Category Archives for "ASK WYE"
February 17, 2021
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Ask WYE – Issue 56 – Our DUI Experience
In true WYE-fashion, we turn the tables a bit in this week’s Ask WYE. In a future episode, we take the opportunity to chat with a lawyer, Wendy Reynolds, about her services in estate planning. As it happens, though, she has one hell of a backstory (one you’ll have to wait to hear) involving driving […]
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February 3, 2021
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Ask WYE – Issue 55 – Line of Duty Death Survivor Benefits
Listener Teri fired a question to Justin at Justin@WYERadio.com asking about benefits for first responder families after a line of duty death. While your hosts think this is a no brainer, there are apparently municipalities that do not automatically offer benefits for the surviving families of first responders killed in the line of duty. A […]
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January 20, 2021
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Ask WYE – Issue 54 – Schrodinger’s Retirement
In quantum mechanics, one must calculate the possibility of a subatomic event that may or may not occur at any time. To explain this theory, Austrian-Irish Physicist Erwin Schrodinger created the widely referenced, yet rarely understood, example of “Schrodinger’s Cat.” Schrodinger posited that if you put a cat in a box there are infinite subatomic […]
Read More...Ask WYE – Issue 53 – Litigiosity: Suing Rescuers for Helping You.
Yes, you read that title correctly. Litigiosity: The term for when everyone is suing everyone else for whatever. That’s what MC does. He does puzzles and makes up words. Listener Jeff Sinfield from the great Down Unda’ chimes in this week with a question aimed at MC but that HM has some questions about: “Can […]
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November 26, 2020
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What’s Up with MC?
It’s the day before Thanksgiving! Rest assured we’re enjoying a day of relaxation with our respective families and we hope you have the chance, too. In this brief pre-Holiday episode, we thought we’d update you with MC’s current status surrounding injury and expected results. SPOILER ALERT: He’s done, y’all. Check out the episode to hear […]
Read More...Ask WYE – Issue 52 – Board Game Mashup
The guys are in the studio and, as per usual, WAY off topic for this week’s ASK WYE. This week Justin has been thinking about all the board games we play and have around our homes and got the idea in his head to write new rules for Monopoly. And that got him thinking, “If […]
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October 28, 2020
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Ask WYE – Issue 51 – How much cross training is too much?
Listener Phil is back with another good question this week about cross training Police Officers as EMTs. We tackled this topic on our old show and discuss it sometimes but this week we get into the specifics about expectations on scene and how much EMT training is too much. While Police Officers do need tactical […]
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October 7, 2020
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Ask WYE – Issue 50 – You’ve Got Homework
This week’s Ask is brief. We’re gonna ask you to check out the Netflix documentary, The Social Dilemma. Both your hosts have seen it and were deeply intrigued. We thought it would be an interesting experiment to ask you, our faithful listeners, to check it out and then join us this Saturday, October 10th, at […]
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September 23, 2020
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Ask WYE – Issue 49 – Andre is off to to School
Andre dropped into HM’s Youtube channel with a question about higher education on the way into the disciplines. Specifically his question was which specialty he should study: EMS or Fire Science. The easy answer? It depends. The guys discuss their own educations, how they have helped or hindered, then give Andre exactly what he’s been […]
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September 9, 2020
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Ask WYE – Issue 48 – Gary being Gary. Again.
This week your experts sit down to talk about a story of a firefighter out of town for a class who went full Gary, shouting racial slurs at a hotel clerk while drunk. The firefighter wasn’t fired, no, the Chief instead chose to apply a different punishment. In the frustration of looking for the story, […]
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