Whose Line Is it Anyway?

Whose Line Is it Anyway?

An episode all about . . . LINES! I promise, it's more exciting than it sounds. We draw a through-line (get it?) from the Mason Dixon Line to Caesar to nuclear testing to swimwear to waxing to post-punk feminist music to phone phreaking to Rick James. Bam. Show Notes: Phone Trips: http://www.wideweb.com/phonetrips/ [http://www.wideweb.com/phonetrips/] Wiki: Mason Dixon Line [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason–Dixon_line] Wiki: Penn–Calvert boundary dispute [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penn–Calvert_boundary_dispute] Wiki: Twelve-Mile Circle [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve-Mile_Circle] Wiki: Delaware Wedge [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaware_Wedge] Wiki: Cresap's War [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cresap's_War] Wiki: Bikini waxing [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bikini_waxing] Wiki: Bikini [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bikini] Wiki: Bikini Atoll [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bikini_Atoll] Wiki: History of the bikini [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_bikini] Wiki: Bikini Kill [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bikini_Kill] Wiki: Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese_Demilitarized_Zone] Wiki: Military Demarcation Line [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Demarcation_Line] Wiki: Transatlantic telegraph cable [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_telegraph_cable] Wiki: Phreaking [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trunkline] Wiki: 2600 Hertz [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2600_hertz] Wiki: Blue box [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_box] NYT: Off-the-Cuff Obama Line Put U.S. in Bind on Syria [https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/05/world/middleeast/obamas-vow-on-chemical-weapons-puts-him-in-tough-spot.html?_r=1&] National Geographic: Word in the News: Red Line [https://web.archive.org/web/20171011195735/http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/13/130507-red-line-obama-syria-mccain-chemical-weapons/]

YDHSpoilers: How's the Lieutenant and What's His Port of Call?

He's bad. It's New Orleans. YDHQ delves into the Werner Herzog oddity Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, a neo-noir crime drama (black comedy?) starring Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, and Xzibit, along with Val Kilmer, Michael Shannon, and national treasure Jennifer Coolidge. We have questions, starting with "Why the shit is the title so long?" Show Notes: NYTimes: Thousands of Mice Swarm Parts of Western Australia in a ‘Mouse Plague’ [https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/world/australia/australia-mouse-plague.html]

Doctor, Husband, Podcast, Spy

What's up with all these spies? Did they really love me? Have we no sense of decency? The history of Russian espionage in the west, and especially "Illegals"--spies who operated without diplomatic cover. We get into Kim Philby and the Cambridge Five, Klaus Fuchs, the Rosenbergs, Hanssen and Ames, and the more recent clown shows. Sources: A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal, Ben Macintyre [https://www.amazon.com/Spy-Among-Friends-Philby-Betrayal/dp/0804136653] Bridge of Spies: A True Story of the Cold War, Giles Whittel [https://www.amazon.com/Bridge-Spies-Giles-Whittell/dp/0767931084/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2WU14R3LYSOGC&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.Q7mMpVCFSuNaOwcVu1RxgKh8O3T1A_WbTW9m2du6hxEVXnFHDnm7WJYXT3NU88G6dIaj9WT2_M00tREWHjlqLgWhGtnRNj8z9Gy-Xr_0Y4OB3ORpsU6I1tiYl4vvk7dqmTaOLY9V3fMIxd3x8jOD-_fiSGfL8mKnoc7Ej2YXCpZoyR7E0MjhS19Oj7vwUohc7qi8Yyofqj9GqaVAYNfo6DeCDqIyXiORPksnSf0VScE.FUXJpx8U5p29NXzqBefsqsPYF7VgJJyMI4pzi0HYSeA&dib_tag=se&keywords=bridge+of+spies&qid=1779793253&s=books&sprefix=bridge+of+spies%2Cstripbooks%2C99&sr=1-1] The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB, Christopher Andrew, Vasili Mitrokhin [https://www.amazon.com/The-Sword-and-Shield-audiobook/dp/B00005AAPI/ref=sr_1_1?crid=24204F3Y5XLZI&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.ou8vXVMx2QD3qkypYtNT2G-Nazad9LljZOGoszBTbnYSEkyM1XER6sqj2xZ7E-ISOnrnbQFbWMjSdQmwVlD_k52uOyWsleUgdqt2oVU_bIav16jdFacHqmLFwDtRkQoI3Ay4hEZ6dH3QwkqDes0r5ufSMYr0AZyeppZceT-Mdp9pohP-XtJl6jAX5aEtmEYXXN5_NddTjy0aWtNJk9KkLmX_6zC4vmLYCcBmumHfoKA.x6zNcTTj4lrGsesTlP1Aq9I_7IU-Vtro5SUx7S0x1rg&dib_tag=se&keywords=mitrokhin+archives&qid=1779793298&s=books&sprefix=mitrokhin+archive%2Cstripbooks%2C105&sr=1-1] Wiki - Robert Hanssen [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hanssen] Wiki - Aldrich Ames [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldrich_Ames] Wiki - Julius and Ethel Rosenberg [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_and_Ethel_Rosenberg] Wiki - Klaus Fuchs [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Fuchs] Wiki - Illegals Program [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegals_Program]

Your Doctor Has Answers! Squirt It Like You'll Hurt It (High Pressure Injection Injuries)

What is a high pressure injection injury, and is it bad? (Spoiler: Yes. It's very bad). Following our quinquepisodinal* tradition, Kacy explains high pressure injection injuries. You might have heard them called "grease gun injuries." In short, it's when a high pressure fluid squirts with such force that it cuts into your body and shoots that fluid into you. It's nowhere near as sexy as it sounds. *I'm making this a word now. Sources: M.C. Cejin, A. Koyfman, B. Long, High risk and low incidence diseases: high-pressure injection injury, Am J Emerg Med, 88 (2025), pp. 120-125 [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajem.2024.11.066] NYTimes: 3 Hikers Dead After Volcano Erupts in Indonesia [https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/world/asia/indonesia-volcano-eruption-dukono-hikers.html]

What is the Fed?

Finally! The Fed! Top 3 friend of the pod Jamisen joins us to explain what the Fed is, what it does, and why we should care. What is a central bank? What's fractional reserve banking? What's the interest rate that everyone cares about? Should we audit the Fed? And, like, what is money anyway? We answer some of these questions on this show. Sources: Ben Bernanke, 21st Century Monetary Policy: The Federal Reserve from the Great Inflation to COVID-19 [https://www.amazon.com/21st-Century-Monetary-Policy-Inflation/dp/1324020466] Alan Blinder, A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, 1961–2021 [https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691238388/a-monetary-and-fiscal-history-of-the-united-states-1961-2021?srsltid=AfmBOorJXZ_D9qH_b5uqHH43CgK6QH1X4ah0kY3Vtomg7gqvGymgIVMS]