KC "Quickie:" Pop Culture Nurses

Probably not our best effort, but having a little fun with this "Quickie>"

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I don't want to totally discount the emotional element in your recovery, but. I think there were other factors at play here. Yes. Yes. Welcome to the Kindness Chronicles, where we hope to inject the world with the dose of the Minnesota kindness that it desperately needs. We had a show earlier this week, that we met with, Dina, a, uh, trauma nurse from, regions Hospital. And I thought it would be fun to do a quickie, a shorty about just nurses in pop culture. And our favorite nurses in pop culture. And I wanna start with one., There was a little soundbite from, uh, the junior Mint episode of Seinfeld. Am I right or am I right? Yeah. Oh, I love it. And right outta Seinfeld, the episode where, the first episode that has Mrs. Costanza in the show, and she's in the hospital. And there's a, a nurse's already laughing in for the six o'clock sponge bath. Oh yeah. And she's asking Georgie, Georgie, will you go get me something to eat? I'm real hungry. And he throws a pack of Tic-Tacs at her. That was the greatest'cause he wanted to see the woman getting the sponge bath. Very distracted. Yeah, very distracted. He was distract. But favorite nurses from, uh, from pop culture? Geez, there's a lot. There's a lot. Right? There is a lot. And if you start with There is a lot Nurse Ratchet. That's a bad start. That's start. That's, that's the top one. That's what I think of. She's the number one nurse in, in, uh, in pop culture. She was. Just got awful. Yeah. Did you guys, did you guys see the attempt to do the show Nurse Ratchet? Yeah, I saw that. It was attempted. It was attempted. It was, it was, I, I, it was the only show my wife and I watch. It was like multiple episodes we got through episode. It was disgusting. It was graphic. It was scary. Yeah. It was like, no way I doing that. It was, it was a best, it was a backstory to nurse rats. Like a made up backstory. Right. It was very colorful. Almost like a comic book. Right. It was, yeah. Done by the people who do, uh, that another horror, big horror show. But it was, uh, I agree. It was, I think I watched most of it, but it was, it got me. I, they took me out. I was like, eh, yeah. I couldn't do it. But it was, it was kind of cool and very colorful, but it was very much horror. But, but, but in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. Yes. Nerd Rat. Nurse Ratchet is, you know, one of the best known nurses out there. A more recent one is Gaylord Focker. Yes. Oh yeah. There you go. Gay Focker. Yes. That's good. That's great nurse. That is good. That is a great nurse. A Greg's a nurse. He's, he's, he's, he's multi-skilled. He can milk a, a cat, for example. I have nipples, Greg. That's good stuff. Can you milk me? Was was, was hot. Dero was hot. Lips from mash. A nurse. Yeah. Yes. Lo I don't wanna insult. Maybe, maybe she was a doctor. I didn't, she was a nurse. She was a major, she was a, okay. Yep. Major hot lip lips. Houlahan. Yeah. Oh, pulled her up right here. Okay. I've got two John. I've got two on my mind when I think of nurses. Pop culture, I'm sure you do. Um, one is Kate Beckinsale in Pearl Harbor. Pearl Harbor. Yummy. She is every guy's dream for having a nurse. And then of course, in the notebook, Rachel McAdams is Oh yeah. A nurse. So are favorite. That's the daily double. That is a good daily double. How about, how about another, um. Annie Wilkes from Misery. Oh, remember her? She was a nurse at Kathy Bates. That's a good Kathy Bates. Oh man. You know what? Half of these nurses are scary as heck. Yeah, I think they have a, well, she shatters his leg. Oh my God. Oh, no. Good. No good in the book. The Stephen King book, she doesn't hobble, the James Conn character. Yeah. Cuts his feet off. Oh geez. Oh really? That's what happens in the book. Read it. That's not good. And you know what's, what's interesting about the fact that we're bringing up these nurses and half of them are scary as heck during Halloween season. That's in reality. In reality. Nurses are the, you know, the angels of the, the universe. They are the kindest. Sweetest. When you're at your most vulnerable, it's, it's incredible. Yeah. But the movies portray them as something. Well, and that is why, that, that is why, because you are so vulnerable in a hospital bed that, that the horror would be that someone that is caring for you would hurt you. Yeah. Take advantage of you. That's, that's the psychology in the horror of it. Right. Oh. Taking us back to the, uh, late seventies, early eighties. I'm thinking of Terry Alden from Three's company. She was kind of the third roommate that moved in. Oh, oh yes. Yeah. She was a nurse. That's Wow, that's that's a deep cut. Oh, that a deep in, in three's company. That was her, that was her job. Like she went to, in fact, that's how she met Jack.'cause he had a shot. Oh yeah. I just remember him screaming or something. So she replaced the person who replaced the. Suzette Summers. Suzanne Summers. Suzanne Summers. And then it was, it was, uh, so she was, that was Chrissy and then Cindy was supposedly Harrison, what was her name? Jenna Lee Harrison. Yeah. Yes. How did I know this? That's right. Yeah. I dunno. I don't know how you know any of this, Jeff. Well, come on. Knock on onto oh boy. Bob, the Regal Beagle. Oh yeah. Show. How about this one? Good show. How about from speaking of Seinfeld? Do you remember the movie? That the people went to that Elaine got so ticked off about it. The English patient? Yeah, the nurse. Hannah. Played by Juliet Benino. Wow. Yummy. Yo, that's like, she's great. But don't you remember Elaine would, she's she's, she would get so sick about the English patient she yells at the screen. Yeah. She didn't for her. I, yeah, I didn't care for the movie at all. Oh, and you've seen all of'em, and you have seen all of them. Are you still doing the, uh, monthly movie night? Are you still doing that? Oh yeah. Oh yeah. That's, uh, live and kicking. We got our next edition Tuesday. We bumped it up. To five o'clock next week because the Wild play at eight and it's a nationally televised wild game. So I'm not working, but I, I did say, listen, we're gonna do a movie club. We gotta be done in time for that wild puck, uh, puck drop in Dallas. You gotta see it. Now. Listen, I know we're talking about nurses. Hockey seasons just starting. You're getting rolling here in all cards. Did you, uh, did you go buy some new sport coats? What do we got to look forward to? Ooh. Oh yes. You know, I, I, I added a couple new ones to the repertoire last year. I will add a couple this year. Um, ironically, as as we're finishing up the podcast, i'm gonna do a couple shirts and ties here tonight when we wrap up. Uh, I like to have a couple of new ones every year and, uh, yeah, looking forward to all of it. Uh, the travel's great. The team should be fun to watch. Yeah, I always like to mix it up and, and last year I, I tried a couple the pattern score codes and you get feedback good and bad, you know, on social media. The wonder of it all. Um, but you just gotta go with what you know. And just 1, 1, 1 quick question. Since we're, uh, talking about your sport coats, uh, pocket Square or not, what do you usually do? I, I don't, I, I, I don't watch enough Pocket Square or No. Pocket square suddenly became the gay. I'm 50 50. Yeah. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Why, why don't you let the man finish before you judge? I have a question too. Go on. Go ahead. So talk, I would say 50 50. Sometimes yes, sometimes no. I like them. Uh, but sometimes it's overkill. Well just go with a carnation and you'll be good. Oh boy. So kg, I, I know. Uh. I watch, you know, I watch some sports. Um, no, I do. I I can't. Why are you guys laughing? Oh my God, that's good. Just called it sports. Just called it sporting events, sports. But in the broadcasting world, I feel. Oh, he hung up. No, he didn't. Oh, what was that? No, I didn't. Okay. Okay. My question is, or my comment is, I feel like you have some leeway to wear a little bit louder. Coats. Why is that? Why, why are you guys like athletes and announcers and, you know, especially on, on TV and stuff? I think it's kind of cool, but where, where did that come from? Do you understand what I'm saying? Do you, do you feel like you have a I do. I think it's more the players. You know, I think a lot of us that work, especially in hockey, we try to, I think the one reason is, I think of Craig Sager long time, uh, rest in peace, longtime, unbelievably skilled reporter on the NBA side. Um, he, he really did an amazing job of having these crazy outfits, and I think we are only on for a little bit, and the reporters is on way less than the guys upstairs calling the game. You wanna make sure you're, you're making a memory and he did. You have to be good at your job. Like not everybody can pull that off. Sagar was the goat makes sense. Like he was sense. He was the absolute best. And so, you know, you think about that guy, who else? I mean, you can't really pull off what he did. How about the Canadian guy? Try do that. The Canadian uh, hockey guy. Oh, Don Cherry. Don Cherry. He absolutely, again, legendary, right? Like this guy was so far above and beyond crazy. Uh, goofy guy, strongly opinionated, which got him in trouble in the end. Oh, yeah. He had some wonderful outfits. I mean, they were just smoking Real quick, real quick. Steve. Steve. Yeah. Do you know who Craig Sager is? No, I did not know about Don Cherry. Yeah, I know that because we talked about him before and I, and I, and I was in, uh, Canada. You didn't know at the time, and you just Googled. Someone told me all about him when I was in Canada anyway, but I, I, now I get it actually. Yeah, back in the day you kinda had to make your mark and you had to, you had to one moment to make a big splash. That makes sense. Also, uh, also used car salesman do that as well to make a splash on tv. Back in the old days, I could do both. I could do both. You did, you did. Lead Singer from Love Boy and Johnny Clueless do thing. You gotta make your mark. So one last question, um, as it relates to your wardrobe. Um, where do you do your shopping at Ridgedale Mall? Well, I'm a, I'm a Macy's apologist, if I'm being honest. I, uh, are those even open anymore? Is there a Macy's? Yeah, they're okay. They're, they closed the one in and there's also a Nordstrom's, there's a Nordstroms here. Which has some pretty good gear too. Yeah, but you know what they got there? A lot of slim fit stuff. Do you ever notice that slim fit thing? There's a lot of slim, slim fit. I need the hot pants C-section. That's the fact. No, like when you're shopping for shirts, they got these, uh, what are they? David Donahoe or something like that. Real nice shirts. Yeah. All slim fit. Yep. Yeah. We need put. We need sausage, we need a men's Husky Boys. They have a place called Men's Wear Husky Boys section. The big and tall story, DXL is, I'm gonna tell you right now, I mean this sincerely. If you're a listener out there and you're a little on the thicker side, DXL has really, really good stuff too. And so you can mix and match. So the ties to me, uh, Nordstrom's has the would argue that, uh. The Tommy Bahamas, they have generous, um, sizing. Yes. You know they do. Yeah. Like, I like it. What do they call that? Uh, um, Husky. That's not Husky. Uh, Porky. It's like when Porky Porky, like the women. The women that shop at that Chico's? No, no. Women that shop at Chico's. You know, the three sizes are one, two, and three. So if you're a big girl, you're a size three, but you're still just a size three, so that's good. Oh, I see. It's a psychology picture. It's a psychology wasn't. The problem is they're selling'em at something called the dress barn, which is you, I mean, never shop. You don't the barn to buy your clothes. Here's a trivia question, Jeff. This is way off topic of nurses, but in what was uh uh, Roddy Dangerfield's movie where he is his. Job Was he sold? Yeah. Clothes. Yeah. The back to school. Was it back to school? Yes. He sold big and big and large, uh, clothing for men. Right? Wasn't that his bit, that the one when he, when he was a diver on the diver? Yeah. Yeah. Wisconsin. Right? It was Wisconsin. Hold on. Listen to this. One of the greatest movies from any, or Lions from any movie. So my daughter bought some artwork for her dorm room and she bought, this, Gustav clamped the artist Gustav Clamped. Yeah. And in the movie Back to School, Rodney Dangerfield walks back into this room and this one guy says, oh my God, we've been admiring. Your wife's clamped and he says, he says, oh, you too. She's showing everybody what? I miss him. Oh. Rodney could deliver a line like nobody out there, man. You couldn't get the fast forward, you know, going fast enough. I mean, you gotta get past that. I mean, it could be embarrassing. Yeah, it could be watching with your kids. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, now I don't, uh uh. I know. We're just, we're going to just do a hard write. When, when I would, it would be movie night with dad and I would pick a movie, Uhhuh and inevitably like, like, uh, Tom Hanks in Big. You're like, oh, this gonna be a great movie. Then there's that scene. Oh yeah. They always sneak them in, don't they? There's that scene where you're like, you are you kidding me with this scene? Right? Yeah. And at my house, we would call those Capri Sun moments because that's when your kids would go. I. I gotta go get a Capri Sun. That's a good idea. Yeah. Go get one. Yeah. So we would rate, uh, the movies based on Capric Sun. Oh, that's funny. Is that a three Capri Sun movie? A two A one, or you know, no. Capri Suns. Yeah, that's, that's what I thought of. Okay. Listen to this. I love Mr. Mellon. Your wife was just showing us our You too. Huh? She showed it to everybody. Very Thornton Mellon. Mellon Thornton Mellon. Thornton Mellon. All right. Oh boy. This is, oh, by the way, full circle. Yeah. His love interest in that movie was the original Hot Lips Hle hand in the movie mesh. Oh my God. Oh boy. Back to nurses. It all comes back full circle. Yes. What was her name though? Um, she just died as well. She did Not Kathy Lee Crosby? Nope. No. Okay. Kathy Lee Crosby. I know I have that. Good lord. Hold on. Talk amongst yourself. Jeff is just getting so bashed for just throwing on a name. He, he says one thing and I everyone was just dog piling of, dang. Whoa. This was quite an episode we had here, John. It was, it was fantastic. It was kind of just a random shatter ill conceived and I really don't care. But that was, uh, Sally Kellerman. There we go. Sally Kellerman. There you go. The original, like two and a Houlahan and uh, and the Robert Altman film mesh. Yes. No. Yes. And I never did see Nurse Betty with, uh, Renee Wigger. Anybody see that? Is that where it, that's not Nurse Betty, isn't it? No. Nurse Betty is, uh, the woman, uh, Edie Falco. Oh, from Sopranos. Yes. Never saw that either. Yeah. Yeah. Well, hey, here, here to all of the nurses out there. Your angels. Yes. Yeah. You are amazing, amazing human beings that handle our business when we're most vulnerable. So here's to all of the nurses. I apologize. Nurse Betty was Renee Zellweger, squinty herself. Wow. Nurse, what was Edie? Falco the nurse, the TV show. I apologize, Jeff, if you were offended, it's, it's okay, but only if you were offended otherwise then I don't apologize. I have a good soundbite for you to close this episode out. Okay, here we go with that. Off we go. Okay, bye. Kg. Here we go. Hold on. What's you got? Play the game. Play it from your heart. And you know what? I will show you the qua. And that's the truth, man. That's the truth. Love it. Yeah. Alright. Love that movie. And off we go.