Episode 15
A Gun in the Front Row, 300 Fake Employees, Power Plant Explosion
What happens when a company hires 300 actors to pretend they work there, a comedian finds himself staring down a gun from the front row, and an ordinary morning at a power plant becomes a fight to get home alive?
On Episode 15 of I Used to Work There, Kelly Kennedy brings you eight true workplace stories featuring terrible bosses, a haunted heritage house, a comedy competition gone wrong and extraordinary accounts of survival. We start with Day Shift laughs before heading into a Night Shift where everything can change in seconds.
Day Shift opens with comedian Keith Ross Nelson, whose wife joins the audience for a comedy competition and discovers her favourite performer. There is just one problem: it might not be him. Then Andrew takes us inside a consulting company with an unusual plan to impress a potential client: hire more than 300 actors to fill the office and pretend to be employees.
Barbara follows with two stories about terrible bosses. A door-slamming outburst pushes her to confront the man everyone else is afraid of. Then, at another workplace, landing the company’s biggest contract in 25 years still isn’t enough to earn her boss’s respect. This time, she decides one of them has to go.
When Night Shift begins, Alex takes us into an old heritage house where footsteps travel across the floor above him and voices carry through rooms that should be empty. He goes looking for visitors. What he eventually finds suggests he is far from the first employee to experience something strange.
Master electrician Jason shares how a routine job at a hotel swimming pool becomes a life-threatening emergency. An arc flash leaves him severely burned, facing a long recovery and wondering whether his hands will ever work again.
Keith returns with a very different comedy story. During a show in Mississippi, a man sitting just feet from the stage pulls a gun and tells him to change the subject. The bouncers do nothing. Keith still has a show to finish.
Finally, Joe takes us inside a coal-fired power plant on a beautiful October morning. He has coffee, talks with a coworker and exchanges messages with his wife. Then a coal bunker explodes.
What follows is an extraordinary account of escape, coworkers coming to his aid, and a family facing the possibility that he might never come home. Through humour, faith and the difficult reality of life after the accident, Joe shares what it took to survive and what it meant to finally return to the people he loves.
Episode Chapters
00:00:00 Cold Open and Introduction
00:02:09 Keith: His Wife’s Favourite Comedian
00:05:48 Andrew: 300 Fake Employees
00:10:43 Barbara: The Door-Slamming Boss
00:14:49 Barbara: The Boss Ultimatum
00:20:14 Alex: Haunted Heritage House
00:28:07 Jason: Surviving an Arc Flash
00:35:38 Keith: Gun in the Front Row
00:38:32 Joe: Power Plant Explosion
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Transcript
So anyway, I'm doing a gig.
Speaker A:Probably 500 people in the room.
Speaker A:This guy in the front row, big dude, jeans and a T shirt.
Speaker A:He lifts up his shirt, pulls out a gun, and he's no more than five feet away from me, points a gun at me and says, fucker.
Speaker A:Move to another subject.
Speaker A:I look at the audience, I go, ladies and gentlemen, this concludes the racial portion of my show.
Speaker A:Can I have a new pair of underwear?
Speaker B:Welcome back to I Used to Work There.
Speaker B:I'm your guide, Kelly Kennedy.
Speaker B:Today I've got eight true workplace stories for you, including a company that hired more than 300 fake employees, a comedian held at gunpoint, and a power plant explosion that becomes a fight for survival.
Speaker B:I Used to Work There is about the true workplace stories that happen to people just like you.
Speaker B:Wild, funny, terrifying, and the unexplainable.
Speaker B:If it happened to you at work, we want to hear it.
Speaker B:Send your story to hroustowork there.com and you can always stay anonymous if you prefer.
Speaker B:Stick with us into the night shift to hear how your scariest workplace story could be worth $1,000.
Speaker B:And with that, it's time to kick off the day shift.
Speaker B:It is my absolute pleasure to welcome comedian Keith Ross Nelson calling into the show from Los Angeles, California.
Speaker B:He's made it to the finals of a comedy competition, and his biggest fan is in the audience.
Speaker B:Or at least that's what he thought when he brought his wife.
Speaker B:Keith, welcome to the show.
Speaker B:Tell us what happened.
Speaker A:So Tommy Savit, who's done your show, another comedian fell comedy.
Speaker A:Him and I were in this comedy contest in Los Angeles.
Speaker A:Big contest, really good comics.
Speaker A:And we both make the finals along with Taylor Tomlinson, if you know her, who's probably the biggest woman comic in the United States right now.
Speaker A:Well, we go to draw, you know, because you draw to see what.
Speaker A:There's seven guys in the finals, and you draw, and I pull out seven, and I'm like, awesome, because I want to go.
Speaker A:If you go on last, it's the best they've seen.
Speaker A:Everybody else, all you got to do is do better than them.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:So I put dumbly.
Speaker A:I put my number back in the little thing because I thought I was the last one.
Speaker A:But there was one more to draw.
Speaker A:Taylor Thomas had draws seven.
Speaker A:I said, well, I already drew that number.
Speaker A:She goes, well, I got it now.
Speaker A:And I'm like, I don't want to stir up shit and then not be welcome back to this club.
Speaker A:So I don't say anything.
Speaker A:So I draw one.
Speaker C:Oh, Man.
Speaker A:So I'm already super pissed off.
Speaker A:So Taylor ends up getting third, I get second, Tommy wins it.
Speaker D:So.
Speaker A:But I can't get out of my head that if I'd been in seventh, I'm pretty sure I would have won it, right?
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker C:So I'm just pissed.
Speaker A:My wife and daughter came to the show.
Speaker A:My wife's Filipino, and no one makes her laugh.
Speaker A:She's the hardest person to make laughs sober.
Speaker A:They bring us up on stage, they announce the results.
Speaker A:I make some money because I get second place.
Speaker A:Tommy wins it, and I'm just livid at this.
Speaker A:Taylor Thomason.
Speaker A:I get off stage and my wife says to me, oh, my God, that Tommy Savage.
Speaker A:He's the funniest guy I've ever seen.
Speaker D:Sabrina had to take me outside, baby.
Speaker C:I couldn't breathe.
Speaker A:And I'm just like, sweetie, let's just go to the car.
Speaker A:And she keeps saying she's harping on this all the way out to the car.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:And finally we get in the car, I shut the door and I turned her.
Speaker A:I said, shut the fuck up.
Speaker D:I don't want to hear one more.
Speaker A:Word about fucking Tommy Savage.
Speaker C:I'm so bad, right?
Speaker A:So by the time, it was a 30 minute drive back to my house, so by the time I get back to the house, I've kind of calmed down.
Speaker A:And I actually see the humor in that.
Speaker A:I'm not even the funniest guy in my own house.
Speaker A:So I call Tommy and I tell the story to him and he's dying laughing.
Speaker A:And so whenever he posts for a show on Facebook, I always put underneath.
Speaker A:My wife saw him and says, he's the funniest man she's ever seen.
Speaker A:So every time I see Tommy, that's the first thing I say.
Speaker A:Tommy seven.
Speaker D:Oh, my God.
Speaker D:I couldn't breathe.
Speaker A:You're the funniest guy I've ever seen.
Speaker B:Well, that is a great story.
Speaker B:And to be fair, I have to thank Tommy or I wouldn't have gotten to know you.
Speaker A:Yeah, he's a good dude.
Speaker B:It does come full circle.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Come full circle.
Speaker A:And I've been good friends with him probably for 10 years.
Speaker A:He's a good dude.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Oh, my gosh.
Speaker B:And his, like, the story that he told in the show is awesome.
Speaker B:If you guys haven't heard it, it's on episode 14, so go check it out.
Speaker B:Thanks, Keith, for another incredible story.
Speaker A:Well, thanks.
Speaker A:Thanks for having me on, man.
Speaker B:From a comedy stage to an office where the boss decided to put on a performance of his own.
Speaker B:Our Next story comes from Andrew calling in from Ontario, Canada.
Speaker B:Andrew, welcome to the show.
Speaker B:Tell us what happened.
Speaker E:Well, let me set the stage a bit.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker E:So it is a niche consulting firm of between 40 and 50 people based in Toronto in the technology space.
Speaker E:And they've been growing fairly consistently over a few years.
Speaker E:And in fact, before I came on board this organization, again, between 40 and 50 people, they had worked in a relatively properly sized office for.
Speaker E:For that number of people.
Speaker E:But because the owner wanted to project themselves being rather bigger and grander than they were, they actually got.
Speaker D:A office.
Speaker E:Space that would have easily accommodated about 400 people.
Speaker E:So that means that there were people that were scattered throughout the spot, and teamwork was occasionally a bit of challenging coordination.
Speaker E:And you would walk five minutes before you would see someone else at an execution.
Speaker E:That's fine.
Speaker E:The challenge with the organization.
Speaker E:And when I came in one day, actually, I had an advance notice of this, and I had one of those gear in the headlight moments when this was explained to me because the organization was pitching for a prospect that was a major financial institution.
Speaker E:Again, coming out of that mindset of let's project ourselves bigger than we actually are, I walked into the office and I found that I was surrounded by hundreds of people that I did not know, in excess of 300 people I did not know.
Speaker E:And it turned out that the owner had actually hired actors and had them all dress up as consultants.
Speaker E:Some of the technology was given to.
Speaker E:Others were asked to bring technology and for them to mill around for when the prospect came in and made sure that there was enough noise and activity.
Speaker E:So the prospect thought that this was a thriving, gigantic consulting firm.
Speaker B:Wow.
Speaker E:So I walked into this, and this was a shock to me.
Speaker E:Now it turns out that a number of weeks had gone to the making of this.
Speaker E:And again, the president alone with the CFO had said this was a strategy for building trust with prospects is to mislead them from day one.
Speaker B:Wow.
Speaker E:And so the prospect came in, was presented to.
Speaker E:They recognized that people didn't seem to know where they should be even.
Speaker E:Right.
Speaker E:Because the president thought all we had to do was get people in there.
Speaker E:He didn't think, well, what should they be doing when the prospect's there?
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker E:So, of course, you had a whole bunch of people standing around corners going, yeah, why are you here?
Speaker E:Oh, that's where you're from.
Speaker E:Oh, you're here for this reason.
Speaker E:And so there wasn't even the feeling that these were people who worked there.
Speaker E:So there were bodies.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker C:So like a whole Bunch of bodies.
Speaker E:So the prospects prospect left, and by the way, they ended up not getting the gig, which I'm glad to say.
Speaker E:And then the president stood up and said, thanks, everyone, for coming.
Speaker E:That's all he said.
Speaker E:Thanks, everyone for coming.
Speaker E:Everyone left, and it took time to get them down the elevators and out of the building.
Speaker E:And then a couple days later, the president was expected to pay the bill for hiring all these people to mill around, and he decided not to.
Speaker B:Wow.
Speaker B:Wow.
Speaker E:So not only did he mislead the prospect, he misled the people he hired to mislead the prospects.
Speaker E:It really just emphasized the importance of being genuine.
Speaker B:Thank you, Andrew, for the story.
Speaker B:A story that takes fake it to make it to a whole new level.
Speaker B:Our next caller didn't need 300 actors to create drama at work.
Speaker B:Her boss could handle that all by himself.
Speaker B:Barbara is calling from Denver, Colorado.
Speaker B:Welcome to the show.
Speaker B:Tell us what happened.
Speaker F:Okay, the first one.
Speaker F:Oh, my goodness.
Speaker F:This guy was out of control.
Speaker F:So he would have these total meltdowns.
Speaker F:He's actually even pulled posters and pictures from the wall.
Speaker B:Wow.
Speaker F:Like, he get.
Speaker F:He lose complete control.
Speaker F:So one time he came bouncing into my office screaming at me.
Speaker F:I was like, what is he doing?
Speaker F:What.
Speaker F:What did I do wrong now?
Speaker F:And he slammed the door so hard that the acoustic tile shed, it looked like it snowed on my desk.
Speaker B:Wow.
Speaker F:That's how hard he.
Speaker F:He slammed the door.
Speaker F:So I sat there for a minute, stunned, and I went, screw this.
Speaker F:He's not doing this to me again.
Speaker F:So I marched down the hall.
Speaker F:Oh.
Speaker F:And the best part of it was I had to walk by the boardroom.
Speaker F:We had a client in the boardroom.
Speaker B:Oh, my God.
Speaker F:He did this with the client in the boardroom.
Speaker F:So anyway, I go to his office, I go to his door, and I said, never will you ever do that to me again.
Speaker F:Don't you ever slam my door.
Speaker F:You know, don't come in barging in.
Speaker F:And he just kind of, like, stared.
Speaker F:And I said, and here, I'm gonna show you what it's like to have someone slam the door.
Speaker F:And I slammed the door.
Speaker F:Okay.
Speaker F:Not my finest moment, Kelly.
Speaker F:I know.
Speaker F:Not my finest moment.
Speaker F:You know, when someone's out of control.
Speaker B:And you're out of control, it's not a control.
Speaker B:You know, I mean, I feel like I might do the exact same thing.
Speaker F:It wasn't premeditated.
Speaker F:It was like, just a response, Right?
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker F:So I came back to my office thinking, well, I guess that's it.
Speaker F:And I had worked there a few years by then, yeah.
Speaker F:But I thought, okay, I guess that's, that was our blow up, you know, I'll be fired.
Speaker F:And a few minutes later, it wasn't very long out after he comes in, sticks his head in my office and says, hey, you want to ride to the awards ceremony we're going to?
Speaker C:I'm like, what?
Speaker F:As if nothing happened.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker F:So we get in the car and we're chit chatting about the kids and.
Speaker D:We're chit chatting about everything.
Speaker F:And all the time I'm thinking, you are crazy.
Speaker B:No kidding, no kidding.
Speaker B:I feel like there was like alternative motives there.
Speaker F:I was almost frightened to get in the car with them.
Speaker C:Yeah, no kidding, no kidding.
Speaker B:So what ended up happening?
Speaker F:Well, you know, we had a great evening and it's as if it never happened.
Speaker F:But it was a little bit of a story in the, in the, in the company because the next day people were coming to me going, good for you.
Speaker F:First of all, good for you.
Speaker F:Good for you.
Speaker F:And I'd love to tell you that he never did crazy things to me again, but I'd be lying.
Speaker B:Oh, my God.
Speaker F:There were other times he'd say crazy things or, you know, yell at me or whatever, but at least he never slammed the door.
Speaker B:My gosh.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Like some people should not be leaders.
Speaker B:And I feel like if you have that level of temper, that's you.
Speaker F:Yeah.
Speaker F:If you can't control, if you can't self manage.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker G:Right.
Speaker F:I mean, is it like that?
Speaker F:That's the second principle of emotional intelligence is self management.
Speaker G:Yeah.
Speaker F:Had none.
Speaker B:My gosh.
Speaker B:Did you end up staying at that place for a long time?
Speaker F:I stayed three years.
Speaker F:Yeah, I stayed three years because it worked for me.
Speaker F:It worked.
Speaker F:I.
Speaker F:It just was at a time he gave me an opportunity, so that was good.
Speaker F:And it was a time where I was making as much money as I needed and more and wanted to buy a house and so I could suck it up.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Wow.
Speaker B:Wow.
Speaker B:Well, what an incredible story.
Speaker B:And I'm happy you went back and slammed the door on him.
Speaker E:Thank you.
Speaker F:Thank you.
Speaker F:And you know, the funny thing is he would never remember this because all these things happened.
Speaker F:Right.
Speaker F:So it's not like, oh, you know, one time I lost control, I slammed the door and then she came and yelled at me and slammed.
Speaker F:It happened so often.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:He would never know what scenario was this again.
Speaker F:Yeah.
Speaker F:Which day was that with the client in the boardroom?
Speaker B:Okay, well, I also know that this isn't your last horrible boss story, so I'm looking forward to the next one.
Speaker F:Oh, man.
Speaker F:So I worked.
Speaker F:So I worked for a company that was privately owned and had been in business for 25 years.
Speaker F:And I came in and brought in the largest contract they'd had in 25 years.
Speaker F:But my boss and he hired me.
Speaker F:He.
Speaker F:I think he was just a misogynist because he just couldn't deal with the fact that a woman brought in a single mom at the time, brought in this business.
Speaker F:And it's like he was trying to undermine it.
Speaker F:It was just crazy.
Speaker F:And then shortly after that, one of the guys brought in a contract around the same.
Speaker F:Well, I mean, he pulled out all the stops for him.
Speaker F:Everybody knew how wonderful this contract that the other guy brought in, it was so clear.
Speaker F:And people were coming to me and saying, this is so weird.
Speaker F:So it wasn't just me that noticed it, because why?
Speaker A:He just.
Speaker F:And then he kind of, like, kept putting me down.
Speaker F:Right.
Speaker B:Really?
Speaker F:So one day he did this, and I'd had enough, so I went to the owner of the company, walked right into his office.
Speaker F:We shared a birthday, so we had sort of a little.
Speaker F:He knew we, you know, we knew each other.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker F:So I walked in and I just said, I can't take it anymore.
Speaker F:I brought in the largest contract you've had in 25 years.
Speaker F:And this is how I'm being treated.
Speaker F:He goes, or I go, I've got options.
Speaker F:He goes, or I go, yeah, they fired him.
Speaker B:Wow.
Speaker F:And I don't think he got another job.
Speaker F:He was like, near the end of his career.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker F:But the funniest part about this, I have to say, I felt quite proud of myself.
Speaker F:But the funniest part of this is a few years later, several years later, my girlfriend and I were walking in Toronto on the down to the beach, and I see this man.
Speaker F:He's sitting sort of on.
Speaker F:On like a.
Speaker F:A fence.
Speaker F:And I think he kind of looks familiar.
Speaker F:And he looks at me, he goes, I know you.
Speaker F:And.
Speaker F:And it took him a minute.
Speaker F:He goes, oh, I know you.
Speaker F:We.
Speaker F:You work for me at such and such.
Speaker F:And I said, yeah.
Speaker F:And he goes, they fired my ass.
Speaker F:And I said, I think that's because of me and my girlfriend.
Speaker F:I could see my girlfriend just like, what is gonna happen?
Speaker F:And I. I was.
Speaker F:I mean, I just said it because it was true.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker F:And he goes, I probably deserved it.
Speaker B:Oh, my gosh.
Speaker F:And then we chit.
Speaker F:Chatted about where we lived in the city and whatever.
Speaker F:And then he said, I'd love to take you up for one.
Speaker B:Wow.
Speaker F:He knew.
Speaker F:He knew what he was doing.
Speaker B:I am happy that it had a happy ending and the people who needed to get what they deserved did.
Speaker F:Thanks.
Speaker F:And I sure hope nobody has a story about me.
Speaker F:Kelly.
Speaker B:Well, you never know, Barbara.
Speaker B:I feel like probably not.
Speaker B:I feel like probably not because you know what it's like to be on the other side.
Speaker F:That's true.
Speaker F:That's true.
Speaker F:Well, I'm looking forward to your continued podcast.
Speaker F:I can't wait to keep seeing these.
Speaker F:And I wish you all the best.
Speaker B:Amazing.
Speaker B:And if you have a bad boss story, we want to hear it.
Speaker B:H r. I used to work there.
Speaker B:Dot com.
Speaker B:Thank you, Barbara.
Speaker F:Thank you.
Speaker F:Take care.
Speaker B:And with that, things are about to get a little bit darker.
Speaker B:It is time to enter the night shift after a quick sponsor break.
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Speaker B:Now I want to hear what's been happening at your workplace.
Speaker B:A haunted building?
Speaker B:Something on a late shift that you still can't explain.
Speaker B:Or maybe the scariest thing at work wasn't a monster but was another person.
Speaker B:To enter the night shift competition, submit and record your scariest true workplace story before October 31st.
Speaker B:Email it to hristtoworkthere.com or use the story submission link in the show notes below to get started.
Speaker B:You can always remain anonymous if you prefer.
Speaker B:And and we'll announce the $1,000 US winner in our very first November episode.
Speaker B:For our first story of today's night shift, it is my pleasure to welcome alex from Vancouver, Canada.
Speaker B:Working alone in an old heritage house, you get used to a few strange noises.
Speaker B:But this time, Alex thought visitors had actually arrived.
Speaker B:Alex, welcome to the show.
Speaker B:Tell us what happened.
Speaker G:So, when I was in university, I worked at a small kind of heritage site.
Speaker G:It was in the middle of the countryside, kind of in the middle of nowhere, tucked away.
Speaker G:We didn't get a lot of visitors.
Speaker G:Most of our Most of the people that we saw were actually schools that would come through and do field trips, but on the odd occasion we would have people wander through.
Speaker G:And my job was basically to give tours of the site and tell people the story.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker G:And so from 9 to 5, I would stay on site and basically wait for people to show up and essentially wait to give tours to people.
Speaker G:And a lot of the times it was just spending hours and hours alone in this old house.
Speaker G: ve the house was built in the: Speaker G:And it was lived in from then until the 60s, I believe.
Speaker G:And it was one family that lived there, but it was like the whole family, grandma, grandpa, three kids, mom and dad.
Speaker G:And they essentially lived there, lived and died in that house.
Speaker G:It was, yeah, the family home.
Speaker G:And so when I was there, there were a lot of days alone that were a little bit, a little bit strange.
Speaker G:You know, you would hear all kinds of noises, kind of house settling noises, but something that a lot of people, when we would have visitors come through, they would always say stuff like, oh, I thought I heard footsteps coming from upstairs.
Speaker G:Is there an upstairs?
Speaker G:And there was a second floor, but it was just an office space and we didn't use it very often.
Speaker G:And most of the time there wasn't anybody upstairs.
Speaker G:So we'd get a lot of people come through and be like, oh, I hear footsteps, or I swear I heard a drawer opening and closing.
Speaker G:And it was something that us as the staff were super used to.
Speaker G:And people would say, oh, it's, you know, just the house settling or, or.
Speaker G:But yeah, some people really did believe that there were people walking around upstairs.
Speaker G:I just got used to it and I just learned to ignore it.
Speaker G:You know, my parents came to visit me once and they were like, I swear there's somebody upstairs walking around.
Speaker G:It was, it was, yeah, tense like that.
Speaker G:But the one time, you know, like, I usually, I usually just kind of disregarded it.
Speaker G:But the one time that really got me that I was.
Speaker G:I really had to kind of sit down and think about was there was a time where I was up there working and essentially this kind of office space, it wasn't really used as much anymore because we had an off site office that was kind of down a hill and we would walk there and there was like a proper desk and it was like a proper staff lounge.
Speaker G:It was away from the house.
Speaker G:So usually the way it worked was you would have one staff at the house waiting for visitors to come and then another staff doing kind of office work on the computer.
Speaker G:So I was alone in the house this day, kind of in the upstairs level, waiting.
Speaker G:It had been hours since I'd seen anyone.
Speaker G:And I heard kind of the sound of women chatting, and it was like a conversation.
Speaker G:There were some.
Speaker G:Two.
Speaker G:It sounded like two women having a talk and laughing.
Speaker G:And I heard the door.
Speaker G:Front door, open and closed.
Speaker G:So I hopped up.
Speaker G:I was like, okay, visitors.
Speaker G:Yes, I get to give a tour.
Speaker G:It's been hours since I've seen anyone.
Speaker G:I run downstairs, and there's nobody in there.
Speaker G:And I was like, oh, shoot, I must have missed them.
Speaker G:So I took a peek around the house.
Speaker G:I didn't see anybody in there.
Speaker G:And I. I left the front door, looked around.
Speaker G:You know, there's this beautiful garden in the front and a huge lawn.
Speaker G:There was nobody in the area.
Speaker G:I kind of called out.
Speaker G:I was like, hello, who's there?
Speaker G:And still nobody.
Speaker G:And so I was like, oh, this is.
Speaker G:This is too bad.
Speaker G:I felt.
Speaker G:I felt really bad.
Speaker G:I was like, okay, well, maybe I'm just really bad at my job, and I'm missing people.
Speaker G:So I wandered down to the office, and I asked my.
Speaker G:The only other employee on site that day.
Speaker G:I was like, hey, did you see any cars pull up?
Speaker G:And they said, no.
Speaker G:You know, I've been here the whole time, and I didn't see anybody pull up.
Speaker G:I checked the parking lot.
Speaker G:There's no one there.
Speaker G:So it's kind of like, oh, that's really odd.
Speaker B:Oh, that's creepy.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker G:I went back to the house, and I noticed that some of the dishes, the dish set on the dining room table had been kind of shifted.
Speaker G:It almost looked like somebody knocked something over.
Speaker G:And I was.
Speaker G:I kind of sat there, and I was like, was there somebody here?
Speaker G:Am I going a little bit crazy from the isolation, or.
Speaker G:Or was I hearing, you know, the conversation of a.
Speaker G:Of a ghost, A pair of ghosts?
Speaker B:Oh, whoa.
Speaker B:Yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker B:And obviously, you know, I know you're a listener of the show.
Speaker B:We've had multiple calls like this.
Speaker B:For instance, we had a story just last week where they were working in a hospital, and they could hear talking in a dark, empty hallway.
Speaker G:And it's interesting.
Speaker B:It's like, it's not uncommon.
Speaker G:Yeah, it's funny to hear that.
Speaker G:That other people have kind of gone through the same thing, because, you know, I.
Speaker G:Like, I said I was.
Speaker G:I've never been like a. Ooh.
Speaker G:A ghost person, but.
Speaker G:And so I thought, I'm like, okay, I think I'm going crazy.
Speaker G:But then I.
Speaker G:You know, I Talked to my parents about it who had visited the site.
Speaker G:I was like, yeah, this happened today.
Speaker G:And they were like, but do you remember the footsteps that we heard when we were there upstairs and the drawers moving around?
Speaker G:And I'm like, okay, I guess you might be right.
Speaker G:And you know, something interesting that we did find, too, on site.
Speaker G:The.
Speaker G:The place had been a protected heritage site for since the 80s, I think.
Speaker G:And we found actually a binder tucked away in the off site office that was stories from staff members all the way back to the 80s that were Ghost stories surrounding that house.
Speaker G:You know, experiences that other employees had had all the way back to from the 80s.
Speaker G:Everybody talked about hearing footsteps upstairs.
Speaker G:Everybody talked about hearing stuff moving in the attic.
Speaker G:And it had been something that's been going on for ages.
Speaker B:That's crazy.
Speaker B:So there was a literal binder at this place of employees reporting things that happened to them from the 80s?
Speaker G:Yes.
Speaker G:Yeah, it was full.
Speaker G:It was full of that.
Speaker B:That is actually pretty cool, because I wonder how many old places have those.
Speaker B:And totally.
Speaker G:Well, and everything's always word of mouth.
Speaker G:But yeah, to have found that book afterwards and all of us were like, oh, my gosh, it's not just us.
Speaker G:This place has been, you know, reportedly haunted for ages, and it's all the staff had stories about it.
Speaker G:Yeah.
Speaker B:Wow.
Speaker B:Wow, that's so cool.
Speaker B:Is this place, like, are they known for this haunting at all?
Speaker G:Like, is it something they embrace anybody really talks about?
Speaker G:And honestly, this site, it's itself isn't very well known.
Speaker G:Like I said, it is kind of tucked away in the countryside.
Speaker G:You can't.
Speaker G:It's like word of mouth to go there.
Speaker G:And it's really well known by, you know, local families and stuff.
Speaker G:So it's not like one of those places that you go to because you've heard a spooky story once about it.
Speaker G:It is really just this beautiful little heritage home.
Speaker G:Yeah.
Speaker G:But the people who have worked there, we spend hours and hours there alone with the house.
Speaker G:You definitely, definitely get some stories.
Speaker B:Cool.
Speaker B:Well, hey, if you're still in touch with some of those other employees, send them my way.
Speaker G:Yeah, for sure.
Speaker G:I'm sure somebody would have a story for you.
Speaker B:Amazing.
Speaker B:Well, I love a good ghost story, so thank you for that, Alex.
Speaker F:Awesome.
Speaker G:Yeah, thanks for having me.
Speaker B:From a haunting in an old heritage house to a life and death situation that unfolds in a fraction of a second, our next story comes from Jason Brozin and a master electrician calling in from Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Speaker B:Jason, you had a hell of A day at work.
Speaker B:Tell us what happened.
Speaker D:So it was a day that started like any other day.
Speaker D:I'm a master electrician.
Speaker D:That's what I've done as a career for over 30 years now.
Speaker D:And, you know, it was just a normal day as a normal electrician would have.
Speaker D:I got my task in the morning, and it was to hook up a big control panel for a.
Speaker D:For hotel.
Speaker D:They got a new swimming pool upgrade.
Speaker D:And so we ran that big circuit to this control panel, and now it was time to install a breaker.
Speaker D:Now, typically, you would not install this breaker while energized.
Speaker D:Right.
Speaker D:Although electricians do that as a typical job.
Speaker D:It is not supposed to be done energized like that.
Speaker D:So.
Speaker D:But we do that just because we want to save the customer time.
Speaker D:We want to, you know, get the job done.
Speaker D:We want to do whatever.
Speaker D:And so this breaker is about this.
Speaker D:About the size of a loaf of bread.
Speaker B:Wow.
Speaker D:It's not the side.
Speaker D:You know, not a.
Speaker D:Not a breaker like in your house.
Speaker D:And so I had to cut some tape off of this energized bus bar, which, again, you're not supposed to do these kind of tasks.
Speaker D:It's.
Speaker D:It's a very risky energized bus bar, and which is the.
Speaker D:The metal bars that the breaker attaches to to give it power.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker D:And so got the tape cut off that bus bar, which.
Speaker D:Which was already pretty sketchy as it was.
Speaker D:And then I needed to get this breaker installed, and so the breaker wouldn't fit in there for just some different reasons.
Speaker D:I don't want to get too technical in the weeds, but I had to make some adjustments to these bars, which, again, are energized.
Speaker D:And so I stuck a tool in between these bars and didn't even for one second realize there was a metal rivet in this tool.
Speaker D:And so what it did was it bridged that gap between those conductors.
Speaker B:Oh, my gosh.
Speaker D:And then there was a big explosion.
Speaker D:Right.
Speaker D:And so I'm sure your listeners have maybe some point stuck battery cables on the wrong way.
Speaker D:When you're trying to jumpstart a car and you get that big spark.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker D:This is.
Speaker D:This is the same type of deal, just on a very large scale.
Speaker D:It's called an arc flash.
Speaker D:Right.
Speaker D:And some people call it our blast.
Speaker D:No shock involved.
Speaker D:It's just an electrical explosion.
Speaker D:But these electrical explosions are 35,000 degrees at the nucleus.
Speaker D:Right.
Speaker B:Holy shit.
Speaker D:Point three and a half times hotter than the surface of the sun.
Speaker D:And it.
Speaker D:It is very rapid.
Speaker D:It happens.
Speaker D:Mine was probably less than an eighth of a second.
Speaker D:So you're not going to get out of the way.
Speaker D:It just bam, it happens and you're instantly burned to a third degree level.
Speaker B:So oh my gosh.
Speaker D:As it was happening, it was in slow mo, of course, like a lot of accidents, you hear people say it was in slow mo.
Speaker D:And so I knew what was happening.
Speaker D:Couldn't get out of the way really because it was, like I said, it's just, it's entirely too fast.
Speaker D:And so then it was over.
Speaker D:Right.
Speaker D:And so it's over.
Speaker D:The room is black because it's filled with smoke and all the electricity is out of course, because it, you know, you know, it blew the fuses out in the transformer outside.
Speaker D:And so I knew what had happened.
Speaker D:I immediately, I started kind of doing the stand up, stop, drop and roll because I'd seen a lot of videos where, where the mannequin is on fire after an arc flash demonstration.
Speaker D:And it turns out it was a lot on fire on my, my coat.
Speaker D:Got that put out and then got out of the room.
Speaker D:You know, I'm not a panicky person so I just wanted to get out of there, see what kind of damage was done and went to the bath.
Speaker D:There was a bathroom right over there.
Speaker D:Checked out my hands, face, which are the most common injuries and had a deep third degree burn on the back of my hands, deep second on the palms, deep second on my head.
Speaker D:Miscellaneous first, second, third degree burns around my body which ended up putting me in ICU for two weeks, off work for seven months and about five months of intense hand therapy to get my hands moving again because they, they wouldn't move when I woke up.
Speaker D:So that's the short version of it.
Speaker D:There's, you know, lots to in between that as well.
Speaker B:What did you feel in the moment or was it so fast?
Speaker B:It's, it, you're just in instant shock.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker D:So I'm sure there's, you know, I'm sure there's obviously had a bit of level of shock involved.
Speaker D:No doubt about it.
Speaker D:3Rd degree burns don't hurt, they burn your nerves out.
Speaker D:2Nd degree burns hurt a lot of.
Speaker C:Right.
Speaker D:If you've ever slid into second base, wrecked a bike or motorcycle, got some road rash, got a burden, that really hurt.
Speaker D:That's, that's a second degree burn, essentially all those.
Speaker D:So, you know, the palms of my hands were starting to hurt.
Speaker D:It was a 40 degree ish day out that day.
Speaker D:So the temp, you know, was conducive to me not hurting, you know, as bad but when I got to the hospital, it started up quite a bit.
Speaker D:They, they, you know, plugged me full of morphine pretty quickly.
Speaker D:You know, my face was, was hurting a little bit.
Speaker D:You know, I got a lot of, a lot of area on my fat head.
Speaker D:So lot, lots of burns on there.
Speaker D:And.
Speaker D:Yeah, so I was in a coma for a week.
Speaker D:When they got to the hospital, they put you in a coma generally because they don't know the lung damage.
Speaker C:Sure.
Speaker D:They need to stabilize you, get a tube stuck in every orifice you got, and then they do the, the surgery, the skin graft surgery during that week.
Speaker B:Wow.
Speaker B:Did you ever think that you weren't going to make it?
Speaker D:You know, I think generally as guys, we, we typically are in denial with these kind of things.
Speaker D:You know, I don't think it ever really crossed my mind.
Speaker D:Now when my wife showed up the hospital, she asked the exact same question that, that everyone else's loved ones are going to ask.
Speaker D:Is he or she going to be okay?
Speaker D:The doctor having zero bedside manner, but being a great surgeon, told her, we don't know, like it's going to be a couple days.
Speaker D:We don't have any idea.
Speaker D:Right.
Speaker D:You may not.
Speaker D:I mean, I'm sure she heard, you know, she heard your husband's going to die in a couple days is what she heard.
Speaker B:I'm sure.
Speaker D:Which I'm sure created a lot of acute stress disorder in her mind.
Speaker D:You know, just stressing about it.
Speaker D:So I didn't think that I would perish because of it, but when I woke up six days later to the hands that I woke up to that were trashed, but I could move, you know, I certainly told myself stories, you know, like, am I, am I ever going to be able to move my hands again?
Speaker D:Right.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker D:Oh my God.
Speaker D:I got a mortgage payment coming up in two weeks and I'm living paycheck to paycheck as an electrician with a stay at home wife and two little kids in private school.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker D:What am I going to do?
Speaker D:So, yeah, those are more the stories I had.
Speaker B:Fair enough.
Speaker B:And you know, every, every parent and partner is going to be thinking the exact same things.
Speaker B:So is there a happy ending to the story?
Speaker B:You know?
Speaker B:Did you get your hands back?
Speaker D:Oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker D:So I'm 95% just to answer that question.
Speaker D:So my hands work great now.
Speaker D:You know, I'm not complaining.
Speaker D:I'm 95%.
Speaker D:I can't feel heat or cold on the back of my hand where that burn was.
Speaker D:But I'm one of the Blessed ones, right?
Speaker B:Amazing.
Speaker B:Well, it sounds like you might have had a guardian angel that day, Jason.
Speaker D:100%.
Speaker B:All right, my friend, thank you for an incredible story.
Speaker B:I'm happy that you made it and thanks for sharing it on our show.
Speaker D:You bet.
Speaker D:Thanks for having me.
Speaker B:Jason's story shows how quickly an ordinary workday can become a fight for your life.
Speaker B:For our next caller, the danger came from the audience itself.
Speaker B:We are heading back to LA where comedian Keith Ross Nelson has another incredible story for us.
Speaker B:Keith, welcome back to the show.
Speaker B:Tell us what happened.
Speaker A:This is the 90s on the Mississippi.
Speaker A:I don't know how much Canadians know about Mississippi.
Speaker A:It's like the history there is not good for black people, blah, blah, blah.
Speaker A:So anyway, I'm doing a gig in this room bar, probably 500 people in the room, and I do three jokes on the Ku Klux Klan.
Speaker A:So I do the first joke and the first joke is, I was watching the History Channel, you know, and they're doing the history of the Ku Klux Klan and they're showing this old films of the Klan, you know, in black and white.
Speaker A:And, you know, I noticed the guys are riding around on the horse, you know, they got their sheets on.
Speaker A:But then I noticed, have you ever noticed sometimes the horse is wearing a sheet?
Speaker A:And so I go, what's that about?
Speaker A:Yeah, it's like the horses going, well, yeah, I can ride you around the neighborhood, but you got to disguise me too.
Speaker A:I'm just the driver in this.
Speaker A:So I do the first joke and then I do a joke about because my ex wife is Mexican, right?
Speaker A:And I said, I have three grandsons, they're Mexican, they live in Phoenix, they all get straight A's in school.
Speaker A:And a couple weeks ago a kid says to my 17 year old grandson, hey, go back to Mexico.
Speaker A:But he's an A student, he looks to the kid and he says, I'm in Mexico.
Speaker A:One of your relatives renamed it Arizona.
Speaker A:So this guy in the front row, big dude, jeans and a T shirt, he lifts up his shirt, pulls out a gun and he's no more than five feet away from me, points a gun at me and says, fucker.
Speaker A:Move to another subject.
Speaker A:I look to the bouncer on the right and the bouncer, they don't move.
Speaker A:I look in the eyes, I go, ladies and gentlemen, this concludes the racial portion of my show.
Speaker A:And I have a new pair of underwear.
Speaker A:And I finish the show.
Speaker A:Whoa.
Speaker A:They don't do anything to this guy.
Speaker B:Wow.
Speaker D:I get my money and I leave.
Speaker B:Holy shit.
Speaker C:Why still?
Speaker B:Why Do.
Speaker B:Seriously?
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker B:So nothing ever happened.
Speaker C:Nothing ever happened.
Speaker B:Security did nothing.
Speaker B:Nothing was ever said.
Speaker B:The police, the police were never called.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker A:And I just told the booker what happened the next day and that was it.
Speaker A:Because I just want to get paid and get out of there with my life.
Speaker B:I can't imagine finishing a show with the man who just pointed a gun at me still sitting in the audience.
Speaker B:I am super happy you made it out of there.
Speaker B:Our final story of the evening comes from Joe Frederickson out of Minnesota.
Speaker B:His shift at a coal fired power plant began with a coffee, a conversation with a coworker and a few messages to his wife.
Speaker B:Just an ordinary morning until everything changed.
Speaker B:Joe, welcome to the show.
Speaker B:Tell us what happened on the 22nd.
Speaker C: Of October of: Speaker C:Was just a normal work day for me.
Speaker C:I got up, you know, my, my wife got up with me, packed lunch, hopped in the car.
Speaker C:My co worker Bob picked me up, we went to work.
Speaker C:Normal day, you know, everything was, the sun came up, everything was beautiful.
Speaker C:I worked at a coal fired power plant and we had some higher CO levels in, in the bunkers.
Speaker C:Nothing crazy, you know, I mean it's something we've always had.
Speaker C:I used to be a boiler and turbine operator.
Speaker C:So I swung through the control room, got some coffee.
Speaker C:Everything was normal.
Speaker C:Normal day.
Speaker C:I got up to the bunker room, moved the tripper car, didn't smell any burning coal.
Speaker C:Everything was just fine.
Speaker C:Wow.
Speaker C:Started filling the bunkers.
Speaker C:I was talking to the driver of the D10, a buddy of mine.
Speaker C:Bob was texting my wife.
Speaker C:She was heading out that weekend to go to Willis in North Dakota to see our first grandbaby.
Speaker C:I mean, if you want to talk about a normal day, a nice fall day, I was sitting outside looking at the leaves changing on the hillside.
Speaker C:It was going to be a great weekend.
Speaker B:What did you do at the power plant, Joe?
Speaker C:I was a fuels technician.
Speaker C:Then I went from a boiler and turbine operator to a fuels technician.
Speaker C:So I was filling coal bunkers and that was up on the roof of the building where the cold drops in.
Speaker C:So I had a view of Lake Superior, a view of the hillside, I mean, beautiful view.
Speaker C:And that's where we spent all our time when we were filling bunkers.
Speaker C:Then we'd go back inside the building and move the tripper car.
Speaker C:Yeah, I mean it was, it was, it was an awesome job.
Speaker C:It was great.
Speaker C:I was going to move the tripper car into another unit and they had a side inspection door.
Speaker C:You could look down to make sure you had it lined up.
Speaker C:Just right.
Speaker C:And I slid it over the next unit and I was looking down and all of a sudden I could hear this little.
Speaker C:It was a quick rumble, but then everything went black.
Speaker C:Like close your eyes, hand over your eyes.
Speaker C:Black.
Speaker C:Well, that was the coal coming back out of the bunker.
Speaker C:Because what do you need for a combustible dust coal explosion?
Speaker C:You need fuel, air and heat.
Speaker C:The bunker was empty.
Speaker C:I'm adding fuel to it.
Speaker C:One little chunk of hot coal was from New York.
Speaker C:Our coal, you know, it, it's wet, so it's always, always burning right, Just a little bit.
Speaker C:Well, one of the hot pieces of coal came into the bunker.
Speaker C:It bounced on its way down inside of a metal bunker, which causes sparks.
Speaker C:So perfect storm.
Speaker C:And I'm standing there looking and all of a sudden it sounded like a jet engine going off.
Speaker C:I'm on the sixth floor.
Speaker C:The bottom of the bunker is on the third floor.
Speaker C:So it's a huge area.
Speaker B:No kidding.
Speaker C:Plenty of air.
Speaker C:We'll start sucking air in.
Speaker C:Well, it's got to come out someplace.
Speaker C:It comes out right in my face.
Speaker C:In the old building in the.
Speaker C:There's a little rubber flap to keep the dust inside the bunkers that blows open.
Speaker C:Anybody that's ever worked at a coal fired power plant, they always hear the story of it's not the first explosion that gets you, it's the second one.
Speaker C:Well, I heard a little bit of a rumble which wasn't odd.
Speaker C:I mean it's, it's an industrial setting.
Speaker C:But then there was the second.
Speaker C:The second one came out.
Speaker C:It was a fireball.
Speaker C:That day at work I had a fleece jacket on because it was October.
Speaker C:The required PPE for the job currently at the time was hard toed boots, safety glasses with side shields and a hard hat.
Speaker C:I had a fleece jacket on and a pair of denim bibs over the top because it wasn't, it wasn't winter jacket cold yet.
Speaker C:It was fall, northern Minnesota cold, which was a police jacket that day.
Speaker C:Yeah, the fireball came up through the inspection door that I was looking at and hit me in the face.
Speaker B:Holy shit.
Speaker C:Burned both of my ears, melted my eyebrows, burned my nose.
Speaker C:I don't know if you know what happens to fleece when it gets really hot.
Speaker C:No, it melts.
Speaker C:So the fleece jacket melted to my arms, my sides.
Speaker C:And then at that point I decided I needed to get out of the bunker room.
Speaker C:Well, coal conveyors travel on one side of the galley that they're in, so it's easy to walk.
Speaker C:Well, I went to head west out of the bunker room.
Speaker C:But it's a dead end street.
Speaker C:I can't go out that way.
Speaker C:So I had to turn around, run back through what was on fire to get out of the building.
Speaker B:Wow.
Speaker C:Well, I put my hands up in front of my face, slipped my hard hat off.
Speaker C:Because in my previous work career, I'd worked with a gentleman.
Speaker C:You know, the proverbial old guy.
Speaker C:He had a boiler tube explode on them when they were working one time, and the guy's hard hat mother melted to his head.
Speaker B:Wow.
Speaker C:And I thought of that.
Speaker C:So I flipped my hard hat off because I was basically on fire trying to get out of the.
Speaker C:Because the whole building's on fire now.
Speaker C:Inside, there was a flash, you know, and I'm.
Speaker C:Well, I got to a point where.
Speaker C:Then there was the.
Speaker C:The secondary explosion, which picked me up.
Speaker C:And I'm 6 foot 4, 304, 40 pounds.
Speaker C:It picked me up.
Speaker C:And I hit a iPad or a pad eye.
Speaker C:Sorry.
Speaker C:That was welded on a beam 22ft in the air.
Speaker B:Holy cow.
Speaker C:And I hit my head.
Speaker C:So I have an actual dimple in the top of my head.
Speaker B:This was after you took your helmet off?
Speaker C:After I took my heart out.
Speaker C:And then I was sitting on the ground, and the sprinkler system was going off.
Speaker C:Well, it was a dry system, so it's full of air.
Speaker C:Right.
Speaker C:So there's never any water in it.
Speaker C:Unless the sprinkler had to go off.
Speaker C:Then it pushes the air out.
Speaker C:Water pump starts.
Speaker C:Well, I remember sitting there, and it was just yellow or orange water because the line is all rusty on the inside.
Speaker C:And I was trying to clear my mouth out.
Speaker C:Now I have coal packed in my ears, nose, mouths, eyes.
Speaker C:And I'm sitting on the ground.
Speaker C:My knees hurt, my face hurts, and my arms hurt.
Speaker C:And I was just like, what is going on?
Speaker C:I lost my glasses and in my bibs.
Speaker C:I had my cell phone in a plastic bag because I was texting my wife.
Speaker C:You know, because I'm on the top of the building taking pictures, sending it to people.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker C:Posting it on Facebook.
Speaker C:You know, hey, this is a terrible job I have today.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker C:Of course, the first thing I was gonna do, I was gonna text my wife.
Speaker C:Cause I.
Speaker C:She's not gonna believe me when I tell her that there was an explosion.
Speaker C:Well, when I went to pull the plastic bag out of my pocket, I couldn't grab the bag.
Speaker C:And I was like, what the heck?
Speaker C:And I looked at my hands.
Speaker C:Well, I had the mechanics gloves on.
Speaker C:Well, when those get hot, they burn right they melt.
Speaker C:Well, they melted in my hands.
Speaker B:Oh, my gosh.
Speaker C:And then it melted my hands, you know, because then as it started to cool, it held my hands open, and I was, like, looking at my hands, going, holy cow.
Speaker C:You know, couldn't find my glasses.
Speaker C:But my.
Speaker C:My face felt like I had a terrible sunburn, and my arms hurt, and I held my arm up and I went like that, and I had rings around my arm, and I couldn't figure out what it was.
Speaker C:It was the fleece jacket in my skin.
Speaker B:Wow.
Speaker C:All the way from my shoulders, both sides of.
Speaker C:Just sloughed it right off.
Speaker C:And it was around my wrist, and I was just like, you know, I got to get out of here.
Speaker B:What were you.
Speaker B:What were you thinking in this moment?
Speaker B:Obviously, you're in.
Speaker B:You're in complete shock.
Speaker B:You're in extreme pain.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker B:What were you thinking, Joe?
Speaker C:The pain wasn't.
Speaker C:It was more of a panic because we had these big speakers that we had hooked up to for the evacuation alarm.
Speaker C:Right.
Speaker C:It was just a big air horn.
Speaker C:And I could.
Speaker C:Remember, I could hear it just so faint.
Speaker C:And I was just like, what.
Speaker C:What.
Speaker C:What happened?
Speaker C:Because I. I wasn't sure at first.
Speaker C:I thought the conveyor belt snapped in half, and I just threw coal everywhere, and I got hit by the.
Speaker C:The conveyor belt or, you know, something I was.
Speaker C:I couldn't figure.
Speaker C:I mean, I knew I was hurt, but everything was just kind of really.
Speaker C:I imagine a lot of it was from smacking my head on the ceiling.
Speaker C:Right.
Speaker C:And I was just like, you know, I gotta.
Speaker C:I gotta get the hell out of here.
Speaker C:And I. I remember I stood up and I started to walk out and I heard the air horn, and I went to push the elevator button, and I. I couldn't do it with my fingers because what was left of the gloves had.
Speaker C:You know, my fingers were all stuck together.
Speaker C:So I used my elbow and I hit the down button.
Speaker C:I was gonna go to the control room because the control room's in the middle of the building, and there's always a control room operator.
Speaker C:And I'm like, you know, I. I think I'm jacked up here.
Speaker C:You know, I can't.
Speaker C:Well, the elevator comes up to get me, and what I didn't know at the time is I wear a Motorola radio, and I had the base of the radio in my back pocket, and I had the mic came up and was hooked to the front of my bibs.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:Yep.
Speaker C:Well, there's a man down button on there that, you know, if you ever get Hurt you.
Speaker C:You push it and it locks your radio open so they can hear you.
Speaker C:Well, the radio cord had melted into the back of my neck.
Speaker B:Oh, wow.
Speaker C:And was open so everybody could hear me, but I couldn't hear anybody.
Speaker C:And they, you know, after the fact, they were telling me they could hear me laugh because it's like there's nobody going to believe me.
Speaker C:What happened?
Speaker C:You know.
Speaker C:You know, spitting up coal.
Speaker C:You know, they've evacuated the building, Right.
Speaker C:That was the rule.
Speaker C:The alarm goes off, you get out.
Speaker C:Well, then they're doing a headcoat, and they can't find me.
Speaker C:And so anyways, I get into the elevator and there's a little plastic or glass, you know, so you can see out.
Speaker C:And as I'm heading down in the elevator, I can see people running up, and I can hear people screaming, you know, yelling.
Speaker C:He's in the elevator.
Speaker C:And I'm thinking, I must be in trouble.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker C:You know, like trouble.
Speaker C:Like losing my job.
Speaker C:In trouble.
Speaker C:Because they're looking for me.
Speaker C:And I went to go into the control room in the middle of the building.
Speaker C:And it's an old building.
Speaker C:It was built in 57.
Speaker C:All the knobs in the older part of the building are the knob part, not the handle.
Speaker C:Why go to open.
Speaker C:I can't turn the knob.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker C:I look inside the control room, and the control room operator is looking at me.
Speaker C:He doesn't even recognize me.
Speaker C:And we work together for 10 years.
Speaker B:Wow.
Speaker C:Because I'm completely black.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker C:My skin is cracked and I have red stuff.
Speaker C:You know, they can see the.
Speaker C:I've lost skin.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker C:And he just.
Speaker C:Just kind of points to go over to the office area because that's where the first responder bags are and all that.
Speaker C:Well, I kind of.
Speaker C:Kind of pissed, you know, I was like, well, I'm just going home.
Speaker C:I walked over the elevator and I hit the elevator button to go down.
Speaker C:And I'm standing there looking through an opening in the floor that was for winching stuff up into the building.
Speaker C:And I see a door open up, and a guy I used to work with looks up at me and steps back.
Speaker C:I was like, screw you guys.
Speaker C:I'm leaving.
Speaker C:Well, the elevator door opens up and it's three first responder friends of mine.
Speaker C:They come out and they grab you by my bibs.
Speaker C:Not my arms, the side of my bibs.
Speaker C:We step back into the elevator, and my one buddy Mike just kept saying, you're gonna be okay.
Speaker C:And I'm like, well, of course I'm gonna be okay.
Speaker C:I'm Joe Right.
Speaker C:I mean, I'm tougher.
Speaker C:I'm tougher than a box of rusty nails.
Speaker C:Right.
Speaker C:I mean, there's nothing.
Speaker C:Well, they actually had a very quick discussion when the alarm was going off.
Speaker C:When I didn't make the check in, Bob switched to a different channel on his radio and said, I can't find Joe.
Speaker C:Well, they could all hear me on the radio and they had no idea.
Speaker C:So they kind of broke a couple of broke protocol and they're like, we got to go in the building.
Speaker C:Still not sure what happened.
Speaker C:And the couple of them that are a little more on the physically fit side ran from the basement up to the seventh floor where I was up the stairs.
Speaker B:Wow.
Speaker C:Because they, they could hear me.
Speaker C:And the general consensus is what would have I have done in the same position and in there like he would have came looking for us right away.
Speaker C:Well, as I'm going down in the elevator, they're going up the stairs.
Speaker C:So now they're like, where is he?
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker C:And we went into the, the basement part of the main floor and you know, they had the EMTs for work were there.
Speaker C:They had called the, the local EMTs and you know, they cut the straps on my bibs and basically, you know, I'm laying there in a pair of a green underwear.
Speaker C:They have the four foot by three foot burn gel blanket.
Speaker C:They've got that on top of me.
Speaker C:There's a set of stairs that went up and I was looking up them and I can see all the guys that I've worked with are standing there looking at me like, holy cow, you know, and they're like, you know, and I'm, I'm, I'm still with it enough where like, you know, you want us to call Paula?
Speaker C:And I'm like, no, call my brother Tom.
Speaker C:My brother's home.
Speaker C:Bad news should come from a family member, not from some stranger on the phone.
Speaker C:And I'm not saying the people I worked with were strangers, but there are work friends.
Speaker C:So they called my brother Tom.
Speaker C:I was able to rattle off my brother Tom's phone number.
Speaker C:And then, you know, at the moment it happened, I was like, well, if you were going to receive terrible news, because now I'm starting to think there's something really wrong with me.
Speaker C:Yeah, well, I'm 27 miles from my house.
Speaker C:Okay.
Speaker C:You're going to want, you know, your significant other to jump in a vehicle and try to drive 27 miles of two lane blacktop in the fall time where there's a lot of traffic talking on their phone, trying to figure out what the hell is going on.
Speaker C:No.
Speaker C:So I had him call my brother Tom.
Speaker C:You know, my brother Tom came and got my wife and brought her up there, the emergency room.
Speaker C:But as I'm laying there, I, you know, they're giving me the high flow oxygen.
Speaker C:And I worked in the same place for years.
Speaker C:I've been a first responder.
Speaker C:I know the drill, right.
Speaker C:I know what's going on.
Speaker C:Well, my friend John would not put the rubber band over the top of my head.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker C:He just held it in front of my face and he just kept saying, keep breathing, Joe, keep breathing.
Speaker C:Now, these are people that you tease non stop every day, back and forth, right?
Speaker C:And he's super serious, kneeling next to me, saying, keep breathing.
Speaker C:Yeah, okay, I'm fine.
Speaker C:You know, I. I'm a snuff chewer at the time.
Speaker C:And I got a great big pinch of snuffing because I'm at work, you know, I can spit where I want.
Speaker C:The one gentleman there, a guy used to work I lived by when I was a kid, I said, I looked, I said, brian, I'm probably gonna pass out here pretty quick.
Speaker C:I said, we should probably get the snuff out of my mouth.
Speaker C:And he leans down, I said, well, so you should put a rubber glove on.
Speaker C:I said, I don't know where your hands have been today, you know, as a joke.
Speaker C:And he just looked at me, you know, and he had a pair of rubber gloves on.
Speaker C:And, you know, I opened my mouth, he put his finger in there, you know, drug it out.
Speaker C:But it was, it was, I was still joking with people, you know.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:And people would laugh.
Speaker C:But then I could tell it was a pretty serious moment because you can't see yourself, right?
Speaker C:I mean, I don't.
Speaker C:I'm a. I used to be first responder.
Speaker C:And I know if there's high flow oxygen, you know, there's.
Speaker C:There's something serious going on.
Speaker C:Well, then the tofty first responder show up.
Speaker C:The first one through the door.
Speaker C:Her name at the time was Pam James.
Speaker C:She's got two bangs over her shoulder.
Speaker C:She wants to know mechanism injury, O2 level.
Speaker C:You know, I dated Pam in high school.
Speaker C:So she comes in, she looks at me.
Speaker C:I'm laying there in my underwear.
Speaker C:I got gel all over me, right.
Speaker C:I'm black.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:You know, I got a mask over my face.
Speaker C:But they won't.
Speaker C:And she just looks at me and they said, it's Joe Frederickson.
Speaker C:And she stops, she looks down at me, and I rolled my head over and All I said was, well, it's not the first time you see me in my underwear, you know, because I like to joke around.
Speaker C:And she just looked at me and she dropped her babes and she had to step back and somebody else had to work on me.
Speaker G:Mm.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:And I was just like, things are bad.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker C:You know, so then they get me bundled up, you know, and the ambulance is there.
Speaker C:They wheel me outside, and there's hard hats laying in the parking lot.
Speaker C:And my first thought at the time was the concussion from that explosion must have been terrible if it knocks people's hard hats off outside.
Speaker C:Yeah, right.
Speaker C:Well, we get in the ambulance, we're heading up to Tacar or heading up to the emergency room, and I.
Speaker C:They dropped a gauze around my wrist so I could lay and hold my hands up like this because I kept passing out, and I would drop my hands down, and they're burnt.
Speaker C:I mean, they're.
Speaker C:I had third degree burns on both my.
Speaker C:Yeah, right.
Speaker C:I mean, the skin is gone.
Speaker C:So I asked the guy in the.
Speaker C:Me being a smart ass, I said, am I gonna die?
Speaker C:He says, no.
Speaker C:He says, but you're hurt.
Speaker C:I said, okay.
Speaker C:I said, should we pray?
Speaker C:I'm Catholic.
Speaker C:And he says, probably wouldn't be a bad idea.
Speaker C:Well, every time I started to say the Our Father, I would.
Speaker C:I'd pass out.
Speaker C:Well, they don't want me to pass out.
Speaker C:So then they'd wake me up.
Speaker C:So my.
Speaker C:I'm in and out of consciousness.
Speaker C:Well, I get into the emergency room, and I got a whole.
Speaker C:It's too hazy for life flight to fly.
Speaker C:So I'm gonna have to go by ambulance 96 miles, and I'm in trouble.
Speaker C:Right.
Speaker C:They're trying to clean my face, and.
Speaker C:Well, they told me my.
Speaker C:My wife was in there, like, would you like to see her?
Speaker C:I was like, hell, yeah.
Speaker C:You know, I said, but you got to clean me up a little bit better because the nurse looks at me.
Speaker C:So why.
Speaker C:And I said, well, if I'm as bad as I think I am, I don't want my wife's last vision of me to be completely black, burnt.
Speaker C:I used to have hair, right.
Speaker C:It burned all my hair off.
Speaker C:Burned my mustache.
Speaker C:I mean, I smell like burnt skin, burnt hair, and cool.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker C:I don't want my wife's last vision of me to be that.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker C:So they grabbed a white sheet and they tucked it up under my.
Speaker C:You know, under my chin because I was laying down.
Speaker C:And then they had to kind of wrap because I couldn't put my Arms down.
Speaker C:They just hurt so incredibly bad.
Speaker C:My wife came in, and she's like, how's it going?
Speaker C:I said, oh, you know, I've had better days than this.
Speaker C:She's like, okay.
Speaker C:I said, I guess I'm going to Duluth.
Speaker C:She's like, yeah, you're gonna be in Duluth.
Speaker C:I said, I stopped back by work, and I said, you know, I have some stuff in my locker.
Speaker C:She was like, what's in your locker?
Speaker C:I said, my wedding ring.
Speaker C:I said, we're in the middle of an outage.
Speaker C:I said, nose Lakehead contractors will steal anything that's not bolted down, you know, as a joke.
Speaker C:And she was like, okay.
Speaker C:And I had a mileage check in the top of my locker.
Speaker C:I was like, she's still going to Williston on Sunday or on Saturday.
Speaker C:I mean, I'm just like, this is going to be a quick trip down.
Speaker C:They're going to clean my injuries.
Speaker C:I'm going to be.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker C:Well, as I'm laying there, the nurse says, we have to get you prepped to go by ambulance.
Speaker C:Okay.
Speaker C:And, you know, all of a sudden, more sheets came out, more nurses came in.
Speaker C:Well, I was losing my airway, okay?
Speaker C:So they have to intubate, say, put a tube down in there, but they can't find anywhere to give me a shot to knock me out.
Speaker C:So as they put the sheet over my chest, one over my waist, and one over my knees, the nurse leans in and says, we have to put a port in your hip, and we can't give you anything for the painting.
Speaker C:And I was like.
Speaker C:And I kept telling her, I said, I don't.
Speaker C:I don't want to remember this.
Speaker C:I said, I don't want any more pain.
Speaker C:Well, the last thing I heard was a drill drilling through into my femur.
Speaker B:Oh, my gosh.
Speaker C:And I started screaming.
Speaker C:I was spitting.
Speaker C:That's what the sheets were for.
Speaker C:It was the.
Speaker C:Hold me down against the bed.
Speaker B:Wow.
Speaker C:And then.
Speaker C:Then the pain went away.
Speaker C:My wife was in Duluth, you know, waiting for me, and she was, you know, getting upset.
Speaker C:Like, you know, well, when she came in to see me in the emergency room, like I said earlier, I'm Catholic.
Speaker C:And my wife grabbed my mom.
Speaker C:My mom was in Duluth that day for something unrelated.
Speaker C:And they walked in to see me, and the Catholic priest was in there giving me my last rights.
Speaker C:Wow.
Speaker C:And the doctor told Paula, you better call anybody that might want to see him.
Speaker B:Wow.
Speaker C:She was just like, he was just fine.
Speaker C:What my wife did not know is, your body keeps burning even though there's no fire.
Speaker D:Okay.
Speaker C:My body had swelled up a lot on the trip.
Speaker C:That's why they were struggling to get the tube down my throat.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker C:And my wife walked out and she was just like.
Speaker C:She started.
Speaker C:She kind of yelled at the doctor saying, who.
Speaker C:Who said you could give him last rights?
Speaker C:And he says, he's probably not gonna make it.
Speaker C:So she called my.
Speaker C:My step kids and my.
Speaker C:My son at home was nine years old.
Speaker B:Oh, my gosh.
Speaker C:You know, she had to go get him from school.
Speaker C:And when I woke up, I was.
Speaker C:I was in.
Speaker C:I.
Speaker C:They put me in a drug induced coma for like seven days because they're.
Speaker C:They don't know they might have to start removing body parts from me because, you know, when your body swells like that, it pinches off your blood vessels and.
Speaker C:Well, I only ended up losing the tip of my finger on my right hand.
Speaker C:I saw somebody in the bunker room that day.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker C:Somebody helped me get up and told me I was going to be fine.
Speaker C:They had a white cloak on and long brown hair.
Speaker B:Wow.
Speaker C:Okay.
Speaker A:You can.
Speaker C:You can say anything you want.
Speaker C:Everybody has.
Speaker C:And he just kept telling me, you're gonna be okay.
Speaker C:So in my mindset, I was always.
Speaker C:I never panicked.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker C:Because I knew I was going to be.
Speaker C:You're going to be okay.
Speaker C:I was going to be okay.
Speaker C:So I was pretty.
Speaker C:I was pretty chill about it.
Speaker C:But the chillness went away after I came out of a coma.
Speaker C:And I struggled.
Speaker C:I. I struggled a lot.
Speaker C:I have terrible PTSD from the accident.
Speaker C:Mm.
Speaker C:If my wife burns her hair when she's curling it or I get anxiety attacks, I get panic attacks.
Speaker G:Yeah.
Speaker C:I really.
Speaker C:There's a lot of things that I can do, but there is no little quick pill they can give you to cure PTSD.
Speaker C:My son Zach had to go from being a 9 year old boy to being the man of the house overnight.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker F:Right.
Speaker C:It was in October.
Speaker C:He was.
Speaker C:The next thing he knows, he's blowing snow.
Speaker C:Right.
Speaker C:He went from getting really good grades to bad grades because.
Speaker C:Because of me.
Speaker C:It was.
Speaker C:I mean, it was.
Speaker C:It was on me because he couldn't.
Speaker F:He.
Speaker C:He struggled in school because his dad was in a coma.
Speaker C:I was in a Hospital for 72 days.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:And he.
Speaker C:You know, and the other.
Speaker C:The other little funny story I have is, you know, I told you about my beliefs in God.
Speaker C:I also believe in Santa Claus because I got released from the hospital.
Speaker C:Basically.
Speaker C:The doctors came in, I had to do A, B, C, D. And we'd been working on them.
Speaker C:You know, I had to get these things done.
Speaker C:And I just wanted to go home.
Speaker C:I would beg them to let me go home because I'm in a hospital, right?
Speaker C:I'm eating shitty food.
Speaker C:Let's be honest, right?
Speaker C:I can't.
Speaker C:You know, the TV's way over there.
Speaker C:I can't see my dogs, you know?
Speaker C:And so then they came in to check on me on Christmas Eve morning, and I was like, just let me go home.
Speaker C:And the doctor says, okay, you can go.
Speaker C:My wife was there, and basically we put all my stuff into garbage bags because nobody knew I was coming.
Speaker C:It was just like, he's going.
Speaker C:He's going home.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker C:Well, as we, you know, she's calling and telling people, hey, Joe's coming home.
Speaker C:Joe's coming home, you know?
Speaker C:Well, as we're rolling through the town right outside of Silver Bay, I see a bunch of my friends sitting in the bar parking lot, which, you know, hey, little day drinking, you know, it's not the end of the world.
Speaker C:Well, when we roll in, the Silver Bay fire truck sitting on the side of the road pulls out in front of us with its lights on.
Speaker C:And I told policy, you better get out of the way.
Speaker C:She goes, it's for you.
Speaker C:Wow.
Speaker C:I look in the rearview mirror, My buddy was a deputy sheriff.
Speaker C:He's got his vehicle behind me, the city cop.
Speaker C:You know, I get an escort home, and there's a bunch of people at the house.
Speaker C:You know, I wasn't.
Speaker C:I was in no mood to travel or anything like that, you know, I mean, I was in a lot of pain.
Speaker C:When they take skin grafts, you know, that area hurts.
Speaker C:And they took a lot of skin off my lower back.
Speaker C:And, yeah, I.
Speaker C:Sitting was uncomfortable.
Speaker C:But we walk in the house and the house is decorated for Christmas, and there's a tree and there's gifts.
Speaker C:He said, the fridge is so full, there's a cooler sitting on the deck that's got more food in it, you know, And I asked Paul, I said, I did, you know, when did you know I was coming home?
Speaker C:Not until they told us this morning.
Speaker C:And she made a couple of phone calls, and we had presents under the.
Speaker C:Granted, they were just stuff from the local.
Speaker C:Local storage.
Speaker C:I mean, it wasn't like it was anything amazing, you know, but I mean, it was amazing because it was just like, holy cow.
Speaker C:I mean, this is.
Speaker C:This is amazing.
Speaker C:And the.
Speaker C:The strangest part was I was sitting in my recliner, and a dog I hadn't seen for 72 days was sitting in the corner, and he didn't recognize Me.
Speaker C:Wow.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker C:I had lost a bunch of weight.
Speaker C:I still smelled, right?
Speaker C:I mean, burn Joe.
Speaker C:And.
Speaker C:Yeah, well, he wouldn't come over to me.
Speaker C:Well, when he walked past me, I put my hand over his eyes and I said, hey, buddy, I'm home.
Speaker C:And he went just ballistic.
Speaker B:Oh, my God.
Speaker C:He could recognize my voice.
Speaker B:He knew your voice?
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker C:Yep.
Speaker C:And there was.
Speaker C:There was nights when I would go to bed and I'd have to get up to, you know, use the bathroom or pace around the house.
Speaker C:I'd go to go back into bed.
Speaker C:We had a king sized bed and it would be my wife, my son, and the two dogs.
Speaker C:And I would go sleep in my recliner.
Speaker C:And they're like, why don't you.
Speaker C:Why don't you kick the dogs out of bed or have Zach go back to his room?
Speaker C:I could, because they were like, you know, they spent 70 days worrying if I was ever gonna come back.
Speaker B:Of course.
Speaker C:Of course.
Speaker B:Wow.
Speaker B:Joe, this is.
Speaker B:This is an absolutely incredible story.
Speaker B:And I just want to say as well, you know, for our listeners, you just retired.
Speaker B:Like, just retired.
Speaker B:And so I just want to congratulate you on an incredible career, an incredible story, and hopefully a long, incredible life still ahead of you.
Speaker C:I hope so.
Speaker B:Thank you, Joe, for an incredible story.
Speaker B:And like I said, I just.
Speaker B:I wish you the.
Speaker B:The best of luck in everything you do moving forward.
Speaker C:Thank you.
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