Dave & Chuck the Freak talk about how the fire department transports obese people and find out where some obese patients have to go to get MRI's.
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00:00an elderly woman called firefighters over 1100 times in the past three years
00:141100 1100 times she called the fire department in the past three years
00:20why because her husband couldn't get out of bed it is crazy that the fire department is who is
00:26called in when people can't get out of bed then think about it every time you see like that big
00:31guy who's like 500 pounds it's always the fire department yeah i would have thought the police
00:37would have been called but i guess in this situation it's especially because you just
00:41got to throw a lasso around the guy and pull him up but i guess they can't say no right yeah i'm
00:46surprised that they would go out for that uh chris works with the fire department in oakland county
00:50chris is with us on the riff lines hey man crossfit crossfit lift them you you get a 911 call or you
00:58get a call from someone saying my husband can't get out of bed i need your help lifting him are you
01:02required to go yeah so uh if we get a call we have to go it's the lift assist a lot of times we'll just
01:10go no lights no sirens but we are required to go we have something called a mega mover and uh
01:16a mega mover it's a giant tarp with handles on it yeah please dear god let me never need the
01:22mega mover i am i am i'm rocketing towards a mega mover your goal in life is to not have the
01:30mega please don't ever need the mega mover lisa hey boys it's andy again you don't want to bring
01:39a mega mover i don't want my my slight fat rolling out of it like last time yeah that big green bean
01:46needs a mega mover again green bean didn't think he was gonna last that long yeah it turns out i got
01:51pretty good longevity it's in the jeans oh the mega mover yeah that is my new goal in life now that's
02:00my new fitness goal don't anti yeah anti-mega mover keith hi keith you're on with dave and chuck the
02:06freak good morning um yeah man about nine years ago i've been a medic for about nine years we got
02:12a call for a uh overly obese person he was probably about 900 pounds and we had to take him to the
02:19detroit zoo uh to get an mri because he wouldn't fit in any of the open mri machine any of the you had
02:25to give him like a right a rhinoceros mri yeah basically it was pretty ridiculous is this the one
02:33they use for elephants yeah the same one for elephants oh next goal in life is not have to go
02:39to the zoo for my allies never need a mega mover goal number two never need an elephant mri holy cow
02:47oh i've got to go to the zoo they've got to take me to the zoo i'll be honest checkup it's a tight
02:53squeeze in there already at the zoo you guys mri it's a tight squeeze in there already i have them
02:59it's a bad life when you got to go to the zoo for medical care you put me in that rhino machine
03:04boys oh god we're putting him in the rhino machine
03:08he's fighting i'm here for my checkup he's fighting oh we dropped him
03:15oh this thing i don't want to do this
03:22calm down dave calm down dave damn it settle dave down
03:29he doesn't like that mega mover
03:34guys i didn't even know they did this guys i didn't know they did this
03:41sucks to be in a waiting room with rhinoceroses
03:44hey what are you in for i just kept my checkup
03:48well don't look those rhinoceroses right in their eyes they're aggressive
03:53see
03:56guys i didn't know it was happening
04:00that you'd be taken to the zoo for a checkup no i did not know that was happening
04:05i go to the zoo for the mri but i stay for the snacks
04:08can i get a pretzel yeah that'd be the only upside right at least
04:13i'll never look at the zoo the same again you imagine you're at the zoo and they just wheel a big person past you
04:20oh my god i want to know where it is honestly that might shake something loose in me like i might all of a sudden start
04:26training like rocky you know i might start training like rocky after i see a guy turn your life around
04:32exactly if i saw someone being wheeled through the zoo on a giant big person stretcher yeah
04:38for an mri because i didn't the only thing that will fit them is the rhino elephant mri machine
04:44and there's a pregnant rhino changes your life i got a pregnant rhino
04:48i'm next screw you're in line with it yeah
04:52like it will it's a wake-up call right it's like we got to make some changes
04:56you're walking past people you're like yeah it's pretty humbling
05:03kind of burst like an elephant fits in there no problem and you're a tight squeeze
05:11you know every time you know i'm just going to keep this around and every time i want to have
05:14like a big donut or a piece of cake or something
05:19when you open your fridge yep and i'll close it right no elephant mri for me thank you thank you very much