Hi everyone, it’s Julia doing my first writeup.  This week’s episode opens with a riveting discussion about lawn mowers and dead birds, topped with some ‘great’ names for your chickens.  We discuss some exciting things happening throughout Utah such as the Tulip Festival at Thanksgiving Point and the Gourmet Market at The Monarch in Ogden.

-The FanX Comic Convention will be returning to Salt Lake City this year on September 16-18th.  

-The Rice-Eccles Stadium will have a Garth Brook’s concert on July 17th.  

-The Vivint Arena has an extensive list of upcoming events including Justin Bieber (June 13th), Michael Buble (October 1st), Impractical Jokers (October 21st),  and The Weeknd (March 1st, 2022).  

-The Eccles Theater has a full schedule for the next two years with productions such as “Hamilton” (Dec 28-Jan 23) and “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” (June 14-19, 2022).

-The Maverik Center will be sporting Foreigner on July 30th.

–USANA Amphitheatre has artists all summer and fall such as Lindsey Stirling (July 10th), Backstreet Boys (August 5th), Maroon 5 (August 12th), and Kiss (September 22nd).

This week we interviewed Michael Bangerter who is the Response Center Director at Mytrex, Inc, also known as Rescue Alert.  The company started in the 80’s when his father, Richard Bangerter, engineered an emergency phone number dialing machine for a college project.  The invention took off and turned into the technology used today: Personal Emergency Response Systems (PERS).  Someone with a PERS simply has to press a button they wear around their neck or wrist during a medical emergency and an Emergency Medical Dispatcher will come over a speaker to give medical instructions while contacting the subscriber’s local authorities to send assistance.  Mytrex has manufactured and distributed over 1 million units to various companies worldwide.

Michael tells about his personal accounts growing up in the business and watching his father take life-saving calls as an 8 year-old boy.  He grew up to become in charge of all the dispatchers for the company’s two locations, South Jordan and St. George.  Michael and Julia finish off the episode by sharing some scary, funny, and heartfelt accounts of dispatch calls they have taken.

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