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**Dave Chang** (1:06)
I'm just going to go right off the bat and apologize, because I know that you probably get asked, do you watch The Pit? Because that must be the same amount that every cook, a chef, you're like, do you like The Bear?

**SPEAKER_3** (1:21)
I imagine it would be similar, yeah.

**Dave Chang** (1:23)
And you're like, yes, actually, a lot of it is similar, but this, this, and this are not remotely the same.

**SPEAKER_3** (1:28)
Yeah.

**Dave Chang** (1:29)
And it's probably the most accurate, you know?

**SPEAKER_3** (1:33)
I would say, yeah. So have you guys, or have you guys watched The Pit?
It's just too intense. I watched The Pit.

**SPEAKER_4** (1:40)
So that's what I was going to say.

**Dave Chang** (1:41)
I didn't like it.

**SPEAKER_3** (1:42)
My wife will not watch The Bear with me, because she's just like, it's too much. And so-

**Dave Chang** (1:46)
Is she in culinary profession?

**SPEAKER_3** (1:48)
No, she's a speech pathologist. But we did finally get around to watching The Pit, two seasons, and it's pretty accurate, you know?
I'd say the one thing that I tell everybody is like, that whole season, they try to shoot it in like one shift. I feel like it's more of like two weeks in the ER, like a real life, you know? You'll still see everything. It's just hopefully not all on one day, because it's pretty brutal.

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**SPEAKER_3** (2:56)
No longer.
So about two years ago, I went to something pre and post-surgery, and I'm just leaving that job. They know already, and I'm leaving that job in about a week. And I took a job as a nurse supervisor with Student Health at a college.

**Dave Chang** (3:16)
So way more chill.

**SPEAKER_3** (3:17)
Way more chill, yeah. Way less money, but I would imagine it's far more chill. And I can walk there from my house, so that's nice.

**Dave Chang** (3:26)
Quality of life.

**SPEAKER_5** (3:27)
But you were in the ER before that?

**SPEAKER_3** (3:28)
I was in the ER before that.

**SPEAKER_5** (3:30)
Is that like where you...
What is an ER doctor or a nurse? Is that a personality type?

**SPEAKER_3** (3:37)
Yeah, I think so.
I imagine that it's very similar to restaurants, I'd say. From what I can gather, it's just like... It's a lot of teamwork. It's a lot of kind of spontaneous, like, well, let's just see what happens. Intensity? Definitely intensity. But you kind of laugh.

**SPEAKER_5** (3:58)
Sorry, you said in the ER, there's a lot of, let's see what happens.

**SPEAKER_3** (4:01)
Oh, definitely a lot of, let's see what happens, for sure. Oh, shit. I know, not in that way.
Not in the way like, okay, I think I'll try this and let's see how it works.

**SPEAKER_6** (4:09)
We're expecting stuff that we've not ruined over there.

**SPEAKER_3** (4:13)
But it can be as simple as like, okay, we know this person's having a stroke. Are they going to get better right away or not? Let's see how that goes.
So it's a little bit, there is a lot of wait and see. And I think that's one of the biggest problems. I'm sure people have gone to the ER and it's like, I have to wait seven hours to go to the back, and you might not even get in a bed. It's pretty crazy. This is delicious.