Some people seem to be confused by the law of the town of unincorporated land. I think it’s pretty clear. Rural Medicine lost his re-election campaign to the goat and legislation must also be signed by Texaco Mike for obvious reasons
I very much appreciate how ready Emergency was, no judgement like the other professions, he was like trauma surgery in the other 4th of July video, ready to enter hell
4th of July and new years eve give me Vietnam style flashbacks from covering trauma call. Never look down the barrel of a mortar style firework if you want to keep your face.
I'd like to add one note, as someone from the country. It won't matter if the town, county, or state passes an ordinance, everyone will break the law to blow things up. Speaking from personal experience. Great video as always.
@@sharvo6I don't know if sparklers still do it, but we always did sparkler bombs. Wrap a handful of sparklers in electrical tape with one sticking out for the fuse. I don't know about explosive force, but it sure makes a loud boom.
We go out of our way to blow things up in the city too. My neighborhood has gotten so bad about it that the cops have completely stopped enforcing anything and are there to watch/escort the fire truck to whatever just exploded prematurely.
yup, the fire department's volunteer and they usually post on July 3rd that if they get a call on July 4th related to fireworks they are not coming and if they get a call for something else you'd better be their first call or they'll be too busy to come. Last year someone was shooting fireworks that were dropping sparks onto his neighbor's roof and the police came, told the neighbors to be nice to eachother and then the police clocked off to watch the show.
@@hieug.rection1920 yes but, personally, I m less sympathetic to pyrotechnics in crowded urban areas ... more pets, toddlers, innocent observers & property as potential injuries. The advantage to wide open spaces, is usually only the people injured are the instigators who have to take responsibility for their actions. Have a good holiday.
I like how Emergency Medicine is just chilling and seems to be prepared for anything. The other types usually seem upset when they have to help Rural, but EM is ready to roll.
Texaco Mike's punch recipe: 1 quart sherbet 2 cups ice 2 liter bottle of ginger ale 1 can frozen lemonade concentrate, thawed in the fridge 1. Pre scoop the sherbet into balls, place balls on a cookie sheet, and place cookie sheet in freezer until ready to serve. 2. Place ice in the bottom of a large punch bowl. 3. Pour lemonade concentrate into punch bowl, then add half the ginger ale. 4. Place sherbet balls in punch bowl, top with remaining ginger ale. Serve immediately. Rural medicine would never be so impolite as to ask for the recipe, as Texaco Mike got it from his Nana.
I finally realized who Texaco Mike really is. Many are his names in many countries. Mithrandir among the elves, Tharkun to the Dwarves; Olorin he was in his youth in the West that is forgotten, in the South Incanus, in the North Gandalf. But in the Fourth Age of Man he is called Texaco Mike.
When I was young, this ditty made the photocopier rounds: "We the unwilling, lead by the unknowing, are doing the impossible, for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing."
I'm currently in a power outage watching another storm roll in over the corn field out back and people are shooting off fireworks in the day time. I've never felt so seen in my life 😐
Where I live we go to the reservations to get the good fireworks. They get economic benefit, and we get to celebrate at the rate of 1776 freedoms per minute!
We kinda have the same, on the 5th of November, here in England, and also - maybe - Wales and Scotland, too (Northern Ireland is more complex) to celebrate the fact that Parliament _wasn't_ blown up ... Talk about double ironic ... celebrate the failed plot to blow up the Palace of Westminster - it's full name - by blowing up the rest of England, and perhaps the English part of East Wales, as well as the border regions to Scotland ...
My husband is from a long line of farmers in North Dakota and the Rural Medicine videos are literally the only TH-cam videos he gets excited about. This is probably the most accurate one yet - he can name three kids he knew growing up who sustained eye injuries from fireworks fights.
/me waves from London, UK. Growing up on an East London council estate the teens had fireworks fights and/or broke guttering to get puppies they could use to fire rockets at people. Thankfully at that time fireworks weren't on sale to the public very often, and not to kids/young teens, so it didn't happen that often.
@@snowdrop9810 LOL, for kids it doesn't take any alcohol. Just give 'em some roman candles and let nature take its course. (Learned from visiting relatives down South. Not saying it's the right way to do things, but it sure doesn't take any special encouragement.)
As someone who lives in a different unincorporated land, I can assure you that even if there were ordinances, people would ignore them. Hence why here, the fireworks start on Memorial Day and end sometime in August.
As with all rural medicine sketches, this his so close to home. Our volunteer firefighters run our village fireworks. It's handy, as occasionally they set fire to some trees in the process :)
I worked one fourth of july at a level 1 trauma center and on that day i saw things on x-rays i didnt know the human body could do...i salute the courage of every rural medicine doctor out there during this time.
My friend said this about working ambulances or hospital during sea day celebration in a port city. There is no 4th of july equivalent in my country, but that one comes close. Sometimes with large ship flare fired very unsafe by not very not sober people, with the co sequences better not to be told in non specialist circles
We have bonfire night instead in the uk and i had to work that evening. I expected the worst and actually rounded up with a grand total of zero grisly injuries. It was very strange lol, almost like people grew brains for a year??
@@rainbowsnbubbles Pretty much ... It's either the 5th of November, then unless it's on a Friday, then the subsequent Friday, and Saturday. Sometimes a Sunday, but usually not really late (as in 11pm late), as most respect the fact people after to get up at, in my case, 5am, to go to work. Even office-type jobs sometimes begins at 8am ...) ... Hope that helps ... [Oh, and we have our own 'veterans day', except ours is on the 11th November, specifically at 11am, as that was the exact day, and time, the Armistice ending WWI was signed. If that falls on any other day, aside from a Sunday, then 'celebrations' of peace of all wars post 1918, are small. Usually something much larger, in the Royal Albert Hall happens on the Friday, but the important day is Rememberance Sunday, where the major wreath laying, mostly of red poppies, occur at war memorials, across Great Britain. Northern Ireland is a bit more tricky to answer ... As for the why of the red poppies, if you visit the battlefields of WWI, the sheer volume of artillery shot, practically caused deep plowing of endless fields. As the very Earth recovered from its own wounds, for some reason the predominant plant that grew, and still grows, is red poppies - and I don't know if they're the opium kind, but ironic if it were - amongst a few other kinds of wild flowers. By the sheer mass of red poppies growing on fields that saw perhaps the worst fighting in history, bar the Pacific in WWII, it became synonymous with peace of all wars thereafter ... Hope that all helps ...]
And this is why my country-raised dad had a perfect outline of a pants pocket permanently imprinted on his thigh--from where the fireworks he had stored there caught on fire when he was a child. Skin grafts were amazing for rural 1950s NC.
Hey, at least he did not have firework stuffed into the pocket by supposed friend! I had, though it did not go as far as a burn. I foolishly risked ny fingers and and won throwi g that away. Different country, same firework culture, lol
I did that in my kitchen door frame one year, only to look up and see ball lightning coming straight at me. And that's how I learned the kitchen doorknob sticks lol
I love the casual resignation of Emergency's voice, hahah. All your characters really stand out as individuals, and I'm always baffled by how you manage to be so skilled and consistent at it!
Grew up in Mid-Minneasota, with a local hospital and lots of farms surrounding it, a river, trains, boat factoried, limber mill, and no bike helmets...oh! and a military camp...Mom was an RN at the hospital...lots of interesting stories...amazing that most of us made to adulthood.
"How many testicles?" "0" "Nice, alright." Me: "What? Oh." It's not what you have, it's what you lost that counts.... as long as you can count it on 6 and a half fingers.
Either emergency's just really understanding of rural and ready to go at a moment's notice or, as emergency described it himself, "too burned out to care." Could also be both.
Rural Medicine is asked to go help another Rural Medicine so Texaco Mike and Jonathan come to fill in. In the matter of a few weeks they get a new road dug to the fan boat, upgrade the MRI/CAT scan machine (using combine parts), help the mayor / goat get pregnant and raise the next gen of mayoral goats, find an entire new galactic arm at the observatory, and also plant, raise, and harvest perfect crops... while never missing a shift at the hospital (clinic tent).
@@colleennikstenas4921-- Exactly! Think about how Happy Days ruined the mystique of the Jenny Piccolo character when they had an actress playing her on screen. The series had already literally "jumped the shark" several years prior with Fonzie doing the motorcycle jump over a shark, but desperate moves like Jenny Piccolo appearing on camera didn't help the situation at all. Cheers almost made that mistake by showing Norm's wife Vera, but at the last second made sure Diane threw a pie to cover her face.
@@nicolasdiaz1542 There are separate boxes for "EtOH level >400" and "EtOH >300 and walking." Last year, that was the same person! She could definitely hold her liquor.
OK but I believe Texaco Mike is a flawless astronomer-fan boat driver- MRI Technician - Grill master and if anyone gets hurt during his fireworks display it's only because they didn't follow his directions :)
Rural Medicine are the only Docs who can surprise emergency medicine. Love how he keeps a calm and straight face as he treats this like it's another Tuesday morning
I have never disagreed with anything in these rural medicine videos, but this one spoke to me on a whole new level. Country folk really do like their explosives! We definitely light fireworks all month and my great uncle used to throw amazing 4th of July parties with finales around $500. Well done, sir!
As someone who worked in the ER for two 4th of Julys in the Deep South. Yeah this is actually accurate, not even satirical, it’s completely accurate. I’m amazed the town I live in hasn’t all died from fireworks yet.
1. Love the goat-mayor hoof print! 2. It's not just rural people who love fireworks, chores & watching a storm roll in - its also people who wish they were more rural! And I have other hobbies like working in the garden & rescuing wildlife! Sheesh! Ps. Unincorp'd land is the best!
Now I'm convinced that Texaco Mike is just evolved Jonathan. Texaco Mike makes everybody happy and supportive as well just like Jonathan in bigger scale
@@elyciacormier5235 Let me put you into a mindbending question, what would Jonathan do after the attending ophthalmologist passed away? We know Jonathan is pretty much immortal. Semi feral is just one the options
As someone who lives in a small town, the bit about it being 4th of July month is completely accurate EDIT: Showed my dad this vid and he ended up talking about a time he got in a roman candle fight, it was only once and no one got hurt but still stupidly dangerous 💀
I moved from megalopolis Los Angeles to mostly rural New Mexico 18 years ago. The belly laughs I get from your videos stress my abdominal muscles to herniation.
This is scary how accurate this is. Grew up in a rural community. We put on a better fireworks display than the city. 😏 Though when I moved to the city I felt less safe. Y'all don't know how to set off fireworks safely. For effs sakes nail down your mortar tubes to a stand so they can't fall over!
I love how ready to rock & roll Emergency was as soon as he walked in. It's like he used to work in Rural Medicine and knows the ropes but is just a little bit out of touch from being a Big City Resident for a little bit too long! 😄
We grew up rural and the suburbs grew around us. Really put a cramp in the anytime-we-felt-like-it fireworks. I think that's how my brother grew up thin, his extra money went to fireworks, mine went to penny candy. 😅
My dad's a farm boy from Iowa and I can confirm that he loves explosives and fire. When he was 15 he built his own cannon and once showed up a guy at school who was bragging about the cherry bomb he had with him by silently pulling out a quarter stick and walking away. Edit- Corrected firecracker type
Just curious if you've ever eaten at Taco Tico in Iowa? So. Dang. Good! All who move away from our town want to eat at Tico first thing on a visit back.
Can't happen. Too many rural hospitals have been closed. Now rural residents just have to survive potentially hours long drive to an area with a hospital. If they're lucky, they might have paramedics able to get them there in time.
I'm not a doc or a US citizen, but you have come to be my favourite TH-cam channel ever. Thank you from the bottom of my heart 😂. Greetings from Greece
I really appreciate how Texaco Mike isn’t the mayor, but still has to sign off on the ‘no ordinances’ ordinance. Also, would love to see Texaco Mike start up his own health insurance company.
You really should do a "Rural EM" character who, instead of wearing a bicycle helmet, wears an ATV helmet. In one truly rural community where I had worked, the only vehicles you needed were an ATV for three seasons and a snow machine for winter. Both were licensed as snow machines, and there were only two roads in town you were not supposed to drive on (we had a lot more gravel/ dirt roads as options). For convenience, one could purchase the ATV in the frozen food section of one supermarket or go to a local dealership - I believe we had two of them, a Polaris and a Ski-Doo dealer.
@@r2dbI knew it had to be Alaska because only Alaskans call skidoos "snow machines." Silly Alaskans, snow machines are the things that shoot water up in the air so the ski hill has good coverage!
As a Rural Paramedic I want to see more visits to rural medicine Ortho-bro could learn how to cast a fly And the Neurologist could learn how to remove a tick
As someone who works in a somewhat rural hospital, this is accurate. 😂 Last year, we had a guy that accidentally had a mortar blow up in his face, and another guy who was REALLY drunk decide to hold a whole handful of sparklers at once. FYI: don't do that. They burn very quickly and very hot.
As someone from rural Canada, this does not stop being true, the fireworks just start on the 1st instead of the 4th Also fun fact: my home village has a bylaw that dictates buildings cannot be higher than two stories, bc they will essentially ruin the view. The few apartment buildings we have that are taller than two stories, had to get specific permits in order to be able to build. It's a whole thing
Just back from a rural rotation in the ER. Me: see's farmer with a golf ball sized open wound, came in 1wk later for 'feeling tired.' I went home > studied all the rural skits. It helped me know what questions to ask, like did you finish the fence? The worst part, I'm not joking. The best part, it helped me identify a life-threatening emergency a farmer was casually downplaying. After the dust settled, cardio and neurology paged stat...my staff asked me how I got such a good/unlikely history. I told em an opthomalogist from the States taught me this. They laughed, ok but really? Me: I think it's better if I show you.
I love that in all this EM is actually pretty unphased and calm relative to the other doctors who interact with rural. He seems more curious than worried.
As someone who works in a rural area at a critical care hospital. I love this series. The undercurrent of stress, limited resources, and out of the box thinking are cornerstones at our rural hospitals. Im not medical, but you see many people doubling or tripling jobs to help out, too. I do it, too. I'd love to see more of these.
the small details put into these videos like the mayor's signature being a deer hoof is what really makes them extra special. We always appreciate the work you do, Dr G
I enjoy that the signature on the ordinance is a hoof print. Rural communities definitely elect animals to hold office and the frequently do a better job than a person would.
I love how Emergency medicine is the only one who doesn't get shocked every second sentence that comes out of rural medicines mouth because he's used to so much
The local ordinance rang a bell for me. Our little community is unincorporated; anyone who suggests we should incorporate usually has an unfortunate tractor accident. We call the owner of our town market 'The Mayor.'
So we're not going to talk about how Texaco Mike is essentially setting off enough fireworks for the Grand Finale and then prepping to do imaging of the resulting bodily harm from it. He's essentially creating the chaos he's profiting from. Meaning this guy not only good at duct-tape engineering of advance medical equipment, but also has high business acumen!
I had to watch this three times, just to hear a repeat of the three things farmers love most, and to see the town ordinance again... As a small diversified livestock farm intern, I absolutely love your Rural Medicine skits. By the way, what kind of goat is the mayor??
Yeah they could technically pass a town ordinance, but the real question is who's going to enforce it? This town has one police station, two officers, and Shifty Jim can absolutely be bribed with enough fresh produce and apple pie.
And Officer Smith gets by just fine despite having lost the distal phalanges of three fingers on his left hand during a teenage fireworks mishap himself, so who is he to judge?
I am missing rooftop observarory with imaging center combined, sadly. To be fair, it would be me who becomes texaco mike. Omg. I already own broken ulrasound machine and do sky photos...
I was my family's pyrotechician for many years. We had 1 minor injury in 10 years when a mortar shell malfunctioned and landed on the metal roof of the workshop and some of the still burning luminesce landed on my shoulder and gave me a small 3rd degree burn.
I live in rural California and with record snowpack causing the rivers to run especially quickly and with high fire danger this summer... I imagine it's been rough for county hospital! Please stay safe everyone and stay hydrated!
Some people seem to be confused by the law of the town of unincorporated land. I think it’s pretty clear. Rural Medicine lost his re-election campaign to the goat and legislation must also be signed by Texaco Mike for obvious reasons
What kind of goat?
I love the implication that Rural Medicine never passed a single law during his mandate(s)
Clearly he was bolstered by eating all the pies.
@@petrabanjarnahor229We don't ask those types of questions.
For a moment, I figured that was just Rural Medicine's signature, what with doctor's having unintelligible handwriting and all.
Just realized rural medicine lost the mayoral election to the goat, judging by the signature😂
The GCU lore never ends😂
what puzzles me is why texaco mike did not win?!
It will still be a mystery how the top comment always beats the pinned comment in likes...
**boop**
@@dorothea_wallandTexaco Mike is the power behind the throne.
I dunno about that though. I watch enough Hoof GP to think that looks more like a cow print than a goat. Fraudulent signature made by a cow?
I very much appreciate how ready Emergency was, no judgement like the other professions, he was like trauma surgery in the other 4th of July video, ready to enter hell
Ain't got time for judgment. They got fingers and eyeballs to save.
I wish my experience with ER docs were even half that positive.
@69belhaven I completely understand that unfortunately
4th of July and new years eve give me Vietnam style flashbacks from covering trauma call. Never look down the barrel of a mortar style firework if you want to keep your face.
@@gschoonmaker3 I'll take things people shouldn't have to be told for 500, Alex!
UNINCORPORATED LAND. Beautiful town/city/village. Grew up there. The doctor/pharmacist/dentist was really the best math teacher I could ask for.
And would be great mayor material too if it weren't for the stiff competition by the goats.
I was taught math from a future ophthalmologist!
Land unknown to Dollar General
@@liberalsockpuppet4772don't worry, they'll get there eventually. They are insidious
And never had one accident driving the bus.
I'd like to add one note, as someone from the country. It won't matter if the town, county, or state passes an ordinance, everyone will break the law to blow things up. Speaking from personal experience.
Great video as always.
Building bottle Rockets on any summer day anywhere 50 years ago🚀
@@sharvo6I don't know if sparklers still do it, but we always did sparkler bombs. Wrap a handful of sparklers in electrical tape with one sticking out for the fuse. I don't know about explosive force, but it sure makes a loud boom.
We go out of our way to blow things up in the city too. My neighborhood has gotten so bad about it that the cops have completely stopped enforcing anything and are there to watch/escort the fire truck to whatever just exploded prematurely.
yup, the fire department's volunteer and they usually post on July 3rd that if they get a call on July 4th related to fireworks they are not coming and if they get a call for something else you'd better be their first call or they'll be too busy to come. Last year someone was shooting fireworks that were dropping sparks onto his neighbor's roof and the police came, told the neighbors to be nice to eachother and then the police clocked off to watch the show.
@@hieug.rection1920 yes but, personally, I m less sympathetic to pyrotechnics in crowded urban areas ... more pets, toddlers, innocent observers & property as potential injuries. The advantage to wide open spaces, is usually only the people injured are the instigators who have to take responsibility for their actions. Have a good holiday.
I like how Emergency Medicine is just chilling and seems to be prepared for anything. The other types usually seem upset when they have to help Rural, but EM is ready to roll.
EM has already seen everything under the sun
Gives off vibes of the search and rescue instructors I had doing lectures recently.
Chaos, disaster? Normal.
he probably enjoys the chaos, which is a different flavour from his usual chaos, so it’s novelty chaos.
Man I'm excited to become an EM physician haha
@nurainiarsad7395 this is so on point I would bet you work in emergency medicine.
Texaco Mike's punch recipe:
1 quart sherbet
2 cups ice
2 liter bottle of ginger ale
1 can frozen lemonade concentrate, thawed in the fridge
1. Pre scoop the sherbet into balls, place balls on a cookie sheet, and place cookie sheet in freezer until ready to serve.
2. Place ice in the bottom of a large punch bowl.
3. Pour lemonade concentrate into punch bowl, then add half the ginger ale.
4. Place sherbet balls in punch bowl, top with remaining ginger ale. Serve immediately.
Rural medicine would never be so impolite as to ask for the recipe, as Texaco Mike got it from his Nana.
This is a good example of "How to say you're from the Midwest without actually saying you're from the Midwest."
I'm remembering the taste right now!
That's because he knows TMike has spiced up Nana's recipe with whatever half open bottles of alcohol were leftover from New Year's and Memorable Day
@@Feisty_Elfgirl_5258 Or the left over bathtub alcoh... antiseptic he brewed last year
Everclear to taste.
I finally realized who Texaco Mike really is.
Many are his names in many countries. Mithrandir among the elves, Tharkun to the Dwarves; Olorin he was in his youth in the West that is forgotten, in the South Incanus, in the North Gandalf. But in the Fourth Age of Man he is called Texaco Mike.
I always saw him more as a Tom Bombadil type.
I nearly choked to death reading this because I laughed!
Texaco Mike - 'disturber of the peace' to city medicine.
Bike Bro totally gets what Country Bro is all about - expected to perform magic with limited resources
Hi Ortho
When I was young, this ditty made the photocopier rounds: "We the unwilling, lead by the unknowing, are doing the impossible, for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing."
Plus, the commute is like exactly 200 miles, so that's perfect to train for the Ultra.
I'm currently in a power outage watching another storm roll in over the corn field out back and people are shooting off fireworks in the day time. I've never felt so seen in my life 😐
It's awesome isn't it? 😊 I love rural life.❤
When he listed watching a storm roll in I felt a sense of pride. Lol
It sounds amazing :X
Fireworks are long distance communication!
Every year we celebrate the birth of our nation, by blowing up a small piece of it.
'Merica
Where I live we go to the reservations to get the good fireworks. They get economic benefit, and we get to celebrate at the rate of 1776 freedoms per minute!
No you are not correct. The some of the fireworks come from China. So we're blowing up a small piece of China. :) or Mexico.
Hihi! Love ”The Simpsons”, that’s a good quote! :0)
We kinda have the same, on the 5th of November, here in England, and also - maybe - Wales and Scotland, too (Northern Ireland is more complex) to celebrate the fact that Parliament _wasn't_ blown up ...
Talk about double ironic ... celebrate the failed plot to blow up the Palace of Westminster - it's full name - by blowing up the rest of England, and perhaps the English part of East Wales, as well as the border regions to Scotland ...
My husband is from a long line of farmers in North Dakota and the Rural Medicine videos are literally the only TH-cam videos he gets excited about. This is probably the most accurate one yet - he can name three kids he knew growing up who sustained eye injuries from fireworks fights.
I read firework fights right? people literally shoot explosive rockets at eachother???? how much alcohol is involved?
@@snowdrop9810 in the case of the kids its usually just an overdose of testosterone
/me waves from London, UK.
Growing up on an East London council estate the teens had fireworks fights and/or broke guttering to get puppies they could use to fire rockets at people. Thankfully at that time fireworks weren't on sale to the public very often, and not to kids/young teens, so it didn't happen that often.
@@snowdrop9810 LOL, for kids it doesn't take any alcohol. Just give 'em some roman candles and let nature take its course. (Learned from visiting relatives down South. Not saying it's the right way to do things, but it sure doesn't take any special encouragement.)
So your husbans comes from a long line of genocidal colonizers. Neat!
I can fully understand the joy of watching a storm roll in
Except the derecho was so fast hardly had time to appreciate the bow shelf cloud. Did get contemplate joy of electricity in the 3 day outage
There was supposed to be a storm rolling in last night but it lost steam so we missed it!
Don't forget the tornados.
I watch 'em on TH-cam every day, and once in a very great while irl. 1:41
@@gkd1982truth! Here in the Midwest, the tornado siren is the cue to go outside and watch.
As someone who lives in a different unincorporated land, I can assure you that even if there were ordinances, people would ignore them. Hence why here, the fireworks start on Memorial Day and end sometime in August.
August??? That early???
@@terryq9966 I mean...... explosions.
Nah, it goes at least thru football season ... after every touchdown
maybe it would've been more effective if it wasn't called ordnance :)
@@critterwatcher8009my school would fire a cannon after every win. They finally stopped after having to replace shattered window panes all the time😂
As with all rural medicine sketches, this his so close to home.
Our volunteer firefighters run our village fireworks. It's handy, as occasionally they set fire to some trees in the process :)
Frankly that just makes sense to me.
I love that, is this such a common thing? The only fireworks stand in our small town was run by the volunteer FD!
I worked one fourth of july at a level 1 trauma center and on that day i saw things on x-rays i didnt know the human body could do...i salute the courage of every rural medicine doctor out there during this time.
My friend said this about working ambulances or hospital during sea day celebration in a port city. There is no 4th of july equivalent in my country, but that one comes close.
Sometimes with large ship flare fired very unsafe by not very not sober people, with the co sequences better not to be told in non specialist circles
We have bonfire night instead in the uk and i had to work that evening. I expected the worst and actually rounded up with a grand total of zero grisly injuries. It was very strange lol, almost like people grew brains for a year??
I mean if you're seeing it on x-rays in some respects it was stuff the the human body couldn't do lol
@@katierasburn9571 is bonfire night the same as Guy Fawkes Day? Genuinely curious
@@rainbowsnbubbles
Pretty much ...
It's either the 5th of November, then unless it's on a Friday, then the subsequent Friday, and Saturday. Sometimes a Sunday, but usually not really late (as in 11pm late), as most respect the fact people after to get up at, in my case, 5am, to go to work. Even office-type jobs sometimes begins at 8am ...) ...
Hope that helps ...
[Oh, and we have our own 'veterans day', except ours is on the 11th November, specifically at 11am, as that was the exact day, and time, the Armistice ending WWI was signed. If that falls on any other day, aside from a Sunday, then 'celebrations' of peace of all wars post 1918, are small. Usually something much larger, in the Royal Albert Hall happens on the Friday, but the important day is Rememberance Sunday, where the major wreath laying, mostly of red poppies, occur at war memorials, across Great Britain. Northern Ireland is a bit more tricky to answer ...
As for the why of the red poppies, if you visit the battlefields of WWI, the sheer volume of artillery shot, practically caused deep plowing of endless fields. As the very Earth recovered from its own wounds, for some reason the predominant plant that grew, and still grows, is red poppies - and I don't know if they're the opium kind, but ironic if it were - amongst a few other kinds of wild flowers. By the sheer mass of red poppies growing on fields that saw perhaps the worst fighting in history, bar the Pacific in WWII, it became synonymous with peace of all wars thereafter ...
Hope that all helps ...]
Normal punch = mixture of fruit flavors. Rural punch = mixture of moonshines, some made with fruit.
As an agronomist, Jasper should be proud of is farming technics! Perfect pH! Good job!
Right? He has bragging rights.
Definitely going easier on the ammonium and gypsum than his neighbors
Question: he’s talking about successive crops of corn. Isn’t that bad for the soil? What happened to crop rotation being the best?
@@ferretyluvnot necessarily successive crops of corn - could be planting corn during summer, then another plant during fall, another over winter, etc.
@@RuffTranslation That‘s successive plantings, what you’re describing. That seems like a good way for the soil to go fallow.
While doctors wait for patients, Texaco Mike creates consumer demands. The explosives are probably made from leftovers from his batch of contrast.
Some stump killer for oxidizer, pinch of whatever powdered metal is handy for color, and away ya go. 😂
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Rural medicine and family medicine need a collab soon, two overworked bros just living life.
Family medicine would enjoy the vacation of the less hectic and overwhelming environment
YES!!!!!!
🎉
Family medicine be like, you only have 20 patients?
Lol they don't have the time or money to live life.
(Not actually throwing shade, they're just terribly overworked and underpaid)
And this is why my country-raised dad had a perfect outline of a pants pocket permanently imprinted on his thigh--from where the fireworks he had stored there caught on fire when he was a child. Skin grafts were amazing for rural 1950s NC.
Hey, at least he did not have firework stuffed into the pocket by supposed friend! I had, though it did not go as far as a burn. I foolishly risked ny fingers and and won throwi g that away.
Different country, same firework culture, lol
😲
I love how ER just rolls with it because he’s seen it all!
I feel so called out. There is nothing in the world more soothing than watching a storm roll in from the open barn doors
Some of my best childhood memories were hanging out with family with the big doors open watching storms come in.
@@mamiavodah1012 bales of hay, straw, or lawn chairs?😄
Or lawn chairs on the porch or behind the screen door.
I did that in my kitchen door frame one year, only to look up and see ball lightning coming straight at me. And that's how I learned the kitchen doorknob sticks lol
I do love rural Oregon and the fact that my eye doctor is also our town mayor. 💯 fact!
I LOVE rural medicine!!!!😂😂😂❤❤❤
Same
I love the casual resignation of Emergency's voice, hahah. All your characters really stand out as individuals, and I'm always baffled by how you manage to be so skilled and consistent at it!
Texaco Mike not only dots his i, but also makes a smiley on it. Truly a renaissance man
Grew up in Mid-Minneasota, with a local hospital and lots of farms surrounding it, a river, trains, boat factoried, limber mill, and no bike helmets...oh! and a military camp...Mom was an RN at the hospital...lots of interesting stories...amazing that most of us made to adulthood.
What do you need a bike helmet for? My brain is protected by my skull 💀
Camp Ripley?
@@AFS-ht7bgthink of a bike helmet as like a second, external, disposable skull for your skull.
MOST?!
Like...51%?
"How many testicles?" "0" "Nice, alright." Me: "What? Oh."
It's not what you have, it's what you lost that counts.... as long as you can count it on 6 and a half fingers.
Either emergency's just really understanding of rural and ready to go at a moment's notice or, as emergency described it himself, "too burned out to care."
Could also be both.
It's high time Texaco Mike got screentime! 😂😂
No, better that he lives in enduring mystery, and he's too busy anyway 😅
@@mixiearmadillo7452Like Bernice in Red Green and the doorman from Rhoda. Will make for interesting cosplay and merch though.
I keep picturing Beau of the Fifth Column with a Texaco hat 😄
Rural Medicine is asked to go help another Rural Medicine so Texaco Mike and Jonathan come to fill in. In the matter of a few weeks they get a new road dug to the fan boat, upgrade the MRI/CAT scan machine (using combine parts), help the mayor / goat get pregnant and raise the next gen of mayoral goats, find an entire new galactic arm at the observatory, and also plant, raise, and harvest perfect crops... while never missing a shift at the hospital (clinic tent).
@@colleennikstenas4921-- Exactly! Think about how Happy Days ruined the mystique of the Jenny Piccolo character when they had an actress playing her on screen. The series had already literally "jumped the shark" several years prior with Fonzie doing the motorcycle jump over a shark, but desperate moves like Jenny Piccolo appearing on camera didn't help the situation at all.
Cheers almost made that mistake by showing Norm's wife Vera, but at the last second made sure Diane threw a pie to cover her face.
My grandma was the head nurse in a dmall hospital put in the country for 40 years. Showed her these and she finds them hysterical
Fourth of July in most every ED: "Hey! Who's going to set up the ED bingo?" "Amber already did it!" Free space is always "High on Meth."
Huh. I would've thought the free space would've been drunk
@@nicolasdiaz1542 There are separate boxes for "EtOH level >400" and "EtOH >300 and walking." Last year, that was the same person! She could definitely hold her liquor.
With all the Radio Dead Air I watch, Meth as the free square makes too much sense.
@@throwingpotsandpans I see
OK but I believe Texaco Mike is a flawless astronomer-fan boat driver- MRI Technician - Grill master and if anyone gets hurt during his fireworks display it's only because they didn't follow his directions :)
Not following Texaco Mike's directions are directly related to how much of Texaco Mike's punch they consumed.
@@julie982 and how much of their own hooch they added after taking a glass.
Emergency Medicine just unflappable over here. Much respect.
I mean, it's just few lost fingers, that's a Monday for EM
Sure, Emergency Medicine seems happy now, but just wait until he finds out they dont have any ultrasounds
And the gurney is a former crash cart. The crash cart is now a crash sack.
Rural Medicine are the only Docs who can surprise emergency medicine. Love how he keeps a calm and straight face as he treats this like it's another Tuesday morning
As someone who worked the night shift in a rural Wisconsin hospital... this is 100% accurate.
As someone who lives in an [UNINCORPORATED LAND], I am very much looking forward to the end of 4th of July month.
Fireworks, storms, and shooting things. I remember bringing friends home from college and they were shocked at the state of stop signs.
As someone who grew up and still lives in a rural community .... this tracks.
I have never disagreed with anything in these rural medicine videos, but this one spoke to me on a whole new level. Country folk really do like their explosives! We definitely light fireworks all month and my great uncle used to throw amazing 4th of July parties with finales around $500. Well done, sir!
As someone who worked in the ER for two 4th of Julys in the Deep South. Yeah this is actually accurate, not even satirical, it’s completely accurate. I’m amazed the town I live in hasn’t all died from fireworks yet.
Speaking as someone who lives in rural America, I feel this in my soul.
1. Love the goat-mayor hoof print!
2. It's not just rural people who love fireworks, chores & watching a storm roll in - its also people who wish they were more rural! And I have other hobbies like working in the garden & rescuing wildlife! Sheesh!
Ps. Unincorp'd land is the best!
I'm glad Rural medicine has some help during this particular holiday.
Texaco Mike is such a powerful individual
Unincorporated Land only has one gas station. Texaco Mike is a man of Excellence, so of course he has to make sure he can do everything.
Texaco Mike actually graduated from Hogwarts. He just doesn't talk about it.
I, too, love watching a storm roll in. Nature’s fireworks.
Now I'm convinced that Texaco Mike is just evolved Jonathan. Texaco Mike makes everybody happy and supportive as well just like Jonathan in bigger scale
Texaco Mike is a semi feral Johnathan? He has less demands placed on him so can spread his helpfulness farther and at his own discretion.
@@elyciacormier5235 Let me put you into a mindbending question, what would Jonathan do after the attending ophthalmologist passed away? We know Jonathan is pretty much immortal. Semi feral is just one the options
My fav will always be last years 4th if July! “Plastic surgery already forwarded all of their calls to the University .” 😂
Nothing gets in the way of Plastics July 4th yachting weekend, nothing.
Let the new July 1st baby docs handle the crime scene.
As someone who lives in a small town, the bit about it being 4th of July month is completely accurate
EDIT: Showed my dad this vid and he ended up talking about a time he got in a roman candle fight, it was only once and no one got hurt but still stupidly dangerous 💀
I moved from megalopolis Los Angeles to mostly rural New Mexico 18 years ago. The belly laughs I get from your videos stress my abdominal muscles to herniation.
This is scary how accurate this is. Grew up in a rural community. We put on a better fireworks display than the city. 😏 Though when I moved to the city I felt less safe. Y'all don't know how to set off fireworks safely. For effs sakes nail down your mortar tubes to a stand so they can't fall over!
I love how ready to rock & roll Emergency was as soon as he walked in. It's like he used to work in Rural Medicine and knows the ropes but is just a little bit out of touch from being a Big City Resident for a little bit too long! 😄
This is the closest to scared that we've seen Emergency Medicine.
He knows the punch is what brings the most people in
We grew up rural and the suburbs grew around us. Really put a cramp in the anytime-we-felt-like-it fireworks. I think that's how my brother grew up thin, his extra money went to fireworks, mine went to penny candy. 😅
Probably one of my favorite things about these videos is the ever-developing saga of Texaco Mike!
Wishing you an injury free 4th, thanks for your posts! 🇺🇸🌞🥰🎉
My dad's a farm boy from Iowa and I can confirm that he loves explosives and fire. When he was 15 he built his own cannon and once showed up a guy at school who was bragging about the cherry bomb he had with him by silently pulling out a quarter stick and walking away.
Edit- Corrected firecracker type
Just curious if you've ever eaten at Taco Tico in Iowa? So. Dang. Good! All who move away from our town want to eat at Tico first thing on a visit back.
@@midwestribeye7820 We moved to PA when I was about 4, so maybe and I just don't remember.
@@midwestribeye7820OMG Taco Tico still exists? Loved it in Orlando FL, but it's been gone for 40-45 years now.
You should get Trauma Surgery out there, he'd cry tears of joy.
Can't happen. Too many rural hospitals have been closed. Now rural residents just have to survive potentially hours long drive to an area with a hospital. If they're lucky, they might have paramedics able to get them there in time.
I'm not a doc or a US citizen, but you have come to be my favourite TH-cam channel ever. Thank you from the bottom of my heart 😂. Greetings from Greece
I really appreciate how Texaco Mike isn’t the mayor, but still has to sign off on the ‘no ordinances’ ordinance.
Also, would love to see Texaco Mike start up his own health insurance company.
So satisfying to see Rural talk to a physician who truly understands
Good luck to all and hope Rural Vet has his x-ray machine all warmed up!
He’ll need to borrow the fuse back from Texaco Mike once he’s finished running the MRI machine
You really should do a "Rural EM" character who, instead of wearing a bicycle helmet, wears an ATV helmet. In one truly rural community where I had worked, the only vehicles you needed were an ATV for three seasons and a snow machine for winter. Both were licensed as snow machines, and there were only two roads in town you were not supposed to drive on (we had a lot more gravel/ dirt roads as options). For convenience, one could purchase the ATV in the frozen food section of one supermarket or go to a local dealership - I believe we had two of them, a Polaris and a Ski-Doo dealer.
Sounds like the upper peninsula of Michigan. Yoopers gonna yoop 💪
@@lilbatz Not exactly, but I did spend some time in northeastern WI so I am familiar with the UP. That was Alaska.
@@r2dbI knew it had to be Alaska because only Alaskans call skidoos "snow machines."
Silly Alaskans, snow machines are the things that shoot water up in the air so the ski hill has good coverage!
really love how EM just vibes w rural! wishing the both of them a very Less Firework Injuries Than /COULD/ Have Happened
As a Rural Paramedic
I want to see more visits to rural medicine
Ortho-bro could learn how to cast a fly
And the Neurologist could learn how to remove a tick
As someone who works in a somewhat rural hospital, this is accurate. 😂 Last year, we had a guy that accidentally had a mortar blow up in his face, and another guy who was REALLY drunk decide to hold a whole handful of sparklers at once.
FYI: don't do that. They burn very quickly and very hot.
As someone from rural Canada, this does not stop being true, the fireworks just start on the 1st instead of the 4th
Also fun fact: my home village has a bylaw that dictates buildings cannot be higher than two stories, bc they will essentially ruin the view. The few apartment buildings we have that are taller than two stories, had to get specific permits in order to be able to build. It's a whole thing
The fireworks start sometime in early June and go through August/September in Minnesota...
Just back from a rural rotation in the ER. Me: see's farmer with a golf ball sized open wound, came in 1wk later for 'feeling tired.' I went home > studied all the rural skits.
It helped me know what questions to ask, like did you finish the fence? The worst part, I'm not joking. The best part, it helped me identify a life-threatening emergency a farmer was casually downplaying.
After the dust settled, cardio and neurology paged stat...my staff asked me how I got such a good/unlikely history. I told em an opthomalogist from the States taught me this. They laughed, ok but really?
Me: I think it's better if I show you.
You definitely have to find a connection. The fence question was spot on.
I love that in all this EM is actually pretty unphased and calm relative to the other doctors who interact with rural. He seems more curious than worried.
And that's a dynamic duo we needed
As someone who works in a rural area at a critical care hospital. I love this series. The undercurrent of stress, limited resources, and out of the box thinking are cornerstones at our rural hospitals. Im not medical, but you see many people doubling or tripling jobs to help out, too. I do it, too. I'd love to see more of these.
I love all of your videos, but the rural medicine ones are my favorite!
the small details put into these videos like the mayor's signature being a deer hoof is what really makes them extra special. We always appreciate the work you do, Dr G
I enjoy that the signature on the ordinance is a hoof print. Rural communities definitely elect animals to hold office and the frequently do a better job than a person would.
Animals, or three year olds...
Texaco Mike has the best business sense 😂. Love how emergency medicine was ready to help without looking down on rural medicine or the town. Love it
As a resident of a very rural community, I must confess that this is extremely accurate. You've definitely done your homework. 😂
I love how Emergency medicine is the only one who doesn't get shocked every second sentence that comes out of rural medicines mouth because he's used to so much
I do enjoy watching a storm roll in.
Me too, and my phone is loaded with storm and sunset pictures.
Bravo!
I was just asking how busy it gets here in my town's hospital on the 4th, the response was a combination giggle and resigned sigh
It runs neck in neck with new years eve. I used to volunteer working Christmas Eve as my holiday. Generally the 'Q" word compared to NYE or July 4th.
The local ordinance rang a bell for me. Our little community is unincorporated; anyone who suggests we should incorporate usually has an unfortunate tractor accident. We call the owner of our town market 'The Mayor.'
Gotta say, watching a storm roll in is one of life's greatest pleasures!
I love how Texaco Mike doesn't have a position, he just is
damn he lost re-election to the goat
So we're not going to talk about how Texaco Mike is essentially setting off enough fireworks for the Grand Finale and then prepping to do imaging of the resulting bodily harm from it. He's essentially creating the chaos he's profiting from. Meaning this guy not only good at duct-tape engineering of advance medical equipment, but also has high business acumen!
I had to watch this three times, just to hear a repeat of the three things farmers love most, and to see the town ordinance again... As a small diversified livestock farm intern, I absolutely love your Rural Medicine skits.
By the way, what kind of goat is the mayor??
Probably a Boer meat goat retired from the stud duties at a meat goat show operation.
"Doing chores + watching a storm come in."
As someone who grew up in rural America..............ayuh. You got that right.
Yeah they could technically pass a town ordinance, but the real question is who's going to enforce it? This town has one police station, two officers, and Shifty Jim can absolutely be bribed with enough fresh produce and apple pie.
And Officer Smith gets by just fine despite having lost the distal phalanges of three fingers on his left hand during a teenage fireworks mishap himself, so who is he to judge?
Texaco Mike is such an innovative, brilliant improviser that I am genuinely terrified of what he'd put in punch.
Grew up in the sticks to a farming family. This is all spot on. 😂
I am missing rooftop observarory with imaging center combined, sadly.
To be fair, it would be me who becomes texaco mike. Omg. I already own broken ulrasound machine and do sky photos...
Emergency medicine isn't surprised by anything Rural medicine says. He truly is prepared for everything.
As someone who has lived in a few rural parts, it IS the 4th, All Month Long.
Love how Emergency and Rural just vibe naturally. I half expected them to switch to Jonathan mode or Ortho mode and go with nods and "Dudes" all day.
Good clean fun 😂. Your humour brings me such joy thank you dr. G!
I was my family's pyrotechician for many years. We had 1 minor injury in 10 years when a mortar shell malfunctioned and landed on the metal roof of the workshop and some of the still burning luminesce landed on my shoulder and gave me a small 3rd degree burn.
I’m pretty sure if Texaco Mike and Jonathan ever met they would realize that together they could rule the world.
Emergency taking it all in his stride, good lad.
the fact that Emergency Medicine and Jasper get along so well makes me smile
I live in rural California and with record snowpack causing the rivers to run especially quickly and with high fire danger this summer... I imagine it's been rough for county hospital! Please stay safe everyone and stay hydrated!