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🗓️ 4 September 2024
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Chief Mike Opalek started his police career in 2007 and is now the Police Chief of Dawson Springs Police Department, KY. While on duty in 2021 his community was hit by a devastating F4 torando. Hear this incredible story along with the other war stories he has collected through his years of service!
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0:00.0 | This is Things Police See, first-hand accounts. |
0:05.0 | With your host, Steve Gold. |
0:08.0 | Welcome to the podcast at Interviews Active and Retired Police Officers are both the most intense bizarre and sometimes humorous |
0:15.3 | moments on the jourb. Guys, thank you for being here. Welcome to the show. Some call it, some call |
0:21.6 | police work the greatest show on earth or the front seat to the greatest show on earth which you know is arguable but I wouldn't deny it. |
0:29.0 | Thank you for being here everybody. |
0:31.0 | Got the, got the, getting episodes interviews lined up again we had a little |
0:37.1 | blip there where we didn't have an episode last week what we did we had cops on the news. I put it on the main channel |
0:45.0 | But I'm getting a tons of people responding and signing up for more interviews which is great. That's just the way it is it kind of ebbs and flows it it can be tough |
0:55.0 | especially when you're you're dealing with coppers who who are working and or are |
0:59.2 | retire but still working because that's kind of a thing cops do. So schedules can get screwed up and kind of had the perfect storm |
1:05.4 | of a bunch of cancellations in a row and had nobody to interview. |
1:11.7 | I usually like to have a few in the can so I don't have to like |
1:14.0 | if there's a week when someone cancels it's not that big a deal but this kind of happened and I was |
1:19.7 | kind of screwed for an episode so don't worry that's not normal but it does happen once |
1:24.1 | a while just bear with me plus I have had the opportunity as I often tell you to |
1:29.2 | work extra hours so I did like 70 over 70 hours this last week and I'm going to do the same thing next week so it makes it |
1:39.7 | I mean I look forward to doing the interviews but it makes it difficult when someone cancels or can't show up and then I have to somehow get somebody else but I'm also working all those hours. |
1:51.0 | So yeah, yeah, that's my that's my big excuse and uh... |
1:56.1 | appreciate you being here for the show it is uh... |
1:59.3 | the interviews in the back catalog behind |
2:01.6 | this one are I think incredible and no credit to me it's all the men |
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