"Start With Yourself, Not Your Cerulean Sweater": Doctors Behaving Badly, Travel Escapades & Millennial Work Ethic Lessons

Dr. JJ (Psychiatrist) and Dr. Domi (Pediatric Anesthesiologist & recovering fashionista) are back after a vacation hiatus with hot takes on medicine, pop culture, travel, the Devil Wears Prada 2 movie review and the Emma Grede hustle culture debate. Buckle up. 

0:00 — Intro & Welcome Back
0:46 — **🩺 Doctors Behaving Badly:** A Florida surgeon removed the wrong organ (liver instead of spleen), killed a patient, lost his license, and was later arrested… driving for Uber/Lyft. The ultimate "No Other Skills, MD" moment.
5:35 — **📰 Current Events:** Assassination attempt #3 (or 4?), Aziz Ansari's SNL debut as Kash Patel, and a surprising Long Island connection.
9:00 — **🗺️ Case Report / Travel Diaries:** Dr. Domi hits Carmel with her 14-year-old dog in an e-bike sidecar, parties on a boat in Austin, and explores a surprisingly pristine Mexico City. Dr. JJ reflects on solo world travel and why she'd now hire a travel agent in a heartbeat.
19:58 — **✈️ Travel Hacks:** Points, miles, and the "Physicians to First Class" Facebook group — a non-clinical career hiding in plain sight.
21:36 — **📋 Consults / Second Opinions:** Emma Grede (Good American, SKIMS) drops her book *Start With Yourself* and the internet loses its mind. Hard work, hustle culture, proximity to success — the doctors weigh in.
27:58 — **🎬 The Devil Wears Prada 2 Review:** Dr. Domi caught it in Mexico City (with Spanish subtitles!). Verdict: cute, but too copy-paste. The core audience has seen the original 10 times — stop explaining the jokes.
33:30 — **⚖️ Rant & Rave:** Mifepristone access, telehealth abortion restrictions, and the Supreme Court stepping in — another day in the dictatorship.
35:22 — **Outro & Sign-Off**

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SPEAKER_00 0:00

Welcome to No Other Skills MD, where I, Dr. JJ, a psychiatrist in desperate need of a mental break, and I, Dr. Domi, a pediatric anesthesiologist with a dusty degree in fashion design, explore the intersections of medicine, personal growth, pop culture, and surviving a dictatorship.

SPEAKER_02 0:17

From dissecting the absurdities in healthcare, navigating midlife transformations, and delving into the latest newsworthy topics.

SPEAKER_00 0:25

Join us as we share candid conversations and learn more because we have No Other Skills, MD.

SPEAKER_02 0:31

And just remember, although we are both doctors, we are not your doctors. So please seek out your own physician for actual medical advice. It's been a while. Welcome back.

SPEAKER_00 0:42

Yes, so good to see you. Happy to be connecting again today. Exactly, exactly.

SPEAKER_02 0:49

Let's get started on some current news. And we'll start off with doctors behaving badly. What do you have for us, Dr. JJ?

SPEAKER_00 0:57

Uh, well, I have a case just breaking out of Florida of a surgeon who was arrested last week while driving for Uber or Lyft. I'm forgetting which car service, but um was is no longer practicing medicine because it looks like in late 2024 um he took out somebody's liver instead of a spleen during a laparoscopic procedure, which resulted unfortunately in this gentleman's death. I heard about that. Have you heard about it?

SPEAKER_02 1:32

It is wild. I think it was it started off laparoscopic. He, you know, said, Oh, it looks like uh the colon's getting in my way, which sometimes it does, and then you have to open, but I do not understand how the liver was mistaken. Yeah, clean. They are on two different sides of the body, they have different vasculature, they have different anatomy. And even if you had citus invertis where your organs were switched from one side to the other, I I just was there so much bleeding that you could not see. I'm not sure what happened.

SPEAKER_00 2:10

It's it's a very interesting case in that during a surgery, of course, there's often a medical team associated with the surgeon assisting an anesthesiologist, multiple different people in the room. And it sounds like independent of people trying to intervene, the surgeon went forth with their um procedure, claiming that they knew what they were doing and sort of not taking in the feedback and kind of the stop gaps associated with the surgical procedures. What makes it interesting is that due to what was observed by his like coworkers, he's now been charged with second-degree manslaughter. Um second degree manslaughter. What is that? Which it's not like attempted. Obviously, this person passed away. And it's not just uh spur of the moment somebody acted. It's like a little bit of intent of injury led to this death. I'd have to look at it. That's why I shouldn't have had my MDJD. I know first degree, it's not first degree like this thing. Yeah, he plotting this for months, obviously, but he didn't stop when he probably should.

SPEAKER_02 3:16

I uh should know all this with as much law and order and SVU I've watched over the years. I should be very clear what first degree, second degree, all these. But it also brings up the fact that let's say you're a physician and something happens and you can no longer practice. Obviously, he was accused of murder, malpractice, et cetera, et cetera. His next best option for jobs was Uber. Yeah. That is the only thing that he could have done. And yes, there are alternative careers in medicine, but it's not as easy as people might think. Oh, you're a doctor, you can do anything. Not really, you have to prepare for that, you have to find a way to do other things. If you were a physician and if you were not practicing medicine, there's almost nothing you can do immediately. Yeah, you could go pay that salary, that would yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 4:11

If you have a driver's license, you can drive for Lyft or Uber or DoorDash or what have you. It's an homage to our podcast name. I mean, we literally have no other skills MD for physicians. I mean, we really are limited. So just keep that in mind. Of course, always wild.

SPEAKER_02 4:28

You go from being a surgeon, I assume, board certified, and your next best option to make money is Uber or Lyft. Maybe they could do medical Uber. Have you heard of medical Uber and Medical Lyft that picks up from there? Because we've looked it up, you know, at various places I've worked because occasionally someone won't have a ride after receiving an anesthetic, and you need someone to take them home. But I don't think it pays the drivers any more than, you know.

SPEAKER_00 4:56

Maybe a little extra, a little extra medical tax for like escorting them in and out of their home or something like that. Maybe some extra vetting. Interesting. Actually, very necessary service. Uh that's really excellent. That that is a great iteration of these apps.

SPEAKER_02 5:13

It should my own business, like escort. Oh, that sounds terrible. Escort business, a medical escort business. I'd have to start in Las Vegas.

SPEAKER_00 5:21

Yeah. We'll make sure that you get home not feeling any pain, you know? And quite a lot of pleasure.

SPEAKER_02 5:29

And in other news, we have the attempted assassination that happened. Was it last week? We've both been on vacation, which we talked about.

SPEAKER_00 5:37

I mean, this one was a big, a big deal because there was so much video of the situation because it was literally a room full of little journalists.

SPEAKER_02 5:45

A lot of reporters at this White House correspondence dinner were saying that nobody checked their ID, nobody scanned them. And so they're just walking in and out, and that it was unusual.

SPEAKER_00 5:57

Um, not unusual for this administration, but I was gonna say, might it be a conspiracy of the Secret Service in some way, like maybe facilitate it, make it happen? I don't know. It could be I mean it could be, but this could be the third attempt.

SPEAKER_02 6:12

Is this a third attempt?

SPEAKER_00 6:13

Oh gosh, there was obviously Pennsylvania during the election. Right. And that was pre- and then there was like somebody who maybe was senior the White House. I feel like there's been maybe one or something.

SPEAKER_02 6:27

Oh, there was someone who came on his golf course with a guy. So this is either the third or the fourth attack.

SPEAKER_00 6:35

Yeah. On top of that, there have been assassinations. I mean, obviously, like staged or not, unclear, but there've been a lot, there's been a lot of political violence. I mean, I think everybody is seeing that right now. Yeah, it's so hard to keep up with everything. But I will say, one of the best things that maybe came out of this is that Azizansari now is depicting Cash Patel and SNL. The eyes bulging. Oh my god, that is some really method acting. I if that's the right term, but like he kept his eyes open in a very profound way. Like, I was very impressed by that. I mean the absurdities of it all.

SPEAKER_02 7:15

And also Kash Patel is suing the Atlantic for publishing an article where they have witnesses saying that he's been drunk. He's, you know. Oh my goodness. I just you look like you can't do your job. We do you know we have seen these things. We've seen blind. We saw you at the hockey game getting drunk with the hockey players as a head of the FBI. We saw that. We were all there.

SPEAKER_00 7:43

It's unbelievable how much video footage there is and evidence of everything, and then the disputes. But by the way, without necessarily disclosing exactly where we both grew up, do you know where Cash Patel's from? Oh, our hometown? He is in a neighboring hometown. G C Garden City, just saying. Oh, that makes sense. I know. Look at that. He is a long island track. I mean, obviously, right? Yes, yes.

SPEAKER_02 8:17

So not to disparage Long Island, but just like Florida, not the best things come out of Long Island. I mean, exactly. Maybe I'll find the iced tea, which I've actually I've never had at Long Island iced tea.

SPEAKER_00 8:30

I think it's been 25 plus years since I've had one.

SPEAKER_02 8:34

I mean, I I've seen the effects of it, and it was never something I said, hey, I should try this for myself. I was like, you know what? I'm good. I recognize patterns.

SPEAKER_00 8:41

I think I'm good. I found them to be quite efficient. So that's a job back in the day. It just it's all in one. You just need one, and you're good for the night. But uh, it's been a long time, like we said. But anyway.

SPEAKER_02 8:56

So we've both been on traveling adventures. So tell me about your travels in the last couple of weeks, and I'll tell you about mine. International or domestic?

SPEAKER_00 9:06

Domestic. So I actually haven't left the country since last July, which generally speaking, has been the consistent pattern for me in terms of travel for the last like five, six years. I've just sort of done one big international trip a year. But I haven't left the state of California really this year. And so this the I I went on two little mini trips, one down like two hours south of here to Carmel, which was lovely. Oh, I've been there.

SPEAKER_02 9:34

I went to a wedding there. It's lovely.

SPEAKER_00 9:36

Oh, just lovely. And it's super dog friendly. So I was able to take Manny, my 14-year-old dog, on an e-bike rental trip where he got to sit in a sidecar and feel the Pacific Ocean breeze on him. He hated it and loved it at the same time, but we only we we did it for as long as he could. Um, but it was some cute uh, you know, insta-story picks. I met an influencer, um like the number one uh dog traveler world influencer I at this like e-bike rental situation. And I asked them to take a picture of us, and then the woman of the shop was like, that's the number one dog influencer. Can you believe that?

SPEAKER_02 10:15

And I was like, I in all my years have never uttered that sentence, nor did I realize that was a job. But perhaps that could be your alternate career with your dog Manny, being a dog, picking your dog on various adventures in California.

SPEAKER_00 10:31

It is, I think, extremely lucrative. And being an influencer, essentially, these people get sponsored to go do all the cool stuff that I want to do that I'm paying for. And so, anyway, I do agree maybe some overlap between like doggy influencer in the future makes sense. But anyway, beyond that, we went, I went to Austin, Texas last weekend. How was it? I had not been to Austin in 20 years. It was a blast. I have to say, you know, the state of the world is what it is, but like going to Austin, interacting with people who live there, connecting in a new place and enjoying and seeing something different was really joy-filling. It was actually really nice to just go somewhere else, particularly Texas, and see the beauty of it and all the lovely people that live there. So, anyway, it was really fun.

SPEAKER_02 11:24

I've been to Texas a few times. I've been to Austin, it's a great city, but just politically, you have thoughts when you go there, right? So, especially, I mean, don't go there pregnant, guys. You know what I mean? Yeah. Go for a trip pregnant, God forbid to you. So, you know, I have those worries. I'm particular about the states that I will visit. Right. I have lived in Republican states before. I have not lived in Republican states in the last few years. Right. You know, every every place has its pockets though, as well. So I went to Mexico City, guys. Yeah. It was lovely. It was my first time in Mexico. I think when I was telling people that I'm going to Mexico, of course, in the news in the last month, there was word of the cartels and things like that. And I had not assumed about it.

SPEAKER_00 12:19

That assassination at the ruins close by to Mexico City.

SPEAKER_02 12:24

Oh, that happened the week before I was there. Then the pyramid where it happened was Teotihu Hokan. I'm mispronouncing that obviously. So ancient pyramids. One of them is the third largest pyramid in the world, uh, secondary to uh what's in Egypt. And they had extra security. You could tell that so everybody was padded down, everybody went through a metal detector. I'm assuming that wasn't there before, obviously. But it was beautiful, right? So just extra security. Everybody was very nice. Uh Mexican people are lovely. And let me tell you the most surprising thing. It is one of the cleanest places I've ever been. And I went all over. So not just the ritzy parts, like Rama Norte. I went through out Mexico City, richer parts, poorer parts, mid-level parts, and people to pride and not having crap on the ground and not literature. Um and it was what a pleasure. New York City, get it together. Mom Donnie, what are you gonna do about this? Let's have pride. Maybe in general, I shouldn't just say New York, but just pride in our environment. Yeah, it's just something that bothers me so much. It's such a red flag. For instance, if I I would never date a man who littered.

SPEAKER_00 13:51

Oh god, no.

SPEAKER_02 13:52

Red flag, red flag, red flag. Yeah, so it's nice to be in a place where you see people sweeping and people throwing out their garbage appropriately. And guess what? Lots of dogs. Okay. People in Mexico City love their dogs. I have never not once seen dog crap.

SPEAKER_00 14:09

See, I mean, it can happen.

SPEAKER_02 14:11

Didn't see a rat either in the place.

SPEAKER_00 14:14

That's a really good point. I went to Mexico City maybe 10 plus years ago. Very short visit. I need to go again. It's on the list. Lovely. We should meet there. We could do a culinary journey together. That's sort of what I'm interested in these days when it comes to travel. But that it was beautifully clean, pristine. And there is something about a collective sense of pride in terms of maintenance of your space and neighborhood. I live in a place, I've lived in two different parts of the city that I live in. And I now live in a place that has a collective uh peer pressure or whatever it is, but it makes a difference in terms of that every day and how it can impact you.

SPEAKER_02 14:56

Yeah. And I just uh New York City would be such a different place. And obviously, I love New York City. I've lived here for a while, on and off through the years. But where's that collective pride? And I know New York is supposed to be gritty or whatever, but we don't have to be dirty. We don't have to have these rats, guys. It's a difference in a major city with lots of street food and lots of things going on where you're not inundated with rats the size of small dogs, the size of chihuahuas. You know what I mean? Very impressive. Obviously, the food was top tier with a friend. We met some other friends there. There are a lot of immigrants, American immigrants. I am one not to call expats. I don't appreciate that term because it just sounds like when people emigrate here, we call them immigrants when they're not white. But then, you know, when let's say white people go to another country, all of a sudden they're expats. I think that's a little bit of a racism. Oh, yeah. A lot of people do remote work, but it's nice. If the dictatorship takes over, that might be somewhere I can go. I can oblige.

SPEAKER_00 16:06

I also got on a boat in Austin and I didn't even realize this existed because went for a friend's birthday party and they rented a boat where it had a slide where you could slide into the water and it was a party scene, and people were just drinking out in the river, and it was just fun and just like a lovely, a lovely scene that I feel like I'm very distant from now at this age, but it was nice to connect back with that part of ourselves, maybe. We had a great that's awesome. So, as we talked about in our last episode, I used to travel, I've had these gaps in time during my work worlds where I've traveled pretty extensively. And I once went on a solo trip around the world by myself for about a year. I started, I like drove across the country, hung out in in Europe, and then Indian, Southeast Asia, and just sort of solo backpacked, and it was a grand time. But I could not conceive of ever doing that again at this point. Really? I had a great time at the time, but I've noticed in terms of like my trajectory with travel, especially maybe post-pandemic, I have less capacity, and maybe this is our empowerment era, as we kind of talked about last year, aka perimenopause, midlife pivot. You know, like I just didn't planning and decision making around that sort of level of travel feels harder. So, like when you were in Mexico City, did you plan it? Was there somebody else who planned it? Did you use a service? I'm kind of curious.

SPEAKER_02 17:33

I didn't, my friend is actually Mexican and he already had an agenda of what he wanted to do. And I'm just open. So usually when I'm on vacation, there isn't something I have to see. Maybe there's one or two things, but I'm just pretty open. So I just kind of, you want to do this? Sure. And we woke up. What do you want to do today? So it wasn't set in stone. Nice, which is how I like my vacations, maybe outside of a specific tour. Uh, so we were just kind of open. Where do you what neighborhood do you want to hang out in outside of the boat ride? I think the boat ride was the only thing that we had set in stone that we had like tickets for, etc. Gotcha. I think the older I get, you know what I want to use? A travel agent. Because I think they fell out of the wayside, but I think I would like to use that in the future because I don't want to think about stuff.

SPEAKER_00 18:22

I've done it actually. So a couple years ago, during the beginning of my last stint of not working, I went to Chile with a good friend and we used one of these services, and it was so nice. I didn't want to have to think about like domestic travel planning. And so there was an extra fee, but it was worth it. Not anything I ever thought about again to have like the level of organization and decision making made for us. And what was nice is that they presented options and then refined it based on your interests. So you really didn't have to think. And that was so, you know, another thing about travel that I realized is that I forget a lot of what I've done.

SPEAKER_02 19:01

Is this something you've encountered? Yeah. I don't know if it's pyramidopot. People ask me. So, what did you do on your vacation? And I literally, until you brought up the pyramid. I was like, whoa. Like, I knew I did something. Where'd you eat? I don't know. What respond did you go to? I'm not sure.

SPEAKER_00 19:20

Isn't it fascinating? I mean, I think exactly. I you know what this means? I think it means that we're living in the moment. This is great.

SPEAKER_02 19:28

This is really that we need estrogen patches, whichever.

SPEAKER_00 19:33

I don't know. We'll probably forget that about this. Um yeah, no, I hear you. Like it's so it's so I think it's like made me think about travel in such a different way, these like kind of patterns now that we've had 40 years. Yeah. I mean, that's why I take pictures, so I can look back and be like, what did we do?

SPEAKER_02 19:51

Like, actually, like I also I took pictures and I don't remember the picture, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_00 19:58

The last thing about travel I was wondering about, and we can always talk more about this in depth in the future is points. Like, if you're a points person, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 20:05

I'm not a huge points person, but I use basically my credit cards. What I do with those points is then I transfer them to Delta. So I've gotten free flights, I've gotten discounted flights. Sometimes you have enough points to upgrade. You can trans use those points for hotels. So I've gotten free hotel stays. I think it's most helpful for airlines and hotels. Or sometimes you can get gifts, like they have a reward center. So I use them as much as I can. I'm charging them anyway. So that's why I charge things as opposed to putting things on my debit card if I'm allowed.

SPEAKER_00 20:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 20:39

Just rack up points, rack up points.

SPEAKER_00 20:41

Well, this is amazing. I just want to say this before we move on is that this is a non-clinical career that you could consider. Because have you heard of this group? Yeah. And so I'm part of a Facebook group called Physicians to First Class or something like that, where it literally is the form where all the physician women are asking each other how to use points. And there's two people who started it who I think now hold conferences and are getting paid, people pay to go to a conference to talk about using points, and it's all female physicians.

SPEAKER_01 21:13

And then wild.

SPEAKER_00 21:15

One counterbalance point to that, though, is that sometimes I see people posting about how they missed something or lost points and that they're profoundly depressed and upset and angry. It's almost like it turns it into its own world. Oh, it's like the coupon. Yes, yes.

SPEAKER_02 21:30

I think it's very uh important to get the perks when you can because there are very few perks in life. So as we delve into our consult, our second opinions, giving our opinions on certain things. Have you heard of Emma Greed and her book Start With Yourself?

SPEAKER_00 21:48

No.

SPEAKER_02 21:50

So Emma Greed is CEO or founder of Good American, which is a jeans brand that she partnered with Khloe Kardashian. She's also partnered. Partner with Skims, so Kim Kardashian and her Jeans brand. So basically, her companies, and she has multiple of them, are billion-dollar companies. So she's a businesswoman with a podcast that I like that came out with this book. And the last two weeks that it's been out, people have gone absolutely crazy because she's trying to impart knowledge about her work ethic, how to be a businesswoman, how to be wealthy and get all these things. And people cannot tolerate it. And I think because she's of our generation, she's in her 40s. People just don't want to hear that the key to her success is hard work. To be quite honest. Yeah. People are saying, oh, it's because of you married a white man who has money, and you know, you're biracial and your proximity to whiteness is really what gets you to the edge. And honestly, things like that do make a difference, but also hard work. Because guess what? There will be black women who are not in proximity to whiteness that have achieved that. So it's she's just saying, hey, you might have to do that internship for no money, you might have to stay late. You should be the first one at the office. Work-life balance is not your boss's problem. Get the job done. You don't have to spend every waking moment with your children baking cookies for this and doing that. They go to school. You don't have to participate in every single thing that the school is associated with outside of things that your child participates in and kind of be a part of this mommy gang. So she she's very much like, this is what it takes to be successful, and people cannot tolerate it. They can't handle it, no, like kind of like medical school. It's not for everyone. You have to do the heart, the hard thing to be a doctor, and not everybody wants to hear it. Residency's hard. Yeah, it's gonna be hard. Fellowship is hard, yeah, it's supposed to be hard. And people will make it seem like it's toxic for that. It's not for everybody, but it's okay if people want to work hard to actually work hard to get the things that they have. So, yeah, she's gonna be in the top one percent, but she and she details exactly what she did to get in that top one percent, the things that she's gonna sacrifice. And if you're not willing to sacrifice certain things, you're not gonna get to a certain level, right?

SPEAKER_00 24:24

And you're not just entitled to that level. Like, you know, I think the the backflip of not working hard is the sense that it's just meant to be for you in some way, or I think oftentimes people see you in a position where you're living a certain lifestyle or have certain preferences and don't get like how much it took to get us here for both of us, I think, in terms of our backgrounds, right? So I think, yeah, there's just this oh my god, disconnect with people sometimes of the reality of it, what it takes to get to that level.

SPEAKER_02 24:58

It's also inspiring because yes, we did all these things to become physicians, but also if we're looking for something else, let's say I'm looking for a non-clinical career, I'm looking for something else, yeah. I need to work a lot harder to get the results that I actually want. And so it's kind of get back on that track. So it's also very easy to get on that track when you're in your 20s and you have that energy and you, but it's gonna be harder the older you get to get on a success track with the same energy or guspo, whatever they call it, uh, as you get older. But if you're not seeing results, chances are you're not being the effort that you could be. But she's been she's been everywhere with this, which I I I actually like the book. I had it on my Kindle.

SPEAKER_00 25:43

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 25:44

Um, something I'll go back to is kind of motivation, but you don't get something for nothing was essentially the gist of it. And not to, for people who are mothers, not to tune into the you have to do every thing, every waking moment. Because guess what? Dads don't do it. And if you need help, yeah, hire help, work hard, get the nanny, do the whatever, because your job is important too. And you know, um, spending 20 hours with your child, if that's not your your personal goal, don't feel bad about it. Like your kids are supposed to be in school for eight hours, so yeah, maybe baking isn't that important.

SPEAKER_00 26:23

Yeah, you can't do it all in that regard. Wow, very interesting.

SPEAKER_02 26:28

It is gonna be work, whatever the next step is, but just to change my work work ethic a little bit, because we have a certain work at work ethic in medicine, and to use that into other things, I have not quite done. I had good work ethic when I was in doing fashion, and that came to its conclusion. But when I'm thinking about other things, what am I putting in? Oh my gosh, that might apply to social media and us.

SPEAKER_00 26:56

I know. I was like, are you talking about us, Dr. Tomi? I think so. But you know, it resonates actually. And we also obviously can do it. It is fascinating again how we have done it or apply that like work ethic into our professional worlds that we have encountered now, this like need for a shift. But what would happen if we parlayed that energy like fully into this? Oh my goodness.

SPEAKER_02 27:22

We'll have to explore it would be the limit, but yeah, but also we can't wonder, just in general, with life, if we haven't gotten certain results, was the work ethic there? Did you actually sacrifice what you could to get there? So that's essentially the book, but um, I actually would recommend it. I I just find it funny that Emma Greenette was skewing her and saying, Oh, she's not writing this for you because she had all these advantages, she didn't grow up ri, you know. But she also mentions these things, but you still have to work hard, you still have to work hard, you still have to work hard, right? Yeah, something else I saw this week, and I actually saw it in Mexico City with subtitles was the Prada too.

SPEAKER_00 28:07

Oh, yes, Devil. How I have not seen it yet, but I'm not gonna get it. It's in the world.

SPEAKER_02 28:12

Yes, it's in the world. I I would like to see it again in the comfort of my own home because I've seen the Devil Words Prada, the original, a million times, maybe a million five times. It's just a nice when it comes on TV, I watch it. If it's on Netflix, I watch it. So every time it comes on, I'm just always engaged with it. I just uh I don't get bored of seeing it over the years. I even have the DVD player. Wow. I don't even have a way to play. It's iconic. Exactly. So I try not to put too much expectation on sequels, yeah, but a couple of notes. I think the camera work was a little fast. What I mean by that is when they're going through these sequences, and you remember from the first movie, there were sequences, so you saw the different outfits of Miranda or the different bags of Miranda or uh Hathaway's character. And these, you almost didn't get a chance to take in actually view it because it was too too quick. And I'm remembering the last movie, you couldn't really visualize, so everything was just two seconds, two seconds, two seconds, and you couldn't really grasp a lot of the fashion and the montages. Some of the movie felt very copy and paste, even with the plot line, which I won't talk about very much because it was very much in parallel with the first movie. Like, oh, they have this problem. That problem seems kind of the same, but updated. Oh, there's a deception this way, and there's a deception this way. It just felt like the same movie in parallel, which of course will work. You know, the first movie was very successful with this plot line, it's a different quote unquote plot line with the second movie, but not really. Kind of sounds matched a little bit. Even Annie's relationship with Miranda, I didn't see too much growth character-wise. Like, yes, it's the same person, but they're acting the same. And I don't know if I act the same as I did 20 years ago.

SPEAKER_00 30:12

And you would expect that there would be some softening in between between the two of them. Right.

SPEAKER_02 30:18

Like, not uh I don't know, maybe I without giving it away too much. It's just Annie's interaction with her new man seems the same as the old man. Like it's come on, Annie. The people do repeat patterns, obviously. So in that fashion, I thought there could have been some fresher ideas. It looked the lighting looked a little darker, so it wasn't as bright. So I think that's something with movies nowadays that things don't seem as bright to me. Things seem dark.

SPEAKER_00 30:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 30:50

Maybe it's my old eyes. I don't know. So, you know, it was cute. I don't know if there are as many iconic lines, but I think maybe to appreciate it, I need to see it a second time around. That makes sense. Secret of my own home because I don't see movies twice in theater. The only thing I've seen twice because they're so expensive was Sinners. That's the only thing twice in theaters.

SPEAKER_00 31:15

What was it in Spanish in the theaters? No, it was in the subtitles in Spanish.

SPEAKER_02 31:21

Okay, so so they had options in Mexico City, so you could either see it dubbed in Spanish, English with Spanish subtitles. So that was nice.

SPEAKER_00 31:29

That was cool. Well, yeah, I I do want to see it. I actually need to revisit the original. I've definitely seen the original at least six times. I mean, you know, again, similar situation where it's on, but um, I'm looking forward to it. It is again another nostalgic return. It is from another time, and I love that you've seen it millions of times, this movie. So many times. So many times. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_02 31:53

And I think they, the directors or the writers, also need to recognize that because it was an iconic movie, we've all seen it many, many times. Your core audience has seen it many, many times. So a lot of times they were referencing in the movie things that happened then that you didn't need to because we already know. Oh, there you go. Let me let me give an example that when Annie comes to Miranda, there's not a spoiler, and of course, there are new assistants, right? At the same desk as they used to be. And the new assistant says, Oh, I haven't left because I can't pee until the other person comes back. We all remember that. They could have had another way, other than them stating, I'm not allowed to pee. The exact same thing. Exactly. So it was kind of repeated jokes, but uh we've all seen the movie. You could have found a new way, like maybe they're jumping in their chair because they can't go pee. We we would have picked up on things without being so explicit because your true audience, the people who are really going to see this movie, have absolutely seen the first movie a minimum of five times.

SPEAKER_00 32:59

Folks, Dr. Domi is available for your rewrites, uh, like consultation and ways to zhuzh it up, you know.

SPEAKER_02 33:07

By the way, I could have also they could have also used me in just like that, you know, the Sex in the City series. I could they could have because people who watch Sex in the City, your core audience, have seen every episode 10 times.

unknown 33:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 33:20

And I think the writers forget that because if you're writing something, you're not watching it um multiple times. Right.

SPEAKER_00 33:26

So they could have really used me for continuity for things like that. Anyway, speaking of, as we sort of look back on this last week, anything that really stood out to you as uh, you know, uh bringing the joy or the fury? Well, I think on both ends, probably the abortion ban oh yes, was then sort of reversed.

SPEAKER_02 33:49

So basically in the news, I want to say Louisiana was associated with that now they stated that telehealth obgyns can no longer per prescribe Mr. Pristone uh for abortion access by mail.

SPEAKER_00 34:07

And then recently I think just breaking this morning, it sounds like the Supreme Court has actually restored that, restored nationwide access to the medication via telehealth specifically, and that it can be mailed um in the snail mail. So I guess on Friday the lower court had ruled that providers through telemedicine could not ship this medication to patients. But as of today, they're restoring that. So I mean, a rant and a rave at the same time. I think as we were like talking about this this morning, we saw that this Supreme Court had at least put a temporary stop. So great news, but again, just enraged at the ongoing impact that this has on so many people uh identifying as female in terms of being able to get access to the care that they need in the most like efficient manner, given the resources associated with going to the actual doctor in person at times to get these medications. I mean, it's just limited already in terms of how many people are doing it, and then to just try to limit the access again, just another, another day in this administration.

SPEAKER_02 35:16

And of course, voters' rights act of 1965, I believe, has basically been decimated. It's always something in the dictatorship. Oh, yes. But I guess we with that we learned learn how to travel. So just in case you need a new country to live in. Yes, live. And Mexico City is up there. I highly recommend it.

SPEAKER_00 35:38

Yeah, it's not too far from here. I have to get back down there.

SPEAKER_02 35:42

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SPEAKER_00 35:55

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