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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Who's homes.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I mean, we've seen some photos there whoa and there's
people now got video of it coming right down the street.
It's gonna be sunny and breeze today with the high
of seventy five. It is fifty two right now, joining
us back again. I guess you call them the world's
most famous famous nurse.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Nurse blake. What's going on? Not much?
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Thanks so much for having me back.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Yes, I'm afraid to talk about our little cruise around yours.
You know, we're happy. We're gonna give about you know,
three hundred you got the whole boat.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
We got the whole ship. Yeah, over three thousand nurses. Yeah,
anyone's hang out with you. It's so fun. Yeah, it's
a blast.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Really.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
So what I've been doing since the last time we
talked to you. You know, I took my first ever
solo trip. I never get to take vacation. I'm always
so busy, but I hopped on a plane and went
to Portugal and Marrakesh, Morocco.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
We say, solo, just by yourself, just.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
By myself, are you?
Speaker 5 (00:50):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (00:50):
It was great. I got out of a really long relationship.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Uh huh.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
I was with somebody since I was nineteen and I
think thirty three now, and I'm like, you know what,
I'm gonna take my first trip solo for It was
a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
How was that?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
I would I mean, you know, being in a relationship
as long as you were in and then just go
travel to another country by yourself.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
How was that?
Speaker 3 (01:10):
I got to do whatever I wanted to do.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
You know. It was so I didn't have to think
about no one else but myself. So I got to
be selfish for a little bit. It was so worth it.
I really got to be in my own head. Yeah wow.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
And my ex he had allergies and that's so annoying.
You know, Oh I'm allergic to shellfish. We can't go
to red lobster Like shut up, Like, you know what,
I want to do what I want to do.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
You know what I mean? I'm alerning to excursions.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Oh no, that's it. Work to your service.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
I go to I go to all inclusive, five stars.
Give me a combana. I'm good, Hey, you deserve it.
Work hard. For years, For years, I was.
Speaker 6 (01:57):
Going to ask you when you were in the other countries,
did they wreck? Did some people recognize you?
Speaker 2 (02:01):
You know what?
Speaker 7 (02:02):
No?
Speaker 3 (02:03):
And it was so nice. I kind of like unplug
and yeah, I was on a flight. It was long.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
It's like fourteen hours, and I always think a long
flight there's going to be a medical emergency.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Yeah, but there wasn't.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Really, well, there might have been, but I was listening
to music and watching movies the whole time, so I
probably couldn't hear.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
But yeah, it was. It was great.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
I highly recommend all of you out there, especially nurses.
You deserve a trip. You deserve a vacation, and if
you could take it solo, take it solo.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Now are you still touring?
Speaker 3 (02:32):
I actually I announced my tour at the end of
the month.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Really I do.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
I'm gonna do another one hundred shows. Is that just
us or that'll be international? Okay, yeah, you come to Florida,
right obviously in Florida.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Yeah, it's going to be called but did you die?
Speaker 6 (02:49):
That?
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Did you die?
Speaker 4 (02:50):
So?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Your your comedy, I mean, your thing is you know
the ins and out of being a nurse in the profession,
and you talk about stuff that that nurses will just
roll on the floor and everybody's like that happens.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
It's true.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
You know.
Speaker 6 (03:05):
One thing I will never forget is when you told
us last time that nurses can't have like what is
it drinks like at the drink Like, you can't have drinks, water,
anything water.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
A lot of nurses don't get lunches. So you're working
twelve thirteen hours, can't have water out, can't get a break.
Nurses are being hit on. Yeah, okay, not hit on,
hit on like you. But physically where are y'all when
I hit that little button? Oh Dang'm not drinking water,
not having a break. We're probably getting beat on by
(03:37):
the patient next door.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Johnny's if he's on.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Plane, like it's a game show, like get out of here.
Speaker 6 (03:52):
And then you come in and he's just like, oh,
can I get up another pillow?
Speaker 3 (03:55):
You can't. It's a five star?
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Yeah, can I get one of them juice boxes? I'm
talking about.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
The age is for hospital, not hotel. Johnny.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Well, y'all should have a little something for me to
read before I go. Win now, so I know what
I can and can I do? All right, stop ringing
that damn but so much.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Please, I'm gonna unplug yours.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Yours.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
No, I'm a good patient because I just want to
get out of there. You go, That's what he im
tell you something. I always say this about nurses, and
we show them a lot of love on our show.
Is that a good nurse? I mean it makes the
whole experience for yourself and your family so much better
because you know, you leave your family and loved ones,
you know they're in good hands and stuff like that.
But there's some as you know that every profession.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Oh yeah, too, good ones.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Some names around here.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
I get names too.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
I worked at two of the large systems here in Orlando,
saying I know everybody.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
All right, So what we wanna do is we have
a cruise to give away, and Nurse Blake tell him
about tell I say, well, we're gonna take a break
and then we'll come back and then we'll talk about
the cruise. And I want to make sure we hook
up a nurse because because you have to pretty much
be in the health field to get in get on
your cruise, right, yeah, all right, when we come back,
Nurse Blake will talk about nurses. You need to listen up.
(05:20):
Call your friends and listen up. We'll tell you how
you get a trip on his cruise. Next on Johnny's House,
he's either higher seventy five. Last time, we checked. It
is fifty two. We have Nurse Blake that is joining us.
Gonna hang out for the next hour, so I'll tell
everybody about your cruise, and how can he because I
want I'll tell you. Let me set up. We're gonna
give away one of his cruises. If you are a nurse,
you're gonna call right now and then I'm gonna be
(05:42):
the worst patient you ever had, and you're gonna have
to tell how you're gonna handle me. Okay, and the
best one Nurse Blake will give you, give you a
cabin on his cruise. Four oh seven now one nine
one o six seven eight seven seven nine one nine
one on six seven nurses only all right, when is
your cruise?
Speaker 1 (06:01):
When does it set sol.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
April seventh through the eleventh out of Miami.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Okay, and tell us about it. Four nights. It's the
Ultimate nursing conference. We do education theme nights. It's a
nineties cruise, so all our theme nights are based around
the nineties. The throwback. We got drag shows, I got
my comedy show. We do nurse Feud and it's just
a blast. Nurses love it.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Now, how can you like you use that to get
off work because of the conferences you have on the
on the boat because you're learning.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Yeah, we got to it and sometimes a lot of
hospitals will reimburse you to come party with me on
the cruise. Really is we do education, so we bring
on like twenty nurse educators and we have classes all day,
then parties all nights.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
And this is you guys have the whole boat. We
have the whole show. My goal with just to have
half the boat. And we're close to them. Are you
talking about how about you?
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Like three thousand Yeah, over three thousand nurses.
Speaker 6 (06:50):
I just love it because the nurses can like have
a break obviously, let loose and I saw some of
the videos and they go wild.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
They go why and it's nurses of all ages, which
I think is so cool, Like it's so diverse, it's
so inclusive.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Everyone has a blast.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
And we've had people come on now all five of
ours really, so we call them frequent flyers. So that's
a patient that keeps coming back for the Turkey sandwich.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Now I'm in a relationship, but I do like nurses
and I have a party on that boat.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Like what profession you in?
Speaker 2 (07:18):
I'm in the radio all right, So we have go ahead,
push tab on the fourth and one that we're going
to go through. All right, So we have four nurses
on hold, all right, and I'm going to be the
worst patient you ever had. And let's go with contestant
number one. Hi, Lorraine, how are you?
Speaker 5 (07:39):
I'm good? How are you?
Speaker 1 (07:40):
And how long have you been a nurse?
Speaker 7 (07:42):
For five years?
Speaker 1 (07:46):
What do you love most about your profession?
Speaker 5 (07:51):
I work in germantology meta memory care.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Okay, and.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
You know it's we're all going to get there someday.
And some of the stories that come out and you
have to go into their reality, yes, and it's funny.
I mean I get paid for comedy, Okay, I don't
have to go to what I love Nurse Blake, don't
get me wrong, But some of the things that come out.
I mean, I had a lady who had an abortion,
(08:16):
wanted an abortion. She says, how much was it? I says, well,
you're sixty five Medicaid twenty ninety five?
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Wow, nurse? All right?
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Well, well, Lorraine, you work in the hospital and I'm
a patient, okay, and I just hit that bothering and
you're coming over and you asked me, what can I
do for you.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
So go ahead and Lorraine, Hey, Johnny, what's up?
Speaker 5 (08:38):
What can I do to you? Range the value?
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Okay, yeah, you know what. You seem pretty cool. Take
me outside so I get a smoke.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
Yeah, no, nice, try you're gonna get a smoke.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
The lady down the hall said that Lorraine would take
you outside to get a smoke.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
Yeah. Well the lady down the hall lie to you.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Very good, Lorraine. All right, you got that. You got
that one, Blake, I got that one. We'll put you
on hold and when you go and talk to Bridget
High Bridget.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Good morning, good morning.
Speaker 8 (09:14):
How are you.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Good, Bridging? How long have you been a nurse?
Speaker 8 (09:18):
It'll be ten years next year?
Speaker 1 (09:19):
And what do you love about your profession?
Speaker 8 (09:22):
So I actually work in pediatric oncology okay, okay, And
I just love my kids and my families, and even
through the hard days that I have kids that really
show me that the world can be a great place
with the right people.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
See what I'm talking about, one of those nurses that
were born to do the job. You can hear it
in your voice. You can get a passion in your voice,
and I love that.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
But today I.
Speaker 8 (09:50):
Really do love my job. Even on the hard days.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
But today I'm your worst patient. Are you ready? Bridget sure?
Speaker 8 (10:02):
Hey, Johnny, how can I help you? Hon?
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Hey, listen? Can I sneak my girlfriend? The hell of
a night?
Speaker 2 (10:09):
No?
Speaker 8 (10:10):
Unfortunately, you can't.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Bridge bridge bridge. I'm looking around.
Speaker 8 (10:13):
Ain't nobody, nobody can't stay in bed with you?
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Look, ain't nobody around here. I'll tell you what. Just
don't check on me for about three hours.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
Yeah, well, unfortunately, Johnny, you're on a monitor.
Speaker 8 (10:26):
Oh, we'll be able to see what's been going on.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
So I'm that's gonna be hard.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Now hard? No, very good? All right, you hold on
a second. You hold on a second. Boy, he's nursing.
They sound sleep, They looked sweat. Yeah wow, all right,
let's talk to Sherry.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Hey, Sherry, how are you?
Speaker 9 (10:49):
I'm good?
Speaker 5 (10:49):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (10:50):
And Sherry? How long have you been a nurse?
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Hello?
Speaker 9 (10:53):
Nineteen eighty I went from an LPN to an RN.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
All right, since? And what do you love most about
your profession?
Speaker 9 (11:02):
A patient advocate?
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Okay?
Speaker 9 (11:04):
I love my patience. I work hard for them, and
as a manager, I look out for them. I work
as a manager and I have a lot of clinical nurses.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
Be with me.
Speaker 9 (11:15):
So it's a I've teaching a lot of training and uh,
I guess i'd definitely a patient advocate.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Very good again, boy, you can hear that. You can
hear that, that kindness in your voice.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Even though she's a manager, you can you can hear
the kindness.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
You're right, nurse? All right, sarey are you ready?
Speaker 9 (11:34):
I'm ready?
Speaker 1 (11:35):
All right.
Speaker 9 (11:39):
Good morning, mister Johnny. How are you doing today? Hey,
I can help you.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
With Yeah, absolutely, Shay. Listen, I've been here for three
days and this food is horrible.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Listen.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
I'll give you one thousand dollars cash if you go
get me some wings.
Speaker 9 (11:53):
What are you looking forward to having?
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Johnny? I want chicken wings and I need them from
Uh yeah, I need some from Buffalo. If you can
go down there and get them for me, I'll give
you one thousand dollars.
Speaker 9 (12:04):
Well high cholesterol, I don't know about.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
So why we got to bring kolesterol? Because she's looking
out for them.
Speaker 9 (12:13):
I know your labs, I know no chicken wings today.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
For a thousand dollars, I will take you to get wings.
Go get a smoke and you can tonight.
Speaker 9 (12:25):
You have family and they have bags.
Speaker 6 (12:28):
Wow, y'all are good, so you can't take money under
the tables.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Wow, No, y'all.
Speaker 8 (12:37):
Are good, good, good.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
You are awesome. You hold on a second.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
These they are man and last but not least, Candy, Hey, Candy.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
How are you?
Speaker 7 (12:50):
I'm good? Are you?
Speaker 1 (12:51):
And how long have you been a nurse?
Speaker 7 (12:53):
Thirteen years?
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Thirteen? What do you love about your profession?
Speaker 9 (12:57):
I like to growth.
Speaker 7 (12:58):
There's so many opportunities. I started as a nurse and
I'm a nurse practitioner and a nurse educator.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
She's smart, she's smart and smart. All right, are you
ready for this?
Speaker 5 (13:10):
Make it?
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Are you ready?
Speaker 7 (13:14):
Ready?
Speaker 3 (13:17):
I love it?
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Hi?
Speaker 7 (13:18):
Your call latives on Johnny?
Speaker 9 (13:19):
What do you need?
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Hey Candy, listen, I've been here for a day. All
my vitals are good. Can I leave?
Speaker 7 (13:28):
Why do you want to leave?
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Because the food is horrible? They won't let me get
a smoke and they won't let my girlfriend spend.
Speaker 7 (13:39):
I think it's in your best interest to stay.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
That's nice.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Well, co hand and sign these papers so I can
get out of here.
Speaker 7 (13:46):
Oh, I mean, we have forms and you can cut
an a M A form and I can disconnect. You
take your IV out and you're free to go if.
Speaker 8 (13:52):
You like, but I can't guarantee you and drop.
Speaker 7 (13:56):
Dead at the door.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
She said, good luck.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Why are we gonna bring death into luck?
Speaker 5 (14:06):
Well, if you may, that could happen.
Speaker 7 (14:09):
I'm not gonna be liable, but I am more than
one to let you go.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Wow, this ain't no joke.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
That's a nurse practitioner.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
She got other patients, all right, Blake, So on you
you had Lorraine, who's been in the game forty five years.
You have a bridget pediatric she's been for ten. You
have Sherry forty five years, and then you had Candy.
Which one is going on the nurse Blake crew.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
I love all of you and out there, but I
think we should give it to Lorraine.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
She said.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
The other nurse was Lion and Lorraine has been a
nurse for forty five years. She said, she works in geriatrics.
But girl, you're about to be Jerry. Let's get you
on this ship.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Loraine.
Speaker 5 (14:54):
Congratulations, Thank you, and yes I know I'm almost a jerryatic.
Speaker 7 (15:00):
Know.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Lorraine, You're awesome.
Speaker 5 (15:01):
I kill it.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Wait to see you on the cruise. You're going to
have a blast. You deserve it.
Speaker 8 (15:05):
You are awesome, My god, thank you are.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
You going to be able to get off work.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
Yes, I'm very good at pretending to be sick or emergency.
One time, one time I needed a couple of days off,
so I said one of my husbands, ex cousins, relatives
was dead, and I got the bereavement pay.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
You're on the radios, but she's almost retired.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Let it out.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
You deserve this.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
Here's the thing. When you get to the certain age,
what are they going to do? So, are you right?
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Exactly? Exactly.
Speaker 5 (15:40):
A nurse is like a prostitute. We can get a
job at any corner.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
That's true.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
That is true.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
Lorraine is the vibe I love you, and that's how
she's getting on.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
This ship right now.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
The nurses all around the city laughing. Yeah, all right,
loraen you hold on a second. In Bridget and Candy
and all you guys. Thank you for being good sports
on the radio.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Thank you everyone.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
All right, right, let's go ahead, let's do this.