!Please Remain Calm!

A 14 year old boy collapses on a baseball field. His stepmom calls 911, where she's given instructions on how to give CPR, which she relays to the boys mother, who starts chest compressions. What happens in those life or death moments when you're waiting for paramedics to arrive? We're joined by LAFD Firefighter Melissa Galleano who is assigned to the Metro communications division of the department. Melissa explains how Metro works, then gives a detailed breakdown of this amazing 911 call she worked as we listen to the tape. We also have LAFD Engineer Paramedic Trey Glennon who was driving the fire engine but was the first paramedic on scene. We get a full breakdown of the most intense call you can have as a paramedic, a pediatric full arrest. Plus a shining example of people who remained calm & worked together to save this boy. Not just the FD, the moms on scene who did perfect bystander CPR and saved their son. This episode is full of info of what you can do when calling 911, or taking a 911 call.

For the 1st time ever we're joined by a blood relative as our cousin Nick Chavez talks about his job as the supply chain chief for the biggest hospital in San Antonio, Texas. We learn all about the challenges that a supply chain chief faces, & why every single one is really important to the entire hospital staff as well as the patients. He compares it to working at NASA mission control during Apollo 13. We learn how the supply chain was severely impacted by covid at a time when supplies were needed the most, and the lengths Nick had to go to to ensure every single staff member was protected, not just dcotors and nurses. We also get a first hand account of Snowvid, the great Texas cold snap that cut off power for days to millions of people. We also explain why Nick is actually the biggest celebrity in the family & why he was on tv before Danny or Ben.

Ryan Talmo is a comedy workaholic who has hosted more hours of LA open mics and bar shows than nearly anyone in the past 7 years. He even kept on hosting shows while battling stage 3 Hodgkins Lymphoma for over a year. He talks to us about the whole ordeal. From early denial, to 12 rounds of chemo. From suicidal thoughts, to meeting his fiancee & having a baby after being told it was not possible for him after cancer. Now armed with a new lease on life, & a new comedy album, recorded whilst going thru chemo ("My Lymphoma"). Talmo's positive attitude on life and fatherhood fill this episode with a warm fuzzy feeling, as well as inside info on the LA comedy scene, being a new dad & stepdad after beating cancer, & what colors your bodily fluids change to during chemo. Get this episode checked right away.

Ed Zubia worked 2 multiple year stints as a paramedic in a Federal Prison complex (FCC Victorville) & he tells us ALL about it. What does a prison medic do? How dangerous is it to be the only guy with pain meds & needles with hundreds of federal convicts? How do you make Pruno? How do the prisoners keep the peace? Why soap on the ground is dangerous, nortenos, surenos, & MORE. We even get a real prison break story AND Danny explains how a cartel kingpin tried a SWAT style "a million bucks to whoever breaks me out" thing in Downtown LA. This episode just got out.

We have former NCAA Division 1 baseball player Adrian Nevarez (Loyola Marymount) who may be the only person in the history of sports to ever have half of their quadriceps muscle literally ripped out of their leg during batting practice. You read that right. He left practice with less leg than he started with. We learn how this happened & how you recover from a devastating injury that ends the career you've worked your whole life toward. The mental and physical strength it takes to make it all the way back. We also learn about the Mexican horse scene in LA, dating Miss Universe, performing at a huge live event in a major drug cartel city, college baseball life, chill medics, & more. There's even yet another Danny ride along story. This episode has it all, except that piece of leg.

We discuss current LA events & problems with homelessness & the police that came to a head last week in Echo Park Lake. We give the backdrop to this showdown between cops & citizens trying to block a homeless sweep. Danny weighs in with his experience working in areas with a big homeless population, & we offer causes as well as possible solutions. We also clear up some online misinformation about the event, & look at how easily and quickly it can spread. We also talk about how homeless sweeps work, & when they don't, how these huge encampments pop up, & where everyone comes from. This episode doesn't have an emergency story, just an emergency situation.

For the 1st time ever we have a patient that Danny helped on a 911 call. Richard Trapp was at the end of his rope, struggling with alcohol, ballooning to 427 pounds before his body broke down and anasarca caused him to swell up to 727 pounds in a matter of days!. That's when he called 911 and crossed paths with Danny, who had to figure out how to get a 727 lb man, who could not move on his own, down from a 2nd story apartment and into an ambulance. This is an amazing story where Danny doesn't just say what he would've done, he says what he actually did to get Richard to the ER and save his life. He goes from multi organ failure and 727 pounds, to running a marathon in 2 years. We get the whole story of what led to this moment, how important friendship and hope are, & the story of how Danny and Richard were reunited to bring him onto our show. This story is full of ups and downs and the importance of never giving up. Its a marathon.

Stand up comedian and Licensed Vocational Nurse Michelle Stevenson (Buzzfeed) joins us to talk about what an LVN is and does and what it was like to work in Covid units in LA County nursing homes during the summer surge. We also get into case management, discharge planning, and all these other aspects of nursing that aren't talked about much. Plus, an inside look at how quickly Covid took over a major LA area hospital where she worked, & the effects of working long hours with so many negative outcomes each day. We discuss people still not taking Covid seriously, the winter surge, delayed funerals, PPE, lots of death, & even some comedy.