Hello, this is Alonzo Bowden.

I want to welcome you to episode 358 of my podcast, who's paying attention.

And I have a very special guest.

She is an old friend who I've only known for a short time.

She is a fantastic comedian, actress, host, and I have just found out EMT.

Crystal Marie is here.

Thank you.

What a great intro.

It's absolutely true.

So we have to go to the EMT thing first because this is recent.

It's very recent. My dad got sick. He had lung for cancer he was diagnosed with about four years ago.

It went away. He was in remission for about a year, year and a half. and then it came back. And so I was just so frustrated because I couldn't understand anything that was happening

because he was in and out of the hospital all the time.

And sometimes I wouldn't know, do I need to take him?

Do I not?

Is this just a normal side effect of something?

So I decided, you know what?

I'm just going to do the quickest thing I can to learn as much as humanly possible.

And so first I just took a CPR class and like to learn the Heimlich maneuver.

And then I kind of got hooked.

I was like, oh, I want to learn more.

I want to just jump into this and see what I could learn as quickly as I can.

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