25 - Gabe Vergara: Rice, Beans, Meat, Potatoes, and Elephants

Join current student and Renton, Washington native Honored Guest Gabe Vergara as he details his "full" full name,  how to have fun in clinicals, his early clinical progression, his interactions with patients, staff, and peers, the importance of recognizing the fact that each of your patients have a story, overcoming being scared of others in nursing school, his advice on study habits and time management, what to do when left alone in clinicals, and more!

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Welcome to this episode of the Feeding Our Young Podcast. I must warn everybody, this is going to be the most somber of episodes because I have with myself one of the most depressing people you could ever meet in your life. excuse me sir, would you mind trying to introduce yourself for the people I guess? If I must, Eric. My name is Gabriel Adams. I am, you know, son of Wednesday Adams since I'm so morose and depressing. No, but in all seriousness, hello everybody. Hope you're having a great day today. I'm Gabe Vergara, here with our fantastic host. Hehehehehe hahahahah response. It says, do you want the full name? If not, it's just Gabe. So Gabe, what is your full name? Let's go there. do you want the full name or the full full name? You give whoever you want whatever you want because you gotta watch your identity out there. Hey everybody be careful. Yeah, yeah, Social Security number first. okay. Do you want to end the social security then the name? Because I can do either or. Gotcha. Okay. So to give any Starbucks barista's a hard time, my full, full name is Gabriel Antonio Vergara Dominador Gonzalez, which is a bit of a mouthful. I love that. Do it again, do it again. Yeah, yeah. Okay, I am lucky enough to attend Gonzaga University in their nursing program, despite the fact that you guys can't see it, but Eric can. I'm wearing a Cougars sweatshirt. That's just my house sweatshirt. It's very comfortable. Sue me. you are representing also our Cougar honored guests So go Cougs, go Zags It's, yeah, it's student nursing. Like it's nursing. There should not be a I'm better than you, you're better than me. And everyone's gonna be like, well yeah, but I mean Eric, really, like come on. Like no, we're gonna have people from hopefully all over the country eventually. And you know, nobody's better than anybody else. We're all trying to become the best nurse we can be. So Gabe, sorry, on to you. I mean if you really wanted more representation, I have a UW shirt for my sister, so we could get all three here. But if that didn't give it away, I am from Renton, Washington. It's a good 20 -25 minutes south of Seattle. If it's a good day without traffic, which it never is, I'm just optimistic and I'm happy to be here. And we're happy to have you man. Hey, what do you love about Renton? What do you? Well, it's very quiet and the best part about Renton is there's this one spot up near Philip Arnold Park, call it the view my buddies, and it's the best spot to just have a quiet night because you can see all of Renton and it's just, it's magnificent. I love it. You're almost making me homesick because I'm from the west side. The missus and I lived in Kent, Renton, and Auburn. Anybody can pull out a map for that one, but they're all near each other. We had this fourplex in Renton, and my fondest memories of living in that fourplex, which wasn't very long, was two things. There was one, a fireworks fight on 4th of July. People shooting fireworks across the street at each other to give you the idea of the area of the neighborhood that I lived in. And another one we were having, we were having another couple over and we are so excited to have friends over. And that night, the people four doors down decided to have a nice dog fight. Legit full on dog fight. So, you know, there's police activity, whatever, it was fine, it was fine. So I do have a fondness, despite saying all that, I do have a fondness for Renton. I'm glad you're over there, man, I love it. And not all of Renton is that, that was just where I was living. Gabe, before I forget. What are the three words you would use to describe nursing school? Well, the three words I would say are fun, scary, and human. Now you'll have to bear with me for that last one. I'll explain, I'll explain. I can't wait. Everybody's gonna stick around for that. Let's find out why you're doing that. All right, but let's talk about you first. You know what? I lead the witness. I ask the questions. But not today. Gabe, what do you wanna say? Talk to me, man. What do you want people to know? say? there's too much to know. I got like two hours of sleep last night and I woke up for a hike in the morning. Well, excuse me for my foul language, but poo poo point. Poo poo point? I'm sorry that everybody had to hear poo poo. We gotta stop saying poo poo. I don't even know if I have to... Do I have to check the explicit box because we said poo poo? I said it again. Gosh darn it. darn. We're really just striking out here. So in other words, this is Gabe on low energy, everybody. Imagine him with full energy. All right. did create the Gabe rule at the clinical facility that I was at with Eric where I pestered my nurse with so many questions before she got coffee that she was brain dead by the time of 730. I forget about that. I said, I said Gabe buddy I said man you are bringing it today and you know what some people aren't ready for that yet for another couple hours so let's dial it down and then you can slowly crank it up to 11. Well you're bringing up clinical and your 30 second promo vid talked about something about how to have fun at clinicals, getting food at clinicals, there was there was even a crack about beans and rice and for those that were worried I am NOT racist, Gabe knows this. Hahaha rice with something else. And most often than not, it would be leftover scraps from my roommates. Now it just so happened that my roommates had a half of a can, I don't know how they got to half of a can, of Bush's baked beans. So. Of course I didn't have a fancy lunchbox either. It was a washed out sauerkraut jar. And I walk in and heat up my giant jar of beans and rice. And everyone just looks at me and goes, Gabe is that all you're going to eat? And I go, no, no, my nurses gave me a Boost You gotta have your protein. I love it, I love it. So maybe I should have said baked beans and rice. In hindsight, hindsight's 20/20 All right, so how do you have fun in clinical? I mean, is that even a possible thing? Absolutely. You know, everyone going into my first year of clinicals, it was so easy to be terrified. Heck, I was terrified for my first couple, especially that first day in the hospital after never being on the hospital floor outside of, you know, an allergy test or a regular checkup. But it really is just all about the mindset. You look for fun and you'll find it. It's wherever you go. It's that easy. Awesome, awesome. What other outlooks do you have on clinicals? There's a lot of folk that you're gonna meet and a lot of different perspectives that you're gonna see. And you gotta remember that you've got your own, they've got their own. And sometimes they ain't gonna mesh, but at the end of the day, you're all working towards the same goal. You all wanna make your patients better. You wanna make people happy, make them healthy. So at the end of the day, no matter what differences you have with other people, you can find a way to connect with someone else. That's perfect. I couldn't have said it better myself, man. So you mentioned first time in a hospital. So I don't know that, you know, clinicals are set up similarly across all institutions. I know that at least locally, you know, going back to my day and then, you know, compared to how we're doing clinicals now, there's very similar progression. Let's say, you know, you start off in usually long -term care, kind of get your feet wet in that department and then move on to your first hospital clinical. Is that how you found your experience or what did that look like for you? Yeah, we've had a very, very gentle dip in the pool. Barely even a big toe, I'd say a pinky toe maybe. We started with a pediatrics clinic, so we were just taking vitals in elementary schools. It was basically, we were just going to clinical to mess around and play kickball with a bunch of kids. So not really a clinical experience for the first one. Hey, but you know what, and especially if you can get paid doing that, man, that's a gig. Well, you know, if we got paid doing that, goodness. referring to the staff, but yes, you're - you're - you're paying to play kickball with kids, so thank you for that. You know what? Little game of kickball never hurt nobody unless you get hit in the face, which admittedly happened. But you know, it builds character. That's the phrase of the day, builds character. Yeah. And all clinicals hopefully do, right? If not character, then experience. Yeah, yeah, yeah, those can be two separate distinct things for sure. And then after Peds Clinic, we did progress into long -term care facilities. And, you know, my, not to brag, my resident, she was a sweetheart. She was the best, the very best, couldn't ask for anyone better. The very first day I met her, she said, are you the mastermind? And I said, sorry, ma 'am, what are you referring to? She said, well, Kara said that the next person to come in would be the mastermind for my bank robbery. And I go, yes ma 'am, I am here, I've got the plans laid out, I've got the escape vehicle, the entry point, you name it, we got it. Ha ha! So, can you talk about what that feels like, the transition from that long -term care to, and maybe this is geared more towards the prospective students, or those that have yet to go into clinical. You know, your mindset going into long -term care and then your new mindset like you feel like, okay, maybe I got a little bit of something and then you're just presented with a whole new challenge. How does that look for you? How do you overcome that? Walk us through that. Yeah, so I don't know if you guys have it different, but for Gonzaga the first two years are all prereqs. You know, there's hardly any nursing courses mixed in. So by the time you get to that point, you feel like you're hot stuff. You're like, yeah, I'm on fire. These prereqs, down. I made it through this. I can make it through anything. I am number one. And then you walk into your first clinical and you forget how to take a manual blood pressure and you think, wow, I should quit. Hehehehehe is the worst day of my life. And then you have a little shy elementary schooler walk up, grab you on the sleeve and go, thank you. And just walk off like that, like nothing ever happened. Cutest little voice. And you think, maybe I'm not doing so bad. you are, there you are. And taking that energy into a more serious tone, of course, long -term care. I had the privilege to work in a dementia care floor and the privilege to serve this lady. And I had the opportunity to feed her one of her last meals and she passed a couple of days after. And so the transition from. understanding I'm a student versus, hey, I'm starting my nursing journey and then getting hit with something really heavy, like, wow, I just watched the end of this person's life. It's a very big step and it's a huge leap of faith, but don't be afraid to take it. You are thinking about this. You are in this. You have graduated from it for a reason. And Every single experience that you have will bring you back to that reason. Well said. Well said. Well, we're bringing both ends of the spectrum today. We're going laughter and we're going heavy. You got it? Yes, it does. So going back to that moment, what does that do for you? What kind of impact does that have on you today, now, however long after? And what impact does that kind of have for you as Nurse Gabe moving forward? Well, I will admit, tears were shed, and that's nothing to be ashamed of. You know, you witness the end of a life, someone's whole life, and you see their story, at least in the facility I was in, she had pictures of her youth, of her as a child, and because she was on the dementia floor, she, for the entirety of that day, did not speak to us at all. until one of my peers, my classmate walked in and she started speaking to her in German fluently. And I know like five or six words, but the second I muddled through a sentence, her eyes came back and she lit up and it's like she was young again. And recognizing that every single patient that you have has a story. and that you're taking care of someone who has had a life as rich as yours, a life as happy as yours or sad as yours. It's a very, very big reminder and a teaser into the third word that I said for nursing school. Nice, nice. Yeah, I, man, we in this, especially in our society and I'm sure others as well, we don't tend to look at the aged very well, whether they're considered useless or an inconvenience on the road because they can't drive very well. You know, I mean, all these things that we genuinely. get frustrated with and the problems, the complications, physical, mental, all of those things. And man, you're just, you're bringing that powerful reminder that the person in front of you had a life, was your age, was my age, a little bit later, and then got much older later. But they did, they had a full life and that's somebody's mother, somebody's nurse, somebody's teacher, somebody's sister, somebody's, you know, fill in the blank. And so, yeah, I know you've got your one thing for nursing students, but I'm gonna just say right now, if you get nothing else from this episode, man, it's that. You're gonna interact with these patients. And they're more than stepping stones. They're more than a box to check off or a hoop to get through or someone to tolerate for 30 to 60 minutes. They're people who need your care. and as terrified as you are, maybe if you just think of that briefly, that brings you into a place where you're like, you know what? I can do this, I can do this. I'm gonna screw up, I know I'm gonna screw up. And we here at the Feeding Our Young podcast, you already see us screw up. So we're big fans of screwing up. Screw it up and then learn from it and move on. Exactly, because you know screwing up shows that you tried and that is Already half the battle if you can get up and try and say you know what I didn't really do that Well, I muddled through this but next time I got it You've won the bet you've won. There's nothing else You know Let's wrap up Gabe bringing the life changing wisdom, just dropping it. Man, okay, I'm just kidding. Don't turn it off, don't turn it off. We're still going, we're still going. So Gabe, so I guess that leads naturally into something you wanted to talk about and that's interactions with patients and staff, what you like to do. Give us some insight into that. absolutely. I said that everyone has their story and I love to hear everyone's story. I'll walk into a patient's room because you know, they always tell you, look at your patient's chart, get a picture of your patient in your head before you walk in that room, get a grasp of their story. You can look at their chart all you want. You're not going to get a lick of the personality in that room. I have had charts where I'm like, wow, this person has a harsh situation to go through. Hahaha sensor button, don't I? Okay, moving on. Hahaha! some way. Hopefully that'll be a positive way, but in the rare occasions that it's negative, like I said, returning to the fact that these are people too. And you got to consider their circumstances because you know, you've had, I've had some patients that, geez, I wouldn't walk a foot in their shoes. I wouldn't last. I'd, you know, I'd be crying in the corner. I'd give up, but they're there. They might be angry, but they're there. And so. done things that, you know, we can't even imagine. Yeah, it's just like everything, it's a leap of faith and it's believing and trusting that the other person will see your sincerity and respond in kind. Perfect. What about staff? You mentioned staff. I love the staff at the hospitals. They are all such sweethearts. They are all terribly overworked, tired, but they make sure to care about me. All of us, they care even if they don't like to show it sometimes. They care in their own way and they may or may not have a lot on their plate, but they care. I promise you, if you think a nurse hates you or if you think a knack hates you, I promise you they're probably just having a bad day. Unless you stole their food from the break room. no, Kiwi. Well, she wasn't that mad about it. And next week on deep confessions, Feeding Our Young my gosh. All right, so let's, okay. Well, no I think the mic is pretty obvious, Gabe. I don't think we got that. So let's talk about, and I almost don't want to make this comparison. So you're talking about interactions with staff and with patients. That to me is like on the vertical, right? Like you are serving, you are learning, you are looking up to serving and taking care of and working for these people kind of along those lines. Let's look at the horizontal, which still can be considered vertical, because I mean, if you're serving everybody, that's the goal, right? But horizontal meaning your peers. You guys are in this together. What do you have to discuss about interactions with your peers and classmates? You're all in this together. You know, there's really no ifs, ands or buts buts it. Every tough thing that you're facing right now is something that your buddy two desks away from you is going to be facing too. And just taking solace in that fact really can bring a group of people together. There's a lot of, you know, I'd say, what's the word? How do you say? Generalizations. That'll work. Generalizations or... That's not the word Eric. I'm just here nodding. maybe preconceived notions? Hmm. over simplifications? STEREOTYPES! Ding ding ding! you know, guys and gals, not a guy -girl thing, just new people. But, you know, if you go into it thinking of it as a give and take, you're learning from me, so what can I do for you? At least in the hospital or... classmates, hey, are you doing okay? That last exam was terrible. I did terrible, you know? And then I feel like it's very fun and easy to bond over a terrible exam question. There is nothing that'll unite folk more than a common enemy. And some exam questions are real good enemies. Reminds me of that quote, I don't know if you watch The Office, anybody who watches The Office, Michael Scott, he's like, everybody loves to hate the lunch lady. Except for me, I had lunch with her. It was perfect, it was the perfect line, but that's what that makes me think of. Yeah. But I feel, especially in the hospital, you can, you can meet your nurse, your preceptor with a lot of apprehension and reluctance. But if you just show up, show in, and just start getting your hands dirty. And I mean that quite literally, like taking stool samples and helping clean up code Brown's. Brown. They'll see it, they'll recognize it and you know they'll give back in some way or another. It'll come back to you. Yeah. So you mean it's not like competitive 24 -7? You're not trying to cut each other down? That's weird, because that's the picture I get of it. I don't understand. Why is it not competitive? Well, it's because we're not siblings. That's the distinction. Yeah, that's the distinction. Touche. But there is something to be said about that, isn't there? I mean, some programs it's very difficult to get into. So it's almost like the cohort starts off on a bad foot because everybody's trying to one up one another just to get into the school to learn the things they need to learn to get on with their new career. Did you experience any of that at all? Was that any part of your process? And if so, what would you do? Do you have any advice about that? Well, thankfully Gonzaga was an on -admit school, so I got into nursing on -admit, didn't have to fight to get in. Secondly, I was scared of everyone in our cohort, so I didn't really talk to anyone my first couple years. I had like the four buddies, the four guys in nursing, didn't talk to anyone else, so I wasn't competing with anyone. I didn't know anyone else. I'm like, hi. I think we had a class together, but you're scary so I didn't talk to you. Sorry. Well, and maybe some of that feeling comes, you know, that carries over from high school. I don't care if you're going right in from high school or years later, because I can guarantee you going into nursing school. You know, I graduated when I was 30. And so, you know, but you still you get into that. It's that group. You know what I mean? That you just the larger group, there's still subgroups and you're, well, gosh, what does that person think of this? And, look at them. They hang out together all the time. I don't know. You know what I mean? Is that is how do you overcome that? you know what? The best way to overcome that is sharing food with everyone. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! Hold on a minute. I - I - I - I found a tray of cookies and I shared them with my cohort and after that everyone was a lot less scary, seeming to me. Because you know, once you share a snack with someone, it's like, okay. I can chillax around you, I can be alright. And so just find in those little moments where you can let your guard down and hopefully not be poked by the stick. Just, yeah! Feed them and they will come. So today's very special episode has been brought to you by the word food. And if you're hungry after eating this, we do not apologize in any way, shape, or form. We also will not be providing snacks and refreshments on this flight. I do apologize. man, I don't even wanna, golly, I don't wanna end this in any way, shape, or form. But this is true of every episode. If I could have my way, every episode would be just hours long. You know what I mean? I don't know that we could sustain that, but it's just, you meet the most fascinating people and you get to know more about the most fascinating, at least that's what I'm hoping our audience is doing, because that's the whole point of this. This is Gabe. Everybody meet Gabe, Gabe meet everybody. And so moving on to the more of the practical things. So, you know, in nursing school, you kind of wanted to talk about studying habits, time management. What do you want to say about that? Yes, that is the biggest lesson that I have because if you're like me and tuition is way too expensive for your blood, you will probably be balancing a couple of jobs on top of classes and clinicals and balancing that studying and sleep. Boy, boy, I believe in you. But that's probably the biggest lesson that I wanted to share, at least school wise. Start a study habit. Hehehehehe a day. I know life's school because I don't have a social life. I sit at home. I'm either at work, at school, or studying. So, please take that with a grain of salt. Don't do two hours. I want you guys to be happy. Go outside, touch grass, go on a hike. Even if it means two hours of sleep. Well now I'd say you definitely interact with others though. I've seen the peers that you hang out with, I've seen that happen outside of the university, so there is a social component as well, right? well i've been blessed with a great great peers you know everyone i love everyone our cohort they're all great they're all sweet they're not as scary as i thought some of them are a little scary but you know can i name drop pen Pengshen yeah pen Pengshen that guy's scary that that scary pen pen Hehehehehe hey, it's fine. So there's, we have Pengshen and everybody else. All right, we got it. shout out to everyone else. I mean, I could go through the list of like 30 -something of us, but then we'd be here a while and I don't want to kill our airtime. No. So anything else as far as studying habits, time management, anything along those lines? Get a schedule going, stick to it, figure out what works, cut off what doesn't, you'll be fine. There it is. Simple as that. Done. Done deal. Alright, well I can't wait any longer. I have to know about why you chose the three words you chose and what the deal is with the word human as a descriptor, not a noun. okay. So we're finally getting into the should I say rice and beans or meat and potatoes? Okay So fun Because obviously nursing school is a blast you get to do and see so many things that half your you know classmates roommates won't get to do It's great. I mean getting to swing around a bag of normal saline throwing it at people don't throw that don't throw in people No matter how much you want to don't don't it's it's tempting Yes, I've learned my lesson I From yes from observing others Fun Because I've had a blast scary because it's terrifying like I said the first day I was in the hospital I started in labor and delivery and I had no idea what I was doing and I was thrown immediately into a delivery and I'm like, holy cannoli, what am I doing here? Someone point me in the direction. I will follow directions as best as I can. And you know, you're going to be scared to do things. You're going to be scared to give your first vaccine, your first poke. Shoot, your first IV is going to be a hopefully you'll do well, but it's probably going to be a nightmare. Mine. I popped the vein. you know. mine was a crime scene, but that's a story for another day. You want me to talk about it? This is your episode, man. All right, all right, we'll keep it straight forward. No, my first IV opportunity was in an ER. where you know those opportunities exist in plentiful amounts and quantities. And I'll never forget, God bless whatever nurse had me, she says she hands me the IV kit, little bucket right for those that aren't aware, it's a little bucket it's got you know all the materials you need various sizes of IV. She says there's a guy back in wherever, I don't know, there's a room this that and the other. She says go ghost we need an IV on that guy. You feel like you got it? Yeah, absolutely. Okay, go. Now, there's number one. In hindsight, I'm going, I didn't have anybody with me. My instructor, a nurse, and I couldn't tell you where along in my education process this was, but all I remember is going, I don't, is anyone, just, it's me. Okay, got it. So I go in, they're like, don't worry, this guy's not gonna feel it. So I do what we're trained to do. I go in, hello, my name is Eric, I'm here to start an IV. The guy is out. He is likely, I don't want to subject into, or try to project into what his issue was. But the guy's passed out, doesn't respond, I mean, he's breathing, life's good, but he is dead to the world. I was like, this is why you sent me in here. Okay, all right, but as you do, you still treat the person with dignity, even though they're out, maybe he can hear me, maybe he can't, I hope so. So is it okay if I start an IV on you today? you know, blink once, blink twice, I don't know. Let me know if you don't, you know, and he's completely out. All right, here's what we're gonna be doing. And so I warned him and prepped him. I'm still terrified. There's nobody there watching me, like family members, anything like that. I tell you, I missed the first, you get two attempts, I missed the first one, got the second one. But in the course of doing that, right, like you forget to, I didn't clamp the IV. So he's, you know, then the blood's like pouring all over. I'm like, it's on his shorts. It's on my pants. It's on the bed, the stretcher. I was like, yeah, clamp, okay, clamp. I mean, you know, he didn't lose too much. But that, yeah, there's my first IV experience for you. Yeah. And you know what? Continuing on the trend of scary and terrified, you can and will be left alone. And in those times, wander. You'll find something to do. There will always be something to do. And you can walk in a room, check who's nurse and go, hey, your patient and blah, blah. He's asking for this. Can I go help you out? Nine times out of 10, they'll say, I don't care. Do what you want, kid. So. Hahaha is humanity, right? This is a caring job. It's a career that we go in to care for people, where people ourselves, we can have bad days. You got to leave that stuff outside the hospital. If I'm having a terrible week, leave it. You need to have something that reminds you that just as the people you're caring for are human with their whole lives and their stories, you are too. take care of yourself just like you'd take care of a patient. We're all humans. We all need the same care. And so to serve your patients the best that you can and to have the best time that you can on clinical and make the most friends you can with the staff, you got to have a foot in the door. That's just, all right, I'm here, fresh, nothing. Nothing's going to take me down. Right here is where I'm at. Awesome. You're bringing it today, Gabe. You're bringing it today. You've brought it today, except there's still one more piece we need. What is your one piece of advice? If you could only give one, what's your one piece of advice to nursing students, prospective nursing students, nurses, all the above? I'm gonna keep it really, really nice and simple because I'm gonna cheat and do one sentence but two things. Everything I think about comes back to it. Do your best and never give up. Those two things, you stick to them, good things will come your way. When it gets tough, when you wanna break down, when you don't think you can keep on going, my classmates hate it but I always say it builds character. Hehehehehe If you do your best, people will see that. People will reciprocate and it'll come back to you. And if you do that, it'll be darn tough to give up. Yeah, yeah, that's how we've raised our kids. We told them, you know, we don't care about your grades. We don't, 100%. Obviously, if you're failing, that's a different story. We need to figure out what's going on. But my own personal children, as they've grown up, they're now summer young adults, teens, that sort of thing. You know, our motto at home was always, as long as those grades represent your best effort, then that grade is the best grade you could have obtained at that time, and we're proud of you for that. And that's what it's about. If you are at a clinical, if you have just barely passed a test, if you've, and you know what I'm talking about, every single one of us knows when we are not giving our best effort. We know what it's like, well, I probably should have studied a little more for that one, but I'm gonna just give it a, you know, I'm gonna wing it and see if that works. But you know when you've given your best effort, if you've done that and the result is a D, it's a D. You did the best you could. And hopefully that combined with everything else will be enough to get you through. But the point is, give that best effort, be proud of the work that you do at the top of your abilities at that moment in life, yeah? There's one quote from a show where this kid's having a really tough day and he asks his granddad, granddad, what do you do when you can't do nothing and there's nothing you can do? And all he says back is, you do what you can. And you take it one step at a time, you do what you can and boom, the biggest problems gone. How do you eat an elephant, Eric? well, it's definitely you have to open the trunk first and then, no, no. One bite at a, hold on. I gotta write this down. I haven't, there we go. One, that was one, one bite at a, one bite at a time. my gosh, that is profound. That is profound. You need to, you need to trademark that. it's patented patent pending. Yes. can't thank you enough for your time. I know our listeners can't thank you enough. This has been just an absolute... I don't have the proper adjective for this. If anybody's out there, yeah, blast! There it is. It's a blast. We have had a blast. I'm gonna let you go have some baked beans, rice, steak, potatoes, veggies, whatever it is you're gonna have, because I'm hungry after doing this episode myself. up an appetite. I think I might eat an elephant now. One bite at a time! So profound! I love it, I love it. Alright, you have a great day my man. YouTube, bye everyone.