Your Doctor Has Questions

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]

YDHSpoilers: How Neon Is Your Demon?

YDHQ takes on the 2016 glitzy, arthouse oddity, The Neon Demon and somehow lives to tell about it. The Neon Demon is the tenth movie by Danish weirdo, Nicolas Winding Refn, who's probably most known for his 2011 film, Drive, starring a young and taciturn Ryan Gosling. Demon stars Elle Fanning and features some truly awkward performances by Christina Hendricks, Keanu Reaves, Jenna Malone, and a couple of hungry Australians.

Was Ned Kelly a Sheep?

Who was Ned Kelly? Was he a sheep? Why did he wear a helmet? Could he read? "Yes!" Is the answer to at least one of these questions. We dive deep-ishly into the history of perhaps Australia's most iconic figure: Ned Kelly. Bushranger. Bareknuckle Boxer. Hero? Who can say. Sources: Where is the Green Sheep? [https://www.amazon.com/Where-Green-Sheep-Mem-Fox/dp/0152067043] Wiki: Ned Kelly [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Kelly] Wiki: Armour of the Kelly Gang [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armour_of_the_Kelly_gang] Wiki: Redmond Barry [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redmond_Barry] Wiki: Convicts in Australia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convicts_in_Australia] An article comparing Ned Kelly to Jesus [https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/rebels-who-knew-the-end-was-coming-but-stood-up-anyway-20130329-2gz9t.html]

How Real Is Your TV?

Outwit. Outlast. Outlisten. Whence came all that awful not-at-all-real reality television in the 2000s, anyway? Chris walks through the history of reality television, all the way back to hidden microphone shows on radio in the 1940s, through Chuck Barris' reign of outre gameshows and political assassination (!?!) in the 1960s, An American Family on PBS in 1970, the Real World, and the explosion of reality shows as we crested the new millennium. **UPDATE: We had some issues with the audio file initially. Should be fixed now!** Sources: Cue the Sun, Emily Nussbaum [https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/563029/cue-the-sun-by-emily-nussbaum/] Wiki: Chuck Barris [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Barris] Wiki: Allen Funt [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Funt] Wiki: Mark Burnett [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Burnett] NYTimes: Huge Snowball Fight in New York Escalates After Police Arrive [https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/nyregion/nypd-snowball-fight-washington-square-park.html] NYTimes: D.A. Rejects Assault Charge Against Man Who Threw Snowballs at Officers [https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/nyregion/nypd-snowball-arrest-washington-square.html]