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Your Doctor Has Questions

Your Doctor Has Questions

by Chris Morley and Kacy Peek

Comedy Society & Culture

What's the Difference Between Jail and Prison?

We take a deep dive into incarceration in the US, starting with the question "What's the difference between jail and prison?" Because Chris can't help himself, we also explore the unspeakable injustice of our justice system, and our government's routine victimization of incarcerated people. This episode includes discussion of violence and sexual violence. Sources: America's Jails: The Search for Human Dignity in an Age of Mass Incarceration, Derek Jeffreys The New Criminal Justice Thinking, Edited by Sharon Dolovich and Alexandra Natapoff DOJ Inspector General's Report on California prisons Bureau of Justice Statistics Department of Justice overview of criminal procedure Cornell Legal Information Institute: Criminal Procedure

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/ Wiki: Mason Dixon Line Wiki: Penn–Calvert boundary dispute Wiki: Twelve-Mile Circle Wiki: Delaware Wedge Wiki: Cresap's War Wiki: Bikini waxing Wiki: Bikini Wiki: Bikini Atoll Wiki: History of the bikini Wiki: Bikini Kill Wiki: Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone Wiki: Military Demarcation Line Wiki: Transatlantic telegraph cable Wiki: Phreaking Wiki: 2600 Hertz Wiki: Blue box NYT: Off-the-Cuff Obama Line Put U.S. in Bind on Syria National Geographic: Word in the News: Red Line

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’

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 Bridge of Spies: A True Story of the Cold War, Giles Whittel The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB, Christopher Andrew, Vasili Mitrokhin Wiki - Robert Hanssen Wiki - Aldrich Ames Wiki - Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Wiki - Klaus Fuchs 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 NYTimes: 3 Hikers Dead After Volcano Erupts in Indonesia

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 Alan Blinder, A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, 1961–2021

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? Wiki: Ned Kelly Wiki: Armour of the Kelly Gang Wiki: Redmond Barry Wiki: Convicts in Australia An article comparing Ned Kelly to Jesus

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 Wiki: Chuck Barris Wiki: Allen Funt Wiki: Mark Burnett NYTimes: Huge Snowball Fight in New York Escalates After Police Arrive NYTimes: D.A. Rejects Assault Charge Against Man Who Threw Snowballs at Officers

Your Doctor Has Answers! How to Cut Off a Finger

Not that you'd want to. Kacy explains why a person might ask a surgeon to cut their finger cut off, why removing a whole finger can sometimes be better than keeping a bit of one, what the procedure looks like, and what happens after. Gripping stuff (har har). Sources: Years of med school, residency, fellowship, and practice. Tubin' Toobin's article about Gambling Goldstein Serious Trouble: Lemon Law (including discussion of Goldstein case near the end) NYTimes: JD Booed at Opening Ceremony

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