In New Hampshire we fly that flag every year to celebrate the Pine Tree Riot. This whole episode has been so depressing, and such a reminder of how provincial and ignorant Americans can be about their own history.
I’m going to choose not to read this article and learn from history so that I can continue to believe that New Hampshire once had pine trees uproot themselves to start a horrific riot.
There are two magazines that I still subscribe to the print edition for. The first is Reason (in large part because Moynihan's ex does great graphic design).
And the other is Garden and Gun. It's a fun, charming, refreshing look at Southern life and culture. Glad it got a shoutout on the pod!
I have good news for you, Matt - Garden & Gun is still in circulation. My mom checks it out of the library sometimes. (She is more on the garden side of things than the gun.)
My mother, God rest her soul, subscribed to that magazine and loved it. She was a classy lady from Birmingham, Alabama, where I was born and raised until age 14, and she would get particularly excited when our hometown-hero chef, Frank Stitt, was featured in an article. Used to pick up her old copies and leaf through them sometimes; it was (and presumably still is) a nice magazine !
I’ll forgive Matt for the Step on Snek snafu, but I cannot in good conscience let Matt say that Luka is a Croatian. The good people of Slovenia fought hard for the distinction so that Luka could be a god child of international basketball and more importantly that Melania could be our nations hot stepmother.
Thank you Matt. I am always happy when anybody brings up Emmanuel Cafferty. Not only was it the bellwether for the absurdity of peak-wokeness, but the bellwether for how MSM was going to handle these things. Years later we are still lionizing the Birdman of Central Park, but the Cafferty story has been completely buried and forgotten because it doesn't serve their narrative, and there is motive to revive this Kafka-esque story.
Well, it has to, otherwise her career will be quite ignominious. Through her first four games, she had amassed the second most number of turnovers to start a career in the history of the WNBA.
Her college career ended literally last month, they had a grand total of like 2 or 3 preseason games, 7 games in 12 days to start the regular season, and she is tasked with being the main ballhandler on a very bad team (hence the #1 draft pick). All more convincing factors than bad dribbling for her high turnover rate. She'll be fine.
Not only is Indiana flyover country, Women's Basketball is the sports equivalent of a flyover state which is unfortunately reinforced buy the boys complete lack of knowledge about Caitlin Clark and Indiana and Basketball. I mean come on Basketball and Indiana, even if it's women's basketball you'd think the association would somehow click.
That’s an insult to flyover states. If living conditions get bad enough on the coasts, people may move to Idaho or Tennessee and may find they like it, but men’s basketball will never be bad enough that the fans move to the WNBA.
I went to Indiana University for a couple years. When I moved back to the East Coast and mentioned it, people would ask, “Oh, in Pennsylvania?” (There is actually an IU in PA) 🙄
There’s also a California University of Pennsylvania. It’s located in California, Pennsylvania which is possibly the most disappointing city name in this hemisphere.
I literally know that because of the (best) Key and Peele skit on East/West College Bowl. Hingle McKringleberry was my Starbucks name for quite some time.
That's insane! Was this pretty recent? I've been to a few UMD events, and there are usually pretty big contingents of opponent fans, not surprising considering how many transplants are in the D.C. region.
As the actual doctor here, I should point out that shelf exams don’t really count (some schools make them count, but UCLA clearly does not). What counts are board exams. The first-time pass rate for a good U.S. med school for these exams is >95%. Failure on any step of the USMLE is a career killer that will cause many residency programs to not even consider a candidate and will completely close off their access to many specialties, regardless of race or anything else (for now).
So one of two things must be true: either the UCLA students failed their shelf exams but picked it up for the board exams, or they are just about to go off a cliff on outcomes that actually matter. The USMLE is not curved, so if the UCLA students are really that bad, they should be getting crushed on it. This would be a disaster for the school, because pass rates and residency matching rates are outcomes that show where their graduates’ careers are actually going.
I went to med school in the late 60's. We took the National Boards 3 times, after sophomore year, in senior year and in internship. You had to pass part 1 to go to your junior year and part 2 to graduate. While I was in school there was a big push to increase minority admissions. I went to Jefferson (in Philadelphia). Good school but not top tier. The top tier schools got the best qualified students, and they were fine. Jefferson brought up a bunch of students from a variety of small southern schools. Some of the students did fine, but several really struggled. They just didn't have the undergraduate prep for this kind of curriculum. They were tutored extensively but still had trouble with the national boards. The school provided extra spaces for the students, expanding the student body.
There was at that time a lot of prejudice among the faculty primarily towards female students, as opposed to racial prejudice. Many of them felt that women didn't belong in med school. My cousin's wife had applied to Penn Med in the late 50's and was told (even though she was highly qualified) to apply to Women's Medical School in Philly since there was no place for her at Penn. I'm sure that her being Jewish didn't help, but the primary factor was her gender.
My husband and I graduated from Jefferson in 1989. Jefferson first began admitting women in 1961. There were plenty of women in our graduating class, but very few minorities. The push for minorities must have reached a lull in those years, but I imagine it's back in full force now.
I did my surgery rotation at an affiliate community hospital, so maybe I was lucky? The only person who viciously mistreated me (from day one!) was a female emergency physician at a different hospital in South Philly. I'm terrible with names, but I'll never forget hers. I went into Emergency Medicine anyway, for what it's worth.
I watched that interview with Vanilla Ice when it aired...he added a beat to it - I was in maybe 8th grade and that bullshit was the talk in the halls. Every 13 year old felt strongly that he was full of shit and Bowie was robbed. We felt it so strongly that four years later we selected a line from a Bowie song for our senior quote.
Vanilla Ice learned it by watching Young MC. Witness from 1:45 to 2:00 of the otherwise unremarkable "Found A Child" by Ballin' Jack below and wonder why we were all supposed to believe that Flea was playing that in the video.
Deep dive into theft. God dammit. And how lame to be known only for having been burgled. (Sidenote: I love the word burgle and all its derivatives. So happy to be able to use it here.)
In the comment sections of one of the clips of that interview on youtube someone suggested that at one point in Under Pressure they add an extra beat as well, and that is the part that Vanilla Ice sampled. I have to say I did listen to the whole of Under Pressure to check this and couldn't hear it but, it sounds plausible.
“Kerfluffle” is endearing. The real problem is “cowwoborate.”
Yes. I'm happy he's here for some of these, but I should point out id never miss AND I can pronounce corroborate.
But do you have a really expensive telescope you can yammer on about, Spencer?
I can yammer on about sports, folk music, and travel.
I was going to ask if there was any audio evidence to cowwoborate the kerfluffle issue
Matt was so disconcerted that he said “EIGHT FLUCKING YEARS!”
...eight kerflucking years! Would've been a 10 had he sung it.
Yes! I came on these comments just to point this out. It drives me nuts when Kmele says it.
THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT I SAID!!!
Happiness is waking up from a colonoscopy to a new TFC episode.
I would think happiness would be not waking up during the colonoscopy.
Don't kink shame
They woke me up during, so I could look at the monitor.
That was weird.
On the plus side, "looks good, see you in 10 years" 👍
I've never had one although I am at the age where I am probably overdue for one.
Do it asap. I regret every day not getting one done in 2018.
Agreed, schedule it without delay. It's not a big deal but, should they find something, early detection is.
I should. I have a history of GI problems. I'll ask my doctor.
It's really not that bad; everyone complains about the prep, but, as a somewhat adventurous eater, I've done far worse to myself.
The worst part for me was getting up at 3:30 AM to do the second half of the prep for my 8 AM appointment.
Good catch, anesthesia, s/b "after a". If that is a kink, it should be shamed outside Germany.
Let's see those results first.
In New Hampshire we fly that flag every year to celebrate the Pine Tree Riot. This whole episode has been so depressing, and such a reminder of how provincial and ignorant Americans can be about their own history.
http://www.wearehistoricalsociety.org/pineriot.php
I’m going to choose not to read this article and learn from history so that I can continue to believe that New Hampshire once had pine trees uproot themselves to start a horrific riot.
As dramatized by Peter Jackson in the scene "The Last March of the Ents"
You assume that’s not what really happened.
There are two magazines that I still subscribe to the print edition for. The first is Reason (in large part because Moynihan's ex does great graphic design).
And the other is Garden and Gun. It's a fun, charming, refreshing look at Southern life and culture. Glad it got a shoutout on the pod!
Same. I love Garden and Gun. AND I get Reason, though I need to up my game to large print bcs I hate reading glasses.
"Garden and Gun saw an unexplained uptick in subscriptions at the end of May"
I was about to post Garden and Gun is still a thing
I have good news for you, Matt - Garden & Gun is still in circulation. My mom checks it out of the library sometimes. (She is more on the garden side of things than the gun.)
My mother, God rest her soul, subscribed to that magazine and loved it. She was a classy lady from Birmingham, Alabama, where I was born and raised until age 14, and she would get particularly excited when our hometown-hero chef, Frank Stitt, was featured in an article. Used to pick up her old copies and leaf through them sometimes; it was (and presumably still is) a nice magazine !
I’ll forgive Matt for the Step on Snek snafu, but I cannot in good conscience let Matt say that Luka is a Croatian. The good people of Slovenia fought hard for the distinction so that Luka could be a god child of international basketball and more importantly that Melania could be our nations hot stepmother.
And the child of a Slovenian mother and ethnically Serbian Kosovar father
Thank you Matt. I am always happy when anybody brings up Emmanuel Cafferty. Not only was it the bellwether for the absurdity of peak-wokeness, but the bellwether for how MSM was going to handle these things. Years later we are still lionizing the Birdman of Central Park, but the Cafferty story has been completely buried and forgotten because it doesn't serve their narrative, and there is motive to revive this Kafka-esque story.
The difference between Under Pressure and Ice Ice Baby:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TLo4Z_LWu4
See totally different!
Caitlin Clark is generally likeable and cute. But she dribbles like a toddler who has had tequila slipped into their juice box.
We Iowa girls have many talents.
Her dribbling will prolly improve in the pros?
Well, it has to, otherwise her career will be quite ignominious. Through her first four games, she had amassed the second most number of turnovers to start a career in the history of the WNBA.
Her college career ended literally last month, they had a grand total of like 2 or 3 preseason games, 7 games in 12 days to start the regular season, and she is tasked with being the main ballhandler on a very bad team (hence the #1 draft pick). All more convincing factors than bad dribbling for her high turnover rate. She'll be fine.
Holy cow. Tears. I’m less than 20 minutes in and already laughing SO HARD. 😂
INDIANA. INDIANA Fever. (Let’s all acknowledge that flyover state privilege is definitely not a thing.)
Not only is Indiana flyover country, Women's Basketball is the sports equivalent of a flyover state which is unfortunately reinforced buy the boys complete lack of knowledge about Caitlin Clark and Indiana and Basketball. I mean come on Basketball and Indiana, even if it's women's basketball you'd think the association would somehow click.
That’s an insult to flyover states. If living conditions get bad enough on the coasts, people may move to Idaho or Tennessee and may find they like it, but men’s basketball will never be bad enough that the fans move to the WNBA.
I once attended a Maryland versus Purdue basketball game where the Maryland fans chanted "go back to flyover country"
I went to Indiana University for a couple years. When I moved back to the East Coast and mentioned it, people would ask, “Oh, in Pennsylvania?” (There is actually an IU in PA) 🙄
You should have said, “No, the one with five national championship banners”
I’m not allowed to say that because my brothers went to Purdue.
Smart guys
There’s also a California University of Pennsylvania. It’s located in California, Pennsylvania which is possibly the most disappointing city name in this hemisphere.
Fascist, colonist Pennsylvanians, taking over names like that.
Miami (of Ohio) University just found its soul sister. You’ll never be alone, California University of Pennsylvania! 😍
I literally know that because of the (best) Key and Peele skit on East/West College Bowl. Hingle McKringleberry was my Starbucks name for quite some time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gODZzSOelss
That's insane! Was this pretty recent? I've been to a few UMD events, and there are usually pretty big contingents of opponent fans, not surprising considering how many transplants are in the D.C. region.
2017?
Send Matt a Stalin shirt.
"by the transitive pattern of im fucking restarted" is one I will be using in the future
Is Moynihan's daughter gonna compete in the Olympics?
I, too, am hoping she does!
Too young for this go-round, I think?
As the actual doctor here, I should point out that shelf exams don’t really count (some schools make them count, but UCLA clearly does not). What counts are board exams. The first-time pass rate for a good U.S. med school for these exams is >95%. Failure on any step of the USMLE is a career killer that will cause many residency programs to not even consider a candidate and will completely close off their access to many specialties, regardless of race or anything else (for now).
So one of two things must be true: either the UCLA students failed their shelf exams but picked it up for the board exams, or they are just about to go off a cliff on outcomes that actually matter. The USMLE is not curved, so if the UCLA students are really that bad, they should be getting crushed on it. This would be a disaster for the school, because pass rates and residency matching rates are outcomes that show where their graduates’ careers are actually going.
I went to med school in the late 60's. We took the National Boards 3 times, after sophomore year, in senior year and in internship. You had to pass part 1 to go to your junior year and part 2 to graduate. While I was in school there was a big push to increase minority admissions. I went to Jefferson (in Philadelphia). Good school but not top tier. The top tier schools got the best qualified students, and they were fine. Jefferson brought up a bunch of students from a variety of small southern schools. Some of the students did fine, but several really struggled. They just didn't have the undergraduate prep for this kind of curriculum. They were tutored extensively but still had trouble with the national boards. The school provided extra spaces for the students, expanding the student body.
There was at that time a lot of prejudice among the faculty primarily towards female students, as opposed to racial prejudice. Many of them felt that women didn't belong in med school. My cousin's wife had applied to Penn Med in the late 50's and was told (even though she was highly qualified) to apply to Women's Medical School in Philly since there was no place for her at Penn. I'm sure that her being Jewish didn't help, but the primary factor was her gender.
My husband and I graduated from Jefferson in 1989. Jefferson first began admitting women in 1961. There were plenty of women in our graduating class, but very few minorities. The push for minorities must have reached a lull in those years, but I imagine it's back in full force now.
The head of CT surgery when I was there must have retired by then. He was absolutely vile towards women when I rotated through his service.
I did my surgery rotation at an affiliate community hospital, so maybe I was lucky? The only person who viciously mistreated me (from day one!) was a female emergency physician at a different hospital in South Philly. I'm terrible with names, but I'll never forget hers. I went into Emergency Medicine anyway, for what it's worth.
I watched that interview with Vanilla Ice when it aired...he added a beat to it - I was in maybe 8th grade and that bullshit was the talk in the halls. Every 13 year old felt strongly that he was full of shit and Bowie was robbed. We felt it so strongly that four years later we selected a line from a Bowie song for our senior quote.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-1_9-z9rbY
My question is, if Kmele were to steal Vanilla's song, would he say "Stop, cowwaborate and listen"?
Vanilla Ice learned it by watching Young MC. Witness from 1:45 to 2:00 of the otherwise unremarkable "Found A Child" by Ballin' Jack below and wonder why we were all supposed to believe that Flea was playing that in the video.
https://youtu.be/me1JFWaB740
Deep dive into theft. God dammit. And how lame to be known only for having been burgled. (Sidenote: I love the word burgle and all its derivatives. So happy to be able to use it here.)
Sorry but this this immediately came to mind when you said burgle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByXQx_4TOKs
Again sorry ;)
First thing I watched when I woke up this morning. More evidence that burgle is one of the best words ever.
Also, never appologize for Beavis & Butthead.
In the comment sections of one of the clips of that interview on youtube someone suggested that at one point in Under Pressure they add an extra beat as well, and that is the part that Vanilla Ice sampled. I have to say I did listen to the whole of Under Pressure to check this and couldn't hear it but, it sounds plausible.