Dispatched & Dysfunctional
Dispatched & Dysfunctional Because sometimes the worst calls make the best stories. ⚠️ The stories here are graphic, emotional, and laced with dark humor. They’re based on real EMS and first responder experiences — the kind that stick to your ribs long after shift change. This isn’t about polished hero tales. It’s about the silence after the tones drop, the jokes that keep us from breaking, and the weight we carry home in our boots and gear. Some episodes will make you laugh until your stomach hurts. Others will hit like a gut punch. All of them are real. 💬 “I’d rather hear your story than read your eulogy.” 🧠 Need support right now? Text or call 988 or visit 988lifeline.org. You’re not alone — not in this job, not in this fight. 🎧 Listen on Apple, Spotify, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, Podbean, and more.
Episodes
Description:
In this guest episode, I sit down with Brent Colbert — a veteran police officer and doctoral student in leadership who’s passionate about training, mentorship, and fixing the leadership failures he’s seen firsthand.
Brent brings ten years of real-world experience in policing, along with a mission to change the culture from the inside. We talk resilience, bad bosses, and what it takes to push back against a broken sys...
Guest Episode –
Three Uniforms, One Stroke: Part 2
Dispatched & Dysfunctional – Because sometimes the worst calls make the best stories.
This is not a polished studio episode. It’s a raw, outdoor recording at Susan Crowder’s home — with Susan, her daughter Maizee, her granddaughter Jo, my wife Jordan, and my daughter Sophie. Background sounds, interruptions, and unfiltered honesty included.
🚑 In Part 2, Susan opens ...
Guest Episode –
Three Uniforms, One Stroke: Part 1
Dispatched & Dysfunctional – Because sometimes the worst calls make the best stories.
This isn’t your normal episode. This is raw, unfiltered, and recorded outdoors at Susan Crowder’s home — with Susan, her daughter Maizee, her granddaughter Jo, my wife Jordan, and my daughter Sophie. You’ll hear laughter, interruptions, and real life in the background. That’s the poin...
Dispatched & Dysfunctional – Because sometimes the worst calls make the best stories.
Welcome to Dispatched & Dysfunctional — where the darkest moments become stories of resilience. These aren’t polished hero tales. They’re the raw, unfiltered truths of EMS: the calls that scar, the ones that save, and the ones we carry forever.
🚑 Toe pain at 3 a.m.? Another chest pain repeat? You know the ones...
Dispatched & Dysfunctional – Because sometimes the worst calls make the best stories.
Welcome to Dispatched & Dysfunctional — where the darkest moments become stories of resilience. These aren’t polished hero tales. They’re the raw, unfiltered truths of EMS: the calls that scar, the ones that save, and the ones we carry forever.
🚑 The call came in like any other — a house fire with people trapped....
Dispatched & Dysfunctional – Because sometimes the worst calls make the best stories.
Welcome to Dispatched & Dysfunctional — where the darkest moments become stories of resilience. These aren’t polished hero tales. They’re the raw, unfiltered truths of EMS: the calls that scar, the ones that save, and the ones we carry forever.
🚑 Some tones blur together. But this one cut like a knife. D...
Dispatched & Dysfunctional – Because sometimes the worst calls make the best stories.
Welcome to Dispatched & Dysfunctional — where the darkest moments become stories of resilience. These aren’t polished hero tales. They’re the raw, unfiltered truths of EMS: the calls that scar, the ones that save, and the ones we carry forever.
🚑 Some calls are unforgettable for all the wrong reasons. We walke...
Dispatched & Dysfunctional – Because sometimes the worst calls make the best stories.
Welcome to Dispatched & Dysfunctional — where the darkest moments become stories of resilience. These aren’t polished hero tales. They’re the raw, unfiltered truths of EMS: the calls that scar, the ones that save, and the ones we carry forever.
🚑 They see the lights. They hear the sirens. But they don’t see the one...
Dispatched & Dysfunctional – Because sometimes the worst calls make the best stories.
Welcome to Dispatched & Dysfunctional — where the darkest moments become stories of resilience. These aren’t polished hero tales. They’re the raw, unfiltered truths of EMS: the calls that scar, the ones that save, and the ones we carry forever.
🚑 The tones dropped for a fatal on the interstate. By ...
Dispatched & Dysfunctional – Because sometimes the worst calls make the best stories.
🚑 A new guy, first hitch offshore. GI symptoms on arrival. His supervisor thought he was faking it.
He wasn’t.
By the time I found him, his belly was tight, distended, and he could barely breathe. IV fluids. Antibiotics. Foley. Medevac launched. Surgeons later removed two feet of necrotic bowel — and told h...
Dispatched & Dysfunctional – Because sometimes the worst calls make the best stories.
Welcome to Dispatched & Dysfunctional — where the darkest moments become stories of resilience. These aren’t polished hero tales. They’re the raw, unfiltered truths of EMS: the calls that scar, the ones that save, a...
Dispatched & Dysfunctional – Because sometimes the worst calls make the best stories.
Welcome to Dispatched & Dysfunctional — where the darkest moments become stories of resilience. These aren’t polished hero tales. They’re the raw, unfiltered truths of EMS: the calls that scar, the ones that save, and the ones we carry forever.
🚑 One night I was out in the yard, trying to fix my son’s ...
Dispatched & Dysfunctional – Because sometimes the worst calls make the best stories.
Welcome to Dispatched & Dysfunctional — where the darkest moments become stories of resilience. These aren’t polished hero tales. They’re the raw, unfiltered truths of EMS: the calls that scar, the ones that save, and the ones we carry forever.
🚑 Offshore, the bonds we form are closer than family. Weeks at sea, long hour...
Dispatched & Dysfunctional – Because sometimes the worst calls make the best stories.
Welcome to Dispatched & Dysfunctional — where the darkest moments become stories of resilience. These aren’t polished hero tales. They’re the raw, unfiltered truths of EMS: the calls that scar, the ones that save, and the ones we carry forever.
🚑 In EMS, we prepare for chaos — the mangled cars, the gun...
Dispatched & Dysfunctional – Because sometimes the worst calls make the best stories.
Welcome to Dispatched & Dysfunctional — where the darkest moments become stories of resilience. These aren’t polished hero tales. They’re the raw, unfiltered truths of EMS: the calls that scar, the ones that save, and the ones we carry forever.
🚑 It was supposed to be simple — a wellness ch...
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