Your Doctor Has Questions

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

BONUS TRACK: This is just a monster cut of every time I agreed with Kacy Jo on our most recent episode.

I think it really shows off how smart I am.

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

Give me a Y! Give me a D! Give me an H! Give me a Q! What's that spell?

Your Doctor Has Questions takes on the Vietnam War. Why did we go there? What happened before we did? Who was involved?

From around 1958 to 1975, the US fought a bloody and violent war against a good chunk of the Vietnamese people, ostensibly to avoid Asia turning red. We take a look at what happened in Vietnam and around the world that led us there.

Sources:

Country Joe & the Fish

Hanoi's War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam, Lien-Hang T. Nguyen

Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam, Fredrik Logevall

Arts festivals! Gorgeous beaches! Fruchocs! Large mounds of brown fibreglass! What can't Adelaide do?

In this incredibly special episode--recorded in Chris' mum's living room in the Adelaide Hills--we sit down with noted expert in pretty much everything, Jon Tickle, to discuss the finest and funniest parts of South Australia's best capital city: Adelaide.

Jon runs us through a bit of history, a lot of culture, and near-endless miscellany.

Notes:

South Australian Museum's Land Acknowledgment

ABC coverage of Gina Rinehart's portrait

Paywalled article of SA's tattoo bloke

Wiki: Magic Mountain

Wiki: Big Rocking Horse

Adelaide Airport's Press Release on Direct Flights

Ever since I can remember, I always wanted to have a podcast.

Your Doctor Has Spoilers! We play our favourite road trip game: Tell me the entire plot of a movie.

Chris walks Kacy Jo through the entire plot of Martin Scorsese's 1990 gangster classic, Goodfellas.

What's up with class actions? What are they for? What do they do? Why do I keep getting letters in the mail telling me I'm entitled to a $5 coupon because a laptop I bought eight years made a funny noise?

We're thrilled to be joined by friend of the pod and respected plaintiffs' lawyer Jamisen Etzel, who walks Kacy Jo through the whys and wherefores of class action litigation. Chris . . . uhhhh . . . participates, with increasing seasonal jollity.

Sources:

Mostly just Jamo's years of experience, but you can also check out Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23.

Serious Trouble has run a few great episodes discussion Tom Girardi and Michael Avenatti.

Our very first fifth episode!

In this special, bonus episode (featuring friend of the pod, Jamisen Etzel), Kacy Jo explains carpal tunnel syndrome, plus she gets grilled about what it's like to cut into a person.

Sources:

Just years and years of school and training. Decades. It's a miracle we survived.

Back with a splash! We delve into the science and history of tea, doing our best to answer the important questions: What is it? Where does it come from? Why does it taste like that? How racist is it, really?

Mentioned in the episode: Porto Rico Importing Co. and at 210 Bleeker St. in Manhattan if you're ever in the neighborhood. Well worth a visit!

Sources:

Three Basic Teas and How to Enjoy Them, Virginia Utermohlen Lovelace

A Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World, Erika Rappaport

Wikipedia: Boston Tea Party

Wikipedia: East India Company

How cold is it there? Are there people? How did they get there and what are they up to? Are they eating the dogs?

Pretty farkin'. Yes. Mostly ships. Mostly research. Not any more.

But we dive much deeper into Antarctica we get into in this episode, including some truly macabre history and some downright chilly meteorology.

Sources:

All wikipedia this time

Antarctica

Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration

Far Eastern Party

Discovery Expedition

Douglas Mawson

Amundsen's South Pole expedition

Ernest Shackleton

Fridtjof Nansen

Research stations in Antarctica

Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station

Religion in Antarctica

Religion in space

History of Antarctica

Mount Erebus disaster