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🚑 Lights, Sirens & Real Sh*t

🚑 Lights, Sirens & Real Sh*t

By: Feisty Medic
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🎙️ 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.

© 2025 🚑 Lights, Sirens & Real Sh*t
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Episodes
  • The Partners Who Saved My Sanity
    Aug 26 2025

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    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.

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    14 mins
  • Why I Started This Sh*t Show 🚑🔥
    Aug 12 2025

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    Welcome to the launch of Lights, Sirens & Real Sht* — the unfiltered EMS podcast where nothing is sugar-coated.

    In this first episode, I tell you exactly why I started this podcast, what you can expect from future episodes, and why sharing the raw, messy truth about EMS matters. This is more than stories from the field — it’s about the moments that shape us, break us, and sometimes make us laugh until we cry.

    💥 In This Episode:

    • Why I decided to hit record and pull back the curtain on EMS life
    • What this podcast will cover (and why it might not be for the easily offended)
    • How this job changes you — for better and worse

    🎧 Lights, Sirens & Real Sht* brings you the highs, lows, and dark humor that keeps us going in emergency services.

    📌 Disclaimer: These are my personal experiences and opinions. They do not reflect the views of my employer. Listener discretion advised — strong language & graphic content.

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    #EMS #FirstResponderStories #ParamedicLife #LightsSirensAndRealShit #EmergencyMedicalServices #PodcastLaunch

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    5 mins
  • This Job Will Make You Laugh or Cry – The Funniest Calls I’ve Ever Run
    Aug 12 2025

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    Not every shift in EMS is chaos and heartbreak — sometimes, it’s downright hilarious. In this lighter episode, I share some of the funniest, most ridiculous calls I’ve ever been on, the awkward situations you can’t make up, and why EMS crews have the best (and darkest) sense of humor.

    From strange patient requests to bizarre emergencies that left the whole crew laughing, this one’s proof that you can find humor in even the most unexpected places.

    🎧 Lights, Sirens & Real Sht* is your unfiltered ride-along into real EMS stories — no sugarcoating, no PR polish, just the raw reality of the job.

    Disclaimer: The views expressed are my own and do not represent the opinions of my employer.

    #EMS #EMSlife #firstresponders #paramediclife #podcast

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    4 mins
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