{"id":55627,"date":"2016-04-08T21:35:11","date_gmt":"2016-04-09T02:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/?p=55627"},"modified":"2026-10-22T12:13:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T17:13:13","slug":"podcast-190-a-thousand-naked-strangers-a-paramedics-wild-ride-to-the-edge-and-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/finance\/career\/podcast-190-a-thousand-naked-strangers-a-paramedics-wild-ride-to-the-edge-and-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast #190: A Thousand Naked Strangers \u2014 A Paramedic’s Wild Ride to the Edge and Back"},"content":{"rendered":"

You see ambulances all the time when you’re driving around and you vaguely know their job is to save people in emergencies. But what is it really <\/em>like to be an EMT? What sorts of things do they see each day? How do they deal with encountering carnage on a regular basis?<\/p>\n

My guest today published a memoir of his ten-year career as a paramedic in Georgia, and it’s one of the most interesting, poignant, and laugh-out-loud funny books I’ve read this year. His name is Kevin Hazzard and his book is A Thousand Naked Strangers: A Paramedic’s Wild Ride to the Edge and Back<\/a>. <\/em>In our conversation, Kevin pulls back the curtain on this service that we often take for granted in our lives. He shares why he decided to become a paramedic and EMT, what’s involved in becoming one, and what a day in the life of an EMT looks like. But more importantly, Kevin shares insights about life and the human condition that he picked up while touching some brain that had landed on top of a car and looking for severed toes in the grass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You see ambulances all the time when you’re driving around and you vaguely know their job is to save people in emergencies. But what is it really like to be an EMT? What sorts of things do they see each day? How do they deal with encountering carnage on a regular basis? 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