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.
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 ...
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.
My husband is from a long line of farmers in North Dakota and the Rural Medicine videos are literally the only RU-vid 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.)
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 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.
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 😐
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.
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 ...]
"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.
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
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 :)
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 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
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.
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.
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).
@@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.
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 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 💀
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
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!
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.
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 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.
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. 😅
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! 😄
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.
I'm not a doc or a US citizen, but you have come to be my favourite RU-vid channel ever. Thank you from the bottom of my heart 😂. Greetings from Greece
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!
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.
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 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.
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
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!
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 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!
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.'
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.
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
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 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??
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 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.
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 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...
Does anyone else have a problem with Surgery scheduling cases for the 3rd? Dang it dude! Take a long weekend for ONCE!!🤣 And GI! You KNOW every single person you scheduled will not be prepped right! So WHY?
