EP 1362: The Golden Handcuffs, Punk Rock Ph.D.s, & The Canine Shotgun Incident

Welcome to the Rated R Safety Show, broadcasting live on Wednesday, May 27, 2026, from the Safety FM studios in Orlando, Florida! It’s "Whip Them Out Wednesday," and we are throwing the corporate bullshit straight into the trash where it belongs. Today, we are stripping away the sanitized PR scripts to examine what happens when professionals trade their moral spine for a fancy corporate title.

Settle in for an unfiltered conversation about modern safety culture, human performance, and the absolute chaos reshaping the global news cycle.

### The Main Story: The Golden Handcuffs & The Safety Sell-Out

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• The Punk Rock Paradox: Host Jay Allen, Ph.D., breaks down a viral commencement photo of Dexter Holland, lead singer of The Offspring, who holds a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology. Holland’s warning to graduates sets the stage for the episode: “I hope you never feel forced to trade your aspiration for a paycheck or your passion for a title.” 
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• The Reality of "Dr. Jay": Jay pulls back the curtain on his own academic credentials. Despite spending years in research and authoring The Signal Transmission Trilogy, he completely rejects the boardroom obsession with credential worship and alphabet soup branding. Out in the mud and the grease, corporate status does not save human lives.
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• The Corporate Bait-and-Switch: We examine the tragic trajectory of EHS practitioners who enter the field with a genuine moral mission to protect workers, only to let the corporate matrix buy out their integrity.
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• The Trap Built of Assets: By accepting the "golden handcuffs"—the corporate salary, the pristine company truck, and a high-level VP title—safety professionals are slowly trained to protect corporate spreadsheets and build legal compliance shields instead of actively mitigating frontline danger. If your title requires you to leave your morals at the gate every morning, you aren't a leader; you're just a walking insurance policy.
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• Ceasefires on Shaky Ground: Despite claims from the administration that a US-Iran deal is largely negotiated, peace talks have hit a $24 billion wall of frozen assets demanded by Tehran. Tensions surged after U.S. forces struck Iranian vessels caught laying naval mines, prompting claims from Iran that they shot down a U.S. drone and repelled stealth fighter aircraft.
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• Targeted Strikes in Gaza: Israel claims to have neutralized the commander of Hamas's military wing in Gaza and targeted over 100 Hezbollah locations in Lebanon, leaving the region's current security framework incredibly fragile.
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• Fast-Tracking Ebola Defenses: The Serum Institute of India has urgently mobilized a partnership with Oxford University to fast-track and scale an experimental vaccine targeting the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola, following a rise in cases across Central Africa.
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• The Relegation of Britain: Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair published a scathing economic analysis accusing the current Labour government of lacking a coherent national strategy, warning that the UK risks permanent relegation from the top tier of global economic powers.
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• The 11,000-Pound Break: An 18-wheeler transporting 11,000 pounds of Kit Kat bars disconnected and overturned on Interstate 20 near Brandon, Mississippi, covering the eastbound ramps in a massive chocolate disaster.
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• The Queen of Taco Bell: Pauline Monk, an 86-year-old West Virginia grandmother fighting stage 4 cancer, went viral after officially opening a brand-new local Taco Bell, triumphantly declaring that her faith and joy kept her here long enough to see it arrive.
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• Tragic DoorDash Confrontation: A 75-year-old military veteran in Michigan has tragically passed away from catastrophic brain trauma five months after being sucker-punched by a DoorDash driver whom he had confronted for speeding through the neighborhood.
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• The Athlete Burglary Ring: An international theft ring from Chile has been formally indicted for utilizing sophisticated Wi-Fi jammers and social media tracking to systematically target the homes of prominent U.S. athletes, including Travis Kelce, Patrick Mahomes, and Joe Burrow.
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• NATO Resource Rollbacks: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth caught European allies completely off guard during a closed-door meeting in Brussels, announcing sweeping U.S. plans to slash fighter jet support by a third and fully withdraw submarines and destroyers from the alliance pool.
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• Remembering Clarence B. Jones: Honoring the incredible legacy of civil rights pioneer, trusted advisor, and legendary speechwriter for Martin Luther King Jr., Clarence B. Jones, who passed away at the age of 95.
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• NASA’s Lunar Metropolis: NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman laid out an aggressive strategic roadmap mapping 21 lunar landings by 2028, aiming to build a continuous, permanent, nuclear-powered human base camp spanning hundreds of square miles on the Moon's South Pole by 2032.
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• Graduation Turned Brawl: A high school commencement ceremony in Tennessee descended into absolute chaos, resulting in 11 arrests after adults in the audience flipped gym chairs and incited a massive riot.
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• The Ultimate Underdog Trigger: In a bizarre incident out of Nebraska, a dog left briefly unattended in the backseat of a truck accidentally stepped on a loaded shotgun, discharging a blast completely through the vehicle door and injuring a woman waiting at a nearby traffic light.
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• The Global Population Warning: Geopolitical and environmental scientists released a stark worst-case scenario model warning that compounding climate events, pandemics, and critical resource shortages could trigger a collapse that cuts the Earth's human population in half by the year 2064.
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• Trump’s Clean Bill of Health: President Trump visited Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for his scheduled physical, immediately taking to Truth Social to give himself a flawless review before the official medical documentation was even processed.

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[00:00:00.00] Music: I'm in chains, I'm in chains (upbeat music) ♪ In the cold, the cold, the cold ♪ ♪ Feeling the ice, ice ♪ ♪ And I know a saint is just a friend ♪ The following program is rated MALSV. strong language sexual situations and violence. It is intended only for mature audiences. Finally, show with the balls and call it like it is. Rated R Safety Show on Safety FM. Countdown to audio torture. The Rated R Safety Show starts in three, two, one forget the corporate bullshit this is the rated-r safety show with your host dr. it doesn't matter who the host is oh I think we have established this are ready but it's always good remembrance to make reference to it. It does not matter who the host is. What has always mattered is who the listeners are. Anyways, we are broadcasting from the safety FM studios in Orlando, Florida on this lovely May the 27th, which makes it a whip him out Wednesday, but don't worry about that. So we are broadcasting from here, but we're also hanging out with our friends and family over there. Did I say friends and family? Did I say friends and family? I guess friends and family. I don't even know how friends and family came to the brain, but okay. Anyways, that's what happen there. So anyways, how are you? How are things going on inside of your neck of the woods? I'm always kind of interested on what's going on because listen, you never know what's going on inside of this world. That's for sure. A lot of stuff seems to be moving and grooving no matter what the hell is happening. Because we got so many things to talk about in such little periods of time that I kind of go Wow. What just happened? And where did we lose all this time in regards of what was going on? So there you go. There you go. So have you been seriously have you been because it's always it's always crucial to find out what's going on with you before we do anything else. Let's just be realistic without the without you being here. There is no show, and I don't even know why I call it a show. Because it's a conversation. It's an ongoing conversation of just the stuff that's going on inside of the world of the biz because I never understand how to handle some of these scenarios. So that's just some of the stuff that we have to talk about, because I look around and I go, if we do not talk about exactly what is going on. why are we even sitting here? So as we do our little show, our show consists of safety in the news, news and safety. That's just kind of really how it goes. We bring in some professional broadcasters. They outlay out the lay of the land on what exactly is going on inside of the world of the news cycle. Now a lot of people tend to complain about this and I'm okay with it about why do I bring so much news because I think we need topical information before we go into a safety meeting. If you go into a safety meeting and you just start off talking about safety, you're probably not going to get far. You're not going to get very far about just talking about that. Some people will look at you and go what the hell's going on, and some people will look at you and go, well, if this is the way that she wants to talk about knock yourself out but you're gonna lose them and I think that if we bring up topics that are important that are going on right now in the real world in real time people will seem to care more so that is the reason why I tried to give you everything that's going on as the day begins let the day begin so there you go that's what's going on So if you want to interact with the show, it's a simple process. I'm doing so call in radio.com. That's call in Radio.com will get you moving and grooving inside of the world of the multiverse. That's just kind of how it goes Once you get there and you go into that mess boom Audio video and text messaging. That's this kind of the way of the layout works And then once that kind of passes through, we're running. We're just running, running, running, running, running with everything that we got. So let's go ahead and do this real quick. I do have my friends from feature story news waiting in the wings. Why don't you talk about what the hell is going on with the news stories so we can bring them in. They can talk about what the hell's going on and then we can just go from there. So if you're good to go, I'm good to go. From Feature Story News in Brussels, I'm William Dunsloe. Dozens of people are believed to have been killed as Israel says it struck 100 Hezbollah sites in Lebanon. Meanwhile, Israel claims it's killed the commander of Hamas's military wing in Gaza, despite a ceasefire being in place. Dr René van der Werdt, a representative in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. for the World Health Organization has described the situation on the ground. "Nothing prepares you for Gaza, and I thought going in the second time would make things easier, but it just doesn't. Despite the ceasefire of last October, there is perhaps less fire, but the violence continues. We hear bombs nearby. There is gunfire after." A US-Iran deal faces an uncertain few days despite US President Donald Trump saying it's largely negotiated. It comes after the US launched strikes on vessels off the Iranian coast that it said were laying mines. Nick Harper reports from Washington. Peace negotiations continue to appear on shaky ground. The latest sticking point revolving the unfreezing of frozen Iranian assets, with it being reported that Tehran is demanding $24 billion as a precondition to continue talks. All of that after the U.S. struck Iranian boats and Israel carried out one of the heaviest days of bombings in weeks. Striking targets, were controlled by Hezbollah in Lebanon. Iran is now threatening a decisive, swift response, leaving the fragile ceasefire in even more uncertain territory. I'm Nick Harper in Washington. The Serum Institute of India is partnering with Oxford University to fast-track an Ebola vaccine. Though India hasn't reported any cases of Ebola. The development comes amid rising cases in Central Africa. Ishan Garg reports. Reports say the Oxford Vaccine Group is working urgently with the Serum Institute of India to develop and scale doses of a vaccine against the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola, a strain for which no approved vaccine currently exists. Scientists say clinical-grade doses could be ready within two to three months. months, pending successful pre-clinical trials. Meanwhile, in India's tech capital, Bengaluru, a 28-year-old has been isolated at the state-run Epidemic Disease Hospital after developing mild Ebola-like symptoms, including body ache. India's health ministry says no confirmed cases of Ebola have been detected in the country and stresses all measures are precautionary. says Britain faces relegation from the Premier League of Nations. He's published a withering analysis of the current government, accusing it of not having coherent plans and harming economic growth with its policies. Tony Blair says his party replacing Keir Starmer as Labour leader will be irrelevant without a policy debate about tackling the country's challenges. For us worldwide, this to the territory and clear the rubble there. Today, the issue of the supplies. It is a complicated picture. Post ceasefire, we've been getting in enough to feed 1.5 million hot meals a day, for example. Tens of thousands of shelters. We've got 100,000 kids back into some form of education. We've just finished a big vaccination campaign. lot of very good things there happening that we weren't being allowed to do before the ceasefire. Against that we're still facing a big restriction on what we can bring in, a lot of restriction on dual use items including things like wheelchairs and so on and school materials that we can't get in at the scale we need and our NGO colleagues are still facing massive registration issues. really rely on those NGOs. We're a community here, and especially in a time of massive cuts, it can't just be the UN agencies. We need that kind of that partnership with the NGOs, and they're facing huge restrictions on what they can bring in. Those restrictions being imposed by the Israelis, they say, for security reasons. Tomorrow, the Under-Secretary General on what's happening to all that. rubble. The main news again. Israel claims it's killed the commander of Hamas's military wing in Gaza despite a ceasefire being in place. Dozens of people are believed to have been killed as Israel says it also struck 100 Hezbollah sites in Lebanon, and a US-Iran deal faces an uncertain few days despite US President Donald Trump saying it's largely negotiated. It comes after the US launched strikes on vessels off the Iranian coast that it said were laying mines, and that's the latest feature story news, William Denslow reporting. Transmission, Jay Allen, PhD, host of the Rated R Safety Show, and founder of Safety FM, has spent years pulling back the curtain on the systems we work in, and the ones we don't talk about. What started as a fatal crash on the 405 became a search for truth through behavior-based safety, human and organizational performance, simulation theory, and everything in between. Safety in my opinion is raw, reflective, and real. From burnout to breakthroughs, from the matrix to the moment someone says, "This doesn't feel right." This book doesn't give you answers, it hands you the signal. 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Anyway, so let's start talking right away as we are 13 minutes past the top of the hour doing all the fun stuff that we get to do inside of the world of the multiverse 'cause there is no doubt about that. on as we are talking. Should, should we give you this one? Let's give you this one. It's hump day where productivity goes to stretch before quitting early. Yeah. Hump day today. Whip them out Wednesday as we like to call them around here. Uh, that is for sure. A lot of stuff going on. I will tell you it is only the second day of the work week for most, and it already seems like we're closer to the end than what we are. the beginning. So there you go. So let's start talking right away about some things that are going on inside of the world of the news because that is what is going on inside of here. So I got a few of them that are kind of interesting, but I want to start off with this one. I want you to kind of envision this for just a moment, an 18 wheeler carrying roughly 11,000 pounds. They say it's a good idea to keep an eye on the road. That's what they're saying. We're still waiting on the results. Of Kit Kat bars overturned on Monday on Interstate 20 near Brandon, Mississippi after the trailer trailer reportedly disconnected and rolled onto the. Entrance ramp. Officials say that the truck was heading eastbound when the ramp in both directions for several hours while the crew cleaned up chocolate-covered mess. Thankfully, no injuries were reported, although a dentist probably just bought a new boat. Police described the scene as a "real break," if you get what I'm saying, and traffic was backed up for miles mostly by people asking if the candy was still good. Take a listen to this. I know I normally don't try to play ads inside of the middle of this thing but man can you tell me like a KitKat bar all of a sudden so this think about this Hershey executives are calling it a chocolate spill Americans are calling it a tragedy mention that incident inspired KitKat to come up with a new jingle. Now I'm just going to tell you this because I think it's kind of interesting. Can you imagine if you had to work on Monday and also you said you were late because there was a whole bunch of kitkat bars in the middle of the road. I want to tell you something tells me that someone is not going to believe you at work safety never sounded so terrible. Rated R safety show just saying it just doesn't sound something that would be believable. Most people would be like, I think you're full of shit. Let's just be realistic. If we're going to be talking about some of this stuff. Okay, so let's continue talking about some other things that are going on inside of the world of the multiverse because that just seems like the thing to do. So an 86 year old West Virginia great grandmother named Pauline Monk has gone viral after proudly declaring herself Queen of Taco Bell. Mock, who is battling a rare stage four cancer, became the first customer inside of the brand new Taco Bell in Seasonville, West Virginia. She told a local reporter she didn't think that she'd live long enough to see it open, but said, "Thank the Lord, I'm here to open it up." No, she didn't say that her first order nacho bell grounded with the diet pepsi absolutely royalty behavior The granddaughter posted the emotional moment online where we quickly went viral even uh catching the attention of clay Ankit and taco bell itself, which is now sending her gift cards and swag despite her diagnosis monk says that she's focused on joy faith faith family and finally having Taco Bell in town without having to drive 14 miles. She's officially the one person with emotional support in Baja Baja Blast and queen of Taco Bell sounds like a rejected WWE character and I mean that respectfully. Now take a listen to what she had to say. It's one of my favorite restaurants, and it got here and then I found out I had cerebral cancer and I didn't think I'd live to see it, I feel thankful I'm here, and I'm here today to open it up. I'm pleased to talk to you. What do you love about Sacramento? Oh, I just, oh. There's all that good stew there, there's good tacos, everything, and the people normally that run it are really good people, and my husband, he didn't use to care for Taco Bell, and I got him going now, he's a Taco Bell dude. her that she was able to make it to her Taco Bell opening in closer than 14 miles because that seems to be important to her. So let's start talking about some other things that are going on inside of the world of the multiverse. A 75 year old Michigan military veteran Lloyd Poole has died five months after allegedly being a sucker punched by a DoorDash driver outside of his home. Police say that the confrontation began after Paul yelled at the driver speeding through the neighborhood. Investigators allege that the driver 40 year old Ryan Turner stopped his car, exchanged words with Paul and then punched him in the in the head before driving away. Paul suffered a catastrophic brain injury. and never regained consciousness after emergency surgery. Prosecutors, they are reviewing whether to upgrade the charges following his death. So what do you think here? I'm just asking. I'm always amazed on the amount of road rage incidents that you get to see out there, and if you kind of look online, because you know that's it's kind of where we live in the social media world yeah I see a lot of this stuff you see a lot of the stuff that happens behind the scenes here where people are posting videos of somebody having a road rage incident of what's ever going on so have should this be upgraded who knows I was watching a video yesterday this is not a joke this was supposedly happening right outskirts of Tampa, Florida, where there was a lady in the middle of the highway, stopped her car, jumped on top of her car, and decided to start dancing on the very top of her SUV, because it was an SUV, and she's yelling at someone, and I just don't understand what would be the thought process behind that. But then again, there's a lot of things inside of my life. that I don't understand when it comes to stuff, but that's just how it goes. According to the Iranian state media, negotiators meeting in Qatar want at least half of the money released immediately once the ceasefire agreement is signed, with the rest paid within two months. The demand came after the U.S. forces reportedly launched strikes on missile sites and boats near the Strait of Hormuz. That officials say that we're preparing to lay naval mines. Iran claims that they responded by shooting down a U.S. MQ-9 drone and firing on Americans F-35 stealth fighters, forcing it to retreat. The regime revolutionary guard also warned that the U.S., any future U.S. military action would trigger what is called a decisive retaliation so basically everyone's holding uh holding matches while standing in the gasoline refinery. Iran's foreign ministry accused the U.S. of violating the ceasefire for over at least 48 hours saying that Tehran would uh defend its sovereignty and leave no act of aggression answered. So what do you think here? It's definitely getting more and more interesting as time is going on, and you are noticing a lot of interesting things as we continue to talk about this stuff. So what are you thinking when it's all said and done? I don't know, but it'll be interesting to see what happens here over the next few weeks. Anyway, sing a listen to this. Suspects accused of targeting the homes of pro-athletes, including Travis Kelsey, have been charged in Chile as part of an international burglary investigation. Authorities say that the group allegedly stole jewelry, luxury watches, jerseys, and sports memorabilia from athletes across the U.S. and Argentina during a string of break-ins. In the 2024 and 2025, the arrest came after two suspects were caught in Argentina following a robbery at the home of retired tennis star Juan Martin del Potro. Police say that the suspects are linked to organized South American theft ring that specifically targeted athletes while they were away at games. Homes connected to Patrick Holmes and Joe Burrow were also reportedly hit. According to the FBI, the thieves use social media surveillance, Wi-Fi jammers and other tactics to track players, schedules and and bypass security systems. U.S. authorities are now seeking extradition. Turns out that posting a out for on the road to a road game on Instagram is basically sending burglars a calendar invite. Now, couple things here because we need to talk about this because I think it's always interesting. So this is why you should be kind of hesitant before you post shit online in regards to what you're doing. Hey, I'm gone. I'm leaving the country. I'm going out of town. I'm not gonna be home, but you know all the weird stuff that people like to post and never understand it. I Have a an acquaintance is what I should call her that she does not post anything About flights or leaving or heading anywhere until she arrives back This way it avoids any kind of issues going forward, but I think it's always kind of interesting like when have the billboard out there where people are like I am heading out of the country I am going here next week I will not be at home have fun going through my stuff. I know kind of a weird thing to say but it's kind of sometimes that's how it comes across when you're hanging out online and posting everything that you're doing every five seconds. it becomes very interesting. 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Secretary Pete Hagseth told NATO officials in a closed-door Brussels meeting that the U.S. plans to reduce fighter jet supports by roughly a third, remove Navy destroyers from NATO's force pool, and pull U.S. submarines from the alliance entirely. The changes would force the European allies to cover more of the issue. their own military needs, and let's see, including reconnaissance drones and naval protections. Officials were reportedly caught off guard by both the size and the speed of the pros crackdown. So there you go. There you go. What do you think? Definitely will put some changes into some things for you. As we are talking, what do you think? I don't know sometimes the speed on how we move with certain things are kind of mind-boggling when it comes to stuff but I guess that's a good and maybe not a bad thing where some people would say that it would be a bad thing but I never know I look at it and go it is gets crazy out there as we are kind of hanging out and okay so anyways with that being said let's continue talking about some other stuff. Clarence B. Jones, the longtime advisor and speechwriter for Martin Luther King Jr., has died at the age of 95. Jones played a major role in the Civil Rights Movement, serving as a King's personal attorney, trusted advisor, and collaborator from the 1960s until King's assassination in 1968. the legendary "I Have a Dream" speech, helped smuggle King's letter from Birmingham Jail out of prison, and worked on the landmark Supreme Court case, New York Times Company v. Sullivan. In 2024, Joe Biden awarded Jones with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Beyond civil rights work, Jones later became the first American- African American allied member of the New York Stock Exchange and taught at Stanford University and the University of San Francisco. Jones was also recently featured in a documentary "The Baddest Speechwriter of All" produced by Stephen Curry and directed by Ben Proudfoot. The film won major prize at Sundance. and is expected to land on Netflix later this year. So terrible to hear about the passing, but definitely something that we will take a look at, I guess, when the documentary comes out on Netflix, 'cause it definitely sounds interesting as we are moving forward. Okay, take a listen to this one. NASA says that it wants to build a permanent city-sized base on the moon within the next six years. that. 1-2-3-4-5-6. At this time the goal isn't just planting the flag and leaving. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced plans for multiple moon base missions this year as part of the Artemis program saying that America is returning to the moon and this time to stay. The proposed base would reportedly span hundreds of square miles. near the moon, South Pole, and run on nuclear and solar power. The project would support long-term astronaut stay, scientific research, robotic missions, and future preparation for Mars mission. NASA says that the environment would will be brutally extreme with temperatures swinging from scorching heat to deep freeze conditions that make the Antarctica look like a spring break. The agency roadmap includes 21 lunar landings through 2028 to prepare for the site and followed by the infrastructure construction from 2029 to 2032, after NASA hopes to establish continuous human presence on the Moon. I will tell you. Let's be realistic, there's so many things that are going on right now when it comes to space, when it comes to UFOs, when it comes to all this stuff that we're talking about that's going on in the news, that if you told me this was a science fiction movie, I would almost believe you in regards on how crazy some of this stuff gets from time to time. about it for a moment if i would have told you a year ago matter of fact if i would have told you five years ago that we would be talking about aliens as um something kind of normal how crazy would you would have thought i was i mean let's just kind of make it a little bit different how crazy would you would have thought i was compared to how normal crazy you think i am That's going to be the other part. So what do you think as we continue to talk about these things? Is it getting to the point that it's like, all right, this is, we're not going to get anything past anymore in regards to what's going on. I mean, think about this between UFO, now we're going to try to build a place on the moon. Elon Musk is talking about trying to build. you know, livable places on Mars, AI takeover, I mean, I don't know what the hell is going on. It's getting a little bit crazier and hazier as we are hanging out there. I mean, no doubt about that. Exactly what we're talking about here. Who truly cares what this guy has to say? Who gives a shit? Rated R, safety show.outro Ripley High School in Tennessee turned chaotic after multiple fights broke out during the event, leading to 11 arrests, according to the Lauderdale County Sheriff's Office. Seven men, one woman and three juveniles were charged in connection with the brawl, with many facing charges including inciting a riot and disorderly conduct. Officials said that most suspects later turned themselves in. Video from the ceremony showed chairs overturned across the gym floor as family members and attendees appeared to join the fight. Authorities said that the violence ruined what should have been a celebration honoring students' years of hard work. School superintendent Selina Sparkman defended the graduates, saying that the fights were started by adults, not students. The sheriff's office called the behavior selfish and disgraceful and said graduates were robbed of a once-in-a-lifetime moment. Nothing says the graduating class of 2026 quite like ducking folding chairs on the way to get your diploma and graduation went from caps and gowns to cops and cuffs is what it sounds like in one minute one minute. was a graduation. The next, it looked like a, well, a Black Friday thing in most retail stores of what goes on behind the scenes. So there you go. So take a listen to this one 'cause this one almost sounds unbelievable. Nebraska gas station turned into a world's worst dog park on Saturday after a dog inside of a picture. truck reportedly triggered a loaded shotgun sending a blast through of the vehicle and injuring a woman yeah not a joke here sitting in a nearby traffic light according to police the Scott's bluff the truck owner had stepped inside of a convenience store while another passenger stood outside of it near the passenger door the dog was left alone side of a truck and reportedly moved around in the backseat, somehow hitting the shotgun that had a live round in the chamber. The gun fired through the passenger side door across the parking lot and hit a woman several yards away in the arm while she was sitting in her vehicle with her arm resting out the window. Thankfully, the injury was not considered life threatening and was taken to the hospital by a family member. Police originally thought that the incident was involved by a BB gun before realizing that it was an actual shotgun blast. The investigators also found damage to the truck consisting that the discharge the Scott's Bluff Police Department is continuing to investigate. So police say the dog accidentally fired the shot. gun. The ATF says that he is now classified elaborate trigger. I don't get it. Just take that one for what it is. Okay, with that being said, 32 minutes past the top of the hour. So why don't we go ahead and do that thing that we normally do around this time that we definitely call our main story. Here is our main story on the radio safety show. Yep. main story time. Time to talk, time to do our thing, and all right, let's go ahead and get into that main story today, and let's pull up the chair and shake off that corporate buzzwords, and let's take a trip away that let's take a trip using that garbage scripts that we do, and it's time to look at what we actually is happening to the soul of our industry so I have to tell you about this because I thought it was kind of interesting over the weekend a picture popped up on my on my feed or my social media feed that completely you know stopped me and what I was thinking about and it was an image of a guy standing in a British Jesus you know a university podium and he was wearing a full traditional academic you know robe and you know the standard stuff. Heavily hooded, well, you know, the whole nine yards, you know, the whole thing, you know, how you would wear that, that rope, the cap, the cap, the gown, the layover, the whole nine yards. But he's also rocking some spiky hair and a pair of dark sunglasses, and I looked into it a little bit more and it was Dexter Holland, the lead singer of the punk rock band, The Offspring, and the reason that he's standing there isn't just because he's a rock star, it's because the guy holds a legitimate, hard-earned Ph.D. in molecular biology. Molecular biology. He was giving a commencement speech to a room full of graduates, and he had dropped a line that hit right at the chest. I mean, because there's just no other way to put it, and he looked out at the crowd and said... "I hope you never feel forced to trade your aspiration for a paycheck or your passion for a title." When I read that, it made me sit back and think, because that is the exact quote that exposes the massive unspoken crisis of integrity that is quietly swallowing the safety industry complex as a whole. Think about this for a moment. But before we look at the corporate side of this, let's completely be transparent for a second. I had to look in the mirror when I saw that because a lot of you do. I live that exact same paradox. I hold a PhD myself and I did the heavy academic lifting and I spent the years in research and I wrote the signal transmission trilogies and technically I have the credentials to walk into any stuffy boardroom on the planet and demand people to address me as "Doctor" you know that bullshit that we get to do but instead I sit behind this microphone every single day on a broadcast called the Rated-R Safety Show and talking about the raw unfiltered dirty boots language to the people who actually are out there doing the heavy lifting, and I'm being completely honest with you here, not that I'm not completely honest with you all the time, but most of the time, I think the whole worshipping the credential things is completely bullshit. I just think it's the dumbest thing about, "Oh my God, I have to put all these letters where you can know how important I am." Our industry is pathologically obsessed with letters after a name. We treat the PhD, a CSP, a CIH, or an engineering degree like a golden ticket that automatically grants you absolute moral authority on a job site, even if you haven't stepped a foot on the live dangerous shop floor in a decade. To the corporate machine, those titles are just branding shields. They use them to look important at the committee meetings and say, "Satisfy insurance underwriter right here." But, out in the mud, out in the grease, nobody gives a single shit about the alphabet soup after your name. how to talk it to a crew. Status saves lives, right? Does it? Because I don't think it does. It doesn't save lives at all, and that brings us right back to Dexter Holland. The warning. Because the corporate safety complex is designed to force you to make the ultimate sellout trade. Think about it for a moment. Think about the standard trajectory of a safety Nobody walks out of school or steps into the industry side for the first time thinking, "Man, I can't wait to write a standard operating procedure. Can't wait to write that SOP or audit compliance checklist or build a legal shield to protect a multi-billion-dollar company from liability." Nobody starts there. You start with a moral aspiration. You start with a passion. You look at men and women doing the high-risk labor and you say, "My job is to make sure that these human beings get home to their families in one piece." It's purely a moral foundation, is normally where this starts. But then the corporate matrix offers you the trade. They look at your original passion and they say, "Off you go." to swap it for a title. They dangle the golden handcuffs. They offer you a six-figure salary. They give you the keys to a brand new company truck. They hand you a pristine white hardhat that will never see a drop of sweat, and then they give you the shiny new title, Global Director of EHS Assurance and System Compliance, and slowly, suddenly, the traps snap shut. Suddenly, your original moral compass gets retrofitted to protect the assets instead of the human beings. Your passion for keeping workers alive gets completely traded for the title that requires you to defend the spreadsheet. a quarterly board meeting. You stop being the advocate for the crew in the trenches and you become the compliance police guarding the corporate spreadsheet. You trade the aspiration for the paycheck and you trade your integrity for status. The higher up your corporate ladder you climb, the more the system requires you to perform the script. You learn to stop telling the raw, ugly truth about systemic operation failures because you don't want to jeopardize your standing, your title, and your bonus options. The corporate system buys your silence and buys your complicity with bigger title, and while we have the audacity to celebrate it as career advancement. - Career advancement. - But the truth is, if your paycheck- your title requires you to leave your morals at the security gate, every single morning, you aren't a safety leader. You are just a corporate insurance policy walking around in work boots. Think about that for a moment. Dexter Holland stood at a podium in his academic robes but wore his sunglasses. because he refuses to stay stuffy. Elite systems strip away the identity or change who sees you as you were fundamentally. He refused to sell out, and we need to start doing that exact same thing in our workplace. We need to reclaim the original aspiration, and we that our alliance belongs to the workers in the line and not the corporate legal script. Think about that for a moment. Let that marinate because I think it's important for us to think about all these things opposed to just jumping in making a run for it because you got a title offer or because something was offered to you that would is not normally offered to most. If you went back and you looked at how your career was originally starting to where you are now, and all these things were offered to you, are you the same person? Are you entirely somebody different? Did you sell out your morals for a title? Oops, what did he just say? We don't always agree with the viewpoints of our hosts and guests. Now back to real safety talk on safety FM, you're listening to the home of real safety talk This portion of the show has been sponsored by private internet access America's number one virtual private network or VPN even if you use incognito And with servers in over 75 countries, you can get unrestricted access to all of your data. 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That's the song that's playing as we are 45 minutes into the top of the hour.MUSIC Yep, yep. Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep. Yeah, this is Saints of Valerie, allowing us to play this year on the Rated R Safety Show. Songs literally available on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, and Pandora! Oh yeah. Yeah, there's just nowhere to land. Okay. You know that this is one of those stuck ones. Meaning... That if we get too far here, I'm just gonna continue to play it. some good guitar vibe there that's for sure as we are hanging out here on the Radar safety show so let's start talking right away and as you might be aware if you hung out with us before this is the part where I will tell you the most important thing that I have will ever tell you in my lifetime seriously and this is about my friends at to write love on our arms. No matter what you're facing, you deserve to be connected to help and we want you to know that people have been where you are now and things can get better. Healing is possible. To find out more information, all you have to do is go to TWLOHA.com. That's TWLOHA.com and click on the section that says "Find Help." Once you get there, all kinds of information for you related to depression, anxiety, eating disorders, self injury, suicide, trauma, grief support, just to name a few. That's TWLOHA.com to write love on her arms. Listen, I'm going to tell you once you get there, there's all kinds of resources, everything that you can imagine under the sun related to this subject matter, and if you want to, there's even some other things inside down just a slight bit about crisis hotlines. If you're in the U.S. and Canada, you can go to 741741 and just text anything inside of there. It'll get trigger everything going on. If you're in the U.K., 85258, trigger right there. If you're in Ireland, 50808, the National Suicide Prevention. life line, you can call or text 988-TRANSLIFE, you can call 877-565-8860, or the Trevor Project line, and that's 866-488-7386. So listen, all kinds of numbers, all kinds of resources readily available. for you. For anything that you're looking for, go to that website, T w l o h a.com and click on the section that says find help. I'm going to tell you can change everything for you. No doubt about that. Okay, so let's talk about it. Because we are let's see, today's the 27th of May. This is happening on July the 13th, and get all Orlando, Florida, we will have event that we're calling Reality Shifts and Observational Symposium that will be taking place. We will have live inside of the theater with us, Nick Weatherly talking about behavior-based safety. We will have Todd Conklin there talking about human and organizational performance. I will be there talking about Signal and we would love to see you there to have the interaction. also be airing a documentary as we are there inside of a movie theater. Why would you not take advantage of the screen while we're there? So all you have to do is scan the QR code that's on the screen, or you can go to safety FM dot com or you go to safety FM dot io. If you go to safety FM dot com, click on the hub section that will give you all the information right there. If not, you go to safety FM dot io. That will get you exactly into the information of what the hell's going on. So there you go a lot of a lot of different ways on doing this, if you're so inclined to do so. So there you go. safetyfm.io or you can go to like I said, QR code right there on the screen and scan it. So a lot of a lot of different ways we would love to see you Do we get it on Monday, July the 13th? Because Hey, we would love, love, love for you to hang out in Orlando, do some things before we get, you know, into the whole thing on Monday. So there you go. Okay. So with that being said, I do have John small waiting in the wing, wanting to talk about what the hell's going on with the motivation minute. So let's go ahead and do that. Courtesy of JaceCaseMedical.com. Today's quote was submitted by Tom. Tina Fey said, "You can't be that kid "standing at the top of the water slide overthinking it. "You have to go down the chute." Cool quote. I said something similar to a friend who asked me for advice when he was starting a business. At that point in my life, I'd started a few businesses and we were just starting another. His friend was asking for advice and I told him, "Test the water." Then jump in I shared the story of the first time I was allowed to go to the big swimming pool in my hometown There was a swimming pool for little kids and a regular pool And that was separated by a chain-link fence the first time my mom let us go to the big pool I ran directly to the high dive. I climbed the huge ladder I walked to the end and I jumped in then I swam over to the side and I did it again about a hundred times Get over your fear and go do it Don't stand there and overthink it. The Motivation Minute. This has been The Motivation Minute. I'm John Small. Thanks for listening. Your favorite motivational quotes can be submitted for upcoming programs at motivationminute.org. Here is the news on the Radiar Safety Show. officials continued monitoring passengers from a cruise ship outbreak after several Americans returned home for additional medical observation this week. Federal disease experts said exposed travelers were transported to medical facilities in multiple states following emergency evacuations overseas. Authorities urged remaining passengers to follow testing guidance while crews completed deep cleaning procedures aboard. the vessel. Kevin Sanders reporting. Fresh diplomatic talks raised hopes for easing the Iran conflict after negotiators signaled progress toward reopening the vital Strait of Hormuz. American and Iranian officials continued discussions through mediators from Qatar and Pakistan. Following months of fighting and shipping disruptions, leaders from both countries indicated further announcements could arrive within days. If remaining disputes are resolved, Chris Anderson reporting. A Senate hearing on federal law enforcement spending featured sharp questions for FBI Director Kash Patel over agency management practices this week. Patel testified before lawmakers reviewing budget requests for several justice agencies during a closely watched Capitol Hill appearance. Members of both parties challenged bureau priorities. authorities, while administration officials defended ongoing staffing and security operations nationwide. Jessica Oakley reporting. Federal investigators continued examining a small plane crash off the Florida coast after all 11 people aboard survived the incident. Rescue crews pulled passengers from the water after the aircraft went down shortly. Following departure from a regional airport. Transportation officials are reviewing data and witness statements while investigators work to determine cause the accident Kyle Norris reporting Pope Leo met grieving Italian families after renewed attention focused on toxic dumping sites blamed for serious illnesses in communities. The pontiff spoke with parents from the so-called land of fires region where illegal "Illegal waste burning has contaminated neighborhoods. Environmental advocates are pressing Italian authorities for stronger cleanup efforts and medical support for residents. Gary Beck reporting." President Donald Trump met with national security advisors as negotiations continued over a possible agreement aimed at ending conflict with Iran. Several diplomatic proposals remain under review, following weeks of military tensions and economic uncertainty. Administration representatives indicated additional meetings are expected, while lawmakers continue debating American involvement and future security commitments. Lawrence Keller reporting. this week. Officials in Kiev said air defences faced heavy pressure during the overnight assault that damaged homes and government buildings. European allies renewed support for Ukraine, while regional leaders warned the fighting could further threaten supplies. Benjamin Wright reporting, and that's the latest news headlines with Alan Edwards. During a heat wave, what's more important? Air conditioning or air guitar? Um, is it air conditioning? Air guitar. The answer is always air guitar. Prepare yourself. We are now being distributed on iHeartRadio. Listen on iHeartRadio app. radio big. Okay, let's go. Okay, so let's go ahead and get started getting into some of the things that are going on today. Let's talk about today in history in 1968. The National League Awards Montreal and San Diego for their major league franchises in 1969 Jerry Lewis show second run last airs on NBC TV in 1969 as well the Walt Disney World construction begins. Let's talk about this in 1994 the final broadcast of the Arsenio Hall talk show in 1994 as well Larry King ended his radio show and let's see 1994 I guess we're just gonna be stuck there for a moment radio conservative Rush Limbaugh All 43 weds Marta Fritz-Gerald, 35 at that time. So there you go, and in 1997, Russian President Boris Yeltsin signs a historic treaty with NATO. So that all happened back on the dates that I was referring to. So there you go. Let's talk about some birthdays that are going on today, or some celebrity birthdays. Richard Schiff turned 71. turned 68. Adam Corolla turned 62 today. Todd Bridges 61. Jack McBriar turns 53, andre 3000 turns 51 today. Jadakiss turns 51, and Chris Colfer turns 36 today, just in case if you wanted to know. So let's talk about some other things. Let's talk about some things that you ought to know. Tonight's Powerball jackpot is for $154 million. Here's last night's winning Mega Million numbers. Jackpot was $311 million. It was $1549, $5159, and the Mega Ball was $7. Scientists are warning that the Earth's population boom could eventually swing hard in the opposite direction. While the... The global population currently sits at about 8.3 billion people. Experts say the worst-case scenario could see the number dramatically collapse within the next 40 years. Researchers warn that humanity's population could potentially be cut in half by 2064 if several major crises occur. It at once. Among the biggest concerns, climate collapse, future pandemics, large scale global conflict and a severe shortage of food, water and other resources. The warning highlights the growing fears of the same planet struggling to support rapidly growing population could eventually face the opposite problem. A massive population decline caused by environmental and geopolitical disasters. So some things Also, in some other news, officials in New York are reportedly putting together a bid to host a future Winter Olympics. Hoping to recreate the unforgettable moments that still define the Olympics' history, decades later the effort is being fueled by the memories of legendary Miracle on Ice in the 1980s Winter Olympics when the underdog U.S. hockey team stunned heavily the favored Soviet union and one of the biggest upsets in sports history. State leaders believe that another winter games could create a new generation of iconic moments while bringing the international attention and plenty of tourism dollars back to New York. So there you go. Also one more thing before President Trump visits Walter Reed National Military Medical Center yesterday morning for his physical and wasted no time giving himself a glowing review. Before any official medical reports were released, Trump posted on True Social everything checked out perfectly and thanked the doctors and staff before heading back to the White House. So there you go. 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