WEBVTT - My Helicopter Medic - Phil 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:03.080 What's one chopper ride cost a patient? 0:00:03.279 --> 0:00:05.160 I mean usually the insurance gets built. We try not 0:00:05.200 --> 0:00:08.720 to like, of course, like forty fifty thousand dollars one. 0:00:08.560 --> 0:00:11.640 Ride is forty or fifty thousand dollars. Holy moly. 0:00:11.720 --> 0:00:12.879 I mean it's an expensive operation. 0:00:13.280 --> 0:00:24.520 I understand. Kashshaw, Cash Show Up, Cash Show Show, Hello, 0:00:24.600 --> 0:00:29.400 and welcome to Tosh Show. Now. I'm Daniel Tosh. How 0:00:29.440 --> 0:00:30.520 are you doing this morning, Eddie? 0:00:30.680 --> 0:00:32.479 I'm pretty good. They're Daniel, How are you good? 0:00:33.159 --> 0:00:36.279 I'm doing great. I was listening to Dead Eyed Dick 0:00:36.360 --> 0:00:39.880 this morning, as I normally do. Such an underrated band. 0:00:40.159 --> 0:00:43.920 I mean, sure, they've got the one song new Age Girl. 0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:46.959 She don't act meat, but you show it an act 0:00:47.040 --> 0:00:51.519 the bone. I mean, but once you get deeper, you're like, 0:00:51.600 --> 0:00:55.240 oh this band was onto something. When's the last time 0:00:55.240 --> 0:00:56.160 you heard a new Age Girl? 0:00:56.440 --> 0:00:58.520 I mean maybe that was my first time. I'm not 0:00:58.600 --> 0:00:59.480 familiar with this band. 0:00:59.520 --> 0:01:01.680 You're not fromamiliar with New Age Girl now, not at all. 0:01:02.200 --> 0:01:04.960 She don't eat meat, but you show it out the phone. 0:01:05.640 --> 0:01:07.960 I'm gonna I'm definitely checking it out on the right home. 0:01:08.160 --> 0:01:11.039 You kidding me? Eddie doesn't know new Age Girl? 0:01:11.160 --> 0:01:11.520 There we go. 0:01:12.480 --> 0:01:14.920 Wow, Now, I don't know if you'd called Dead Eye 0:01:14.959 --> 0:01:19.560 Dick a one hit wonder, but that one hit was 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:22.759 a grand slam walk off in the World series. If 0:01:22.800 --> 0:01:28.000 you ask me, h, how's your weekend? Pretty good? 0:01:28.080 --> 0:01:28.440 How about you? 0:01:29.000 --> 0:01:31.800 It was a long weekend, you know, as we know, 0:01:32.280 --> 0:01:35.399 it was Labor Day slash Memorial Day. Nobody ever knows 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:40.120 which one it is, so three days. But my wonderful 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:45.640 manager of twenty some years got married this weekend, and 0:01:45.840 --> 0:01:50.040 to say that it was an elaborate affair would be 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:52.960 an understatement. Now, I don't go to a lot of weddings, 0:01:53.600 --> 0:01:57.120 mainly because I don't like them. Now was this different? 0:01:58.160 --> 0:02:02.000 I mean I had a lot of anxiety. I was 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:07.120 fueling up on a modium, preparing for the inevitable. Where's 0:02:07.160 --> 0:02:10.760 the bathroom run? But uh no, I handled it. It 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:13.120 was it was in our neck of the woods. They 0:02:13.240 --> 0:02:18.480 rented the Dick Clark estate. Wow, that place is beautiful. 0:02:18.560 --> 0:02:25.919 What a driveway, cow, I mean beautiful. I love a 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:30.560 beautiful driveway. But you go back there meandering just the 0:02:30.680 --> 0:02:34.680 whole thing. Everybody that you know that spoke and then 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:38.799 the wedding was funny because she obviously is in the 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:41.679 comedy business. And I thought that was enjoyable. I thought 0:02:41.800 --> 0:02:44.679 went over really well. Uh, and then you know the 0:02:44.960 --> 0:02:49.880 reception afterwards. This speeches went on too long, per usual. 0:02:50.200 --> 0:02:52.120 I always just think back to when I gave a 0:02:52.200 --> 0:02:54.000 speech at my brother's wedding. I was like, ah, he's 0:02:54.040 --> 0:02:58.000 a great guy. Cheers. I felt like that's all people 0:02:58.080 --> 0:03:03.040 really wanted. Let's go. But anyway, this was the fanciest 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:06.160 wedding I've ever been to in my life. I can't 0:03:06.200 --> 0:03:09.919 even guess what they spent. If you told me it 0:03:10.080 --> 0:03:12.280 costs seven figures, I'd be like, yeah, I believe it. 0:03:13.080 --> 0:03:16.320 It made me think, oh wow, I'm paying too much 0:03:16.360 --> 0:03:20.440 in commission. How many people are there? My guess is 0:03:20.520 --> 0:03:26.200 maybe two hundred. There's at least seventy five staff members. 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:29.440 They brought things out all in unison, even if it 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:33.520 was like a table of forty people. The food, the staff, 0:03:33.880 --> 0:03:39.400 I got salsa on my jacket immediately, Well they had 0:03:40.080 --> 0:03:45.040 John and Vinnie's mozzarella sticks came around. I grabbed one, 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:48.800 scooped it instantly, sauce down my jacket. 0:03:49.240 --> 0:03:50.840 And you've heard about the mozzarella sticks. 0:03:50.880 --> 0:03:53.680 How about the dinner, Oh the dinner you had? You 0:03:53.720 --> 0:03:58.480 had two options a striped sea bass or a filet. 0:03:59.160 --> 0:04:01.840 I did the fish, but then there was also like 0:04:01.960 --> 0:04:04.400 some shareables that came to the table. It was like 0:04:04.480 --> 0:04:08.840 a pasta, and nobody wanted that, so I just ate 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:12.080 out of the bowl. I just put I just can't, 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:14.880 I said, nobody wants this fun. I kept it next 0:04:14.920 --> 0:04:17.280 to me and I just ate. Let me tell you 0:04:17.320 --> 0:04:19.840 about the desserts, and that will probably give you a 0:04:19.960 --> 0:04:25.599 scope of the wedding. For starters, they had someone walking 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:30.360 around immediately with the cake. They had multiple different kinds 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:33.760 of cake, but that was the main wedding cake. And 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:37.880 they had a candy store set up where you would 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:42.359 get bags and fill it up with whatever candy you wanted. 0:04:42.600 --> 0:04:45.160 And they had all kinds of fun candy, candy, cigarettes, 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:50.520 the whole packs so that there was also a cookie station, 0:04:51.279 --> 0:04:53.680 just tons of different kinds of cookies. There was an 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:56.080 ice cream truck there so you could get ice cream. 0:04:56.160 --> 0:04:59.640 This is all in addition to the cakes. Good lord, yeah, exactly, 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:04.599 I have to find out the number. You know. It's funny. 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:09.440 I got to finally meet Nathan Fielder. Oh and that 0:05:09.560 --> 0:05:12.600 was delightful. And then here's what my wife says to me, 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:16.960 After our interaction, she goes, who would guess that you're 0:05:17.040 --> 0:05:23.279 the more awkward person in a social setting? And I'm like, well, 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:29.760 that's not fair. I did my best. He's hysterical. But anyway, yeah, 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:34.080 I always meet people that are really interesting. And then 0:05:34.160 --> 0:05:36.520 my wife nudges me and like, you've known this person 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:41.279 for twelve years. My wife is like, what's his name 0:05:41.960 --> 0:05:46.440 from Veep? Gary? Oh yeah, Gary, Gary, She's just in 0:05:46.560 --> 0:05:49.600 my ear. You've known this person for twenty years, you 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:53.440 know his wife, you know his kids. Okay, go, did 0:05:53.520 --> 0:05:56.120 you get a gift? I didn't do a gift. You 0:05:56.240 --> 0:05:59.960 have one year from the wedding date to buy a gift. 0:06:00.640 --> 0:06:02.840 Normally I cut a check, but I feel like that's 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:09.200 not gonna work with her because our relationship is is 0:06:09.320 --> 0:06:13.520 so long. I think I have to do something I'll 0:06:13.520 --> 0:06:16.479 probably end up doing, like a like a hotel stay 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:20.760 get her, get her a hotel State Great Wolf Lodge 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:23.839 or something that's nice. There you go, that's that hotel 0:06:23.920 --> 0:06:26.920 that smells like chlorine because it's attached to an indoor 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:30.560 water park. I think she'd love that. Rent the whole 0:06:30.600 --> 0:06:32.480 place out. I mean, I don't know what it costs 0:06:32.480 --> 0:06:36.640 to rent the whole Great Wolf Lodge out, probably what 0:06:36.800 --> 0:06:40.480 she paid for in appetizers. If I write a check, 0:06:40.560 --> 0:06:42.599 how much do I have to give as a gift? 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:43.760 What are your thoughts? 0:06:44.400 --> 0:06:52.520 Fifteen hundred, fifteen hundred, seventy five hundred, seventy five hundred dollars, Yeah, 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:54.800 you're nuts. 0:06:55.320 --> 0:06:56.080 Five hundred. 0:06:56.960 --> 0:07:01.239 Okay, so so Pete things five hundred. Eddie think's fifteen hundred. 0:07:01.640 --> 0:07:07.240 And John Elrick, the guy who fucking always wants more money, 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:10.240 is telling me to give away seventy five hundred dollars. 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:12.840 All right, give it away, he said guests. So I'm 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:18.720 guessing I'm not giving away seventy five hundred dollars. Holy shit, 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:21.680 that's all. That's That's now I've got pressure. I got 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:23.000 to talk to Carly when again. 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:28.000 I've created anxiety discussion. 0:07:28.120 --> 0:07:30.960 Great Wolf Lodge. Might I might be able to do it? 0:07:31.080 --> 0:07:36.600 Back to back days, everybody was well behaved, nothing horrible happened. 0:07:36.960 --> 0:07:41.240 I always worry, especially when you've got old people traveling 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:44.800 from the East Coast and now they're like, you know, 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:48.000 back home, it's it's two in the morning, and now 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:51.640 they're dancing and drinking. And the dance floor was on 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:55.960 a slight incline. I was like, oh, this is a disaster. 0:07:56.920 --> 0:08:00.400 I had anything happened. Today's guest can make it from 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:03.240 Long Beach to Malibu in under ten minutes to save 0:08:03.320 --> 0:08:12.600 the day. Enjoy, Pasha. If you ever meet Today's guest 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:14.920 in real life, you or someone you love are in 0:08:15.040 --> 0:08:18.640 bad shape, please welcome flight paramedic Phil. 0:08:18.960 --> 0:08:20.640 Thanks for having me, Daniel, thank. 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:22.520 You for being here, and thank you for all that 0:08:22.640 --> 0:08:25.000 you do. Of course, where were you born? 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:29.600 I was born in Oxnard, California. Oxnard, you're familiar. Oh man, 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:31.360 how's your Spanish pekinto? 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:31.760 Uhh? 0:08:31.880 --> 0:08:36.280 Yeah, funny. Growing up, Oxnard had this like tourists initiative 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:39.640 called Oxnard only one traffic signal separates us from Malibu 0:08:40.080 --> 0:08:41.200 and it didn't work. 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:46.200 You know, only one traffic signal, yeah, separates you from Malibu. 0:08:46.840 --> 0:08:49.480 I didn't know that. Oxnard is like a little slice 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:52.440 of gross Florida, just right above Los Angeles. 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:53.520 Big slice. 0:08:55.360 --> 0:08:57.080 Is the strawberry capital of the world. 0:08:57.160 --> 0:08:59.480 It is, yeah that they have the Strawberry Festival every year. 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:00.760 It's known for you. 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:02.720 Ever been to a Pirate's Day in Ventura? 0:09:03.040 --> 0:09:04.720 No, I've heard of it, but I've never been there. 0:09:04.840 --> 0:09:05.040 Have you. 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:09.240 Yeah, how was it? It was an accident. One day. 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:11.240 I just randomly was like, hey, let's go up to 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:14.559 Ventur and get lunch someplace to my wife. Never we 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:17.559 never go up there, and it was Pirate's Day and 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:20.199 everybody was dressed up like pirates and I was like, 0:09:20.400 --> 0:09:21.719 this is ridiculous. 0:09:22.160 --> 0:09:24.280 No, I would love to see that, but no, I've 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:24.800 never seen it. 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:29.040 I stumbled upon it randomly. You played guitar, You toured 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:31.000 with bands, and your dad was in a. 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:33.240 Band he was Yeah, growing up in Oxnard, there was 0:09:33.240 --> 0:09:36.240 a very like healthy and kind of supportive, like DIY 0:09:36.360 --> 0:09:39.280 punk scene Nardcore. Is that ring a bell? What's thatcore? 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:41.800 It's like Oxnard hardcore met into one word. 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:42.240 Uh huh. 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:45.040 So it was Yeah, many wouldn't, but it was kind 0:09:45.040 --> 0:09:47.360 of coined in the eighties. The band's like Irrepute still 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:49.440 Loug thirteen and there's just been like a punk scene 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:51.160 in Oxnard forever and I kind of got wrapped up 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:51.760 in that as a kid. 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:54.960 You toured with the band as a roadie, Yeah, I. 0:09:54.960 --> 0:09:56.719 Did, Roady I played a little bit too as well. 0:09:56.800 --> 0:09:58.240 But yeah, do you feel like you gave up? Did 0:09:58.320 --> 0:09:59.439 you give up completely on that? 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:01.240 I mean, there was not much to give up. It 0:10:01.360 --> 0:10:02.480 was just sort of like a fun hobby. 0:10:02.840 --> 0:10:04.440 You know, you were a beach lifeguard? 0:10:04.559 --> 0:10:04.839 I was. 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:07.640 Yeah. Did you do that as a child where you 0:10:07.920 --> 0:10:09.960 took the lifeguard training classes? 0:10:10.000 --> 0:10:12.199 Oh, the GGS G lifeguards? No, I never did that. 0:10:12.280 --> 0:10:14.080 I was just swimming and playing water pool and stuff 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:16.679 at Oxford High Uh huh. And yeah, as one does, 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:18.959 you kind of get into lifeguarding and swim instructure stuff 0:10:18.960 --> 0:10:20.640 and it just sort of like worked out that way. 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:22.079 Are you still a strong swimmer? 0:10:23.240 --> 0:10:24.240 Strong ish? I think? 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:26.160 So? Did you watch the Olympics this summer? I did. 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:28.160 Did you enjoy the water pool? Did? How do we do? 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:29.560 We got third? Actually? 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:34.760 Otherwise nose bronze? Yeah? Right. Had you ever save people 0:10:35.160 --> 0:10:36.280 on the beach a couple? 0:10:36.480 --> 0:10:36.680 Yeah? 0:10:37.000 --> 0:10:38.120 Rip tides? Yeah? 0:10:38.120 --> 0:10:40.560 Actually yeah, I definitely rip tides. More worse is when 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:42.160 you go out there and they're not drowning and they're like, 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:43.720 the fuck away from me, what are you doing out here? 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:45.360 Kind of cause the scene and you got to like 0:10:45.840 --> 0:10:47.640 backstroke back with your head between your you know. 0:10:47.800 --> 0:10:49.600 Well, you were just you're I think I think airing 0:10:49.640 --> 0:10:52.520 on the side of you know, being cautious is not 0:10:52.640 --> 0:10:56.679 a bad thing. The water though, it's so cold, freezing, 0:10:57.160 --> 0:10:59.440 and you just have to dive in with nothing. 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:01.880 Yeah, just your shorts and you're your booby. 0:11:01.960 --> 0:11:05.679 That's it. Back when you were lifeguard. Every year there 0:11:05.800 --> 0:11:08.880 will be an article about the fact that lifeguards in 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:12.520 Los Angeles beaches make over one hundred and fifty thousand 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:12.920 a year. 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:15.319 Yeah, I mean they work for the La County Fire 0:11:15.360 --> 0:11:17.200 Department in La County, unless you're on like a smaller 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:19.400 study department. But those guys, yeah, they definitely do well. 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:22.520 They're just grandfathered in and it just keeps escalating every year. 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:24.320 It has to or that's not base. 0:11:24.440 --> 0:11:27.400 No, no, it's they have seasonal and like permanent lifeguards. 0:11:27.400 --> 0:11:29.679 So especially the permanent ones who do that, like the 0:11:29.720 --> 0:11:31.640 bay Watch guys are all lifeguards and they're also like 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:32.840 the paramedics at Catalina and. 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:34.480 Stuff like that. Were you a fan of bay Watch 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:34.920 as a kid? 0:11:35.200 --> 0:11:36.640 Not as much as I probably should have been, But 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:38.640 I enjoyed the scenery, you know, were you? 0:11:39.240 --> 0:11:39.280 No? 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:43.240 No, I wasn't, although I did like that as a surfer. 0:11:43.800 --> 0:11:46.439 The season that Kelly Slater embarrassed himself, I do you 0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:49.480 remember that? And that that was enjoyable. Tell me how 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:56.640 the transition from water polo lifeguard roady led you into 0:11:57.440 --> 0:11:58.520 being an EMT. 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:00.959 I was working as a lifeguard on this beach in 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:03.040 Ventura County called Silver Strand, and if you had your 0:12:03.080 --> 0:12:06.320 EMT certification, you could ride on this ATV like around 0:12:06.320 --> 0:12:08.600 the beach. And I was sitting there on the tower 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:10.120 and I was like, man, that looks kind of cool. 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:12.360 I could do that. And I thought they were like badass. 0:12:12.480 --> 0:12:14.400 I mean, and all I'll see, they're like the lowest 0:12:14.480 --> 0:12:17.120 level of the ms. But at that time, I was 0:12:17.200 --> 0:12:18.679 like blown away by how cool they were. So I 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:21.920 went to Ventura College took this EMT class and yeah, 0:12:21.960 --> 0:12:23.000 it's kind of the rest of history. 0:12:23.000 --> 0:12:23.440 I love lore. 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:26.840 Did that take The EMT class is like a semester. 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:29.319 That one's not anything. It's like two nights a week. 0:12:29.640 --> 0:12:31.719 And the paramedic program, which I went to later, is 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:34.280 like it's like an associates program through the college. 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:36.280 I mean, how long did you How long were you 0:12:36.360 --> 0:12:39.120 an MT in a van the vmbulance. 0:12:39.720 --> 0:12:41.839 It was like maybe like a year and a half 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:43.120 before I got into paramedic school. 0:12:43.280 --> 0:12:43.640 Uh huh. 0:12:43.760 --> 0:12:46.320 And then you do like a paramedic internship and then yeah, 0:12:46.320 --> 0:12:47.520 you kind of start working on the ground. 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:49.600 Which one's more dangerous, Probably. 0:12:49.320 --> 0:12:51.400 The ground going Code three, the lights and sirens to 0:12:51.480 --> 0:12:52.800 the city and stuff. I would say that's a little 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:53.360 more dangerous. 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:57.319 Where does EMT rank? Are you higher than a nurse, 0:12:57.679 --> 0:12:59.319 lower than a doctor? Where are you at? 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:02.199 An EMT would be lower than like a nurse or 0:13:02.240 --> 0:13:05.599 a doctor. But there's like EMT paramedic and then like 0:13:05.640 --> 0:13:08.040 critical care paramedic, which is what I do. So on 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:10.040 the helicopter we fly, it's like a three man or 0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:13.800 three person crew. It's pilot, critical care nurse, and critical carometic. 0:13:14.240 --> 0:13:16.640 So at our level, the medic and the nurse are 0:13:16.679 --> 0:13:18.240 kind of all the same. There's really no difference in 0:13:18.320 --> 0:13:21.839 scope or what we do as far as practice. But yeah, 0:13:21.880 --> 0:13:23.559 I mean generally the nurse would definitely be like the 0:13:23.640 --> 0:13:24.439 higher level of care. 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:25.760 Can you write a prescription? 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:26.120 No? 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:29.800 A sh Yeah? How much work can you do on 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:30.319 these people? 0:13:30.600 --> 0:13:32.400 Kind of a lot? I mean, especially on the helicopter, 0:13:32.480 --> 0:13:34.559 what we do, we do like a lot of like intubations, 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:37.520 we're doing chest tubes, We're doing like ventilator management and 0:13:37.559 --> 0:13:39.160 stuff like that. So we're doing actually quite a. 0:13:39.160 --> 0:13:42.079 Bit are you allowed to request if you want a 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:44.920 helicopter versus the van? 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:46.959 I mean, I'm sure you could if you're in like 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:49.319 a very remote area. We have like membership programs and 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:51.599 stuff like that to get people, but usually it's in 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:53.400 remote areas and we get activated by like a fire 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:54.480 department or something like that. 0:13:54.679 --> 0:13:57.199 Were you ever nervous to fly in a helicopter? Not really, No, 0:13:57.520 --> 0:13:59.120 I've floated in a helicopter one time. 0:13:59.320 --> 0:13:59.679 One time. 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:01.720 That's not true. I guess I flew in it twice. 0:14:01.760 --> 0:14:04.400 I flew it to a destination then back, like Hawaii 0:14:04.520 --> 0:14:04.840 or something. 0:14:05.040 --> 0:14:05.079 No. 0:14:05.440 --> 0:14:07.640 No, I was working in Palm Springs. I was like, 0:14:07.640 --> 0:14:09.640 I'm gonna we're gonna go by helicopter. 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:12.400 Nice, like one of those casinos out there. Yep. 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:15.160 But I'm like, I'm not doing that again. What's one 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:17.640 chopper ride cost a patient? 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:19.880 I mean, usually the insurance gets built. We try not 0:14:19.920 --> 0:14:22.560 to like, of course, like forty fifty thousand dollars. 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:26.600 One ride is forty or fifty thousand dollars, Holy moly. 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:27.800 I mean, it's an expensive operation. 0:14:28.240 --> 0:14:33.520 I understand. I wasn't ready for forty or fifty. I 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:36.680 was ready for for like ten. It's such a short flight. 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:39.040 It's very short flight. I mean it's maybe like an 0:14:39.080 --> 0:14:41.680 hour or so toops. But you think of the fuel, 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:44.120 the aircraft, the pilot, the nurse, the medic. 0:14:44.360 --> 0:14:46.400 Why no, But if I rent a helicopter to fly 0:14:46.520 --> 0:14:48.800 to Palm Springs, it didn't cost fifty. 0:14:48.560 --> 0:14:49.320 How much did it cost? 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:51.600 I don't remember. I don't remember fifteen each way. 0:14:52.000 --> 0:14:54.200 That's not bad actually comparatively, I'm. 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:57.400 Guessing, though I don't really remember. Are you responsible for 0:14:57.480 --> 0:15:00.400 getting all of the patient's insurance information before they land 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:01.080 at the hospital? 0:15:02.280 --> 0:15:04.680 No, that's by far the worst part of the job. 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:06.800 But you're trying to like deal with stuff like that. 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:08.880 We just get their ID and we'll get like information 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:11.720 from the receiving hospital. But I never I've worked on 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:13.320 the ground for places, and we're supposed to get like 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:15.160 copies of the insurance card and all that stuff, and 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:16.200 it just eats my soul. 0:15:16.200 --> 0:15:21.400 It's like you're sometimes the last person people have spoke to. 0:15:22.000 --> 0:15:24.960 Quite often they do die with us. Are more worse 0:15:25.080 --> 0:15:27.720 is when it's like the last person their family speaks to, Like, well, 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:30.600 they're like family members dying, So we'll kind of go 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:32.200 in there and they'll want us to start at CPR, 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:34.440 but clearly it's been it's been a long time. 0:15:34.560 --> 0:15:39.000 Sometimes they don't declare people dead until the hospital. Is 0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:41.400 that just to make you sleep better at night? 0:15:41.560 --> 0:15:43.240 No, if that does not make us sleep better at night. 0:15:43.280 --> 0:15:45.800 Usually because there's this criteria for determination to death. Okay, 0:15:45.800 --> 0:15:48.920 so I'll be like wrigamortis slavidity a sisterly and contigiously. 0:15:49.000 --> 0:15:50.760 It's basically no hard activity. 0:15:50.680 --> 0:15:52.800 So you're not allowed to say decease. 0:15:52.920 --> 0:15:54.800 Oh, we do if that has the criteria. But if 0:15:54.840 --> 0:15:56.280 they don't meet that, we kind of got to like 0:15:56.520 --> 0:15:57.520 work the code kind of thing. 0:15:57.720 --> 0:15:58.840 Are you squeamish at all? 0:15:59.160 --> 0:16:00.320 Not really, I don't think so. 0:16:00.560 --> 0:16:03.680 I'm not either. Yeah, but I'm sure you've seen it. 0:16:03.960 --> 0:16:06.360 I mean I've definitely seen it. We've had like you know, 0:16:06.520 --> 0:16:08.160 like nurse ride alongs and stuff like that who have 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:09.040 full on feinted and. 0:16:09.040 --> 0:16:11.160 Stuff with this. How many dead bodies have you seen? 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:14.680 I don't know, probably a few hundred, few thousand maybe 0:16:14.720 --> 0:16:16.200 over the course of the last twenty years. 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:18.960 Do you you sleep well? You have any PTSD? 0:16:19.440 --> 0:16:21.200 Maybe? But I feel like I sleep okay usually? 0:16:21.480 --> 0:16:24.520 Yes, you ever talk to somebody? Do they force you 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:25.280 to talk to people. 0:16:25.400 --> 0:16:27.720 You know, they were really bad about that in the beginning, 0:16:27.800 --> 0:16:29.200 or at least when I started, But now they do 0:16:29.280 --> 0:16:32.520 this like critical incident stress debriefing. Like my program has 0:16:32.520 --> 0:16:34.600 a thing called Siren where they can, like you go 0:16:34.600 --> 0:16:36.160 out of service and you can talk to somebody if 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:38.640 something bad happens, like pediatric full arrest or anything like that. 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:41.560 But I haven't had to or I haven't like initiated 0:16:41.640 --> 0:16:42.400 using it much at all. 0:16:42.520 --> 0:16:43.560 Do you believe in ghosts? 0:16:44.560 --> 0:16:47.560 No? I don't. Who pulls people off of the side 0:16:47.600 --> 0:16:50.320 of a Cliff County helicopters? It's like the sheriff's apartment 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:51.160 or the fire apart. 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:53.200 Okay, something like that, but you're not dropping a basket down. 0:16:53.360 --> 0:16:55.360 No, No, we're landing on the freeway and stuff like that. 0:16:55.520 --> 0:16:58.160 So there's really two types of like mission profile as 0:16:58.200 --> 0:17:00.480 they say that we do. Okay, there's the inner facility, 0:17:00.480 --> 0:17:02.920 which is taking somebody from like a smaller hospital to 0:17:03.040 --> 0:17:05.920 like a bigger UCLA or seaters or something. Or we're 0:17:05.960 --> 0:17:07.639 doing what we call scene calls, which is sort of 0:17:07.720 --> 0:17:10.240 like landed on the fifteen out in Victorville and flying 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:12.320 someone to like a hospital who's like a trauma patient 0:17:12.400 --> 0:17:14.320 or a piece patient because out there in the high 0:17:14.320 --> 0:17:16.840 desert where I started, there's really no like trauma services, 0:17:16.880 --> 0:17:19.840 there's no pediatric services, so it's kind of a ironically 0:17:19.880 --> 0:17:21.000 it's a desert for health care. 0:17:21.119 --> 0:17:25.080 So what about transferring like organs? 0:17:25.280 --> 0:17:27.480 There is like a specialty company that does that. We 0:17:27.560 --> 0:17:28.000 never do that. 0:17:28.119 --> 0:17:30.560 Oh you guys don't do that? Yeah, that always seems fun, 0:17:30.920 --> 0:17:33.280 Like hurry before this heart stops working. 0:17:33.320 --> 0:17:34.879 We've had pilots to do that, Like they kind of 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:36.640 do that before they got into MS, they were doing 0:17:36.720 --> 0:17:38.720 like organ procurement transfers or something. 0:17:38.920 --> 0:17:41.119 What about how many pilots are in your helicopter? 0:17:41.359 --> 0:17:42.639 Just one? We're single pilot. 0:17:42.800 --> 0:17:45.960 Can you do anything if if he were to stroke out? 0:17:46.240 --> 0:17:48.639 They try to like train us with certain like training 0:17:48.720 --> 0:17:51.080 modules and stuff what to do, but it's not going 0:17:51.119 --> 0:17:53.080 to work out if they stroke out or pass out. 0:17:53.160 --> 0:17:53.760 So you're done. 0:17:53.920 --> 0:17:55.240 Yeah, we're done. I just hope it's quick. 0:17:55.480 --> 0:17:57.080 You fly with the same pilot all the time. 0:17:57.200 --> 0:17:59.200 So we work twenty fours on the med crew, but 0:17:59.320 --> 0:18:01.800 the pilots by FA can only work twelve hour shifts. 0:18:01.800 --> 0:18:03.480 So we have like a day pilot in a night pilot. 0:18:03.600 --> 0:18:05.760 But you is there ever a pilot where you roll 0:18:05.800 --> 0:18:07.920 your eyes and go, Okay, well I hope to be back. 0:18:08.000 --> 0:18:11.679 Oh absolutely, yeah exactly, like please delete my history if 0:18:11.720 --> 0:18:12.359 we go down or what. 0:18:12.400 --> 0:18:15.520 About the small talk? Is there a lot of between 0:18:15.560 --> 0:18:17.720 the two two professions, are you guys? 0:18:17.880 --> 0:18:17.960 Oh? 0:18:18.080 --> 0:18:19.320 Yeah, I mean we all like stay at the same 0:18:19.359 --> 0:18:21.120