Tony Kornheiser (47:10)
Ed From Bill Mattfield, Fort Mill, South Carolina I love your rant on unwanted phone update. You give voice to all of our frustrations when we get an update, whether it's our phones, our computers, or the software we need to use every day to make a living, every software developer should have your words burned into their skulls every time they decide to change how things are arranged or how they appear. Just like one of those in laws who think they know how to organize your kitchen better than you. I'd rather have Chuck Todd come to my house and flip my properly arranged toilet paper rolls than to have these developers get their grubby hands on the software I use that at least I can spot right away and fix. Jason Poulin in Sudbury in Ontario in Canada, listening to your disdain regarding regarding the iPhone updates, Android users are faced with the same angst unwanted, unasked for, unproven, unnecessary updates which do nothing more than satisfy the fleeting whims of a junior programmer on a summer internship. It's good. Smart. Danielle McDavid I do not normally listen to sports shows, but my husband just played your bid on the iPhone update because I just spent the morning spouting the same complaints as I grumbled my way around the house trying to wish away the new liquid glass nonsense and other unwanted surprises from Apple's automatic update. I feel heard by the way we literally bumped into each other once. Or shall I say, I literally bumped into you downstairs at Nebraska Avenue many years ago when I was walking and script reading at the same time, unsuccessfully multitasking back when I was a freelance reporter at wrc. Sorry, I sent scripts flying and interviewed interrupted your stroll down the hallway. It's perfectly okay as long as you agree with me on this app. From Jim Moser in Landisville, Pennsylvania. The list of things I've learned from listening to this show is immeasurably long, but the thing I learned today was probably the most shocking at all of all. The phone belonging to the woman to whom I'm related by marriage performed its update Tuesday night. The diatribe I heard spewing forth from her upon discovery of this update was impressive, made even more so by hearing the same sort of stuff from you on Friday show. This leads me to the shocking thing that I've learned. Apparently I'm married to a 77 year old man. The woman in question still waves our small Canadian flag with you every night at the end of pti. Please tell Jonathan to eat it. So this is we have sort of unanimity in these things, right? There's no nobody saying you're. You're Zack Skolnick, Charleston, West Virginia by way of Conestoga, New York which is near Syracuse, during my four years at Binghamton University, often felt like we lacked the star power that other schools in the area like Syracuse had with their most famous alumni. Now, more than a decade, less than a decade Later, I'm a top 9% listener, one of the most famous Bearcats out there. Thank you Mr. Tony for all the hours of entertainment. I promise to keep listening until Flo starts our own podcast from Mark Gorman, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada after hearing people writing in with their Spotify rap numbers in the eight thousands, I felt compelled to write with my number 172,202 minutes. Image attached this had me channeling my inner Ricky Henderson when he spoke to Harold Reynolds, winner of the stolen base title in 1987. Well, Ricky was injured. Quote, you ought to be ashamed. Ricky would have had those numbers by the All Star Break Al Ruggles Lexington, Kentucky Here are some more MRI fun facts for you to contemplate if you ever need to go into the tube again. As Jennifer, the radiologist from San Antonio, mentioned Tesla. Tesla is indeed the units of measurements for magnet strength. Tesla units are named for Nikola Tesla, as is the car, a Serbian American electrical and mechanical engineer who, amongst other things, developed alternating current or AC. I had. Parenthetically, we have 22 outlets in our kitchen. He immigrated from Europe to the United States and had laboratories in New York City, including one on Houston Street. As Jake from Utah mentioned, the copper cage lining some MRI rooms is is called a have is is called a Faraday cage, named after Michael Faraday, a 19th century English chemist and physicist who was pioneer of the understanding of electromagnetism and in the development of electric motors. Maybe his relation of Nigel's. I'm an equine surgeon and at our Veterinary Hospital open 24 7, we have put thousands of horses through our closed MRI tube without a single complaint. Doesn't surprise me. If you read this on air, please tell Andy Russ to eat it. Ben York Santa Barbara, California Dear Dr. Ron, longtime listener, occasional email, I am in my fourth year of residency training in Radiology at the University of Southern California. Throughout my training I've come to realize that many, if not most patients undergoing radiology examinations have little to no idea how each scan works. Your comments from Wednesday show compelled me to provide you with some facts regarding MRIs. The tube is a giant electromagnet that generates a magnetic field approximately 60,000 times more powerful than the Earth's magnetic field. The magnets manipulates the hydrogen atoms in your body, mostly in fat and water to generate a single signal that becomes the image. Whichever body part is being imaged must be in the center of the magnet. This is why you were mostly outside the tube for your leg scan and fully in the tube for your back. MRI uses only magnetic fields and no external radiation, unlike X rays and CAT scans, hence the lack of protective apron. The neuroradiologist, specialist in brain and spine imaging who will interpret your scan, will have completed four years of medical school and six years of residency training, including instructions in the physics of all imaging modalities. Apologies for the lengthy email, but hopefully this provides information for life and if not already taken, I'd like to be considered for the position Official Radiologist in Training of the show. Thanks for all of the years of laughs and insightful sports commentary. Your show has seen me through college, medical school and now more than half of residency. That's very impressive. That is very impressive. All of that stuff. Knowledge from Dave Rivers in Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin so great to hear your discussion of the Army Navy game with the incomparable James Carville. I thought, hey, I know that game. How you say in perhaps the ultimate David Aldrich moment. My own uncle Bill Fuchs covered that game in the 50s and 60s for the Washington Star. More so than today, that game was a big deal. I'm sad to say that a foreshadowing of Tony's own career. Uncle Bill flushed the mouse and left the sports page to begin writing feature articles for the magazine of the Sunday edition. Sound familiar, old man? Perhaps that's where all great sports writers go in the end. Who's to say? That's very nice. From John Chadwick of the Battle Creek, Michigan Country Club during the past week in the email segment, I've been told to eat it by defense attorney Tim Livingston and called an acquired taste by barely employed Steve Rebhan. They are frequent guests of mine at the course for golf and dinner. Neither of them are golf club members and I've never been reciprocated. Reciprocated? Tim once asked our pro about joining our club and the pro replied, why would you do that? You played here free for 20 years. Steve is left handed. Enough said. Great email from Wayne Mills. Two things. One coast to coast in Canada. We are big fans of the show. 2. Was great to hear you say or imply that you love your family. Was there a doubt? Was there a doubt? Mark lynch in Camby, Indiana I'm glad Jeff Ma brought up his son's performance at Spelling bee. I had 50 bucks on the kid making it to the quarters. I'll never have my own gambling podcast now. From Pete in Lake Elmo in Minnesota, it goes without saying that Alpha ties list of people that I know will be my NCAA bracket team name next year. Thanks as always for the entertainment. From Dave. And in Glencoe, Illinois, Tony quote alphabetized listing of people's numbers. Michael. Yeah. Contacts. That's it. That's the email. Love this show. And from Jock Stober in Elgin, Illinois. Hi, Ron. Can you please let Tim Kirchen know that yellow card will be touring this spring and summer with the plain white tees of newfound Glory. If you're out on your bike tonight, everyone, as always, do wear white. Let's try this. Your line, just say it as I say it. Say your line exactly as I'm about to. Okay, sure.
