You're listening to reading glasses, a show about book culture and literary life designed to help you read better.

I'm author, filmmaker, and book devour, Mallory O'Mera.

And I'm Bria Grant, filmmaker, and e-reader.

This episode we're talking about adventure books

and interviewing author Christopher Golden.

But first, what are you reading, Bria?

I just started this book called A Thousand Naked Strangers,

A Paramanix Wild Ride to the edge and back by Kevin Hazard.

I've heard this is really good.

Yeah, it's great so far.

It's, um, first of all, do you know EMTs make the same amount of money as a person who works at Starbucks?

EMTs do not make a lot of money it is a criminal criminal thing.

Yeah well you also only go to school for eight months to be an EMT and you are only trained like

you don't have to have any medical background

eight months of schooling that's it

so his whole thing is just about like what it's like to become an EMT

he's writing about it and then the crazy things that he sees being an EMT because

he's in Georgia and at first he works for like a private

company and that's about as far as I am and then he goes and works for like a for a hospital.

But yeah it's a really wild it's so it seems like a wild situation and a lot of

crazy medical things happen and all about EMT burnout most EMTs don't last

more than a few years like you burn out really fast

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