The Bobby Bones Show - BOBBYCAST #602 - Plastic Surgeon Dr. Jacob Unger Explains Celeb Surgeries, Boob Jobs and Liposuction

Episode Date: May 4, 2026

Plastic surgeon Dr. Jacob Unger joins Bobby to break down the world of cosmetic surgery, from working with celebrity clients to the procedures people ask about most. He explains the realities behind b...oob jobs, BBLs, and liposuction, including what patients often misunderstand before going under the knife. Dr. Unger also gets into the reconstructive side of plastic surgery, including reattaching arms and ligaments, and how those intense cases compare to the cosmetic procedures people hear about most. Check out Nashville Nashville Plastic Surgery Institute on IG HERE Watch The BobbyCast on Netflix! Follow on Instagram: @TheBobbyCast Follow on TikTok: @TheBobbyCastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:02:35 and taking a leg muscle and turning it on top of it to protect it and putting it all back together. That's where plastic surgery was born. Hey, today I'm talking with Dr. Jacob Unger. He's a board certified plastic surgeon and in town where we live in Nashville, a founder of the Nashville Plastic Surgery Institute. I am very curious about all things plastic surgery.
Starting point is 00:02:56 I'm going to start this conversation off asking about Brazilian buttlip because I was told to. So a big shout out to Dr. Unger because he answered all my questions, and he knew some of them were pretty stupid. But we're going to talk about everything. Mostly it's, I'm just curious how much stuff costs, what recovery is like, what procedures he does, what he's best at. It's just a course here in plastic surgery and a little bit in life.
Starting point is 00:03:20 And if you guys want to follow him on Instagram, it's at Dr. Jacob Unger. We talk about why people go overseas for certain surgeries. So here he is Dr. Jacob Unger. All right, Dr. Unger, good to have you here. Great to be here. Would you have me call you Jacob or Dr. Unger? I feel like Jacob. When you introduced yourself to people, what do you introduce yourself as?
Starting point is 00:03:42 Like in the real world or in the world? Yeah, real world. Jacob. Oh, you do? Always. Man, I tell you. I'm a fake doctor. Yeah, because I got a fake doctor.
Starting point is 00:03:49 It's an honorary doctorate. And I almost want people to call me doctor. So if I had earned it, like you have, it'd be all doctor all the time. Yeah, I hear you. You know, I think I find that the people who are doctors don't really need that. Yeah, that's why I'm demanding it because I'm really not a fake doctor. Yeah. So I have a lot of questions about what you do for a living.
Starting point is 00:04:08 But I was telling Amy, my co-host on my radio show that you were coming in. Yeah. And I just want to start with her question, so I don't forget it. she specifically said to ask you about a BBL. So we're going right to it. And we're going to talk about other things too. But a BBL is a Brazilian butt lift. Is that correct?
Starting point is 00:04:26 That's the acronym. Is that a real thing? Totally a real thing. It has like nothing to do with Brazil. What it really refers to is adding fat, fat grafting to the butt. And do people here do that? Yeah. Okay.
Starting point is 00:04:39 So it's not from Brazil and you don't. Is it because Brazilian butts are? Is it because Bruce Brzeleian butts are big? Yeah. Is that why it's called that? Interesting. That's the name of the game. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:04:48 So, you know, we can take fat from different parts of the body and put it in different places and get it to live in that new spot. And so you can face, breast, buttock, and you can take fat where you don't want it and put it where you do. Does it ever not take? Yeah, for sure. So, you know, it's important to go to someone who does a lot of whatever you want done. And even in the best of hands, not all of it survives. You know, fat needs blood supply. like all of the rest of our body, and you're taking it out of its blood supply and putting it into a new area with blood supply.
Starting point is 00:05:18 But you need blood vessels to actually grow into that fat and revitalize it and make it alive. And so, you know, if someone just squirts a big ball in there, it's not going to work because the outside might get blood supply, but those cells will die way before they get any blood. And if people come to you and say, I want a Brazilian butt lift, is that something that you have done? Yeah, for sure. So, you know, listen, my practice is not very flashy showy from a result standpoint. It's all super kind of natural, elegant, soft. And so when I have patients that ask for that, it tends to be like fit moms who have lost a little bit of volume, a little bit of muscle tone maybe over time.
Starting point is 00:05:59 They're working out a lot. They're getting kind of thinner post kids a lot. And they want a little bit more shape. And so we call it, they would call it a skinny BBL or an athletic BBL. not like overdone proportions, not super big and round, just kind of like filled out a little more youthful. I want you to know that I'm going to ask some dumb questions and I'm not being funny. Like even asking about Brazilian butt lifts, I didn't know if that was like a superhero thing or if that was like something. That'd be a lot cooler.
Starting point is 00:06:25 Yeah, it was just like something that the Kardashians did on TMZ. Like I didn't know. But that's really something. But is there, are there other parts of the body that people want fat put on? For sure. Is it all Brazilian then? Is it like a Brazilian? No.
Starting point is 00:06:37 Brazil only got the butt. Everyone. Okay. Okay. Where else would someone want fat? So some of the main areas are the face. So, you know, re-volumizing the face. As we age, we lose volume in our face. And so you can put some fat back in there. That's obviously very small volume, unless you want to look crazy. And that basically all stays because there's a lot of blood supply to the face and, you know, very little amounts of fat being added. So that's a really common area. The other most common area is the breast. So trying to re-volume. the breast with not with implants, but with fat. Okay, so that's different. Yeah, totally different.
Starting point is 00:07:14 So that's not a boob job. I guess it would be a boob job. It is a type of one. But like the classic boob job or breast augmentation, scientifically speaking, yes. We're both doctors here. Yeah, we are both doctors. Yes, sir. Doctor.
Starting point is 00:07:28 So it's placing implants into the breast to create more volume. And that is still the gold standard if you want to actually have larger and fuller breast. Fat doesn't work quite the same. Did guys ever come in for Brazilian butt lifts? Is that a guy thing at all? Yes, not in my practice. Okay, but guys can do it. Yeah, sure.
Starting point is 00:07:49 I mean, you could do anything, right? Yeah, sure. You've never done one on a dude here. Actually, actually, it's not true. There's a close friend who's in the public eye who wanted a juicier butt, and so we put a little bit of fat in when we were sculpting from some other places instead of throwing it out. I'm like very few. Can you take fat from somebody else's body?
Starting point is 00:08:09 No. Oh, it has to be your own fat. It has to be your own fat. That's interesting. Because I'd be like a transplant with like random tissue. That would not go well. Doctor, you should know that. What are most cold calls come in for?
Starting point is 00:08:20 It's a great question. I don't really know. I try to stay out of all the business side of everything from intake, you know, costs, all that kind of stuff. I just try to focus on doing surgery and kind of doing my art. I think it's a you know, it's a lot of word of mouth in my practice, so. But if someone comes to the front door
Starting point is 00:08:42 and they're asking about something, what's the surgery? Boobes? So no one walks in the front door looking for plastic surgery. They don't? Okay, I'm not being funny. I literally thought you would see it. It's not like a donut, man.
Starting point is 00:08:53 But you'd be like, I should stop by and see if they can do. So people don't really just come in to say, what do you got? It's not like a tattoo shop where you pick one from the wall. No, it's not like you're not driving up. It's like, surgery. Sounds like a good idea.
Starting point is 00:09:04 going to get something. So it's all phone call emails, Instagram. I really thought people would show up and be like how much for a Brazilian butt lift if you were to do one? I really don't know. You don't know the price? No. That's like, you know, it's so awkward.
Starting point is 00:09:22 I keep myself completely out of that. I have a team, like an incredible team. More than 5,000? Yes. Okay. I just don't, I have no idea. Listen, I think it probably ranges from Honestly, from, you know, 10 to 100,000, depending on where you are in the country or the world. What? 100,000 dollars? Not in my office.
Starting point is 00:09:43 But I mean, no, I'm not even talking about you specifically. Yeah, for sure. My butt better do the percolator without me doing any of my other muscles at all. Like, it just should naturally. Yeah, it just bouncing. It's like a button. I should push a button. You got a percolator.
Starting point is 00:09:56 Yeah. That's wild. What do you do the most of? So I kind of do them, two things. facial rejuvenation, facelifts, and then mommy makeovers or mommy makeover, quote, unquote, which is post-mom surgery, breast and tummy. And that's, I operate four days a week and it's basically just those on rinse and repeat. Are you considered a plastic surgeon?
Starting point is 00:10:19 Is that still the term? Yeah. Why is it, why is it called plastic? So it comes from the Greek word plasticos, which means to mold. So it's nothing to do with plastic. There is no plastic in plastic surgery. That's, you know, a misnomer. But it's, our job is to kind of sculpt and create and return form and function.
Starting point is 00:10:39 You know, plastic surgery spans the gamut. All reconstructive surgeries are plastic surgery, hand surgery, craneofacial, meaning fixing the facial skeleton or cleft lips and pallets. That's all plastic surgery. I don't like that then because I just assume plastic means plastic. Yeah. I think it gives you guys a bad look. Interesting.
Starting point is 00:10:58 Because I think, oh, they're a plastic surgeon. I go like a Barbie or Kindol. They're made a plastic. They're perfect. So it's trying to make them perfect out of plastic. It's unfair. Yeah. But that's why I ask.
Starting point is 00:11:10 Like, are you a plastic surgeon? But that makes more sense. Yeah. So, and funny enough, plastic surgeon is what you need to look for. So there are other surgeons that call themselves, you know, cosmetic surgeon or aesthetic surgeon. They haven't done residency in plastic surgery, which is a very long, very competitive process. And so in America, if you're a doctor, such as yourself, you're legally allowed to perform any type of medicine that hospitals will give you privilege for and the patients will see you for.
Starting point is 00:11:45 And so because plastic surgery is not an insurance or cosmetic surgery is not an insurance reimburse thing, it's a cash pay thing, a lot of doctors try to set up a practice and perform it without training. when you hear about people like behind Waffle House or doing their own apartment how'd you hear about yeah but like people like people like people die oh yeah like if they like because I will hear the stories or see the stories about people taking like fix a flat and putting it into their butt or some does that ever because we hear the bad stories but does that ever work successfully oh god no no no I mean listen maybe short term they stay alive they make it out of the office and they have a problem down the line you know the problem with with plastic surgery, two things, right? You're only going to hear about all the crazy, terrible
Starting point is 00:12:35 stories, and you're only going to notice the bad work. Good work is like, how does that chick still look so good? And that's because well done plastic surgery shouldn't change the way you look. It should just make you look and feel like the best version of yourself. So what is your story as far as being a doctor? What did you want to be when you grew up? A doctor. So, you know, listen, I think Your story's super inspiring. My story is not the same, but not that dissimilar. I grew up to cool hippie parents. They met in Dallas, Texas.
Starting point is 00:13:06 Where'd you live growing up? I was born in Dallas, and then I was there until I was about eight. And then they wanted to get out of Texas. My mom's from the beach in Jersey. Her mom died young, so there was a house. We moved to Jersey. And then I basically spent my formative years, like Jersey Shore kind of kid, close to New York, and then moved around every year.
Starting point is 00:13:25 since. They weren't doctors. Oh, no. I'm the first doctor in my family. Wow, that's awesome. Yeah. That's, it's seemingly rare. A lot of the folks that I know,
Starting point is 00:13:34 doctors are lawyers. Yeah. Somewhere in their family. Because I think to have a profession like that, it has to be something that seems attainable. Yeah. And I think with a lot of doctors or lawyers, like to me,
Starting point is 00:13:47 it was almost like New York or L.A. It wasn't attainable. That's fiction. That was fantasy land. Like, I'll never go there. That's just where they make TVs and movies. I didn't even know a doctor growing up. Definitely didn't know a lawyer.
Starting point is 00:13:59 Right. And so I think a lot of doctors and lawyers, they know it's attainable because they see it, which is crazy about your story. You didn't have any doctors in your family and you still wanted to be a doctor. I mean, we did not have a lot of resources, but there was a lot of love and support. And when I was three years old, I wanted to be a neurosurgeon. And that was my first enrichment project when I was in kindergarten. I made a map of the brain.
Starting point is 00:14:20 But why? I have no idea where I can't. I mean, I don't know. Maybe I watched Dugie He had. house are young or something. You know, I mean, I just, I thought I wanted to use my brain. I wanted to help people. I, you know, I know that was my thing from a young age, but, you know, what caused that
Starting point is 00:14:38 spark? I don't know. And then I pursued it. Were you always the kid that wanted to be a doctor? Yeah. So did you take your study seriously, your whole scholastic career? Not as seriously as I should have. I've had some, you know, some good wake-up calls and some good lessons along the way.
Starting point is 00:14:52 You know, I was good at school. all that. I was especially early on in Texas. I got a lot of accolades because I was in a, you know, I was one of the only English-speaking kids in the district. And so like that alone set me up to look pretty good. And, you know, I would change grades for math. And then I moved to New Jersey, which was not a really great area either. And I skipped a grade. And so I had all this kind of academics behind me. And then in high school, I got a little lazy, hung out with some older kids. I did well, but I wasn't, you know, number one of my class. and so, you know, you went to Arkansas, I went to Tulane, which was awesome for undergrad, wasn't really where I was planning to go.
Starting point is 00:15:34 I thought I'd go to UPenn or Harvard or something like that, although, of course, no one of my family has done anything like that, but I thought, well, it'll work. Little did I know how challenging all that stuff is. And when I got to college, I was, had a little chip on my shoulder, and then I kind of grinded starting then and ever since. And so I was, you know, upper section of my class at a 300 in my random public high school. And then I was, you know, valedictorian in college. Really? Yeah. That's awesome.
Starting point is 00:16:04 Yeah. So where'd you go to med school? NYU. Okay. So now you're... So then, so, you know, then I went to Tulane and I, this is my parents, stopped giving me advice. I did this special program that would allow me to get accepted to medical school after two years of undergrad. if I had like straight A's basically and all of my pre-med requirements were done in two years with a major outside of science.
Starting point is 00:16:29 I was a philosophy major in college. And I did it and I got into Tulane and I was really young. You know, I went to college young because I did all that stuff early. And my parents were like, I was in the medical school at 18. My parents were like, Jacob, you're going to Tulane. This is amazing. You're in a med school. I was like, you know, I think I might want to be a plastic surgeon.
Starting point is 00:16:49 I think I want to be in New York. they're like, we're not paying for any of these MCAT courses because there were these expensive classes to take the test, you know. I didn't need the test to get in because there wasn't even time to take it. They're like, you're going to take this test and try to go somewhere else. Like, yeah, I think I want to give it a whirl, you know, see if I can get to New York. So they wouldn't pay for the class. So I just bought that study book, that Princeton review thing, you know.
Starting point is 00:17:14 I just like read it cover to cover and took the test and I went well and was able to get in NYU, which is, you know, That was the premier place that I wanted to be in because that was kind of where plastic surgery started in America. So why plastic surgery, though? Because you go to med can be anything. Absolutely. Yeah, what pushed you that direction? So I came in wanting to do that, but I didn't know what it was, actually. And I got there. I walked into the dean's office, first day in med school, I said, I need research.
Starting point is 00:17:45 Because, you know, research is a big thing to set you apart as a medical student. you have to publish. So he set me up with a group, and I knew plastic surgery was the most competitive field. This gets into my competitive, his chip on the shoulder. I wanted to do the hardest thing. And I didn't know what it was, but I knew it was surgery. I knew I wanted to use my hands.
Starting point is 00:18:06 And what I learned through medical school was, you know, I love medicine because you can think and figure out solutions to problems, diagnose and treat, right? a lot of surgery is, you know, the diagnosis is given to you, perform the same thing over and over. And so I didn't like that. And so plastic surgery is kind of the surgeon's surgeon. That's what it's kind of called in the medical field because we have to fix all the interesting complex problems from a form and function from a skin and muscle and bone standpoint that surgeons need help with. And so I was like, oh, cool, I get to solve problems and use my hands.
Starting point is 00:18:43 Cool field. Yeah, I think as you talk about being a plastic surgeon, I can feel my relationship with what a plastic surgeon does change in that I told you my relationship, we just thought of it as plastic. I think of Ken and Barbie, let's just create the perfect person like television has taught me. But you're right. Like so many doctors probably have to send people to you that there's been an illness and injury. And it's not you giving somebody a BBL. it's you trying to get someone back to as close to normal as they can possibly be. Right.
Starting point is 00:19:18 Is that accurate? 100%. And that's where aesthetic surgery or cosmetic or elective surgery comes from. It's kind of like the ultimate, you know, the pinnacle of trying to create the best shape and form and function, right? So, yes, you might be making an improvement. But it's really a natural extension of taking someone whose leg was mangled in a car accident and making so they can walk again, and taking a bone and plugging it into a blood vessel on the leg and taking a leg muscle and turning it on top of it to protect it
Starting point is 00:19:48 and putting it all back together. You know, that's where plastic surgery was born. Yeah, I have an unfair association of plastic surgery with only being aesthetically pleasing, and that's the pure purpose of it. And I don't think that's fair. I don't think it's fair for me to think that. And I haven't had that realization until right now.
Starting point is 00:20:09 Yeah. because again, you guys, meaning guys, women, doctors, you are doing so much more than just that, but because I see on TV so much, just the celebrity versions of it, the boobs and the butt and the lips.
Starting point is 00:20:22 That's all my association with this. You're in, you're in that world, right? I mean, you're going to be surrounded by celebrities and, you know, trying to, trying so hard to look so good all the time. So, I mean,
Starting point is 00:20:33 I think that your idea of it is probably the standard public, you know, friend that had breast cancer and, you know, plastic surgeons address breast cancer. They, from a rebuilding and reconstruction standpoint, skin cancer on your face, you know, that dermatologic surgeons and plastic surgeons fix all those holes from skin cancer, so on and so forth. Let's take a quick pause for a message from our sponsor. Pride month, Toronto. Pride is an opportunity for you to create your own space, to celebrate your existence.
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Starting point is 00:21:43 no anything inside those eyes. They turned black. It scared the hell out of me. That was your first murder case? Yes, sir. Fear to say this was the biggest case of your career? Yes, sir. Rape a murder for a child.
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Starting point is 00:23:22 And now our good friend Nile Horn is joining the show. How's it going, boys? Hey, Niall. It's the same thing with Slow Hands. Slow Hands is not about anything else, really, is it? You know, or taste so good can be about food. You do the same, Nick, with some of the stuff that you've done. You too, Joe.
Starting point is 00:23:39 Drop what you're doing and listen to Hey Jonas on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your podcast. And we're back on the Bobbycast. Whenever you finish the surgery, do you know, like, I just crush that. or do you have to like wait until it all hills? You know, you've got to keep some humility about you. You're going to, it's not going to go well. So I usually, I'm usually very pleased in the surgery.
Starting point is 00:24:12 I feel really good about it. But I'm never like, oh, this is perfect. See you never. You know, I always want to be like, is this exactly what I wanted? I want to, you know, I'll write notes after every surgery. I'll say, you know, right breast was really complicated for X number of reasons. I do a lot of revisionary surgery from, from, from, with problems from around the world.
Starting point is 00:24:31 And I'll say, you know, this was really hard. It was super tight here. And it looked pretty good, but, you know, you have to imagine how the patient will evolve, how their skin will change, how the tissue will change with gravity, with stretching. So you can't have it always exactly what you want on the table because then it'll change post-operative, you know, post-op.
Starting point is 00:24:51 If I get my car washed, I know when it's done, my car's washed, I can just look at it and be like it's done. But when you finish on someone, like they have to heal still. So like the final final result is not like you know because you've done it so many times probably what's going to happen. But you don't know the final final result right until it totally heals up. Yeah. Yeah. I think that would be what would keep me humble.
Starting point is 00:25:09 Yeah. Yeah, it does because, you know, what I always say, I can't control how you heal, right? You know, I mean, with experience and a lot of reps, you can get a pretty good idea of where things are going to end up. but you don't really know people can have bad scarring or good scarring or stretch of your skin or tighter tissue. And so, you know, you got to, this field will humble you no matter how good you are. Do a lot of people say they have a deviated septum and they just come into the leg get cosmetically fixed? I think people sometimes want to have a reason to have surgery besides just wanting an improvement in shape. A deviated septum is a real thing, though.
Starting point is 00:25:54 Oh, for sure. Like, I don't even know. I had a friend that had a real deviated septum. Yeah. And after he had it, because he, before he went in, he would close one. And it, when he'd breathe, it was like you always had a cold. Right. And again, my association with deviated septum was people lying just to get a nose job.
Starting point is 00:26:10 He had a real one and he came out of it and his nose was looked no different. But he had. That's called the septuplasty. I wouldn't have known that, yes. But he had that done. And so I was like, oh, that's a real thing. Right? But then I hear, and I know of people who say that, but I actually know that they went in because they just wanted it fixed or they wanted their nose changed a bit.
Starting point is 00:26:31 And honestly, I think, you know, people who are so much more upfront about plastic surgery now. They're embracing it as opposed to hiding it. I think that that's less common. I mean, Hollywood has kind of led the charge on that. People are coming out and on social media, there's a new celebrity every day talking about what they had done, why they did it and why they did it for themselves. and, you know, pulling it out of the darkness, I mean, it's not something to be ashamed of. I'm obviously biased, but we all want to, you know, look how we feel and feel like the best version of ourselves and, you know, we exercise and we eat healthy and we study and we meditate
Starting point is 00:27:08 and we do all these things. And so having, you know, kind of the physical shape and form that matches how you feel it feels like to me a natural extension of how we're able to evolve and with technology, you know, do things safely. What do you think about red light? Because there's a couple versions and other people that have a little mask and we have the bed, the big, and so that goes deeper. So do you subscribe?
Starting point is 00:27:34 Yeah. So it's real, for sure. There is real studies in peer-reviewed journals that show that red light can have an impact on a variety of different things in the skin. from a skin remodeling and, you know, just kind of revitalization. So it's a great, you know, low risk, good return thing. Yeah, I think my problem with it's been you can't really tell. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:27:58 And I've read some studies. I read a study that NASA did with plants that blew my mind. And these were basically, I'm going to dummy this up, but it's basically a bunch of injured plants and they did red light on them for an extended period of time. And they healed back so much faster than the plants that were also injured that they did, not use red light on. And they did this over and over again, right? So it wasn't a repeatable. Yes. And so, like, to me, that's enough for me to go for it. But I don't ever get out and
Starting point is 00:28:24 like, dang, I just got red lighted like crazy. That feels great. So, so listen, plastic surgery. Like, I perform every day. Obviously, it's one way and then three hours later, it's another way. Like, it's a big fast change. But it's a big thing to do. It's, you know, downtime. time, the lower kind of insult to the body you're performing, the slower the build, right? Like, skin care, sunscreen, let's talk about sunscreen. We all know that we put on sunscreen helps prevent skin cancer also helps with wrinkles. That's because the sun damages your skin, destroys the elastin, your skin, reduces the collagen. You don't put on sunscreen, be like, man, my skin's awesome. It's a 40-year game you're playing. So keep doing the red light. You look good,
Starting point is 00:29:09 you'll look better in 10 years than if you never did it. 40-year games, that game sucks. What it kind of, and I know vitamins work, but red light to me kind of feels like vitamins, because I don't take vitamins and feel good. You don't need, first of all, you don't really need to take vitamins because we live in America, and everyone's diet gets basically everything you need in there.
Starting point is 00:29:32 I don't know. Sometimes I don't eat vegetables for like a month. Oh, yeah. I forgot I'm talking to you. Yeah, sometimes I. You should probably take the light. It's just like supplements and certain things. But, okay, go ahead.
Starting point is 00:29:44 So, no, I was just saying it's, you don't need red light to, you know, feel good or even look good. What it is is small incremental gains, just like, you know, good skin care to just have that skin constantly turning over. And it's subtle. What do you think about saunas? We have one. I love it. My wife used it all the time. I think they're good for you.
Starting point is 00:30:11 We have an infrared sauna, you know, which is hot, but that energy goes into the body a bit more. Do I think it's the end-all, be-all of health? Clearly not. I mean, if that were the case, everyone in Scandinavia would live forever and have no problems, and we would. So, 90% of people in, like, Sweden, or they have a sauna. Like, everyone has them. I think there's a lot to all these little things, you know, cold plunging and, and, all of the...
Starting point is 00:30:40 What are you thinking about cold plunging? Listen, I like it. Do you do it? Yeah, I do. Why do you? Because I've done it. I'm not a hater of it, but I've done it. I find it in Vic.
Starting point is 00:30:49 You definitely get adrenaline rush. You get a dopamine hit from that, you know, which is cool. I think it can, you know, I don't do it a lot. I'm pretty thin, so I get cold quickly. I like the mental game of how long can I take this, how calm can I be, you know, just kind of working on mental strength, fortitude. I tell my kids, you know, never give up, perseverance. I just want them to learn grit and toughness.
Starting point is 00:31:14 Okay, so yours is about discipline. Yours is about pushing yourself more than it is physically what it's doing to the body. Yeah, I would say. I would say that's the bigger part for me. That's what I certainly love about it. But I'll feel good when I get out of it. You know what? I feel cold.
Starting point is 00:31:28 You don't feel like kind of floaty or euphoric. Nah. How long do you stay in? Long enough. Like, whatever the time is, like I'll look on the Internet. Right. How long? And it's like, if you stay two minutes, you know, you get a gold coin or something.
Starting point is 00:31:41 Whatever that is, I do. Okay. But then to me, there is that, oh, I feel kind of a weight feeling that I do like. But it's the dread pre. It's the drying off. Now I'm wet. I don't like being wet, just generally speaking. I don't like it in the pool.
Starting point is 00:31:56 We got a pool. I don't like it in the pool. People are like, you ever swimming your pool? No, why? I don't like being wet. Yeah. So, like, that's a part of it, too. There's just a lot of, like, weird elements.
Starting point is 00:32:04 Okay. But I subscribe. to all these things probably work a little bit, but they only work with consistency. If it's like a sauna or red light or whatever. You have to be consistent at anything for it to function well. As most things in life, right? I'm not going to learn guitar because I tried once to do Guitar Hero.
Starting point is 00:32:28 So, yeah, I think that's totally right. Again, this is not a one-and-done kind of thing. This is like a commitment. This is a lifestyle. These are lifestyle things. So, you know, if I went in and had some fat taken on my stomach. I knew it. I knew that's why I was here.
Starting point is 00:32:44 And I would do that. I would have asked you to, like, bring the pliers and the scissors and let's get it done. The problem for me is not any sort of stigma. It's the recovery. I don't want to recover. I don't like being wet. I don't want to recover. Okay.
Starting point is 00:32:59 So I don't have time to recover. I know. It's like I run so hard and I'm on red all the time. I know. that I don't have a couple weeks to be like, hey, I'm just going to. But let's say I went in and I was like, hey, I got a little fat here, help me out. Because I'm in pretty good shape. And let's say I did that.
Starting point is 00:33:15 How long would it be until I could play pickleball and run again? So, you know, listen, I know that feeling. That's kind of how I am set on go at all times. You know, my mother's always, you know, honey, you're so tired. You know, and just kind of the way it is. So I totally hear what you're saying. Surgery's not that long. liposuction is a little bit of a quicker recovery than other things.
Starting point is 00:33:39 I mean, healing takes time. But from a recovery standpoint, you can be back to some exercise like one week. Might be sore, it might hurt a little. But again, that's all up here. You're not going to hurt anything because nothing's been kind of cut and sewn. You can't tear anything apart. But, you know, I give patients a pretty quick recovery time frame, the quickest that science will allow because most of my patients are super active.
Starting point is 00:34:05 have a lot going on. No one really wants to be down. So by six weeks from any surgery I'm doing, you can do anything. Could I? Could I dunk? You can definitely learn to dunk just from light. Because I couldn't dunk before, but if I can dunk after. I thought as much.
Starting point is 00:34:20 Yeah. Yeah. This will make you dump. Liposuction. So liposuction, in my mind, is you take the dentist and you suck out the fat. Is that true? In very few words. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:34:32 So liposuction is done with cannulus. kind of like metal straws, okay, and they have holes on them. And you have to put some fluid into the fatty tissue of the body first, kind of let it set up. And then you go in back and forth with multiple little access points to try to create a smooth, even playing field, essentially, by removing fat where you want to remove it. And so it really is, it's an heart, you know, it's sculpting. I mean, there's some science, of course, there's science behind the safety. There's science behind when to know, when to stop, you know.
Starting point is 00:35:02 but it's really just to your eye and touch and experience what you need to remove and what you need to leave behind. Can fat come back in the spots that you've sucked it out? That's a great question. Once you remove fat cells, they're gone forever. You can't get new fat cells. So after you're about five years old, the fat cells you have or the fat cells you have, as you gain weight, those fat cells expand or contract. Oh, they're not more fat cells. No more fat cells.
Starting point is 00:35:30 The fat cells are just getting fat. That's it. Fat cells get fat. So they kind of swell. If you look at it, they kind of look like chicken wire. That's what fat cells in the body look like, and those chicken wire holes get bigger or smaller. So if you have a problem area where you tend to gain all your weight
Starting point is 00:35:45 and you suction out fat from that area, fat will not go there as preferentially. I mean, you'll still gain weight in all the areas. But if it used to go to your belly, and now you gain 10 pounds, you might feel it more, you know, in your hips or thighs, more so than that area. Do generally guys get it like, because I have a right on my stomach here. I also have a surgery where I have scar tissue where it kind of grows back weird anyway.
Starting point is 00:36:11 I have my spleen taken out. So I got from my sternum down to, you know, almost my what you guys would call. I use clinical terms, my wiener area. That's it. There's a scar. You really are a doctorate. Yeah. So I have a scar.
Starting point is 00:36:25 And again, because of that, my stomach is just a little weird. I have no belly button, a little weird anyway. Yeah, yeah. But that's still where the fat goes on me. Is that most dudes? Yeah. So men tend to gain it in the men section. Women, you know, tend to gain it more in the hips, thighs kind of area as a general rule.
Starting point is 00:36:43 So, you know, men that come in for liposuction, the key to really everything I do is making, you know, what I tell patients, I want the skin to match the deeper tissue. So right now there's a little bit more fat. There might be a little bit of extra skin. if there's extra skin already, I won't do liposuction because all it's going to do is remove fat and leave more skin. So I tell everybody, you know, a bunch of saggy skinniness isn't better than kind of a fuller, slightly more plump thing. So a lot of things have to be aligned for liposuction to be the solution. Do you ever tell people no? All the time.
Starting point is 00:37:18 Tell me about that. I mean, by the way, if you find a surgeon that only tells you yes, run. because, you know, that's really saying no is more important than saying yes. My job is to educate on the front end, make sure that we're aligned, expectations are appropriate, and then maybe you're a candidate to have a surgery. And a lot of times people want things that aren't realistic or have unrealistic expectations or want something that's not real. And so no is how I spend most of my.
Starting point is 00:37:54 consult days. Is an unrealistic expectation if someone wants a whole lot of fat taken out? Like what would be an unrealistic expectation? So, you know, if you get your haircut, you take in a picture and do this. Sure. Does that happen? Yes. So somebody, a good example would be, you know, a breast patient.
Starting point is 00:38:13 Let's say there's a fuller-figured woman that has low breast. She's older. And she brings in a picture of a swimsuit model. well she's not going to have those breasts right like that's just not in the cards right there's too much tissue the chest is too wide things have changed too much you know so people say this is what i want and that's an easy no i don't i don't see much of that disconnect but you know people will also bring in a picture they'll say i feel i'm so tired now i don't look as good as i used to this is me just a few years ago i want to look like this and they'll bring in you know maybe
Starting point is 00:38:53 maybe an AI kind of airbrushed picture. You're like, I can't make you a cartoon. That's not going to happen, right? So, again, most of my patients are incredibly lovely, very reasonable, you know, people you want to be your friend. I mean, that's what I look for. If I don't like you, if I don't connect with you, then I'm not the right doctor for you. The Bobbycast.
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Starting point is 00:41:53 Drop what you're doing and listen to Hey Jonas on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you listen to your podcast. This is the Bobbycast. If I wanted to get peck implants, because my whole life, I've been very insubes. care about my chest. Okay. When I was 13, I had the chest of a 13-year-old boy. When I was 30, I had the chest of a 13-year-old boy. It really never matured past that 13-year-old boy.
Starting point is 00:42:26 And I'm beyond that now. But if I did, is that something that's done for guys that it makes them look strong at the gym? I don't do that at all. I do no implants in males. I do no implants in women other than breast implants. There are a small group of surgeons that I know around the world that do that routinely. So they have the experience to do it because it's not a super high request surgery. So you better find someone who does that's really specialized in kind of male bodybuilding, enhancing style surgery.
Starting point is 00:43:01 But there's a lot of problems with that. I mean, the male pick is obviously a big muscle. It's used a lot. The implants for men are these kind of very rigid pieces of silicone. And so, I mean, it's just something I've totally avoided. So I'm sorry. Can't do that for you. Yeah, no, I'm 13 years forever.
Starting point is 00:43:18 I'll die 13 years in my chest, yeah. Caves? Also not common at all. None of these solid implants are common, especially in the United States. They're more common in Asia, Middle East. They don't look very good. I don't think, just, you know, why I don't do them most of the time. So, yeah, I would steer clear of that.
Starting point is 00:43:39 You ever hear about those people that break bones and get taller? like the surgeries where they break and they put a rod in yeah that's crazy huh elizorov yeah so what it's called and well that the elizorov method was invented in in russia and like i think the 1800s i mean you're testing my memory here but you know that that's a real thing you can cut so we actually that was one of the big projects at NYU it's called distraction osteogenesis which is big words but it means taking a bone pulling it apart slowly and allowing new bone to fill in so it was first done in the legs. Then it was done in the jaw. We do it for babies all the time that have certain craniofacial abnormalities. Very, very small chin, no airway. They have to have a trache when they're born.
Starting point is 00:44:21 You can rebuild the jaw, stretch it out so the tongue pulls forward and they can get rid of a trache and live a normal life. Wow. That's very common in a children's hospital. You go to Vanderbilt right now, there's a, I'm sure, I don't know, but a number of children in the pediatric ICU, they get a quarter turn. The residents go by and do a quarter turn. you know, twice a day or four times a day, depending on where you are, to stretch out that jaw. So that was the chairman at NYU, bringing it back to why I went there for a med school. He was this really famous creane and facial surgeon. He wrote the first paper on doing that in the jaw, as opposed to the leg, in dogs.
Starting point is 00:44:58 And, you know, that kind of set him up for a big career. One of the reasons why I wanted to go there. But it's a real thing. Yeah, one dude grew like four inch, he didn't grow. One dude put in like, he grew, I keep saying grew. He was four inches taller once he was healed. He walked a little funny. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:45:12 And then you're like, as it works it, you're walking a little funny with your new rods. So I think that's wild. You know, it was wild that show The Swan? You ever watch that? That show was crazy. You had to look at that and be like, what are they doing? Yeah. That was a little overstepping probably.
Starting point is 00:45:28 You know, I mean. For those that don't know, let me explain to the people watching this or listening to this. The Swan, epic show, by the way. Epic, yeah. But it shouldn't have been real. No. They both can exist. Like epic show, but they shouldn't have been, in my opinion.
Starting point is 00:45:43 It was somebody who went in and they were like, everything was like off and they were like, fix me. And they did like 42 surgeries on them. And all of a sudden they walked out and they were like a swan. Yeah, that was a wild show. That was a wild joke. Was that the 90s? Probably already 2000. Mike, would you look at the swan?
Starting point is 00:45:57 2004. 2004? Yeah. So kind of like that nip-tuck era is kind of early. You know, that 90s plastic surgery was so kind of under the radar, you know, 70s. and 80s. You look in Manhattan. Socialites would get facelifts, but like super hush-hush and very, very small volume. As things got more refined and better and safer, kind of started ramping up,
Starting point is 00:46:18 and things went a little wild in like kind of the late 90s, early 2000s. Again, I was young at that point. Oh, it peaked with the swan, though. That's a wild thing I've ever seen. That was it. And then everyone's like, we're going to rain that in a little bit. Whoever greenlit that show I should have a talk with, that's crazy. They would have like all these surgeries at once and they'd present them and they still look jacked up.
Starting point is 00:46:42 But still though, it is great. That like, that was wild. Rewarding surgeries for you as a human being. Like can you tell me about a couple that you've done where you're just so proud of your work because you've helped somebody's life? Yeah. I mean, you know, not to sound like overblown, but it's like almost countless. Like, I mean, you know, that's what's important. for me to realize it, it's not just fixing a hole from cancer that people are appreciative of
Starting point is 00:47:14 and life-changing for, you know, the more common thing I see now, you know, moms are the best example. They have babies, they nurture their children, they raise their children, it does a toll on the body, you know, without a doubt stretching out the stomach, the muscles, the skin, breasts get deflated and change, you know, I, no one gets spared, right? Supermodels, I see supermodels. They get, you know, a lot of change. in their bodies too. And to help a woman kind of restore herself and feel like herself again, there's a lot of happy tears. And there's a, you know, it's a really, it's a really special thing to get to be a part of, you know, that journey for people. And then on the reconstructive side,
Starting point is 00:47:55 as you can imagine, you take someone who's having, you know, a burn victim that can't turn their neck and you do a surgery to rebuild the neck so that it's flexible and pliable again, or somebody cuts their thumb off and you put it back on for them. That's happened? Oh yeah, I've done it countless times. In residency. I don't do that anymore. You need a big academic center.
Starting point is 00:48:18 So I trained in Dallas, Parkland Hospital, biggest public hospital in the country. And we're on what's called replant call, replanting fingers and arms every single day for six years. The plastic surgery department at UT Southwestern. There are that many people losing fingers in arms? Oh, it's nonstop. I mean, they fly them all in, you know,
Starting point is 00:48:37 That's crazy. I mean, it happens multiple times a day. And so they come in and, okay, if it happens, do you put it on ice? Because that's what TV says. Yeah, they put them on ice. Like, let's say I chopped a finger off. And I'm like, oh my God, there's my finger. Wrap it in a wet paper towel, put it on ice, go to a major academic center.
Starting point is 00:48:56 Does that mean hospital? Sorry, a major academic hospital, like a Vanderbilt. These services, this is very, very, you know, you have like primary care. It's like your doctor. Then you go on up. is like what we call quaternary or fourth level care. It takes a big team of specialists, special microscopes, microsurgeons who do this all day. You're not going to find it at like every random hospital in small towns. But they'll ship you. That reminds me, we were both too young
Starting point is 00:49:25 to have been adults when this happened, but, and I'm only partially being funny because I'm curious about this, but remember when Lorena Bobbitt cut off John Wayne Bobbitt's penis and threw it in the field? So I reattached two penises. You have a kid. And I, again, ha ha, whatever. But that's serious stuff. Like, how does that, how do you get it to work again? Does it work fully ever again? So, I mean, what's one of the, I've presented this case, you know, it's not that common. There's only a couple of the papers written about penis replants. The kid, he was young, you know, one of the ones anyway. He was getting erections before he left the hospital. I mean, again, medically speaking. It was working that fast? Oh, you're in the hospital for a while. Oh, you are. You don't walk in a couple threads and it's like, toing. No, it's a, it's a couple of weeks of hospital.
Starting point is 00:50:12 How do you get it to work again, though? Because it feels like there's a lot of blood vessels. Yeah, you have to plug all those tubes back together. So it's called microsurgery because we use a microscope. Under the microscope, we do tiny little needles that you really can't see. The sutures for that is much thinner than a human hair. You know, a couple microns thick. And you sew them, you know, interrupt the little stitches all the way around the circle.
Starting point is 00:50:35 but the two tubes reconnecting them all. Nerves, arteries, veins. Any of the nerves or veins artificial? Not in that particular case, but if you lose a finger, sometimes there's nerves in your fingers, your fingers aren't too good without nerves. And so there are what are called nerve graphs. They're off the shelf, meaning they're products that are in the hospital.
Starting point is 00:50:58 And you can take that little, it's basically like a nerve sheath without the DNA from a person. and you can use that to plug in and then the nerve can regrow through that tube. This is going to be the stupidest question. Please respect it. Could you attach somebody else's penis onto my spot? No. You couldn't.
Starting point is 00:51:19 No. So, listen, again, that's a transplant, right? So the body has an immune system. The immune system recognizes self and non-self. That's why some people have allergies. That's pollen. Your body sees it as a problem, fights it. If I plug someone else's DNA onto you, your body doesn't be like,
Starting point is 00:51:35 What are these cells? What about an organ transplant, though? What if someone had a matching penis? So you could, if your identical twin had a much bigger penis than you, you could take it from him and put it on you. Identical twins, it would work. Really? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:51:48 That's crazy. Yeah. So, you know, you have to immunosuppress transplant patients because they have to be really close. Please, please do that. Yeah, make that little easier. So if you get a, you know, you have a kidney, you need a kidney transplant. You have to find a match. You probably heard like the donor has to match.
Starting point is 00:52:03 You can't take any old kidney. It has to be someone who's really similar to you. Sometimes family members are matches. They have, again, this is not my area, but there's a variety of factors that they look at to see what immunologic things, what immune system things match up. And you need enough of those to match to be a match to get that kidney. Even with that, you're on serious medicine for the rest of your life to dumb down your immune system. So if someone with a kidney transplant gets sick, it's a big deal. They're in the hospital real quickly.
Starting point is 00:52:32 they have to get a lot of antibiotics because their immune system doesn't work the same. Wow, you've had to replace two penises and that's not even, that's crazy that it could even work, even a finger. Like it's crazy that you can get it to have to function again. Yeah, it's cool.
Starting point is 00:52:47 Yeah. What was the first human you ever cut into? Were they alive? I guess not. No, speak, you know, the first humans that we cut into is going to be in general anatomy, you know, general anatomy.
Starting point is 00:52:59 Like a cadaver type situation? Yeah, but you're not learning surgical technique. just learning all the structures. The first human I cut into was... Are you nervous? Your first surgery? Oh, yeah, for sure. It was med school.
Starting point is 00:53:12 I was operating with the surgical team, and that's how teaching hospitals work. I was super gung-ho. Like I said, I would finish my plastic cert... My medical school work, and then late at night I go to the hospital and figure out what plastic surgery cases were happening, reconstructing all these things,
Starting point is 00:53:28 ask if I could come in and scrub in and get to know you better and better and better. you do stuff. I'm meaning to ask this in a positive way, but were you a super nerd for it? Yeah. Like you wanted it. You were so nerdy for it. Like you wanted to be there when it wasn't even your time to be there?
Starting point is 00:53:42 I was there all the time. That's awesome. That's awesome. That's awesome. I want my surgeon to be. I want my pilot to be. I want my pilot to be outside the simulator being like, can I get in? I know what's not my time.
Starting point is 00:53:52 But that's what I want. All my surgeons. I want my pilots. Anything that, because you have our life in your hands. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's been, you know, now at this stage of my career, I'm actually trying to learn how to extricate how I see myself from just being a surgeon. You know, it's been the focus of my life. You know,
Starting point is 00:54:14 I'm in my early 40s for the last 20 years. I've been, like, focused on basically that, right? And, you know, you're not, you're, now you're a father and you're a husband and you have friends and you're not just a radio, you know, you're not a radio host. You're not just a, you're not a personality alone. So much of my self-worth has been wrapped up in what I do that, you know, it ends up being a little unhealthy at some point. You know, you have to remember that you're a person and, you know, connect to my kids and wife and friends and find other interests
Starting point is 00:54:50 because it's easy to just do nothing but that forever. You get zoned in, you get focused, and you get worried that if you're not doing more, then you're not doing enough. So, yeah, my entire identity has always been about what I do. And I'm starting to, as you said, not have that be the sole focus. That's also hard to release that because of the goals that I've always had. Because a little bit of me starts to have real life come into play and it's not the sole focus. And I start to go, wait, am I, if I slow down.
Starting point is 00:55:30 if I start to lean into these other parts of my life that are valuable, but if I take the gas off of this, you know, radio show podcast, whatever I'm doing, like, I'm going to lose it there. Like, I struggle with that because I've always been such a nerd for all this. Yeah. I mean, I feel a lot of similarities with you. So what my executive coach would say is, you know, what motivated me early on, you know, fear.
Starting point is 00:55:55 I don't want to have nothing. I didn't want to be able to afford to send my kids of school. I wanted to achieve something. I wanted to accomplish something different. But, you know, that fear doesn't serve. I'll speak for myself. It doesn't serve me anymore. I don't need to live my life upset when everything isn't perfect.
Starting point is 00:56:14 And, you know, this week I should have done one more surgery because I could have and I had the time and why wasn't it full? And why didn't, why didn't no one come in for that? And, you know, I spend my, I spend, you end up spending your life, like, kind of miserable or frustrated or upset. and I'm not going to let my foot off the gas. This is who I am. I'm going to strive for excellence. I don't need to do it in such a way that I'm just beating myself constantly. You know, that served me, but it's time to, you know, move on with the next phase.
Starting point is 00:56:49 Did you find having kids change that? You know, oh, my wife, she's going to laugh when she hears us. So when my first child was born, I was a resident, I was on my chair. chairman's rotation. I said, babe, I have big surgery with Dr. Roar. That was my chairman and one of my big mentors. Tomorrow, do not have this baby. Of course, she had the baby. I had to skip work. It was okay. I took three days off. And then I went right back to the grind. I'm like, this is my training. You'll be fine. Your mom's coming to town. It's cute baby high. I, you know, second child, I was in early in practice.
Starting point is 00:57:34 I took one day off. I went in for the day of the baby, and I said, you're good, right? I'll get you home tomorrow, but I went back. I have patients. They've moved their life to have surgery. I can't cancel. Third child, we scheduled. I had it born on a Sunday, so I took no days off.
Starting point is 00:57:53 My wife's pretty upset by this point. This is only six years ago. and I thought it was so cool. I was like, I'm earning for my family, and all my wife wanted was me to be around, and all my kids wanted is me. And so, you know, that was ramping up to the most extreme kind of overdone. And I used to think it was cool,
Starting point is 00:58:13 just like I used to brag about not sleeping, you know. We were always trained, like, I haven't slept in three days. I'm still up, you know, someone eventually was like, you know, that's not cool, right, dude? I'm like, oh, okay. So trying to recognize what I'm really going to care about on my deathbed, and I really do care about my patients. And I want my family to be proud of me, and I want to be a pillar of my community.
Starting point is 00:58:36 And I love that whatever reputation I've been able to create has been one of, you know, trusting and loving and good bedside manner. And that is all a big part of who I am. But I can't shirk everything else and just expect it to stay there and be there for me. me. So let's take a quick pause for a message from our sponsor. Pride is like love. You feel it in your heart. I-R-Radio Canada's number one streaming app for radio and podcasts, including I-Hart Pride Canada, your favorite hits and must-have party bangers, plus personalized and curated playlists like back-in-the-day pride. Come together, celebrate love. Take pride with you anytime, anywhere. Just ask your smart
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Starting point is 01:01:51 I started to have mortality thoughts now, which I never really had. That's just the getting older part. Yeah. And I was always the youngest, always the youngest. Right. At a high level. Right. Always.
Starting point is 01:02:02 And now that's catching up too. And so you start to go, what if I'm going to die soon? Yeah. Like maybe if I just die now, I'll be cool still. I die cool. You think about that? You don't think about that? Well, I'm not cool, so I don't even worry about that.
Starting point is 01:02:15 But, you know, yes, like someday the public might not be as interested in you, right? Like, down the line for whatever reason. And so that's not all that makes you, that's not all that makes you important. That's not all that makes you, you know, alight in this world. So I think gaining some perspective, especially while you still have all the accolades and everything going and, you know, all the stuff you've done. I've been here for 11 years now in Nashville, and obviously I've known about you because everyone knows about you for all this time. And I've seen, I've watched that growth, your career, what you've done, how hard you've pushed, how many things you do at the same time. And, you know, I connect with that and I look up to that.
Starting point is 01:03:01 You know, it's just you can get caught on that treadmill and kind of lose everything else. Yeah, having a kid. And again, we're so new in the kid. state process. I don't know. It's a baby. It's a human. I don't know. It's not a process. It feels like a science experiment sometimes. I'm not going to lie. But yeah, it's like that stuff starts to set in a little bit where it's like, I really need to allow these other things to come in. Because if I don't, they're going to come in anyway. Yeah. And so I'm going through that a bit. A couple other questions that popped to my mind. And I hope I'm not speaking out of turn here. And maybe you've said out,
Starting point is 01:03:31 you've heard of Kristen before? Yeah. Okay. So if I'm wrong, but I believe you did Kristen Cavaleri's breast augmentation. If it's a celebrity on the table, is that more pressure? You know, she's awesome. She's a sweet dear friend as well, which is actually another layer of pressure, right? Operating on your friends, which I've done a lot by this point. You know, it's obviously a little more under the microscope. You know, there's a little bit more stress,
Starting point is 01:04:01 especially when you first start operating on people in the public eye. And I try to put that aside. I mean, maybe leading up to it, but then, like, you know, I'm no athlete, but, you know, being in the zone kind of thing. I mean, I want to be in my flow state. I'm doing my thing. It could be a person A, B, C, or D does not matter. And I come up for air at the end, and it's been three hours and, you know, it's like a total time warp. And, you know, then I might be like, oh, you know, but I really try to approach everything the same. I think that's when you mess things up when you try to, like, you know, be extra cool or do something extra because you're worried about that person or patient. And so it's got to be a weird relationship because let's say you do the breast augmentation on somebody and then you see them two years later.
Starting point is 01:04:47 Do they just go, look, Doc, they're still good. Usually to everybody. Honestly, people love through it. I'm sure right after they do. But if you just see them like years later, that's probably just normal to be like, how are they? Sure. I mean, you know, listen, it's a private thing. I want to respect people's privacy.
Starting point is 01:05:05 So I will never come up to you. No, but they make them up to you. If they come up to me, then I'll take their lead. Like, you know, whatever. That's wild. Yeah. Yeah, you know, I always say, like, 16-year-old me is super impressed with adult me. It's like, I see a lot of boobs.
Starting point is 01:05:20 Wow. Do you feel fulfilled with your career choice? Yeah. That's cool. That's the coolest part of all this. How about you? Sometimes. I feel like a failure still, tremendously.
Starting point is 01:05:38 Like, tremendous. I, I, I, I live in a failure state. Right. So it's nice to know that if I were fired, I would still be able to buy groceries for the rest of my life. Like, that's a comfort. But I feel like a failure constantly in my guts, like deep, deep, deep. So I think I'm fulfilled when I can do cool things for people.
Starting point is 01:06:05 Right. That's awesome. Yeah. I think that's where my fulfillment comes from. All this stuff goes away tomorrow. nobody knows who I am in two days if, you know, it's not real, but like I cling to it at the same time. So I don't know. It depends what day it is. Yeah. But it's like I'm more fulfilled for you after having this conversation because again, my association with plastic surgery is what television has told me. And that is unfair. Yeah. Because you be like, oh, that's slick Willie
Starting point is 01:06:31 the plastic surgeon. He's doing boobs and butts to make women. But really, there's like so much more involved. It's so involved that I'm kind of embarrassed to ever felt that way about it. And And also you're like in shape and cool and good looking. You're like, look at the good. You look at him. He's so, you know, Mustnixie. He's hot stuff. Do you get that?
Starting point is 01:06:47 You know, you're like really good. You're like really in shapes. You can't do it to yourself though, can you? You can't like this? No, I've never had any cosmetic surgery. You haven't? No. Dang.
Starting point is 01:06:58 Could you do it to yourself? I actually did do a small procedure on myself. You know, a little fatty tumor. It's called lipomas. Like a little kind of ball under the skin. You've heard of that? I'm not familiar now. Anyway, I had one on my stomach, and I'm like, I think I can do this.
Starting point is 01:07:12 So I had my team around me. I lay down in my own chair. I numbed it up. I took a knife. I cut into it. I spread it. I got it out and I sewed it up. So I did one little surgery on myself.
Starting point is 01:07:22 But no, you can't do like real surgery on yourself. And you've never been weird about seeing guts and stuff. Never, no. Never hard to cut into flesh. Like when my baby was born, I didn't want to cut the umbilical cord. I didn't, by the way, because I said, is there a benefit? If there is, I'm happy to do it. If it's going to benefit the baby in any way,
Starting point is 01:07:38 give me the garden cheers. And they were like, no, it's just, I'm out. That's fine. I don't like cutting a mistake. I'll be honest with you. I do a full fork like lollipop. I don't like cutting meat. So for me, not the job.
Starting point is 01:07:52 But you'd never been an issue. No. You know, I don't have a lot of natural talents, but like that was, that's certainly something that set me up. I mean, it was never a problem for me. I, you know, one of my sons loves it. He's watched me do surgery. I have a surgical center, and in my office, it's all private, so he can kind of watch from the window.
Starting point is 01:08:13 And he's always been super enamored with it. My other son was like, you know, it's like, oh, God. You know, and it's so cute. He's like, I think I can get over it because I want to be a plastic surgeon like Daddy too. It's like so adorable. But I think so. And by the way, I don't think just because it weirds you out when you're young or it doesn't meet portends one, you know, answer or the other. You could start feeling kind of grossed out and get over it.
Starting point is 01:08:41 I don't like it. You know, I don't like, I don't like eyeballs. Like poking eyeballs? Like, I don't like watching. Huh? Like, I don't do that. Or surgery? No.
Starting point is 01:08:50 I'm not a fan of torture. Okay. No. No, you know, like a lens replacement in the eyes where you cut through the accordion and opening. Got it. That's too far. A little weird for me. Huh.
Starting point is 01:09:02 Yeah. Congratulations on everything. Like people really respect you Because you know Since the show started on Netflix It's been for the most part Just people I'm super interested in And so
Starting point is 01:09:15 Like I'm really And I hope my questions have been Coming from a sincere place Even though they've kind of been funny But I really do wonder this stuff And I think that I was just kind of I had the wrong impression But like I
Starting point is 01:09:28 It's been a super enlightening Last hour for me So I really appreciate you That's awesome Answering those questions I really appreciate it You know I mean, I want to make my family proud and, you know, honestly, being invited on this felt like a big deal.
Starting point is 01:09:41 So, you know, thank you for doing that for me. You're the first non-celebrb we've had on Netflix. I think you're a celebrity. Don't take that. Don't be offended by that. Well, you know what I mean. You know what I mean. It's a fair statement.
Starting point is 01:09:52 Don't find offense in that because hopefully that didn't. I'm only a celebrity to like my mother. Regardless. What's your favorite surgery to do? If you got one surgery and they're like you can specialize in one thing, what do you do? My answer has always been too, you know, I love my little mix. I love doing really, so I, fine, I'll give you an answer. Thank you.
Starting point is 01:10:14 Okay, fine. So complex revisionary breast surgery is probably what I'm best known for from like a broader. What's complex about it? Like people that have had problems or issues, you know, maybe an infection, maybe a heart, a scar tissue issue or asymmetry, malpositioning, implants in the wrong spot that I've tried to have it fixed multiple times. I do a lot of like cleanup work. And that's a fun challenge. I have a friend that's a vet and people will just send her pictures like their dog's poop or like being, their dog is sick or something. Do you ever people just send you pictures of them? Yeah. Like what is this? What can I do? Really?
Starting point is 01:10:50 A lot of nude selfies. You could get away with that though. I mean, that's a way. No, honey, I'm a plastic surgeon. My wife does all my Instagram stuff along with Sophie in my office is awesome. And a lot of stuff, I don't really go on there much. And, you know, it'd be probably, I have no interest, but it'd probably pretty easy to pull off an affair, you know, like no one. I would think so. My final question is, if I don't get enough sleep and I don't eat right, my performance
Starting point is 01:11:19 the next day is probably not going to be good. I might get away with it once. Right. But because I have to be mentally focused, I've got to be there physically. Yeah, I have to be on. Yeah. So I have to take care of myself. Do you feel that way like going before surgery, like the night before it's eat right, get to sleep on time?
Starting point is 01:11:39 Like you have to do the fundamental things right so you can do it right for them? Of course. Yeah. I mean, I work out at five every morning. You know, I go to bed early every night when I'm not on vacation. I get up. I have my same routine every morning. I kiss the kid.
Starting point is 01:11:55 You know, it is very much like game day ritual, if you will. You know, every day. I wanted to be consistent. And, you know, I owe that to my patience. And, you know, I want to feel the best version of myself. So I fully agree. Mike, do you have anything? Because I'll end, but if there's any question I just didn't ask.
Starting point is 01:12:13 Because I have a hundred that come at me all at once. Anything that comes to your mind? We're good. Okay. That means I've done a good job. Okay. If he's got nothing, that means I've done a good job. I like that.
Starting point is 01:12:22 People can just reach out to you on Instagram? Yeah, sure, for sure. Yeah, or yeah, sure. Yes. We said it before you came in. We can say it again if you want. Yeah, Instagram. There's a website.
Starting point is 01:12:34 But don't just stop by. Apparently people don't just stop by and walk in and be like. Swinging by looking for advice, it's not going to work. It's not going to work too well. Set up an appointment. Dr. Argers, thank you for your time. This has been awesome. Bobby, I really appreciate it, man.
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