Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine - Sawbones: Dr. Odyssey: Shark Week
Episode Date: March 25, 2025What medical drama does a doctor on a cruise ship get involved in? Dr. Sydnee and Justin talk about Dr. Odyssey: Shark Attack!, and the follow-up, Dr. Odyssey: Shark Attack! Part 2: Orca. It's a wil...d ride, but some of the medical beats are surprisingly accurate.Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers https://taxpayers.bandcamp.com/Harmony House: https://harmonyhousewv.com/ MaxFunDrive ends on March 28, 2025! Support our show now and get access to bonus content by becoming a member at maximumfun.org/join.
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We're gonna talk about Doctor Odyssey, shark attack,
and the follow-up.
Doctor Odyssey, shark attack, orcas attack.
Orcas attack.
Yeah, it is actually called shark attack part two, orca.
That'll be after the break.
First we'll start with shark attack.
First we'll start with shark attack part one we'll start with Shark Attack, part one.
Now, if you remember,
we've talked about Doctor Odyssey before, right?
Indeed, we did an entire episode on it.
And we will be talking about some story beats in the show.
So if you're one of going completely ignorant
of the events of these episodes,
just come back to these after you've enjoyed them yourself.
Sure, sure. Now, where we last left, I mean, the these after you've enjoyed them yourself. Sure, sure.
Now, where we last left, I mean,
the plot of Doctor Odyssey's pretty straightforward.
He's the Doc on a cruise ship and wild stuff happens.
It's a Ryan Murphy show, so weird stuff happens.
And then there's like a, well, it was a love triangle
between him and his nurse practitioner and his nurse.
Avery and Tristan.
Yes, except then it was not so much a triangle as a threesome.
Yes, so at the end of the last episode of the season finale,
we found out that Avery is pregnant.
But whose baby is it?
We don't know.
We don't know.
So we're going to jump right into that.
Right.
With a shark attack.
Yes.
With a shark attack.
So that's what's happening.
So it's only the crew on board, right?
We're in between cruises.
We have no passengers.
Yes.
As this episode opens up.
Right.
It is an empty, and then this has been the first week
that hasn't been themed to a week of the cruise, right?
It was themed to sharks.
It was themed about sharks.
Shark Week.
Shark Week.
One of the other crew members.
Which I bet they wanted to call it Shark Week,
cause the other ones have been phrased that, you know.
Oh man, I bet they did.
Yeah, I bet they wanted to.
Do you think they weren't allowed to?
They probably can't, yeah, legally they can't.
So one of the other crew members is out surfing.
They're taking a break, the first mate is out surfing,
and he gets attacked by a shark.
And he gets a terrible shark bite on his foot, ankle area.
And they rush him back to the ship
where Dr. Odyssey stabilizes him,
but then is like, we gotta get him to a hospital
to save this foot.
Because the arteries have all been torn.
This is the conceit.
And so we are up against the clock to save his foot.
Except as they're headed quickly to the shore,
they find out that there's a distress call
from another ship.
What?
And so then they have to go rescue this other ship.
Like they're bound by sea law, I think.
Sea law dictates.
Right.
Is that, I'm assuming, is that sea law?
Sea. Ocean law?
Maritime law.
Maritime law.
Maritime law dictates.
That if a cruise ship hears a distress signal,
it has to go.
Right.
And so it does does it goes to
See what's going on and they find a bunch of people in a raft because the boats been sunk by
You guessed it. Well
Because they're like the boat was sunk by a shark and they're like that's impossible, but the shark did bite two of the people
Yes, these sharks, they, okay, these episodes
are themed around aquatic attacks that are not depicted
in the budget of this show.
No.
Not available to you.
You are going to get a lot of talk about sharks.
You may see one in a formation from time to time
through the water, but.
There's a fin.
Yeah, you get a fin.
You get some brief flashes of a shark,
and I'm gonna be honest,
it's not really that much better than Big Shark.
Yes, but we are,
the thing is, the sharks are, for whatever reason,
attacking the boat.
And Don Johnson tries to contextualize this by saying,
yes, I too have been on a boat
where animals have attacked us.
Where sharks attacked.
Where sharks attacked.
No, they say like,
we don't think the shark attacked the boat.
That doesn't make sense.
But anyway, the shark attacked these people.
So they rush them back to the ship and they're like,
okay, this girl got bitten in the side.
This is not a big deal.
We cleaned these wounds out, no problem.
But her boyfriend has gotten bitten so badly
in both his leg and arm
that they're gonna have to do a double amputation.
There's no time.
He's gonna die if they wait till they get to shore.
He's too unstable to take a tender boat.
So we're gonna perform a double amputation
on this cruise ship.
Yes, now what is, now Sid, when we're,
just to make this somewhat redeeming,
educationally speaking,
when we're thinking about an amputation,
because it is such a hot topic on this week's episode,
what are we really thinking about?
What are some of our primary concerns?
Because to a layman, it may seem as simple
as chopping off a limb, but there's obviously
a lot more to it than that.
And we've talked about it in episodes,
where I'm not asking for a full, you know, recounting
of our concerns here, but yeah.
So okay, first of all, I mean, we're not going to do this on a cruise ship.
If you're talking about an actual amputation in an OR, you're going to be able to control
for like sterilization.
So like, you know, keep it from getting infected.
You're going to be able to monitor the patient closely for blood pressure, vital, you know,
to make sure they're stable throughout the surgery. You're going to be able to monitor the patient closely for blood pressure, vital, you know, to make sure they're stable throughout the surgery.
You're gonna watch for blood loss.
Obviously, this is a major surgery.
You're having a whole limb removed.
So blood, blood, and especially in these cases,
they've already lost a lot of blood
because they got, you know, bitten by sharks.
Yes.
And then what we need to do is we do the amputation
is make sure that what is left
is something
that we can reform into an appropriate appendage.
So you want to, usually like the bone is cut
a little shorter so that then the other tissues
can fold over it, does that make sense?
Sure, yeah.
And it's a stepwise process.
You don't just like lop through the whole thing.
You usually cut through the layers of tissue and muscle
and whatnot first to expose the entire bone.
So you have a really clear cutting surface
to then saw through the bone.
They get a really terrifying saw from the,
they don't have a saw on the boat.
Right, they don't have a bone saw.
The bone saw is not ready.
You know what was interesting to me?
They don't have, they don't have a bone saw is not ready. You know what was interesting to me? They don't have a bone saw,
but when I, so I have assisted in amputations in my life.
And we did not use the bone saw
in the ones that I assisted with.
We used this wire, this like toothed wire
with handles on either end, and you loop it under the bone.
And then if you can imagine sort of like pulling up and down
to saw it back and forth.
Yeah, I can't imagine it, but should I?
And it feels like that's such a low tech item
that you could store that on a cruise ship.
I understand.
Yeah, but no, they go for the power tool.
I mean, he's got a dialysis machine.
They make a lot of hay out of that.
Yes, they do.
They use the dialysis machine a lot in the first
season
So anyway, they do the double amputation and I should note there was a trauma surgeon aboard the other
Yeah, and so now we have hot shock shark doctor. Is that what they call her? That is her name
Hot shark doctor how she is credited on IMDB
No, she is dr. Brooke Lane, a real person, played by Adrienne Policki. But they do call her Hot Shark Doctor on that.
We have got a lot of people bringing the guest heat.
Rumor Willis is there.
Is one of the shark bite victims.
We've also got the first character on the autism spectrum.
Let's see, Liam Johnson as played by Ray Baldwin. Now I don't know about Mr. Baldwin's particulars with his mental situation vis-a-vis playing
an autistic character, but I do want to say that he mentions a neuro spice on his Instagram
profile so who knows?
I don't know his journey, but he does a really,
I think it's a really interesting inclusion, Sid.
As a physician, what did you think about this character,
who is a first officer who had been,
a very capable first officer who had been working
with Hot Shark Doctor, sorry, Dr. Brooke Lane, excuse me.
They call her Hot Shark Doctor on the show.
This is not us editorializing.
She is barely a person.
We are not calling her that.
They say that on the show.
No, I mean, well, I don't feel like as a physician,
it's for me to comment on like,
authentic representation of an autistic person.
No, I don't feel like that, no.
Oh, I thought that's what you were asking me.
I'm not, I feel like you would have to ask
somebody on the spectrum.
As a TV viewer, we've seen different, you know, depictions.
I will say that I thought it was a little ham-fisted
how early they had to work in the fact
that this officer is on the autism spectrum.
It is like literally almost the first
like conversation this person has.
And it is in the context of them not tolerating like,
it's in their manner, right?
Is it the first time when we meet?
They're impatient.
He's impatient.
Oh, he's impatient, right.
And that he wants to get his vitals checked the last time
so he can be cleared to go back to work.
And he's being impatient with Tristan.
And Dr. Brook Lane says, well, it's because he's autistic
and autistic people are impatient,
which is also kind of a sweeping generalization.
But I thought it was a little,
all the other characters seem to be somewhat unfamiliar
with autism, which I thought-
That is what troubled me the most, honey.
That is what, like, listen.
Most people are somewhat, like,
I mean, you don't have to be a medical professional
to be somewhat familiar with the concept
of autism spectrum disorder.
Hey, listen, listen.
I recognize my road dogs almost instantly, I feel like.
You know what I mean?
Like, you know people, you see it.
Like, it's very recognizable, I feel like, that...
Are you saying you know each other, like, as a member of the community?
As a member of the community, like, I feel like I see people, you know what I mean?
Like, I see the hints, and I feel like there's been so many coded characters, right?
Like, so many, that it feels weird for it to be explicit,
I think, you know what I mean?
Cause it's like, it's almost like we don't really,
we run into lots of people in our day to day life.
Maybe this is just my life is cooler than most people's,
but I run into a lot of people who would appear
to externally be on the autism spectrum
or would have some of those characteristics.
And like, I don't feel like we necessarily are going around
and be like, hold up, Let me clarify something right now.
Are you on the autism spectrum?
It's like, okay, we could just be people.
Well, I wondered about that too,
just because we talked about the show, The Pit, last week,
and there is a character, we didn't really talk about this,
but there's a character that I think is supposed
to be autism spectrum coded, I believe.
Now I have not seen the whole season,
and maybe they address this.
Maybe this is said, and I just haven't gotten that far. I think is supposed to be autism spectrum coded, I believe. Now I have not seen the whole season,
and maybe they address this.
Maybe this is said, and I just haven't gotten that far.
But she seems to be,
and I think in a lot of the way she's interacting
with patients and some of her strengths and weaknesses,
I think that's what they're trying to communicate
through the character,
which I feel like a lot of people would pick up on
without anyone having to say it.
I also would say, though,
as I'm sitting here thinking about it,
we are, this is a mainstream network TV prime time drama.
Like it is not, I don't think,
maybe you can't make the assumption
that everybody watching is gonna be as familiar
with some of these.
So you're like trying to contextualize it a little bit.
Yeah, that's sure.
And I tend to take a lot of things for granted
if they're medical at all,
because I never know what I know because I'm a doctor and what I just know because a lot of people know this right, but anyway the they do the double
amputation and
Does the power the power goes off in the first episode?
the it's towards so okay shark doctor and Pacey are
Not exactly caught in full therante by Avery.
They're definitely flirting.
Yeah.
She needs to take a, Dr.
Brook Lane needs to take a shower, which actually Dr.
Brook Lane sounds worse than not Shark Doctor to me now that I say it out loud.
It sounds actually more made up, but yeah, they, Avery comes into the room.
She had gone in to take a shower then realizes, oh my gosh, maybe he isn't the potential father that he tried to say
that he wanted to be in this potential baby's life, maybe.
Yeah, because what they've struggled with
from the previous episode is that Dr. Odyssey
was pretty controlling and kind of sexist
about his reaction to the pregnancy.
Like he should have a say in what she does.
Whereas Tristan was very much like,
your body, your choice, I'm here no matter what.
And if you have this baby, I don't care who the dad is,
I'm a part of it.
I'm a part of this baby's life.
So like she's struggling with that.
And then she sees Max flirting with Shark Doctor
and she's hurt and then the power goes out.
Well, then she has the idea of taking, and then the power goes out.
Well, then she has the idea of taking,
right before the power goes out,
they're in the middle of the invitation,
I didn't want to remind you,
they had the idea of taking the arteries from the other foot
and like, like Shark Doctor is like,
I just have, I have a foot in a bag, holds it up.
Well, that's because, so our first mate, his foot is dying
because we have delayed him getting to shore for so mate, his foot is dying because we have delayed
him getting to shore for so long.
His foot is dying and he's going to lose it and they're trying to save it.
So they take an artery from the foot they've amputated from the other guy and
they transplant it into him, which is a heck of a thing to do on a cruise ship.
Heck of a thing on a boat.
There are a lot of things.
That should be the name of this show.
Heck of a thing on a boat.
There are a lot of things that aren't be the name of this show. Heck of a thing on a boat. There are a lot of things that aren't like,
is that something we do?
Yes, I mean that is possible.
Not on a boat.
She literally, gang, she literally pulls
this rusty, dusty, crusty, old, as our kids say,
old foot in a bag out of a trash can.
No, sorry, it is a cooler.
It is a cooler.
She pulls it out of a cooler, she's like,
I got your urn right here. It's like gross, no thank you of a cooler, she's like, I got your energy spray here.
It's like gross.
No, thank you.
Anyway, the orcas or the sharks attack the ship.
Yes.
It's orcas.
That's right, folks.
It's not just sharks we're worried about.
Don Johnson's old enemy killer whales are back with.
So I guess now this is what is interesting.
Orcas do have been known to attack ships.
This is not, I had to look this up.
I don't know this cause of medical school.
They don't teach you that.
Orcas do, and it looks like from what I read,
that they very specifically will attack like rudders
of ships, which would, I assume be bad for the ship.
And that they also appear to have a behavior
like they're teaching each other to do this,
which is, all of this is terrifying by the way.
I wasn't like not scared of orcas before.
Now you're extra.
But now I am scared of orcas, I guess,
because they're very smart, we all knew that.
And then also they attack ships.
And so now the orcas are attacking the Odyssey,
which shouldn't matter because it's a giant cruise ship,
except it ends up with like,
it knocks something which causes a fire,
which in order to fix the fire,
they have to shut down the power.
So now they're plunged into darkness
and they've got three patients basically at this point
who are unstable, need antibiotics, need blood,
have limbs in various states of amputation.
Yes.
And they're in darkness.
Yes.
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Shark Attack Part Two Orca Exclamation Point
is the technical name of the 10th episode of Doctor Odyssey.
Yes, that's right.
The orcas are attacking the ship.
And what we've learned is that the orcas
probably caused the initial ship to sink,
because that makes more sense.
Yes.
But I guess sharks don't usually attack ships.
Anyway, but the orcas do,
and they have all these theories,
I thought that was fascinating,
why do the orcas attack the ships,
and they're trying to get people to fall in the ocean
to attract sharks that then the orcas will eat?
The sharks?
Their livers?
Yeah.
So there you go.
I don't know if that's true,
but they said that on the show.
Yeah, and it is, they are scouring the ship
for any drugs that they can find.
They're running low on supplies.
That's another thing that is like,
they're running low on supplies,
but we really only ever see those few patients.
There's just the three people.
Like nobody else comes in.
I don't know where all those supplies are going.
Well, to be fair, I would bet
this is a little more reflective of real life,
because what they're running low on specifically
are IV antibiotics and blood products.
What are blood products?
Like plasma?
Like, yes, plasma, blood, blood.
So you give people who need blood.
I would bet they don't store a lot of those things
on cruise ships.
I mean, because traditionally you wouldn't think you would need a lot of those things on cruise ships. I mean, because traditionally you wouldn't think
you would need a lot of those things on cruise ships.
So I think that actually is pretty realistic,
but they started scouring the ship
to look for any sort of antibiotics specifically,
because right now what you have are,
and this is one thing that did,
I mean, there's a lot of things that stretch the bounds
of credibility medically on this show, right?
That's not the point of Dr. Odyssey.
Yes, absolutely.
But they, all these patients are becoming septic
from their wounds, like immediately.
And I will just say that the way infection works
is that generally speaking, you do not become septic
from a wound infection within hours of receiving the wound.
What if you were already a super dirty dog, Sid?
What if you were already a super dirty dog
colonized by lots of funky stuff?
Could you get septic then?
It's actually, there's an acronym,
or there's a mnemonic that you learn for post-op infections,
and it's W's, there's wind and water and wound and
wonder drug, but the point is what are the causes of a post-op fever? And the
things that you think of first, like they're in the order of more common
things, wound is further down the line. There are other things that cause
fevers, like urinary tract infections or you could have a bug clot.
When it has to do with like,
adalectis, mean little collapsed areas
in the bottoms of your lungs that can cause a fever sometimes.
So like a clot or like a UCI.
Or a Wusharctive.
Wusharctive.
No, I think that would be another-
It does happen to me cause the infection.
Wonder drug is also like, sometimes antibiotics
can cause fevers, which is weird, but it happens.
Anyway, wound is further down the line
because if somebody just had a surgery
and they are gonna get an infection in that wound
in that surgery site,
you wouldn't expect it to happen overnight.
It takes a while for like the bacteria to grow.
I mean, just think about like Petri dishes.
You don't like inoculate a Petri dish
and then have bacteria on it an hour later,
generally speaking, that's not how things work.
So the rate at which all these patients become septic
is strange and it feels like something
that someone should have known, but whatever.
It's because one of them has a shark tooth
floating around in her body.
They finally reached the distress call earlier,
the raft, you know, that they were dealing with.
But out there, there's one of the key scenes
of the episode where we see, by the way,
I don't know if this is important,
but Avery, I think, has sort of decided
that Tristan is more deserving of her affections,
and she seems to be leaning that way.
She plants a smooch of whiskey on him.
And then she's in the Tendership.
Well, no, they're trying to get the Tendership to shore.
They're trying to get the two most critical patients
to shore in the Tendership.
Yes, I'm jumping forward a little bit.
Shark Doctor and Avery are in the Tendership. Yes, I'm jumping forward a little bit. Shark Doctor and Avery are in the Tendership together
and Avery's asking for her feedback on med school.
I don't want to get your thought on that scene.
Yes, so Avery, as we know from last season,
has been accepted to medical school.
And so she's asking this fellow female physician
for advice on medical school.
And I just thought it was so strange.
Surely they have a doctor telling, I don't know.
But so the advice was, first of all, you already know everything that's in the lectures because
you're a nurse practitioner.
Okay, well, that's probably fair.
There's probably a lot of overlap there in that training.
And so there's probably a lot of stuff that she would know.
But then she says, find your favorite professor
and go visit them during all their office hours and bring them coffee.
And that's how you'll learn what kind of doctor
you wanna be.
And it was just the strangest,
it's I think maybe for undergrad,
like find a mentor to help you or something
is good advice maybe.
But in medical school, you don't, I mean, first of all,
your mentors would probably end up being physicians.
Most of my initial classes were taught by
basic science professors, and so they wouldn't have been
able to tell me what kind of doctor I wanna be because-
They made them so basic, Sid.
No.
Like, they weren't physicians.
And so by the time I started-
Whoa, is that what makes them basic?
No, I mean, that's not what I'm,
you know what I'm saying.
Whoa! I don't know.
It was just very strange advice.
I mean, like the advice I give
when somebody asks me about medical school
is study harder than you think you have to in the beginning.
It's always easier to dial it back than to get behind
and then try to catch up and learn study skills. Study too much because I mean you're learning a whole new language.
It's hard. It's hard and so study as much as you possibly can and then keep an
open mind. Try every specialty. Walk into everyone with the mind like maybe I'll
love this and then see what happens. She also gives her the advice of in your med
school and residency interviews,
they're going to ask you if you wanna have kids
and you should lie and say you don't.
Okay, this is nitpicky.
It is a major match violation to ask residents.
And generally speaking,
you're not supposed to ask incoming medical students either,
but I will speak about the match and residency process.
You cannot ask potential residents for your program
about their marital status,
about anything about their relationship status,
about whether they have children,
want to have children, any of that.
You cannot ask any of those things.
If you even hint that you're trying to figure out
if the person in front of you is gonna have kids
during their residency, if it is,
you can get in so much trouble,
you can get so many violations,
and I will tell you that we go over this rigorously
every match season with all of the people
currently in the program to make sure
that no resident makes some,
because it's really easy to make some inadvertent comment
about like, oh, I had kids during residency,
they were so supportive,
are you thinking of starting a family?
It's so easy to say something
and then you've broken a major rule.
That being said, there are always people who break rules,
of course, and if you are somebody
who's going through this process
and somebody asks you one of these inappropriate questions,
you should report it because it's unacceptable.
Because whether or not you wanna have a family
has nothing to do with whether or not
you're gonna be a great match for their program.
And obviously we can't expect Dr. Odyssey
to be 100% accurate in all things,
but I think for this specific thing,
I thought it was worth mentioning it
just so we don't start to normalize that, right?
Like people should know that it's an abnormality
and they should know that it's out of line.
Exactly, and they should also know
that there are a lot of programs,
like the one I went through, where they didn't ask me,
they told me from the jump,
we're not asking if you wanna have kids,
but we are telling you that if you decide to start a family,
we will support you, we have special rotations
for new parents, and we embrace families
in this family medicine residency.
So there are programs out there that are welcome and opening
or open and welcoming to that.
So was that a problem?
Yes, it's why we have rules.
I wanted to touch on one of the wilder,
sometimes Dr. Ozzy asks its characters to do wild stuff
just to keep the plot beats coming.
One of the wilder things in this episode
is after the foot is reattached, That's they go to Spencer's bed, First Officer Monroe's bed, and it's empty.
And they're like, where is Monroe?
And they find him on the stairs.
He's like crawling up stairs.
Crawling up to where?
Like crawling up to the deck.
He's like, they need me up there.
It's like, dude, listen, you know, but no one's doing this, right? No one's tossing themselves.
He does it again later.
He does it twice.
They bring him up to the, it's wild.
It's such a wild beat.
He does it again later.
He escapes twice.
I thought that was wild.
I thought the use of an acetylene torch
to cut through a six inch steel door
was pretty wild.
To get to the part of the ship where the,
the inner, like where the power's,
I don't even know what was happening.
They had to find where the power was out
and they found it and they fixed it.
Yeah, that was part of the, the acetylene torch.
And they were like mid,
they're looking for the thing while the lights are off
and they were like trying to close her up,
but they haven't found the thing that's bleeding yet.
This is Rumor Willis. Yeah, well you haven't even got, got so rumor Willis is going septic and they don't know why so they have to open
Her up and that's who they find a shark tooth inside. I
Did want to mention just because it's so funny they
all the doctors are wearing these
Flashlights if you can imagine a flashlight that like wraps around their necks with two light like a light on each in like two
circles of light sort of where they're a If you can imagine a flashlight that like wraps around their necks with two light like a light on each end like two circles
of light sort of where they're a
Would you hear collar bones your collar bones would be there's like two beams of light coming down and I swear to god gang
They have got him angled exactly on dr. Brook Lane's chest to where they have gotten like discrete
Cleavage lighting that she is constantly wearing it every scene. It is one of the wildest things I've ever seen.
I feel so Ryan Murphy.
It's like, yeah.
So.
P.S. by the way, over on 9-1-1,
the other Ryan Murphy show this season began with a be-nado
is what's happening over there.
Oh my gosh.
So as you may imagine, they get the energy back on.
They use sound cannons to scare off the orcas.
And then they. By the way, one of the most back on, they use sound cannons to scare off the orcas. And then they...
By the way, one of the most unfortunate things, I think, as for in terms of the
the character on the autism spectrum is very hesitant to use the sound
cannons on the whales because he doesn't like loud noises.
Yes. Hey, listen.
OK, let's calm down a little bit.
I think I think, listen, you'd have to really, really hate
loud noises to not wanna save yourself
from an attacking orca, I think.
They save everybody's life with their many surgeries.
They do so many surgeries.
A lot of surgeries.
They do so many surgeries and they save everyone's life.
And then the couple, Rumer Willis and her boyfriend
who were in the shark attack get married
Thank you immediately after when they wake up from their surgeries and then they said I'll first time people have been married on I
Don't think so. I think we've already had weddings and then they have a
Fireworks display to keep the orcas from following them home, which I guess they keep fireworks on the cruise ship
And maybe that's standard don't know about that.
I would like to point out they freeze Monroe at one point
because he's like septic and they're trying to lower,
they're trying to freeze him.
Oh no, they're trying, yeah, freeze him to save his foot.
Anyway, they pull an IV, they say he needs more fluids,
give him cold fluids, which you can do,
but they pull an IV bag out of the liquid nitrogen
or whatever, I don't know, there's fog everywhere,
and it is a glass rectangular.
It always looks, everything on this show
is designed to death, everything is gold trimmed,
you know, forceps and all this nonsense.
I still don't know what those little Paul Soxie things
on their fingers are, the things that read their vitals.
Like Lady Gaga jewelry.
Yeah, it's like, it's wild.
It looks like, you know, in the movie death becomes her,
the vial with the stuff in it that you drink.
Exactly, perfect reference, yeah.
Everything in the OR looks like it was designed
by whoever made that vial.
Like that's what everything, well I mean don't you think?
Like that's a reference that everybody would get.
Huge Jeff becomes her energy, yeah.
Anyway.
Anyway, they saved the day.
And Dr. Odyssey sales out for Casino Week next week,
so we won't be covering that, because.
We won't be covering it, but we will be watching it.
And hopefully you'll be listening to our show,
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