A Conversation With A Real 9-1-1 Dispatcher | Not Today, Pal

Not Today, Pal with Jamie-Lynn Sigler and Robert Iler

YMH Studios

Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.9 • 966 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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SPONSORS: - Sign up for a $1 per month trial period at https://shopify.com/nottoday, all lowercase This week, Rob and Jamie are joined by Candace, a real-life hero and 911 dispatcher, who loves her job and believes she was made for this profession! Rob and Jamie ask all kinds of questions and Candace teaches them all about the job, what the movies get wrong about it, and what surprising lesson she's learned from her career in the emergency services field. Check it out! Have a question for Rob and Jamie? Reach out at [email protected] Not Today, Pal Ep. 92 https://www.instagram.com/jamielynnsigler https://www.instagram.com/nottodaypalshow https://store.ymhstudios.com Chapters 00:00:00 - Intro 00:01:22 - 911 Dispatcher Facts 00:06:21 - Job Training & Personality Traits 00:08:38 - Most Frequent Call 00:11:05 - Surprise 00:16:54 - Training 00:21:27 - Nervous Callers 00:23:57 - Helping Hand 00:27:29 - Disconnect 00:33:33 - Help You 00:35:14 - Wrap Up Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Not today, come.
0:02.5	Come home.
0:03.4	What's up and had one of the time?
0:04.8	This is a number of a train.
0:06.4	Battery.
0:07.3	Not today.
0:10.4	I'm very excited for this episode.
0:12.2	Me too.
0:13.0	We, you know, months ago I started asking Zolo.
0:16.7	I think it would be really interesting to have a 911 operator on the show and be able to ask them all these questions and this.
0:22.4	And so, though, I just, before we start, I just wanted to know what's that process been like?
0:26.0	Because it's taken a while, right?
0:27.8	How did you find Candace?
0:29.8	Well, I actually tapped another, like, booking agency that we used for, like, some specialty kind of thing.
0:34.8	So I wasn't.
0:35.7	Special.
0:36.2	Yeah.
0:36.7	That's what I am special.
0:38.0	You sure are.
0:39.2	I was a little bit removed from the whole hunt, but maybe Candace, you can tell us a little bit
0:43.6	about what that was like and how they got connected with you.
0:46.0	Yeah, Adrian sent me an email and said, hi.
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