Detective Courtie's Hadley Groad to be here. Guys, thank you,
and we've got the beautiful, lovely Karen as our co
(01:11):
host today. There you go, and we've got one guest
joining us in the studio, a returning guest all the
way back to episode number nine that The Dark Ages.
We've got Lauren Sanchez.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Welcome Lauren, thanks for having me back.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
And and you know what.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
I didn't he mentioned how you like? You're not beautiful,
You're just Lauren.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Yeah, no, not beautiful, just Lauren. It's fine. We go
way back.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Wait, we can't compliment each other. We're co workers, Karen, No,
I was loud.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
That's dressing up.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Shots fired. I'm sorry, Laura.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Keep him away from me.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Wow. He prefers to sit down here, because Actuallylauren, you're
on the fire side of things.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Yes, I am.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Yeah, I gotta, I gotta keep it, keep the officer,
keep the PD guy down here, fire over here now, Lauren, Actually,
what what is your title?
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Do you want to make one up for me? I
can tell you the real one.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Let's go with your real one now and then we'll
we we can break off into that story.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
So I am the regional Emergency Management Coordinator.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Regional Emergency Management coordinator. Yes, you coordinate emergencies.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Yes, brand them, execute them, plan and execute emergency and
fire something to do.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Okay, Yeah, now that's uh. And I think we established
way back on episode number nine that Lauren is the
person responsible for great emergencies at two am on Sunday
mornings that we always have to respond to.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Absolutely catch you off guard.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
No, we're kidding. If my bosses are watching, that's not
it's not actually chief, I'm really sorry.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Not true, and we we joke about that. Obviously, you're
on to two major emergencies and so forth. And actually
you were supposed to come on the show. A couple
of weeks ago, we had we had the Staremaster Steve Coin.
Steve came on the actually was a guest and came
(03:15):
in the studio. He does a lot of these Stare
climb to around the country to memorialize those we lost.
And during the September the eleventh attacks. Steve, of course,
is a transplant from Chicago, PD New works for an
agency here in North Texas. The Lauren you were supposed
to be on that that same show with Steve. You
couldn't make it. Why could you not make it? You
know what? Why did you back out on us?
Speaker 4 (03:37):
That?
Speaker 5 (03:37):
No?
Speaker 2 (03:37):
No, no, let me say this. I was very excited
for that episode.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
I wanted to be here to thank him for climbing
in the Dallas Climb and you know, tell him tell
the public a little more about it. But I also
wanted to hear his stories. But a few days before
I sent you a text and said, hey, friend, I'm
so sorry. I'm not backing out, but I've been asked
by the State of Texas to go down to kirk
count Me to help post flood event.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
And so that is what I did.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
You know, that's a pretty good excuse.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Thank you for doing that.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
It helps. I really didn't once she sent that message
and Mike, I.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Geah, you can't. I got can't rebuttle with all your life, Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
The mean response he had written, yeah, he's like, okay,
be safe.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Talco later sends yeah the uh. But so tell us
a little a little bit about what it was. What
it was like down there. I mean, obviously is horrible
flooding down in the Curvel area and all along the
river there affected you know, quite a few cities through there,
but just a horrible, horrible event that happened. But what
(04:39):
was it like to actually be down there and and
see everything, you know, and even to even take that
a little bit further. You were from that area, so
you know what it normally looks like.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Yes, it's true.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
So when I saw the event unfold late July or
early sorry, late night July third, early morning July fourth,
it hit home pretty I've gone on other deployments with
the state, the first one being to North Carolina for
a flood event, so in my mind I kind of
had an idea of what to expect, but being from
Bernie graduated from Bernie High School in the Hill Country
is very near and dear to my heart. When I
(05:13):
got the opportunity to go deploy, and it's tough with deployments.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
You guys understand you want.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
To go help, so you look forward to it, but
then you realize what you're going down there to do,
so you feel terrible for want for looking forward to
go to do that. So you tell yourself that you're
going down there to do some good and to help
people on their worst day. So I was grateful for
the opportunity to do that, and so I got chosen
when I put in on the rostering request to go
(05:42):
down there and help, not with the search efforts that
were unfolding. I give I will hug every single person
that was down there searching in the river.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
That would be extremely hard.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
I couldn't do that, So I was more on the
back end helping with the support for the families and
anyone that was impacted in a couple different capacities. So
when I got down there, it was hard to see.
Like I said, with North Carolina, I had seen flood
damage and that was pretty widespread, but a lot more
localized than what I saw down in the Texas hill
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country was so big, and seeing those trees and seeing
debris parts of boats right come thirty feet up into
a tree, and you're driving past it every day to
go to these small towns to sit with their leadership
and sit with their first responders and kind of help
them through this, but you're driving past it every day.
So the first day that I was down there and
driving to one of those towns and looking along the
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river the entire time, and it hit me and I
started getting emotional. And as I was driving, I was like,
it's okay, I'm crying, but I can see well enough
to still drive and get there safely.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
So we're going to do it.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
And right you just let it out because you're like,
I'm going to be here for the next twelve days,
So let the tears out now, and let me accept
the devastation that's happening here. But I still need to
do good. And so luckily was able to push through
it and help some people where they needed help. So
I was glad. I was glad to be down there.
Towards the end of the deployment, it was twelve days total,
I was ready to get home. A lot of people
(07:05):
were asked if they could stay longer, and a lot
of them accepted that. I didn't had to come back
for work because work pauses here, but I had to
come back and do my day's job. But even just
the emotional toll of it, I was ready by about
day ten to come back home and take a break
from all of that.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Yeah, I could only I could only imagine, and I
you know, again, we're incredibly thankful for any first responders
or anybody whether it's youre a first responder or just
a volunteer, you know, with a different background that was
down there helping out. Yeah, definitely thank you for helping
out those families and those who continue to help out
those families.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Yeah, they're still down there putting in great work.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Yeah, I mean, yeah, that's just that's amazing. And what
are calling you know, the guys step up, Guys and
gals step up whenever we have a situation like that
in Texas, and Texas really comes together and handles her
own when it comes to situations like that.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Yeah, they do. There was a lot of people there.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
No, it's good. There was something else that you you do, Lauren,
you you're involved, and we we kind of let onto
this earlier. You're involved in the planning of our Dallas
nine to eleven memorial stair cloud.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
I am. I got a talked into being the director
this year.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
So much for involved you. Yeah, yeah, up to your neck.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Yeah, I've always loved the climb.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
I've been a part of a fire department for the
last eight years, almost nine years now in DFW, and
so when I heard they're.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Not gonna hold out against you, by the way.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
About what, oh probably were past that.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
No, never, it's a deep wound. It really is.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Well I'm glad you embraced the mustache part of it.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
I've really tried.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
If you look really closely, go ahead and zoom in
on this video.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Yeah, I've been really working on it. Thank you for them,
Thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
And see, I wish I would have put a fake
one on. That would have been hilarious. Well after the break,
stay tuned.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
We shall exactly and I shall continue to keep you
two separated.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Yeah, and I will wear it at the climb. So
come out at the climb with me and then may
we all have one on. But I've always loved the climb.
I would go cheer everybody on, police included we're friends too,
and so after a couple of years, I wanted to
get involved. And so a chief of mine who has
since retired, found out that he was a part of
the planning committee and I said, hey, Chief, I want
to get involved. Maybe day of volunteer. Let me just
show up on the day of tell me what to do.
(09:37):
I would love to help. And he said, well, you
should join our planning committee. And before he explained what
a commitment that is, I said, sounds great. And so
that was four years ago, and every year that same
chief has come to me and said, well, now there's
a higher up position that's open and I really need
your help.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
And so I just kept moving up, moving up.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
I was the ops director for two years and then
he said, you know, I'm going to actually retire now
and step back from.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
This and you should be the event director.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
And I was like, well, you know what I've gotten
this far with just saying yes to everything that you
tell me.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
So careful with that in your professional career at the
volunteering that's great, but oh my god, you got to
learn to say no.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
It's hard too.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Sometimes Yeah I don't so no one, Please don't call.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Me so and again the nine to eleven memorials stare climb.
That that is first responders, correct, Lison fired. They are climbing.
How many stories? How many flights? Is there?
Speaker 4 (10:38):
One hundred and ten floors and so that is the
height of the world Trade centers.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Okay, and this is to memorialize as we lost on
September the eleventh. They're in the terror attacks. They're in
New York City, correct, And these events. Steve was telling
us when he was on Steve Coin that these events
happen in a lot of different cities. I think Chicago
has one. I think four or started one now they did.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Yeah, So we have an association of stare climes. Anyone
can start a stair climb. We have an association right
in public safety. We like to formalize things for a
lot of different reasons, and so we have a formal
National Association of stare Climes just kind of brings everyone together,
standardizes everything.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
You'll have a Staremaster, we we.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
We should call them that. That would be a great name.
I'm going to talk to them about that on our
next meeting. I am the StairMaster. But so fort Worth, yes,
has just joined. That's one of the newest clients to
join the association.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
C Yeah, what are they doing?
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Four?
Speaker 2 (11:35):
I believe it is City Center. I'll have to verify.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
I don't want to give you that in were I
know we had stairs at four.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Now Kurtis and I start our own stare climb event
with just the two stories here and you just have
to do it? How many times?
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Fifty five?
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Five times? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (11:49):
You can? So cool enough.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
The first ever stare climb in two thousand and three
that we know of, was in Afghanistan. It was an
Albuquerque firefighter who was deployed overseas and he did it
in a two story building and he climbed to fifty
five times to get all one hundred and ten flights,
so you could it's been done.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Dude, that's awesome. He did that in Afghanistan.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
He did, and then he came back, so he ended
his deployment, went back to Albuquerque, and then in two
thousand and four got some of his fire department crew
together and then they climbed in Albuquerque, and then slowly
it just started spreading. The year after Denver formed a
climb and it has trickled out across the US.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
And then in two thousand and eleven.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
On September eleventh, there was fifty five climbs Wow happening,
so it spreads pretty quick. Three of those were in
other countries, not even the US.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Wow and the climb. These events benefit different agencies. Stuff
tell us when this year's climb is actually going to
occur and who's going to benefit.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
So our climb for Dallas is always the Saturday before
September eleventh, So this year it is Saturday, September sixth
Downtown Dallas Comerica Bank Tower. That is for the climbers
to go inside, It's not one hundred and ten flights,
so we break it up into three legs for them
to get all one hundred and ten. But the ceremony
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itself is open to the public, to families. Anyone can
come out, and that is taking place at Main Street Garden.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Parky what time we kick.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Off about eight am, so I would recommend getting there
seven thirty. We have free parking at the Elm Street
Parking garage. Right Caddy corner to that park, walk over
to the park hang out. You can see all the
first responders. We fill every single first responder who tragically
passed away when the towers came down, so three hundred
and forty three fire, seventy police, nine ems, and then
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we also have additional alternates who climb in each of
those positions for people that have passed away post September eleventh.
So you'll get to walk around and see lots of
first responders talk to them, lots of chiefs, lots of
tons of volunteers.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
It's a great event.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
And that's okay, so open to the public. Anybody can
come out and watch.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Correct yea and also live stream.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
So some people don't want to go to downtown Dallas,
and I can understand that, but if you do, we'll
make it worth your while. There's a family friendly event,
so in the actual park we have activities for kids
to keep them entertained. It's also live stream, so we
have TVs outside of the park where you can watch
the actual climbers in the stairwells from start to finish,
and then they can also live stream that on our
(14:28):
Facebook page. So if you go to Facebook to the
Dallas nine to eleven Memorial Stairclimb Facebook, tune in about
eight am September sixth, then you can watch the entire
thing to include the ceremony, which we'll have an FDN
Y member who was there on September eleventh and lost
some of his crew speak. But we bring in a
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speaker from New York Police or Fire every year to
really bring home why we're climbing every year.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Very cool message. Well that's great. So guys, if you're listening, yeah,
if you're available to get down to downtown Dallas watch
in person. If not, check them out on Facebook watch
the live stream. Now, Lauren, you and I we we've
known each other for quite some time because I mean
you were kind of my fire department counterpart for my
(15:15):
position at the police department. We did a lot of
training together. And when I say we did training together,
we trained a lot of people to get together, and
usually it was you and I out teaching, you know,
civilian response to active shooter events, you know the craze
classy by alert and you would bring in the stop
(15:35):
the bleed, here's the turniquit, here's what to do if
you find yourself on these situations. And we taught this.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
A lot, a lot.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
There's a lot of people out there with so much
knowledge because the two of us.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
I don't know if I'm proud or scared of that.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Yeah, I think we're making the world a better place. Lauren.
You know I really.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Give me patch on the back.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Yes, please, if you can come over here.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
No, but it's funny because we did it so much.
I mean it was just second nature. I mean I
could stand up front a group and just rattle it off.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Actually brought turning kids. If we just want to do
a class right now?
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Uh, you said you're supposed to play those around next.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Right around next.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Brought above the Adam's Apple. Don't do that for you listening, No.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
But I bring that up because one of the one
particular time we were training, I was horribly sick. I
mean I had a cold flu something like that. And
I remember I was on medication, so there's like medication
eyes where your eyes are just burning and stuff. And
I had finished my part of the presentation. I went
to introduce you. I totally forgot your title and I introduced.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
I forgot my name.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Yeah, I don't remember if I got your name right,
but I think I introduced you as the President of
the Queen of England's second cousin, you know, nighted something
like that.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
That was just and I didn't help you at all.
I just stood there nodding all the promotions that I
was getting.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Just hung hung me out to your eyes. Oh you
know what that's that's routine for firefighter, right, Oh yeah, absolutely,
hang your cough out of.
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And we're back back to more Offbeat the light side
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Curtis Hadley. Great to be here, guys, we got a
coco with us in the studio. We got my lovely
bride Karen.
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No not a paid position. Make sure she knew that.
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She's not compensated for her show to.
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Yes. Now we are joined by one lovely, lovely, lovely
guest in studio. Novel beautiful, Yeah, dashing, I don't know. Okay,
welcome Lauren Sanchez to the show.
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was it a pergola? Yeah, an outdoor project. If you
have them do that, then just calling them to get
the estimate and they they interview into win one of
those big green eggs. Oh really Yeah. So we had
(24:04):
them out here giving us an estimate on on our
front fence. So Karen, first thing she asked me, are
we registered for the egg? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (24:15):
I guess so, speaking of eggs, aren't y'all? Uh, don't
you have your own chickens? Now we do we do,
Karen bab this morning he did. So what happened with
the roostery we're trying to get rid of We got.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Rid of him. Yeah, he had a lady. Lady came
and picked came up.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
That's not what you told me. So Steve and I
were talking about the spring lady showed up and he's like,
I say, hey, what happened to the chicken? I literally
thought maybe something come with somebody come god. He's like, well,
this little old lady said she had lost her cock.
So I told Ride Linda mine and I was like,
hold on, Steve. So I was like, you just you
just gave it away and he's like yeah, I just
like later after and she turne yeah, so oh it's.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Illegal to charge for it.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
On other notes, this is this is what got me
the most. Now that your compound is up and running here,
so like you'll have more and more animals, right, So
I did not know, And Karen, you come back me
up with this if you knew before this, I did
not know that Steve was an ass man, did not
have an inkling. I had suspicions, I mean, one of
those hands. But what really got me was when he
sent me the pictures and I was like, Steve, that's
(25:25):
that's two hairy asses, my friend. Are you gonna be
able to feed those?
Speaker 1 (25:30):
So? Uh?
Speaker 3 (25:31):
What did your name? The donkeys?
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Lulu and Daisy?
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Lulu and Daisy. Yes, yes, they like carrots, don't they? Yes,
they did. We were out there earlier. I say, Laura,
come on, I heard we're gonna play with Steve's ass
inside anyways. Damn, oh you.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Know you know me.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
I mean, I like add good puns. So I was
reading a story and the story was there is a
zoo in Denmark that had asked for something kind of
out of the out of an ordinary not you wouldn't
think of zoo would asked for this. So the zoo
had reached out and said, hey, if any of you
folks have any household animals that are that are on
the last leg or you don't want any more, we
(26:27):
would love to have them for our predators. Yes, And
I was like, I was like reading this article, I'm like,
you know, in my head, it was like, you know,
the little girl comes home and was like, hey, daddy,
what happened to mister Fluffers? Is like, is is he
not in his cage. He's like, no, Daddy, I can't
find mister Flupper's is like did you look under the bed?
I mean, he's got to be here somewhere. And poor
mister Fluppers is like, you know, he comes out of
(26:47):
the box and he sees a lion. It's like, I mean,
I was like, you're asking people for their household pets.
And then I started reading the article that it was
kind of combical because they said that they had a
lot of people will call and say you could have
my horse if you wanted. But I was like a lion,
I guess, exaid the predator animals, I don't know. I'm
(27:08):
assuming that's the lion, the tigers bears, I don't know,
but I was.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Like, mammoth, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Yeah, when's the last time you went to a zoom?
It was turned the sentry. You know better, to drink
on the sew you know better. But that's his line.
(27:42):
I just see Steves a young boy. Mommy, can we
go see the pterodactyls. No, we're cleaning the cages.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Okay, he's.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
There's no more in it out, it's all over.
Speaker 8 (28:05):
Ah, oh breath, we'll come back good now.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Yeah, We're gonna good ass mass swallows.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
That's what you needed, a little bist.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Oh man, Lauren, how are you doing today?
Speaker 2 (28:27):
I'm good? What a great Friday.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
You don't remind me. I mean, we've added monitors to
the studio, we'vett timers. We need added to fibrilator. Maybe
it's not the bleed kid.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
Yeah, you should hire a medic to just sit here
just in case. You guys know how to do the Heimlich.
I feel like that's probably an important one.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
I bet you have a class wort, don't you.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Today we're gonna be demonstrating the heimlike on the show. Yeah,
i'd actually heard about that story. The guys on the
Treehouse said they were talking about it. They did, and yeah,
that that's just crazy. Bring your pets in and you know,
to feed to the predators. I think they were. Weren't
they giving like money or a tax break or something.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
Yeah, there was there was an incentive. I mean, but
I just I couldn't imagine you bringing like the family
dog or something. I mean, I mean it's different a
Chinese restaurant, but.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Eating alive. I know, and.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
I am I am an animal lover, don't me wrong.
I'm not saying that I love I love animals, but
I was like, that floored me that they were if
you have a couple of extra dogs laying around or something,
you don't run the house bring much will take care
of them for you.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
I bet they don't have a homeless pet problem near
that's know, straight dogs anywhere.
Speaker 8 (29:52):
No, I bet in contract with code with the code enforcement,
I could enforcem animal control.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Did y'all hear about the accident in Philadelphia? Is it Philadelphia?
See if I run on my phones? Anyways, So they
had it was one of the major hot major highways.
They had a hot dog truck overturned. Hot dogs were everywhere.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Hey to see that happen, I do hate.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
To see it happen. But whoever wrote the article was
actually they must have had a little bit of a
little bit of fun with it, because they said that
it clogged the main arteries into town for hours and
they had the bulldoze the hot dogs off. That's I
mean hot dogs. There were so like a lot of dogs.
That is a lot of dog, but it's a bulldog.
Get the bulldoze them off. They just invited people's household
(30:39):
pets out.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
There to fatten them up, and then I was trying
to figure out why there wasn't a bread.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
Guys were trying to sell some buns. You know, get
a little fire going, hit your hot hot dogs, get
them other hot guys.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Yeah, just set up, you know, take a little lemonade.
Stand from the girl empty in the street. Mark got lemonade,
put hot dog on it.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Looking at like a block party.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
Yeah, what's the guy that has the world record for
the number of hot dogs.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
I should have just had all those guys show up.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
Oh yeah, the Nathan's guys. Whatever.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
You guys, have.
Speaker 4 (31:10):
Five minutes as many of these hot dogs as you
possibly can.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Let's save some taxpayer money.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Competition exactly, going back to having a defib. Yeah, have
a bunch of guys heat cleared the highway with hot
eating hot dogs. Might want to have a DEFIB to
stand by for that. Yeah, Lauren. Over the years, you
and I had the opportunity to do several videos together.
Speaker 5 (31:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
None involves hot dogs though, And I'm kind of sad
about it.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
You shooting you.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
I was going to say anything, just keep talking, keep going,
let me go get that shuffle where was keep on?
But we we did a lot of a lot of
you know, community service related videos and stuff, and there
was actually one we did. It was a lot of fun.
(32:08):
It's the first time actually had the teleprompter on the
little cart going down the drain tracks and all that,
and I was trying to walk around and look professional
and all and it it. It'd been a great video
and we actually won an award for that video.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
A national national award.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (32:25):
Did you get invited to go accept that award at
the fancy conference in Las Vegas where.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
They gave it out?
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Nope, what about you?
Speaker 2 (32:31):
No, that's funny. I didn't get invited either.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
How did you know we got an award?
Speaker 4 (32:36):
I was walking through our city hall at the time
and looked into a case and was like, wow, look
at this pretty award, and the communications director was like, yeah,
that was the video that you and Steve made.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
I was like, so this is our award? Can I
have it? And they would not give it to me.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
No, No, that belongs to the city. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
Yeah, the city paid for everything. Y'all were just the
monkeys about the camera.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
I mean, but we were great monkeys.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
Well I didn't say you weren't.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
I'm just we were the talented monkeys.
Speaker 4 (33:03):
I had to get water. They didn't actually pour the
water on me. But let me clarify real quick, as
ran with my hot dog comment. We were it was
a safety video for all employees, and one of them
was talking about if the sprinklers go off.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
In the building, what do you do.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
So they had the great idea that we couldn't just
they couldn't just imagine that the sprinklers were going off.
So there we were standing in city hall and they
had a kiddie pool behind me and someone up on
a ladder pouring water behind me, so it looked like
the sprinklers were going off in the building. This is
why we won an award. We were dedicated. I had
(33:40):
to stand there and talk while water is being poured,
the fire alarms going off.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
The special effects.
Speaker 5 (33:46):
There was no.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
CGI back then. They were just throwing water.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Man.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
Oh but again, was this a silent.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Film, No, it was this voice voice.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
No.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
So we won a national award for that. We just
you and I just didn't know, didn't we didn't.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
You know what's funny is they still use that video.
Speaker 4 (34:06):
So we've both been gone from that city for a
number of years now, and I still will get a
text of all new employees have to go sit at
new employee orientation and watch our ten minute video and
there's little baby Lauren and baby.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
Steve on the screen.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
And I always write back like, wow, had I known
this would live on, if I would have actually done my.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
Hair that day, or you might have asked for royalties.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
Checking them out. I didn't get a check in.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
He's been living off that money for years. You didn't
get yours seventy four cents of your guys.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
After taxes.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Hey, you gotta pay for talent, just not us, apparently
have to pay us.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Yeah, yeah, you know. And all the other videos we
we would do, we'd always write down before we had telepromctor,
we'd write down all our notes and you have to
read on beach paper that we've got attached to our
camera tripod or whatever. And I think I kept all
of the blooper reels of.
Speaker 4 (35:07):
Of me messing up. Yes, when I asked for the
bloopers of you retirement ceremony, Oh no, there were there
were plenty. I was just nice and didn't save them
on my phone. Yeah, he just proceeded to send me
all the bloopers of myself over the years.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
Couldn't find any of myself.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
He had the forethought that you did not.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
That is true. That is true, and it's something I
regret to this.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
Yeah, even when before you started, he goes, I will
have something to hang over her head.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Always, they're good ones. We messed up a lot. We
had a lot of fun recording those videos.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Yeah, and some of them. I mean, it was so
it was so intense because again, when we first start out,
we didn't have a teleprompter, so everything's printed out and
you're just we're reading off of this, you know, you
try not to make the pupils follow it, so about
your audience, stall on the camera, and we could get
through all this information, like read through three minutes information,
and then somebody would miss a word or something and
(36:04):
why you're looking at me just greater, Oh, son of
a bitch, we're going to start over.
Speaker 4 (36:09):
But we would say that we'd be recording and be like,
oh my god, and we'd freak out, and so that
became the blooper reset and do it all over again, or.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
And just be reading off did it is professional? No,
son of a bitch.
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And we're back back to more off the the light
side of law enforcement. Steve here, I've got Curtison Karen
with me and got one guest in the studio. She
has stayed around the entire time, so I.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
Know I could leave.
Speaker 3 (38:09):
That's not an option. I'll be blocking with Karen.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
Didn't go to the disclaimers or Okay. Well, we are
joined by good friend and a guest here on the
show today, Lauren Sanchez.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
Absolutely, it's aways a good time having here, ed Lauren. Now,
if you've not checked out the website, check it out
Offbeat Copshow dot Com. Again, that's Offbeat Coopshow dot com.
I'm gonna use the dot com guy today. There on
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(39:05):
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Speaker 3 (39:45):
I don't think so. I mean they can also do it. Honestly,
they don't have to leave their name. They won't leave
a story. Yeah, yeah, you can work. Leave your buddy's name.
We don't know.
Speaker 4 (39:55):
Yeah, Curtis is common spelling.
Speaker 1 (39:59):
Yes, Curtis had common spelling. Curtis, why do you keep
email on the show? I will say this, Curty missed it.
Last week I was talking about how I got stung
by a wasp outside. Oh really, yeah, I mean it's crazy.
You know I've been stung by bill jackets and stuff
(40:20):
like that as as a kid, and sure it hurt,
but this time it's one of those red wasp things,
and yeah, whole arm swelled up.
Speaker 3 (40:27):
I bet it. You're at a fan stage. I mean,
I'm glad you made it through.
Speaker 1 (40:31):
Yeah, yeah, I mean it was tough.
Speaker 3 (40:33):
But is this close to childbirth things? You thought it
was gonna be?
Speaker 1 (40:38):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (40:40):
Well, yeah, we we kind of segue that because I
found out what I consider an alarming story. The story
that I read was there's a nuclear testing site in
South Carolina. It's the Department of Energy knows about it.
This is their site, but apparently it's been dormant for
a while, but they still have to send people in
ever so often to do testings. Like hey, just reading that,
(41:04):
ready to see if it's going down? You got half life.
There's just so many stuff, you got, chick. But apparently
they found a trend where they found several wasps nests
that are deep into where the radioactive part is.
Speaker 1 (41:17):
A couple of a couple of elements. Here radioactive and wasp.
I told you alarming, Right, I'm not good with either one.
The only thing is they have yet to be able
to see the wasp. All they can do is find
the actual the nests, so they're monitoring it. Okay, so
they found the nest, they haven't seen a wasp, No
wasps on the nest.
Speaker 3 (41:36):
No, But I mean, does this not make you think
bern the hell did murder wasps come from? Those things
are freaking huge, you know. So, I mean my thoughts were,
like you said, it's to me it's super alarming that
they're finding them. Then second off, they're not. They're beast
tellings like we found the wasps. But if we haven't
seen them yet, maybe they're invisible.
Speaker 4 (41:57):
That's what I go think about, that they're invisible or
they're on their way to Texas.
Speaker 3 (42:04):
But either way here in Texas, either way, it's beautiful. Well,
if I see any radioactive wash I'll let you know.
But they're on my radar. Now I'm gonna start watching them,
which I mean, I'm pretty sure the ones around Myles
I've got to be. So there's gotta be something those
because I almost have fifty or sixty round miles at
any given weekend.
Speaker 1 (42:24):
Wall in a wasp. Okay, you know what firefly is?
See firefly grow grow up? Fireflies. We've got a lot
of them around our house fireflies. I mean it makes
you wonder would a radioactive wasp go like firefly and glow?
Speaker 4 (42:38):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (42:38):
I didn't think about that.
Speaker 1 (42:41):
Wasps don't come out at night, so well, if they.
Speaker 3 (42:44):
Are, I'm still not gonna put them in a jar
and run around and play with them.
Speaker 1 (42:48):
Like at my radio at wasps. Aren't they cool? We
squished our butts and it lights up.
Speaker 4 (42:53):
Yeah, and then my hand fell off.
Speaker 2 (42:59):
Oh well a please catch one for science.
Speaker 3 (43:02):
Oh, I will do it for just for you, Lauren.
Speaker 1 (43:05):
Yeah, you catch it in a sealed container, and you
know what, y'all make arrangements to meet up. Y'all don't
have to meet you're in the studio.
Speaker 4 (43:13):
Now.
Speaker 2 (43:13):
They like to bite, they like to sting you, so
we'll stay away.
Speaker 1 (43:16):
No, no, no, no, I'm not good with radioactive fore wasp. Alright, guys,
that's what we got for today's show. Lauren. It's pleasure
having you on the show. Thanks for having me again.
When is the Dallas nine eleven stair climb.
Speaker 4 (43:28):
Saturday, September sixth, Downtown Dallas at Main Street.
Speaker 1 (43:32):
Garden Park and who all can come?
Speaker 2 (43:34):
Everybody? Everyone is invited.
Speaker 4 (43:36):
We're also still looking for volunteers sponsors, donations, All of that,
all this information is more and more is on our website.
Speaker 2 (43:43):
It is Dallas stair Climb dot com.
Speaker 3 (43:49):
All right, guys, I'm gonna go pet your ass, Dave
and feed us some carrots.
Speaker 2 (43:54):
I'm gonna join a.
Speaker 1 (43:57):
Watch my gosh, where's that defibulator at? Alright, guys, that's
what we have for today, Joe I hope. Until next time,
keep it real, keep it funny, stay safe and watch
each other. Six h
Welcome, Welcome to Offbeat, the Light Side of Law Enforcement,
part of the tree Al podcast network. On today's show,
we're gonna be talking about stair climbing, not just stair climbing.
I am not the stair climber no, yeah, but we
did have the Master's stair Climber on not that long ago.
(00:47):
We're gonna touch on stair climbing again. I understand that
we've got a zoo in Denmark has a special request
they do, and who knows what else we might might
find ourselves talking about today. Steve here co host for
today Detective Courtie's Hadley Groad to be here. Guys, thank you,
and we've got the beautiful, lovely Karen as our co
(01:11):
host today. There you go, and we've got one guest
joining us in the studio, a returning guest all the
way back to episode number nine that The Dark Ages.
We've got Lauren Sanchez.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Welcome Lauren, thanks for having me back.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
And and you know what.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
I didn't he mentioned how you like? You're not beautiful,
You're just Lauren.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Yeah, no, not beautiful, just Lauren. It's fine. We go
way back.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Wait, we can't compliment each other. We're co workers, Karen, No,
I was loud.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
That's dressing up.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Shots fired. I'm sorry, Laura.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Keep him away from me.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Wow. He prefers to sit down here, because Actuallylauren, you're
on the fire side of things.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Yes, I am.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Yeah, I gotta, I gotta keep it, keep the officer,
keep the PD guy down here, fire over here now, Lauren, Actually,
what what is your title?
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Do you want to make one up for me? I
can tell you the real one.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Let's go with your real one now and then we'll
we we can break off into that story.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
So I am the regional Emergency Management Coordinator.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Regional Emergency Management coordinator. Yes, you coordinate emergencies.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Yes, brand them, execute them, plan and execute emergency and
fire something to do.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Okay, Yeah, now that's uh. And I think we established
way back on episode number nine that Lauren is the
person responsible for great emergencies at two am on Sunday
mornings that we always have to respond to.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Absolutely catch you off guard.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
No, we're kidding. If my bosses are watching, that's not
it's not actually chief, I'm really sorry.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Not true, and we we joke about that. Obviously, you're
on to two major emergencies and so forth. And actually
you were supposed to come on the show. A couple
of weeks ago, we had we had the Staremaster Steve Coin.
Steve came on the actually was a guest and came
(03:15):
in the studio. He does a lot of these Stare
climb to around the country to memorialize those we lost.
And during the September the eleventh attacks. Steve, of course,
is a transplant from Chicago, PD New works for an
agency here in North Texas. The Lauren you were supposed
to be on that that same show with Steve. You
couldn't make it. Why could you not make it? You
know what? Why did you back out on us?
Speaker 4 (03:37):
That?
Speaker 5 (03:37):
No?
Speaker 2 (03:37):
No, no, let me say this. I was very excited
for that episode.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
I wanted to be here to thank him for climbing
in the Dallas Climb and you know, tell him tell
the public a little more about it. But I also
wanted to hear his stories. But a few days before
I sent you a text and said, hey, friend, I'm
so sorry. I'm not backing out, but I've been asked
by the State of Texas to go down to kirk
count Me to help post flood event.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
And so that is what I did.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
You know, that's a pretty good excuse.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Thank you for doing that.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
It helps. I really didn't once she sent that message
and Mike, I.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Geah, you can't. I got can't rebuttle with all your life, Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
The mean response he had written, yeah, he's like, okay,
be safe.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Talco later sends yeah the uh. But so tell us
a little a little bit about what it was. What
it was like down there. I mean, obviously is horrible
flooding down in the Curvel area and all along the
river there affected you know, quite a few cities through there,
but just a horrible, horrible event that happened. But what
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was it like to actually be down there and and
see everything, you know, and even to even take that
a little bit further. You were from that area, so
you know what it normally looks like.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Yes, it's true.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
So when I saw the event unfold late July or
early sorry, late night July third, early morning July fourth,
it hit home pretty I've gone on other deployments with
the state, the first one being to North Carolina for
a flood event, so in my mind I kind of
had an idea of what to expect, but being from
Bernie graduated from Bernie High School in the Hill Country
is very near and dear to my heart. When I
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got the opportunity to go deploy, and it's tough with deployments.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
You guys understand you want.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
To go help, so you look forward to it, but
then you realize what you're going down there to do,
so you feel terrible for want for looking forward to
go to do that. So you tell yourself that you're
going down there to do some good and to help
people on their worst day. So I was grateful for
the opportunity to do that, and so I got chosen
when I put in on the rostering request to go
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down there and help, not with the search efforts that
were unfolding. I give I will hug every single person
that was down there searching in the river.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
That would be extremely hard.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
I couldn't do that, So I was more on the
back end helping with the support for the families and
anyone that was impacted in a couple different capacities. So
when I got down there, it was hard to see.
Like I said, with North Carolina, I had seen flood
damage and that was pretty widespread, but a lot more
localized than what I saw down in the Texas hill
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country was so big, and seeing those trees and seeing
debris parts of boats right come thirty feet up into
a tree, and you're driving past it every day to
go to these small towns to sit with their leadership
and sit with their first responders and kind of help
them through this, but you're driving past it every day.
So the first day that I was down there and
driving to one of those towns and looking along the
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river the entire time, and it hit me and I
started getting emotional. And as I was driving, I was like,
it's okay, I'm crying, but I can see well enough
to still drive and get there safely.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
So we're going to do it.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
And right you just let it out because you're like,
I'm going to be here for the next twelve days,
So let the tears out now, and let me accept
the devastation that's happening here. But I still need to
do good. And so luckily was able to push through
it and help some people where they needed help. So
I was glad. I was glad to be down there.
Towards the end of the deployment, it was twelve days total,
I was ready to get home. A lot of people
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were asked if they could stay longer, and a lot
of them accepted that. I didn't had to come back
for work because work pauses here, but I had to
come back and do my day's job. But even just
the emotional toll of it, I was ready by about
day ten to come back home and take a break
from all of that.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Yeah, I could only I could only imagine, and I
you know, again, we're incredibly thankful for any first responders
or anybody whether it's youre a first responder or just
a volunteer, you know, with a different background that was
down there helping out. Yeah, definitely thank you for helping
out those families and those who continue to help out
those families.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Yeah, they're still down there putting in great work.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Yeah, I mean, yeah, that's just that's amazing. And what
are calling you know, the guys step up, Guys and
gals step up whenever we have a situation like that
in Texas, and Texas really comes together and handles her
own when it comes to situations like that.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Yeah, they do. There was a lot of people there.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
No, it's good. There was something else that you you do, Lauren,
you you're involved, and we we kind of let onto
this earlier. You're involved in the planning of our Dallas
nine to eleven memorial stair cloud.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
I am. I got a talked into being the director
this year.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
So much for involved you. Yeah, yeah, up to your neck.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Yeah, I've always loved the climb.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
I've been a part of a fire department for the
last eight years, almost nine years now in DFW, and
so when I heard they're.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Not gonna hold out against you, by the way.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
About what, oh probably were past that.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
No, never, it's a deep wound. It really is.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Well I'm glad you embraced the mustache part of it.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
I've really tried.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
If you look really closely, go ahead and zoom in
on this video.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Yeah, I've been really working on it. Thank you for them,
Thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
And see, I wish I would have put a fake
one on. That would have been hilarious. Well after the break,
stay tuned.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
We shall exactly and I shall continue to keep you
two separated.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Yeah, and I will wear it at the climb. So
come out at the climb with me and then may
we all have one on. But I've always loved the climb.
I would go cheer everybody on, police included we're friends too,
and so after a couple of years, I wanted to
get involved. And so a chief of mine who has
since retired, found out that he was a part of
the planning committee and I said, hey, Chief, I want
to get involved. Maybe day of volunteer. Let me just
show up on the day of tell me what to do.
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I would love to help. And he said, well, you
should join our planning committee. And before he explained what
a commitment that is, I said, sounds great. And so
that was four years ago, and every year that same
chief has come to me and said, well, now there's
a higher up position that's open and I really need
your help.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
And so I just kept moving up, moving up.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
I was the ops director for two years and then
he said, you know, I'm going to actually retire now
and step back from.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
This and you should be the event director.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
And I was like, well, you know what I've gotten
this far with just saying yes to everything that you
tell me.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
So careful with that in your professional career at the
volunteering that's great, but oh my god, you got to
learn to say no.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
It's hard too.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Sometimes Yeah I don't so no one, Please don't call.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Me so and again the nine to eleven memorials stare climb.
That that is first responders, correct, Lison fired. They are climbing.
How many stories? How many flights? Is there?
Speaker 4 (10:38):
One hundred and ten floors and so that is the
height of the world Trade centers.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Okay, and this is to memorialize as we lost on
September the eleventh. They're in the terror attacks. They're in
New York City, correct, And these events. Steve was telling
us when he was on Steve Coin that these events
happen in a lot of different cities. I think Chicago
has one. I think four or started one now they did.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Yeah, So we have an association of stare climes. Anyone
can start a stair climb. We have an association right
in public safety. We like to formalize things for a
lot of different reasons, and so we have a formal
National Association of stare Climes just kind of brings everyone together,
standardizes everything.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
You'll have a Staremaster, we we.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
We should call them that. That would be a great name.
I'm going to talk to them about that on our
next meeting. I am the StairMaster. But so fort Worth, yes,
has just joined. That's one of the newest clients to
join the association.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
C Yeah, what are they doing?
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Four?
Speaker 2 (11:35):
I believe it is City Center. I'll have to verify.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
I don't want to give you that in were I
know we had stairs at four.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Now Kurtis and I start our own stare climb event
with just the two stories here and you just have
to do it? How many times?
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Fifty five?
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Five times? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (11:49):
You can? So cool enough.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
The first ever stare climb in two thousand and three
that we know of, was in Afghanistan. It was an
Albuquerque firefighter who was deployed overseas and he did it
in a two story building and he climbed to fifty
five times to get all one hundred and ten flights,
so you could it's been done.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Dude, that's awesome. He did that in Afghanistan.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
He did, and then he came back, so he ended
his deployment, went back to Albuquerque, and then in two
thousand and four got some of his fire department crew
together and then they climbed in Albuquerque, and then slowly
it just started spreading. The year after Denver formed a
climb and it has trickled out across the US.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
And then in two thousand and eleven.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
On September eleventh, there was fifty five climbs Wow happening,
so it spreads pretty quick. Three of those were in
other countries, not even the US.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Wow and the climb. These events benefit different agencies. Stuff
tell us when this year's climb is actually going to
occur and who's going to benefit.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
So our climb for Dallas is always the Saturday before
September eleventh, So this year it is Saturday, September sixth
Downtown Dallas Comerica Bank Tower. That is for the climbers
to go inside, It's not one hundred and ten flights,
so we break it up into three legs for them
to get all one hundred and ten. But the ceremony
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itself is open to the public, to families. Anyone can
come out, and that is taking place at Main Street Garden.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Parky what time we kick.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Off about eight am, so I would recommend getting there
seven thirty. We have free parking at the Elm Street
Parking garage. Right Caddy corner to that park, walk over
to the park hang out. You can see all the
first responders. We fill every single first responder who tragically
passed away when the towers came down, so three hundred
and forty three fire, seventy police, nine ems, and then
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we also have additional alternates who climb in each of
those positions for people that have passed away post September eleventh.
So you'll get to walk around and see lots of
first responders talk to them, lots of chiefs, lots of
tons of volunteers.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
It's a great event.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
And that's okay, so open to the public. Anybody can
come out and watch.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Correct yea and also live stream.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
So some people don't want to go to downtown Dallas,
and I can understand that, but if you do, we'll
make it worth your while. There's a family friendly event,
so in the actual park we have activities for kids
to keep them entertained. It's also live stream, so we
have TVs outside of the park where you can watch
the actual climbers in the stairwells from start to finish,
and then they can also live stream that on our
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Facebook page. So if you go to Facebook to the
Dallas nine to eleven Memorial Stairclimb Facebook, tune in about
eight am September sixth, then you can watch the entire
thing to include the ceremony, which we'll have an FDN
Y member who was there on September eleventh and lost
some of his crew speak. But we bring in a
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speaker from New York Police or Fire every year to
really bring home why we're climbing every year.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Very cool message. Well that's great. So guys, if you're listening, yeah,
if you're available to get down to downtown Dallas watch
in person. If not, check them out on Facebook watch
the live stream. Now, Lauren, you and I we we've
known each other for quite some time because I mean
you were kind of my fire department counterpart for my
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position at the police department. We did a lot of
training together. And when I say we did training together,
we trained a lot of people to get together, and
usually it was you and I out teaching, you know,
civilian response to active shooter events, you know the craze
classy by alert and you would bring in the stop
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the bleed, here's the turniquit, here's what to do if
you find yourself on these situations. And we taught this.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
A lot, a lot.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
There's a lot of people out there with so much
knowledge because the two of us.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
I don't know if I'm proud or scared of that.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Yeah, I think we're making the world a better place. Lauren.
You know I really.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Give me patch on the back.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Yes, please, if you can come over here.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
No, but it's funny because we did it so much.
I mean it was just second nature. I mean I
could stand up front a group and just rattle it off.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Actually brought turning kids. If we just want to do
a class right now?
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Uh, you said you're supposed to play those around next.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Right around next.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Brought above the Adam's Apple. Don't do that for you listening, No.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
But I bring that up because one of the one
particular time we were training, I was horribly sick. I
mean I had a cold flu something like that. And
I remember I was on medication, so there's like medication
eyes where your eyes are just burning and stuff. And
I had finished my part of the presentation. I went
to introduce you. I totally forgot your title and I introduced.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
I forgot my name.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Yeah, I don't remember if I got your name right,
but I think I introduced you as the President of
the Queen of England's second cousin, you know, nighted something
like that.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
That was just and I didn't help you at all.
I just stood there nodding all the promotions that I
was getting.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Just hung hung me out to your eyes. Oh you
know what that's that's routine for firefighter, right, Oh yeah, absolutely,
hang your cough out of.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
This is Offbeat, the light side of law enforcement. Check
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Speaker 1 (17:29):
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and Restoration eight three three cook dfw' is the phone number,
the website cooksdfw dot com. How are you today, Daniel?
Speaker 6 (17:40):
Doing fantastic, Sarah, Thank you, Daniel.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
It's hot outside and.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
As my wife tells me every day, it's hot outside.
That's her normal morning routine.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
It is you know, she's not lying. They We are
in Texas at is summertime. It is hot and in
regards to the heat, the heat can have several different
effects on your house. What are some things people need
to be Uh need to keep a careful eye on.
Speaker 6 (18:09):
Heat is very dangerous to us. As we all know.
We have drink lots of waters, they hydrate it. Don't
overdo it. Your body will tell you and shut down.
But your house unfortunately has just as much stress on it.
But Unfortunately, I can't tell you when it's had a
little bit too much. And so these are things that
we have to go out as homeowners and really walk
around your property when it's even hot and figure out,
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you know, does my is my house standing up to
these elements. And so you always see a lot of
people complain about their fences starting to lean sometimes after
summertime because the ground got so cracked and contracted that
you know, it made you know, the posts start to sag,
you know, around your foundation. We always hear people have
foundation problems. Well, that's just because you haven't got consistent
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soil moisture. And so when you have a lot of
cracks in your yard, that's telling you that the moisture
is being all drained out and now your house is
going to start shifting because as that soil is moving,
So drainach around your house is super important. Gutters. I
cannot stress out enough you need to have drainage around
your house and he needs to stay consistent. So if
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you have questions about some things that you may to
find out. Also brick cracks another big taeltale sign that
you have some shifting around your house. Even your roof
will start to have some roof sag and roof deflection
because the foundation these are also important.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
So call us out if you if you expect anything
or not sure what you're looking at, we can come
out and explain that to you and let's try to
make a plan of trying to get that under control.
Give daniel lecall Cook DFW Roofing and Restoration for any
of those roofing, remodeling or restoration needs. The numbers eight
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Speaker 1 (20:26):
And we're back back to more Offbeat the light side
of law enforcement. Steve here co host for today Detective
Curtis Hadley. Great to be here, guys, we got a
coco with us in the studio. We got my lovely
bride Karen.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
No not a paid position. Make sure she knew that.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
She's not compensated for her show to.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Those were exchanged.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Yes. Now we are joined by one lovely, lovely, lovely
guest in studio. Novel beautiful, Yeah, dashing, I don't know. Okay,
welcome Lauren Sanchez to the show.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Thank you so much. I'm not paying you guys for
the compliments.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
We take tips. Yeah, you're an offbeat. The guests pay us.
I'll just to compliment terrible. We don't know how to
run a business.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Yeah, she didn't pay enough.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
You need to put another quarter in the machine.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Right, the whole table starts vibrating. Sorry, all right, let's
let's get to the get to our sponsors here, the
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designated as our dot com guy a couple of weeks back.
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He's he's pretty good at it.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
It was pretty good. I try. Yes, we found something. Uh,
we found something. Curtis excels at it's dot com.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
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Okay, everyone needs something, we all do.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Oh okay, where we had? Curtis, you said you had
you come across some stories.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Well, I mean, uh, I thought we're gonna talk about
Cook for a second. Go well, I mean because Cook
gave a cook Yes, yes, yes, well restoration retro registration
on how you always say it speak. Yeah, Cook's restoration
actually come over and did my roof for the two
weeks ago. Now I did a phenomenal job. They sent
Keith Damer was the project manager, showed up and they
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showed up with a gazillion people in fourteen trucks. And
they got up there and I mean, I've got a
pretty good sized roof. It's like sixty something square and
they had the whole thing done look gorgeous. Plus they
replaced a lot of wood that I am not a woodworker,
So when they told me they could do that, I
was like, absolutely so. But now they they did a
very fast, efficient job. Cleaned up. I mean when they left,
(23:12):
it was like, one thing I have is a brand
new roof and new wood.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Yeah I'm not. Yeah, it's nice, but again, and that's
you're referring to Cook Gift w Roofing and Restoration. Daniel
and Kerry Cook are the owners. They're actually one of
our advertisers here on the show, a big supporter of
the RMS Treehouse Listeners Foundation. So excellent. I'm glad you're
able to give those guys a call and they were
(23:39):
able to come out and do the work. They actually
have a promotion going on right now that if they
come out giving an estimate for an outdoor project like
a backyard, this or that, whatever, you know, build a
was it a pergola? Yeah, an outdoor project. If you
have them do that, then just calling them to get
the estimate and they they interview into win one of
those big green eggs. Oh really Yeah. So we had
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them out here giving us an estimate on on our
front fence. So Karen, first thing she asked me, are
we registered for the egg? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (24:15):
I guess so, speaking of eggs, aren't y'all? Uh, don't
you have your own chickens? Now we do we do,
Karen bab this morning he did. So what happened with
the roostery we're trying to get rid of We got.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Rid of him. Yeah, he had a lady. Lady came
and picked came up.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
That's not what you told me. So Steve and I
were talking about the spring lady showed up and he's like,
I say, hey, what happened to the chicken? I literally
thought maybe something come with somebody come god. He's like, well,
this little old lady said she had lost her cock.
So I told Ride Linda mine and I was like,
hold on, Steve. So I was like, you just you
just gave it away and he's like yeah, I just
like later after and she turne yeah, so oh it's.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Illegal to charge for it.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
On other notes, this is this is what got me
the most. Now that your compound is up and running here,
so like you'll have more and more animals, right, So
I did not know, And Karen, you come back me
up with this if you knew before this, I did
not know that Steve was an ass man, did not
have an inkling. I had suspicions, I mean, one of
those hands. But what really got me was when he
sent me the pictures and I was like, Steve, that's
(25:25):
that's two hairy asses, my friend. Are you gonna be
able to feed those?
Speaker 1 (25:30):
So? Uh?
Speaker 3 (25:31):
What did your name? The donkeys?
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Lulu and Daisy?
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Lulu and Daisy. Yes, yes, they like carrots, don't they? Yes,
they did. We were out there earlier. I say, Laura,
come on, I heard we're gonna play with Steve's ass
inside anyways. Damn, oh you.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Know you know me.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
I mean, I like add good puns. So I was
reading a story and the story was there is a
zoo in Denmark that had asked for something kind of
out of the out of an ordinary not you wouldn't
think of zoo would asked for this. So the zoo
had reached out and said, hey, if any of you
folks have any household animals that are that are on
the last leg or you don't want any more, we
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would love to have them for our predators. Yes, And
I was like, I was like reading this article, I'm like,
you know, in my head, it was like, you know,
the little girl comes home and was like, hey, daddy,
what happened to mister Fluffers? Is like, is is he
not in his cage. He's like, no, Daddy, I can't
find mister Flupper's is like did you look under the bed?
I mean, he's got to be here somewhere. And poor
mister Fluppers is like, you know, he comes out of
(26:47):
the box and he sees a lion. It's like, I mean,
I was like, you're asking people for their household pets.
And then I started reading the article that it was
kind of combical because they said that they had a
lot of people will call and say you could have
my horse if you wanted. But I was like a lion,
I guess, exaid the predator animals, I don't know. I'm
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assuming that's the lion, the tigers bears, I don't know,
but I was.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Like, mammoth, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Yeah, when's the last time you went to a zoom?
It was turned the sentry. You know better, to drink
on the sew you know better. But that's his line.
(27:42):
I just see Steves a young boy. Mommy, can we
go see the pterodactyls. No, we're cleaning the cages.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Okay, he's.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
There's no more in it out, it's all over.
Speaker 8 (28:05):
Ah, oh breath, we'll come back good now.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Yeah, We're gonna good ass mass swallows.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
That's what you needed, a little bist.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Oh man, Lauren, how are you doing today?
Speaker 2 (28:27):
I'm good? What a great Friday.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
You don't remind me. I mean, we've added monitors to
the studio, we'vett timers. We need added to fibrilator. Maybe
it's not the bleed kid.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
Yeah, you should hire a medic to just sit here
just in case. You guys know how to do the Heimlich.
I feel like that's probably an important one.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
I bet you have a class wort, don't you.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Today we're gonna be demonstrating the heimlike on the show. Yeah,
i'd actually heard about that story. The guys on the
Treehouse said they were talking about it. They did, and yeah,
that that's just crazy. Bring your pets in and you know,
to feed to the predators. I think they were. Weren't
they giving like money or a tax break or something.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
Yeah, there was there was an incentive. I mean, but
I just I couldn't imagine you bringing like the family
dog or something. I mean, I mean it's different a
Chinese restaurant, but.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Eating alive. I know, and.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
I am I am an animal lover, don't me wrong.
I'm not saying that I love I love animals, but
I was like, that floored me that they were if
you have a couple of extra dogs laying around or something,
you don't run the house bring much will take care
of them for you.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
I bet they don't have a homeless pet problem near
that's know, straight dogs anywhere.
Speaker 8 (29:52):
No, I bet in contract with code with the code enforcement,
I could enforcem animal control.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Did y'all hear about the accident in Philadelphia? Is it Philadelphia?
See if I run on my phones? Anyways, So they
had it was one of the major hot major highways.
They had a hot dog truck overturned. Hot dogs were everywhere.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Hey to see that happen, I do hate.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
To see it happen. But whoever wrote the article was
actually they must have had a little bit of a
little bit of fun with it, because they said that
it clogged the main arteries into town for hours and
they had the bulldoze the hot dogs off. That's I
mean hot dogs. There were so like a lot of dogs.
That is a lot of dog, but it's a bulldog.
Get the bulldoze them off. They just invited people's household
(30:39):
pets out.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
There to fatten them up, and then I was trying
to figure out why there wasn't a bread.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
Guys were trying to sell some buns. You know, get
a little fire going, hit your hot hot dogs, get
them other hot guys.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Yeah, just set up, you know, take a little lemonade.
Stand from the girl empty in the street. Mark got lemonade,
put hot dog on it.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Looking at like a block party.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
Yeah, what's the guy that has the world record for
the number of hot dogs.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
I should have just had all those guys show up.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
Oh yeah, the Nathan's guys. Whatever.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
You guys, have.
Speaker 4 (31:10):
Five minutes as many of these hot dogs as you
possibly can.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Let's save some taxpayer money.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Competition exactly, going back to having a defib. Yeah, have
a bunch of guys heat cleared the highway with hot
eating hot dogs. Might want to have a DEFIB to
stand by for that. Yeah, Lauren. Over the years, you
and I had the opportunity to do several videos together.
Speaker 5 (31:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
None involves hot dogs though, And I'm kind of sad
about it.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
You shooting you.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
I was going to say anything, just keep talking, keep going,
let me go get that shuffle where was keep on?
But we we did a lot of a lot of
you know, community service related videos and stuff, and there
was actually one we did. It was a lot of fun.
(32:08):
It's the first time actually had the teleprompter on the
little cart going down the drain tracks and all that,
and I was trying to walk around and look professional
and all and it it. It'd been a great video
and we actually won an award for that video.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
A national national award.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (32:25):
Did you get invited to go accept that award at
the fancy conference in Las Vegas where.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
They gave it out?
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Nope, what about you?
Speaker 2 (32:31):
No, that's funny. I didn't get invited either.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
How did you know we got an award?
Speaker 4 (32:36):
I was walking through our city hall at the time
and looked into a case and was like, wow, look
at this pretty award, and the communications director was like, yeah,
that was the video that you and Steve made.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
I was like, so this is our award? Can I
have it? And they would not give it to me.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
No, No, that belongs to the city. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
Yeah, the city paid for everything. Y'all were just the
monkeys about the camera.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
I mean, but we were great monkeys.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
Well I didn't say you weren't.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
I'm just we were the talented monkeys.
Speaker 4 (33:03):
I had to get water. They didn't actually pour the
water on me. But let me clarify real quick, as
ran with my hot dog comment. We were it was
a safety video for all employees, and one of them
was talking about if the sprinklers go off.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
In the building, what do you do.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
So they had the great idea that we couldn't just
they couldn't just imagine that the sprinklers were going off.
So there we were standing in city hall and they
had a kiddie pool behind me and someone up on
a ladder pouring water behind me, so it looked like
the sprinklers were going off in the building. This is
why we won an award. We were dedicated. I had
(33:40):
to stand there and talk while water is being poured,
the fire alarms going off.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
The special effects.
Speaker 5 (33:46):
There was no.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
CGI back then. They were just throwing water.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Man.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
Oh but again, was this a silent.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Film, No, it was this voice voice.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
No.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
So we won a national award for that. We just
you and I just didn't know, didn't we didn't.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
You know what's funny is they still use that video.
Speaker 4 (34:06):
So we've both been gone from that city for a
number of years now, and I still will get a
text of all new employees have to go sit at
new employee orientation and watch our ten minute video and
there's little baby Lauren and baby.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
Steve on the screen.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
And I always write back like, wow, had I known
this would live on, if I would have actually done my.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
Hair that day, or you might have asked for royalties.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
Checking them out. I didn't get a check in.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
He's been living off that money for years. You didn't
get yours seventy four cents of your guys.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
After taxes.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Hey, you gotta pay for talent, just not us, apparently
have to pay us.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Yeah, yeah, you know. And all the other videos we
we would do, we'd always write down before we had telepromctor,
we'd write down all our notes and you have to
read on beach paper that we've got attached to our
camera tripod or whatever. And I think I kept all
of the blooper reels of.
Speaker 4 (35:07):
Of me messing up. Yes, when I asked for the
bloopers of you retirement ceremony, Oh no, there were there
were plenty. I was just nice and didn't save them
on my phone. Yeah, he just proceeded to send me
all the bloopers of myself over the years.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
Couldn't find any of myself.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
He had the forethought that you did not.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
That is true. That is true, and it's something I
regret to this.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
Yeah, even when before you started, he goes, I will
have something to hang over her head.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Always, they're good ones. We messed up a lot. We
had a lot of fun recording those videos.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Yeah, and some of them. I mean, it was so
it was so intense because again, when we first start out,
we didn't have a teleprompter, so everything's printed out and
you're just we're reading off of this, you know, you
try not to make the pupils follow it, so about
your audience, stall on the camera, and we could get
through all this information, like read through three minutes information,
and then somebody would miss a word or something and
(36:04):
why you're looking at me just greater, Oh, son of
a bitch, we're going to start over.
Speaker 4 (36:09):
But we would say that we'd be recording and be like,
oh my god, and we'd freak out, and so that
became the blooper reset and do it all over again, or.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
And just be reading off did it is professional? No,
son of a bitch.
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And we're back back to more off the the light
side of law enforcement. Steve here, I've got Curtison Karen
with me and got one guest in the studio. She
has stayed around the entire time, so I.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
Know I could leave.
Speaker 3 (38:09):
That's not an option. I'll be blocking with Karen.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
Didn't go to the disclaimers or Okay. Well, we are
joined by good friend and a guest here on the
show today, Lauren Sanchez.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
Absolutely, it's aways a good time having here, ed Lauren. Now,
if you've not checked out the website, check it out
Offbeat Copshow dot Com. Again, that's Offbeat Coopshow dot com.
I'm gonna use the dot com guy today. There on
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Speaker 3 (39:45):
I don't think so. I mean they can also do it. Honestly,
they don't have to leave their name. They won't leave
a story. Yeah, yeah, you can work. Leave your buddy's name.
We don't know.
Speaker 4 (39:55):
Yeah, Curtis is common spelling.
Speaker 1 (39:59):
Yes, Curtis had common spelling. Curtis, why do you keep
email on the show? I will say this, Curty missed it.
Last week I was talking about how I got stung
by a wasp outside. Oh really, yeah, I mean it's crazy.
You know I've been stung by bill jackets and stuff
(40:20):
like that as as a kid, and sure it hurt,
but this time it's one of those red wasp things,
and yeah, whole arm swelled up.
Speaker 3 (40:27):
I bet it. You're at a fan stage. I mean,
I'm glad you made it through.
Speaker 1 (40:31):
Yeah, yeah, I mean it was tough.
Speaker 3 (40:33):
But is this close to childbirth things? You thought it
was gonna be?
Speaker 1 (40:38):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (40:40):
Well, yeah, we we kind of segue that because I
found out what I consider an alarming story. The story
that I read was there's a nuclear testing site in
South Carolina. It's the Department of Energy knows about it.
This is their site, but apparently it's been dormant for
a while, but they still have to send people in
ever so often to do testings. Like hey, just reading that,
(41:04):
ready to see if it's going down? You got half life.
There's just so many stuff, you got, chick. But apparently
they found a trend where they found several wasps nests
that are deep into where the radioactive part is.
Speaker 1 (41:17):
A couple of a couple of elements. Here radioactive and wasp.
I told you alarming, Right, I'm not good with either one.
The only thing is they have yet to be able
to see the wasp. All they can do is find
the actual the nests, so they're monitoring it. Okay, so
they found the nest, they haven't seen a wasp, No
wasps on the nest.
Speaker 3 (41:36):
No, But I mean, does this not make you think
bern the hell did murder wasps come from? Those things
are freaking huge, you know. So, I mean my thoughts were,
like you said, it's to me it's super alarming that
they're finding them. Then second off, they're not. They're beast
tellings like we found the wasps. But if we haven't
seen them yet, maybe they're invisible.
Speaker 4 (41:57):
That's what I go think about, that they're invisible or
they're on their way to Texas.
Speaker 3 (42:04):
But either way here in Texas, either way, it's beautiful. Well,
if I see any radioactive wash I'll let you know.
But they're on my radar. Now I'm gonna start watching them,
which I mean, I'm pretty sure the ones around Myles
I've got to be. So there's gotta be something those
because I almost have fifty or sixty round miles at
any given weekend.
Speaker 1 (42:24):
Wall in a wasp. Okay, you know what firefly is?
See firefly grow grow up? Fireflies. We've got a lot
of them around our house fireflies. I mean it makes
you wonder would a radioactive wasp go like firefly and glow?
Speaker 4 (42:38):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (42:38):
I didn't think about that.
Speaker 1 (42:41):
Wasps don't come out at night, so well, if they.
Speaker 3 (42:44):
Are, I'm still not gonna put them in a jar
and run around and play with them.
Speaker 1 (42:48):
Like at my radio at wasps. Aren't they cool? We
squished our butts and it lights up.
Speaker 4 (42:53):
Yeah, and then my hand fell off.
Speaker 2 (42:59):
Oh well a please catch one for science.
Speaker 3 (43:02):
Oh, I will do it for just for you, Lauren.
Speaker 1 (43:05):
Yeah, you catch it in a sealed container, and you
know what, y'all make arrangements to meet up. Y'all don't
have to meet you're in the studio.
Speaker 4 (43:13):
Now.
Speaker 2 (43:13):
They like to bite, they like to sting you, so
we'll stay away.
Speaker 1 (43:16):
No, no, no, no, I'm not good with radioactive fore wasp. Alright, guys,
that's what we got for today's show. Lauren. It's pleasure
having you on the show. Thanks for having me again.
When is the Dallas nine eleven stair climb.
Speaker 4 (43:28):
Saturday, September sixth, Downtown Dallas at Main Street.
Speaker 1 (43:32):
Garden Park and who all can come?
Speaker 2 (43:34):
Everybody? Everyone is invited.
Speaker 4 (43:36):
We're also still looking for volunteers sponsors, donations, All of that,
all this information is more and more is on our website.
Speaker 2 (43:43):
It is Dallas stair Climb dot com.
Speaker 3 (43:49):
All right, guys, I'm gonna go pet your ass, Dave
and feed us some carrots.
Speaker 2 (43:54):
I'm gonna join a.
Speaker 1 (43:57):
Watch my gosh, where's that defibulator at? Alright, guys, that's
what we have for today, Joe I hope. Until next time,
keep it real, keep it funny, stay safe and watch
each other. Six h
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