((PKG)) ER EXPERIENCES INSPIRE MUSIC   
((TRT: 07:22))   
((Topic Banner:  Nurse Musician))  
((Reporter:  Faiza Elmasry)) 
((Camera/Editor: Mike Burke)) 
((Map:??Leesburg and Alexandria, Virginia)) 
((Main character: 1 male)) 
((Sub characters: 2 female)) 
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((Mike Jones, Emergency Room Nurse and Musician))  
I started playing the guitar when I was 13 years old.  
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((Mike Jones, Emergency Room Nurse and Musician))   
I'm self-taught.  
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((Mike Jones, Emergency Room Nurse and Musician))   
It is a thing that has brought me peace. It is a thing that gave me 
something to do, my hands to do when my friends were doing 
other things that, maybe, they shouldn't have been doing. It took 
away a lot of boredom.  
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((Mike Jones, Emergency Room Nurse and Musician))   
((Courtesy: mikejonesband.com)) 
I've been playing, I would say, professionally since 17.  I grew up 
40 minutes outside New York City. So, my first gig was at a club 
called, Kenny’s Castaways on Bleecker Street. It's now gone. It 
was a really kind of cool, cool, cool little club. And since then, I've 
been in bands until now, and I'm 40. So, I've been playing music 
throughout all of those years.   
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((Mike Jones, Emergency Room Nurse and Musician))   
I'm an RN. I'm a registered nurse and a BSN, a Bachelor of 
Science in Nursing. And I've been working in the emergency 
department right from the get-go for over five-and-a-half years. 
((NATS: Mike Jones  
Could we just get a temp, please? I’m going to go check this lady 
out. Be right back.))   
((Mike Jones, Emergency Room Nurse and Musician))   
I feel like I, sort of, stumbled into this career. It wasn't something 
that I ever, you know, like as a young kid, I was like, ‘Oh, I'm 
dying to be a nurse’. It didn’t end up like that. I was set to be a 
musician for a long time. I needed something, you know, like the 
old day job.  
((NATS: Mike Jones 
Go.))  
((Mike Jones, Emergency Room Nurse and Musician)) 
My mom's a nurse. I gravitated towards the profession. I like 
being on my feet. I like people and I like, kind of like the 
adrenaline rush and sketchy situations. I like helping people at 
their worst. I think that’s really what my co-workers would say. I 
like helping the people that really need help.   
The pandemic has impacted every aspect of our lives.  
((NATS: Mike Jones and daughter 
One, two, three.)) 
((Mike Jones, Emergency Room Nurse and Musician)) 
Because public school was canceled and they started doing the 
online thing. So, we kind of built a little bit of a school.  
((NATS: Mike Jones and daughter   
17,18,19,20,21,22. So, that's good. Let's scroll up.))  
((Mike Jones, Emergency Room Nurse and Musician)) 
My wife would say that this is her favorite time ever.  
((NATS: Beth Ann Greenberg and daughter    
Go, go, go, go.))  
((Mike Jones, Emergency Room Nurse and Musician)) 
We have children at good ages.  
((NATS: Mike Jones, Beth Ann Greenberg, Daughter 
You got it? 
Yeah. 
Let’s go. 
Yeah!))  
((Mike Jones, Emergency Room Nurse and Musician))   
We have children that like being around us still, you know, and 
are relatively easy to entertain and we have outside space. 
((NATS: Mike Jones, Daughter 
Dad, yeah!)) 
((Beth Ann Greenberg, Mike Jones’ Wife))  
I think when you're married to a musician, you learn very quickly 
that that's their number one love. And it has been since they were 
a small child. And I think for a long time, I tried to compete with 
that. But then I learned that he's so much more happier doing 
what he loves. 
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((Beth Ann Greenberg, Mike Jones’ Wife))  
When the pandemic happened, him doing sort of a solo thing and 
releasing music and collaborating, you know, virtually, it was just 
a way for him to keep doing that when he couldn't go play gigs on 
Fridays and Saturday nights.  
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((Beth Ann Greenberg, Mike Jones’ Wife))  
And so, I'm just grateful that he has found a way to continue to 
feed that, because I think it's almost his air, you know. If he can't 
be in and around music, he's just miserable. 
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((Mike Jones, Emergency Room Nurse and Musician))   
I've been able to pass around files that I've recorded here with 
other people. And they record it in their home studios. And we can 
put them together and basically have songs. 
The fact that I'm even doing this, in this way now, is just a direct 
result of being a nurse during the pandemic.  
((NATS: Patient 
Aah.))  
((Mike Jones, Emergency Room Nurse and Musician))   
I have a notion that like life is really fleeting. I see a lot of people 
die, a lot, almost daily. The nursing and that aspect of stuff 
definitely has seeped and seeped into these songs.  
The titles of these songs are not very edgy.  
((Courtesy: mikejonesband.com)) 
You know, I've got, Wild Heart “Calamity Jane”. I've got, Don't 
Give up on Me, The Strongest One I Know, and then, Snake Oil.  
((NATS: Mike Jones  
Come on in. Let me help you out. Here.)) 
((Mike Jones, Emergency Room Nurse and Musician)) 
We've got the Mike Jones Band. We’ve got Austin Day on 
keyboards. We’ve got Rich Russman over here on guitar. Jason 
Mattis is on the bass guitar and Mr. Jonathan Matloff is playing 
percussion today. And we'll do the Wild Heart “Calamity Jane” 
song. One. Two. Three. Go!))  
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((Mike Jones, Emergency Room Nurse and Musician))   
There's a lot of ER [Emergency Room] stuff in there. There's 
something about chests burning and stomach churning.  
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You got a wild heart that just can’t be tamed. 
((Mike Jones, Emergency Room Nurse and Musician))   
And then, I have this, the backdrop of like this character, Calamity 
Jane, which, I mean, she got her name for saving this guy in the 
middle of a gunfight. 
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Trying to help the sick ones, the ones that die alone.  
The orphans and the vagrants, never know at all.  
((Mike Jones, Emergency Room Nurse and Musician))   
I was very blessed to be able to do this. 
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It’s from your wild heart. Your wild heart. 
((Mike Jones, Emergency Room Nurse and Musician))   
Every day that I can still play music is a great day. 
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((Mike Jones, Emergency Room Nurse and Musician))   
More releases to come. 
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Tell me that your chest is burning. 
Tell me that your stomach is churning.  
I know that you had it well.  
Calamity Jane, for you I fell. 
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