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Speaker 1: Excited to have a comedy call today with Nurse Blake.
Speaker 1: He's doing his Shock Advised tour and this looks like
Speaker 1: a lot of fun. First of all, thank you for
Speaker 1: taking the time to chat. How long have you been
Speaker 1: doing stand up comedy.
Speaker 2: I've been even standing up for about four years now.
Speaker 2: I never thought when I got into nursing I would
Speaker 2: be doing comedy, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, But the thing that's cool. You do such a
Speaker 1: great job of taking what you do for like a
Speaker 1: pretty serious job. You know, think about nursing. That's a
Speaker 1: pretty serious job. But you find a way to share
Speaker 1: some stories and make it very lighthearted and fun. And
Speaker 1: I think that's necessary.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, nursing is one of the hardest jobs
Speaker 2: out there. We work twelve hours NonStop, don't even get
Speaker 2: key breaks or time for lunch. But I say, like
Speaker 2: nurses are probably some of the funniest people out there,
Speaker 2: because one of the ways we get through the shift
Speaker 2: is with our very dark, sometimes inappropriate humor. Because you're right,
Speaker 2: we see life, we see death, we see patients that
Speaker 2: put for breeze cans up their butt. I mean, we
Speaker 2: smell it, we cut it, and you know, we got
Speaker 2: to get through the shift with some lighthearted humor.
Speaker 1: Well, and I'm a stand up comic in Sioux Falls,
Speaker 1: and there's another comedian here who happens to be a nurse.
Speaker 1: His name is Joey, and so I get to hear
Speaker 1: kind of his perspective on things. And then the other
Speaker 1: thing that's cool when he comes to a show. A
Speaker 1: lot of his nurse friends come to the shows as well.
Speaker 1: So I think that there are a lot of nurses
Speaker 1: who go, you know what, I need to laugh because
Speaker 1: of the stuff I see every day. They just need
Speaker 1: to be able to take a little break and chuckle.
Speaker 2: Right, I'm telling you my shows they are so loud.
Speaker 2: These nurses are so ready to have a night out
Speaker 2: because they never get the chance to do it because
Speaker 2: most of the time when we put them pay time off,
Speaker 2: we get it denied. We don't even get vacations, so
Speaker 2: nurses they just call out, which is so funny. They
Speaker 2: come in party buses, they come in custom T shirts,
Speaker 2: they are allowed. They the first thing they do is
Speaker 2: they hit that liquor bar and they these theaters. I'm like,
Speaker 2: you better make sure you have enough back at tequila
Speaker 2: for my shows because these nurses, they they're dehydrated, so
Speaker 2: when they can.
Speaker 1: They're going to be heavily medicated by the end of
Speaker 1: the show. Just so you know, yes, they are. They are.
Speaker 1: You know, in addition to doing stand up comedy, you
Speaker 1: are a social media influencer and you're on all of
Speaker 1: these different platforms and you're doing some fun stuff on there.
Speaker 1: What made you decide to do that? And was that
Speaker 1: something that you were nervous at first? Because I'm wondering if,
Speaker 1: like the place where you work as a nurse, do
Speaker 1: they get upset that you're posting videos or do they
Speaker 1: not really care?
Speaker 2: Yeah, they definitely didn't like that. So I no longer
Speaker 2: you know a nurse in the hospital anymore because hrs
Speaker 2: want to prove me because you know, one thing I
Speaker 2: want to do is I love to advocate for nurses.
Speaker 2: So if ever a hospital is treating their staff that
Speaker 2: I am going to call them out. We are going
Speaker 2: to go on strike, you know, we're going to bring
Speaker 2: some light to the situation. So hospitals are definitely afraid
Speaker 2: to hire me because I'm very outspoken and I will
Speaker 2: make fun of them. But yeah, I started on social media.
Speaker 2: You know, like you said, nursing is a very hard job,
Speaker 2: and I just needed an outlet to kind of share
Speaker 2: my story and connect with other nurses. So back in
Speaker 2: twenty seventeen, I started posting videos on Facebook, and nurses
Speaker 2: around the world we're watching and comedy and sharing, and
Speaker 2: I realized that no matter if you're a nurse and
Speaker 2: you're up Australia, Canada, we all go through pretty much
Speaker 2: the same thing. So it was really cool to kind
Speaker 2: of build this community online and then realize that hey,
Speaker 2: nurses want more, they want to come out, they want
Speaker 2: to see me live, they want to connect with other nurses,
Speaker 2: and they started doing comedy.
Speaker 1: Shows and it's gone well one hundred and fifty city tour.
Speaker 1: That's pretty darn good man, it's pretty insane.
Speaker 2: It's really cool to see nurses kind of from all over,
Speaker 2: you know. I'll do a show wherever there's a hospital
Speaker 2: and there's pretty much a hospital everywhere.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely. And you had a chance recently to perform
Speaker 1: on the Netflix is a Joke Festival, and you know
Speaker 1: there's some huge names on there, Chelsea Handler, Chris Rock,
Speaker 1: I mean, and then Nurse Blake. How does it feel
Speaker 1: to be shoulder and shoulder with some of those gigantic
Speaker 1: names in comedy?
Speaker 2: You know, it's pretty awesome. You know, they all wanted
Speaker 2: to show me pictures of the rashes and I'm like, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: I'm not a nurse and I'm off the clock. I
Speaker 2: just I'm just doing my comedy show. So it's really
Speaker 2: fun to interact and engage with them and to kind
Speaker 2: of bring this new audience of nurses into, you know,
Speaker 2: the comedy space in the comedy world.
Speaker 1: So when people come out to a show and get
Speaker 1: a chance to see Nurse Blake, how different is what
Speaker 1: they see on stage from what they see on social media?
Speaker 1: Is it like night and day difference.
Speaker 2: You're going to get a lot more of me, braw
Speaker 2: and unfiltered, for sure. You know, I'm more vulnerable, I'm
Speaker 2: more honest, I'm more open. You're gonna get my whole
Speaker 2: story of growing up in Florida to my parents and
Speaker 2: just my wild family. I have down here to life
Speaker 2: a nursing school and life as a nurse. So it's
Speaker 2: definitely a more.
Speaker 1: Wrong personal And you're going to be in the neighborhood here,
Speaker 1: You're gonna be in Cedar Rapids, Iowa November seventh, and
Speaker 1: you're going to's gonna be in uh November two in Pueblo, Colorado,
Speaker 1: So we're kind of in between those two. So, like
Speaker 1: I was saying before we got on the air, I'm
Speaker 1: going to see if we can maybe route you through
Speaker 1: this area. But no matter what, it's worth the drive,
Speaker 1: even if you have to go a little ways to
Speaker 1: see him, it's going to be well worth the drive.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's going to be such an awesome night. You know,
Speaker 2: you don't have to be an help scare to come
Speaker 2: to my show. You probably your mom's probably a nurse,
Speaker 2: your a or you probably dated a nurse. And if
Speaker 2: you dated one of us, I'm so sorry because we
Speaker 2: are so toxic. We are red flag.
Speaker 1: Well, Nurse Blake, thank you for your time. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Thanks Sean, appreciate it again.
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