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Blechardy Returns: Trivia, Wet Dog Beans, and Bad Guesses

Audio April 23, 2026 Dave Etler

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When the prize for a correct answer might be a poop-flavored jelly bean, getting it wrong is the best strategy.

What if you answer a trivia question about 2,600-year-old cataract surgery correctly, and your reward is reaching into a box of jelly beans that might taste like dead fish — and you can’t lie about it? Ah, the question no one asked. Well, the answer is here!

Blechardy is back, this time in Jelly Bean Mode — where every correct answer earns you a mystery BeanBoozled jelly bean that could be peach or could be barf. PA professor Jeremy Nelson and learning community manager Cody Pritchard team up against first-year Physician Associate student Tyler Mills, second-year med student Alexis Baker, and PA1 student Megan Renner. The categories: ancient medical procedures, misunderstood body parts, legends of medicine, internet memes from 2010–2020, and general knowledge. The chaos starts immediately when nobody can figure out what ancient healers packed wounds with (honey and moldy bread, for the record), and it only escalates from there.

Fixing cataracts in 600 BCE, the ancient theory about what the other testicle does, the gland who’s name means “mucus” — mixed in with memes and the Mandela Effect. Jeremy buzzes in confidently and wrong more than once, Tyler steers the ship repeatedly into icebergs, and Alexis can’t quite tell if her jelly bean is genuinely bad or just a flavor she doesn’t like. The real winner? Probably the audience, who gets to watch five adults negotiate whether toothpaste-flavored candy counts as yummy. Oh, and Dave. Dave wins, too, because he only had to eat one gross bean at the end or people would have rioted. Everyone else? Hosed.

Episode credits:

Producer: Dave Etler
Co-hosts: Jeremy Nelson, Cody Pritchard, Megan Renner, Tyler Mills, Alexis Baker
Production: SCP Media Lab–Anna Roger, Cyrus Barati, Isa Perez-Sandi, Zach Grissom, Sarah Upton, Srishti Mathur, David Lee, and Jacob Thompson

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Public Studying, Ultrasound Oopsie, and Stealing Valor from Nurses: AITA

Audio August 8, 2024 Dave Etler

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It’s another trip through Reddit, arbiter of A-holishness

What lessons does medical school teach? Aside from the foundations of cellular life, mechanisms of health and disease, and clinical and professional skills? As M2 Holly Hemann, MD/PhD student Miranda Schene, PA Professor Jeremy Nelson, and PA1 Julie Vuong discover, it can teach you where it’s not appropriate to study external reproductive anatomy, that some people consider wearing scrubs an example of stolen valor, and that it’s sometimes best for a student to keep his mouth shut. It’s okay, we’re here to learn from each other!

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Programs that will pay for medical school (and one thing not to do)

Audio June 20, 2024 Dave Etler

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[This episode has visual content you might find more enjoyable using YouTube Music, where you can listen with your phone in your pocket as usual, but then watch for the more visual content]

Paying for Medical School is Scary…but it’s totally doable!

Listener Eden is looking ahead to how she’ll finance medical school as someone who is in the disadvantaged category of applicants. One option she asked us to talk about is the Health Professions Scholarship Program offered by the US military, and she wanted to hear from someone who is in that program. M4 Wilson Fitzgerald gave us the details, some ideas about what it’s like to be a physician in the military, the sacrifices he’s decided to make to take advantage of the program, and how it’s working out for him so far. PA faculty member Jeremy Nelson, M2 Fallon Jung, and M3 Happy Kumar helped discuss why it might not be a great idea to wait to start medical school so that you have time to save up tuition. And Dave pulls out a bunch of reels he’s been saving in his drafts because he doesn’t think they’re any good. Spoiler alert: they should have stayed in his drafts–but you can see them on our Instagram anyway!