Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
If you complain that your nurse is too ghetto or too gay if you care about how we act how we look how we talk how we dress You're not sick enough to be in the hospital On this episode of the commercial break I'm staying at, like, right now I'm at an Airbnb in San Diego until Saturday, and then I gotta just choose another place. Why? That's a great question.
So, I recently got divorced, and when I say recently, I mean two years ago. Oh, God. I got divorced, and I said recently, for seven years. So there you go. It just sounds better for some reason.
It sounds better.
It sounds better. But then when I'm on a date where I'm like, oh, I got divorced years ago.
Chapter 2: How does Nurse Blake's upbringing influence his career?
So in the past. The adjective fits the situation. That's right.
It really does. The next episode of The Commercial Break starts now.
Oh, yeah, cats and kittens, welcome back to the commercial break. I'm Brian Green. This is my dear friend and the co-host of this show, Kristen Joy Hoadley. Best to you, Kristen.
Best to you, Brian.
And best to you out there in the podcast universe. Thanks for joining us on a TCB infomercial Tuesday with internet provocateur, influencer, and comedian, Nurse Blake. I love him. I've been watching him for a while on the lines. Yep. On lines. He's so funny. He is very funny. He's a former practicing trauma one, level one trauma nurse, meaning he would see you when your eyeballs were popping.
literally hanging out of your head and he would be the first person to assess what was going on and help you through that trauma so this is like a true angel on earth here but he has turned into kind of a mouthpiece for other nurses around the country he's built a huge community millions of people online follow him because he's saying the things that they won't or can't say about health care and the safety of our doctors and nurses and hospitals in general are
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Chapter 3: What insights does Nurse Blake share about the nursing community?
healthcare system in general, about the actual physical safety of these people and how they're getting accosted and attacked and all that good stuff. I am looking forward very much to this conversation because I have a stye in my eye and I want him to tell me what to do about the stye.
Because no one ever asks him medical questions.
Yeah, I'm sure that never happens.
I'm sure that never happens.
So it'll be the first question I ask him. We'll get it out of the way and then we'll talk to him about all the other things. He's about to start an 86 city tour. 86 cities. Wow. I know.
I was looking at his tour dates, and it's incredible. It goes on and on.
We were going to do two cities, and we were acting as if the world was ending. How was I going to pack for both cities at the same time? How were we going to get there? Who's going to show up? That didn't happen. So anyway, don't worry about all that jazz. I don't want to get you all muddled and confused.
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Chapter 4: How does Nurse Blake balance comedy with healthcare advocacy?
He has an actual tour in actual theaters where actual human beings are going to show up. And I'm sure it's a fucking party because I've known some nurses. I've dated a few. They don't shy away from hanging out and having fun. Letting loose. Well, yeah, when you have that three-day on, four-day off kind of schedule. And just the stress that you're under.
You've got to let out some steam.
The immense amount of pressure and all the things that you see and you lose patience. You must lose patience, right? People survive. People don't survive. Despite your best efforts, that's got to be a real psychological mindfuck. I know.
I want to ask him about The Pit, too, because we love that show.
Definitely ask him about The Pit. I'm interested to know. I've read a lot of people online, a lot of doctors and nurses online, comments on The Pit, and almost unanimously say that it is the most realistic version of what happens in an emergency room they have ever seen on screen. And I'm interested to know if Nurse Blake feels the same way. I'm sure he does, but we'll ask him, of course.
Anyway, I've got links to his podcast. Social media. I've got links to buy tickets to his tour.
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Chapter 5: What is NurseCon at Sea and how does it benefit nurses?
In some cities, they're limited or sold out. And he's not playing small rooms either. No. In Atlanta, he's playing the Symphony Hall. That's crazy. It's huge. It's huge. It's like 3,500 seats or something like that. It's huge. But we also do have like a huge... A lot of hospitals. A lot of healthcare workers. And a lot of level one trauma. A lot of healthcare workers here in Atlanta.
It's a big city with a lot of hospitals and a lot of people working in the healthcare industry, like any large city is. But it's those smaller cities that really get fucked. Because if you have to drive three hours to get the kind of medical care you need, that can't be fun. So there's all kinds of things that are broken with the healthcare system. Really everything in general is broken.
But Nurse Blake seems to be one of the voices.
Chapter 6: How does Nurse Blake address the challenges nurses face today?
Yeah, he's giving us a little comic relief.
Comic relief. And he's shouting into the void about some of the things that need to be changed and a laugh along the way. He seems like a very affable dude. So I'm very, very much looking forward to this conversation. Let's do this. Let's take a short break.
And when we get back through the magic of telepodcasting, Nurse Blake right here in our own little studio in north of Atlanta, and we can talk to him about all the things. What do you think?
I think we should do it.
We're taking a break and we'll be back.
We can text back, and then you can text us in reply, then so on. It's a fun little game I've been playing, and I think you'll be great at it. 212-433-3TCB. That's 212-433-3822. You could leave a message, too. If you do, maybe you'll end up being the voice of the show. But be warned, the pay is not great. You could go to the website and drop us an email also. TCBpodcast.com.
And while you're there, you can get a free sticker. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye.
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Chapter 7: What are the common misconceptions about nurses?
And the nurse is in Chrissy. Nurse Blake is here with us now.
Hello and welcome. Hi, thanks so much for having me.
Thank you very much for being here. We're grateful for your time today. Let me do what I'm sure every obnoxious other person in your life does and ask you about my personal health. I'm going to ask you a question about my personal health. I have a stye in my eye. How do I get, how do I take care of this?
I get those all the time.
Do you? This is my first ever. My first ever.
I get styes all the time. They're painful. And they just, they're so annoying. They hurt.
They're not cute. No. At all. I woke up and my eye was almost swollen shut. And so I ran to get chamomile tea. My wife's like, get chamomile tea. So I'm dipping like a baby washcloth in a chamomile tea and soaking it on my eye. It's just not a good look. And it hurts like a son of a bitch.
Yeah, like warm compress, right?
I had a show in Seattle and I woke up that morning with a stye in my eye. I was like, I'm going to have to walk out with sunglasses on or something.
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Chapter 8: How does humor play a role in Nurse Blake's approach to healthcare?
And so what did you do? How do you handle it? So this is a great question, and I think a really great point. So I am a nurse. I'm not a doctor. Right. So we really can't give any type of advice. Fair enough. To say, like, go see your doctor. Okay. But isn't that so annoying?
But what would you do? We know more.
Yeah. I can't even tell you. You can't say that either.
Wow.
OK, so let me ask you this. This is this is good.
There is a medication.
There is a medic. You can take antibiotics. I read. But you have to go see your doctor, obviously, to get antibiotics. And that's only in cases where it's like bad and stubborn and they see a need to do that. I understand from my chat GPT, my personal doctor, that it'll go away on its own if it's not particularly terrible.
I prefer chat GPT as a doctor over WebMD. If you have those two.
Yes. My brother works in the medical AI business. He sells medical AI software and it does amazing things. And he told me, he said, bro, every doctor you have either does or will be consulting AI on anything that you do. When you walk in the door, they're going to feed it all of your past prescriptions, all of your history, and they're going to give the symptoms.
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