Rainn Wilson

Yeah.

The number one thing that I learned from making Code 3 is how mistreated and underpaid our frontline workers are, and especially the EMS technicians.

Yeah.

that are essentially making what people make at starbucks and we're entrusting them with saving our lives and saving our mom's lives and our daughter's lives and our grandfather's lives and here they are getting 20 bucks an hour and uh and working ridiculous midnight 12-hour shifts you know having to dodge bullets and dodge traffic and getting stabbed in the thighs

getting stabbed getting vomited on getting pricked with uh you know needles that have questionable viruses on them and uh so just mad respect like it's uh and there's a wonderful scene uh in code three where he wants a free muffin or free coffee with the muffin for frontline workers and they're like she's like you're an ambulance driver sorry you know it doesn't count like

Those are the people that need the free coffee and the free muffins more than anything.

So please, people, if you're watching, give your EMS ambulance drivers free coffee and muffins wherever they go.

That happened.

It happened, especially during COVID.

And the co-writer and producer of the film, Patrick Pianezza, was an EMS worker for many years and has trained technicians and service workers and

And now, you know, writes screenplays and works in Hollywood and does storytelling.

And every story in there happened to him firsthand.

So this idea that like, oh, free food for frontline workers is like, well, you're just an ambulance driver.

You don't get it.

It's like, I make $18 an hour.

Well, that was very illuminating.

I tell you, I rode along with the fire department in South Central LA.

And in a community like that, they do it all.

There's no walk-in clinics.

There's not even any ERs.