Stephen Murray
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30 appearances
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1 series
first heard Sep 2023
last heard Sep 2023
Stephen Murray’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So it came in as an unresponsive possible overdose. That's all we really got. And when I heard the address, I was like, oh, that's really close by.
We're only like 0.4, 0.5 miles away. So I like jump in.
It was one engine company, three police, cruisers, and two ambulances. We get there and I'm looking at the building and there's multiple units within this big house.
I'm like, hello, anybody here? Like, EMS? With the cops that are behind me, they're yelling out, and I'm looking around, and I get down this hallway.
And I find a girl laying on the ground, or a woman laying on the ground, but she's very small. And she looked really young and she was blue. And so I was like, crap.
Well, because nobody's there and she's blue. When someone's blue, I know they're not breathing.
That's where my mind went immediately was that here's somebody who's alone. She's blue on the ground. And I find her pulse and it's quite slow. So it's like in the 40s. So I turned to the cop and said, she's got a pulse. The bathroom is quite small though. And I'm big and it's really hard to work on somebody when you can't kneel down next to them.
And so I put my arms under hers and I drag her into the living room, down the hallway to the living room. And at that point, the rest of my crew had brought all of our equipment upstairs. So they were like, they came up and put down our bag next to me.
So I grabbed the bag valve mask out, hooked it up to oxygen, and started to breathe for her. And in the meantime, I directed one of my staff members to draw me up to pull out an arcane and put a needle on it, because I like to give it intramuscularly, because I can control the dose better.
Well, because the thing is, I've seen people come out and vomit and feel unwell. And when I first started EMS, I remember the police would be standing over them like, what did you use? Yelling at them. I started to think about what is that environment like when they wake up? If there are too many people in the room, I will tell people to go wait outside.
Her color improves, her oxygen saturation comes up, and she then wakes up.
She looked upset.
The people that I fell in with, my group of friends, we all met at the tables that were outside the dorms. And we would smoke cigarettes outside. It was like this thing. And the guy that used to sell us our weed, he was great. He was just like this really cool... I can't even describe him. He was like... He would show up with a fishing tackle box full of drugs. It was like a menu, right?
And like, he knew that I was, I had been struggling a bit.
And so he was like, oh, like, if I remember right, he was like, oh, you should try it. These will make you feel better. And that was like oxycodone.
At the time, they were saying I was the youngest elected official that had ever happened in South Florida. I don't know if that's, like, verifiable, but that's what people were saying about me. And, like, and here I am, like, using drugs the whole time.
I used to wear, like, baggier clothes when I would talk to my parents. This is, like, the era when Skype was a thing. And I used to put under-eye concealer on my eyes. I have, like, sort of naturally dark circles under my eyes. But because I had lost so much weight and was so sunken in, they were very, like, pronounced.
And so I would put, like, under-eye concealer on before I would go on camera with my parents. Wow. And actually, like, the camera would be faced backward where I had all my, like...
accolades on the wall like certificate of election from like the board of elections and like i got a letter from a congressman congratulating me on being elected and like just like those things like behind me but on the other side of the camera my life was chaos so yeah
In my head and in my mind, I'm like, I'm Stephen the addict.
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