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

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.

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

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

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.