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Life & Safety with Jimmy Rios
Love Hurts: When Romance Gets Risky
Valentine’s Day is all about love, but sometimes romance comes with unexpected risks. Whether it’s restaurant mishaps, allergic reactions to that fancy dinner, or a surprise proposal that takes a turn for the worse, we’re touching on some safety hazards you might not think about -- until they happen.
We’re sharing some of our own Valentine’s Day stories, including Jimmy’s unforgettable run-in with a giant orange gorilla (trust us, you’ll want to hear this one - it's tots-adorbs). Plus, we have some practical safety tips for you for date nights, gift-giving, and even the workplace -- because nothing says "romantic fail" like an office fire from an ill-placed candle.
Tune in for some true stories, humor, and of course our usual safety tips, to help you have a fun, stress-free, and disaster-proof Valentine's Day!
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Hey, what's happening? It's your boy, jimmy, with another life and safety podcast. Of course, I got Megs with me.
Megan:Woot, woot, woot woot. Yes.
Jimmy:You've been listening to too much rap music, sweet.
Megan:The sound effects. It's exciting.
Jimmy:Okay, then we got Miguel in the background. Okay, and we got miguel in the background and we're gonna talk about valentine's day to kind of stay on the uh, holiday safety thing we've been doing. I almost said safety train, but that sounded weird.
Megan:Yeah, it's okay, the thought was there, we get it good thanks makes all right.
Jimmy:So valentine's day is just right around the corner. This is going to hopefully drop a couple days before Valentine's Day, so we'll start with some personal antidotes, some stories about Valentine's Day, and then we'll kind of get into some safety stuff. So we'll try to combine them both today. Now I'll start off with one of my favorite Valentine's things, and that was when our son, jameson, was little. The guy that's been on here twice and said six words in two podcasts Matter of few words, he is a big baseball guy. If you know us, you know this.
Jimmy:And the local San Jose Giants were doing a promotion for Valentine's Day where, if you bought X amount of tickets, gigante, their mascot, would bring the tickets and a box of chocolates, I believe and deliver them to them in person. And we were like, yes, what a cool thing. It's like 15 bucks or something. We can make this happen. So we get to the school, we're going to pick up Jameson and Georgia from elementary school, and the people from the San Jose Giants calls us and says, hey, is there someplace close by we can meet at?
Jimmy:We just got bombarded with a bunch of kids at another elementary school and we were there for almost an hour. We need to finish, we have some other stuff going on and, uh, can you help us out? And we were like, absolutely, there's a park right around the corner from the school and we'll meet you there, and it was really cool. They showed showed up in a little van and the lady head of marketing gets out and she's you know, we do the introduction things and Jenny walks by and she has our two kids and a couple other kids that are baseball fans and they show up and they see Gigante, this giant orange gorilla. Is that what he is? Yeah, I didn't get that. You didn't know that.
Megan:Gigante was this giant orange gorilla. Is that what?
Jimmy:he is.
Megan:Yeah, I didn't get that.
Jimmy:You didn't know that Gigante was a gorilla.
Megan:I did not, and I also thought it was pronounced Higante.
Jimmy:Well, it probably is In some parts of San Jose it probably is Higante, I cannot say it like that. Well, you just did, you pretty much did.
Megan:Did I say it okay? Yeah, you said it good.
Jimmy:All right, he got that yeah.
Megan:I was picturing like a bright orange monster type thing, I guess in hindsight looking back, yeah, that is a monkey-esque creature, but it just kind of looked like bright orange fur to me how many times have you seen him? I used to live right down the street from the San Jose Giants where they play, so I would go often enough. They had the free tickets at the checkout counter at grocery stores and I would be like, hey, anybody doing anything, let's go Nice. I ended up in the nosebleeds, but it was fun.
Jimmy:Yeah, it's a great time.
Megan:They had the apple juice batter in the 9th inning or 7th inning or whatever.
Jimmy:Well, it was a beer batter. And then they change it because they can't sell alcohol the whole game and they turn it into the apple juice. And then Martinelli's always sponsors that run the races afterwards. The kids love doing that too. Yeah, so we get there and it starts off with about six kids and then he gets mobbed. People see him because they're all these kids are walking home from school in this neighborhood park and he gets mobbed. About 30 kids, legit, show up and they're like bah, gigante, and it's like it's a thing we kind of I don't remember how I got disengaged. The lady from marketing kind of said yeah, cool, we're leaving.
Jimmy:We start walking back and Gigante starts snapping his feet and smacking his hands and we turn around and he waves us over and he actually walks us back into the park and he takes pictures with the kids and he climbs into a tree with the kids and he just makes this total special moment for our kids. It was so cool. And Jameson looks up and he sees the ladies' World Series ring and he's obviously a giants fan and he goes is that the new world series ring? And he goes and she goes yeah, do you want to wear it? And he goes like, yeah, so he got to put on the uh world series ring and yeah, and it's like a real World Series ring and yeah, and it's like a real World Series ring, you know, with all the diamonds and stuff like that.
Megan:I'm like please don't drop that dude. Please don't lose that.
Jimmy:You know she's like it's okay. I've dropped it twice already and I'm like, oh my god, oh, wow, yeah she's like I don't know that I'd ever wear that out of Ever.
Megan:Yeah, I don't know that I'd ever wear that out of ever.
Jimmy:Yeah, it was wild and that thing blinged and it was pretty crazy. It was wild. So that was kind of one of my favorite Valentine's Day things. You know, there was obviously Jenny and I have had some really good Valentine's Day stuff. We've got some cool trips, things like that, but I just thought that was a really cool one I'd like to share with our life safety team out there. Anybody else want to share their life Valentine's Day story? If not, we'll get into our safety. I don't have any good ones. Unfortunately, yeah, yeah.
Megan:I'm doing a Galentine's Day thing with my friends. We're going to decorate cupcakes or cookies or something.
Jimmy:Yeah.
Megan:Little themed cocktails or whatever.
Jimmy:Nice, I actually just got it. You told me you were going to do a Galentine thing earlier and I just got the gal thing Just this moment. Yeah, that makes sense. She said it and I didn't catch it, so you just said it again. Yeah, I'm not the only one, but you know, expect that from you though.
Megan:Thanks Julie, very kind, very kind.
Jimmy:Thanks.
Megan:Let's talk about some things to be on the lookout for. So to speak.
Jimmy:Yeah, let's talk about some safety things. So the first thing I always talk about that people kind of forget super big uh present chocolates, right, everybody likes to get those heart-shaped chocolate boxes. Um, I just like getting chocolate because, well, I'm a big guy, it's chocolate, it's good times. Um, but the one our furry friends do not like chocolate. So just, you know, let's put that out there again. I know most of us know this, but you know, make sure the our four-legged friends don't eat the chocolate same thing with flowers roses are dangerous for cats and lilies and those type of things.
Megan:So if you have a furry friend at home and you're getting flowers, make sure that if you get flowers that are dangerous for the creature that you have at home, make sure that it's not where they can get it and they're not going to snack on it Good point.
Jimmy:Good point. Isn't pincettias also not good for cats?
Megan:Yes, but that's typically a Christmas thing.
Jimmy:Yeah, I just found that out.
Megan:Yeah.
Jimmy:Yeah.
Megan:My high school always did a poinsettia fundraiser thing and I could never get one because I was scared of killing my cat. And we had a bunch of neighborhood cats where I lived in high school. That would come on the porch so we couldn't even leave it on the porch outside. Yeah, our poinsettia is for me.
Jimmy:Alright, then that's a good point. Yeah, I was just thinking, because Jenny put our poinsettia basically behind our fireplace protector because the cat doesn't go in there. That's why I just realized that I didn't ask questions earlier. I just accepted it.
Megan:She didn't care apparently.
Jimmy:I don't question things, I just go with it when it comes to the house and the wife. With that being said said, let's talk about some restaurant things that you may encounter. Right, obviously it's a big thing to go on on dates. Uh, hopefully you all got your rest reservations done already. You're there, you're having a good time, you're enjoying your day and your date.
Jimmy:You know, you see somebody across the aisle and you, you, you look into some distress and they're coughing a lot. It's okay to look over. You don't have to be minding your business the whole time. You can be a little bit nosy, just because if they stop coughing they're truly choking and they're going to need intervention. At least calling 911, at least helping out. But, yeah, you're going to have to do something. Uh, again, very least call 911. Um, you know, get some help, raise some attention. Hopefully somebody in the weight staff or somebody else there knows how to do the abdominal thrust, the Heimlich maneuver to you know, to help that person out. Again, just real quick signs Somebody distressed, their mouth's open, maybe they get up, they're grabbing their throat, patting their chest, somebody's patting their back, maybe, and maybe the person runs to the bathroom and the person could be choking, they could intervene. And person could be choking, you can intervene um do you?
Jimmy:not do any grades, anatomy stuff or er stuff, right? Um no, no, steak match to the throat. You're gonna go to jail if you do that. Um, so just be real careful with that. But some other safety things here I'm gonna let uh, we kind of brainstormed a little bit and megan wrote them down, so I'll let her tell you one and we'll talk about it.
Megan:Um, some other good ones. We looked up, you know, Valentine's safety things and the Lakewood police actually had some really good safety tips that they wanted to find out. Um, you know, don't announce your plans on social media If you're going to be leaving the house or going out or going on vacation. Um, cause that, just you know, invites unwanted people who might want to steal your things.
Jimmy:Unwanted guests.
Megan:Unwanted guests. They'll they'll know that you're not home.
Jimmy:Yeah.
Megan:Um, same thing for, like, wait to post pictures. Like if you're out at a really nice restaurant, like don't post the pictures until the next day, or you're home, because if you're posting pictures, be like. This is where I am at this exact moment. Once again, the people know that you're not home. Limit how much cash you carry. You know A being robbed, but B also just forgetting your purse. The amount of times that I have left my purse at a location is embarrassing, but yeah.
Jimmy:For sure, I've put my wallet down to pay and walked away. Yeah, you know, definitely not the business.
Megan:So luckily a bunch of places have the, you know, contactless payment or they accept some sort of credit, debit card etc. So limiting your cash that you carry on you is good. If you're going to be walking home or walking anywhere, really make sure that it's in a well-lit, well-lit Goodness gracious.
Jimmy:Lit.
Megan:Well-lit and well-trafficked area.
Jimmy:You just got lit up. Thank you, I appreciate that.
Megan:I appreciate that, I appreciate that, but yeah, make sure that.
Jimmy:Just for the record. That was all for you. Suits fans out there, oh wow.
Megan:But yeah, so well-lit and well-trafficked areas, especially if you're walking alone, just make sure you're taking care of yourself. You know, make good decisions, no dark alleys alone.
Jimmy:Yep.
Megan:Even if you're a scrappy fighter like me.
Jimmy:Yes.
Megan:Just make good decisions. Don't put yourself in a dangerous place. Alrighty, we have reached the point in our podcast where, if you are at work or have small children, turn this off.
Jimmy:Is this the not safe for work section?
Megan:Yes, yes.
Jimmy:All right, we may be. At this point we are forward. We might be using some explicit language Topics, explicit topics, things like that. All right. Obviously, valentine's Day goes along with sexy time and, you know, adult activities, so it does happen. I've actually responded to a broken penis.
Megan:It must have been very exciting for you.
Jimmy:Not as exciting as it was for him no pun intended. No pun intended is right. Him and his partner were engaged in a sexy time, having a good time, very good time, apparently. It was rigorous and she reached up and grabbed. It was a swing. And she reached up and grabbed her swing and pulled herself up and went to drop herself back down on her partner and the partner's members fell out and she landed on him. He landed on him and it basically landed in her. The way she described it was in her butt hip is what she said and we were like what's a butt hip? And it landed on her in between her cheek, basically in her hip joint, and he was broke and he looked like it was a left turn it was a right angled or left angled, depending on which angle you were looking at it from and, um, very discolored yeah right.
Jimmy:So we appreciated that they called 9-1-1. It was on the fire engine and there's not a lot we can do for that. The captain suggested we splint it and I said with what? And he said good call, I don't know either. And we basically put the sheet over him and waited for the ambulance to get there. And then, when the ambulance got there, ambulance to get there.
Jimmy:And then when the ambulance got there, uh, the poor poor patient, uh two female engine or paramedic crew and I mean, and yeah, it was bad. One of them was like actually kind of golf clapped. It was like I'm impressed with your member and uh, I'm glad you're and I'm impressed that you're able to even do this. And I was like, oh, I don't think he's really pumped right now to hear that. So, um, yeah, not the business.
Jimmy:So we kind of figured out, like they figured out and what to do and to kind of splint it and kind of keep them comfortable.
Jimmy:Usually when you splint bones you don't really splint muscle, right, and it was a torn muscle and it discolored like a pulled hammy lack of a better word or a way to think about it and he just he was just not comfortable obviously. And we try to figure out what to do, and I think they used a it was a toilet paper roll, I believe and they took the cardboard and they put it around them with the toilet paper on there, and I can't remember if it was a toilet paper roll or if it was a paper towel roll, but they used something like that and they used the stiffness of the cardboard to hold them comfortably. And the guy actually walked up and sat on a gurney and they rolled them out. So you know, just be conscious, have as much fun as you possibly can, be conscious of your partner. In the same vein of stories, another couple were having sexy time and the male fell out and went to reinsert and did so too vigorously and actually ripped the lady's perineum.
Megan:Ow Ow.
Jimmy:So her tween spot got ripped and that was not good and it bled a lot. And we got there and luckily the ambulance had beaten us there one of the rare times and there was a male and female partner crew on that one and the male came out and was like you guys don't want to see this. We got this, we're good. And we're like well, where's you know? So-and-so, so.
Jimmy:And he's like she's in there with the patient and we were like, well, what's the patient like what's going on? He's like I'll tell you guys later and you know, so I didn't get to see it, I didn't get you know, but that's, that was the gist of it and basically the patient had to just hold pressure and they transported her and she got to the hospitals because they could, and probably a couple stitches later she was good, um, but yeah, those are a couple sexy time valentine's day stories that, uh, I've been to um, I haven't been to any, but one of the like common tropes that I see on, you know, like tv, medical tv or whatever is um a heart attack while in the act.
Megan:Um, so, just, you know, a lot of times I'll see them try to perform cpr while on the bed so, yeah, no cpr on soft surfaces.
Jimmy:Uh, the new guideline says it's okay to start because you're doing so many compressions and it's starting to help because you're moving socks, a little bud the blood. The big one, though, is when people have, if they take enhancement drugs like Viagra or something like that, it's not a good thing. Yeah Well, we don't want them to take nitroglycerin pills, right, because it's going to lower the blood pressure and it will probably kill them. So we don't want that either. So, the older fellas out there, or not older, or older, not older folks, I shouldn't have said that. You know, um, people experiment with things whatever. And, uh, you know, if you take a viagra and you know you get chest pain or heart pain and you know, just be careful, be honest, let them know that you know you may. Yeah, you're on that, and that way the paramedic doesn't give you anything. Um, that might hurt you, right, and it's a uh awkward question for everybody. Definitely been there for that.
Megan:Yep, yep but don't let your you know embarrassment stop you from saying it, because you know it's embarrassment or death. Meanwhile, you might feel like dying from the embarrassment. It won't actually kill you, whereas contraindications will.
Jimmy:Right, absolutely, absolutely, all right team. Have a safe holiday Peace.
