Anne Levine Show
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Anne Levine Show
She can see clearly now
Lower a finger if you were expecting Anne Levine to suddenly jump off the vegetarian wagon and right into a whole pile of chicken. Ok. Explore the peculiar paths of our appetites, from the comforting taste of Home Pride bread (Is that a real thing) to the comical suggestion of clam strips as a dietary alternative. Soaring egg prices and grocery shopping dilemmas morph into a lighthearted culinary chat, spiced up by my co-host Michael's humorous inputs (Michael did not write this). It's a culinary rollercoaster that promises to entertain and perhaps make you chuckle at the absurdities of food cravings and shortages.
Picture this: you're prepped for eye surgery, pulse oximeter in place, and suddenly you're more aware of the needle than you ever wanted to be. Our episode journeys through the unpredictable terrain of medical procedures, where Tim, the anesthesiologist, assures me I'll be blissfully unaware of any discomfort. Spoiler alert: I wasn't. With some name mix-ups and a quest for a warm blanket, it's a narrative filled with the unexpected twists and turns of surgery, with Michael playing the ever-supportive guy over there.
Reflecting on a tapestry of personal moments, we pay homage to the late William Tyler, whose legacy touched many lives, and we uncover how cataract surgery brought a newfound clarity to mine. From the surreal moments post-surgery to the joys of vivid sight restoration, the experience is nothing short of transformative. Amidst these musings, we also weave in anecdotes about Paul McCartney and the Beatles, sending warm thoughts to friends abroad, and indulging in the quirky moments that make life all the more interesting.
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Speaker 1:And that's Michael over there. Hello.
Speaker 2:And also the Talking Heads.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they're here too, and it's great. It's a New England roundup. I love the fact that they're from Rhode Island.
Speaker 2:Yeah, me too.
Speaker 1:It gives me that that I don't know. Home pride Was there a bread called home pride?
Speaker 2:I think there still is, yeah.
Speaker 1:Oh gosh, wow, are they still proud.
Speaker 2:They might be, I don't know. I think it was like, wasn't it like? And we slice it down the middle and put butter on it. Some butter in it, yeah.
Speaker 1:Oh my God, how do I remember that?
Speaker 2:Because the commercials were on all the time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Home-pried bread and you still see that when you-.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think it's still out there.
Speaker 1:Go to the grocery store. That's amazing, it's there. Go to the grocery store. That's amazing. It's amazing. What's in the grocery store these days? It is amazing.
Speaker 2:There's a lot of things at the grocery store, you know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah. What's it like at the grocery store these days? Well, it's okay, how are the prices?
Speaker 2:Eggs are insane, of course, if you can get them. Most of the egg sections in the coolers are pretty empty.
Speaker 1:Now that's avian flu right.
Speaker 2:That's part of it, yeah.
Speaker 1:I mean, that's not all about the price.
Speaker 2:No, no, because the prices were going up anyway, but then, yeah, then the bird flu came, which you know, and is wreaking havoc and yeah, and I can find a dozen eggs anywhere from $8 to $15. Unbelievable yeah and that's a lot of money. For a dozen eggs $8. That's the cheapest.
Speaker 1:I'm seeing from four days ago. Egg prices soar to new record amid ongoing bird flu crisis.
Speaker 2:Yep, and there is a crisis, and there's bird flu on yep, and, and there is, uh, there is a crisis and there's bird flu on the cape, by the way yeah, I know, yeah, I heard on um npr the other day that the swans at bell's neck in west harwich got it and some other uh some other wild birds. East them or something like that, yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, be careful people. So I mean, I know the answer to this already, but this has got to be impacting tons of other things that we buy, like bread, anything that has eggs in them.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, any products with eggs.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's a good point.
Speaker 1:So I would imagine that there's going to be a cascade effect from this that is completely nuts yeah and I agree that's probably going to happen.
Speaker 2:You know, just like when gas prices go up, you know it's going to get to the grocery store.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Because it's going to cost them more to get the things delivered to them, so prices are going to go up. It's just, yeah, it just that's how it works, I guess.
Speaker 1:Well, I guess it's time to be a V again and get those egg replacements going, people. Yep, it's time for a million reasons. Veganism to All, except that I have now started eating chicken.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you have.
Speaker 1:And when I say I've started eating chicken, it doesn't mean that occasionally I have chicken Right, you've pretty much been nonstop chicken eating. It means that I've developed something that I never had in my life, which is this constant craving for chicken. Yeah, I mean, I've never had that for anything.
Speaker 2:No, I get that yeah.
Speaker 1:And at least twice a day, I feel like I need chicken. Mm-hmm, if I don't have chicken, say, all day, by dinnertime it's like I got to have chicken, or nothing.
Speaker 2:Got to have some chicken.
Speaker 1:Or I'm breaking out of this joint. It's so weird, so so weird it is very strange.
Speaker 2:Just you. Eating chicken is strange to me. Yes, because I'm still going through the grocery store looking at all the fake chicken products.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:And I'm like oh, she'll like that. And then I'm like oh, wait a minute. Oh, wait a minute. She's actually eating chicken. I can just get chicken.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Concerns about avian flu have not diminished my intense I could say cravings, but it's actually more need than craving yeah For chicken all the freaking time, and so help.
Speaker 2:Yeah, help me. Well, here, I got another, I got another. I have something else you could have besides chicken. That's pretty good. Okay, you could go to the original seafood company and get some clam strips.
Speaker 1:Well, now, just hold on a minute. Just hold on a minute. Right, I got to back into my stories here now.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay.
Speaker 1:Well, I was going to say, after I perseverated about chicken a little longer, I was going to talk about curry chicken, oh yeah, about rotisserie chicken, about Ruhama's chicken. I was going to have a whole chicken thing. Got a whole chicken thing? I guess not. I did, however, have following a really not good Thursday.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we'll have to fill people in on some of that as.
Speaker 1:I say we're backing in, we're backing it up. On Friday I had the best Valentine's Day I've ever had in my life. Oh, that's nice. And my husband told me, starting about a week before have met my husband. Oh, yeah, yeah, um, his name is michael, like yours. Oh, hello, hello um, that he had a major thing I had to do on Thursday, which we'll get to.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I said, oh my gosh, he said I want to take you on a date. Yeah, well, I haven't heard those words. I don't know. Maybe ever practically I mean certainly not in the last, I don't know, 30 years probably and my husband kept saying now I'm taking you on a date on Friday. And he gave me the cutest damn card ever beautiful, loving, adorable lobster card. You know how the lobster thing happens these days. Well, yeah, I got this wonderful card. And then we got in the car and Michael drove me to our favorite spot, the original seafood restaurant.
Speaker 2:Yep, and I didn't know it was open yet no, and I knew it was going to be open and I knew it would be a surprise.
Speaker 1:And it was the best surprise.
Speaker 2:I had to keep it a secret for a whole week.
Speaker 1:Almost. You lost it around 3 pm.
Speaker 2:Well, I let you know that day because you were eating some curry chicken and I wanted to make sure you didn't eat too much of it so you would have some room for dinner.
Speaker 1:And it didn't matter. I mean, I ate all that curry chicken anyway, I know, yeah, yeah, you know you'll learn eventually that there's no point in saying, hey, you might want to hold back on that chicken for a while. But anyway, we went and we have our table and we have our whole thing, and I got clam strips and Michael got haddock and it was awesome. It was awesome and it was so, even though it's disgusting. Cold, snowy, sleety, rainy, windy winter, it was a little taste of summer.
Speaker 2:It was, and especially since we've really been feeling the winter, Not so much the cold and the snow, just the blahs and the from you know the February kind of blahs. They happen every year, it's just ugh and the cold.
Speaker 1:I mean, you know, last year it was never cold, except for like two days. Yeah this year we've had some cold this year it's been cold the whole time. This is we just had our like second snow.
Speaker 2:We had a weird, weird day the other day with 51 degrees, and then it went back to freezing again.
Speaker 1:Anyway, it was the most delightful thing. And to all the people out there and I don't know how many of you are local, but if you're local or if you come to cape cod for a treat, there's a place, there are two places on route 28 to go to for their clam sh. Except they're not, they're clamshack restaurants. Yeah, I would have to call them. I mean, you know they're down and dirty.
Speaker 2:They're actually insulated buildings. Yes.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they're down and dirty, but you're not sitting outside on a picnic bench, you know so your fryers are indoors and all that. You're not in a screened-in porch with a slamming door, anyway, and the food is so good at the original seafood restaurant, not at any of the other ones.
Speaker 2:No, I don't think so. At the clam shacks no.
Speaker 1:Well, in the summer it can be fun, but I'm just saying of the ones that are open on Route 28 that are insulated buildings the one to go to? Yeah, the one to go to is the original one. Yes.
Speaker 2:Why would you go anywhere else?
Speaker 1:Because you don't know better. Yeah, I guess that's true, and because it's right there on that corner.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And people think for some reason that that's it.
Speaker 2:It's not. It, folks, it's not. You've got to go down the road a little bit to the original.
Speaker 1:It's crowded, it's stinky.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, I mean.
Speaker 1:Well, to me it is. They do fry fish? Yes, but at original seafood it had that fresh.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it did not have that that, hey, everything's covered in a layer of grease, yeah no, it was, it was great.
Speaker 1:So anyway, they're open and at this time of year they're only open thursday to sunday. Go, just go over there and have yourself. I don't know what their hours are, but I think it's like 12 to 7 or 11 to 7.
Speaker 2:Yeah, something like that.
Speaker 1:Go over there and have a delicious something.
Speaker 2:Giant piece of wonderful fish that's set on some french fries, on a bed of french fries Piled on top of, and then french fries piled on top of, uh, and then onion rings piled on top of that. Oh, wait.
Speaker 1:I also want to say man I also want to say to those of you, um, to whom that sounds revolting they also have fish that's not fried. That's really good, though.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, they do have broiled fish. They have broiled fish and new on the menu and this will make Michael laugh maybe now more chicken teriyaki. Oh, yeah, yeah, so I can even go there for chicken night. You can try that, yeah, but my point really was you don't have to go there and eat fried food. No, you can go there and eat food that's not fried.
Speaker 2:And they do have burgers and stuff like that too, yeah.
Speaker 1:So anyway, fantastic.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we had a good time.
Speaker 1:Now, leading up to that, going back a day Right the previous day, the previous day.
Speaker 2:Let's see, do I have that?
Speaker 1:Hmm, it seems like it was just Thursday at 5 o'clock in the morning when we got up and got dressed to take me to sandwich to the eye surgery center where I had cataract surgery.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And I was the first patient of the day, and so that part was good. We arrived and no one else was there. The computers weren't even fully booted up yet.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's true. We had to wait for the computer to boot up for you to check in.
Speaker 1:But anyhow, we checked in and I've had good experiences there before. It wasn't my first time there. Time there, nurse came and took me in and let's just say this wasn't her best day, it wasn't her happiest day and I kind of felt like, oh, I want this to be your happy day yeah, it's a weird feeling.
Speaker 1:But anyway, she was like okay, sit down. And they put me on a gurney stretcher whatever you want to call it, um, and did blood pressure. Oh, the first thing they did was I wear oxygen. And I said my oxygen, you don't even know this part. And they said what's going on there? I said this is my oxygen, I'm on four right now. They said well, we're gonna put you on our oxygen and I said great, and she said we're gonna put you on two now oh, that's good.
Speaker 2:I'm just gonna make up how how much supplemental oxygen you actually need.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, I forgot to mention that part to you, yeah. So right there Now I thought, mistakenly, that there was a reason they were doing that other than that's what she Right, and they were doing that other than that's what she kind of figured was the right thing to do at that moment. Anyway, I was laid down. They did have a pulse ox on my finger, then the blood pressure starts, then they put that beautiful bonnet on your head to keep your hair from getting in your eye, which is fine.
Speaker 1:I was happy to have that and IV in the hand. And she said well, don't you have tiny little veins? Is it like that everywhere? I said, no, it's better on the left side. But they couldn't do it on the left side because the left side's where my eye is, that's where the surgery was taking place. So she said, well, where's the best? I said, well, if you go to the end of my hand down by the pinky side, and she started first tapping at it, then she really started slapping it. Wow, I'm not kidding. Here's a bunch of stuff that I forgot to tell you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I didn't hear any of this. It's the first time I'm hearing any of this.
Speaker 1:She was seriously like that hard. And then she put a tourniquet around my lower arm, tightened that out and she's like, well, something's going to have to pop out of here at some point, I know. And I was thinking like, yeah, my bone, my knuckle might pop out of here at some point, I know, and I was thinking like, yeah, my bone, my knuckle might pop out. Anyway, she finally got whatever she considered was a large enough vein to put a butterfly in. So that happened.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:Tape me down. Then the anesthesiologist came over, yeah, and he said hi, my name's tim and oh, you have good luck with tim's in the hospital I do oh yeah, the yes.
Speaker 2:You're thinking of Timmy, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yes, I did have an interventional radiologist named Tim once, who was fantastic. Anyway, tim came over. He was wearing the requisite bonnet in spite of the fact that he had this major beard situation. Oh, that's great, he should have had on a beard bonnet.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, actually he should have.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and they do. I think at some point put beard bonnets on If they're like. No, I insist, I'm going to have a beard while I'm an anesthesiologist, right, anyway. So Tim comes over and says Hi, I've decided, oh doctor, your doctor I'm not going to say anyone's last name your doctor has decided to use a block and he said now how that's going to be is it goes right into your eye and it's an injection. I've had other eye injections.
Speaker 2:I wasn't afraid of the idea of having an injection in my eye. You get them semi-regularly.
Speaker 1:At all. However, he said I said I'm cool with that, I've had other eye injections. Said I said I'm cool with that, I've had other eye injections. He said I want you to know that this is a very large one, yeah, and it really hurts and I was like Tim.
Speaker 2:Tim, why are you scaring me? He's telling you the truth.
Speaker 1:And I said which I always say no problem, because if someone comes to warn me that something's going to hurt, that's my, that's how I roll. I say no problem. Yeah, I never say how much. Do we have any other options? I don't know. Know, I've got this like uh, I'm tough, I can handle it. Yeah, attitude about pain after many, many decades of going through crap like this anyway. And he said but we're going to give you a little something in your IV. And he said it's going to make you a little loopy. And he said but you're going to be conscious, so you're going to know what's going on, but you're not going to care.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Now a lot of people say that now as like a thing. That's like a thing you say now about certain kinds of narcotics.
Speaker 2:Right, but you're just not going to care, yeah.
Speaker 1:I cared and. I cared a lot the whole way through, and so here we go. So first of all, timmy comes over with this. Like I felt like I was in a sketch.
Speaker 2:I know it was a straw. It was like a drinking straw-sized needle, right.
Speaker 1:But the actual, the syringe was huge. Yeah, it was.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't like any of this.
Speaker 1:It was big looking, so anyway. So he stabbed me in the eye with that and it hurt like hell and I said that really hurts, joseph, and and that's when I realized, okay, the other stuff they put in my vein oh, has something else kicked in?
Speaker 2:and I said I was thinking. I was just now thinking wait a minute, Joseph, what are you talking about?
Speaker 1:And I said wait, this is Timmy. Wait. I said wait, is your name Joseph? And he said nope, it's Tim. And I said oh my God, I'm so sorry. I thought it was Joseph. And he said do you need anything? And I thought about it and I did need some things. I needed another warm blanket. I did need some things I needed another warm blanket, but he had stepped away because I'm not sure how long I paused.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he might have been waiting around for a while, right, so it's not like I couldn't see anything that was not right over my face, you know, above me, right? So, um, so, anyhow, um, and this is what, this is what I remember. Okay, I remember. Okay, tim, tim, tim, joseph, anybody Is anyone there? Nurse, hello, now, I was saying all those words, but you're saying them so quietly, no one could hear I have no idea. Yeah, I might have been saying to you right, yeah nurse someone there yeah hello I?
Speaker 1:I have no idea.
Speaker 1:I just know that I was feeling like I was at that point kind of locked in my body, not couch locked, but I couldn't have gotten up if I had wanted to and I clearly could not speak loudly enough to hail a cab, to hail a nurse, a helper, an anyone.
Speaker 1:And then a couple people come over and those of you who have been in this situation will know when they come to move you and they like with their foot, they like kick something that unlocks it and they move you out, and that started happening.
Speaker 1:And then I'm pulled into the operating room, I assumed at that point, and the next thing that happened was my face, my entire face was covered with white, with a sheet of white tape, and I'm not kidding, I don't know how to describe this it was like they were putting a surgical field over my face, which makes perfect sense, because if you're surging, you don't want to be seeing anything, except if you're surging, you don't want to be seeing anything except what you're surging on, which, in my case, was my left eye. So the rest of it got covered up in a sterile field which was stuck onto my face face. But since I had a cannula and there was oxygen coming in so I could breathe, right, okay, but it was the weirdest feeling and I knew it was white because I could see out of my.
Speaker 1:I could see for a couple minutes and, um, I was lying there thinking I look like Freddy Krueger, I look like Freddy Krueger. And then the surgery started and I could hear the computers that are attached to certain instruments these days. So I could hear irrigate, irrigate, irrigate. And then I could hear one millimeter, one millimeter, you know, the robots speaking, the operational robots. And then I don't know how much time went by 15 minutes maybe, and cling, cling, I get rolled back out. They ripped this thing off my face and said to me beforehand this is not going to feel good, oh, great, yeah. So they pulled that thing off my face and whoever was doing it kept saying I'm sorry, I'm sorry, and I was just like, it's fine, just, you know, just pull it off. And then, um, I couldn't see out of my left eye, which was taped shut, which I didn't know at that point, and had a shield taped onto it, yeah, and I was then wheeled down to and put in a sitting position and I'm starting to get all these instructions, you know, read to me about what do I do next. You know, what do you do when you get home? What do you do? Blah, blah, blah, blah. What do you do? Blah, blah, blah, and I was completely still like in anesthesia land.
Speaker 1:They get my coat out, they put my coat on me and zip it up. I'm in a seated position. They hand me a plastic bag which had instructions, a little bag of pretzels and a mini bottle of water in it and said okay, now get up. Okay, now get up. And, like two people, sort of help me stand up. And then this one woman took me by the arm and said Okay, we're going, let's go. And I'm trying to walk, the door opens. Michael was sitting right there, thank God, I wanted to fall into his arms. I almost did, actually, um, because I was so out of it.
Speaker 1:Anyway, got driven home and, um, you know, was able to find out oh, the directions, the directions. So the first time it was I guess three hours after we left we had to take off the shield and untaped my eye. Yeah, and when I first opened my eye, everything looked like. First of all, I couldn't see any color, everything was completely washed out and looked like there was a veil, a white veil, between me and the world. So that was my sight, out of that eye, and I said Michael, how do I look?
Speaker 2:And Michael said I don't remember what I said. Hon, you said your eye is pointing. Oh yeah, your eye was very wonky.
Speaker 1:In the completely wrong direction.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you were doing the total Peter Falk on me. Yeah, yeah, one eye was looking at me, the other one was like at a 45 degree angle, going another way. Yeah, it was really. It was kind of funny.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so anyway, enough of that.
Speaker 2:But you know, here's the thing, and so far it's been successful, right?
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:But in the doing of it it kind of messed your back up a little bit too, totally back up a little bit too and totally, and I mean because you have stenosis and disc problems and the way you had to lay flat to have the operation it totally jacked up your back yeah, well, the way that they put me down, I mean they kind of I gotta say the nurse was a little heavy-handed with me.
Speaker 1:You know, the way she put my head down, the back down, uh-huh, um, because I was seated upright.
Speaker 2:Um was a little fast, you know, if I had known and and I wasn't getting any like heads up yeah, right, no, if you had, if you had known, yeah, you were going to be moving around, you could have at least tensed up a little bit. And a little bit I've been a little pulled my knees up, yeah, you know whatever.
Speaker 1:and then suddenly clang, I'm flat on my back. So yeah, that part of it was not fabulous, but anyway.
Speaker 2:But boy can you see.
Speaker 1:Yes, I can see amazingly well when I went to my post-op.
Speaker 2:Did the eye chart. You did great.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean the last test I had before the surgery. I could not see any letter on the eye chart.
Speaker 2:Not a single one. Yeah, you couldn't even get the E at the top.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:You were not getting it, no, even though.
Speaker 1:I knew it was there. Yeah, it was just because I knew it was there. Even though I knew it was there, it was just because I knew it was there.
Speaker 2:But anyhow, I'm very fortunate so far. Yeah, thankfully it's going okay, your back's gotten a little better, so wow, and you can see that it's so great, and you can see that is so great.
Speaker 1:It's pretty miraculous and everything is much clearer and sharper. I can see the edges of things. The colors are more vivid.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So it's one of those things where you don't know you have a headache until it goes away, right? I mean, I knew my eyesight was getting really weak in that eye. I didn't know how bad my vision was overall in that eye. So I don't know. I guess it's in like three weeks I have my next appointment post-op, my final post-op appointment for that.
Speaker 2:And then consult for if I'm going to do the other one, and I'm leaning towards having it.
Speaker 2:Now, the one thing, the one see, one of the things that you didn't find out, that you do want to know which, should you know, it's going to make you lean towards having the other one done is you have to find out what drug that guy gave you. Right, because in your post-op you asked the surgeon if he knew and he's like, oh man, I don't know, and the surgical stuff is kept on a different computer system, so it's like he tried to look around to find out what it was, but he couldn't exactly and he didn't administer it, so he didn't know. Um, so, so you can ask the anesthesiologist on the next one.
Speaker 1:But he said why Did you like it? Yeah, I know so, and the answer is not so much no, you just felt it was just weird.
Speaker 2:It was an experience you hadn't had before, right and I thought I had had all of them as far as anesthesia goes Right, and I thought I had had all of them.
Speaker 1:As far as anesthesia goes, yeah, so I'll be anxious to hear exactly what.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Find out what the heck that was. Yeah, anyway, so knocking again on wood.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so far so good and, thankfully, a couple of days of anti-inflammatory. I mean, yeah, the biggest problem was what they did to my back.
Speaker 2:Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So otherwise I can see why some people say people say, when you ask them, people that have had cataract surgery, most of them okay. I know plenty of people have had problems with them with these surgeries and it's not perfect, but most people say it was a breeze, yeah. So yeah, I guess if they hadn't. I'll tell you one thing I really thought I was gonna have and I should be knocking on wood again and saying, um, I thought I was gonna have way more eye discomfort, like wanting to rub my eye feeling like there's grit or sand or something in it.
Speaker 1:Right, no not any of that.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's cool. Maybe it's those eye drops. Help with that, because you've got to do a lot of eye drops.
Speaker 1:Yeah, although— You're going to be doing eye drops for 12 weeks. But I'm really fortunate because most people are given three different drops.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that is true. You've got the one that combines all three of them.
Speaker 1:I got mine from a compounding pharmacy where it's just one drop.
Speaker 2:Yeah, good point.
Speaker 1:And you start doing it like four times a day and then you taper off.
Speaker 2:Yeah, eventually down to one time a day.
Speaker 1:Right yeah, so it's not, and you wear the eye shield at night or when you sleep for like a week.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:So it's not bad people. Yeah, if you're thinking about it.
Speaker 2:I recommend it. Well, just the improvement on your vision. And it's not even set yet. Either you know you got a few more days or you know the week before it's going to be here to the point to where we know what your vision is going to be like. Right and right now. It's so much better.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So yay.
Speaker 1:So, anyhow, that's Medical Adventures with Anne Levine's most recent chapter. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Well, you personally, yeah, you've been doing a lot of medical chapters, also recently on television, oh Right, you found a new show.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, baby, there's a new show.
Speaker 2:People, yeah, you found the new show.
Speaker 1:It's called New doctoring show. The Pit yeah. As in Brad Pitt P-i-t-t yeah and it's about brad pitt in an er. It's about um an er, yeah, in pittsburgh, but that's not why it's called the pet.
Speaker 2:So it is interesting. You told me that. So this entire season of shows is a 24-hour period in this right er so that's cool and they point that out right away.
Speaker 1:I mean it's not too much of a spoiler. In the first episode you'll see where it says 8 am, and you get to the end of that show and move on to the next one and it says 9 am. Yeah, and you know, you realize you're dealing with one day and the number of things that they wow, they really get into some intense stuff, yes, Some heavy stuff, and it's real. You know it's not like it's not Grey's Anatomy.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:It's not a soap, it's not, you know, it's not St Dennis.
Speaker 2:No, it's like a real medical drama, without all of the BS it's you know they're busy. These are busy people and you're following them around and there's real stuff going on.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's cool and it's very good. I highly recommend it. Yeah, it's just kind of a no-nonsense show. Yeah, which, when it comes to my medical dramas, you know I'm thinking of the Good Doctor which, if you haven't seen, see it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's a good show, that's a cute show.
Speaker 1:But you know there's a lot of Quote magic In that show.
Speaker 2:Right right.
Speaker 1:And this is not a show that has magic In it. It's all for real, for real and Quite serious. So magic in it, um, it's all for real, for real and quite serious, so go for it.
Speaker 2:It's on hbl max and the uh and and who stars in it?
Speaker 1:noah daddy yeah, wiley.
Speaker 2:Noah, I've been a doctor all my life, wiley.
Speaker 1:Yeah, except Noah Wiley is a man. Yeah, you know, he was always like the cute boyish.
Speaker 2:Yes, right, yes.
Speaker 1:Boy.
Speaker 2:Yep.
Speaker 1:And he's not. He is in charge, charles in charge. Charles is in charge yeah. I don't know what his name is on the show. I don't think it's Tim, it's not Tim what is? His name. It's Jabba. It's a Jewish last name, something like Jab Shoot Jabino. Oh All right. Oh shoot Jabinovich. Oh All right, I'll find out.
Speaker 2:Dr Michael Rabinovich, is that what it is?
Speaker 1:Rabinovich Rabinovich. Okay, so now guess how old Noah Wiley is 53.
Speaker 2:Really 53. Really Okay, yeah.
Speaker 1:And it's just not what you think your Noah Wiley is going to be. But anyway, there are interviews he's given about the difference between being on ER and being on this show. And oh, noah, yeah, it's Michael. You said, yeah, michael Rabinovich, yeah, okay, well, he's really good and the whole thing is very good.
Speaker 2:I like the cast. Most of them I've never seen before, and that's fine with me too.
Speaker 1:It's a good group, I think it is, and you know, of course, you've got your villains in the cast the people, you're supposed to hate exactly, and they're you know.
Speaker 2:of course you've got your villains in the cast, Yep.
Speaker 1:The people you're supposed to hate.
Speaker 2:Exactly, and they're very good at that, mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:Even though there's nothing like hateful, hateful, but just you know, yeah, no, there's this one young doc that's like supposed to be a total biatch and she is um. Now, it makes me ambitious, it makes me laugh, kind of um makes michael, I don't know, what does it do to you? You just hate her.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't like her.
Speaker 1:Right and Nell, who recommended the show, said now there's one person on this show you're going to hate or that I hate and I was sort of waiting to see who's it going to be. And I've got that sussed out. I don't hate her. It makes me laugh because it's part of the formula. I totally agree but anyway, I love this show and I highly recommend it. Once again, it's on HBO Max and I don't know what we're supposed to say anymore. Are we supposed to say HBO, max, max, hbo?
Speaker 2:You could say any of those, because I believe they're on all of them Right.
Speaker 1:Right, but it's one thing it's all HBO, okay, but you don't say HBO. I don't know. Whatever Max is their streaming service, so Right yeah, but you have things that are streaming and that are also on HBO, right, right yeah. So ergo the confusion. Anyway, really good, really good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's a good one.
Speaker 1:There's also some good stuff on some SNL stuff.
Speaker 2:Oh, we have the 50th anniversary shindig yeah.
Speaker 1:Right, but before that we were watching. What were we watching?
Speaker 2:We were watching like a best of Chris Farley from SNL.
Speaker 1:Right, but before that it was a best of someone else, kevin. No, anyway, there were—.
Speaker 2:Daryl, maybe I don't—yeah.
Speaker 1:There—it's—I don't even know what channel we were watching, do you?
Speaker 2:No, great I don't.
Speaker 1:Well, I know we're being really helpful.
Speaker 2:A lot of SNL stuff happening in the past few days.
Speaker 1:If you say SNL into your remote, all this stuff pops up and they're doing these little best of they did the game shows right Yep. Um where they.
Speaker 2:that's what it was, yeah.
Speaker 1:Where they showed different game shows Right Um that they've spoofed over.
Speaker 2:Tom Hanks is Pat Sajak. It was amazing.
Speaker 1:It was hilarious. So there's a lot of good stuff to see. That's fun, and even one of the commercials for Volkswagen.
Speaker 2:When I first saw it, they got me, they totally got me. They got me too, because it was Kristen Wiig, bill Hader and Fred Armisen and they're doing the Californians from SNL. But when Fred came in and he was driving that Volkswagen van, I'm like that's a brand new van, right. So I'm like this has to be a commercial, and it was. And it was, and I'm like, oh my God, that was so awesome. I've never been happy to see a television commercial even the one commercial.
Speaker 1:I don't know if that was a super bowl commercial or not, it may have been yeah but even the one commercial that we saw in the midst of all of that um, was a fantastic commercial. Yeah, that's pretty funny. So, uh, yeah, um, the chris farley thing is just, oh, it was just amazing I mean, obviously they did the you know, uh, the motivational speaker they did chip and dales they did the bears.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, yeah oh, and then when he interviewed paul mccartney, oh my god, I for his yeah, oh god, that was so but they you weren't in the room, but they did a few of them, uh-huh, um, they did one with jeff daniels. Yeah, yep, and I forgot when, how he used to do the Chris Farley show, they'd be sitting on a stoop Yep, and he'd say, hey. Jeff Daniels remember in the Purple Rose of Cairo which won so many awards, and Jeff says, actually it didn't win any awards. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1:He says well, remember when you came out of the screen to talk to Mia Farrow and you were in black and white, but then it was color, but then it was just.
Speaker 2:I know I forgot it was like was that real?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I forgot about that whole.
Speaker 2:It's so, yeah, that Chris doing those interviews is one of the greatest things ever. Chris doing those interviews is one of the greatest things ever Because he's so nervous and he doesn't know what the hell he's going to ask. His questions are ridiculous. They're awesome, though. It is so fun.
Speaker 1:Well, you know I was thinking about him and of course he is so incredibly missed, particularly by his cast mates from that time.
Speaker 2:David.
Speaker 1:Spade was his best friend.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And he was very close with Dana Carvey. But seeing him sitting next to Paul McCartney, all I could think was I mean, how old was he? I don't even know how many years he was on that show before he passed away. That's a good question, I mean he couldn't have been more than I don't know, I mean he had never't make it to 40, did he no?
Speaker 1:no, anyway, he was probably in his late 20s. He had never even been to New York before he went on his audition, right, yeah, so I mean to say that he was green, is apt and Wow and wow it was. It was amazing to see him and to see him having the wherewithal to sit next to someone like Paul McCartney and really just like be like remember when that song, hey Jude, yeah, hey, remember when you were into Beatles? Yeah right, remember Beatlemania?
Speaker 2:And that was the funniest part, because Beatlemania had nothing to do with any of the Beatles. It was for fakers. Well, and he said to him.
Speaker 1:What do you think?
Speaker 2:about that?
Speaker 1:What do you think about Beatlemania?
Speaker 2:Anyway, there's plenty of stuff to watch, so fun, and hey, and Jose Lin, if you're listening out in the Dominican Republic.
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