The Worst Part Of Being A Nurse | Nurse Blake

Have you ever been in the hospital or doctor's office and someone recognized you? Like as a patient? Uh, yeah. Okay. It's happened to me the other day. How did that go? So I had a rash in the cell. Okay. Downs out. So I go see a nurse practitioner. I see eye clinic and she's down there for a minute. Like down there for a minute. And then she's just like, oh my god. What? She's like, your nurse Blake.

You've probably seen nurse Blake's hilarious yet insightful act on the internet on stage or dare I say at sea. Currently he's one of the most popular creators online. And while his career started off with a huge focus on comedy, he has now transitioned to using his voice for nursing advocacy and education. He literally has no fear. He's gone after problematic hospital systems, toxic nurse managers, and even supported his colleagues during strikes.

I wanted to ask him about his funniest stories while working in hospitals, how to fix our current health care system, his thoughts on the general field of nursing. And most interestingly, how in the world he got the idea to rent multi million dollar cruise ships as a form of continuing medical education, get ready to get schooled, entertained and so much more by the coolest nurse in the game. Nurse Blake.

Hi, we are officially the first name medical professionals. Yeah, that's right. Dr. Mike. I like that. Was that your nickname growing up or did you get that after Blake? Nurse Blake. No, no, no, it was after I graduated. Oh, really? Okay. The reason I bring it up is because when I was in high school, everyone had the joke that my father was a doctor. So they called me doctor. Doctor. Okay. Yeah, but you didn't have nurse Blake as a. No. Did you always know you would be a nurse? Yeah. Really? Yeah. What was that moment that clicked? I mean, I was like, I'm not sure if I was going to be able to do that. I'm not sure if I was going to be able to do that. I'm not sure if I was going to be able to do that. I'm not sure if I was going to be able to do that. I'm not sure if I was going to be able to do that. I'm not sure if I

was going to be able to do that. Um. But brokerage was a great common experience because I had a chance to help my Commerce chief from Institute so that M Place wants to disturb your agency because we had a baby period 12, and so I'm not sure about that data. That's one issue from M have done some research on whether this quería nutritious work has worked on age. That's peace will be everybody else. Okay, or maybe better than you expected? I think better than I expected.

Because I thought for the longest time that to be a nurse you had to work in a hospital and just going through nursing school and different nursing careers I've had, I'm like, oh, you don't have to be confined to like four walls of a hospital. Like nursing is way more broad. You can't just so many different specialties and do so many cool things. So I think it's even better than most people think. Yeah. What have you noticed? You don't have to clean shit. You don't want to clean shit.

You know what I mean? Like wipe ass. You know what I mean? Okay, I got it. Is that like what it's known for? I don't know. Get out of here. Most people don't say nursing clean shit. Yes they do. Oh, you just wipe butzel day. Like that's like one of the most common misconceptions. Maybe at a fret party. No, no, no. You listen, you just take doctors orders. You wipe ass all day. You got into nursing because you're not smart enough for med school.

I think maybe because I had a lot of friends that were studying their NCLEX when I was studying for my boards. That's not what I thought of it. This is all I hear. Really? Has anyone ever said that to you directly and you got like full on offended in the school? Yeah, like patients. Oh, patients in the school. Oh yeah, yeah. Oh, nursing, not smart enough for med school. Wow. What did you say? I don't want to be a doctor. I just don't want to be a doctor. Like two totally different things.

You know what I mean? Maybe like telling flight tenants like, oh, not smart enough to be a pilot. It's like no, I didn't want to be confined to the two foot cockpit, you know what I mean? That's a very different response than I thought you would give. I thought you would write a wagle for a swing and screw you. We're not there yet. For the boxing. For the swing. When is the arc of boxing coming into your world? Because all the influencers are boxing now. Oh, they are boxing now.

Yeah, not interested. No, you're more peaceful. No, let's go on a vacation together. Let's take a trip. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, maybe we could take a vacation by the sea and go on one of your journeys. We're on a, how did you? How did you, yeah, what is this? Like nurses have cruises? They're all in cruises? Our own ship. So, yeah, so when I was in nursing school, at first I was just so focused on like graduating and like passing the NCLEX, but I got involved in advocacy.

I became president of the Florida Nursing Student Association. I like hosted my first conference, like a thousand people came and it was, it was pretty awesome. And I attended a lot of professional nursing conferences over the years and they just suck. They're so boring. They're so stale. They're like stuck 50 years behind. 50 years behind. They have an expo hall that you just walk around. Their sessions are so boring. Their educators just, you know, read the PowerPoints.

It's worse than nursing school. And so I'm like, there's gotta be something better. And I always knew, back since nursing school that I wanted to revolutionize nursing conferences, I had no idea I was gonna start my own. That was not the plan at all. At sea. I just called rural Caribbean. I was like, hey, can I like, I don't like it as a ship. Is that an official partner? Not an official partner. But they were our first. Yeah, we don't have official partners.

We spread the love between our sides. So you buy your own ship. Yeah. Dude, what a flex. Yeah. You're like, oh, you have a yacht nice. Yeah. I have a cruise ship. Yeah, we got to buy the cruise ship for the week. So it's a charter. How much is a cruise ship cost? A lot of money. A lot of people don't know. No, come on, how much is a cruise ship cost? A lot of money. But is that like $5 or like $5,000 or $500,000? It's millions of dollars, actually. Millions of dollars.

Yeah. So a lot of people don't realize the amount of money. It is to charter. And then we bring on so many additional things. So although the cruise can be awesome by itself, we bring on 40 educators. We bring on drag queens from RuPaul's Drag Race. We bring on dancers and DJs. We have additional lighting for our parties. So there's actually a team of 100 people that I work with throughout the year. 13 or full time out of our office in Orlando and then 90 are contractors.

Wow. We're working with them. Wow, wow, wow. So how did this pivot all happen from being a nurse day in and day out to then moving and saying, I'm going to do social media. Yeah. From social media. Now you're renting million dollars. Crucipes. Yeah, I never would have expected it, like ever. So I was working in the ICU in Houston. This is back in 2017. I graduated in 2014. So you're really? No way. That out of here, dude. That's awesome. That's so cool. How old are you?

34. OK, I just started 33. Which of birthday? November. Tell me how happy birthday. Is your birthday today? It was last week. Oh, happy belated. Thank you so much. I'm a tourist. So that's so cool you graduate. All your tourists. Yeah, what are with the for you? No, I don't know. I don't know anything about Zodiac sign, but I like saying it like that because that it makes people feel weird. I'm a Scorpio. Oh, wait, when's your birthday again? November 12. Sagittarius. My ex was Sagittarius.

I almost hated you so much for a moment. But my mood is something else. Oh, yeah. I don't know. I'm just making it up. No, it is like the moon. Like the moon is something. So anyway, so I was working in the ICU. I was super burned out. I remember I just driving home from work. And I had this sense of like impending doom. Like I couldn't breathe. I felt my heart racing out of my chest. I didn't know I was having a panic attack. So I thought I was dying. Wow. So I'm driving home in my scrubs.

It was dark out. And I remember I was so embarrassing. I called 911. And I was like, I can't breathe. I'm dying. And they're like, no, you're talking. So you're breathing. OK. That's fair. It's fair. It's fair. And so I pull over. The ambulance obviously comes. They don't even touch me. They're just like, bro, you're just having a panic attack. But that was my first one. I had never experienced that before. It was horrible. And I realized like I just need to break.

I was spending so much pressure on myself to be like the perfect health care provider. And I started making videos just like silly videos. Was that a panic attack due to like burnout before working yourself? Or were you anxious about a specific situation that happened? Just burnout. Built up over time. I think ever since I was actually younger, just a lot of trauma kind of came up around when I was in my mid-20s and stuff, mentally 20s. I never thought it would.

It's things I've suppressed for the last time. And then when you're burnout at your job, you're working so many hours. And you know, well, you don't know, because nurses work harder than doctors. I don't disagree with that. I'm just kidding. I'm actually a big advocate for doctors, because you all work your ass off, too. Yeah. I mean, I don't think it's one or another. I think it's just different rules.

I think if you truly enjoy spending time with patients, doctor is probably not the career for you. I've just spent less time with patients. Which I feel so bad for you guys, because you guys are just stuck behind the computer, charting, dictating on the phone. It's a lot. We don't even have fun staff lounges like you guys. It's, get the f*** out of here. We don't have, there's no nurse break room, like nice staff lounges. Where? In my hospital.

I used to go in there as a resident, hang out with you. No, no, no. There's doctors lounges everywhere. We just have our unit break room. Maybe they have like your fancy doctor lounges, like if you're like, and then you get free food in there, yes it is. Okay, I've never had any of this. You get snacks, you get drinks. Oh, I'm gonna take you to a few hospitals. Also, I'll show you some tricks. How many hospitals have you worked at? Oh, got a lot. Five. Oh, okay, so you.

All over from like Florida, South Carolina, Texas, Seattle. I actually started in healthcare when I was 17 as a patient transporter. Oh wow. So I got to push patients around the hospital. So you were like, not Jason Bourne, Jason Statham. But the medical version. Kind of like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You guys actually have a similar look, similar vibe. Jason Statham. I don't know who that is, to be honest. You got it, I'm horrible with names. What other movies? Statham. Statham.

Is he one of the main acts actually? Oh, cool, action movie guy. I'm down with that. Well, he's like really good looking. Okay, I was meant to be a compliment. Very birthday present. I'm bad with names. I thought I was, you mean, doctor. I'll show you a picture. I didn't know. No, that's a different doctor. Oh, yeah, you think I look like that. This guy's like, he's known as like, he's a bad ass. He's a heartthrob. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, sure. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, not your type, I'm sorry.

No, no, no, no, no, no. I wonder how tall he is. I guess my type is like tall guys anyway. Okay, I don't think he's tall, so I guess he's off your radar in that regard. Yeah. So yeah, so you're having the panic attack. Built up stress, moral injury from medical practice. Well, before we move on from that, what do you think drives the biggest part of burnout for us as medical professionals? Short staffing number one.

I mean, honestly, even at conferences, they talk about, oh, you need to be more resilient or you need to follow evidence-based practice while short staffing, like, causes injuries. Like what are you talking about? Yeah, so it's totally bullshit. If they really care, they would focus on staffing. I think it's the biggest issue that affects healthcare workers and patients.

So I think it's something that everyone could kind of get behind when it comes to, do you think it's a budget issue or do you think it's a planning issue? That's a good question. They got the money. They got the money. There's big as hospitals. They sponsor all these big events and sports teams all the time, millions of dollars to put their name on a stadium or on a theater. So they got the money for it. And if not, then they could work with these insurance companies.

I mean, you talk about healthcare being a billion dollar industry, but we don't see it. Right? I mean, that's pretty common across the board. All healthcare professionals, salaries, have not skyrocketed in all the years. No, no, no, no. But yet healthcare spending has skyrocketed. Yeah, for sure. So a lot of it has been an administrative burden on hospitals, but also due to the fact that they can't negotiate proper loath insurance companies. They don't know how to get reimbursed for things.

And then they go and how weird is it? If you're a nurse, you work for a hospital system, you're trying to do your best. You're getting 15 patients, so you have to take care of them in the shift, which is so dangerous and terrible for an individual to do. And then you see your hospital just sponsored, like one of the leading sports teams. Yeah, you're like, where does that budget come from? It's so frustrating. It's so frustrating. And to just think it, like hurts patients at the end of the day.

And I think we get into healthcare to save people. And a lot of times, you know, we're not able to provide the care that that patient needs and we take on that burden, right? And the hospitals put that burden on us. They like gaslight us. So if you need to do better, you're not doing enough. Why don't you do the yoga retreat? Right, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's so, I can't do that. Or the goodie bags. The goodie bags. For nurses, we just happened.

And I always ask my followers to send in pictures of what they got. And it's gotten better over the years. Really? Because when they first started doing it, they were just like, they would give out rocks. Like hospitals would give out rocks. Like in a bin, like pick out a rock. You rock, decorate your rock, and you're gonna put it in a rock garden. That's a joke. And swear to God. So this it was in 2018 that happened huge hospital system.

But because all these hospitals find out that I'm posting about them. And what's so funny is I never scratch out their name. Like I just put like a little thin line. Like I scratched out the hospital name. And I don't. So then they're like, oh, we need to make this better. Like, like, you're gonna post about it. You're keeping them honest. That's good. Hell yeah. That's why I don't, I honestly don't speak at hospitals anymore. That's actually how I started getting into it.

I had to doing my own thing. It's not that they're mad at me. I'm mad at them. You got canceled by the hospitals. Sure, great. Yeah. That's kind of like a bad dream of mine. Great. Yeah, that's fine. And thank you so much. Have you ever gotten my key from a hospital to ever send you an email? No. Can you cease and desist from using our name? No, no, no, no. No, no. Thank goodness. No, I think that would have been good for you. You make a story.

You know, I don't want to get sued, please, please, please, please. Now they're going to be like, oh, we heard that podcast. Oh, I mean. That's what you mean. What do you mean? Yeah. Okay. So understaffed hospitals and you feel like you're failing your patient when it's really not your fault. Yeah. Terrible. You're bearing the brunt of that driving home after a long shift. Have this panic attack. Even the EMS workers are like, bro. They're good. Yeah. It's because of the hospital.

They're like Jason, say, you're fine. You know, see him and pronounce his name. Okay. And then what happens there in that moment? You realize I need to, yeah, I needed to just, I need to figure it out. I didn't know what that meant. And at that time, the mail romper came out like the mail onesie. Remember the jumpsuit? No, what's the jump? Yeah, it's like a, just a jumps. It's like a mail onesie. Like a snuggie? No, that's like a blanket. Like it's a mail onesie.

Like it's like a buttoned down shirt, but it ties in with like little shorts. And it all matches. Oh, I haven't seen that. So that came out. That went viral. And I remember I like ran in my closet and they put together like scrubs. I created like a scrub onesie. So I got my scissors and like super glue and I like pinned it together. And I made my first video, which was a scrub romper. And it went viral like everyone saw it.

I guess it was a slow news day because like all the local news stations shared it around the country. I'm like, oh shit, like people really like that. And it, it made me feel better just seeing nurses and healthcare workers comment from all over the world. That it made them laugh. It was silly. Did it. You felt as a community. I felt as a community that I didn't feel I had before.

Even though I was so active with my nurses association being involved with other nursing associations, you do feel alone. I think a lot of times it's healthcare workers. It's easy to feel for sure alone. Why do you think nurses have such dark senses of humor? Because we see it all because we have when I get interviewed, they're always like, oh when'd you get funny? I'm like, I'm a nurse like healthcare workers. I think we're the funniest people ever. I think nurses always have the best time.

That's why I always gravitated. I actually would get in trouble with my residency for not sitting in my little cubby and hanging out with the nurse association. Like I would write my notes in the nurse's days. That's nice. You all get a cubby. Well, you get a cubby. You get doctors. Not in the hospital. Not in the hospital. Doctors. And when I say cubby, I mean like a little to like, I know what you mean. I know. I know. So it wasn't that nice. You guys always steal in our chairs.

We are stealing chairs. And I always, like the best jokes always came from us. We're so funny. But then like a lot of times people would get offended if someone heard them. Oh, yeah. So I say if you're a patient and you're a board as hell and you want some drama, ask to be moved to the nurse's station like next to the nurse's station like you want that room. Yeah. Because you're going to be able to have a much better time. You're going to get all the drama.

Did you watch speaking medical drama's medical drama show nurses? Oh. It's called nurses, right? Uh, I think so. It was awful. That's why it was bad. If you were to remake it, how would you make it? It was a few years ago, right? Yeah. I'd make it accurate. Like why make it funnier? Just even the first like the opening bit was like it was so unrealistic. Yeah. Like it was, I watched it a few minutes and I'm like, this is awful. Whoever made it has no idea what nurses do.

Yeah. And of course I would make it more funny. Of course. And when I would say, when I watch those medical dramas and I critique them and I'm like, this isn't real. Well, it's medical drama. It's meant to be dramatic. Realize your soul is dramatic. You don't need to make it more. Exactly. I know. Just tell the real story. Like let the people bicker. Right. Like I'm going to argue, let this person say they hate this person.

Let a patient say something meaning like, I mean, that's the reality of like life. Yeah. It's weird that they force it. Okay. So you realize you needed to step out. You did the medical onesie. That went viral. What was the follow up to the onesie? And then I kept making more videos. I don't even remember like types of nurses. Yeah, I remember those going to steal food in the doctor's lounge. I don't you know, shit like that. You know what I mean? Like relatable, relatable, most of them.

Very easy. All from like people are like, how do you make up these videos? They're all real. Like I'm making fun of everyone I've worked with. You know, everyone I went to school with. And it's so funny because when I make a video about nursing students, like my classmates from school will be like, oh, are you talking about, you know, are you talking about Brianna and like, no, bitch, I'm talking about you. You are. You're asking me a question, ask her.

And of course you're asking me if it's Brianna's you Diane. That's not funny. Yeah. And those went viral. I got more popular. I started speaking at hospitals because hospitals will invite me to speak to their staff because that was like resilience training for them. Right. Yeah. And then they would be like, but you need to say this. You need to like put our mission in there. And I'm like, that. So at first I'm like, oh, yeah, yeah. Of course, I will say that.

Then I get up there and do, you know, whatever. Whatever. But then I'm like, I'm what I do, what I do for the nurse, like at the end of the day, no matter if it's videos or my tour or the conference, like it's always nurse focused. And I will never like spin my energy trying to, you know, do anything for hospitals or medical device companies or anything. So yeah, then I started doing my own little shows. I did like five of them in 2019. I like rented out little theaters and I still take it.

What did you do? I just talked about my life. It wasn't chatting with the audience. Yeah, but I have a storyline and there was some humor in there. I would do like little bits of my videos and stuff. And it's funny to see how my tour and comedy is developed over time. But I put a lot into a lot of work into my shows and my content and what the, what the vibe is. So it's been cool to just even see, go on stage and see how the shows have changed over the years.

And you have such strong support from the nursing community. For the rest. I'll show up by the boatloads you're touring sometimes eight shows in a week. Yeah. Really intense. Do you ever run into controversy if nurses saying mean things to you? Oh, he's, he's not a real nurse. He's never been a nurse blah, blah, blah. He doesn't know what we go through. Okay. Sure. Whatever. You know, okay. I've learned to not give energy to people that I know don't like me. And it's okay.

At first I was very insecure. I was like, I need everyone to like me and he'd say this. I think over the years I've realized, or just even a nursing like you realize the importance of life and how short life is, you know, as a healthcare provider where if you don't like me, you don't like me. And that's fine. But if you don't like me and don't come to my show, then you're going to be the only one working that unit because all the other nurses are going to be at my show.

So I say, even if you don't like me, come to the show because you don't want to be second work short staff, which is funny because whenever I do a show in a city, managers will reach out and be like, we need people to come. Like we will give an extra. So you could be the cause of $600 bonus. Someone dies. No. They will be the cause of it because they don't know how to f**k and sap their house. Well, yeah, because you're breaking the system. It is their problem. You're out here. It is.

Stealing the nurse. No, this is what I say. Listen, if you're an emergency, when I'm doing a city in your town, don't go to the hospital, come to the theater. That's where all the healthcare workers are going to be. That's a good thing. That's a good thing. If Wall Street loves that, it's funny because even we had one person come to the show. It's 42 weeks pregnant. She was supposed to be induced. And instead, she had her labor bag with her. And she's like, you know what?

If I was going to give birth, I'd rather give it here. But right after the show, she's like, okay, I'm going to go have my baby. Yeah, are those shows like the safest shows? Because you have like a show. Everyone there. Safest cruise ship. Wow. I didn't even think about that. In fact, if I want to go on a cruise, I should just go on your cruise. It's like a free medical care. What's so funny is a lot of times, you know, there's hospitals on cruise ships. Like there are doctors and nurses.

There's a jail. There's a hospital. There's a jail. See, there's a board. There's a board. I know everything. There's a board. Have you killed someone on tour now? No. No. That sounded much more. That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. She ran up on stage and almost tried to tackle me. Like hug tackle or like angry tackle. Like angry tackle. Like yeah. What did you do? I was just like, okay, bye. No, but what did you do that you made? Oh, I don't know.

She just want to tell me how much God loved me or something. Oh, so it's a positive thing. Yeah, no. It was more like, don't be gay. Oh, kind of thing. Okay. Very, very angry. I was like, mom, why are you here? Mom, why? How'd you get in? Yeah. So yeah, so there's hospitals on cruise ship. But so funny is on my cruise, no one goes to the hospital. So the nurses are so bored.

Like because I get reports about like how many people either were injured or something happened if anyone diggered to the hospital. Because a lot of people don't realize I'm running like the ship. Like I am working with the captain and the teams. What time do we leave? You know, if there is an emergency, what happens? Like I'm the one that has a deck phone that goes right to make those decisions.

So in addition to saying hi to everyone and organizing the education, it's a lot of people don't realize it's a company. You're literally running the ship and guiding the ship and steering the ship. Well, there's the captain steering the ship. But yeah, like there was one of the islands we were going to go to, the weather was really bad. So I had it back up plan if the weather was bad, I had it by a port dock and the Bahamas just in case is plan B and the weather was really bad.

So one of the options was and I made the call like what do we do? Where do we go? Would you ever open up your own hospital? No. Why? I went open up my own hospital because so much work. It's so much work. You're running a ship. It's so much work. A hospital. We can get an island. You can call it a nurse island. So if I had a hospital, I'd have the coolest nurse managers. Like we would be fully staffed. Like the nurses would get a good lounge like all the doctors lounges. You know what I mean?

Would you even have doctors? Probably not. Honestly. You would have to vote for a test. You'd have to vote for a test. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Have you ever been in the hospital or doctors office and someone recognized you? Like as a patient? Yeah. Okay. It's happened to me the other day. How did that go? So listen, so I was on tour. No, this is, let me tell you what happened. I had a rash. You say that. Down south. In the south. Down south. And you did in self diagnosed? Oh, I freaked out.

Like it went to WebMD and I'm like, oh my god, what do I have? And I typed in like my number. Now that you have my symptoms, I just text you. I just text you. So I typed in my symptoms. I'm like, oh my god, you have dick cancer. No. Stage five. Typical for WebMD. Yeah. It's always to the worst. Yeah, 100%. So I'm like, shit, so it's like see a doctor. So I go see a nurse practitioner. I see eye clinic. Right. And she's down there for a minute, like down there for a minute.

And then she's like, oh my god. What? She's like, your nurse's like with wallon dressed. Yes. Well, I hadn't, you know, my shirt on, but you know, your nurse's like, did she recognize you from the face or? And that's a great question. She's like Jason Sadam. Anyways, I didn't have an STI. I had just washed my underwear with tight fragrance and I'm strictly like no fragrance. Oh, yeah. A little contact dermatitis situation. Yeah. Exactly. And I know.

And here I thought I had dick cancer, you know? Well, it's easy to go down that rabbit hole. Oh, for sure. Because dick cancer is something on a lot of people's minds. Stage six. Yeah, it's really bad. I didn't know there was a stage six. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But the more, you know, the more, you know, penis cancer. The more, you know. Or is it a penile cancer? Probably, you know. Right. Penis cancer. And the richer is out there to deserve it.

You got to the point where you said if you don't like me, I don't care. No, it's fine. How do you get there? Oh, I think it's just a lot of just being yourself, right? Like I feel like, especially when you start on social media or just life in general, you know, you start a new hospital, you're a new nurse, you kind of want everyone to like you. Of course, sir. But then I learned the phrase like if everyone's your friend, they really know what your friend, right? So that was like shit, damn.

And it's like, it's fun. There's, I don't like everybody, you know, I don't like everybody. So why would I expect anyone to like me? Like anyone in this like, like, one of my cousins, one of my cousins. Oh, I hope you have lots of it. Can't identify themselves. Yeah. Any patients, how did you hate it? Wait, what? Any patients that you've just like, of course. Yeah. Like, you know, there's patients that either will hit you or pee on you. I've got peed on before. So it was really fun.

I had to be so bad. I thought I was pissed myself. And then I realized like, no, I'm not incontinent. Like the patient is just being on me. Oh, yeah. It's not dislike. It's like you're, you're caring for people in really vulnerable moments, right? And subpatients just will give you a harder time than others. Sure. Some of it is understandable, but then some of it is inexcusable. You shouldn't curse at a nurse, especially when it's not your fault. Right.

Yeah, it's not my fault, you know what I mean? I feel like health abuse on healthcare workers is super high. It should be a felony across the board. Is it not? No. It should be. No, because if you get hit on the job, you tell your manager and they're just like, oh, be better. Watch where the exit is. Like, don't have your back towards the patient. It's like what? Yeah. That's gross. Yeah. Oh, the patient was having a bad day. I'm like, bitch, I'm having a bad day. Can I hear you?

Why is a bus driver protected by that felony rule? Because I always see those plaques. Yes. I always see those plaques for health care. We're on flights. Flight tendons. Oh, yes. All the time. So I honestly compare healthcare to the airline industry a lot. You know, when it comes to staffing, right, full plane or empty plane, it's going in the air. It's got to have two pilots and the right number of flight attendants or guess what? It don't fly. Even if there's just one passenger on the plane.

It's per plane. And we also have the same checklists. It's four procedures. Yep. Time out. I can pair that a lot. And then it comes to injuries and abuse. You know, if you hit a flight attendant, you know, it's a felony or put on a list, you can't fly again. And we would be pretty messed up if they're not allowed to get medical care again. I wouldn't do that. But you shouldn't hit us. No, that's true.

And it's different if you're drunk, you know, incapacitated or whatever, but if you're in your right state and you. Because that does happen to me. Dimension. Yeah, that's what I'm not talking about that. Yeah. I feel like nurses laugh at that. Like a little 98 year old lady that's a little confused. She could hit me. You know what I mean? Cute. Super cute. Super cute. What if that 98 year old lady used to be a bodybuilder and it's really strong? Then she would probably knock me the f*** out.

She would knock me out. See? Now you probably wish me to say that. And I'm a DNR by the way. Oh, you are? Oh, yeah. You think I want to be coded? Why not? No, absolutely not. Wow, we have to get it done. Absolutely not. Well, wait, at this age, like not like not like, it's not like. Like I have a thing on my refrigerator that says like a DNR. Well, I'm saying based on your like your medical power of a thing. Like I almost died today. I told you this morning I went on helicopter ride.

I do it every time I'm in New York. I try to especially when I'm with friends or family. I try to do something cool. Yes. See Hamilton, you know, go on helicopter ride. On a cool podcast. Yeah, go on a cool podcast. So there's a flight company helicopter company. It takes you in the air. Takes you around the city. No doors. Which is very dangerous. We don't recommend. Right, exactly. And there was actually a crash with this company. Someone was in the front seat.

Something got the passenger something got tangled. So I thought that they don't allow people in the front seat anymore. Oh, well, I was wrong because someone was in the front seat and all we heard for 30 minutes was, hey dude, you better not lean this way or we're going to have a bad day. Like bro, I'm telling you, if you lean this way one more time, you're getting way too close to the controls and I'm back there because of pilot.

You can hear what the pilot is saying, but we can't talk back to the pilot and I'm like, can you see what's happening in the front seat? No, because I'm facing this way and the pilot and the guy were behind me. So you're just hoping now it's like shit. And then I'm like, you know, if we do crash, like, I don't want to be resuscitated. Like, why? Bro, like, I can give you some time. Damn good chest and pressure. I'm tired. Need a break. So you're not really DNR.

Like I said, it's not like on my ID, you know, but where is it? Is it anywhere? My tattoo, my tattoo on my ass. Okay, let's say God forbid situation. You get sapsis. Your heart stops. You don't want my chest compression. Honestly, no, that's so just even thinking about it. And after doing it, you know, on a lot of people, doctor Mike on your chest pushing two inches deep. Okay, four inches deep. That's very deep. Okay, four inches deep. Good. That's good. Yeah, I like that.

You've got some ribs like that. Okay, only doctor Mike can do it. Okay, fair. You, you, you get chest compressions. Would I get it? Yeah, no, I don't want that. Honestly, I don't. Why are you like, have you had a bad incident with it? No, but just thinking about it, you're just like, ugh, you know, wow. Yeah, what are you full code? Yeah, you want to ship your, you are every tube in your body, every hole in your body. I this a whole. We'll make a hole. Yeah, I know. If we need it, I need it.

I don't want to get, give me the hole. Okay. I need a Foxy seal out, nurse, like put it in there. I'm right, he's his father. See, he does your dog so cute by the way. I do it for a regular dog. He's so cute. I don't have dogs. Oh, okay. So if you had a dog, you might change it. Yeah, I might change it. Yeah, okay, maybe. Because I've had those discussions with patients. It's a good discussion. It's an important discussion. Yeah, I just didn't expect you would have that.

I even, they get every age you should have this discussion. Yeah. I, in fact, have it sometimes when people are admitted for simple things or proper seizures and they go, why are you talking to me? Is this dangerous? There's something. No, no, no, no. Just sprained your ankle. Let's talk about your coat, sad. Yeah. Just in case. Could you don't really know?

Speaking of going to the hospitals and doing crazy shit, I took, I was in Austin for work and my family was with me and we went tubing down the San Marcos River and my grandmother. Is that a lazy river or one of those rapids? So it's one of the rapids, but it's not too crazy, but it can't get crazy. And I've done it many times, but I forgot how kind of crazy it gets. And you went with your grandmother? So listen, my grandmother, she's my favorite person.

She's Nan, everyone that follows me knows her. She goes on the cruises, like everyone has a drink with her. She's crazy. She goes all out on our theme nights. We have the best theme nights, by the way, on the cruise. And she's also been in the helicopter with no doors. She goes everywhere with me. So I'm like, let's go to being, she's like, I don't want to go to being in, like, no, come on, it'll be so much fun.

Well, we're going down the rapids and it's so shallow, like there's rocks and like, I don't want her to like hit her ass or anything. So she puts her butt up, but then she tilted her head back and we were... Cracked her skull. No, Jesus, Mike. I don't, she's fine. I'm thinking, she just got a little, just like a little... Whiplash. To the wall. She was fine. She was fine. But we did end up just for safety, making sure she got a CT scan. Oh wow. She's good. She's good. You promise?

I'm like, shit. That was your fault. I think it was your fault, actually. I wasn't even there. No, because the podcast was scheduled and you see... You were rushing to get out. Because I was rushing to get back. Sorry, now. But actually, it was ready to get out of the water anyways and we had another hour and a half to go. Oh, okay. So it was a good way to get out of it. Yeah, there was like a hot dog stand and like the lady that was cooking the hot dogs.

Like, she was actually a nurse by the way. Oh really? She took us back to her car and my grandmother was fine. She was so funny. Besides when you got your genitals examined, when was the weirdest place you got recognized? Oh, besides that. Besides that? Yeah. I don't think there's a weird place. I feel like there's nurses everywhere. There's a nurse in everywhere. That's not a nurse in everywhere. Every time I go out, like if I do go out, there's always a nurse.

What's your relationship with that to you? I love it. You love it? Never had a moment where you're like, oh man, I wish I had a nurse. No, no, no, no, no. I love it. So totally happy with it. I love it. Yeah, and I don't expect that people recognize me that they want to get a picture with me. That they once say hi, you know, just like, hey. But if they want a picture like, of course, they get a picture like, we do my, and I only do selfies. By the way, everyone knows I do a selfie.

Okay. So I'll take your picture and like, no, give me the phone because I need to see what I look like, you know, so fair. You want to be kind of. Well, as we took our picture today, you're like, you see my picture. But I didn't require a selfie, you know? Oh, so you let us see. See, I know. I trust that you guys. I trust that. I appreciate that. Yeah. Speaking of the nursing field. Yeah. Right now, we're going through like a lot of changes from like a legislative perspective.

What's going to happen with nurse unions? What's going to happen with? Yes, go nurse unions. Yeah. So what's your like magic wand situation where you could say, I'm going to fix this. Safe staffing. The number of patients per nurse. Number one issue. Number one issue. And how do we fix that? Number one, we need to retain our nurses that are there. Nurses are sober now. You know, they're overworked and nurses are just leaving. Just leaving. Nurses are also going to travel nursing.

Yeah, for the money, they make really good money. Well, especially for years ago, they made a lot of money and they still, they're rich. If I had to do it again, I would get into travel nursing. Really? Because they're so much fun. Like, they're so fun. Like if you're bored on your unit with all your coworkers, just hope for travel nurse and just go out with them. Is there the ones they always want to go out and do stuff? You know? Okay. And always go drinkin, always go out.

Yeah. So I think safe staffing is number one. So we're taking your nurses. When the nurses get better nursing instructors out there, get more nursing instructors out there and pay them well because you can actually get paid more money in the hospital than teaching at these massive universities that make a lot of money that are still nonprofit. Yeah. Nursing instructors don't get paid enough.

Why is it that when I see some more experienced nurses taking on a new nurse, there's almost like this hazing ritual that happens? I love older nurses. I love season nurses. They're actually some of the funniest. So when I do my show, a lot of people think just younger nurses come to my show, but it's a wide range. Like 20 year old nursing student next to a year older retired nurse. And one older nurse, she actually like flash the whole audience. Like she was in the balcony.

Like how long have you been nurse? She's like 54 years. I'm like, okay, if Lauren's signing down, she was just like, I'm like, oh my God. But I did burla. You know burla, right? Her boobs were equal and round, reactive to light. Oh, burla. Oh, burla. But there's burla for boobs. Yeah. So anyway, wait, wait, what is it burla stand for? Boob's equal round, reactive to light. Yeah, see. Wow, that was good. I know. I know. And then it just kind of happened like in a moment.

Okay. So for people that don't know. So older nurses, they love my shit. It's a younger nurse is in my show that are like, can I laugh at this? Which is hilarious to me. They feel like they have to be so professional. The ones that have seen it that have been there 35 years, they know what's up. Yeah, they're never offended. But wait, do you see it on the answer to the question, why do they bully the younger nurses? So I don't think it's just the older nurses bullying the younger nurses.

I think it goes so many different ways. But there is a phrase it's called nurses eat their young. It's because we don't get breaks and we're hungry. And that's why I feel free to eat whatever we can. I just don't know. I think it's just the culture of being overworked, not having enough staff. And then you can't complain to management because they're not around. So it's just easy to kind of like kind of pick on each other, which there's never an excuse for it. There should be no bullying.

Everyone should be working together as a team. So even saying it and then like, come on guys, like don't be mean. Like, you got to come in and play mom, you know. And then why is it that nurses of every department have some sort of animosity with each other or like territory? Because they're, I could see a nurse and I know exactly what special team. No, 100%. Just by the personality. Just by the personality.

So can you be like one of these Oracle-esque people when someone comes to you and they say, hey, I don't know where to go. And you say, I know. I know. Yeah. Neo, I know. See? And I'm like, you work in the OB, you work in LND, you work in the ER. So what is it that tips you off to that? It's just their personality traits. So see me. Give me the personality traits. I see you. What do we got? I see you. They're just like, they're cool, right? They're cool, but they're smart.

So they're a little, they're, they're, if you compare I see you nurse to ER nurse, the ER nurse is going to be more like in your face, laughing, that I see you nurse is going to be just a little more laid back, cool, fun. We love to go out with them because I used to be an I see nurse. But the ER nurses are just a little more loud. You know. And then OB. OB, they're, they're just so, they're so chill. They don't really give a f*** and they come in groups.

So you know if there's like a group, they're in LND. That's cool. And a lot of people that come to my show, they come in like party buses. Okay. So like whole units will walk in the show and say party bus. Oh yeah, it's insane. So that's how I know that LND nurses. Okay. And then what else we got? Pediatrics. Pediatrics. They're, they're always like really cute. They always have something fun on them. They always wear something fun. And they're always laughing and giggling.

They, yeah, they, they talk in like kid language, right? Okay. Because they just deal with kids all day, you know. Well, I see you. I want to do one of those videos that are popular on YouTube. It's like guess who the body builder is or something and you have to guess which nurse. I'll do it. I do it all the time. We're going to produce that. We're going to hire a bunch of different nurses. Some won't even be nurses and you're going to have to guess who they are.

And for every time you guess the correct one, I'm going to give like $5,000 to charity viewers. Deal. Deal. We're doing it. Done. Same. Lock it in. And then like a correctional nurses, they're always like, you know, tattooers everywhere. Just like diesel, go to gym. Yeah. Is it true what they say about male nurses? Wait, what do they say about male nurses? I was going to let you for it. What do they say about male nurses, Dr. Mike? That's the question. What do they say? And I don't know.

I was going to hope that you tell me. So typically like you want a male nurse on you, you just want a male nurse on your, you know, right? Because they're going to help lift all your patients for you, not me. Because like why are you not lifting anybody? Jason, I'm not lifting anybody like you said you were a transporter. That was I was a transporter until I had a little accident. So I was transporting this cute little patient out. She's going to be discharged, right? So I'm 17 years old.

I'm like, so excited. I'm like talking to her and like, oh, you get to go home. So her son pulls up the car. I put her in the car and I'm like, oh, have a good day. And as I went to go shut the door, she went to go reach for a seatbelt. So she slammed her fingers and then the war. So I'm like, okay. Okay. Welcome back to the hospital. I'm searching the ER. So it's like not her lucky day. So you got fired. So no, I didn't get fired.

I didn't get fired, but I did get moved to a different department. So I worked in surgery for a little bit. Okay. Because that's safer. Yeah, shoulder movements. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah, 100%. So I would clean up all the rooms and prep them and turn them over. Okay. What were we talking about? Male nurses. Strong. Yeah, to carry some bald around. Typically. Bald. Straight male. Straight male nurses. Straight men are the strong. They're bald. You know, why bald? Is it from the stress?

It's again, like these, this like stereotypical, like, we're, we very fit in boxes. It's so funny. I love it. I make fun of it in my show. I actually roast like every single specialty in department. I even get to male nurses and stuff. And yeah, they're great. That's so funny. Well, the guy that I was telling you, I was studying for the NCLEX exam. He's a male nurse and he always... He's a nurse. He's a nurse. Well, yeah, but in a nurse situation. Her nurse. Her nurse.

Your experience, who's the most fun nurse you ever worked with? I would say either the oldest nurse on the unit. Specifically, I want you to get someone in your mind. Oh, like a person? Probably Sandy. I work with Sandy back in Houston. At first, I'm like, she don't like me because she knew her shit. And I think you could see it as like nurses eating her young because she wasn't like, you know, the most warm person. But over the time, I got to know her and she got to know me.

We were like best friends. So yeah, it's definitely the older nurse that has stuck around the longest time. They don't give a f***, you know. They talk back to management when the younger ones are afraid to. And they're like, they're the one where if you're the patient, you want that nurse. I would be a full code if Sandy was my nurse. Does that make sense? Yes, but it makes me sad that you wouldn't want me to do chest compression. I said you can four inches deep. But that's not how you do it.

That's too deep. But Sandy clearly knows how to do it. Yeah, she's good, a trustee. Okay, so Sandy was your rock star. Have you ever had a doctor mess up and you saved them? Oh, boy. Yes. I'm trying to think of there's just like little things when either the common things we mess up. Medication dosage is probably probably medication dosage. Luckily, it would get caught in pharmacy, right? Or if you see an order and you're like, oh, but look at those labs, you know what I mean?

So a lot of times we just people think nurses, we just follow doctor's orders, but a lot of times they're checking us. We're catching all this stuff. Especially you working in the ICU. Oh my God, how many things are being caught? Oh, so much. Yeah. Yeah, so many things. A lot of people don't realize like just how what nurses do in the critical thinking that goes into being a nurse or a healthcare provider, you know, in general.

But even from like a blind management, like in the ICU, you touch a wrong button. It's not going to be good. So and that's why ICU nurses are always a lot more anal, a lot more, you know, they're very tight-bait. I would always get in trouble with ICU nurses when I would pull like a central line in. I would leave like a little bit of a mass or a spill something somewhere and I was like, oh, shit. You better clean that shut up. I'm like scrubbing the floor.

You don't want the nurse to be mad at you. No, for sure. Does a resident, do you have a work with bad residents? No, just the ones that had like the God complex. Oh, listen to me. It's like, okay, you've been here a day. You've been here one day. So that does happen. Oh, it does happen. Yeah. So you're catching a lot of like those mistakes or errors and stuff. But they get humbled really quickly because you'll have a nurse like Sandy that'll be like, you know, check them, put them in their spot.

Yeah. Nurses literally, a lot of the times are telling us what to do. Yeah, it goes, you know, yeah, we're better. We're better. I mean, we're just like better. I mean, that's how I learned better. Even from like a procedural standpoint, like having the nurse there was always better than having a physician. Honestly, I wish nurses and, you know, nursing students and medical students actually collaborated more. Took some classes together. There's no reason why we don't.

You know, we're all there for the same reason and purpose. Yeah. I don't know why that doesn't happen more often. Yeah. So if I, you asked me if I was at a hospital and I was trying to think of what I would do, I would do a nursing school. Oh. Yep. Okay. Yep. I actually have a platform right now in nurse con learning where nurses can get C and E's for free. We're revamping that right now.

But I would love to do like nurse con university and have instructors just teach live courses for free all day. But wait, how can you do it for free? Yeah, so I invested a lot of money I make like on tour or doing like side projects and stuff back to projects like that. So that's kind of my way of what's a side project that you're like, like I did something for indeed. Indeed, they're, you know, the big career company right?

They launched a new hub for nurses and I only take on a project if it helps again the nurses. So I'm like, I'm not going to work for indeed if they're catering to the hospitals. But they're number one priority. Wow. It feels like you really have to have like the job. Yeah, I'm like, who are you catering to? The job seeker or the employer and they're like, oh, 100% the job seeker. So I was like, oh, I'll take on that project. And you know, you we get paid for things like that. Of course.

And so I'll take funds from there and put them into things like nurse con learning or nurse con university. Do you think the reason or one of the big reasons why nurses feel so strongly about you is the fact that you never lost sense of this advocacy for them? I don't know. That's a good question. I do what I do because I love it. I do what I do because I'm having fun. If at any time like people started to stop coming to the shows or the crews, you know, what's next?

I really don't put a lot of pressure on myself. I think that's something that has really helped me, especially through my anxiety. I feel like as a nurse we have to be perfect. And after I had my panic attack, I kind of was like, I have to let that go. You know, I chose nursing because I love people. Chose nursing to make people feel better. So I would bring comedy to the bedside. I would be a lot more fun. You're talking to my patients, joking with them.

And then I realized you're never going to be perfect in healthcare. Of course. Of course. Of course. Of course. Of course. And that made me have more fun. And I kind of do that to what I do now. Like as long as I'm having fun, I'm going to keep doing it. Yeah. You mentioned anxiety multiple times. What's your mental health journey been like over the last few years? Yeah. Social media can make it toxic. Yeah. At least from my experience.

Yeah. Yeah. Like next week I'm going off of grid, a little place in Montana. Okay. I'm going off for five days first time in seven years. Do you watch Yellowstone? I watch one episode on the flight. Okay. That's going to be you. Yeah. That's going to be me. Yeah. So I'm super excited about that. So I know when I need a break. Like I feel when I'm looking at my phone too much. And I tell people when you look at your phone too much. I'm just mindless scrolling. Mindless scrolling.

In different ideas or trying to see like what's going on in the nursing world, right? So I always try to stay up to date with any of the news or stuff that's going on. I feel like I do the same and I feel like then it sucks the fun out of how people normally use social media. They can just have fun and watch it. I'm not having fun. Yeah. Working. Yeah. It's working. I couldn't stop.

If I wasn't doing it, I probably wouldn't be on social media because I don't have like a personal page or anything. Like it's just before the pajama video, the onesie video, not the pajama video. Go ahead. One Z. I don't know. I was a once or a once or a half. A romper video. What? So you wear it away. That's what you wear to bed. Your pajama is a oncey. I'm going to see this. I actually go, not full. I go boxers. Okay. Only. Actually, I do put on a t-shirt because I like to sleep cold.

I like to sleep really cold too. 68 degrees. But that's normal. That's like the way you're supposed to do. Oh really? It's like to be dark and cold for I get to sleep. Okay. Good to know. Because naturally your body temperature drops throughout the night so you want to be able to fall asleep quicker. 68 degrees. Yeah. Sure. Underwear. Good to know. So, pajama oncey. So, before the romper, were you on social media? Not. I wasn't like active.

Active. But yeah, I would post more for like family and friends kind of things. I don't do that now because it's like. Different. Only on my phone for work. Like if I could put my phone down, I can. So I, when I'm home in Orlando, I go biking every day. I also, my brother has a farm where he, it's a farm with animals and he also has a wedding venue there. So we got Highland cows. So even a hairy cow. Yeah. So even though I don't have pets like a dog, I do have two Highland cows.

And I love them so much. So much. And they have bangs. So we actually. They have personalities. Oh, yeah. Like right when I pull the car out there, they're like really? Yeah. They like come up. And so every day when I'm home, I go biking because there's a mountain bike trail. And I play with the cows. Brush them. Feed them treats. Wash them off. What are you doing today? It's so cute. That's like, that's like my time to just like relax. So you have your meditation time. I have my family, right?

I have some important systems crucial. And like, super well-being trained. And that's my support system. You're like that's my family. That's my support system. Yeah. And any therapy for you? I was doing it a lot. I think a lot of my trauma, I went through gay conversion therapy when I was younger. Obviously, I don't work. From family? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So between when I was younger. Because that's not evident. Because I'm still gay. And also that. That's a microphone.

Yeah, I'll thank you so much. Jason, really nice. Jason, really nice. Jason, really nice. So from 15 to 18. And I always said like, I'm fine. Like it didn't really affect me until, you know, it was in my late 20s. It like started coming up. So I was doing some EDMR therapy with my therapist right before tour. And she was like, actually, you're in a good spot right now. So we're not going to explore any of that. So I even know like when I can explore medication change or something that I need.

But when I'm on the road, like I'm doing like six, seven shows a week. So I always try to say in a good mindset. Does keeping as busy as you are almost act as a treatment for you? Yeah. I love to say busy. Like I love to say busy. When you're not busy, are you like super anxious? Because that's how I get. I'm a little bit more antsy, but honestly with the cows and like, the cows. You have like a, you have a hack. You have a cow. Like I love it. Yeah. Okay, I wish I get a cow.

Yeah, get a cow like Sprawow, butchering. Yeah. Okay, we can't push in and get a man. Oh, yeah, tell me about Nan. Yeah, I mean, I know she's 78. She's super fun. She's fine. She's cracked her head, but doing well. She's fine. She's great. I love her so much. She lives in the villages. What's her life? She lives in the villages. Florida, which is like the high STD rate and STI rate in the country. Really? We're just like half sex together. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And it's like they all, they're swingers. So they have like pineapples in their front yard, which means like, hey, the door's open. Like come up, they have like, it's pretty. Is that what that means? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Pineapples. Or when people like leave their tag out of their shirt, it's like, hey, you don't know this. I'm such a rookie. Oh my God. Wait, what is the tag over the shirt? That just means you're like your swinger. What if it means you put your shirt on messy?

Well, then he better start checking your tag. You need to start checking your tags. Oh, everyone starts checking your tags. Okay. Wow, I didn't know that. And then pineapples obviously swinger. Obviously. I've heard of the tie around the doors. Obviously. But I never heard of the pineapple. What does the pineapple represent? SpongeBob? That's a good question. I don't know. I'll ask my parents. And what does the tag represent? Wait, wait. Hold on, I'm gonna tell you what's happening.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I'm from Florida. A lot of shake goes down in Florida. That's true. Well, you got the high STI right there. I do. I had a shipper pole in my house right now. For exercise? Right. I'm asking. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Okay. Okay. What exercise did you do on it? You would have to not ask me. You would flag. Actually, a picture is of me, my friends, like, on my mom's shipper pole. Just like hanging out. Your mom's shipper pole? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Specifically.

So you were borrowing it. Could you flag? What's so funny? There are pineapples, shipper pole, and I can't like dick. You know what I mean? Like. You would repeat the dick. What about the dick? Right, right. So my parents could be swingers, but I can't be gay. Yeah, that's how I'm going to be. You know what I mean? Yeah, it's like if you're going to be non-judgmental, you have to go all the way with it. Right, right, right, right. Yeah. Yeah, mom, what's the problem? I like dick.

What did she say about that? I don't know. Gay conversion therapy. That was that. What about now? Has the lesson been learned? No, we really don't talk much. So I'm really close with my brother. His girl is my grandmother. And a few cousins. Very specific. Has anyone ever tried to reach out to you and chat with you after the newfound fame? No, no, no. No? Well, probably because you also talk about it. Oh, yeah, you should see my show. Yeah, I talk about everything in my show.

I talk about everything in my show. Yeah, nothing's off limits. Okay. Do you feel like that's part of the healing process? Oh, 100%. Yeah. I think we could make fun of anything and everything. You know what I mean? Like nothing's off the table. So I'm going to come to comedy and seeing the things that we have seen as healthcare workers. Yeah. I appreciate it too. Like I have a lot of patients that people that were patients that come to my show and get a lot out of it and stuff.

So has the being open on stage ever came back to you in a negative way where people would then like bully you or say mean things based on things you've seen? No, everyone's really nice. I have a really great audience. Like I have a really, really great audience. I'm a lot more open in my show than I would be like online. So I definitely feel like I could be in myself a lot more. So I definitely have created like a safe space when it comes to things like my show and stuff.

Speaking of nursing professionals on social media, there was like a pushback towards the end of the pandemic of nurses dancing on TikTok. What's your take of that? So I never filmed in a hospital. Like ever. I would, I when I was filming like little hospital scenes, it was in my living room. So I bought like a hospital curtain from Amazon.

I bought like a IV pole, you know, on eBay and a IV pump that was broken on eBay, but it's still be like the IV was still occluded or the air is still in line. So I never filmed in a hospital and I just think, you know, we do as healthcare workers, you know, have to portray the center of professionalism. So I always have like a clear line what my boundaries are and one of my things is to never film in a hospital.

However, I think that nurses, we always get shit on by the hospitals like you can't be on social media talking about your nursing experience without HR knowing or then pulling you into the director's office saying, hey, you can't post on social media. There are a lot more lenient on doctors than they are nurses. You're also looking at me as if I filmed in the hospital. I didn't say that. I didn't say that. No, but you are a doctor.

In order to like I have two videos on my channel called like day in the life. Okay. I have filmed that very limited amount of footage, the amount of tape I had to go through. Oh really? And there's nothing in the, it's just like I'm in a room. Right. And I'm like, oh, this is what a doctor's day looks like. This is what you do. This is where I write my notes. And I would see, and it's like, oh man, I even had some nurses on my show or whatever on that on that vlog.

And I had a nurse in the chair doing an interview with. And it was like to get it cleared. And it's like, oh, well, the nurse had something negative about, you know, electronic health records. Wow. Wow. And I'm like, that's just, I say that all the time. Yeah. It's so funny. And even when it comes to like, interviews and stuff, just about health, like nurses are never, given the microphone ever, mostly. Yeah. Or not included in medical dramas, unless they get all the shit in one. Right.

They should. Exactly. Nurses sucked. Oh my god. Nurses written by doctors. And great. Yeah. Thank you. Or not even written on that. Yeah. Goddamn, they're tired. Can we write a new one? Please. I'm down to do a show. It would be a good comedy show. I'm down to do a show. We would do like a scrub remake. It's coming back. Oh, it is. It's coming back. You see them in commercials now? I guess they're bringing it back. Do you know that? There's a new comedy medical show. Oh, but there's no scrubs.

Scrubs is coming back. And there's a new comedy medical show coming out to you. There's a lot of, which is good. I love to see it. As long as it's done right. As long as it's not. As long as it's done right. You know what I mean? That's a bad show. That was so bad. There was a nurse. I remember, I don't even know who the nurse is. Me like a video faking her reaction after a patient's like giving bad news or something. Yeah. How did that land for you? Poor thing. Poor thing.

I mean, to get hate on social media and just sharing your experience of the emotions that a nurse goes through. You know, obviously, we're not doing that as it's actually happening. Right. Just a portrayal of an experience that we have. So it seems like more non-healthcare workers were involved in that reaction. Sure. Then how's the workers? But I always say never film in a hospital. Never film in a hospital. It just avoids that at all costs.

Yeah. Because there were like COVID-19 nasares who were like, oh, yeah, you're busy. Right. Yeah. And I was like, how do I explain to them that they also have free time? Right. Yeah, yeah. You're allowed to have free time. It's okay. As a human. Yeah. Do you like TikTok? Are you sad that it's going to go away? You think it's really going to go away? Well, it's either going to get sold or it's going to go away. I know. Oh, my go away. What do you like about it?

I love the amount of people and voices that are on there. Okay. It's much easier to put content out when I was getting started on Facebook. Like, it was very rare to have a video go viral. Yep. But now like anyone can go viral on TikTok. So I love it. So there's a lot more nurses in the space, a lot more healthcare professionals. So a more wide range of voices out there, which I love to see. Okay. So you like the ability of new people to come on and just for viral fame.

I sometimes get concerned about that. Okay. Two reasons. Yeah. One is people are not always ready for what happens mentally, so that can be very harmful. And then second, it opens the door for bad actors. Yeah. So like there's people coming on and saying some wild things. In fact, I just got into my own little medical beef if you will on social media. Oh shit. A doctor, typically a doctor said there's like four medications every guy should take. And I was like, what?

And he named Viagra, Metformin, Detesteride and Fish Oil. And I was like, what if your hair is not thinning? What if you have no reptile this morning? Yeah, yeah, yeah. What if you don't have diabetes? And he still stood firm by it and then made like a video calling me a hater and a troll and all this stuff. So I had to do like another reaction video. Yeah, yeah. So like, I hate that kind of beef. Yeah, it's annoying. I avoid it. I tried not to call anybody out, you know. Have you ever?

No, you're like, I stay in Texas. No, I just do your thing. That energy you will meet. It's energy it deserves. You know, I'm too busy. I got other things that I'm doing. That's what I'm saying. You're running through. I'm way too busy. I'm too busy. My energy's going elsewhere. Okay, so you have cruise ships. You're going to start a nursing school. Yeah. Politics? Oh, god, no, I don't think so. Why? No, that's too much. You could too much. That's too much pressure. You can fix. That's you can.

You can. Me? I do meme videos. You fix it. Yeah, me too. Yeah, me too. You do? Like videos? Just me shit. No, but I'm saying that's what I do. I make meme reaction videos. I can't. Oh, yeah, yeah. I think I was in one of your videos reaction videos and things. So thank you. Yeah. Yeah. But I'm not popular. I'm going to copyright. You're me, too. You said me. I don't want to get into politics. It's so messy. It's so messy. It is really messy. Yeah. I'm about having a fun, happy life.

So where's the nurse Blake five years from now? That's a good question. You know, when I was in nursing school, I would, I never imagined I would be here to, I didn't get in a nursing school to do comedy. Like it was never ever. But you were the funny person on the block. Never. But it doesn't mean like I was like all of a sudden on stage one day. Well, you were Peter Pan. Yeah, you know, that's a good fact. So I did work at Disney's Peter Pan. It was super fun. I was never on stage.

I was Peter Pan also. For Disney. For Disney. For Disney. You weren't doing it as cosplaying your bedroom. For a minute. Yeah. I was working in the hospital and one of the nurses like, oh, I'm Bell. I'm a princess. Like you should try out for Peter Pan. I was like, are you kidding me? I didn't tell anyone I was doing it. And I drove there one day after work to audition and I got the job. But my head's so big like the wig was so tight. I would get the worst headaches. Oh, that's true.

That does happen. Yeah, you see how big it is? It's the selfie. You see? Why you're staring at my head? Your head is big. It's huge. I have a little head. So I have like an issue with that. Okay. I wish I had a bigger head. Okay. How tall are you? Six, three. Okay. But little head. Oh, wow. Also little head. Yeah. See what happens? Yeah. That's why we're not in Hollywood. Yeah. That's really big. That's what I'm saying. Yeah. Peter Pan. Yeah. Musical. Peter Pan. Motion picture.

No. No. I never, I never, ever, ever. I think the point is what I'm trying to say. Okay. So you're not going into Hollywood in the next five years? No. Okay. So where's the next? I don't know. I would love to keep focusing on NurseCon. NurseCon learning and doing some online, you know, nursing school. Okay. It's kind of where. So nursing education. Yeah. Okay. SoSinging and音. That's totally understandable. Yeah. Have a look at what I can say. Now some fun with the creativity guys.

And then the honor. Is it a guy on the bottom of the screen, where he and his fellow НеM go over the screen now. He's probably sold as a veteran and in a normal family. So he don't know some. Especially he's going to go opioids, right? No. Yes. Yeah. But you know how the- Cause I know that. Yeah. Know what mine. Ésuspenseful, that point apart. E tharrassed me. It's because like you don't kids know your Peter Pan so you're just gonna say I have friends

I'm friends with Peter Pan. Okay. Which I thought you were gonna say like I'm friends with Tinkerbell because friends with Tinkerbell is Peter Pan but that would mean I was Tinkerbell. Okay. So that was embarrassing when I would say that. I was like oh, I'm friends with Tinkerbell. Yeah. Okay, so before we wrap up I want to ask two things. Why are we wrapping up? I want to ask two things. One. Yeah. If you had to give someone a hack to have a better hospital experience with their

nursing staff what would it be? Have fun. Laugh. Tell joke. Be funny. So interact. Interact. Be present and interact. Nurses like that. Love it. Yeah. Okay. They want you to a lot of... Nurse managers. I love all the good ones out there. You guys are amazing. Do you also hate nurse managers? No. I love the good nurse managers. I love the good nurse manager and it's not their fault. When you say the good ones and you're saying good in a way where it makes me feel like the

amount of good is limited. True. Why? Because they're putting a really bad spot between the nurse and the hospital. It's not their fault. I mean they could a lot of them could be more present and do more to advocate for the nurses. Okay. But again, I love all the good ones out there. But when I share my experiences they're all real, right? So when I'm making fun of nurse managers it's from the five that I've had and I've had one really good one, you know, four not so good.

They're the first ones. Yeah. Once that you would never see. Never see. Never would come on night check. Where would they be? Yeah. Where would they be? Where would they be? I don't know. Oh, yeah. That's a great question. Where are you? Where are you? There are meetings. They say there are meetings. Well, these hospitals like put the force of the training and all this shit. Yeah. Yeah. A lot of that is so annoying in a

mess. So, um, wait, so what's the advice? So be present. And you were saying how did that get into the nurse? And you said, but I love nurse managers, but be present. Nurse managers, be present. And what's I know the good ones versus the bad ones because whenever I come out with a nurse manager video, the ones that are like, oh my god, I'm a nurse manager, but I'm definitely not like that. You're a good one. And then the ones that are like, you hate us. Do do do do do. I'm like,

okay, you're the bad one. You're the bad one. Like you just called yourself out. You know what I mean? You just called yourself out. That's so funny. Um, what about message to us doctors? What can we do better? Um, talked to us. Give us all the tea. Give us the tea. This is something politically correct. I think it's not running for politics. You can tell the truth.

I think it's about respect. Okay. Right. I feel like a lot of nurses aren't respected by doctors and then it just creates this cycle of these unhealthy work environments when we're already all of us, no matter what you do, work in a shit environment, right? Whether you're EVS housekeeping or lab or pharmacy or, you know, doctor or nurse. So I think it's all about just showing each other respect, not being mean, not raising your voice. I don't know how many times

doctors will yell at nurses. Like there are parent and you're just like, you will, and I'm, I got to the point where I'm like, okay, you're not going to talk to me like that. Like, say it again. Like that's how I am. Wow. Like for a long time, I was just like, okay, and I'm just like, oh, say it. What? You okay? Read it over. Remind. I'll forgive you, but yeah, be free. Don't you should, we should treat each other like, we treat patients is kind of how I see it. So spend less time together.

Well, the doctors that's been like, you're never in the room. No, but I think it's all about creating just a positive, positive working culture for us in an environment where it's kind of nearly impossible with the amount of work and stress that we have. But nursing and healthcare is a great career. It is. Where do you see the future of that going? You think it's growing? I think it's getting better in what regard I think a lot of unions are speaking up and a lot

more nurses are more active. They are showing their voice. They're not as scared of pushback. And there's strikes around the nation and the biggest numbers that they've seen. And I go out. Have you ever gone on strike? Yeah, not me at my hospital, but whenever there's a strike. If I'm free, I go and strike with them, which I love. Yeah, yeah. So I've been on the picket lines with them, you know, which is so it's bad to see because it shouldn't happen. Right. But to see the support of co-workers

coming together, it's like, that's the environment we all kind of deserve to work in. And nurses, we're on strike in New Jersey for like over a hundred days. Not getting paid. Really? Because I'm no benefits. I didn't know that. Yeah, no benefits. Not getting paid. So people are like, nurses just want more money. It's like, no, it's mostly about safety and staff. I don't nurses get benefits when they're on strike. You don't get paid or benefits. All on strike. Why do they go on

strike? Staffing. Mostly safety. Yep. And what is the usual staffing like inpatient ICU ER? What's like the usual order? What's supposed to happen in the Florida? So I mean, honestly, I see this two to one. Yep. Right. Step down should be four to one. If it's a really a very busy step down three to one. And then I say, my church should never ever get over be over six to one. But in

Florida, you got eight to one. You got nine to one. You got whatever. And you'll apply to these units and they'll be like, oh, you know, what's the ratios than the managers are like, oh, you know, it's like, it's five to one. But sometimes it could be like six to one. But if you're also a knight, it's like, could be seven to one or eight to one. But then we have states that are doing it right. California. Safe staffing ratios, right? Pays really high. Safe staffing ratios. So it can

be done. It can be done. And then behind staffing, I would say the cost of healthcare. I think what's really sad is when you save someone or you're giving them a treatment that you know is going to put them in a bad financial decision is that like moral ethical injury that we all face. You know, you're saving somebody. But then are you creating financial harm bankruptcy or whatever, you know, yeah. Yeah, that's that's really gross. Because even for us, like we run a small business here,

we all get insurance from the small business. Right. For me to buy insurance for all the employees is I can't get the same level of insurance that a hospital can or JP Morgan can or any company. And then if you're an individual trying to buy for yourself, it's even worse. Wild. So I think one thing I'm really proud of being a business owner is that the nurses we work with we pay any like in what capacity do you work with nurses? So like the educators,

educators that come on the cruise ship, right? And they're full time employees full time and part time. And then our educators are. So how many employees is your company have 13? Oh wow. So you have a lot of people. Yep. Wow. And contractors, you know, we pay them too. A lot of times to speak out of conference, they don't pay you. You get a discount off your registration. What? You get a discount off your registration. Yeah. That should be illegal. Awful. I know. It's like what?

And they invite people to come speak that aren't even nurses that are just like these famous people that are just public speakers that they pay to be like, you need to be less drama. And it's like, no, I'm getting. Yeah. So that's why I'm going to come entertain. Created NurseCon. Yeah. And NurseCon I'd see. And that's not because it's a con. Exactly. Right. Conference. It's like the rest of the rest of it was a con. Right. Exactly.

All the other bullshit is. No, it's one of the coolest things. I think what makes me most proud is seeing the diversity at the conferences, seeing everyone have fun. You go to a lot of conferences, you have the badges, right? And then you have all those like little tags. I'm there. I'm that. And then all your initials in the back, your name, poster, BLS, CPR, you know, RN. And we don't do that at NurseCon. Like everyone's. We're all in this together.

Yeah. So no one has to be a nurse to go to NurseCon. Yeah. You have to be in healthcare. But you can be a guest of someone in healthcare. So you have to be in healthcare to get on the ship, but you can bring a guest who's just a spouse. Why did you choose to do it that way? Okay. Because it's a conference. Oh, we have no kids, which is great. It's a nursing conference. No kids. It's 21 and up. It's so much fun. We actually broke the alcohol sales record

Oh, one of the ships. That's not healthy. As a charter. We're nurses. Exactly. We're nurses. We need it. You need to live by our hydrated. That's a bullshit. No. We are. Our nurses are hydrated on the ship. Do you think medical professionals are the like biggest hypocrites when it comes to their own health? I think that's probably true. I mean, I think I think what it is is and I think it's just a personality type nurses. We're just hot messes. I mean, we're a mess.

Like if you're dating a nurse or married to a nurse like, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. That really is. That's like awesome. Honestly, well, it is not like we're fun. We're good and bad. We have a great time. But also safety for a child. Are you kidding me? Yeah. If I have a sick family member, I they better be bleeding out. Oh, so you don't help. You better be bleeding out or lost to them. And so it's like, you know where the hospital? I'm off. Oh, I don't. Oh, I

got my badge on. Oh, I got my. No, I'm off. Bro, some people don't text you for medical advice. Or if they do, you ignore them. I get a lot of like people that send me like pictures online. Like, what is this? You know, rash or something. What do you do? It's dick cancer, you know, stage six. But like my ex got he wasn't in healthcare, but he would get the man flew all the time. So annoying. The complaints are real. God. It's like, and honestly, like working in critical care.

It's like if you're not really really sick, then I'm not. What do you want me to do? My dad was like that when I was growing up because he's a doctor and he would be like, Oh, I don't care. You're fine. Go to school. Yeah, go to school. And I'm like, but dad, like this. Yeah, be fine. And I would guess you say as nurses, we don't really care for ourselves as good as we should. Well, yeah, if you're setting the sales record for alcohol, it's fine. Well, I think it is is

recognizing nurses as regular people, right? And I think that's what hospitals and nursing organizations don't do. Like we have to always be perfect or put on this persona. And at the end of the day, it's so toxic. It's nurses and healthcare workers are running from the, you know, those jobs, right? And so at nurse con, it's all about bringing fun and professionalism,

you know, together in a place where you can feel safe and have have a great time. I think you should use as your talking point that the hospital systems are so messed up that you have the alcohol sales record for nurses. And that's what it's going to be. That's why. That's why. That's why. It's their fault. And they should actually sponsor it. That's what I'm saying. They should sponsor the alcohol. Because the more they drink, yeah. But it's fun. I mean, we do do a lot of education

on the ship, which is also really cool to see. Our first cruise, we did like 20 C&E hours and then 30 an hour like up to over 80. Wow. Which is great. A lot. How long is that during a trip? How long is an average trip? Either four nights or five nights. Okay. People love the five nights. Like nurses. And they do 80 hours and five nights. We offer 80 hours depends on, you know, what nurses want to come to. And we say you could come to as many classes as you want or not. Or as little as you

want. Or as little as you want. But it's a blast. If you get the chance to come, it is the coolest thing ever. Like even the cruise lines are like, this is sick. You know, and we're a new company. You know, we're only on our fifth sailing. Very young when it comes to chartered cruises. And they're super impressed. And they're a Caribbean. Yeah. Mostly out of Miami. We probably will add more sailings over the years. Last year we did two. We're actually doing our first land-based event.

Because we want to start doing on land. So we have Universal Studios coming up in September. When are you going to do like some Mediterranean trip? That's going to be fun. That's going to be the exclusive one. That will be coming up soon. Yeah. We get the support. So I know. It would be like a little leadership nurse manager. Well, look, I think that's yeah, you should do a nurse manager trip where then you could really educate. I know. And then really have the impact on

the rest. That's why I love doing education. Because I think that's where it all kind of starts from. Like you do a lot of amazing things. No, I'm serious. Like things started with humor. But you've transformed it into an advocacy platform where you give voices to people who oftentimes are overlooked or not heard. And to do that with humor, with insight, with morals is really rare. Thank you. It's very common in social media where someone becomes popular. And then they're

hawking miracle supplements. They're fully going down the solely entertainment route. And you've chosen to do education. So props. Thank you. I love what I do. Yeah. I hope that continues. Yeah. Thanks for more success. Maybe I'll come on a trip. If I ever take time off, I don't get time off. I'll get you time off. I'll cover your I'll do your pay time off. So you can I don't get paid. We've had people that have come on every single one and we call them frequent

flyers. Just like patients. You can do doctor roasts. You know, I actually want to do that next year. Maybe I do. I do. I do. In my show. Yeah. It's talking a lot of shit about you. I show. I'm just kidding. No, you're nice. No, I was going to say that would be funny if I get if I go, you guys can do like a show where you roast me. Yeah. Oh, you know, like Netflix is Joe. Yeah. Jason stayed home. Rose, Dr. Mike. We can tell that 100% that flex. Yeah. Any Netflix context. Yeah.

Okay. What do you want to do? They never have any nurse stand up. No nurse shit. They don't have doctor stand up. They don't like us. Okay. You guys aren't as funny. That's we're funny. We are funny. Doctors aren't as funny. It depends what specialty. Agree. Orthodox are the hottest. Well, they're like sports. They're so they're like. Neuro docs. Serd neurosurgeons. They're mean. Hmm. Are they mean? They're mean. My worst interactions that I've witnessed of doctors being

root anurses, vascular surgeons. Okay. I don't know why. Trauma surgeons. Fun is shit. Yeah. Fun and shit. I mostly go out. Adults. Trauma. Yeah. They go out. Yeah. They go out. Peds. I can't do pediatrics. In what way? As a nurse. Oh, like in PDF. Like seeing a child. That's what I learned that Disney. I hate kids. Oh, you hate kids. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

No kids for you in the future. No kids for me in the future. But puppies. Yeah. And high on cows. Yeah. Yeah. High on cows with bangs. Yeah. I'm going to get you a high on cow like a little stuff. Please. I would love that. I would love that. What's the names of your cows? Wednesday and pumpkin. Wednesday. Then there are sisters and they're adorable. And I love them so much. Wow. They're so cute. I can't

wait to get home to them tomorrow. Will you send me a selfie? Yeah. Oh, yeah. With the cows. Yeah. I'm a mess. Like when I'm on the farm, I'm on the farm. I got my boots. You're yellow-stoning in Montana. I get it. Yeah. True. Okay. Yeah. I'm coming next year. You are. Yeah. It's in April. We're doing a thing. It'll be sick. It'll be so much fun. It is the best trip you'll ever be on. Okay. Well, where do you want people to come and follow your journey? Yeah. You can come see my show

Nursuleic.com. Come on. Nurse. Kind of. See your nurse. Kind of land a buy some children's books. Yeah. Whatever. Whatever. Talk about your books. It's fine. No. People like it's whatever. Just follow me. Yeah, but they want to know. I shit. I have a children's book. I want to be a nurse when I grow up. It's a great. I actually I love that book. It's a fun project to work on. It's actually a dad that came up to me. I did. I threw. There was another nursing conference going on.

Okay. And I like hijacked it. I did a nurse like party one night and like over a thousand people came. I love to do shit. Like I love to shake shit out. You're the disruptor. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I threw this nurse like party and this dad came out and his son. He was taking pictures of me and my lesbian cousin Mandy at the party, sitting them to his son at home and his son actually came

out to him over text message that night. Just because he's like, oh, my dad supports like this gay nurse. Like baby, he'll support me and we get the same with the book, you know, the children's book. Because a lot of times the kids will follow me online or and it's cute that their parents could, you know, read them that that children's book. That's tough. Yeah. I want a copy of it. Sure. You can buy it on Amazon.

Okay. Thanks. You buy it on Amazon. Thanks. I was hoping for an autograph version. You can buy it. You can buy that on Amazon. Is that the only distributor? No, I have some copies. You can buy it through me. Oh, I'm just kidding. I'll give you free copy. Wow. But it's not for you. It's for the dog. Okay. The dogs. I'll give you two. I was going to read it to my patient too. Oh, cute. Cute. I like that.

It's so funny. I really would never be like a pediatric nurse but I have a kids book. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. But it's because you're teaching the children to be a nurse. Yeah, it's funny. It's funny. What do you want to be a nurse 50 years from now is telling not Sandy, someone younger than Sandy, is telling someone about you. Oh, about me? Yeah. And they were like, there was this legend. Yeah. He put on a onesie.

He changed the world forever. Yeah. Because I just, he gave us a voice. He fought for us. It's kind of what I see my position as. Like I'm very lucky. I don't work for a hospital. I could kind of say what every other nurse wants to say without the fear of being fired or retaliated against. And I will always advocate for the bedside nurse. So I give nurse managers and directors shade and administration. But the one doing the hardest job is to want with the patient.

So no matter what I do, I kind of always keep that in the back of my mind. So we have the name for our show. What a voice for the nurses. Cute. I like notes boring. That's boring. It's got to be like nurse. Sizz Gone Wild dot com. You know what I mean? I'm pretty sure that exists. Yeah. Probably it probably does. It probably does exist. Yeah. No, we'll do a fun show together. Okay. I'm excited. I did a live show too. Wasn't as good as really.

Really? Oh, oh, yeah. That's right. Yeah. That's right. I saw, I saw your shit up. You were there. I was, I saw it up. Oh, like I was doing it in Boston. I think you were coming around. Yeah. But it's a, my show's weird because like we didn't know what to do as a doctor. Okay. So we did like a variety in prof. Okay. Where we play games with the audience. Oh, fun. That's awesome. Try to incorporate traditional improv games to be medical.

Nice. So it's more like in that sense. It's very hard to tour. It's not easy. It's not easy. And I'm so lucky. I'm able to do it and see nurses kind of come together. Yeah. Like I just love seeing it. Like I love to sit back and just see people having fun. It's great that you have a demo that you know who's going to be there. Yeah. Because in my show, I'll like, I'll have seven year olds. Then I'll have a 75 year old. Right. And they have nothing in common.

So when I'm on stage, I'm like, should I do this joke so the seven year old will laugh or like the husband that comes that has no idea why I am. So that's tricky. It's hard to please every row. 18 and up comedy show. Mine's 18 up. Because some people want to bring their kids because they actually had a mom. She was going to, she reads, well, you had a 40 to the kid. I know. Even yeah. And something like try to bring her babies. Absolutely. No, but one, some kids try to

comment and say 18 and up. Okay. I got dirty mouth. You know, I used to work night shift. Jesus. Sorry. What happened? The mic hit my face. I would never. The mic hit my face. The mic. All right. Good stuff. Huge thank you to Nurse Blake for traveling all the way to NYC for just our interview. I think the week before he had been in Australia or something. So I'm really grateful he came such a long way. And I hope you got something out of our conversation. If you did, please don't

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