Everyday heroes show courage in life-or-death moments
In a world where heroism often seems to manifest in grand gestures, many remarkable stories of ordinary individuals stepping up in surprising ways frequently go unnoticed. From saving lives during emergencies to performing everyday acts of courage, it's essential to recognize these unsung heroes who make a profound impact on others' lives. Recent events spotlighted a heartwarming tale involving a New Jersey assemblyman and everyday citizens who displayed extraordinary bravery in the face of danger.
Assemblyman Al Abdelaziz was driving down Barber Street one fateful day when he witnessed a serious accident. A vehicle crashed into two parked cars, and smoke began pouring from the wreckage. Without hesitating, Abdelaziz jumped out to assist. He noticed the driver remained trapped inside, dazed and unsure what to do as flames engulfed the car. Alongside three bystanders, including an off-duty police officer, they worked together to pull the unconscious driver from the burning wreck. It was an act of bravery that showcased the power of community and the difference that can be made when individuals respond to dangerous situations without hesitation.
Such moments bring to light the remarkable things everyday people can do in critical situations — the power of quick-thinking and determination can truly save lives. While this incident stands out due to its dramatic nature, many wish to share their own experiences of courage. Perhaps it was a simple act, like performing the Heimlich maneuver on a stranger, or a family member who fell into a swimming pool, or even a child who started choking on their food. Each of these stories offers a glimpse into how lives can hang in the balance, and how sometimes, it's the most ordinary individuals who rise to the occasion.
This sentiment runs deep among those who have experienced similar events. Many individuals liken their stories to those of assembly members and community heroes, showcasing the heroism in daily life and the impact it can have on others. Stories like these remind society that heroism doesn't always come from those adorned with capes; often, it comes from our friends, neighbors, and complete strangers who find the strength to act when it matters most.
It’s not only first responders who deserve applause; every one of us has the potential to step up in significant ways. Have you ever been in a situation where you took action to save a life, whether it was dramatic or subtle? If so, sharing your experience can inspire others and affirm the importance of being vigilant and ready to help in emergencies. As this assemblyman’s story demonstrates, the potential for heroism exists in all corners of society, and we each have the power to be that hero when the moment calls for it.
So, as stories unfold and courage reveals itself in different forms, take a moment to reflect on your own experiences. Were you ever in a position to help or save someone's life? Share your tale, for it might just encourage someone else to do the same when the circumstances arise.
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No, I'm I'm going to say I'm I'm glad you said that because I was going to uh steal your point had you not. It's It kind of feels Trump adjacent. It does. Right. For somebody who for somebody who says she doesn't care for Trump, she's uh she's certainly copying him because doing nicknames, right? Because now she is giving a nasty nickname to Jack Cedarelli, the Republican candidate. She's calling him opioid Jack. Nasty though, low-key catchy. You know, it kind of is catchy if it weren't so mean-spirited. Well, cuz it sounds like like a like a folk song. It kind of all opioid Jack. It almost sounds like a failed Bruce Springsteen side B, doesn't it? Opioid Jack. I would even say not even a a b-side. It was just like one that he looked at it while sober and was like, "Uh, let's not put that on the album." I wrote that when I was drunk. I'm sorry. Yeah. But that's what she's calling him now. So, at one point today, we are going to look for your ideas on what would be a good nickname for her. You know, we figure that's fair, right? She's going to start the whole nickname thing. So, get your get your creative juices flowing with that one. Can we Can we do both candidates? We could. Yeah. If you think there's a better name for Jack Chedarella, are you sure? I don't want to be one-sided. Yeah. I just felt like, well, he's already been given one by Mikey, but if you want to give a different one, that's totally fine. Totally fine. Yeah. But that's coming up later on. Yeah. Cuz it's not to attack anybody, just to have a little fun with it. Right now, it's uh who I have attacked. Well, partially. What do you mean? What do you mean? What do you mean? Oh, what we're about to talk about. Mhm. Oh. Oh, I see what you're saying. Yeah. Um, I killed an animal today. And you know, I know I should feel bad about this, but because it was a bird, I don't feel nearly as bad as when I hit the cat with my car. And why is that? Because it's a bird. Because a bird's not somebody's pet. Because the the bird did what to you? Oh. Oh, I know what you're calling me. Yeah. No, no, no. I'm steering the conversation here. Yeah. The bird hit me. I didn't hit the bird. Huh. Right. What's interesting is that it uh if I recall Uh-uh. It feels like in the past. Go ahead. Go ahead. Uh-huh. When an animal has hit someone else's car. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. You called them out on saying, "Well, the deer hit me." But if you also recall, I never said that wasn't true. The deer did hit you. I've just called you out and anybody else out on how important that always seems to be to somebody to point out that the deer hit them, they did not hit the deer because you want to maintain your uh your good driver status. So, it was nothing that you did wrong. And I've always said that. I have laughed about it, but I have always said you're right. The deer did run into the side of your car. But how quickly you were today while we were show prepping to say, "Well, the deer flew into me." No, I didn't. Deers don't fly. I said, "The bird flew into me." Yes. And I You just said deer heard myself just now. No, the bird did fly into me. But here's the difference, though. The deer flew into me. Here's here's the difference. A deer does not have the ability of flight. A bird does. If there's any animal between the two of those animals that should avoid a car, you would think it would be the bird. They've got the gift of flight. That bird did not use it. There were two birds. I'm driving. I can't even remember where. It was sometime this morning. I was on a highway. This is all I know. And uh I can't even remember what highway this was on. But these two black birds, they were about I guess the size, maybe a little bit bigger than a sparrow. I'm not sure what the hell they were. It was so quick. But they come they come fluttering down out of the sky. They were lowflying, mind you. They were low-flying birds. This is why I feel vindicated on two accounts. Well, yeah, you you were right. I did start seeing lowflying birds this summer after you pointed out the low-flying birds. It just took my area an extra two weeks to come around to it. But they were lowflying. They come fluttering down about a foot over my headlight on the left side. The one bird did what a smart bird would do. It said, "Oh, whoa, a car. I'm gonna pull up." The other idiot bird said, "You know, I'm gonna keep going down." And it went right into the front of my car. I mean, it just flew right into my car. And I just heard the th and then So, wait, wait, wait. What part? Like, did the tire hit? Was it the bumper? No, it was like the bumper or grill, something like that. And I looked at it later. There's nothing on it, but I know the bird is dead because I looked in my rearview mirror and I saw it tumbling in the lane cuz I was doing like 60 m an hour. I'm on a highway and you know and and I look in the rearview mirror and it went I guess under my car or however it went, but I saw the carcass just going like rolling down the lane and I swear to God you could tell it was already dead and it was like losing feathers as it as it rolled along the highway. I have witnessed that. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Like it's losing its feathers. The corpse is shedding feathers. You see the poof? Yes. Oh, yes. Yes. And then when I finally stopped, I looked and there was nothing. There was not even a mark, which was odd, but Oh, it took all the uh Yeah, it took the uh brunt, man. I killed it. And I'm trying to is so dead. It is. And I'm trying to kind of casually go through my head of how many times driving I have killed an animal. Give me another minute after after traffic and weather and uh and the code I'm making a list over here. Yeah. And you know what? And we want to we want to invite anybody to do the same. What animals have you hit with your car? Nobody wants to do it. Whether they they were domesticated, whether it was a possum, raccoon, whether it was a bird, whatever. If you can kind of ballpark a guesstimate, how many do you think was your kill count? And what animals have you hit with your car? And yes, deer and big game. That that that counts. A bear even counts. 1 800 283101.5 219. Here's Fast Track Leaf Filter Radio and the guru of Gut. All right, I have to share this. What did I do? Not you at all. Oh, thank God. I'm just going to do this one off the air. I'm not going to try to talk to Brendan cuz he's done with the report. But I texted him, right? Cuz we all work in separate rooms and everything, right? So we just text each other. Like we even text down in the newsroom. So anyway, I texted, "Hey, Brendan, uh, how many animals have you hit with a car and what were they and did you eat them?" Okay, off the bat, I know he's hit a deer, right? And I was joking with the eat them question, but some people will eat deer. So he answered, and he says, "Lol, uh, he says, I love random questions. I can only really think of three. Recent deer strike, I remember that. We talked to him about it. Did not eat. I hit an armadillo in Kansas with a radio station vehicle. What? That's Yes, that sucker was loud. And then he says, "Did not eat." And then he says, "And and once I had a kamicazi squirrel fall off a wire and bounce off my windshield." Actually not sure if he died though. Are you kid? He Wait, this was part of the game last week. Wait, he said she said he seen a squirrel fall. Yeah, he saw a squirrel fall off a wire. They're usually so nimble, but this one fell, hit his windshield. He's not sure if it dead, though. If it died, though. Yeah. So, he's hit three that he could think of. I can't believe he's seen a squirrel fall. I've This is my white whale. I want to see a squirrel fall. It's so weird that we have not seen more squirrels. Squirrels fall. Right. Right. They're that agile. Who knows? All right. So, so I hit a bird uh this morning driving on a highway and didn't mean to. There were two birds. One flew up, the other kept going down inexplicably. It's got the gift of flight, but it went right into the front of my car. And uh Oh, he was so dead. So, what animals have you hit with a car? And what is your kill count if you can kind of guesstimate it? 1800 283 101.5. Gina in Lumberton, you're on New Jersey. 101.5. So many years ago um I decided I want I lived in New York so I wanted to go to Jones Beach for you know for the day of weekday and um and I have I'm by myself and I have my window closed but the passenger side was open and I kid you not this is no lie. It's a true story. A seagull comes flying into my car. Oh kicks my window and lands on my lap. Now I stopped for all animals. Well, I had no choice. I had to pull over and he was just dazed. I don't think he was dead, but I just picked him up. He and I put him on the side of the highway like on the grass. I didn't know what else to do. I was devastated and I stood there and I just cried, but he wasn't moving. I have to I have to pause the story. Where did you pick it up from? Was it the Was it the I was driving along the No, I was Yeah. Yeah. She means on the Okay. I'm sorry. I misunderstood. Right. Right. But like where were your hands on its body? Did you like cup it under its like breast and grab its neck? Like it was all it was all over me. I had to put my hand underneath to try to get him out of the car after I pulled over on the side of the highway and I put him on the grass. But But you don't know if he was dead. I I'll never know whether he was dead, but he certainly didn't look like he was alive. Oh man. You know, and I was and I was so devastated. Not to mention that I could have gotten into a really bad accident. But fortunately, it was weekday, so there was hardly any traffic on the road. And as you get closer to the entrance, you know, you slow down a little bit. And this thing came flying in and smacked right into my window. You know how you could have known if it was dead? If you were eating a funnel cake because then Oh, yeah. I mean, right. Those things will come back from the dead if there's even a marginal chance for them. if they can steal your food. I I I agree. I agree. But yeah, that's a true story. Wow. Is that Is that the only thing you probably hit? I mean, but then again, yeah. Yeah, because I stop for everything. I mean, I see you score my stuff short. I mean, I'm I'm really bad, especially after that. I'm traumatized. I do that if it's safe. That actually, it's funny that you say that. I wasn't thinking about it, but about a week or two ago, I did that. I hit my brakes for a squirrel. Um, so yeah, I'm not looking to kill an animal, but that bird today, Gina, there was nothing like I mean, just like you couldn't have done anything with a seagull. It was just like And I mean, imagine landing on your lap like that. And here I am in my little bathing suit, all excited to go by myself. And there's Oh, so it landed on some skin, too. Oh, it Yeah, it was not great. It was not great. That's even more. That's the most polite way of putting it. It was not great. It was not great. Oh yeah, that's Yeah, that whole story gives me the ick. O, Gina, thank you for calling New Jersey 101.5. Got a dead seagull on my lap. On my lap. Oh man, not good. All right, we're talking about because this happened to me today. What animals can you think of in your driving history that you hit with a car? You weren't trying to, but it just happened. 1 800283 101.5. And I'm curious if anyone can top my kill count of six. Bill in Lawrence Harbor. You're on New Jersey 101.5. Hey guys, how you doing today? We're okay. How are you doing? So, I hit a squirt. Uh I hit a skunk one time and I couldn't get that smell out. I had to go to the car wash. I was about to ask. Yeah. Spray, you know, to self do a car wash. Spray the wheel wells. Uh two cans of Freeze. Was it night time? I mean, that's usually when they're going to be running around. Yeah, it was night time. It was late at night. Yeah, right. And it went right under a tire. How did it happen? Yeah, right under the tire. Yeah. Oh, that seems like the worst case scenario. I honestly would take the deer again over a skunk. But I I got Kylie. I I got to ask Kylie a question. So, um I sent a picture in to you from the Squid Games. Remember I went camping this weekend? Mhm. And you told me to send in a picture of us dressed up as the Squid Games. Oh, I remember that. That was on the app, right? Yes, I sent it in. I wasn't sure if you got it. Did you get it? Oh, yeah. Bill, we got you. Okay. Oh, sorry. I didn't show it to Jeff. Yeah, I was going to say, Bill, she never showed it to me and I was like, I want to see, you know. Oh, man. Come on. Kylie's holding out on me, Bill. Uh, you're fired. Yeah, I wanted to see that picture. I'll go back to it. It's going to take her forever to find it now, though. We took first place. We took first place. No way. Oh, that's awesome. I mean, it's only $15 of camp money. Who cares? You know, it's it's the pride. It's three years in a row I've won first place. Nice. Why? What were you last year? I was We were um Beetlejuice and Lydia. A That's awesome. That's very cute. All right. Hey, Bill, we got to hit news, but thanks so much for calling in New Jersey 101.5 and congratulations. We're talking about animals that you hit with a car. It happened to me today. What have you hit and how many? 1 8002831011.5 your kitchen and need new appliances 239 with Jeff Deinsky and Kylie Moore. We want to know what animals have you hit with your car. What's your kill count? Are you a Are you a derial killer? Are you a murderer? Are you Yeah, those are the only two I have. Yeah, I was going to say I don't think you've got any more. Are are you an arm killer? I'll accept it. No, I'll accept it. Uh yeah, cuz Brendan killed in the armadillo in uh let's just say at some other state house did not eat. So, uh yeah. So, um I don't expect people to remember an exact number though because I mean going over it in my life, I know there's been a couple of times that birds flew into my car. I mean, I know that. And and we're not even going to count bugs because Oh my god. You drive Yeah. I mean, like, forget it. Thousands. You drive cross country like I've done several times. Oh man, you got to go through a car wash. It's just ugly. You drive on Route 9 you have to go through a car wash. Are you kidding? Right. Um, but I mean today I will remember this bird, but I will probably forget a year from now. So I would probably chalk it up to maybe five or six birds probably in my lifetime, but I also hit and killed a cat once and I felt very bad about that. And that's one boy. If you ever did that, if you ever killed a domesticated type animal, a dog or a cat, how awful did you feel? Did you stop? Did you try to look for the owner? Because I did. And as I recall, this goes way back to the '9s and I was young and it had a collar. Mhm. So, but it didn't have a tag. It didn't have any address, but it had a collar and it looked cared for. But it just it ran it literally ran out. I was not speeding. I was on a side street. It ran out between two parked cars. There was nowhere I could go. It like literally just ran right under my tire. I didn't even I didn't even have time to hit the brakes. Um like I was hitting them in the process of it being hit, you know, and uh and I stopped and I started knocking on doors. I felt so bad because I'm I'm picked, you know, I mean, I had pets. I had cats when I was a kid and I've had dogs when I was an adult. And I kept knocking on doors, but like nobody was around. Nobody seemed to be home. And the few people that were, I either pointed to the cat or described it. It was a white cat. I remember that. And they were like, "Don't know. Don't know. I don't know anybody on this street with a white cat." And I mean, I wasn't going to go through the entire neighborhood, but I had to spend 20 minutes looking. And there was nobody. So, it was like if it was somebody's pet, it seemed like it wandered. You did all you could do. I I felt like it, but you know what I didn't realize at the time? I did not know it was the law. If you hit an animal that is a domesticated type animal, you're supposed to call the cops. I didn't know that. So, I never called the cops, but it was just my own ignorance. I didn't realize that until much later in my life that you're supposed to. And all I did was then like I just sort of like nudged the poor thing over like out of the road more because like I like I mean I didn't know where to leave it. I didn't know what to do with it. And I wanted somebody if they came upon it if it was theirs to find I mean I didn't want them to find it but it was better to know. And it was the only thing I could think to do. I felt bad. So yeah. So I hit that. Um never hit a dog. Never hit a deer. Came very close. hit a squirrel a time or two and one was on purpose because it was already half dead. That was one of my mercy kills. Oh god. Yeah, I did a mercy kill of a squirrel, but I think that's about it. So maybe like five or six birds, one cat, a couple of squirrels. That's probably about it. Five, six birds. Yeah, one cat. Yeah, one squirrel. Oh man. No, no, no, no. Five or six squirrels. No, wait. No, no, no, no. I'm sorry. You're right. Five or six birds. You were right. Probably a maybe the amount my jaw just dropped. Maybe maybe two or three squirrels in my life and one cat. That's what I was trying to say. I'm sorry. God, you've you've got me beat. Maybe you've got me beat with your uh with your birds alone. I got that beat. All right. 1800 283 101.5. Sick ref. James and Lawrence, you're on New Jersey 101.5. Yeah. Hello. Hey, how are you? Welcome. H yeah, I've I've hit numerous animals with my car. Like I one I hit a deer like a week after I got a car once. I'm sure that deer was dead, but yeah, I never called the cops. So, and then another deer hit me um on the driver's side. It hit the knocked the driver's side mirror off uh and it flew over the car. If that's about all the damage, then you're pretty lucky though because it could have been way worse. Yeah, it could have been. It could have been. And then I hit couple squirrels. I hit a pheasant. Um, you hit a pheasant. Yeah, that was in another state. Yeah, a pheasant. How big is a pheasant? They're fairly big, aren't they? Or not really? It was pretty good size. Yeah, it was um Yeah, it's got these really long feathers and Oh, wow. Yeah, it it I it's I was surprised it didn't break the windshield. So, it hit the windshield. That's where it hit. It did. Oh, man. I was going to I was going to guess the grill. That is That's a good kill count. It didn't even It didn't even crack the windshield. It did not. No. Wow. Look at you. Yeah. Clean killer. Yeah. He's He's like Dexter. He's trained. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He cleans up after his kills. Look at him. James, thank you for calling New Jersey 101.5. So, yeah. Unfortunately, I hit a bird on the way to work and we want to know what animals have you hit with a car. What's your kill count? 1-800 283 101.5 Daminsky and you probably been listen New Jersey 101.5. Also, if you have not heard about this and there's a story about it on nj1015.com, gubanatorial candidate Mikey Cheryl has now given other gubanatorial candidate Jack Chedarelli the nickname opioid jack. read all about it at nj1015.com. We'll talk about it later, you know, like like mature people, right? Yeah, we're we're doing name calling, right? So, in the meantime, um I don't feel guilty about it cuz it hit me, but I feel bad for it. I hit a bird on the way in and uh Oh, bird is so dead. Just just just killed it. And again, I don't feel bad cuz I mean, they can fly. Why do they fly that low? I don't get it. To quote Tracy in 30 Rock, don't you know you can fly? But that's Don't we all feel like that when you hit a bird? It's like, pull up, man. Pull up. That's exactly how I felt when I hit my several birds. It's like, what is this? Miracle on the Hudson. This ain't no Hudson. Anyway, so uh animals that you hit with a car. 1 800 283101.5. Eden Jackson, you're on New Jersey 101.5. I've uh I killed over 25 deer in my life driving a truck and I killed eight deer at one time with one truck. Wow. I could see it though. I mean, are you a long hauler? Yeah, I was uh I was in the hills of West Virginia and I went up over the plateau and eight of them came across and they didn't hit the tractor, but they hit the trailer. Yeah. What are you going to do, right? What are you going to do? That would kill one with a motorcycle. Motorcycle. Were you injured? No. No. I was lucky. Uh I killed it by Jackson first aid in Jackson Township. You Well, you you definitely spilled the bike though, obviously. Right. No, it was came right out of the woods and I didn't get a chance to see it or stop and I ran right through it. And you never spilled the bike? No, I I was I considered myself that day one of the luckiest men alive. Okay. So, yeah. So, you under Yeah, you understand why I'm so amazed. That's uh that's crazy lucky. Yeah. I was The bike was total, but uh I I got lucky. When you have eight deer collide into your trailer, how hard is that to control? Uh they hit It's a chassis. It's an overseas container chassis. It's solid steel, so it it doesn't What do you call It doesn't affect it any It wasn't really that big of a thing. Okay. All right. No, it didn't affect me any uh the guys where I delivered it to it did. They had to wash all the beauty. Oh god. Exactly. A job I do not envy. Right. Hey. Hey. Appreciate it. Wow. Jay on 78. Hey Jay. Hey. Hi. What's Hey. Yeah. So, I hit three deer in the last 10 years. I live out in Warren County. Yeah. Uh, first one I hit, total the front of my car, had insurance, got it fixed, hit another one, and just never got it fixed. Yeah. You retired? Bought bought another bought another car, and then hit another one. Yikes. Oh my god. Terrible. Yeah. You hit anything else? And then when I Yeah, I hit a man. What? What? When I was younger. Yeah, I ran over a man. Oh my god. Was Was he okay? Well, he's in the hospital, banged up pretty good. Uh he was crossing Route 22 in Bridgewater and uh he was running across the street in the car in front of me. I didn't see him. Oh. Last minute I I saw him in a telephone pole and tried to get between the two of them. But you couldn't make and I ended up running them over. Yeah. But you were never charged with this. this was his fault legally. Yeah. Like four or five people all pulled over and said it wasn't my fault. Oh man, that had to be so scary. But anyway, I mean like I'm glad he lived. God, turns out it was my mother's best friend in high school's father. It's a small world. Yeah. Yeah. as as they're loading him into the ambulance. He was probably like, "Spare me with that small world crap, Jay. I'm hurting here." Small world wouldn't want to paint it, right? Hey Jay, thank you for calling in to New Jersey 101.5. We're going to have Rick's news in 4 minutes. Stay with us. Here's the 1800 car cash. New Jersey chime time is 310 on this Tuesday afternoon. What day is it? What day is it? What day is it? What day is it? It's Wednesday eve, Jeff. No. No. No. What day is it? What day is it? Prehump day. No. Oh. Oh, it's the day where you could win $1,000. Yes, it's $1,000 at work payday. I was like pulling teeth. It was. Anyway, we are Dinsky and more. I'm Jeff Deinsky. I'm Kylie Moore. Uh you know what I saw? There's this uh story and this this was kind of a rehash. This was first being reported last year, but it's a fun story. Joe Kelly on uh sister station, meaning obviously owned by, you know, the same parent company as us, Cat Country 1073. Um, on that station's website, they they talk about this Jersey guy that might be the world's biggest Waw Wa super fan. And I don't know how many people remember this guy, but it was written about last year. He's from Barnagot, right? and his name is Tyler, if I'm saying his last name right, Tyler Gir of Barnagot. He he goes to Wawa on average four times every day. That's incredible, right? And you know when you order something like you order uh well there they'll call it a hogi hoggy, right? I would call it a sub, but you know, I think you get like a net thrown over you in Waw Wa if you call it a sub. They take you out back, right? They take you out back. Right. Right. They do they did they do a little retraining, you know? So, when you would order anything like that, you know that little ticket that you would get and then and then they call your number. I mean, they do this at other places. They'll do it at quick check. Sorry, Waw Wa, but you know, you didn't invent it. You didn't invent numbers. But right he started collecting these and he collected them numerically. Now when I say that I don't mean he started with one and it was clean. I mean maybe he got like you know 01 0 O2 and then he and then he had an 079 and then he had a 247 whatever. But eventually he starts collecting all of these and he wanted all of them. And I think that I read and I don't think it's actually in this article, but I think back then I read that they would go all the way to like $9.99. I want to say it was a lot of basically it was hundreds of tickets I believe. Right. And what he did was he started getting his friends to hang on to their tickets when they would order something because he wanted to amass a collection of every possible order number and then just collected them. Oh, okay. Just Yeah. Real quick, in your opinion, would having the friends count? I know what you're saying. Um, that feels like cheating to me. I don't know. I feel like it would count. bad, but it's not yours. It's your collection. It's your collection. I mean, like, okay, if you get Bruce Springsteen's guitar pick, it wasn't your guitar pick, but he gave it to you. All right. Your friend gave it to him. But you're collecting guitar picks. I know what you're saying. I know what you're saying because it started because of his personal love and how often he went to the place. I do get what you're saying, but I mean, come on. How How It's still I'm not I'm not yucking his yum. It's still impressive. Right. Right. Right. Right. It just, you know, a little cheap. And And apparently he amassed this huge collection of every possible Waw Wa uh ticket number that you could get when you order food. And I want to say again, cuz I'm like doing this part from memory and part from the Joe Kelly story. I want to say a year ago, I think I read that he even got like I think he got the entire thing completed and then he was still collecting more. Like he had some duplicates like, "Oh, I've got four 375s." You know what I mean? Like a Pokemon card, right? And these are not the codes, by the way. The codes are coming up in about five minutes. Don't be confused by this. We're talking about an article right now. Uh, so it just it impresses me and it reminded me of that story from last year. And when when people save anything like a Pokemon card, like a baseball card, I find it impressive. When people save weird things and collect weird things, I find it way more impressive. I find it way more whimsical and charming because it's like why the special interest like baseball cards, stamps, coins. A lot of people do that. Order number tickets from Wawa. No one else is doing that. But this guy was this guy from Barnagan. Darn it, he was. I just think it's very cool. There's one thing that two of our friends collect that I find very mysterious and important. Mhm. To quote uh Severance. Mhm. Both Brennan Joseph, who does Traffic, and Kyle Forscini from the Midday Show, collect $2 bills. Uh, yes, I knew this. I knew that Kyle did anyway because I found one and I knew about this and I actually gave it to Kyle. Did his eyes, by the way, did not offer me two singles. He just took it to Did his eyes Well, we know what he makes. Did his eyes light up? I did not want him. I wouldn't have taken him. Yes, he was actually he was actually pumped. I don't know how you start such a collection. I don't know. But he loves it. He loves $2. I'm I'm sure Brandon does, too. He loves $2 bills just because. And he says um he tries to never spend one, but the couple of times I guess maybe early on before he realized he was really mostly wanting to hang on to them. He says like a lot of people, especially younger people, and he's a younger person, but he knows. But he says a lot of younger people as young as him, they don't know what a $2 bill is. They think it's a fake. They think that that that that he's like trying to, you know, hand him a counterfeit bill or something stupid like that. We'd have to confirm during the break, but I'm pretty sure Brendan and his husband like have them displayed. I could see it. Yeah. Oh, I'm sure of it. I remember this. They do. I'm I I remember this. Absolutely. They do. People go into their collection, right? Right. People really lean into a collection. So, at 1 800283101.5, we want to know what things people collect. If you're the collector, great. You could you could speak even more eloquently about it. But even if you just know somebody like I knew a guy who collected and it was cool. He collected beersteines from other countries a lot from Germany but other countries as well. Those big ass like foot foot and a half tall heavy with a handle beerstein with a lid on them. You know the metal lid. And uh and he had them all displayed in his I guess these days you would call it a man cave before he knew to call it a man cave. He had those down there. And he also had full unopened bottles of rare beer bottles all lined on other walls in his uh basement. Unopened. Unopened. Yep. He had no missing out. What's that? I said missing out. He he had and this one I don't remember if it was a can or a bottle, but if anybody's old enough to remember the troubled brother of Jimmy Carter, President Jimmy Carter had a brother named Billy. Billy Beer. Yes, he had a Billy beer. He had a Billy beer, but he also had one legit from Transennylvania. He had a Transennylvania beer and he never opened them. It's very cool collection. That takes a Is stamina the right word? Discipline to not discipline to not open them. Oh, he opened plenty. Trust me, just not those. If he if he had a hankering, he'd just go back to the store. Trust me, this guy opened many beers in his life. And I was right there with him. Rethink this whole thing. Oh, yeah. We open more than our share. All right. So, we want to know at 1800283101.5, what kind of crazy things do people collect? And uh we'll take your call coming up. Right now, it is 319. Here's Fast Traffic is a paid political announcement. I'm Vin Go. 3:25 with Jeff and Kylie asking you, what do you collect? Is it something quirky? Is it something pop culture related? I'm kind of starting a Funko Pop collection. And I know I'm late to the game on this one, but I'm kind of into it. They're so cute. Every senior in high school probably has you beat with how many Funko Pops they have for young Oh, for young people. I only know this because of my two older kids, but it is off the map or chart how how how often people are collecting these at that age. It's insane. And they never open them. They leave them in the box. No, that's the thing. That's what I'm learning. You leave them in the box. They are unopened. Right. I have three from the three characters from the movie Wet American Summer. And then I have two from Jaws. I don't I don't understand the attraction. And I got to be honest with you, if nobody is opening those damn boxes, they're not going to be worth anything. You know what I mean? Cuz like the market's going to be saturated. It's got to be rare for it to be worth something. Uh I don't want them to be worth something. You know how I am with pop culture. I'm just happy to see a thing. And that's what a lot of kids are saying that it's not that they're collecting them because they they they want to have value in them. Yeah. I don't think one day someone is going to want Jean from Wet Hot American Summer Christopher Maloney's character. I mean, hey, a lot of a lot of collections are for the money. But but but then my question is, well then why aren't you opening them? Cuz I'm not going to play with them infinitely. I just like seeing a little like a little wideeyed quint. But you'd see it better out of the box. That's all I'm saying. No, it makes me happy. But no, you're right. Nobody can answer that question. People that are not collecting Funko Pops for the money, they don't want to sell them one day, but nobody's opening the boxes anyway. You're right. It's just it just baffles me. So, yeah. Do you know anybody who uh collects certain things? 1800283101.5. Mark in Brick. You're on New Jersey 101.5. Hey, what's up, guys? Hey, what's up, Mark? Uh, so I have a a massive coin collection. Massive. When did you start? How old were you when you started? Uh, I I think I was So, so I you know, I grew up in Railway just like you, which Oh, no kidding. Yeah. And and I you know, I worked for Tony's Pizza and someone gave me a an old $5 bill and I thought it it looked odd and you know, and that's how it all started. Uh, and it turned out to be, you know, it wasn't like valuable, but some coin shop wanted wanted to pay like 50 bucks for it, so I wound up holding it. Oh, no. Ever since then, And ever since then, my, you know, it it kind of morphed into coins, and now that's what that's what I have is a massive coin collection. Uh, how do you keep them? Do you display them? Do you keep them in a safe? Is it worth a lot? Uh, it is. It's It's at the point where it's it's worth about maybe $15,000. Um, nice. And I Yeah, I I definitely need to put it into a safe because I'm always worried about either robbery or fire, you know. So, I have to I definitely have to safeguard it. Now, what's the what's the most unusual coin that you have? Or do you or if you'd rather not say, that's fine. No, I I I don't care. Um I I I just I have like a plethora of coins. Everything from foreign like Nazi coins to, you know, Wow. Yeah. to like old uh US currency like in the you know early 1800s. Do you have any where like I know there's a stamp where I think the smoke is going the wrong way on a stamp. Do you have any that are like actually rare because there was they they were somehow mis printed. What would the word be? Yeah. Imprinted. Yeah. I don't know. Yeah. Minted. Uh mint. Misminted. Uh there there is a u uh a niche for that. Me personally, I don't really care for the uh for the mint errors, but um I I do have some, but it's Yeah, it's believe it or not, believe it or not, out of all the currency, uh my question to you is what what denomination do you think is, you know, more expensive? Like quarters, nickels, dimes, like what which one do you think is quarters? No. Here. Okay. Well, that's Kylie's guess. I think honestly. Wait, wait, wait. I think Penny. I think a penny. Yep. Penny. Why? I feel I feel like they can go back being older and maybe just more rare because of it. That's exactly it. Yeah. Miss me. Keep your pennies. Kylie would have like Kylie would have like an $800 value penny and stick it into one of those uh coin machines like you know like where you cash out your chips. I would put it in the vending machine to try to get like sun chips. Yeah, really dummy. No, Mark, that's very very cool though. That's cool. Thank you. Penny, I am floored. Yeah. I don't know. Something told me it was going to be the Penny. Mark, thank you for calling New Jersey 101.5. What? I'm not going to challenge him. All right. So, we want to take we want to take more of your stories coming up. Um, we we're we're talking about things that people collect. Do you know anybody? And whether it's something more normal like that or especially if it's really out there and weird. Would love to hear those collections. 1 800 283101.5. It's 3:30. Jody Spabia, when my family needs any This is New Jersey 101.5. Yes, it's still a thousand at work payday. Another code coming up next hour. Don't go anywhere. And right now we're talking about this because of a sister station within the company. They they ran a story about this guy that was talked about a lot last year who uh has collected every permutation of order number ticket when you order food at Wawa. Like you order a Hogi and you can get like number 07 or 981 or whatever. He's got every single possible one cuz he's that into W. It's a weird thing to collect but he did it. Damn it. It's wah wah wah wild wild. Yeah. So, uh whether it's normal, whether it's really weird and out there, we don't care. What things do people collect? 1800283101.5. Olga and Kate May, you're on New Jersey 101.5. Yeah. Hi. Um I have a wishbone collection. I've been collecting them for many, many years. So, the Bone Collector, I think this was a Denzel Washington movie. I see your movie. The Bone Collector. But it's only wishbones. I only do wishbones. I don't do anything else. No. So, um I How did you start? I just figured I had a better shot at winning a wishbone when you snap it in half. Um so, when my kids were little, we always saved the wishbones and we would let them do them. But then I started collecting them and you know, they I had them for years. I don't know. We actually had them for all the holidays or whatever. So, I used to label them and then at one point I just threw them in a bag. But recently I moved and I said, "Does anybody want the wishbone collection?" And believe it or not, my one son said, "Hey, my kids will take them." A How many would you guess you had if you had to just take a wild guess? Oh, 35 or 40 at least. Huh. And you used to And you used to catalog them for a while, like you would say like Thanksgiving Day, you know, November, whatever. 91, 94, 98. Oh my goodness. I finally just gave up. I said, "Okay, just stick them in a bag." But they are old. I mean, if somebody really is into checking out how old they are, they'd be able to uh assess them. But, okay, I needed to do that, but I just I had a better shot at winning a wishbone than I did hitting the Powerball. Here's a here's a weird Here's a weird question, and I don't know who else could answer this other than you, because I don't think anybody else probably does this. When you open that bag, you know, when you gave it to your what was it, a grandson, you said? Yes. Yeah. Do old wishbones smell really weird or not at all? Nope. Nope. Not at all. No smell. Okay. You just let them dry naturally on on a little window sill and they dry forever and then they obviously become more brittle, but no. I mean, it's not like I soaked them in anything or whatever. They just naturally they're so tiny. They're not huge, you know. Do you regret missing the opportunity to spread the word among friends and neighbors to save all their wishbones and give them to you because then you could have had thousands by now? I could have, but I felt like they I had to do it myself. Collect them myself. Yeah. And you want to own it. So, and then it just reminded me of how many happy holidays we had together. And after a while, I just stopped collecting. But it was one of those things where, you know, the kids were not very interested in it, but the grandkids said, "We'll take them." So, that worked out. What human bones have you collected? Oh, zero. I'm not that great. Are you sure? Cuz the FBI is on line five and they're asking me. Nope. I just thought it would be a fun thing to do. I have that Irish luck going. So, I don't know. Olga starts writing down a note. start collecting human bones as well. It is Halloween season. There you go. New hobby. There you go. There you go. No. Oh, god. Thank you for sharing. That's sweet. Thank you for calling New Jersey 10 a 1.5. I just thought of something. What? You know how should start collecting bones? No. Jason, you know how back in the day if you got your wisdom teeth taken out, the dentist or oral surgeon might allow you to take your wisdom teeth and bring them home with you, but these days they don't tend to do that because they say, "Well, no, it's considered medical waste and we can't just It's like, yeah, well, okay, how come my great grandpa was uh, you know, taking his spleen home in a jar?" You know, but that's what they'll tell you. Okay. Do you think any dentist ever keeps those from every patient he ever extracted wisdom teeth from? Like to make a necklace for what? Like for whatever. Do you think there's any dentist in the United States that maybe kept every tooth that he extracted? Or she. Or she. Yeah. Okay. Sorry. Oh my god. Please. Do you honestly think I don't think a dentist can be female? Kylie, just had to point it out. and uh uh and and then just saves them like thou I mean it would it would almost be like serial killer adjacent you know it feels like a trophy right exactly I wonder if anybody's done that would be a weird All right anyway message us on the app you don't have to go on the air all right so uh we're talking about we're talking about things that people collect and the stranger the better 1800 283 101.5 Mitchell in Monroe you're on New Jersey 101.5 yes Good afternoon. A while back, I spoke to you guys about technology that's obsolete. Remember the uh call about the film projectors, the real projectors from school. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Well, I I collect the film reels that you that you show on those projectors. How many do you have? About 2,000. Okay. Whoa. Are are they all the kind that would be shown in school like educational or do I like what kind do you have? Um stuff from Merry Melody to Stooges, the Lauron Hardies. They used to sell those and then the educational films from Coronet and Peter Botanica. So go back to the 30s and then the Bell Telephone Science series or nine of those. I have all nine of those. United States. A lot of sponsored stuff like Bell Telephone. Yeah. US Steel and a lot of stuff is on YouTube now. I work with a company that sells stock footage. Um, camera original material that's out of copyright. So, I've been doing this since I've been 12 years old. Still doing it. When will the film on a realtore eventually degrade and break break down? Well, well, some some some do break down. something called vinegar syndrome, but some if you take care of, they'll last for many, many years. The oldest one I have is about a 100 years old. Wow. 1925. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But they're 8 mm, 16 mm, and some 35 mm. But I've been doing this all my life. I mean, so, uh, something I really enjoy doing. And every year that Yeah. And every year that goes by, it's more of a rarity. That's very cool. That's so impressive. Mitchell, thank you so much for sharing with us on New Jersey 101.5. All right, so we want to know things that people collect at 1800 283101.5. Minsky and at PJ Fitzpatrick. We are 8 minutes away from Danny Dresenzo's news. It is 352 on New Jersey 101.5. Jeff and Kylie here with you. And we want to know things that people collect. They could be quirky. They could be sentimental. Let us know. 1800283101.5. Uh Sandra in Swedsboro is calling in. Hi. Hi. Hey y'all. What's up? Hey Sandra. You tell us. Is this about you or somebody that you know who collects something? It's about my young actually. Okay. So, my young collects Berts Bees lip balms. Okay. First of all, okay. A boy or girl? A a boy. Uh how young? actually 23. Okay. Does he use them or is it strictly Oh, so strictly a collection. Not again. But you know what? Knows what something's missing though. If something's missing, but wait a minute, one of my flavors is not here. One of my little, you know, if I try to say sneak in a bag and get one for myself. Yeah. It doesn't happen. It doesn't work. So So he buys these. He doesn't want to ever use them. And it's just How many does he have? Um, I'm looking about 30 right now, man. I'm missing I'm at I'm at four. And this is not and and and he never uses them. You're sure of that. He leaves No, every now and again, you know, I guess just a taste or whatever, but not like a everyday type of thing. You know what I mean? Right. So, this really is for him a bonafideed collection. Like he knows he's doing this as a collection, not just Yes. Not just his lips are really dry, right? Oh, that's kind of crazy. Like when you go in and see a new flavor. Oh, that's a new one. Oh, that's a new one. Yeah. Really? And when did this start with him? What What How did this obsession start? I don't know. I don't know if it was me cuz I used I lose I use lip balm because I don't like lipstick. But it's not like I was, you know, obsessed with it or anything. And maybe I may have let the child use mine every now and again. Are you sure you weren't? Because you know a lot of ladies get obsessed with lip balms. Yeah. But no, I don't think so. I was obsessed. No, you didn't keep one in the car, one in the kitchen, one in the bedroom, one in your purse, one in the office. Hey, don't judge those of us who have our various lip bumps. Oh, I've known people that were outright chapstick addicts. You're looking at one of them. It's called being prepared, Jeff. That's You call it what you want. Time wear. You understand? Oh my god, S. That was the perfect response. I love you. You call it what you want. I'll call it what I want. Thank you for calling New Jersey 101.5. No, I definitely have. I have my couch lip balm. I have my room lip balm. I have my work bag lip balm. Oh, I've seen it. Oh, a lot of ladies are like that. Actually, I have two work bag lip balms cuz I have two work bags. Oh, there you go. Right. Right. This is sobering. You don't Yeah. You don't There should be a test. All right. I'm gonna go take a walk. Yeah. Really? All right. We've got uh we've got news coming up. And don't forget, yes, it's still a $1,000 uh at work payday. Another code coming up in a little bit. New Jersey 101 1.5. Time for the most exciting event of the New Jersey Chime time. It is 410. It's a Tuesday. And yeah, it's another $1,000 at work payday. We got that going on. And uh that means a code is coming up in roughly 10 minutes. But later this week, just like last week when we hit Thursday, Thursday, make absolutely sure you're listening all day because that daily prize, it goes from $1,000 to $10,000. Jeff, that's a Thursday. Yay. Yeah. Uh so that'll be coming up later in the week. So, I need to read this to you because this is I don't remember a governor's race like this before with threats of lawsuits and now Donald Trump style nasty nicknames being thrown around, but not by the Republican, mind you. Not by the Republican, which is a a change of pace. Right. Right. This absolutely sound This is This is coming from uh the Democratic candidate Mikey Charl. Um well, it'll all make sense. I'm just going to read this. This is from Eric Scott. It's up on nj1015.com. Even under the threat of a defamation lawsuit, Democrat Mikey Cheryl is not backing off from claims that Republican Jack Chedarelli was responsible for thousands of opioid related deaths. Cheryl has doubled down on her allegations by branding her challenger opioid Jack and launching a website that claims to expose Chedarelli's connection to the pharmaceutical industry at the heart of the crisis. At an event in Clifton on Monday, Cheryl stood alongside US Rep. Frank Palone uh and uh Senator Joe Vitali uh addiction counselors and grieving families to accuse Chedarelli's former publishing company of playing a direct role in spreading misinformation about opioids. Democrat Mikey Cheryl uh is saying that uh he is at least complicit. And you've heard these stories. Now I'm no longer reading this. I'm this is just me now. Hello. Um, but this this came up in that second debate. I'm sure almost all of you know that by now. And she when she said he killed thousands of people, including children. I'm sure her allegation doesn't mean literally handson, but that he was complicit. and she has used that word now about being complicit. He turned around very soon after the debate saying, "I am filing suit against her." Now, um, to pick back up here on Eric's article, whether Cheddarelli files suit or whether voters buy the narrative remains to be seen. So, he has not yet filed suit. He said he was doing it. Well, where's the lawsuit? I don't know. Is he h is he having lawyers pointing out that that is such a high bar uh that it's going to be very very difficult uh to actually win a lawsuit like this cuz number one he's already public figure. So for a defamation suit, you've got to prove that what you said was absolutely not true and that you meant it completely maliciously when it's a public figure. That's the standard. And I think it's going to be tough because he did publish things that talked about the risk of opioid misuse being very low. So yeah, the phrasing I think would be the bigger problem, saying that he killed. But then again, if you're going to if you're going to put that up against all the other hyperbolic charges in any political campaign New Jersey has ever had, everybody's always wording things in the most hyperbolic way possible. And so I think that she can mean in a complicit way, in a adding to the problem way, and probably get away with that in a court of law. I'm no lawyer, but I think it's going to be hard for him to win this. I really do. And I and personally, I think it's only drawn even more attention to something because I don't think most people are really even watching these debates anymore. So anyway, also I had no clue about any part of that case or Jack's quote unquote pass with that until she brought it up during the debate. Right. Right. Yeah. And I think the longer that this keeps popping back up in the news because of him talking about, you know, well, I'm gonna file a defamation suit, I think it just I think it's reaching more eyes and ears than other Well, yeah. It's like a like a teenage girl saying like, stop talking about the pimple on my chin. Right. I hadn't noticed it, but now exactly right. Right. Oh, and then she's also saying things like he's run now for three elections saying he's a small businessman. The minute we start to talk about that business, he wants his lawyers to shut it down. And then she said, and here's where she used the word, he is complicit. He is right there with the people that paid billions of dollars to settle opioid related lawsuits. Um, and then Palone was chiming in. Big corporations and pharma made billions. Jack and his company got paid millions. And New Jerseyians got hooked. All right. Whatever you think of that, that's between you and the voting booth, whatever. But if she's going to start throwing around uh uh sarcastic nicknames like that, opioid Jack, I don't know that that's going to stick. But we thought for just a little fun here, maybe we could come up with a nickname for her. If you have any thoughts on that, also to be fair, if somebody would have a better nickname for Chedarelli. So, we're going to make this an equal opportunity thing. What would be a good nickname for Mikey Cheryl? What would be a better nickname for Jack Chedarelli? 1800283101.5. The ground rules on this. Don't get viciously personal, you know, don't get like sexually deviant. Yeah, that we're not here for that. That's what I mean. But anything else is probably going to be pretty much fair game. And by the way, and by the way, your nickname for either party, it could be flattering if you want it to be. It could be sarcastic and nasty within reason. Um, it's whatever you want. Okay? Like when we had I have a thought for a nickname, but I'm sure you guys will come up with far far better for Mikey Cheryl. Now, I like Mikey Cheryl as a person. The one thing that bothered me, it's the one thing that I asked her three times on the air when she did a half an hour on the show with us about what legal mechanism would she use to actually freeze utility rates like she says she would and she never could really answer the question. And I asked her three different times. She couldn't do it. My nickname could be meandering Mikey. Ooh. For her meandering answer, never really answer the question. Meandering Mikey. I think you guys could do far better than that. I'm I'm not saying I agree with this one. It's just uh as a a fellow human woman, I know that this is always thrust upon us. Mhm. Someone's going to call her shrill Cheryl because the second a woman raises her voice, we're called shrill. Shrill Cheryl. That's almost a tongue twister, but I could see it. Shrill Cher. Shrill. You know what I'm saying? Say it three times. Ready? Go. Shrill. I can't. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Start again. Go. Shrill. Cheryl. Shrill. Cheryl. Shrill. Cheryl. Oh, it's hard. Good. Then maybe people won't use it. All right. So, that's her defense mechanism. Good for her. All right. So, we want to know what is a good nickname for Mikey Cheryl or what is a different nickname for Jack Chedarelli? And while we're into this, by the way, we you can maybe get into this in the back half of the hour or something. What was your own nickname if you ever had one? 1800283 101.5 418. Here's Fast Traffic. A scary good savings. This uh Danny Dresenzo's news coming up in about 6 minutes, making this 424. He's got a warning and info about today's deadline for registering to vote. Stay here for that. Also, it's an important time about voting. Next month, you're voting for a governor. One way or the other, we have a new governor. It's either going to be Republican Jack Chedarelli or Democratic candidate Mikey Cheryl, the congresswoman. And she has been on the attack over his past medical publishing. Uh, she says putting out information getting paid by big pharma. she says downplaying the danger of getting hooked on opioids at a time when everybody seemed to know there was a huge danger of it and she's calling him complicit for taking money for putting out that information. Um and uh he has threatened to sue. She is now calling him opioid Jack. So that being said, that's what we're talking about. What would be a good name for Mikey Cheryl? If she wants to start doing the Donald Trump thing and throwing around nasty nicknames, you could go that route or you could make you could give her a complimentary nickname if you want, whatever you want to do. Or is there a better nickname for Jack Cheddarelli as well? 1 800283101.5. And we have one coming in on the app from Otto in Manchester. I just want to save Marissa the phone calls on this one because we cannot put it on air. So, I'm going to be delicate. Oh, I was gonna say, okay, but I'm gonna say it. No, no, no, no. Otto, this is You're gonna talk around it. Okay. Okay. Because I'm because I'm sure a million people want to call in with this one cuz it's it's simple but clever. Otto Manchester says, "Jack full of Uh-huh. You got it." Yep. Okay. Right. Cheddarelli. Chitterelli. Cheddarelli. Right. It's another Yeah. word, right? It It sounds like We all got it, Ky. It sounds like his last name. Stop talking. We got it. So, I shouldn't The e the eagle has landed. We've got her. Everyone knows. So, now if you can't if you can't call in at 1800 283101.5, please message us. Honestly, actually, some of the more explicit ones like that, message us on the app. I want to hear them. Was that on the Was that on the Mikey Cheryl whiteboard and they just knew they couldn't use it in public? You know, so they went with opioid Jack instead. The team just threw their coffee cup at the whiteboard like it, right? Darn. It's It's right there, but we can't back to the drawing board. Opioids, I guess. All right, we'll go number two. Fine. Hey, hey, wait. That sort of brings us right back. Oh, that was too clever. Oh, right. That lake was clever enough that it made me mad. All right. 1 800283101.5. That was good. Thank you. Thank you, Tom and Edgewater. You're on New Jersey 101.5. Hey, Tom. Yeah, I uh I got three, but right off the bat is Snaky Cheryl. Snaky Cher. Oh my god. Because it rhymes with Mikey. Snaky. Snaky Cheryl. And I I got two more though. Cheating Mikey and Mike the Snake Cheryl. But because you know I only say cheating Mike because I've been around for 45 years. I've never met a woman named Mikey. I don't know. I think that might be food or birth certificate to make it sound more LGBTQ or something. I don't know. Oh my gosh. I don't know. I like I like Mike the Snake though. Mike the Snake. Cheryl, this theory goes deep. Tom, we have another white board. Also, really quick, really quick about Jack Tinerelli. He could have gotten sued for not publishing what uh a company asked him to to do for them, right? So, he he he wasn't putting that out there himself. He was just doing a job for a company. Yeah. I mean, I assume that there's all sort of, you know, doctors backing this information up and all sorts of vetting and all of that. I mean, I don't know. I've never been in that publishing. I think it's more I think it's more about that he was just doing a job. Somebody asked him to, you know, if he said no, maybe he would have gotten sued by the pharmaceutical companies for not working with them. I don't know. But I think that they're putting I do know what you're saying. A publishing company is not necessarily the author of a thing. They are the publisher of a thing. I totally get what you're saying. Yeah. No, I get what you're saying. Yeah. And the whole opioid jack thing. I don't know that that, you know, and that's honestly why we're doing this because I just hate how ugly this is getting. And so I'm just kind of saying, "All right, you want to get that ugly with an opioid jack, well then she should get a nickname, too, perhaps." Tom, thank you for calling New Jersey 101.5. Amanda in Jersey City. You're New Jersey 101.5. Hi, guys. How are you? Hey. Hey, we're good. Um, I've got a name a new name for Jack. Okay, keep it clean. Crack Jack. Oh, as in the drug crack. Yes, why not? Yeah. What What the hell is in crack? I mean, it's okay. Even if it's not an opioid, it's okay. I'm just like actually kind of mulling that over. I I don't really know a lot about crack. Yeah. Don't look at me from your knowledge. And I don't And I don't want to see his crack either. Okay. All right, Amanda. Thank you. Yeah, we appreciate it. Thank you for calling New Jersey 101.5. Let's get Andrea on a New Hope. Uh Andrea, you're New Jersey 101.5. Do you have a new nickname for either Jack or one for Mikey Cheryl? Oh, I have a nickname for every politician. Okay. But I can't tell you that. She'd never talk to me again. But I would say Mickey the mouth Cheryl and all flap Jack because all they do is talk to get elected and then when they get in they do the same exact thing as the other as the person who they're replacing. Meet the new boss same as the old boss. The old who song, right? Yep. Yep. Yeah. All right. We'll see how this goes. Andrea, thank you for calling in. Okay, so what is a good nickname that you would give Mikey Cheryl? It could be flattering, it could be nice, or it could be sarcastic and mean because if she's going to be throwing the opioid Jack out, well, you know, turnabout, fair play, all that. Or give Jack Chedarelli a different nickname if you would like. 1 800283101. The following is a paid political an New Jersey 101.5. It's $1,000 at work payday. If you already missed this hour's code, never fear, we've got another one coming up about a little over 40 minutes away. That'll be in the 5:00 hour right around 5:20. We even tell you when. How nice are we? And uh also this Thursday, that $1,000 at work payday, it goes to a $10,000 prize for that day only. So, make sure you're listening all week. All right. So, our phone number is 1800 283101.5. Um, I pulled up a whole list of uh Mwords here. You said M as in Mary, right? Yes. Okay. To rhyme with Mikey, right? Mwords. And uh cuz here's the deal. There's a great article explaining the whole thing on nj1015.com by Eric Scott. Um, at a public appearance, Mikey Cheryl is in no way backing off claims that Republican candidate for governor Jack Chedarelli was responsible, you know, at least in part for thousands of opioid related deaths because in in literature published by his medical publishing company, uh, there were there there was language apparently that downplayed the risk that opioids uh, presented. and uh and she's leaning into this to the point that she is now given the nasty nickname of opioid jack. And doesn't it sound and I don't mean this in a it it sounds like something Donald Trump would say. It does. And whether and and I don't care, you know, pro or con Donald Trump. That's not even what I'm getting at. I'm saying that this is a woman who keeps bashing Trump and trying to connect Cheddarelli to Trump, you know, and I'm sure thinks Trump is just, you know, a very mean person. And yet he's borrowing from the Trump playbook, trying to diminish an opponent by giving a nasty nickname just like Sleepy Joe or Little Marco or any of those opioid Jack. That sounds like it could have been something Trump did. It's like, so I don't know. I'm getting so turned off at this point with this governor's race. I really am. It does sound like, okay, in an alternate timeline, had Trump endorsed uh Spadia over Chidarelli. Uhhuh. It does sound like something that he'd be like, "Oop Jack." Right. Right. Had Spad Right. Had Bill gotten the, you know, the nod uh during the primary, I could have heard that being said in the primary. Absolutely. No, you absolutely nailed it with saying that that's a like it sounds Trumpesque, right? It does. And yet here the Democrat is the one doing it. So, all right. So, all we're saying is you want to play that game, you want to play the nasty nickname game. All right, play ball. Yeah, let's play ball here. So, what would a good nickname be for Mikey Cheryl then? And if you want to give a different name, you know, different nickname to to Jack Chedarelli. Either way, you can do both. We're being equal opportunists here. 1800 283101.5. Jimmy in Forkid River, you're on New Jersey 101.5. Hey, how are you guys? Hey Jimmy, what's up? What's up, man? Yeah. Well, my nickname for Mikey Cheryl would be it's it's appropriate and it's, you know, generic. It would be Kla Harris 2.0. Oh. Oh, hold on. Let's let's workshop this over over Phil Murphy 2.0. Oh, yeah. I'm going to explain this nickname right now. Sure. Okay. Okay. Do you guys realize how Kamla Harris like repeats all the time? Like she says, "Well, we're going to lower." She said in the debates, "Well, we're going to lower the prices and everything." Well, Mikey Sherro repeats just like her. Well, I'm a Navy helicopter pilot. Listen. And then she also can't answer a question just like Kamala. She can't do it. There was a political ad. By the way, I'm tired of seeing the political ads on TV. Oh, the choir, Jimmy. There was a political ad on TV and she was asked by I think it was someone from CBS and and the question was, "What would you do?" Like, "What would your first step be if elected governor of New Jersey?" And then she said, "Wow, that's a really good question." Well, Mikey, I got answers for you. lower the taxes, fix the schools down in Ocean County, make New Jersey affordable again. Those would be my answers. But no, she's she's just like days. I wish you could just be a little more impassionate. Yeah, really. I feel like I feel like I feel like I'm seeing the end to lay miz right here with all that passion. One more day, one day, right? Oh my god. All right. Hey. Hey, Jimmy. Appreciate the call. Thanks for calling New Jersey 101.5. Yeah. Don't be a stranger. Love your passion, baby. Okay. What about um Mediocre Mikey? Okay. He could come back. Maybe Jack, you know, maybe Jack Chedarelli can come back with mediocre Mike. What? Medio Mikey. I don't know. I want to I want to see what mediocre has to do. Every every damn thing that we're coming up with ends up being a tongue twister for Mikey Chyro. That's the problem. Okay. Um Yeah. Oh, do you have another one of yours? Because I went from the app. Oh, go ahead. And by the way, thank you for everyone who is writing in on the app with their suggestions. I think I'm going to put uh some of these up on the website. Okay. Because I'm kind of loving this one. Well, yeah, do tell if you have any good ones. Macy in New Brunswick. Feral Cheryl. Oh, like like a feral cat or a feral dog. The thing is, yeah, this could work for either party. I could see this being a positive. I could see this being a negative, right? Like I could She's so ambitious. She's feral Cheryl. Right. Right. It's almost like going rogue can be a good thing. She's dangerous for New Jersey. She's feral Cheryl. Feral Cheryl. So I don't know either way. But then there's also, and this is from John in Long Valley, Cheryl of Peril, which Okay, going to workshop this one a little bit. Yeah. Would Perilous Cheryl be better or should we stick with Cheryl of Peril? Cheryl Cheryl of Peril. Cheryl of Peril also might be a good band name. Yeah, I I like Cheryl of Peril. I could see Chedarelli bringing that up. You know, it's like here's what Cheryl of Peril is going to do to your taxes. Here's what Cheryl of Peril is going to happen. She's going to be perilous for New Jersey. Oh, yeah. I could see it. Immediate edit to my edit. It would be a really good tour name. Not bad. What about meltdown Mikey? Like Jack Chedarelli could just come back with like, "She's hysterical. She's claiming I'm a mass murderer." Yeah. Meltdown Mikey over there. Comes across as misogynistic. Okay. Misogynistic Mikey. That makes no sense, Jeff. I know. Super questionable. Super questionable. But it's an M word and it's illiterative. All right. Our phone number is Maniacal Mikey. Well, how would that not be the same misogynist meltdown and maniacal? Because uh it's less emotion space and people are always like women are emotional. You you don't think maniacal sounds as emotional as meltdown? I think maniacal is equally put towards men as women. Yeah. Okay. As opposed to meltdown. All right. If you have if you have any other of these, we're talking about the uh the nasty nickname that Michael Cheryl Michael Mikey Cheryl has given to Jack Chedarelli, calling him opioid Jack. Nicknames all around. 1800 283 101.5 Finsky. And you know, I I just came up with such an insulting one. I almost don't want to say it cuz I'm afraid she's going to steal it and actually use it. Uh should I have my finger on the dump button? No, no, no. It's not that. Okay. All right. You know what? Let's talk to Kathy first. Okay. I'll I'll mold this over. What a tease. What a tease. Kathy and Cream Ridge, you're on New Jersey 1.5. Hey guys, how you doing? Yeah, we're good. Okay. So, I was just thinking of this. Um, Cheryl the Murphy 2.0. You think she's going to be another Phil Murphy? Oh, absolutely. So, okay. Based on how you respond to that, she's not getting your vote, is she? Oh god, no. Oh, I'm a conservative. Okay. Could I punch it up a little? Cuz like like you know how her first name is Mikey Cheryl? What if we called her what if we called her Murphy Cheryl 2.0? Not Mikey Murphy. That's good. That's good. Just Murphy Cheryl. Okay. Yeah. Murphy Cheryl. Yeah. I feel like that gets the point across. Yeah, that's good. All right. Thanks, dude. Okay, we can go with that one. See, teamwork. Teamwork. It makes the dream work. Kathy, thank you for calling New Jersey 101.5. Okay, I'm not suggesting this. But what if if they want if they want to be this mean, what if the Cheryl camp instead of opioid Jack, you know, cuz it's like Oxycontton, right? What if they called him Oxymoron? Oh, come on. Give it to me. I tip my cap. Yep. Uh-huh. You know what? Yep. That gets a Yep. But I hope she doesn't, but I'm just telling you. All right. Tony in Bayville, you're in New Jersey. 101.5. Hey, how you doing? Hey, Tony. We have Mikey the Mangler. So, the Mangler. That Okay, this might backfire. That kind of makes her sound badass. Yeah. Yeah. Like like this makes her sound like, you know, WWE. Like I She's coming after you, brother. Okay, we have Viky the mango Cheryl. She's going to mangle the taxes like she did her military career. All right. Oh. Oh. Oh. Speaking of the military career, if she did call him Oxymoron, what if he came back Tony and called her commander in cheat? There you go. Oh yeah. There you go. I'm on fire. You You really are. Do you want me to write this? Oh boy. Hey Tony, thanks for playing along. We appreciate it. Thank you for calling New Jersey 101.5. Stay with us. 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Oh, by the way, how much you think Spadey is enjoying the opioid Jack nickname that we were talking about last hour? I don't think that show is naming Jack. Yeah. Oh. Oh, is that what they're doing? Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh, he's Voldemort now to them. I didn't know that. I'm not speaking for them. That's just what I've heard. Oh, no kidding. I did not know that. End of what Kylie has to say about that. I did not. Now you're Forest Gump. It's all I got to say about that. All right. I did not know that. All right. So, he's Voldemort. All right. So, anyway, listen. Our phone number is 1800 283101.5. Um, what I'm about to read is far more serious than the silly thing that we're going to talk about, but you know how certain things just don't get publicly shamed anymore. Mhm. And maybe public shaming might have its place. Like you ever hear about places that many towns, many cities have done this where if you get caught trying to pick up a prostitute, you go on a John's list and then they put your name on a billboard to actually publicly shame you because it's public record, right? I had not heard of the billboard. That's fascinating. Oh, they've done it. Oh, they've done this in places. I'm not doubting you. I just had just hadn't heard it. Yep. Oh, yeah, man. All right. So, in New Jersey in Philipsburg, um the police and Philipsburg Mayor Randy Piaza Jr. um they're they're not really saying much about this yet, but you know when somebody blows past a school bus and they're not supposed to, that stop sign is out. I did that by accident once. Yeah, but it was by accident. Yeah, but it still haunts me. Well, but that's Well, because you're a good person, you have a conscience conscience. You didn't mean to do it. Is by accident. I I mean, however it went down, I mean, I don't care. Like, clearly, you you didn't mean to do it, right? You you you What? Okay. Well, now everybody's wondering how how did that happen? I Well, okay. This was senior year of high school, so I was 17. I was a new driver. Oh, you were a brand new driver. Okay. So, you know, leaving high school and then going down a neighborhood, there was a bus stop and the person who was in my passenger seat was like, "You clearly just like blew through a stop sign." Like, "Oh, no. This definitely won't haunt me for the next two days." You mean a school bus stop sign? Yes. Like the the sign that goes out. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh. Oh, so you just didn't even see it. Yeah. Oh, okay. You are a monster then. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't hit a kid. I know. It just still haunts me. Yeah. Yeah. Well, all right. I mean, you made a mistake. You weren't trying to. But anyway, here's the thing. The police department there is collaborating with local schools to share bus camera videos that capture drivers passing stop school buses. Um, when uh school bus lights are flashing, you know, everybody's supposed to stop. And uh and what they're going to do is they're going to start posting the videos of the driver's cars on social media. That would have been me. Yes. And you didn't even mean to do it, but they will post them on social media. So, you know, anybody who knows your car, they're going to be like, "Hey, hey, that's John. Hey, that's Bob over there blowing through it." Right. Exactly. They're going to start doing this because they're they're going to do a little uh public shaming. And uh hey, you know, maybe public shaming could have its place. All right. Now, here's the thing. I'm not talking about anything serious. I feel like a lot of life's pettier problems could be could be solved by a little public shaming. I feel there are certain things that happen in public with annoying behavior that really need to be publicly shamed. I Oh, I can think of some Oh, for example. Oh, I I could I I could do this whole hour. For example, somebody who leaves their car at a gas pump. Okay. and wanders inside the store to go shopping when it's a very busy day and there are others possibly waiting for the gas pump. I feel like maybe their face should be on a billboard somewhere. I think that might be a good public shaming right there. You and our colleague Michelle Penza feel the same way about that. I Well, she gets heated. Yeah, I I could see it. I could see it. Or here's another one. Somebody who they don't have little kids in the car and they're completely able-bodied and yet they refuse to put their shopping cart back in the cart corral in the parking lot of of a grocery store or a Walmart. They'll just leave it sit and pull away instead of walking the cart over where it's supposed to go, putting it into the little cart corral like an orderly decent human being. I can understand if you are not ablebodied, if you're kind of hobbling around, or if you've got little kids in the car that you don't want to walk 150 feet away from, if that's the only place you could have parked because you don't want to leave them once you get them strapped in. I could understand that. But if you're able-bodied and you're not returning the cart to the cart corral, that's a public shaming right there. Uh that I I'm with you on that one. Yeah. Go. It's got its exceptions. So I'm not being a hard ass, but I'm saying like when when you're perfectly able to do it and you're just, you know, uh too lazy to do it and then maybe especially on a windy day. Oh yeah. Non- windy day, maybe just the name. Windy day, the name and a picture of you if they had one. Put it up on a billboard. Public shaming. That's a public shaming. Okay. I'm going to do another one that's um Okay. convenience store or grocery store related. Okay. Okay. But these don't have to be at 1800 283101.5. Yeah. We want to know what annoying behavior you think ought to be publicly shamed. The people who are walking around on speakerphone. I don't I don't even want to hear your side of the conversation, let alone both sides of the conversation. Mhm. And how is that how is that easier for you to hear when you have all the atmosphere? Wouldn't it be easier for the phone to just be up to your ear? And how is that not annoying for the person who you're talking to to hear all the background noises? Yeah. I don't know. I never understand the people who are walking down the aisles of Shopright just yapping on speakerphone. For why? I ask you for why. Public shaming. Okay. Okay, now that you've put me in a grocery store. Mhm. Okay, forget a grocery store. Actually, think more Walmart. Walmart is notorious for doing this. Okay. When you use their selfch checkout and you're walking out of the store and they stop you and ask to see a receipt, that jerk has to have his face on a billboard because they should never do that. Wait, the person who's just doing their job? Yeah, the person who allegedly is doing their job. But guess what? You have no legal requirement. If they don't have any articul articulable, that's a hard word to say, reason to stop you and be suspicious that you've been shoplifting, they have no legal right to stop you and ask to see your receipt. I mean, they they can ask, but they cannot demand it is how I should phrase this. They cannot demand it. You do not have to legally show it to them. And I hate when they do that. And that ought to be a public shaming. Okay. I hate when they do that. Well, now I have to know. Have you ever just completely said no to a person? Oh, dozens of times, Jeff? Really? Dozens of time. Yeah. Oh, we can get into it, but absolutely. Not right now. Maybe after traffic. Dozens of times. All right. What is What is annoying public behavior that ought to get a little shame? 1800 283 101.5 519. Here's fast traffic. We are here to tell you about land. 525 with Jeff Dinsky and Kylie Moore. We're doing a little public shaming here. Yeah. What kind of annoy? Yeah. What What kind of annoy I mean, it can be minor little things, but you know, it's the little things that drive you crazy. What kind of minor annoyances people do everyday people do in public places that just drives you nuts and you would like to maybe publicly shame them a little bit? 1 800283101.5. Okay. Call out the behavior. What bothers you? I know we're kind of harping on stores right now, but it could be otherwise. But the people who clearly see the sign that says 10 items or less. Mhm. And they're like, I mean, well, it's only 14. 14 isn't 10 or less. Honey, don't go in that line. Mhm. You're not better than everyone else. Oh, I like the dope whose excuse for it will be like, "Oh, well, but I've got three bags of salad, but it's just salad, so that ought to be like one item right there, even though it's in three bags." It's like, "Oh, f you." No, it's not. It's three items. Just move. And by the way, uh you're marveling that I would dare to just not give them the receipt. Have you always given them the receipt when you're walking out of like a Walmart or or have you never been asked? I um any I I I have not been asked a lot, but the few times that I have, I've been like, "Okay, here you go." Never. No. Well, okay. I should not say never because I'm sure there have been some times when I have. You know what I will? If I've got something that can't go in a bag, like when the kids were young enough to be in diapers, say, and the big diaper box and you can't fit that in a bag and it's on the under part of the shopping cart, the undercarriage, right? The undercarriage. Some people will just forget because it's underneath there. And if I had something like that, then I could understand it more. Even though I know I don't legally have to show them, but then I would show them receipt. But other than that, especially when everything's in all bags and some horse's ass is like, "I need to see your receipt." I'll be like, "No, you don't." Sir, I need to see your receipt. One time I had Cooper sitting in the, you know, little boy seat part uh in the in the upper part of the cart. And I said, "No, you don't." And I just started rolling past him. He grabbed the shopping cart. Oh, forcefully with my kid in it and said, "You don't leave until I see your receipt." And I was like, "Get your godlank hand off of this cart now." I was like, "Huh? Yes." Because he saw that. Oh. He saw the anger in my eyes. And I was like, "You you can ask me. You don't legally get to tell me." And you know that. If you don't know that, then they misproperly trained you. I am not showing you the receipt. Call the cops right now if you have an issue with it. Oo. And he just stared at me. He put his hands down and I walked out. Do you remember how old Not that this technically matters, but do you remember how old Cooper was at the time? Uh, probably about four. That is a bold move. Yeah. Don't grab that cart forcefully when I got a kid in the cart, you jerk. like that. Oh, and he was coming off like some kind of arrogant cop. It's like, you got no authority here. You could politely ask, but you don't get to tell me. You have no Now, now the places that do, by the way, when you have signed an agreement like at a Costco or Sam's Club, that is part of the membership agreement that you have signed. Then they can and then I've never given a problem because you have signed up for that that they check receipts. But in other stores, they can ask, but they cannot do anything if you just say no thank you and keep going. They have to have an articul articul articulable uh reason for believing that you stole something, for them to be able to detain you. That legitimately got my heart racing. Don't get the kid involved. Yeah. Oh, I Oh, I was pissed. Oh, I was pissed. Anyway, I don't mean to make this hour about that annoying stuff that you would like to kind of publicly shame people for. 1800283101.5. I got a text that I know is one that pisses you off, but I want to get to a call first. Sure. Yeah. Debbie in Cranford, you're on New Jersey 101.5. Hey guys, how you doing? Hi Debbie, we're good. What bothers you that public that that people do in public? What bothers me is when people park in handicapped spaces when they're not handicapped. Oh yes. Have you ever called the cops on them or confronted them? I have not. I have not. But but it's just I mean I I luckily I'm not handicapped. I don't need the space. But when I do see it happen, it just really irks me. Yeah. But I know I never Why do they think they're better than everyone else? And why do they think that they should take that spot away from someone who legitimately needs it? Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. This really bothered me. Yeah. Hey, hey, Debbie. Debbie, thanks for calling in the New Jersey 101.5. You want to save that for after the news? Uh, yes. Because because I know you'll have stuff to say about it. Okay. All right. What kind What kind of annoying behavior ought to be publicly shamed? And I'm going to give you a quickie. What about uh you're behind somebody on the on the escalator, they get to the bottom of the escalator, and they just stop. Oh, time to check my phone. Yeah. Yeah. It's like, what do you think is about to happen, [ __ ] We're about to turn into a three stooges bit here. 1 800283101.5 with your electric bill. New Jersey New Jersey 101.5. It is 537 and oh, you missed the cash code. That sucks. But you're going to have another thousand at work payday coming up tomorrow morning. It starts again in the 8 a.m. hour with Bill Spadia. Right now, we're talking about those annoying things that people do in public. the little things, but it's the little things that eat away at you that really they should be publicly shamed for. Like paying an exact change when there's a long line behind you and the 87year-old is like, "Hold on, I think I got a nickel in here somewhere. This sounds like a personal attack. You don't do that. You don't do it." Real quick before we get back to the phone calls before I forget, because I know that this one gets to you. This was texted in by my mom who is listening. She says, "The people who talk on the phone in public bathrooms." Oh, you shouldn't even be Yeah. Just ju just don't get it out. Just don't I don't care if it's even in private. I don't care if it's at home. Just don't do it. Not even home. Not even home. In the comfort of your own throne. Not even home. Not even a text. You don't do it. using the bathroom. It should be like a bank job. You're getting in, you're getting out before the cops get there. What would you do if you were on the phone with someone and normal conversation, suddenly you hear a flush in the like a distant flush? Well, who am I on? What is it? Somebody that I know personally. Let's say it's me. I would say, "What the hell are you doing?" And I would be mad. Would you hang up? Uh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I think I would hang up. Yeah. So noted, sir. Yeah. Yeah. I would say like, yeah, you know what? Uh, zebras look around before they drink from the water hole because there's danger. I would think you're having a stroke. Okay, whatever. It's just not to be done. It's not to be done. What's an annoying behavior that should be publicly shamed? 1800 283101.5 in Oxford. Jason, you're on New Jersey 101.5. Yes. Good afternoon, guys. Something that gets under my skin that drives me absolutely bonkers is when someone's on their cell phone and they're trying to check out online. It's like give the cashier your undivided attention to be respectful. It just drives me insane. Oh, and and almost invariably that seems like an oxymoron there. almost invariably, but it will usually happen that the that the cashier needs something that the person is not catching them say and then you're holding up the entire line. So, it's not just rude to the cashier, but right, it's rude to you and the second and the third and the fourth person and the person you're on the phone with. That's true. Exactly. It's just not fair. And I told my daughters, "Hey, when you get old enough, you get a cell phone. Do not do this. It's It's just disrespectful." Point blank. I totally agree. Yep. They they should be their faces should be on a billboard somewhere. Absolutely. Publicly shame them. What would you do if right now in the background of Jason's phone call you heard, "All right, so your total is $4.99 or or or a toilet flush." Oh no, that would be worse. That would be worse. Oh man, we probably had that sound effect, too. I could have totally pranked you, Jason. Darn it. J Jason, do you also hate it if somebody's calling you from the bathroom? Um, I let it just keep ringing. Yes. I just I I don't answer the phone in the bathrooms. I don't answer the phone in the checkout line. I'm just like, there you go. Right. No way. Right. A time and a place, you know. A time and a place. Common courtesy. Common courtesy. There you go. Yeah. You guys can speak for yourselves. Oh, there we go. Oh, no. At least I made it me. You know what? That is so distant. It really did sound like it's coming from Jason's phone. That was actually That That really worked. Made my day. That really worked. Oh, Jason, you're a sweetheart. Thank you so much for calling New Jersey 101.5, even if it was from the you know where. It wasn't. That was me. That was me. Dave in Hatton Township, you're in New Jersey 101.5. How you doing? Yeah. My pet peeve is you pull into the W gas station, then they jump out of the car and they run into the snack shop. That drives me. Oh. Oh. They don't have the courtesy to pull up. And and then you uh sparked actually a memory when I was in high school. I worked at a gas station. Older man would come in, buy just a cup of coffee, and he had like a thousand rubber bands on his wallet and we peel one off at a time. And I got to the point when he came in, I just gave him a free cup of coffee. I said, "Here, take it. You're back at the lines backing up." Right. Right. I've seen these guys. I never understood it, but I've seen these guys with all the rubber bands. It's like you got Fort Knox there in your pocket with all your precious fortunes. It's like, "Oh my god, just move it along." Yeah, that's very funny. Yeah, you spar you sparked a good memory there. I had never heard of that. This is a real Today I Learned. And by the way, Kylie, uh, leaving the car abandoned at the gas pump thing. Yeah. Um, I I know I told you about the one place that cuz I'm living in Mammoth County now. I told you about the one place, I think it's in my town of Madawan where they had the sign. I'm seeing more of them now. This is a northern Monmouth County thing. I'm seeing more gas stations with more signs in that area saying not to do that that are saying do not leave your car at this pump. Use a parking space. They're saying it in all different ways, but right there's a revolt starting to happen and I'm here for it. I'll have to look for that next time I go to Quick Check. Yeah, I have not seen it, but admittedly I have not been looking out for it. Now I will. Tom and Matuchen, you're on New Jersey 101.5. What's an annoying behavior that you think should be publicly shamed? How you doing? I just want to comment on the bathroom one because when it happens to me at work, I intentionally flush the toilet. I hit that little button to get him back. Jeff is shaking his head. You can't see it, but Jeff is shaking his head. I'm just It's just It's nasty, man. And and then Kylie, also to comment on your one about people on speaker phone, it's even worse when they do it in the NJ Transit. Quiet car on the train. Oh, that's just uncalled for. They still have those quiet cars. That's still a thing. Absolutely. Yeah. First and last car on every train during rush hour in and out. They're still doing that. All right. All right. But my main my major one is and I I have a 15-year-old which I'm trying to teach her how like proper driving skills is when people pull up in that lefthand turn lane where it's got the line on it and their car is a car and a half in front of it and preventing trucks from turning in. Oh, that Well, yeah. I mean, a lot of these a lot of these have been annoying but not illegal. That one you could actually get a ticket for. Yes, you're right. Exactly. I always look for cops and they're never around during that. Yeah, never. Darned it. Tom, thank you for calling New Jersey 101.5. We want to know the annoying public behavior that could use a little shaming. 1 800283101.5. So listen, if you're craving fresh 553 Jeff and Kylie here, hanging out with you, wanting to know what annoying behavior you think should be publicly shamed, because frankly, we have to put a stop to it somehow. If not us, who? If not now, when? When I ask a cashier, hey, how you doing? You know what? I don't need to hear their actual answer. I'm blessed. I don't want to hear that. Don't bring religion into this. I'm blessed. Don't just don't do it. Don't want to hear it. A quick follow-up question before we go back to the phones. What does it bother you if you were in public and you sneezed and a stranger said, "Bless you." No. But isn't that the They're not meaning the same thing. They're not meaning the same thing. They could say kazoon height. They could say wacky wacky. They could say anything. But they're not they're sayingless anymore. But when somebody says I'm blessed, that is an extremely religious person who is bringing the religion into a place of business. How is that different? It's different. It's different because God bless you doesn't really have the meaning that you're assigning it. I know I know I know the word God is in there. I know the word blesses in there, but it's this knee-jerk reaction and people aren't really they're not really truly invoking religion when they're saying, "God bless you." In the last 15 seconds, I started developing a headache. Atheists say, "God bless you." Agnostics say, "God bless you." I would say bless you. I wouldn't say I wouldn't invoke God. Okay. You know what? As answered, Tom in Frenchtown, you're on New Jersey 101.5. How you doing? Hey, how are you? This is an this an this is an interesting uh conversation. Um my issue is is people who don't dog owners who don't pick up their dog poop on the sidewalk or in the aisle at Walmart because they shouldn't have brought their dog in there to begin with. Oh, another one Jeff hates. Oh yeah, that's a double fault. That's a double whammy. I've not seen that one. Yeah, I've not seen that one. But I I think we've in my neighborhood we've had like serial serial poopers. Pooper le pooper lever. Serial pooper levers. And I No, I think it's like I think it's like a passive aggressive thing. It's got to be I think it's amazing thing. I can see not Yeah, I can see not having a bag every once in a while, but even the parks nowadays, you know, they have those ready, right? They're providing Yes. Right. Right. There are places where they're providing them and the people are still just leaving it there. Not okay. It's just laziness. And you're right. That does deserve to be publicly shamed. Face on a billboard. I say, "Thank you for calling New Jersey 101.5. Stick with us for Danny's news in 4 and 1/2 minutes." Spia here for County Con New Jersey time. It is 6:10. It's a Wednesday eve, meaning it's Tuesday evening, the night before, you know, Wednesday. We know it's Tuesday. And uh we are Daminsky and more. I'm Jeff Deinsky. I'm Kylie Moore. Uh yeah, we uh we have already done all the codes for today if you're looking for that thousand dollar, but it all starts up again with your at work payday tomorrow morning with Bill Spadia in the 8 a.m. hour. And on Thursday, it goes to $10,000 in prize money. So keep on listening. So we're going to ask you to do something a little unusual here, but we're asking you. So don't consider yourself like you're bragging. We want to hear your story. We want you to not brag necessarily, but were you ever were you ever in a position that you ended up saving or help save somebody's life? And I'm saying, you know, obviously if you're a firefighter, a medic, or or a police officer, you folks, you do that all the time. and we appreciate it. But oh, 100%. You men and women are the best of the best. You do that all the time. And we're not minimizing it. We're saying we already know you're a hero. You're a hero just that that that you would do it and you're putting yourself out there every day. But I'm saying like when you're when you're not okay, let's say that you are a state assemblyman and you know everybody hates you because you're a politician, right? So everybody already thinks that you're a scumbag, right? But here you are suddenly coming upon a scene of something tragic and you actually along with three bystanders, you uh you jump in to save a guy from a burning car. This is exactly what happened with an assemblyman, Al Abdelaziz. Uh he's out of um Payic. Um he was driving on Barber Street about 11:30 one morning when he sees a vehicle behind him crash into two parked cars. And this assemblyman, he jumps out to help. Smoke begins pouring out of the car and the dazed driver is remaining behind the wheel. he's not getting out. And um the assemblyman stated that he witnessed the accident. Um he and three bystanders. There was an offduty uh police officer. Um there was a uh that that was a detective. He was uh in the area with his father. Um and there were two other people, just bystanders. All of them rush over to pull this guy out of a car that was catching on fire. That's pretty damn cool. Now, um, if you ever did anything, it doesn't have to be that dramatic, but I mean, even if you did the Heimlick maneuver on somebody, um, it could be your own family member that you saved. It could be a total stranger that you saved, but it wasn't a paycheck that you were doing it for. It wasn't, you know, uh, your your your job, but you were just in the right place at the right time, and you at least tried your best to save somebody. Have you ever been in that situation? We want to hear your story. 1 800283101.5. See, we're both kind of kind of lame in this territory because we pretty much have the same story of just saving a family member who had gone into a pool when they were too young, didn't know how to swim yet. Yeah. which I know I I don't feel right. I I like of course I'm going to jump in to save my daughter who just inexplicably jumped into a pool when she couldn't swim. She was I think like two and she sank like a rock. That was what was creepy about it. They always talk about like well if you just throw them in they learn to swim. Yeah. Not this kid. Okay. I'm realizing now it's very funny that now she's in the Coast Guard. I know. And she's an excellent swimmer now. She defeated the water, right? Yeah. Talk about a long way to come. Don't come at me. Water, right? But yeah, she was 2 years old. We were on vacation somewhere and she just pulled right out of my hand. I mean, cuz I I should have been holding her hand tighter, but I never in a million years thought she was going to do this. But she like forcibly like pulled her hand out of mine and just like hurls herself into the resort swimming pool. No idea why she did it. And she didn't. Well, because she was two. I Yeah, I guess. But she just hit that water and dropped like a rock. There was none of this water baby stuff where she suddenly moving her arms and kicking her legs and treading water. She just went lifeless and sank. And and I'm fully dressed and I just throw myself in to go after her. And on the way in, because I was like off balance from all of it, I throw myself in, but I cracked my left shoulder into the side. I don't remember this part of the story. Oh, yeah. I cracked the my left shoulder on the edge of the pool going in and my entire left arm went completely useless, numb. So, I've got one arm. I've got my right arm and I don't have use of my left arm now cuz it is totally out of commission just from that. I had to get physical therapy for it later on. I tore something in it shoulder. So anyway, I got one arm now. I got my shoes on. You know how like like you got clothing on, you're like weighted down with the water. And with one arm, I just quickly like with two strokes got down to the bottom of the pool. literally scooped her with my one hand off the floor of the pool. That's how fast she sank. And then just like kicked back up, handed her off to um well, not to really anybody. It was really Jack that was the closest, but he was like four. And I was like, "Jack, just just grab her hand. Don't let her go cuz I'm trying to get out of the pool with one arm, you know." Wow. But what was yours? Something similar, you said, right? a cousin or absolutely not as entertaining. No, mine was and I was also a kid at the time. I'm going to say my sister was four, which would put me at like let's say nine. Yeah. Yeah. And maybe she was younger. I don't I I don't remember. It's just that we both remember that this did happen. And apparently neither of our parents saw it because anytime Kendall brings up like, "Uh, remember when Kylie saved my life?" They're like, "Nah." Um, wow. Deniers. So yeah, it was just that we were at our neighbor's pool and I guess Kendall didn't have her, you know, her swimming her floaties on. Yeah, you have the floaties on. And went into the deep end and I knew that she did not know how to swim. So I'm looking around like, um, are any of the adults paying attention? No. Okay. And she hadn't she didn't sink like like you said, Mina did, right? She was still kind of like bobbing along, right? But I knew she didn't know how to swim. She didn't know how to get to the ladder. And I kind of scooped her and just like brought her over to the edge. So again, not as dramatic. Like yours is far scarier. Yeah. I I can't believe I completely forgot the arm shattering part of that story. Oh, yeah. I had to go to physical therapy and everything for it. It was jacked up, man. I should have gone first. No, it's fine. Please. It's not And I want to And you know what? I'm I'm almost glad you said that cuz I was about to say it's not a competition. And I want our listeners to know that, too. If yours isn't all that dramatic, please don't feel like we don't want to hear it. If it was a quick He himck maneuver and it popped out just fine, that's as good as a half an hour of CPR or running into a burning building. We don't care if you if you tried to help save somebody's life. That's all we care about. We want to hear your story. Oo, himck. You've never had to perform it. Correct. I kind of did, but I guess I I don't know if I would call it the Heimlick. What would you call it? Like that that that baby toddler him look. Oh, aren't you supposed to like It's like baby compressions. It Well, not well like Yeah, like you sort of do like it's not like the full him. So, I don't even know if I did it right, but one of my one of my boys was choking and uh and I kind of himlicked him but in a half ass sort of don't know if I'm doing it right way and I don't know if I got the food out of there or if he just like coughed it up in his own. So, I can't really know. I don't I don't know if I saved him. Take the credit, baby. Yeah, I don't know. I don't want to. And I know that's how everybody feels. Nobody feels like a hero when you do this. I get it. Um, but we do want to hear your story though. Did you ever uh try to save a life? 1800 283 101.5 right now. It's 619. Here's Fast Traffic. Hey, at Resorts World Cat Skills this month for a chance to Kylie, I keep telling you, you got to go there sometime. And I keep telling you, give me another pistachio martini. Yeah. And uh this is what I'm joking because this is one of Kylie's and Kylie's family's uh favorite places. Yes. Your your mom and dad had their anniversary there recently, right? Yes. I got them a gift card. Yeah. Very very nice. So, you know, I didn't get to benefit from it, but they enjoyed themselves. It's his wife. Very nice. All right. I wanted to do it, but that's just repetitive. Oh, that's one of those lines where once you hear someone else, you want to do it. Oh, right. Everybody wants to join in. I can't help it. My wife. All right. 1 800283101.5. Uh there's this terrific story involving a New Jersey state assemblyman and uh and others uh three other bystanders. They all together pulled a guy out of a burning car in New Jersey. I mean uh that's that's heroic and and there they were. Now it doesn't have to be that dramatic, but were you ever involved in trying to save somebody's life? 1 800283101.5. Rich and Warren, you're on New Jersey one of 1.5. Kylie Jeff, what's going on? Kylie did. My wife did the same thing you did with my other daughter. She She same thing. Her floaties came unhooked and she dove in with her son sundress at a party once. Yeah. It was unbel I was like, "Boy, she's really drunk. She's jumping in the pool with her dress on." Oh, because Right. Because you didn't see the full picture. Yeah. And then you quickly realized what was happening. Yeah. That's funny. like, "Oh, you didn't pay attention." Blah, blah, blah. But anyway, no. Wait, wait, wait. Can I make a real quick guess? Did she blame you for ruining her sun her sundress? Uh, no. Kind of like, well, you pay attention. But like, you know, my knucklehead friend uh he hired like the prettiest girl at the high school to be the lifeguard. So, she was literally right there, but all the boys were like talking to her the whole time. And I'm like, you know, way to go. Wow. So yeah, it was basically she was not paying attention to what was going on. Wow. Yeah, but Wow. What a I was going to tell you about Yeah. No, my time my I would didn't really save anyone, but we were at a tournament. The girls were like 10 and 12. My son was little and we're at a tournament in Maryland lacrosse tournament and you know how hard it is to like fall asleep at those tournaments and it's just a it's just mayhem. And we're we finally fall asleep. It's like midnight and all of a sudden we hear boom. But someone's slamming into the wall and we hear a girl's voice go, "He's killing me. Help me." Oh my god. So, everyone wakes up and staring at me like I'm going to do something. And they're like, my wife's like, "Get out there and help her." I'm like, "I grab my daughter's little lacrosse stick, right?" And I like go in the hallway. There's another dad out there. And we're both like creeping towards the door. I don't know what to do. And then I hear her again. He's killing me. Help. I'm like, "Oh my god." So, I just I don't know what my instinct was. I just slammed my fist on the door and I was like, "Security, open up." Nice. And literally literally the door opened up right away. And it was like it had to be a 20some year old kid. And he had a big scratch mark on his face. Like she clawed him really good. Yeah. Defense wound. Yeah. He walked right past us. He just w he just like looked drunk. He was his eyes. Hey, but he but he left. But that's the important thing. You did save her. Yeah. What? No. What did the girl do? Did you? She was on the couch and of course my wife, the heroes s, you know, runs in and, you know, sits with her and it's like, "It's okay, honey. We got you." And the guy the kid just walked out and the police showed up, you know, like five minutes later. But yeah, you know, the guy the guy in the hallway across from us goes, "Are you nuts? That guy could have a gun." And I'm like, "Oh jeez." Yeah. But we're all humans. You got to do something. It's just instinct. You're a good guy. Yeah. You're selling yourself short in this story. That's You honestly could have saved her or did save her. Yeah, you did. Not could have. That's Yeah, for sure. Hey, Rich. Yeah, that's terrifying, but thank you for calling in. Thanks for the story. Appreciate it. Wow, that's that's so scary. Allison in Freehold, you're on New Jersey 101.5. Hi. Hi. Can you hear me? Yeah, you're good. Okay. Okay. Okay. Um, yeah. So, this was about four years ago. Um, my boyfriend and I were hiking and he had a cardiac arrest. It was just me and him. Um, he was talking one minute and then passed out the next minute and I started CPR and oh my god, I couldn't call 911 because I couldn't stop CPR. So, I was I really had a choice to make. Do I do continue CPR and pray or do I try and find reception on this mountain? Right. Yeah. I don't know what I would do. You're on a hiking trail and no one else around. So, what So, what did you do? Yes. So, I continued CPR and um about 15 minutes later, a random hiker came up with his dog and I started screaming at him to call 911. This poor guy probably didn't know what he walked into seeing this lady over this actively dying man and he helped. He called he called 911 and then helped. We tag team. I did mouth to mouth and he did chest compressions and it took about another good 20 to almost a 30 minutes for EMS to come to us. It must have felt like hours. And you said and you actually And he's okay. You saved him. No. No. Unfortunately, this was not a good outcome. He did not survive. He didn't. Oh my god. I'm so sorry. Oh, how old was he? Thank you. Um, he was 52. Um, yes. And it was no signs and symptoms. It just he was literally talking one minute, passed out the next. And it was very traumatic because it wasn't just like in the movies where you see someone like fall asleep and they're gone. It was a very active, brutal end of life. So, sorry. Horrible. Thank you. Yeah, it was um but you know the attempt was there like my knees were bruised trying to do body. Oh, I mean that is supposed to be it must have been exhausting. I mean I mean your adrenaline is going you you know you you do it anyway but afterwards you must have just been Yeah. Oh man experience. I could not believe this was happening. Yeah. Thank you. But the attempt was made and uh you know definitely trying to know CPR is something we should all you know know basic knowledge of to at least try. I'm so so sorry you went through this. Yeah, there's nothing I can say besides just echoing I'm sorry you went through that but you did everything you could and that's what's important. Oh that's heartbreaking. Hey, yeah, I I feel weird to even say thank you, but I mean, uh, but okay, silver lining. Maybe Allison's story will inspire someone to learn CPR just in case they're, god forbid, ever in that situation. I took it. I took courses once, but I'm not, it's been years enough that I'm not certified anymore. I really need to do that again because they even have changed u the ratio of uh chest compressions to you know mouth blows with it like since I took it. Like I really do need to up my game and and get reertified. Well, there we go. Allison, you might have inspired us. So, thank you for calling New Jersey 101.5. All right. So, we're talking about good Samaritans trying to save a life at 1800 283101. family farm is open for the fall live 638 on New Jersey 101.5 Jeff and Kylie here wanting to know times that you've saved a life. It doesn't have to be that monumental of a story. It's just I Hey, it's impressive that you did it at all. 1 800283101.5. I was about four, maybe even three and a half, and I was starting to fall out of uh the backseat of the car because the door came flying open when my dad when my dad was making a left turn. I was in in the back seat on the right. Uh he was going pretty fast. The door flies open and I went flying out of the car, no seat belt on. And uh my brother saved my life. He Yeah, he grabbed me. My I I was so My head was so close to hitting the ground that I literally I remember literally seeing beneath the door. Like my head was right was right by the road rushing right by my ear because I was looking under the door. It was I'm sorry. How old were you? I was about three and a half. Wow. Yeah. And my brother So, how how old was he? Uh, he he would have been about uh seven and a half. Wow. Yeah. And he grabbed me. Good for him for being that quick. Yeah, he was very quick. Yep. He Yeah, he saved me. Yeah. Got to say, that's all I got to say about that. There's nothing other than that is impressive. That's all I got for you. We both we both sort of hit a wall there. All right, Jim in South Jersey. Hey Jim, how you doing? Hey guys, how are you? Uh just wanted to I don't know if this is technically saving someone or whatever, but uh about 10 years ago, I was uh in a classroom uh science week in my school and uh uh we had a guy bring in some reptiles and uh one of them was a 6 and 1/2t long alligator. Oh goodness. Oh my god. Okay. Okay. Yeah. So, he was uh you know, kind of telling the kids about the alligator and at some point the alligator just got a little feisty uh and the handler says, "Hey, knock it off." And I thought he was talking to some of the kids and I stood up and next thing I know, the alligator took a swipe at him. Uh and I went running toward the front of the classroom. All the kids went running to the back and it chomped down on his leg. And ne next thing I know I'm jumping through the air and I landed on the back of the alligator and get out of here. Yeah, man. It was on and uh my only thought was hold it hold it down so my kids could get out of the class. Oh my gosh. You're I mean you're a school teacher and all of a sudden you're you're wrestling you're freaking wrestling an alligator in your classroom. Yes sir. Yes sir. uh the school went into you know shut you know lockdown mode and friends from other schools were wondering what was going on. I had a bunch of friends who were you know and couldn't believe it. They said alligator was going well well wait a minute but I mean that was later but like so like you land on the back of this alligator. Did it let go of the trainer's leg? No. In fact I I when I positioned myself like kind of put him in like a full Nelson. I was right near his eye and it kept hissing and every time the door door would open it would try to stand up and that was you know about the only time I was scared in the event was that and and what are its jaws doing at this point is still still around the guy's leg. Yeah. Locked locked on his leg and I could I kind of looked at him and I could tell he was going into shock and I tried to you know coax him. I said, "Buddy, I got to get your leg out of his mouth. Like, you got to stay with me." And uh eventually he Yeah. He kind of told us told us what to do. Um we pushed his tongue into the back of his mouth and it like re tried to rebite and which allowed us to get a board in his mouth so the guy could pull his leg out and he spun around and he kind of said to me, "Oh, I got this now. I got this now." And at that point, he was kind of unfortunately bleeding. Oh my goodness. you know, pretty pretty profusely probably. Yeah. Yeah. So, we had heard he refused medical on the scene and we had heard that he got somewhere around the neighborhood of 105 or 110 stitches. Um, you know, and uh it was definitely, you know, an event. I I have so many questions. Yeah. Go ahead, Kylie. First off, Jim, I'm I'm sorry if you said this already. How old were the kids? Uh the kids were like middle school. Okay. They were eighth graders. Yeah. So did you Well, we we'll get back to the the poor man after this. But did you continue with classes after like with lessons after this happened or was it kind of like okay, everyone has free time. Yeah. They probably cancel school the rest of the day, right? No, they So, what ends up happening is the the police showed up and they wanted to, you know, kind of kind of extinguish the, you know, the the animal right there. And I refused to let them. I said, you know, I'd known most of the cops and said, "No, you guys aren't shooting a gun in my school." And I went to the nurse, um, you know, and the principal had some nice words to say. I went back to my kids that they had gotten out of the classroom because they thought I got hurt. And I just explained to him, you know, everything was good. It was I'll say to you, it was pretty funny because when I did, one of the kids said, you know, Mr. So and So, we knew you were serious because you you told us to, you know, shut up and you don't like us to use the sword. Oh, right. But but there were some kids that were definitely freaked out and everybody was safe and, you know, the next couple of days were, you know, Yeah. just, you know, kind of trying to reconnect with the kids a little bit. There were definitely some kids who were shaken up and and uh you know some surprised parents when they heard the story that night. Um you know so and yeah it it was an experience I I you know I said every time after that my super you know anytime that there was an animal in the building I was calling out that day. Oh I you should have negotiated a raise from that. I Yeah. I'm so sorry. I I was just trying to figure out um who saved the kids from an alligator. Yeah. Right. Was it you, principal, or was it me? I I Wow. I'm I'm trying to I'm racking my brain. Yeah, it was pretty funny. And then years later, I ran into the uh to the administrator who was, you know, telling the story, and he couldn't believe he was telling the story at a at a workshop, and here I'm there. And it was, you know, it was pretty uh it was pretty funny. So, everybody took pictures with me. I was going, "Ah, that's it's good. It's going, you know, so wow. That that's an incredible story. Yeah. That's just I mean like mind blown. Just mind blown. And you know those students are still thinking about you. That's that's crazy. How do they Hey Jim, thank you. How do they not have that alligator's mouth banded up? Like I'm still Who the hell brings a sixoot alligator without the mouth being tied up in a classroom? I I want the biopic. I want the biopic. I demand to see it. I I got to look I mean that would have made news, right? I got to look this up. Okay, you do that. I just All right. All right. Anyway, I know I said it's not a competition, but we'll we'll get back to your calls. Sorry we spent that much time on on on that one caller. We don't normally do that, but yeah, we don't normally talk to a guy who wrestled an alligator in a classroom. Bit of an outlier. 18 Yeah, exactly. 1 800283 101.5. Hey there, it's Kylie. Are you dealing with drafty windows? New Jersey 101.5. Don't forget Thursday that at work payday. It goes all the way to $10,000, but the thousand one resumes again tomorrow morning in the 8:00 hour with Bill with Bill Spadia. All right, let's uh go back to the phones for some uh saving a life stories. Uh Doug in Long Valley. Hi. Hi. How are you? We're good. We're good. Long time listener, part sometime caller. Welcome back, Doug. Yeah, I'm glad you did. Thank you. Kudos to Jim and Rich and Allison. They are heroes. Uh, my story is so boring compared to theirs. It's okay. I happen to be I happen to be a lifeguarding, CPR, and first aid instructor. I also happen to be a snowbird and I spend my winters down in Florida where I work at a resort and spa where we kick off the holiday season with a sip and um and orurve sip and shop event. And one of my co-workers screamed my name knowing that I was an instructor and said, "This woman's choking." The woman was choking on ordurve. So I I headed over, got behind her. Four thrusts later, she grabs my wrist and the thing in her mouth popped out onto the counter. So we uh we got a receipt. We got her something to drink. I went and found my supervisor. I said, "Do we need to do a uh an incident report on this?" And she said, "Well, where's the woman now?" I looked over. She was sipping champagne and eating another orb. I think I I think we're okay here. Yeah. Really? She's She's not going to complain. No, that's awesome, Doug. Yeah, that's awesome. Wow. No, good for you, Doug. That's That would have been a very high stress situation for the K dog. But I'm so happy it worked out. Thank you for calling New Jersey 101.5. Michael in Flemington, you're on New Jersey 101.5. Hello. Hey, Michael. We only have like one minute. If you could tell this quick. real quick. Simply doing an oil to gas conversion. Contractor blew up the house. Had to run upstairs while most of the walls and windows were blown out. Grab my fourmonth old daughter out of the crib and get outside. Oh my god. Four months. Oh, that's terrifying. Hers was the only room not completely destroyed in the blast. Whoa. Oh, that's like that that that's like intervention from above right there, man. That's crazy. And the place was on fire, I'm assuming, too. Not much of a fire, but Not much of a fire. The whole the whole house literally came up off the foundation and back down. Wow. So then, of course, like you got to get her out of there cuz you don't know like it might just collapse. That was the thought, right? Of course. Oh, man. That's Thank god it all worked out, though. Yeah. Wow. What? All right. Hey, Michael. Good. Good job. Good job, Dad. I can't believe the stories we heard this hour. Right, Michael, thank you so much for calling in. Explosions, alligators. Oh my god. All right. Well, thank you for all those stories and thank you for listening. Steve Trevalis is coming up after Danny Dresen's news on New Jersey 101.5.
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