🚑 Lights, Sirens & Real Sh*t
🎙️ The podcast for the ones still showing up.
EMS is beautiful and brutal. It’s sweat, diesel fumes, and emotional damage — and we keep coming back for more.
Nobody prepares you for the burnout. Nobody tells you how to process your fifth dead body in a week, how to laugh through the darkness, or how to get some damn sleep after trying to save a kid.
This is where we talk about all of it.
✅ Burnout & mental health
✅ Black humor & survival tips
✅ Real calls & stories (HIPAA-safe, of course)
✅ Side hustles & exit strategies
✅ And everything you really think at 0630 when dispatch drops another call.
No sugarcoating. No BS. Just real talk for medics, EMTs, firefighters, and anyone who’s lived this life — or wants to know what it’s really like.
Follow along and ride the rig with us.
🚑 Lights, Sirens & Real Sh*t
The Partners Who Saved My Sanity
EMS will break you if you don’t have good partners — and I’ve been lucky enough to have some ride-or-dies who’ve saved my sanity shift after shift. In this episode, I share the wildest, funniest, and most unforgettable moments I’ve had with my EMS partners:
🚑 The patient who jumped out of the back of my ambulance mid-transport
😂 The time I asked for “the thing” during a pediatric call and my partner somehow knew I meant the Broslow tape
🔥 Working an 8+ hour interstate crash with semis exploding all around us
🌅 Watching more sunrises and sunsets with my partners than my family
💀 …and of course, the dark humor story of how I became the so-called “Moped Killer”
This job will make you laugh, cry, or both in the same shift. And sometimes, it’s your partner in the jump seat that makes all the difference.
⚠️ Disclaimer: These are my own personal stories and opinions — not the views of my employer.