The Commercial Break - TCB Infomercial: Nurse Blake

Episode Date: June 24, 2025

TCB Infomercial| EP#782: Comedian, Former ED Trauma Nurse and Influencer Nurse Blake joins Bryan & Krissy. The very funny, always sassy, Nurse Blake joins TCB to discuss his current tour "But Did You Die?", his cruise ship Nurse Camp and his place in the nursing community as a mouthpiece. Blake shares his tough upbringing with conservative parents, who happen to be swingers!? Bryan plays matchmaker and future pans to attends a Nurse Blake show are made. NURSE BLAKE'S LINKS: ⁠⁠Follow him on Instagram But Did You Die? Comedy Tour Watch EP #782 with Nurse Blake on YouTube! Text us or leave us a voicemail: [phone]TCB FOLLOW US: Instagram:  ⁠⁠⁠⁠@thecommercialbreak⁠⁠⁠⁠ Youtube: ⁠⁠⁠⁠youtube.com/thecommercialbreak⁠⁠⁠⁠ TikTok: ⁠⁠⁠⁠@tcbpodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠ Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠www.tcbpodcast.com⁠⁠⁠⁠ CREDITS: Hosts: ⁠⁠⁠⁠Bryan Green⁠⁠⁠⁠ &⁠⁠⁠⁠ Krissy Hoadley⁠⁠⁠⁠ Executive Producer: Bryan Green Producer: Astrid B. Green Voice Over: Rachel McGrath TCBits: Written, Performed and Edited by Bryan Green To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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I am staying at, like right now I'm at 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. 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, when I'm like, oh, I got divorced years ago. Yeah, so with the past. Of course, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. 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, Chris and Joy Hoadley. Best to you, Chris. 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. 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 out, 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 healthcare and the safety of our doctors and nurses and hospitals in general, our 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 That's so I know I was looking at his tour dates and it's incredible goes on and on we were gonna do two cities and we Were acting as if the world was ending How was I gonna pack for both cities at the same time? How are we gonna get them? Who's gonna show up? That didn't happen. So anyway, don't worry about all that, Jazz.

I don't wanna get you all muddled and confused. He has an actual tour in actual theaters where actual human beings are gonna show up. And I'm sure it's a fucking party because I've known some nurses. I've dated a few. They are, they don't shy away from hanging out and having fun.

Let loose. Well, yeah, when you have that three day on, four day off kind of like schedule. And just the stress that you're under. I mean, you gotta 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 gotta be a real psychological mind fuck. So it's good. I know, I wanna ask him about The Pit too, cause 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 social media.

I've got links to buy tickets to his tour. In some cities, they're limited or sold out. And he's not playing small rooms either. In Atlanta, he's playing the Symphony Hall. That's crazy. It's huge. It's huge. It's like 3, 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. And, 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. 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 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 tele podcasting, 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. Why don't you text us and 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.

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Come on. Bye. Hey, what's up, Flies? This is David Spade. Dana Carvey. Look, I know we never actually left, but I'll just say it. We are back with another season of Fly on the Wall. Every episode, including ones with guests,

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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 gonna 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. Like, and they just, they're so annoying.

They're not cute. No. No. I woke up and my eye was almost swollen shut And they just, they're so annoying, they're not cute. No, not 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 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. Yeah. And so what did you do? How do you handle it? So, and this is a great question and I think a really great point.

So I am a nurse, I'm not a doctor. So we really can't give any type of advice. Fair enough. To say like,'m not a doctor. 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 what medication is on. You can't say that either. Wow. Okay, so let me ask you this. This is good. But 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 Chet GPT, my personal doctor, that it'll go away on its own if it's not particularly terrible.

I prefer Chet GPT as a doctor over WebMD, if you haven't heard 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 gonna feed it all of your past prescriptions,

all of your history, and they're gonna give the symptoms. And then AI is gonna make a recommendation. The doctor's only there to make sure AI is Not going crazy and I'm like, oh He is Listen I don't want to speak for my brother, but I he could be persuaded. He could be persuaded. I think We come from a very liberal family we He could be persuaded. He could be persuaded. I think he could be persuaded. I think so. Yeah. This is great. We come from a very liberal family.

We could all be persuaded. This is great news. Like you're probably rich too. So the two of you together could probably... You probably have more money than we do. Fun fact, I'm a nomad right now. I'm homeless. I'm currently unhoused.

Okay. Why? So I'm staying at, like right now I'm at 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. Okay. I got divorced and I said recently for seven years. Yeah. So there you go. It just sounds better for some reason. It sounds better. It sounds better.

But then when I'm like on a date or I'm like, oh, I got divorced years ago. So with the past. Of course. Time to go. Yeah. The adjective fits the situation. That's right.

It really does. And you know what? I haven't really focused on myself and I want to travel a lot more. I'm on the road every year for five months. So I'm like, why am I paying for rent in Orlando, but I'm not even there? Exactly. Makes sense. I'm going to travel and explore a little bit. Well, I'm sorry about the divorce.

Yeah, good for you. Sounds fun to me. Yeah, I mean. I like it. Yeah, to try out different cities, different places. Why not? It's great. And thank you for congrats on the divorce. I appreciate it.

Yeah, listen. When I got divorced, I also had multiple places over years that I stayed because I didn't feel like I needed to be pinned down. Now I was in the Atlanta area. My couch. Yeah, her couch. To be honest. A lot of couching.

I started off in the bed. I ended up on the couch. You know how it goes, Blake. Started off on the bed, ended up on the couch, at some point made it to a cab. Usually sometimes after breakfast, but on occasion before it was even offered. Um, but yeah, that's, listen, I think why would you pay rent paying someone else's mortgage so that eventually you'll probably settle down with someone or somewhere that you want to be, but go feel that out. And Orlando, I'm going to talk to your brother after this and be like, bro, like, where do we want to be? Yeah.

I listened. I will hook you up with my brother. He's cute. He's single. I mean, he's not single actually, to be honest with you. He just got engaged, but he- He did? No, I'm kidding. It's like, when did that happen?

I thought he just started dating someone. Yeah, anytime he starts dating someone, all of a sudden they're engaged. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, that's what happens. He's one of those. When you say you can't give medical advice, and I'm going to ask you this in all seriousness, I imagine I understand that at some point, an agent or an attorney talked to you and said, hey, you're going to get in trouble.

Someone's going to sue you. If you say something on your page and they take that medical advice and something bad happens to them. So please do us a favor, be the funny Blake, but don't give medical advice. Is that correct? Am I correct about that? So, yeah, it's even more so now, right? Because I am licensed. I am a licensed, registered nurse, right? I could get that taken away at any point. But even back when we're in nursing school, you know, doctors are the ones to diagnose and prescribe. Nurses, we care for and we can treat, but we can't, like, we can look at an x-ray where

the leg is legit broken in six spots and the patient could be like, how's the x-ray look? And we have to be like, got to wait for the doctor. How dumb is that? It's dumb. I see a nurse for my primary care. Well that's a nurse practitioner. Yes. And they can prescribe, right?

Diagnose and prescribe. They can treat your stye. See, and that's what you get sometimes when you go to the urgent clinics. A lot of times, nurse practitioners are running it. My opinion is, and having dated nurses and known a few, my opinion is, and seen lots of nurses in different medical situations,

we've all been in the hospital or whatever, that the nurses seem to be running the show with a lot more knowledge and understanding than even some of the doctors. And the doctor is simply there, I don't even know how to say this. It's like- To stamp approval?

To stamp approval. It's, you know, it's, I don't know what a good comparison is in a profession, but the nurses seem to be the people who really are the ones on the ground, getting their hands dirty at all times and figuring it out and taking your blood pressure and seeing you when you first walk in and all your symptoms.

And then the doctor comes in like a hero, writes a prescription, you feel better. But it's really the nurses. Did the nurses, and I know they do because I've dated a few, the nurses feel this way too, right? The doctors get all the credit for the most that, or Jesus. No, right! Wings, saving someone's life, you sweat doing chest compressions and the family is like, oh, thank you, Lord Jesus. Wings? What about me? Yeah. You're like, you could be gay Jesus.

Gay Jesus. Love it. We've both been nailed by a few guys. Yeah! That was a good one. But yeah, you know, nurses, we are there with the patients the most. You know, love our doctors. They're really overworked and, you know, short staff.

They are paid well. Better than us, relatively. But yeah, nurses, we're out there doing a lot, doing the most. But we love our patients. We absolutely love what we do. But yeah, I'd like if, legally, I can't even tell like my family member, legally, my family member, if they had a headache, I can't be like, oh, here's. Yeah. You know, this is convenient for you, because I also know a few doctors, and their number one chief complaint,

take them out for a beer, get them away from everybody, their number one chief complaint is that I am not only a doctor when I go to the office, but then I'm a doctor to every other fuckin' human being in my life, and I don't wanna say no to them. Obviously, like not when we're talking about like prescribing Xanax or pain medication or something like that, but they don't wanna be called

at all hours of day and night because they happen to be a fucking doctor. It's obnoxious, but you can just say, legally I can. You can just get out of it. I know, y'all know how many dick pics, sorry, you know how many rashes of dick pics I have in my DMs that people send me? All the, look at this rash. Really?

I can't. I am sorry. No way. I did the wildest pictures. Like, what is this? Can you tell me this? Do people feel comfortable, like, because you're a gay man and you're also a nurse, they feel like, let me send him the dick pic because he's seen a few dicks and he'll understand what it looks like and what it is. That is like so assumptive on someone's behalf that they would think that you would want their dick pic

just because... Well, especially a rashy one. Yeah, a rashy one. I've seen way too many dick pics. Speaking of rashy dick, I've seen way too many dicks. Speaking of bashy dicks. Um, I... So, most of my stories happened on tour,

but I was on tour and I woke up one, and I was touring in the South, and I woke up one morning and I had a rash somewhere on my South. Okay. Yeah. I was like, oh shit, what am I gonna do? And I was like, I should go,

I should go get it checked out. So I went to the Planned Parenthood. I got an Uber, I didn't tell my family that's on the tour bus with me, I was getting my dick checked out. Yeah. Sneaking, I'm like, oh, I'm getting coffee. I got to run an errand.

I sneaked to the Planned Parenthood and they checked me in, the nurse practitioner brings me back and she's down there doing her assessment. She's down there for a minute. She looks up at me and goes, are you nurse Blake? Oh no, you were recognized. Yes, I was. I was like, no, no, I'm not.

No, no, no, no. I get that all the time. I get that all the time. You mean that gay nurse online? No, MAGA 2024. Exactly. I was like, no. Turns out, it wasn't STI.

Well, that's good. Thank you. It was allergic reaction, little contact dermatitis, from Tide laundry detergent. Oh, yeah, you got to get the free and clear. I'm telling you, it was my lesbian cousin was on tour with me and she did my laundry and so she put my shit in Tide, not free and clear. So I got my rash from my lesbian cousin.

Okay. When in doubt, blind, Tide or the lesbian cousin. Okay. That's the answer. When in doubt, when in doubt, Blaine Tide or the lesbian cousin? What are the two? Did you practice nursing in Orlando? Is that where you work? I practice everywhere I got. Were you a traveling nurse?

Level one trauma centers. No, it was my ex kind of, he couldn't really keep a job anywhere so he moved me around the country. So I wish I was a travel nurse because they make loads of money. They do. I have some friends that did that, yeah. And so you were... They should be paying all the bills.

Okay, this is good. You're level one trauma nurse. So you are a no shit... Yeah. You are in the worst... You are having the worst day of your life, and Nurse Blake is the first face you're gonna see and you're there to triage the situation and make sure that you stabilize patients.

So you're really seeing people in terrible, having terrible days. I mean, all kinds of stuff, but in the worst of the worst, you're having a terrible day, life and death. So have you watched The Pit? Yeah, we love The Pit. He's so funny.

He is. No, I was. Noah Wiley? Yes, yes. I even have fine. He is. Noah Wiley. Yes, yes. I even have to admit, he's a handsome gentleman. He's a good looking guy, Noah, and he fits that role so well. And he's so sweet and his mom was a nurse,

like in real life. Oh. Oh, I didn't know that. It is an incredible show. It's the most accurate description of medicine, especially in today's age. Like, Grey's Anatomy, like all of that bullshit fluff. That's why I didn't want to watch that show at first,

because I was like, I don't need another Grey's Anatomy. Right, I thought the same thing. But the pit's different. Good. Yeah. It's good. They talk about all the real issues that we face, like the ethical dilemmas we have.

And it's a really incredible show. So if you need more respect on medical professionals and you don't see them in your real life, watch The Pit. Yeah, so that leads me to a question, which is The Pit seems extraordinarily realistic, and I am not a fan of medical dramas, mainly because that Grey's Anatomy bullshit,

it's a soap opera. Oh, it's too soapy, yeah. And it lasts for 15 years, and it's like they're rehashing and it doesn't really get into the nitty gritty where this is very subtle and nuanced interplay with the personalities, but they're dealing with the very real things that are going on

in an emergency room. And even though I've never worked in one, you get a new found respect for what's going on. When they're talking that jargon, which I now know how to do a tracheotomy. Tracheotomy, yes, they do one on everything. No, I don't. I just, I don't want you to try on me. But is when they're talking that jargon, is that how it actually happens in an

emergency room? You're going back and forth, talking that fast, assessing and... Patients are in the hallway. Yeah, it's quick. Oh, patients are in these hospitals. They say they're nonprofit, but they want their money and they will if they don't have a room for you, they will put you in the fucking hallway. You know, to get that admit, which is absolutely, it's insane. But yeah, like the ERs people people wait, God, over 24 hours. I worked in the ER in Houston, Texas, and God, it was up to, you know, 22 hours just waiting in the hall.

Yeah. Jesus. Yeah, it's insane. But you get the person with the stubbed toe that's like, no, come see me. I'm like, no. Right. No, there's an order of... Yeah. Triage. Yeah.

Triage, right? Exactly. Yeah. I think that there are three types of people in this world, right? There are those that never go to the doctor. Their eyeball could be hanging out and they'll say, it'll get better tomorrow, I'll fix it myself. There are the kind that are rational human beings that say, this is an emergency. Like I'm bleeding a whole bunch or I broke a leg or whatever. And then that's the reason to go to the emergency room. And then there are the type that are rational human beings that say, this is an emergency. Like I'm bleeding a whole bunch or I broke a leg or whatever. And then that's the reason to go to the emergency room. And then there are the types that are just we, and we all know they're over dramatic and everything in every situation requires some level of medical attention. And you're like, dude, honestly,

your hair hurts. That's not a medical emergency, bro. You've taken too much of your medication. You are talking about my brother. I love my brother so much. The experience of God. He has had stage six cancer for years. Oh, yeah. I'm like, bro, like, you're not dying. It's fine. You're so fine.

Christian. Yeah. Go ahead. No. No, no, you, please. No, it's your turn. No, you go. Please. No, no, you. Please, no, it's your turn. No, you go. Please.

We were talking about nurse safety. That was something that they talk a lot about on the pit. And I know you're involved in some legislation, maybe. Tell us more about that. Yeah, so it is not a felony to hit or abuse a nurse. That's crazy. And nurses get hit, we get bit, we get slapped, we get punched.

God. And it's insane. Hospitals don't provide enough security. Right. You know, and the ERs are like, the most drama, family drama that could happen is going to be in an emergency room. Of course.

Like I understand you get the victim and the perpetrator, right, of the injury. Like many times when I worked at a level one trauma center in Houston, we would get the drunk driver who created the crash next to the victim in the next car and we're treating them right in the next church. And their families come and it's like fights break out. Like it's very unsafe environment.

So the fact that hospitals can't provide even metal detectors before people come into the ER. They're like, the hospitals are like, well how would patients feel if we made them walk through a metal detector? I don't know, fucking safe? Yeah. I don't know.

Disney, Walt Disney World has fucking metal detectors and that's the happiest place on earth. So like what's the problem? Yes, Walt Disney has the most advanced security systems known to man. They're way more than metal detectors. They're checking for biochemicals and all this other stuff. And I think that providing the people who save our lives

and any, like I just said, you're having your worst day if you're seeing Nurse Blake at a level one trauma center. That is not good. Yeah, it's not good. And so who fucking cares if your uncle has to go through the metal detector or leave his gun in the car. It makes sense. Who cares?

Like it's so basic. And there was a nurse in Florida, she got beat so hard. She was like so close to losing her eyesight. Oh my God. And the hospitals are just like, well, what could you have done better? in Florida, she got beat so hard, she was like so close to losing her eyesight. Oh my God. And it's all, and the hospitals are just like, well, what could you have done better? Like, what are you talking about? Number one, we're extremely understaffed. You know, we're a nurse should only be caring for three patients at the max, we're getting eight or nine.

And it's not just unsafe for us, it's unsafe for the patient. Yeah, sure. So I think there's a lot of awareness of the general public. If we're saying it's unsafe, it's also not good for you. It's not good for anybody. Anybody. But you know what's so crazy is I always compare it to the airline industry. You know, before a plane takes off, you always have to have two pilots and a certain number of flight attendants. Doesn't matter if the plane is packed or you only got one passenger

on that plane. There are standards that that plane has to fly with the appropriate amount of staff. In healthcare, there's no rule book to follow. Wow. Yeah, that's insane. Because these hospitals cut corners and sit like lives are literally on the line. And I'm sure lives are lost in certain situations because- I'm sure of staffing. Of staffing, right? And one of the things that I,

this is weird that you bring up the airline thing because when I was talking to Chrissy, I said, it's a federal offense not to follow a flight attendance request. It's a federal offense. You can go to jail and you may have a felony charge. And so why wouldn't we do this for our nurses and our doctors working in the busiest of places when you have a mass casualty event, like they showed on the

pit, right? It's chaos. The most, and these people are saving lives at a rapid clip, making decisions left and right, and they have the knowledge to do that. And the best that we can offer them is the ability to feel like they have the, they have the space to do that safely. And I think it's outrageous that anyone for any reason would say, no, that's not reasonable thing to ask. Why? Why? I mean, it's just crazy.

So basic. It's a standard. So yeah, there needs to be a huge legislation push to, to make this happen. So it's just it's really unfortunate and sad. So all the nurses out there always protect yourself. Be careful. What can we do to help that legislation get through like just on a local level? Yeah, I mean, that's a great point. I mean, they've really tried to fight for when it comes to like safe patient ratios and stuff. I think California, I believe they're one of the few states that have that, but definitely look in your state

to see if they have safe staffing at your local hospitals because even as a patient or just a community member, that's very important for you. And just fighting for the safety of healthcare workers. Exactly. Yeah, that's great. Call your senator or your representative. Please help us. Yes. Did this all start, were you acting as,

are you still practicing nursing? So I don't work in a hospital anymore. Okay. Because they don't like my mouth. They don't like, they don't. It became a problem. When I first started being a little more, just sharing my thoughts and experiences online

about healthcare, it was back in 2017, I was working at a large hospital system there and HR was like, no, like you can't do that. And I was like, yes, yes, I can. So you know, I'm in a position where I'm able to say and feel comfortable with speaking up on issues and matters that other nurses who, you know, have to work at a hospital system or work at hospital systems can't speak up. Yeah. They don't let us. You will never see a nurse doing an interview. You will never see a hospital allowing a nurse spokesperson. Like they keep our mouths so tight shut. Like they put fear

in us that if we say anything against them, like we're gone. That's unbelievable. So you're their voice. You're the voice. Like, I try to be. Yeah. It's not the best voice out there. I have a little lisp at times. But, you know, I try. But I think it's important and especially as we ran into 2020 when the world needed nurses and doctors more than ever, these became our heroes.

And yet there's, you know, 20% of the population instantly becomes nudnicks and colloidal silver and, you know, I don't know. Bleach in the vein. Yeah. And there's crisis actors and all this other stuff. They become absolutely insane overnight. Then nurses are really in danger and needed, needed and in danger. Right? And so they needed a mouthpiece more than ever. Yeah.

We are trying to help you. We're trying to save your life. So please. And it's the people that, you know, they get their medical advice on Facebook or they get their medical advice from a politician who has no medical degree whatsoever. It's all about politics. And they come to the hospital and they want our opinion and we give our opinion and they're like, no, I saw this on TV. It's like, bro, like lady, lady, lady, lady. Yeah. How incensed does that make you?

It must like in the deepest level just drive you fucking crazy. It's really, yeah. And nurses, we definitely feel that. Especially during COVID where we're trying to keep other people safe. You hear all this all these fake treatments and essentially fake news, it becomes so frustrating

and so belittling because, and it hurts people, like people die. Yes, of course. We became healthcare workers so we can save lives unless you're a hospice nurse, then that would not be the goal there. Right. But, but.

Fair enough. Most all nurses we want to save, you know, and care for other people. So it's just really sad to see that happen. So you, I would imagine, you have a huge following of nurses. You go city to city and the nurses come out and they, you know, they love Nurse Blake

because Nurse Blake can say the things that they don't feel they have the leverage to say because they need their jobs, right? They need to put food in their mouths and their families' tables. So you must be absolutely adored by most nurses. I would imagine you've built this little family of like, it's so interesting to me, this niche of nursing,

which is not really a niche. There's hundreds of thousands or, this niche of nursing, which is not really a niche, there's hundreds of thousands or a million nurses out there, but you've kind of garnered this like, whack pack of nurses that love you so much, that must feel very gratifying to feel like you've found your voice in this community by speaking on behalf of this community. Yeah, I never got into nursing or went to nursing school

to tell jokes or comedy or, you know. Yeah, of course. Learn how to put a show together. It was just natural. You know, it just happened over time and it's kind of built over the past few years, but there's a lot, there's like five million nurses in this country now and it's so cool to see them come out.

They come out in big groups. So they all make t-shirts, they run out party buses. Of all ages, there's nursing students who are 18, laughing their ass off next to a retired nurse in their 80s. Or I'll have a generation of nurses come where it's the son and the mom and the grandma were all in healthcare. And that to me is the coolest thing ever.

It's so special to me. So just giving them a night to drink and have fun and have a blast, it's really fun. And always at my shows, the alcohol goes. Oh yeah. The theaters, you know it's a Nurse Blake show. They're like bringing their expertise. Yes, bringing them.

I love it. Here we go. Talking to you, I really wanna go to a Nurse Blake show. I mean, I'm not a nurse, I really want to go to a Nurse Blake show. I mean, I'm not a nurse, but I really want to go to a Nurse Blake show because I've known some nurses and they party. Oh yeah, for sure. They are so loud.

It's so funny because if I go to a theater I've never been before, their crews are always like, what is this going to be, some sort of like fucking Ted Talk. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like what? And then after the show,

they're like, oh my God, it was so loud. It was like a loud talk. Because the nurses get so into it. And so it's a blast. So and even if you're not in health care, I'm going to break everything down for you. Make it really easy for you to understand. And they're really fun. And from the comedy shows, I realized that nurses want to even hang out more, you know,

learn together and interact. So I developed a conference called NurseCon at Sea. That's what I was gonna ask you about. Yeah. Yeah. We do it every year. We take over a whole cruise ship. Nice. We went out and charter a whole ship, 3,500 nurses.

Jesus. And it is so much fun. Oh, I can only imagine. I, this is amazing. You have taken your, what I would imagine that your family would say, was very humorous and interesting personality as a child, right? Interesting. I would say very interesting. Very, very interesting family. You've taken it.

Hey, I'm from Florida. Yeah. So it's like, you know, I have two first cousins that are married. Oh, yeah. What? You know, what? My parents are swingers. Okay.

They do conversion therapy. Like, I get into all this shit. Wait. Okay. Slow down. Hold on one second. Okay. You have two first cousins that are married.

Well, I mean, we're in Georgia. I've seen it. Yeah. Okay, you have two first cousins that are married. Well, I mean, we're in Georgia. I've seen it. Yeah. I do. They are very close with each other. Our family tree is so fucked.

Like, it's not, there's no limbs. There are no limbs. It's a family weed. It's just what? It's a family vine. Yeah. They're not. It's a family weed. It's just what? It's a family vine. Yeah. It's so bad. It's like, you know,

I joke that they matched on ancestry.com. Oh, that's great. Okay, your parents are swingers. Do they do the pineapple thing? Do they do the pineapple thing? They do the pineapple thing. Pineapple thing, they do the, so if you don't know about the upside down pineapple. Our listeners know, we talk about it a lot. Yeah, that's perfect. So my parents, all the swingers parties and stuff all the time. Oh, that's great. I was watching, I'm following

these a lot of swingers online because I just find this so fascinating and beyond anything in my universe. Like I am not a Puritan by any stretch of the imagination. My life has been quite wild actually, but swinging is just like, whoa. And I follow these swingers online. They take over cruise ships. They take over resorts. Yeah, we profile the cruise.

Yeah. They have a blast. They're having a really good time. Of course they do. They're getting laid. But what's so wild is that my parents aren't religious. They're having a really good time. Of course they do. They're getting laid. But what's so wild is that my parents aren't religious. They're like swingers. But yet when I was outed at 15,

they sent me to gay conversion therapy. I can't even imagine. Like what? Yeah, like so. Ah. I'm sorry about that. I mean, your parents, I'm sure, have they come around? They are now, no.

No. No. No. We're no contact for sure. No. Oh. When you said your family was on the bus with you, I thought you meant like your mom and dad. So when I consider my family, it's my grandmother,

my nan, my brother, my little nieces, and then a few cousins. Okay, so- Not the ones that are married. Not the ones. Right. Not those cousins. Different, different, different.

Well, I know that I actually don't know, but I can imagine that must be very difficult. And yeah, that's really sad. That's really just sad altogether. It's just sad that it's still legal today. Yeah. They still allow gay conversion therapy to happen. I can. legal today. Like, they still allow gay conversion therapy to happen. The one that I was a part of was Exodus International Program, and huge organization, huge, huge, huge, but they closed

their doors probably a little over 10 years ago. It was just so bad. But they're still like little local organizations and religious institutions. I've read about that. It seems awful. Awful. It's awful. Yeah. And it doesn't work. So yeah, exactly And your money you're born the way you're born Right Even if I wasn't born gay like I'm still gonna choose it, you know, right? Yeah, like I love

things I mean, so much. Yeah. Like, I, even if it was, you know, I feel like mom, like, why are you mad? We have so much in common. I know. Yeah. What's up, mom? What's the problem?

Yeah. We get it. You like dick. I like dick. We like dick. It's the same. Yeah. We can talk about this till we're blue in the face.

Let's have some drinks and talk about dick, mom. It's the same. Yeah. Dad, I ain't got nothing for you, but mom, I'm here. Yeah. Oh, God. So much in common. It's so great.

It's so great. I know. My little, one of my middle child, who's very young, she's like four years old, and the other day, she came home and she was washing her hands at the sink, and I was asking her how her day at camp was. I was saying, how's camp? And she goes, oh, it was great. And, you know, and I said, oh, that's great. She asked me and I said, how was your friend? And she goes,

oh, he was great. I'm going to marry him. And I said, oh, that's great. Whenever you choose to marry, you know, whenever you choose to get married, we'll have that. That'll be great. It'll be beautiful. It'll be wonderful. And she goes, daddy, did you know that sometimes a man marries a man and a woman marries a man, a woman? And I go, I did know that. There's lots of different combinations. Oh, I love that. And she goes, and I go, that's okay, right? And she said, yeah, that's okay. And I said, you don't choose who you love, you love who you love, and that's okay.

And she said, yeah, she goes, so if I marry a woman, no one's gonna be mad about it. And I said, no one here will be mad about it. I love that so much. Never was she's gonna be mad about it. And I said, no one here will be mad about it. I love that so much. Never was she's washing her hands. Yes. There you go. She's an ally. Yes.

She might be a part of the community. We don't know yet. We don't know. That is so yellow. She did a really good job. Well, listen, this is the first time we've ever had any of our children go down that road, right?

I mean, they see it on television and stuff like that, but they've identified it. And I just think it's so important to let them know that love takes many different forms and fashions and that they need to understand that it may not be their chosen path, but it doesn't have to be. If it's love and it's not hurting anybody, who really cares? It's not your business and you should be supportive of it. And move on. And if you choose to love a woman, then whatever.

I mean, I'm not that deep. Speaking of, what are you doing to celebrate the Pride month? That is like such a good question. I'm in San Diego right now, but I'm not here over Pride, which is like super upsetting. So I'm trying to figure out where I wanna go. Atlanta.

Atlanta's big. Atlanta, yeah. When? What's that? It is like the 17th or something. It's like two weeks from now. You have the snow. I think it's next weekend.

So it's, yeah, it's next weekend. But there's a huge celebration, huge. I love Pride. So my very first Pride was LA Pride, and it was so great. I had like a little organization I started back when I was in nursing school to end. At the time, there was a gay blood band where like gay men couldn't do their blood. So I started like this little movement to get the FDA to end that policy. So I rented out a tent and I put it up at LA Pride,

and I was like collecting petition signatures. I love that. So it was my first pride LA Pride and I was like collecting petition signatures, you know. I love that. So it was my first Pride experience and it was a bet. I love Pride. Last year I was at the parade in Seattle and then there was another one in Vancouver that we happened to run into as well and it's so much fun. I love it.

We love it, Ally. Yeah. I love that. I love that. Yeah, listen, I don't know why anybody gets upset about Pride or gay folks in their community. They are the best partiers. If you're going to have a party, go there. Pride is the craziest party I have ever been to, by the way.

We're the best. We carry everyone's personality on our backs. Fair enough. They should be thanking us. You know what I mean? 68 City Tour, you've been doing this for a while. What can we expect when we come to a Nurse Blake show? It's gonna be so fun. So this tour is, but did you die?

And whole new tour, all new material. Because patients, they'll be like, you didn't answer my call light in 60 seconds. No, like, but did you die? But did you die? Yeah. No, you didn't answer my call light in 60 seconds. No, like, but did you die? But did you die? Yeah. No, you didn't. I say that to my kids.

They stub their toe and I'm like, but did you die? You're not going to die. Yeah. But did you die? You know. I bet when you got your style, you're like, am I going to die? I know, exactly. It's literally the worst.

I am a baby. Let me see it. You can't. I put a compress on it so it's a little bit better. Yeah, you can see it if you're up close. It is. It's really red. How's your pain 0 to 10?

I would say this morning it was like a 6 or 7, but right now it's a 3 or 4 because I'm talking to her. A 6 or a 7. A 7 is like you got run over by a train. Oh, well then no. It was a 3 or 4. That's your scale. That's your definition. That's your definition.

That's your scale. Our scale. My scale is different. But you've seen people with their heads dislocated, right? I mean, so your version of pain is different than mine. Yeah, I broke my arm. Oh, you broke your arm. I broke my arm when I was a kid.

And I will tell you that that's something I will never forget. Oh, me too. I broke my leg. I fell out of a tree. I broke my arm. And we were of a tree. I broke my arm. And we were in like a 4th of July block party. And the block party went on and on and on.

And my parents put me to bed and I cried all night long. And it wasn't until the next day that they took me to the hospital to find out that I had a rather large fracture in my arm. And I'll never remember that very long night. And that to me is a 10, right? So if that's a 10, my STI was like, if that's my 10 my style was like if

that's my 10 then I would say the style is like three or four now it's like a two. Yeah there we go. Nurse Blake is teaching me how not to be a fucking baby. It's always the guys it's always like it's a nine I'm like okay so nine is Nine is like a pimple on the lip. Like, is that really, that's really painful. Yeah. Okay. Is it a nine? It's something when you ask like, what's your pain on scale zero to 10? They're like, it's 18.

I'm like, that's not the scale. That's not the scale. Zero to 10. Do you? So we get into all this shit during my tour. We talk about things that family members do, that patients do, and how we could really work together to make sure everyone's healthy and safe. We're going to the Nurse Blake show

here in Atlanta. We're going to go. We're going to be there because I just want to, now I like you and now I want to go and just see you do your thing. And I'll bring my brother. All the nurses. Bring the brother. I'll get you backstage. Okay. All right. that's a deal. Your people are calling my people. I love this, this is great. I say, if I'm coming to your city, all the nurses are going to be at my show.

So if you are in an emergency, they ain't going to be at the hospital. You better have the ambulance drop you off at the theater. At the theater! There have been, I have done some shows in cities, We better have the ambulance drop you off at the theater. At the theater! We'll take care of you there. There have been, I have done some shows in cities where the nurses are like, the hospital is texting us that they're doing like triple pay tonight

for people to come in. Oh really? No way. Really? No way, really. Because everybody wants off. Really? Uh-huh.

Everyone wants off. Everyone wants off. Well here's the question. Has anybody ever had a medical emergency during one of your shows? One. Was it a heart attack? Out of 250 shows, I'm in the middle of my show. I'm rocking my shit.

Yeah, you're in the zone. And then I hear, like, turn on the lights, turn on the lights. And I was just, like, turn on the lights, turn on the lights. And I was just, ah, fuck. But I think, you know, nurses, a thousand nurses, two thousand nurses in this theater, like, it's going to be good, right? Safest place you could be. But then you're like, everyone had how many Trulies? And then you're like, you know, a thousand, two thousand tipsy nurses, all trying to play the hero.

Yes. It was like, you know, the ear nurses are going in, checking her out, the person, so they're like, let's check her fucking pulse, is she fucking alive? And then they're like, the Peds nurses are like, this is an adult, like, we're just going to the bar. But she was fine. She was fine. She had had a little too much to drink. We were at a higher elevation. I was doing my show in Lake Tahoe. So she just got a little lightheaded and lost out a little bit. But I got off stage and I was down there with her. She woke up and she's like, Blake? She's like, am I in the hospital? Right. I don't work in a hospital. You're giving me great material. Yes. So thank you. Thank you so much. Also,

you're giving every other nurse on social media an idea about how they get Nurse Blake to come meet them personally, just drink too much and pass out. There was a flight I was on too, there was a medical emergency and it was so, I was ready, like, I'm like, if I save a life on a flight, people are gonna get their phones out, they're gonna be filming, I'm gonna be the fucking hero. So after they call, you know, do we have a medical? With a doctor on the phone, yeah.

They always do doctor and it's just like, can they say nurse? And they're like, do we have a dentist? Do we have a tire manager? Do we have a veterinarian they say nurse and they're like do we have a dentist? Like running down the aisle and I'm like, oh do I remember CPR like can I write right right? Bitch just had too many gums. Well, if you were on my flight, I'd feel much more comfortable because you, listen, regardless of whether or not you a hundred percent believe everything about medicine,

right? You have to admit, and I do, but you have to admit that the nurses and the doctors are the people, and the nurses are the front lines of this. They are the people that save our lives when we are having our worst day. And we- Absolutely.

We did not get into it for the money. No. Clearly. Yeah, you don't get into it for the money, you get into it because there's some deep, I gotta imagine, and you probably won't admit this, but I'll say it for you. There is some deeper, like, I do believe that nurses are like angels on earth. They are people who have a deep calling to help people. They're empathetic and they're

knowledgeable. They want to know what to do when someone is in real trouble. And so regardless of whether or not you believe in science, you should start believing because next time you have your worst day, you're not going to want one of these pastors telling you to drink ivermectin. You're going to want Nurse Blake there because he's the one who has the knowledge about how to save your life. We're just in it to help. I mean, that's why we're in it.

And I think nurses are a certain personality type, and I brought this up in the past. I think a lot of us have had traumatic experiences growing up in our lives that we kind of want to care for other people because we weren't necessarily cared for, right? So we kind of use it as a mechanism to like care for others. Right. And yeah, I mean, that's why I'm in healthcare, right, is to help other people, especially

those in the LGBTQ plus community. Them seeing me care for them, they're a little more comfortable, they're willing to share their story and be open and honest. Yeah, I can see that. Though I always push more diversity in healthcare as well. The people that work in the hospital should represent the people that live in that community. Yeah, safety and diversity. Yes.

We need more of it. Yeah. Well, I'll tell you a quick story before we let you go. I got a vasectomy because I have way too many children and I need to stop procreating. I'm too old for all that shit. So I got a vasectomy and on the day of my vasectomy, they lay me down on the table, they put a gown over me

and they cut out, they made a big hole in the middle of it where my, you know, fucking tiny little cock goes. And the doctor, the doctor is in there and he's telling me, okay, I'm gonna put you on nitrous and we're gonna give it a few minutes and the nurses will come in and they'll prep and then there it is. And as is always happens, Blake, the two hottest nurses in the world come in to look at my shriveled up dick while I'm hiding and they'll prep and then there it is. And as is always happens, Blake,

the two hottest nurses in the world come in to look at my shriveled up dick while I'm high on medication to prep my penis. But the good news was is I was high on nitrous oxide. So it didn't really matter. But I will tell you what, I respect nurses because no matter how many of them, and they always happen to be the hottest nurses in town,

that look at my penis when it's in its worst condition, they always act professional because that's what y'all do. They don't recoil away? No, they don't scream and holler. We've seen every size. I bet you've seen it all. We've seen, we've had to put condom catheters on the tiniest little, you know.

Micro penises. Micro-doll. Yeah, sneaking out of the shell. Like, we have done it all. Yeah, you've seen it all. Nurse Blake, you can find him on social media. All the relevant links are in the show notes. 68 City Tour, he's coming to Atlanta. I think we're already gonna make plans to go see him.

I'll bring my brother. We're gonna put him in gay conversion therapy too, but the other way, so that you can, so that you can get your rich AI CEO that you've been looking for. Enjoy your nomad life. We'll see you in a couple months. You are certainly welcome back here anytime. Yeah, seriously, contact us about Atlanta Pride.

Oh yeah, hell yeah, that'd be awesome. Yeah, that'd be great. Well, thank you for having me on. Thank you. Thank you, Rachel Blake. We appreciate it. Talk soon. Bye.

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Well I sure do like that guy. I know. I could have talked to him forever. Yeah, he's a ton of fun. I wish we had more time with him and hopefully he'll come back. We are definitely going to see Nurse Blake when he comes because because that's gonna be a fucking party. And how sad that he doesn't talk to his parents and all the gay conversion shit. I mean, honestly. And the fact that they're swingers doesn't correspond to me.

Does not compute in my head. You would think that swingers would be some of the most sexually liberal people. Open-minded. Yeah, I mean, his dad doesn't see dicks all the time. They're swinging. They're in a room full of other people having sex. I mean I don't know what kind of version of swinging they do, but you know what I'm

saying? Yeah. It seems a little weird to me. He seems a little off. Well that's sad, but it's good to know he's got family around him that does love him, and lots and lots of people out there adore Nurse Blake. Count me amongst one of them. I don't give a shit who you love.

It does not matter to me. It doesn't, no. Marry a turtle. I don't care. Yeah. Well, don't marry a turtle. That's taking it too far. But if you love a turtle, cool.

We one time talked about a lady who married a rollercoaster. And you know what? I don't give a shit. Marry that rollercoaster. That rollercoaster gives you good head. Go for it. Gives a shit. He's funny. He's extraordinarily successful. He's got his own cruise for God's sakes. You don't see the commercial break running around doing the commercial break cruise. Though I'd love to do that someday.

Yeah, we'll have to do it on the Margarita ship, the Margaritaville, the worst cruise line in America, quote unquote. By everybody's standards, it's the worst cruise line. But I think that's the kind of thing we'd have to rent out. They'd probably pay us to do it, actually. I would imagine. You mean we'd have to pay them? No.

They'd pay us because I don't think they're doing so well. They have one cruise ship and it's not good. It's not good. There's lots of, maybe someday we'll review a review of the Margaritaville cruise ship. Anyway, and those Carnival cruises are turning into craziness. I see videos all the time.

Carnival Cruise has turned into the party cruise for people who, like us, who have no money. So we need to go on a carnival cruise. All right, Nurse Blake's information is down below. Tickets to his tour. All the good stuff is right in the show notes. 212-433-3TCB, questions, comments, concerns, content, ideas.

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