Feb. 3, 2026

Code 3 (2025) Why Burnout Breaks Good People | Film Deep Dive

Aaron and Brash delve into the film Code 3, exploring its themes of burnout, passion, and the systemic issues faced by EMS workers. They discuss the characters, particularly Randy and Jessica, and how their experiences reflect the challenges of working in emergency services. The conversation highlights community reactions, character analyses, and the emotional toll of the job, ultimately emphasizing the need for compassion and structural change in the system.

Takeaways
Code 3 illustrates the impact of chronic stress on passion.
Burnout is a significant issue for EMS workers.
The film portrays the systemic failures in emergency services.
Randy's character embodies the struggle between passion and burnout.
Jessica's perspective evolves as she learns from Randy.
Community feedback highlights the film's emotional resonance.
The importance of recognizing the humanity in EMS workers.
The film critiques the romanticized view of heroism in first responders.
Compassion and structural support are essential for caregivers.
The narrative emphasizes the need for systemic change in healthcare.

Chapters
00:00 Introduction to Code 3 and Its Themes
01:11 Synopsis of Code 3
03:16 Community Reactions and Insights
04:17 Character Analysis: Randy and His Struggles
08:59 The Role of Jessica and Her Perspective
15:12 The Impact of Systemic Issues on EMS Workers
19:26 The Emotional Toll of the Job
26:12 The Complexity of Care in Emergency Services
33:10 Concluding Thoughts on Passion and Burnout

Why This Episode Matters

Code 3 resonates because it gives language to an experience many people feel but rarely feel permitted to name. It reminds us that exhaustion is often evidence of care, not weakness, and that empathy cannot survive without rest, safety, and support.

This conversation is for anyone who has felt themselves hardening just to get through the day.

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00:00 - Welcome And Episode Focus

01:10 - Code 3 Synopsis And Tone

03:20 - Community Reactions And Ratings

05:05 - Underpaid And Undervalued EMS

08:30 - Passion Versus Burnout In Randy

12:00 - Jessica’s View Shifts To Respect

16:45 - “Mr President” And Police Tension

21:40 - The Baseball Save And Its Cost

26:00 - Who Cares For The Carers

29:10 - Eye Injury Scene And Teaching

33:20 - Dr Serrano And System Pressure

37:30 - Nursing Home Call And Dark Humour

41:00 - Major Crash And Public Indifference

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If you've ever loved a job so much it nearly broke you, Code 3 will be one of the most relatable movies you watch this year.

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Welcome to the Phantom Portals Podcast, a podcast that proves that your favorite film has something to teach you.

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If you want more from the movies you watch, you're in the right place.

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I'm your host, Aaron, a teacher and a film fan, and I am joined by Brash.

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Hello, Brash.

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Hello.

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How are you going here today?

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Well yourself.

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Not too bad.

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Not too bad at all.

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This week on the podcast, we are looking at the impact of stress, burnout, and how that impacts passion as part of our deep dive into Code 3, starring Rain Wilson, Amy Carrero, and Lil Ray Howlry.

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Howlery?

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Correct me, Brash.

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How do you say it?

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Howrie, isn't it?

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Howrie, yes.

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Brash, Code 3 was one of your best movies of 2025 when we did our summary episode at the end of last year.

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So without any further ado, do you want to give us your synopsis of Code 3?

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This will be short and sweet.

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So here it goes.

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Code 3 follows a team of urban paramedics over the course of a single shift where urgency is routine and crisis is just part of the workflow, running lights and sirens from one call to the next.

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The crew responds to overdoses, domestic incidents, and mental health emergencies that rarely resolve cleanly.

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There are no big speeches or triumphant saves, just fast decisions, procedural calm, and a steady undercurrent of fatigue.

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Conversations drift between clinical shorthand, mild irritation, and dry humor.

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That services less as comedy than as self-defense.

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The film keeps us distance from melodrama, letting the repetition do the work.

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Each core bleeds into the next, showing how exposure to constant emergencies flattens emotional responses without fully erasing them.

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Compassion remains, but it's rationed, practical, and often expressed in the smallest gesture.

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Code three is ultimately about persistence rather than heroism.

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When the shift ends, nothing is fixed, nothing is resolved, and tomorrow will bring the same calls.

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The only real measure of success is making it through the night and being able to shop again tomorrow.

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Very true.

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And I think the surprising thing to me when I watched this was the fact that it is ongoing.

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Like you can see the stressful situations that these characters are in on a daily basis through their 24-hour shift.

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The characters of Randy, played by Rain Wilson, Mike, played by Lilwell Howrie, and Jessica, who is their ride-along, played by Amy Carrero, who is a critical role native.

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That's how I first saw her, anyway.

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But I also found out she did some voice acting roles in like She-Ra and a couple of things like that on Netflix.

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So she's been getting around the Hollywood tracks too.

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But yeah, really surprising to the point where I made my takeaway for this movie, my most valuable takeaway, that passion can keep you serving others, but chronic stress turns passion into burnout when a system treats you as expendable instead of essential.

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So I think that theme is rife throughout the movie, especially looking at the character of Randy talking about his stress.

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We can always see that undertone of his passion going through.

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I'll jump into our fandom pulse here, and then I'll get you to have a little bit of a chat to us about Randy Brash, because he is a very enamoring character.

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So our fandom pulse is where we listen to your community voice guys.

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We put up posts on our threads, Instagram, and also our Discord.

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And today, our fandom pulse comes from Isaac Edland, a very good friend from the Infinity Bros podcast.

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And on his letterbox, when he reviewed this movie, he said that it was a love letter to paramedics and EMS workers, and it hit him way harder than it expected.

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Across the board as well, when we put out our votes and polls, uh, on average, this one landed a 4.5 out of 5 across our entire communities.

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Very well liked and under unsung as well, I'll say brash.

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I thoroughly enjoy this movie.

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Most things I've seen, or most reviews, or most of the things I've seen, people have liked it.

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I think I saw someone had rated it one out of ten.

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Oh, okay.

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And that like, yeah, that one kind of shocked me a little bit.

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But um, yeah, no, otherwise, like otherwise I've like it's got pretty raving views for like a movie that like I think, yeah, it definitely fell on the radar, and I think like even I like sort of saw it and I didn't watch it for uh maybe like three or four weeks.

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And then finally I was like, you know what, I got some time, I might watch this movie.

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And then I watched it and I was like, why'd I wait so long?

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It it really sort of hits you in like in the feels a little bit and makes you think about how the life of the paramedic really is.

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Because this script was co-wrote by an actual paramedic.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Patrick Pianesa is is their name.

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And they yeah, they wrote it for college, and somebody told him, write what you know, and yeah, he definitely did.

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All the actors went through paramedic training and were coached on site by actual paramedics.

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Yes, like I wouldn't say it's over the top, or but it's definitely not hasn't been Hollywoodized, Hollywoodized, as most like movie has, like it hasn't been taken and completely made over the top.

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It may seem seem ridiculous to most people who don't know, but like some of the stuff they like the the calls they go to in this movie, I reckon are pretty tame compared to like even what real paramedics have to go through and have to see on a daily basis.

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And I think that's a powerful message that comes through, and the fact and one of my favorite parts parts of the movie is when at the very start, when it shows all the yearly gross amount uh the yearly amount that everyone makes of the earnings.

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It starts starts with like the doctor and then goes all the way down, then goes like the janitor, and then even under the janitor is the paramedics, and I'm like, like that for me is like like shocking to see.

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I know.

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In blaring red numbers across the screen, too.

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It was all it's one of those like cinematic cinematography features that they use to just show how well financially disrespected these EMSs are, but also these throughout the movie you see that they're also disrespected in society as well.

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So you could like when they park at the the coffee shop to get their their discount because uh because they're not licensed.

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They're not heroes.

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Yeah, it's like we have to police all the fire, yeah.

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Exactly.

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And then even the guy coming and complaining about the way they park because ambulance drivers often park across two or three spaces, and like Rain Wilson's character, Randy, says, We park this way, so we need to leave in case of an emergency occurs.

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And then the the citizen passing by just said, you know, get a real job.

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I was like, how much more real can you get?

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It's just insane.

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But I think it's reflective of like the society.

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Obviously, we live here in Australia, so our healthcare system is very different to uh what it is like in America, but we do have a lot of American listeners, so we can definitely sympathize with you guys.

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And we know that this shows how broken the system can be, especially when it comes to like healthcare insurance.

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And I know I've seen it rife through all hospital and medical procedural shows where insurance and healthcare is determining how much care you get.

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And that's insane to me to think about, especially on a human level.

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Like one human that goes into a job to help people, and Amy Carrero's character of Jessica says this, I did this because I want to save lives, and I think that's universal across the field because nobody wants to get into like paramedic work or doctor's work if they don't have that kind of compassionate vein in their body.

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And the fact that they're so like downtrodden and stressed and burnt out to the point that they're not only being treated foully by people in their everyday life, but even by their co-workers and their uh associates, because you see it from Dr.

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Serranto or Serrano and Randy as well.

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They're constantly at war.

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And the tension in this movie builds and builds and builds and builds through each call until eventually everybody gets to breaking point.

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And I think that's the message that this screenwriter wanted to portray is that these EMS workers, you know, underpaid, underappreciated, they're going through chronic stress, and it's definitely the system that treats them as expendable instead of essential.

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So, and Randy goes through the motions of it as well, because we'll go back to talking about Randy now as the main character of this story, because he's this character that's got this passion, but he's under so much pressure in this broken system.

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Like, I don't think Randy hates being a paramedic.

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I think code three shows how he hates what the system has turned him into.

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And I think Jessica coming onto the scene and being a student in the paramedic field, watching him, she gets a very jaded view and opinion of him to start with.

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Oh, yeah, 100%.

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Like, I so one of my like actually one of my favorite characters in this movie is Amy Career's Jessica.

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Like I thought she did a fantastic job.

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And I think seeing his jaded and getting a jaded view of him at the very start, it's not until and you can sort of see it throughout the entire movie where you can see Jessica or Amy Cure's character sort of pick up on the like just the stress, and then like as they go through the jobs and she sees like what their day-to-day is actually like, you can see it sort of switching in her, and she s starts instead of like seeing him as a like uh just a dog just a dick who uh hates his job, sees like just she can see the paramaker that he probably used to be that's just been smothered and beaten and broken, and throughout, I think, especially it was sort of towards the like especially towards the end, she sort of is able to sort of clear all of his debris off of his broken corpse and sort of bring it bring him back to life a little bit.

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Yeah, and I think she definitely tries to do that when a few of the calls go wrong, because Randy is a character that's very hard on himself, but at the start you do see him acting really sarcastically.

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And I don't think his sarcasm is attitude, I think it's like scar tissue because as Mike says through the movie, Randy's partner, he says you've got to kind of build up a wall because otherwise the the sensitive nature of this job will get to you.

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And that's really hard to do, especially in an occupation where your primary directive is to offer care and support.

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And I know that it's it's very much like it reframes that cynicism as a language of burnout because Randy even says, like, after he gets that needle stick injury and he has that seven day off, everyone's like, Did you enjoy your holiday?

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And he goes, Yeah, love having, you know, chemo without the cancer.

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It's great because he had to actually go through the rehabilitation process for that same treatment.

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And he goes to his his officer, Shanice, and says, You have to take me off rotation.

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I'm burnt out, I'm stressed.

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And he actually is extremely vulnerable in this moment.

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And he goes, I am not okay.

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And Shanice says, Matt, you're on you're on number 42 with Mike.

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She's like, get out there and keep it.

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Sorry, well, we're on the staff, you're with Mike.

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Yeah, exactly.

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And you know, you might say that's like a cruelty in the system, but I feel like Shanice is also under the pressure from her uppers in in that sort of moment as well.

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Like she's she knows what the life is like.

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She's she's rode with Randy so many times because they have that history as well.

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And yeah, Yvette Nicole Brown, who plays Shanice.

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I fucking love Yvette Nicole Brown.

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I love it when she gets on the phone, mate.

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That is so good.

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So, but like I when she's on the phone, like I sort of picked up her character from community.

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Yep.

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Yeah.

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Like her character is a bit is a bit more wholesome in community, but it has that sort of same sort of like fastiness to it as well.

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That sass, and I'm I'm here for it.

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No, she was really good.

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I I I really liked that quote by Rain Wilson Randy in the very first line of the movie, when, or one of the very first lines, where he says, you you have to be their best friend on their worst day.

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And, you know, people don't call you on your on their best days, and you have to have a bad day to see a paramedic, obviously.

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But he he also mentions throughout that movie when he's talking to Jessica in the storage closet of the hospital, he says, you have to be the calm head in a world of stress.

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And that also takes its toll on you because imagine doing that for 24 hours, and then you know, I'm not sure what the turnaround is for your next shift, but you'd obviously have to have some downtime, and then you come back and you do it all again.

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So doing that for one to five years, as they talk about as the characters in this movie, can be extremely stressful and lead you into a life of PTSD almost, especially if you end up going through quite a few different sort of calls that really shake you.

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Not to mention the fact that Randy had been doing this for 18 years.

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So you can see that that his own.

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18 years, nine months.

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Yeah, but who's counting?

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But his his passion for it is definitely there.

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I found I found that to be very telling.

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Because he was like, like, oh, how long do people usually last?

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And he's like, well, roughly usually it's about five years it'll take is how many people how many times, like how long people last in this job, and then she's like, How long have you been doing it?

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He's like, 18 years, nine months.

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I'm like, like if the if the average like longevity of a like person in this job is like roughly five years, like that's that's trip more than triple.

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Yeah.

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More than triple like what the average is.

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Like, how is he still functioning as a person?

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I think that's also brought up when he's when they talk when he talks about like leaving the job and going and doing something else.

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Mark sort of just laughs at it and says, You're not going anywhere.

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He's like, You can't, like, and like you're pretty much like you can't.

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You've you've you've been here for 18 years, nine months.

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There's no way you could function doing anything else at all.

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And you see that at the end when he tries to transition into the insurance job and he's sitting around the lunch table with I'll put in quotes normal people, and his his main talking points are you know the worst way to go?

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Drowning outside.

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It's like that's not how you make friends.

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John John's best way to go, decapitation.

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Yeah, and then and then like but it's and then at the same time at the end of the day, like the end of the work day, he's still working, and then his boss comes up, like, oh, are you still doing it?

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And he's like, Oh that's it, you know the day's over it.

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Yeah, he's like, Oh, I know.

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Yeah, and then like he like sees the video, like sees like he sort of gets that point there, and he's like missing, sort of missing the drive, missing the excitement.

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Yeah, and I think the end line of the movie sums it up for Randy.

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Like he he finds value in the job again and he goes, Yeah, the system's still broken, but what am I gonna do?

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Stop trying.

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And I think that shows to Randy's character really well is how he goes through that episode of cynicism and that burnout and that stress, but he is still passionate underneath, and you know, he leans on things like friendship and the small moments of appreciation that he has, and he makes a really big move at the end of the movie to help him navigate through that stress and burnout, and that is making further connections.

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Like he ends up asking Shanice out to lunch to thank her for all of the the efforts that she's put in behind the scenes with him, and she, you know, she accepts, which is really great for Randy.

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I got a heartwarming moment out of that, which I like.

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Yeah.

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Well, I like like to finish that uh the quote for the end of the movie, he says, only feel alive when you're about to die.

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Yeah.

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Like so sort of it's sort of like now it's like 18 years in, it's ingrained in him now that like anything else other than what he's been doing is just bland and boring.

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Yeah.

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And I think it's it's it's something you could say about the the system because code three understands that that passion without protection can eventually turn into resentment, and it did for for Randy and even for Mike, because Mike is in that job, he will only work with Randy because he knows how competent he is.

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And, you know, he always says, you know, I wheel, you heal because he knows where everybody's strengths lie.

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And he says to Randy when they're mucking around outside of like the mini mart, he's he says, you know, you can't function in the real world.

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And he goes, I'm your best friend, aren't I?

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And he's just like, Yeah, you're my best friend.

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And he's just like, oh God, because he see he has a life outside of the paramedics, whereas Randy doesn't.

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And I think that's the growth that Randy needed to have, is he needed to actually fill up some more cups in his life, or different areas of his life needed to be more full than him just going home, watching TV, eating a lot of snacks, and then coming back to work.

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Because then once the work is all you do, then that's when you can become burnout and stressed.

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So he he doesn't just flick a switch and change an attitude by the end of this movie.

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You know, he dips a little bit more into his friendship with Mike.

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He builds a connection with the medical practitioners in Jess and even Dr.

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Serrano at the end of it, he connects with Shanice and he's he's really sort of taking a positive look at what he does for a living because he's actually seeing that people do, or the people he cares about at least, care about what he does, which I think is is the important part of Randy's character.

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And it just wears them down because like every day, like different accents, different things, but it's always for them the same.

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Like all the shit they have to go through with little respect, with little fanfare, and the shit work conditions, poor equipment, uh shit pay.

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Impact of the job that they're he's a jaded, he's a jaded person that is uh and that that's the whole thing.

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Like doesn't want to teach anyone new because he like doesn't think anyone else like that's the whole thing.

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He's like, should do the job.

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The best help he can give is is for you not to get into the job in the first place.

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Yeah.

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But also, I think it takes it also takes quite a mental toll to do your job and be as burnt out as he is, and then have to educate somebody else on how to do that job too.

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That's a whole other mental load that you have to take on.

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And he keeps getting lumped with these student paramedics because he's the best at what he does, and he's been there for so long.

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So the workload is increasing in all facets of his job.

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But to add to what you said as well, like they go through this conversation in the movie where I think one of them says, I used to want to be a hero, but the fact is we're not heroes.

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And then Randy says, you know, all the calls that we get are bullshit.

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The people that need us don't call us, and the people that call us don't need us.

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So even though you're in this position where you're constantly getting called and you're really wanting to help people out, you can see the first few calls that they get are just people who are really trying to rot the system or take advantage or look after themselves the best way that they know how, and using the paramedics to do that.

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So again, you can see yes, it's a repetitive and grinding job, but I feel like the movie does a really good job of making those calls seem distinct and unique enough to show you little bits of what the EMSs are going through as the movie proceeds.

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Because if you notice, we start with like that homeless person with the yellow shirt, Winnie the Pooh, with his dick out, we'll call him.

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And then by the middle of the movie, we're with Mr.

00:19:05.200 --> 00:19:05.519
President.

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And now that that's two different levels of seriousness in calls.

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So you can call it repetitive, but I think that there is more for this movie to say if you really want to have a look at it and watch a little bit more.

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So I was like, like Winnie the Pooh, like he he wanted to get like he was acting out so he could in hopes to getting taken to the hospital where he gets a meal and like gets fed.

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Gets some rep comfort and bed rest.

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And then there's the president who is army veteran who has PTSD, who has severe medical like mental issues because of his life that he's had to lead, and he is someone like genuinely someone who they're trying to help.

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And whereas the Winnie the Pooh guy, now no one really bass and eye, everyone's just like, oh, it's a crazy on the street.

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Poor Mr.

00:19:51.920 --> 00:19:54.799
President gets a whole army of police pointing guns at him.

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Yeah.

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It's like it it shows like the different levels of like just the society and how society is shown in like uh this movie is filmed.

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But all over the world there's like a the parameters are there, they walk in towards the ambulance, Mr.

00:20:15.680 --> 00:20:20.240
President, and the police for a shop, and they say, Hey, we've got it sorted, you guys can leave.

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And they're like, Oh no, we're here to help, and end up escalating and making the situation worse.

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Like, it's the same as how other people feel entitled, like the nurse who turned up with the general guy with the stick in the eye, yeah.

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And like that was probably one of my favorite moments in the movie, like that whole sequence is that like yeah, it when Randy's talking to Jessica and he's like bandage the eyes, and she starts benching one of them.

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She's like, Bandage the eyes.

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Yeah, both of them.

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And then she's like, Why have to do that?

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She's just dictatorship, just do what I say.

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And then like then the nurse rocks up and is like, um, uh I'm a nurse, and everyone out like like she's like taking over the scene and they're like everyone's just like go away.

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Yeah, Mike's going.

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I don't want to do this because you're running by my aunt here.

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Yeah, can you please fuck off?

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Yeah, no.

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He was a funny that was a funny moment in that one too.

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But uh that that touching on two of those things that you just said, because the the Mr.

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President scene first, and then I'll touch back on the the gentleman with the eyeball.

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But with the Mr.

00:21:32.559 --> 00:21:44.799
President scene, I feel like care is never stripped away in the eyes of the paramedics because they address this call and Jessica questions them and says, you know, why aren't we calling the PD on this?

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And they know their patients well enough and they've been around this neighborhood long enough to know what these calls are about and how to treat these patients as best that they can.

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Even if going back to Winnie the Pooh, they know that they can just give him muffins and he'll be fine.

00:21:57.279 --> 00:21:59.680
So two l different levels of seriousness, but I think.

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I think like the way that Lil Rel Howley plays this as Mike grounds him in reality, shows that care.

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Like he is such a sentimental part of that movie where he he's got his hands on his chest just trying to calm this guy down.

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He's erratic, he's theatrical, like the patient is erratic and theatrical.

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He's clearly in this crisis and escalated by the police, as you as you said.

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And this also shows a disconnect between the put the PD and the EMS because they didn't trust them to have the scene under control.

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But the scene rejects this idea that heroism is dominance or control.

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It actually reframes success as keeping someone alive without breaking them further, because they knew exactly what they needed to do to help Charlie, Mr.

00:22:49.279 --> 00:22:49.759
President.

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And, you know, the system's broken to the point where Charlie served his country and he comes back and gets 20 pills, and then by the end of the month, he's run out of his pills.

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And the EMS understand this, know how to treat him.

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And they're trying to do so with presence, restraint, and dignity with as much care as possible in a system that's cruel.

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And that's not saying that the PDs are cruel in this instance, but they're also part of a system and doing the best that they can trying to keep people safe too.

00:23:15.119 --> 00:23:17.920
But it's just that conflict that is really, really difficult.

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But I think it shows it really well, especially with his performance.

00:23:20.720 --> 00:23:24.559
Like Mike's performance in that is just emotional to me.

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Like, yeah, it was great.

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I love when Mike's trying to explain the situation to Jess, and he and like you said with the pills, and he's like, they give me 20 pills, one pill a day for a month.

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So that's a whole like week and a half.

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Yeah, but he's gonna white nothing.

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He's gotta like gotta go without any pills.

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And he's like, sometimes he makes it through, sometimes he doesn't.

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I really hit home on like just how how hard like it can it must be for a lot of people to try and struggle through who could realistically be fine if they were given enough of the uh care or medicine or treatment that they needed just to cover those few extra days.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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And I think it it it really shows how to treat someone in their most fragile moment, but also this scene chronologically in the movie happens right after the baseball scene, which like this this scene shows like how they can still show up after going through a significant loss.

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So the baseball scene, they obviously appear at this scene where a young man has been hit in the chest with a baseball and they end up reviving him at the scene, they get this appreciative round of applause.

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And that moment actually made me cry in the movie when I watched it.

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I both times I watched it, I cried during that exact part.

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And obviously, some things happened in the ambulance and he took a turn for the worst.

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During that time, Randy has this one rule where he will never say that you will survive a trip to the patient in the in the ambulance because he doesn't want to be held to that.

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But also I feel like he did in that moment because he felt an affection towards him, he lowered that guard for a moment and he tried to converse genuinely with this this young boy.

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And in the end, it really felt like, you know, Randy didn't feel anything anymore as he was like cleaning out the ambulance, and the the nurse came through and said that their patient didn't make it, you know.

00:25:20.400 --> 00:25:22.240
He did everything right on the scene.

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Jessica told him he did everything right as well.

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They handed him over alive, and then eventually, you know, he he dies anyway in this part.

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And I th I think there's like there's no lesson, there's no closure there.

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But the lesson comes that straight after that there was another call and they picked it up and they answered it, and they did it again, and it was Charlie, Mr.

00:25:40.640 --> 00:25:40.960
President.

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So I think like the baseball scene shows how the job can break these EMS workers, and then the Charlie scene straight after shows how that they still show up despite that.

00:25:50.319 --> 00:25:56.160
So I think coupling those two together was really clever by these filmmakers, but just took you on that emotional roller coaster as well.

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Yeah, well, and and but the they have that monologue scene with Randy, which I think was like a very powerful moment when he's talking about how they can save someone who realistically should die, then pick someone up who shouldn't die, but then does die.

00:26:13.680 --> 00:26:14.000
Yeah.

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And he's like, and then eventually he's just saying, like, screw everyone except for that kid who just wanted to play baseball.

00:26:22.079 --> 00:26:34.960
And like it it's and like it makes you think like about like all these people who like they've probably both had their own issues, but then they but they do things that realistically should kill them, but they keep coming back.

00:26:35.279 --> 00:26:47.440
And then you have some more like this mother of three who has never done a bad thing in their life, has one slip trip or something, and doesn't make it, and now three kids don't have a mother anymore.

00:26:47.519 --> 00:27:14.079
Yeah, and yet some other people who like the at the very start of the movie, the junkies are shooting up at the start, and it's like they're able to bring them back and they're fine, then then they'll go off and do it again, and then the same thing rinse and repeats for them constantly, but then there's like this one time where they could hopefully could save, um, yeah, save, as I said, a mother of three or something like that, and it just doesn't happen for them.

00:27:14.240 --> 00:27:20.799
Yeah, and then that's something that they also have to keep living with over and over again, and happen to that for like 18 years, dude.

00:27:20.960 --> 00:27:23.920
Just like, I don't know how anyone be able to do that for 18 years.

00:27:24.240 --> 00:27:32.720
And I think that that justifies Randy's emotional shutdown because he's honestly just told just to cope with it a little better every single time.

00:27:32.799 --> 00:27:35.119
And I think that's that's really not the way to go.

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And to reframe what we said at the start of this podcast, I think Randy is passionate about this job, so much so that he loves what he does, he's good at what he does, but he then has to pour some water into the cups that are other aspects of his life in order to to help him balance out because the system being broken is obviously the the biggest villain in this movie in Code 3.

00:27:58.480 --> 00:28:10.880
And Randy himself, as he says in one moment as well, it the problem is the system, and he's trying to fix it by emptying the sinking ship with the thimble that he has, like the thimble of of water that he has.

00:28:11.039 --> 00:28:12.720
It's very difficult to do.

00:28:12.960 --> 00:28:19.200
But one one thing that I also wanted to talk about is like who cares for the carers?

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You know what I mean?

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So I think a lot of people, and especially in that baseball scene, you saw that people clap the heroes.

00:28:25.839 --> 00:28:29.200
Yeah, they do a really good job at that and they start treating them like humans again.

00:28:29.359 --> 00:28:46.960
But then, you know, I feel like their passion doesn't need protecting, their burnout does deserve compassion, but appreciation needs to be structural and not always just symbolic, because the amount of times that you hear people saying like thoughts and prayers or which is great, everybody's got compassion and that's awesome.

00:28:47.039 --> 00:28:56.160
But that symbolic sort of affirmation of these these heroes and these people that go out and do this work isn't going to change the the structure of the system that they work in.

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So it kind of proves that like caring professions don't fail people, the systems do as well.

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And I think it's a difficult place to be in because they're hard to change.

00:29:06.720 --> 00:29:12.319
Yeah, and going on to uh the guy with the stick in the eye, yeah.

00:29:12.559 --> 00:29:18.720
How how and it shows like what when you find out don't spoil that, so I'm not gonna spoil anything.

00:29:18.880 --> 00:29:21.039
There's a bit of a twist later on in the in the movie.

00:29:21.440 --> 00:29:40.880
But when Jessica is like trying to say why why are we patching up both eyes and like sort of contesting against what Randy's telling her to do, and then he takes her aside later on and like throughout the whole thing, he's trying to be calm and professional about it, saying both eyes, both eyes.

00:29:40.960 --> 00:29:44.240
This isn't a democracy, this is a dictatorship, both eyes, is what I say.

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And then even like into the hospital, she's still berating him about it, and she's like, he's like not in front of the patient, not in front of the patient, and even the patient at the on the scene is like, Do you guys know what you're doing?

00:29:55.279 --> 00:29:56.559
You don't seem to be agreeing.

00:29:56.720 --> 00:30:10.079
And like it's that sort of like that sort of that that response that he didn't want to hear because like their job is to make sure that the patient is calm, safe, and gets to the hospital alive if possible.

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Yeah.

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Because as they said, like no one dies in the ambulance.

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Either they're dead on dead on site or they're dead as in the hospital, never in the ambulance.

00:30:19.680 --> 00:30:32.079
But um she ends up taking Jessica aside and then explains like we don't want that stick rubbing, we don't want him to move his eye because we don't want that stick moving and rubbing against the brain because we don't know how far that sticks in.

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She's like, Yes.

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They're like, Do your eyes move independently?

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And it then clicks to her and she's like, No, they move in tandem.

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But when one eye moves, the other eye moves too.

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So if you're his other eye is there looking around, the stick has to be.

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So that's why he said, like the bench, like, and then that's when he comes out with his speech, like you said, when he's like, We have to be the people who, while everyone else is panicking, look at the bigger picture.

00:31:00.799 --> 00:31:02.880
Yeah, I really like that scene too.

00:31:03.039 --> 00:31:06.079
That scene in that closet is probably one of my favorite ones.

00:31:06.160 --> 00:31:06.240
Yeah.

00:31:06.400 --> 00:31:15.039
And it is because it's the scene where respect starts to be given to Rain Wilson's character, Randy, by Jessica's.

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Because before that, he was just a cynical asshole who's been burnt out by the job.

00:31:18.880 --> 00:31:36.319
And then after that, she starts to respect the fact that he knows what he's doing, he cares, and he's trying his best to work in a broken system and also get shat on by the doctors in the emergency ward as well, who is dealing with 25 full beds, a full emergency room, and everybody's under pressure as well.

00:31:36.559 --> 00:31:54.720
Not only that, but I feel like that scene as well, you could show that to anybody out of context, and it would be a perfect example of how to frame a really good professional apology because like there was no defensiveness from Amy Carrera's character, Jessica.

00:31:54.799 --> 00:31:55.920
She was there to listen.

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And after she realized she was wrong, there wasn't any pride getting in the way, even though she had every right to get her pride in the way through the twist that happens at the end of the movie.

00:32:05.039 --> 00:32:10.640
But she actually just said, I'm I'm really sorry, I should have trusted you, you're absolutely right.

00:32:10.880 --> 00:32:11.599
Are we good?

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And then Randy after that reciprocated, could have gloated, didn't, and said, Yeah, we're good.

00:32:18.400 --> 00:32:20.240
And they both went out and they got on with the job.

00:32:20.319 --> 00:32:34.960
So I think that scene alone is something that you could show somebody, and even like as a teacher, me, I could show that to students and say, this is how you apologize to people, both parties communicating, everybody has their say, and you respect what everybody has to bring to the table.

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So there's so much that you can learn from this movie, not only just about medicine or about, you know, the effect of stress and burnout, but also that where they're respecting their colleagues and co-workers enough to offer them the grace of an apology.

00:32:48.160 --> 00:32:49.119
I like that scene as well.

00:32:49.200 --> 00:32:56.160
So and and even though like this movie doesn't really have like, I wouldn't say it like it's not a movie where there's like a hero and then an antagonist.

00:32:56.319 --> 00:32:56.720
But Dr.

00:32:56.880 --> 00:33:00.559
Sereno is obviously like if you were to pick an antagonist, it'd be him.

00:33:00.720 --> 00:33:00.880
Yeah.

00:33:01.039 --> 00:33:04.640
But then you also have to like you also like for the movie.

00:33:05.839 --> 00:33:08.799
I was gonna say, uh throughout the movie, you just think, oh, this guy's a huge dick.

00:33:08.960 --> 00:33:13.920
But then he goes, he goes, Oh, I have like 25 beds full of patients.

00:33:14.079 --> 00:33:30.079
I've got people constantly coming in, and then like he's like berating, sort of berating Randy, and then all of a sudden, like he's then gets caught over the thing saying there's an emergency, and he's like, he's like, oh, that's me off to never off to going to be never done, and then yeah, goes off.

00:33:30.160 --> 00:33:42.319
And then like that's when you sort of also, as much as yeah, he is a dick and an entitled dick, he also has to also go through it on a daily basis every day with constant pressure.

00:33:42.640 --> 00:33:55.680
And so you have to sort of like you sort of feel sorry for him, and he sort of like takes it out, I guess, on like his outlet for it is to take it out on, I guess, like characters like like all the EMTs, especially Randy.

00:33:55.759 --> 00:34:00.720
Yeah, like even when Randy messes up what's sedative to use on Mr.

00:34:00.880 --> 00:34:08.880
President, and like to serve as a Soranto in a dickish way wrecks him, and he's like, Oh yeah, sorry, no, that one.

00:34:08.960 --> 00:34:12.159
And he's like, trying not to kill any more uh kill any impatients on the way.

00:34:12.400 --> 00:34:13.760
Yeah, massive guilt trip.

00:34:14.079 --> 00:34:20.000
Oh, and and I'm like, like straight literally straight after he just lost that baseball patient, too, that occurs.

00:34:20.239 --> 00:34:25.360
But y you're right, because he does say that line, you know, I have to get back to never being done.

00:34:25.440 --> 00:34:31.840
And that's like a quote, a tagline for the movie that everybody sort of latches onto because I think it's universal across the healthcare system.

00:34:32.000 --> 00:34:38.239
But if you think about it as well, the EMS workers go in, do their handoff, drop off, and then go out into the next war zone.

00:34:38.320 --> 00:34:46.719
But the war zone doesn't stop for Serrano either because he's dealing with the patient that just waltzed in and the three others that you know are being admitted also.

00:34:46.800 --> 00:34:59.679
So I think it's a universal, and you can you can look at Serrano and say that he's being quite dickish, but he is definitely under the pump, he's definitely stressed, and he is a result of that burnout as well, to the point where in the end, Randy and Dr.

00:34:59.840 --> 00:35:02.320
Serrano end up lashing out at one another.

00:35:02.559 --> 00:35:12.880
And I I think that's the the tension and climax in the movie where they actually go at each other's throat and they realize, you know, this isn't the productive thing we want to do.

00:35:12.960 --> 00:35:14.400
We are both on the same side.

00:35:14.559 --> 00:35:32.800
So I I think universally the characters in this movie are really authentic and they do a really good job of portraying the message of stress and burnout attached to that passion as well, because I don't think anybody goes into this field or stays in this field without that passion or that care.

00:35:33.199 --> 00:35:35.840
So hats off to this movie.

00:35:36.000 --> 00:35:36.800
It's a really good one.

00:35:37.119 --> 00:35:39.920
No, no, no, definitely did a really good job with this movie.

00:35:40.079 --> 00:35:40.480
Hmm.

00:35:40.719 --> 00:35:42.079
I'd recommend it to anyone.

00:35:42.320 --> 00:35:46.079
Lil uh Ral Howry, that he was fucking phenomenal in this movie.

00:35:46.239 --> 00:35:52.400
Like he goes from like he's being like the wise cracking sidekick, and then to that like emotional Mr.

00:35:52.480 --> 00:35:53.280
President scene.

00:35:53.360 --> 00:35:53.519
Yeah.

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Like he's just sort of he's sort of like the well, before we happen to go, before you I just want to point out because the only because this is like one of my favourite scenes, because it's like probably the funniest scene in the movie.

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As uh the nursing home.

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Oh yeah.

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So yeah, they get they get called to a job at a nursing home because a patient has a patient at the nursing home has stopped breathing, so they are called to I don't know, hope hopefully get there in time to resuscitate the person.

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They get there, and they all stand around this bed looking at this clearly deceased person, and then the nurse, the male nurse is like gone for five minutes, came back, and she was like this, but she was fine five minutes ago, and they berated saying this dude's dude, she's been dead for ages, like call coroner, like there's nothing we can do, and then he gets the other head nurse involved and she wants to know what her vitals are.

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And it's when Mike's character, or my little girl's character, Mike, is like, You wanna know you want her vitals?

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Blood pressure zero, heart rate zero, and it's like all zeros.

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Yeah, all zeros.

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And yeah, well, and that's when Rennie was saying how like most of the calls they get are bullshit, and it's those first few jobs that you like they get in a movie that you're like, yeah, like they get a lot of bullshit calls.

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Yeah.

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And it's not until like later on when they get the more severe calls, like the major crash, which oh actually, too, that major crash scene when just previously they were joking about they had that joke that they tell the girls in the diner about the baby in the microwave before.

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That's the worst thing you've ever seen.

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Yeah.

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And and then Amy's character, Jessica, is like, oh, you never found a baby in the micro before.

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And they both go like straight face and look at each other up.

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Yeah.

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And she's like, oh shit.

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They have yeah, but then Michael he turns around and says to her, like, that's what I mean, like, you haven't seen anything yet.

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And I think that's that's the case that we can all sort of look at.

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This is a glimpse into 24 hours with the EMS as well.

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And then it gets to that scene later on, there'll be a car crash, and then it's sort of like a combination of like all that they've been through and all that sort of Amy's character's learnt from Randy all culminates into that one scene.

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I kind of wish that scene went a little bit longer than it was because it was pretty they ran through it pretty quickly.

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Um but then like the fact there's a massive car crash and then all the cars are still driving through.

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Yeah.

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Even though there's a car crash, like they like these people are trying to save people's lives, and then they're reckless other people are recklessly driving through until uh to a point where that a car hits the back end of their car and moves our car right where they're trying to work and resuscitate the mother.

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Well, it's that that sort of level of disrespect shown to like these sort of situations where you're like, like, I don't know for me, like I'd see that and be like, oh shit, like I'd keep my like by birth stay back.

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But it's just these other people who think like they're above everyone else, I guess, or something, and have little respect for what they're doing right there in that horrific scene that they don't even care enough that they just have to wait a little bit while they people like are getting rescued.

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Yeah.

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I I think that was common throughout the the entire movie because there wasn't really many members of the public that we saw that were that were compassionate, and it kind of kind of creates this environment of the only people that care in this universe is the EMS people.

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And I think like that's why the scene at the baseball ground affected me so much is because they were constantly surrounded by everybody underappreciating them, and then when they eventually did get to that baseball scene and rescued that young boy, everybody clapped them, and I was like, finally, they're getting a little bit of recognition and everybody's happy and sort of safe again.

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But going back to Mike's character, I really think that he serves as that buffer for Randy, but he also illustrates the fact that a lot of these emergency service people, and even people that work long hours and long jobs, he has this relationship with his family and anyone outside of the EMS service through a telephone.

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Like you constantly see him like on the phone with his wife or with some kids that he uh like he has as well.

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And like they're only small glimpses of the moment, but I feel like that's really representative of what as well of some of these people that, you know, they work these 24-hour shifts, and it's hard to maintain and keep up a relationship with the outside world.

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And Mike really has a grasp on that and is trying his best to do that because he has people he cares about that he sees on the outside.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, I think he's a really good character.

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I just I just thought like the scene where they get the recognition from the baseball match, besides that one guy from that car accident where he was pretty much dead the whole time and they just had to keep pumping blood through a corpse until they go into the hospital just to be declared dead.

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The only person they actually lost that they had alive in the ambulance was the only time that they got the recognition.

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Yeah.

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And the only time like which which like adds to that sort of like pain and the guilt that they'd all in the guilt, because they're like they just got they just got clefts off the field and then only to get the kids to the hospital, and then he ends up dying anyway.

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