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In 2017, Libby, Caswell was found dead in a motel room in Independence, Missouri.

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We have a term called J. D. L. R, which means.

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Just don't look right. On season two of my podcast, What Happened to, I take a closer look at Libby Caswell's life and death.

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Libby's case keeps me awake at night.

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What happened to her is unknown. That's something that I need to know.

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Hello, I'm Chelsea Paredi. Do you feel chronic, existential, dread, but love talking about delicious snacks? Call me. My podcast is relaunching. Do you fear wild, dangerous animals to the point where you're constantly watching attack videos and reading articles about wild animal attack survivors or those who succumb to attack, call in. We can also discuss reality shows and emergency room footage. Listen to call Chelsea Paredi on Will Ferrell's Big Money Players Network on the iHeart Radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

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How many times a day do you have to ask women in stirrups to scoot a little closer towards the end of the table?

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Oh, every single time.

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It's not an instinct that any woman wants to do.

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Well, I want to put a sign on the ceiling that says.

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Go lower. All right. Tosh, show. Tash show. Tash show. Tash show. Welcome to Tosh Point O. Nope, wrong show. Right. Welcome to Tash show. I'll be honest, it sounds very similar. It's almost as if we're intentionally trying to be confusing. This show couldn't be more different. For example, no internet vids. Fine, fewer internet vids.

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Thursday, partly.

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Sunny skies.

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And 57. And to another woman who.

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Likes to be double-fisted in.

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A.

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Different way, I.

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Think Jess.

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She.

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Means beer.

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She means beer. Guys, she means beer. Don't put me on YouTube. My God. Oh, my God. Apparently, channel Six's parent company is Pornhub. This is why we should have never started paying women the same as men, because now they're acting like us, and it's disgusting. You see, on my old show, I would have put 20 seconds on the clock to make fun of this video. But now on a podcast, I can put three and a half hours on the clock, do a deep dive into why Jess is using alcohol as a coping mechanism. Can we still play Is it racist? Of course. Of course, we can play Is it Racist. Chris McCarthy doesn't own racism. By the way, let me set the record straight about what happened over Comedy Central. They offered me a pile of cash to break my contract, and I did. The end. I'm not mad, though, because had that not happened, I wouldn't be here right now in this illegally built ADU in newly gentrified, Baldwin Hills. The Lord works in mysterious ways. Real mysterious. Hosanna. The biggest difference between Toshow and Tosh. O is that I will be wearing glasses occasionally and sitting down because it's a podcast and you're just listening.

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But you can also watch. So it's pretty much the same show. Big difference. Chiming in off camera way more than I'll ever feel comfortable with. It's my good friend and Tahoe neighbor, Eddie. He co-created Tosh Point O and Toshow. He's my Larry David. If Larry was slightly less funny and bought his jeans at Costco, which makes me Jerry Seinfeld, minus the Scientology phase and fear of performing in front of people under the age of 30, I'll do 45 minutes on the burden of white privilege at any college campus in this country. I'm not afraid to tackle the issues. What's Aaron Rogers take on Gaza? Looking it up. Don't look it up. I know the answer. He's on the wrong side. And yes, I'll still be talking about sports. The Miami Dolphins having a great start this year, six and three. They just played in Frankfurt, Germany. I was invited to that game by the team to fly with them. I said no, because I don't do things. It seemed like an awful idea. I was born near Frankfurt, Germany in Bowpart. It's like an hour and a half west. I'll tell you it was crazy, though, watching a bunch of German, Kansas City Chiefs fans getting so excited to do the Tomahawk chop.

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It's like they just couldn't wait over there in Germany to do another racist arm gesture. Will I still be making fun of nick Saban? Not as much because he, like myself, is no longer relevant. Mostly, this show will be my personal bullhorn to make sure Arn Anderson knows that our feud is far from over. You hear me, Arn? Or is your mirror clear? Run out of juice, you old fuck. Please subscribe so I can shove my out-of-touch, coastal elite, far left socialist opinions down your throat. All right, let's get started. I'm going to be interviewing people that I find interesting. No celebrities, no comedians. Today that person is my wife's gynecologist, which has to be every woman's nightmare for their husband to film a conversation with their OB-GYN for the world to watch. Now, in theory, being a gynecologist sounds like a dream job. But the reality is the vagina is a complete mystery. It's like an episode of Double Dayer down there. And yes, I got my wife's permission to talk about her medical history. Carly, are you cool with me interviewing Dr. Finkie for my podcast to talk about your lady parts? Absolutely not.

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Yes, honey. Thank you. I probably shouldn't share as much about my wife as I'm going to, but we live in Malibu and she doesn't have to work, so I'm sure she'll get over it. Enjoy.

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We have a term called JDLR, which means just don't look right.

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My name is Melissa Jeltson. I've spent the last year talking to Libby's friends and family, uncovering details of her life and the secrets that may have endangered it. I knew.

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She was doing something, but she just.

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Wouldn't admit it to me at first. Join me on a journey to uncover what really happened to Libby Caswell.

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Everyone.

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Deserves to know the truth. And if there is something that was not right, then someone should be held accountable. I think the.

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Law is set up to punish families in this situation.

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Libby's case stands out in my mind and keeps me awake.

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At night. What happened to her is unknown. It's something that I need to know.

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Listen to what happened to Libby Caswell on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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Hello, I'm Chelsea Paredi. Do you feel chronic existential dread but love talking about delicious snacks? Call me. My podcast is relaunching. Subscribe and treat yourself to sound effects like this and this. Have you ever been attacked by a bear? Yeah. Yes. And moments like this. I happen to fall.

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Asleep in front of a space heater and my whole leg, put my knee down and my foot burnt until it's a big bubble.

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And this, kale chips are delicious. They're too oily when I get them.

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They shouldn't.

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Be soft at all. They should be really crispy.

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That's what I said every single time. You are yelling at me.

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And this? Do you want.

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To go to.

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My guest today has been all up in my wife's guts. Literally. This man delivered both of my children. Please welcome my wife's gynecologist, OPGYN, Dr. Finkie. Me. How are you?

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I'm well.

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Thank you for having me. First question I ask all my guests, do you believe in ghosts? No. Okay, Jesus Christ. It took you so long. You're a doctor for God's sake.

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I had to qualify.

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Thank you for agreeing to do this. Let me tell you something in all honesty, this is the reason I agreed to do this show. I heard it was like, Will you do the show? I'm like, I don't know. I don't want to interview comedians. I don't want to interview celebrities. But if you let, and I said this, I swear to you, I said, If you let me interview my wife's gynecologist, then I'll do the show. They're like, Well, yeah, but that won't ever happen. He probably won't let you.

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I'm not that interesting.

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No, you're extremely interesting. By the way, what should I call you? Do I have to say Dr. Finke, David or I usually just call you Finke.

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My whole life, people have called.

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Me Finkie. It's a great name.

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I have no idea why. I'm the youngest of four kids. So when I went through life, it was just, Oh, there's Finkie.

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It works. It's a good name, and I like it. How long have you been a doctor? Oh, God.

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I graduated med school in 2006.

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From where?

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University of Missouri.

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Kansas City. And how does that get you into Beverly Hills?

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That's a very good question. I have no idea. You basically at the end of a residency, you interview all around the country, and then you put in your rankings, and then it goes through a match system. There's match day, and everyone goes in an auditorium and med schools around the country, you open up your envelope and you see where you've matched. I happen to match it at Cedars in Los Angeles.

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Did your peers, were they jealous? Yes. I assume it's competitive.

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Yeah, no, it is. It's very competitive. I was very happy to land where I landed. I'll be honest, I didn't know that much about LA. I came out here to interview, but other than that, I'd never been to Los Angeles before.

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Did you adjust immediately or no?

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Yeah.

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You like it? I think so. Yeah. Would you ever go back to Missouri to live and work?

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I wouldn't write it off the table. The chances are probably slim.

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Where in Missouri again are.

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You from? A town of 6,000 people called Richmond, in Missouri. It's about an hour outside of Kansas City.

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Which is the shittier part of Kansas City? The Missouri side or the Kansas side?

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Oh, the Kansas side.

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Is it?

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That's noticeable? Everywhere you want to be is on the.

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Missouri side. When did you come out?

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Oh, I would say I fell out.

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You were born gay. Yeah. Can you eyeball it in a child?

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I go back to pictures in my parents' house in the attic and stuff. I'm like, I mean, they were headless if.

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They didn't know. Were your parents supportive?

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Very, yeah.

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That's amazing. Yeah. Were they confused at the field of medicine that you went into?

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Oh.

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Probably. Why would you pick the vagina?

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Vaginas picked me. I knew I didn't want to do it. So in medical school, you go through your rotations and you put in your lot for when you want to do certain rotations. I was like, Well, I don't want to do that. So put it at the end of the year. And then I did general surgery. And then after that, I did OB/GYN, and I liked it.

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A lot of professions, even in Hollywood, it's very progressive. If you're out, a lot of times people feel like roles aren't given to them that should be. But I feel in your profession, has it worked to your advantage?

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I think so, yeah.

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It has. That's good. That's good that there's one job where it works in your advantage.

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I think that women feel comfortable, or at least I hope they do. I feel like I try to be more sensitive or empathic just because I don't know what they're going through. I mean, multiple times a day, I tell people I'm so happy I don't have ovaries. They mess up. They do a lot of weird things.

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I mean, the vagina is very tricky. Talk about the paradox of being a gay man who stares at vaginas all day.

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It's probably the most common topic that comes up at gay parties.

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Do women ever corner you at parties and say, Hey, can you look at this for a second? Has that ever happened?

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Not look at this. No.

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No. What about has any... Do women ever send you, friends of yours, ever send you like Vage picks text message to be like, Hey, should I... What about this?

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We have a patient portal.

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Which we would.

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Encourage people.

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To use. I'm talking about a close friend that when we all have a close friend, we're like, Oh, we can just bypass this portal. What's your stance on grooming? Do you care?

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I don't care, and I don't remember.

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Now, my wife did laser hair removal early on in our relationship, per my request, and now she regrets it on some level. But to me, that seems like it's an easier situation to deal with as a doctor down there. Do you mind if a woman has just got a big, huge, hairy bush? Is that acceptable?

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It doesn't bother me one way or another. I see all the problems with lasers and waxing and shaving and the ingrowns and ingrown hairs.

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That's why you got laser hair removal.

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Well, you can get all those ingrown hairs and everything during the laser process. Also, the vagina has a microbiome and it has oily glands and things that keep it healthy. And you rip all those hairs off and try to get rid of all the moisture and everything that should be there. And then you're more prone to get yeast infections and you're more prone to get bacterial vaginosis.

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You ever seen a Blue Waffle? Do you know what it is? No. The beginning of the internet, when the internet got real crazy, it was like one of these first things. It's like an infected vagina, and it was called a Blue Waffle. It was a form of a disease. What was it? Blue waffle is an internet hoax. Some claim that it is a sexually transmitted infection that turns the vagina area blue. Okay. You ever seen a blue vagina infected?

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Only on a SMURF.

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Okay. How much KY do you guys go through in your office a day?

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Oh, boatloads.

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Yeah, how many times a day do you have to ask women in stirrups to scoot a little closer towards the end of.

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The table? Oh, every single time.

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It's not an instinct that any woman wants to do.

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Well, I want to put a sign on the ceiling that says.

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Go lower. Here's one question my wife wanted. How about a new device for pap smears that's not so primitive and horrific? This is the way it goes in cranks, right? I don't know what it is. Am I wrong?

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No. Yeah. So most commonly people use a speculum. There's usually a hinge, it's a speculum, so it opens the vagina. There are people who have tried to invent new speculums that are more comfortable. I have tried to do that, and I guess maybe I had a bad patent attorney because he said that the family who owns the speculum patent, he said they have it locked down. You can't make a modification to it. You cannot change it. And lo and behold, now there's a company out there that made a speculum that I had literally designed probably 12 years ago. Look at this.

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You had shitty lawyers. I think so. Are you rich? You're not rich. No. I don't understand this. If you want to get into your line of work, what's the average range people are getting? Around 300,000 a year?

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Like entry level? . That's probably the high end.

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That's the.

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High end.

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For entry level. And now at the top of the spectrum, what can a doctor like that expect to make? Are they pulling $700,000 a year?

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Yeah, potentially more. Okay. If you work really, really hard.

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Well, aren't you at that point?

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I'm working very, very hard.

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. I don't know. I just want you to be rich.

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Or Richer. I'm just about to pay off my student loans. Are you serious? I'm months away.

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I thought they were going to forgive those. No, Biden didn't do that. Medical question. Is it possible to make any girl squirt?

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To find squirt?

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Well, I don't know to what level I have to define it. Some people can like, it's not urine, right? It's squirt. That's not pay.

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That's.

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Squirt. Across a room. I've never been able to do it. I'll say that openly. That's never been a thing. No one's ever accused me being good in a bedroom. I don't even know if it is being good in a bedroom, but some girls projectile ejaculate.

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I'm not sure that's.

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A thing. No, it's a thing.

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I'd be the wrong person to.

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Ask you. I know. Come on, you should know if it exists. I mean, there's got to be. All right, now we'll get back to that one day. I'll have you on the show again. When you get breast exams, is it hard to come up with small talk with each patient?

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Not at all.

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What about horrible boob jobs?

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Yeah, I've seen a lot of them.

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You're just like, Oh, don't worry about your business.

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I've had someone, this was years ago, and it had to have been back before they did implants. And a patient went to a surgeon probably in the '70s, I have no idea, who just injected her breast with silicone.

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So.

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There were just balls of silicone like- Floating around. No, like, well, they get stuck. They get scarred down. And she hated it.

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But her husband loved it.

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I never asked her.

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Let's talk about birth plans. What's some of the craziest shit you've had to deal with in the delivery room a lot.

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Was there a pun in there?

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No. Oh, no, there wasn't. It was a serious. I just assume people come up with birth plans like, This is what I want to happen. This is how I want it to go. And then you have to be like, Yeah, all right, fucking knock it off.

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I try to get people to keep it to a page. I try to explain to people that they're in control of mostly everything: the room, the lighting, the lights, the music, who gets to come in and out of the room at various points, whether or not they have students or residents involved versus the midwife team.

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But yeah. Nothing absurd ever jump out? No?

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Not that I can think of.

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I've seen a lot of- Have you ever headbutted a doula?

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No, but I had to come to Jesus talk with one. I was actually covering for another doctor, and so I had never really met the patient before I go in while she was in labor to meet her. The patient was just beside herself. She was just crawling up the walls. The doula was like, No, you didn't want to do that. You're not going to do this. This is not what you wanted. The husband's giving me funny glances. They could not tell this doula that they didn't want to keep doing it this way. Hold her out into the hallway and said, We're going to reassess here. Everything I'm seeing in that room says she's changed her mind. And she did. She got an epidural, relaxed. The baby was delivered three, four hours later, and they were very happy.

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You delivered our son, my firstborn, not successfully. You failed. We were supposed to do a traditional birth, and that didn't happen after like 12 hours of labor. Now, is it true? It's because of my genetics and my enormous head? It is. I tell people that I have a huge head and they're like, Oh, but it doesn't look that big. And I'm like, Whatever, that's not it. But I wear a size eight fitted hat, which is the most ridiculous, largest hat you can wear. So yes, my kid had a huge head and my wife is a small woman.

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She came in hot, though. I mean, she was in active labor, doing it naturally, no epidural. Right. And I'm thinking this is going to be like a couple more hours. And then I think an hour later, she was complete. She was tensioned. Didn't have an epidural.

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Pushed.

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Like a champ. And the head did not budge.

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No, that's when you started having a parade of people come in and take a gander.

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I guess, a second opinion.

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What percentage of women poop during labor? It's a lot.

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I mean, if you're pushing well, a lot of times.

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Poop is going to come out. I'm sure she doesn't want me to talk about this, but these are things that some men like, Oh, if I ever saw that, I'd never be able to look at my wife. That doesn't affect me in the least.

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It wouldn't be a problem for me either.

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Okay, but the real problem with my wife was the concern of her bleeding disorder. She has von Willebrand. And so we're always concerned about her bleeding out and dying. That was a big concern at the beginning. But then you pulled it off so successfully made everything good. Now I have children and a wife, and you saved all of them. What's the appropriate amount of weight a woman should gain during a pregnancy?

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It depends on the.

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Starting weight. If she starts off at 200.

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You just want to maintain.

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Your weight. Right. You don't want her to gain a pound.

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You can gain a pound.

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Okay, but not a lot of weight.

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Not.

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40 pounds. Right. But if you're 105 to start.

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Twenty-five.

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I love hearing that. Twenty-five, he says. And how long do you get them to bounce back?

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It's hard to lose weight while you breastfeed.

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Oh, is it?

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It is. Because your body doesn't want to die, so you don't want to starve. So the moment you start losing weight, the body is like, Wait, why are we losing weight? How can we stop the weight loss? So the first thing you do is cut off the milk supply.

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Most.

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People can't lose weight and produce a lot of breast milk.

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The biggest baby ever delivered.

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Oh, 12, six.

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That's pretty big. You ever delivered Siamese twins? Wait, can you say Siamese anymore or is that racist? Is Siamese racist?

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I don't think.

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I'd say it. I know you can't. You have to say conjoined. But what is Siamese? I honestly don't know what it is. Do you?

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No.

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Looking it up. You're looking it up, Martin. Do you ever deliver conjoint twins?

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No, most conjoint twins, I will tell you, they're very rare, but most are conjoined in a way that don't survive either past the first trimester or is not going to be compatible with life and patients choose not to proceed.

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Well, that's on them. That is on them. I got the Siamese twin answer for you. Okay, go ahead. Chang and Eng Bunker, they were brothers that were conjoined and just became known as Siamese twins because they were... They were Siamese Americans. Oh, so it was just it was a race of people? Yeah.

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Who were the first in.

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The US? So it is racist. Got it. All right, live and learn. That's what I'm here for. I'm not afraid to evolve. Does your husbands and love that you don't bring your work home with you? Okay. Do you like babies?

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I do like babies. Yeah.

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Do you have children? No. Do you want children? No. I know. It's very Republican of you. They're very worth it. You just care about when they're in the womb. But once they're out, they're on.

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Their own. I would call it an environmentalist position. Fair.

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What's your stance on abortion?

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Pro.

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In a pinch, could you do an abortion?

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I could. You could?

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That's interesting. One time I was eavesdropping on you because your walls in your office are really thin. A woman was talking about if she should circumcise her son. You seem to just be a little bit of a yes man, if I'm being honest. Test. You weren't pushing one way or the other. But I didn't circumcise my son, and I'm circumcised, but I was circumcised by a doctor who didn't do circumcisions.

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Well?

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No, didn't do. I was in Germany. I was born in Germany. Right. And my mom, who was a nurse, just talked the doctor through it. Oh. And she's like, Oh, it wasn't good. It was bad. And she.

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Goes, Oh, are you.

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Happy with it? No, of course I would have rather have it. But you don't... What is your stance? Should people get their babies circumcised, yes or no? No.

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It's personal preference.

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Why.

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Is it a personal? It is personal preference.

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Why shouldn't you just not do it?

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Why shouldn't you just not do it?

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Right. Why cut off your skin?

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Well, so I get it. I mean, I don't know. I work at a Jewish hospital. We do a lot of circumcisions. I know. I'm circumcised. I'm not Jewish. I don't find one way about it, pro or con. People get very heated.

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About it. I know.

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If you go to the American College of OB/GYN Conventions, the nationwide conventions, there used to be the abortion supporters, I get it. They have their cause. They have to make their point known. But in recent years, the circumcision crowds have been much bigger than the abortion pro-life crowds, which I just found fascinating.

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Yeah, I find that fascinating. I don't care to the point of protest. Is it right? I just more feel it's a good conversation. I got another bone to pick with you. For both of my children, I paid this VIP experience of $5,000 extra dollars for a backline. And I'm positive. I received no VIP treatment.

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It wasn't $5,000.

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What was it?

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Each delivery at that time, I think it was probably $2,500.

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I swear to God, it was five. It wasn't. I believe you.

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It's currently $3,500.

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Would you ever think about going a little more private?

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Well, so, I mean, that's where medicine is going is really tricky. I mean, insurance companies have not increased our reimbursement rates for over 20 years. With inflation, the cost of rent, employees, now we pay our employees well, they stick with us. But the bottom line keeps shrinking. My patients have hard-working jobs. They earn-Not me. Well, you're an exception. Okay. But they earn their insurance and they pay a lot for it. So we feel like I want to keep taking it. But at some point, you have to slow down the growth of your practice. And so that's one of the ways I've been able to do it with it's called an OB-administrative fee. If you come to my office now and it's your first pregnancy or you've never seen me before, I require it. If you're an existing patient and you want special perks, like not sitting in the waiting room or making an appointment when the office is closed.

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That's what we liked. We got the 8:30 time slot. There you go, in and out. By the way, I have a cell phone number of yours. Is it your real cell phone number or no?

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It's probably real.

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For.

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A time, I had a Google voice number that would forward to my real number. But I don't think - So.

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You're a thing of a fuck.

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My phone number is a Missouri number. It's an 816. And the hospital would frequently dial 818 and the rest of my number. There was a person who would answer the phone and would get called at 3:00 in the morning. I'd be pissed, too. The hospital is like, What should we do with this? What should we do that? And he.

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Started answering people. I like this guy.

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No.

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Ethically, it's wrong. Sure. But at some point, you're allowed to answer as a doctor if enough people think.

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You're a doctor. I couldn't. I was like, he starts giving advice over the phone. Also, a patient of mine had texted the number, and the person replied, Well, that's probably safe, but it could kill your baby.

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That was a dumb text.

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And he didn't know what to do and didn't know how to bring it up with me. He thought I had texted it. So at one awkward appointment, he's asking me what I meant by this text message. I'm thinking, What are you talking about? I never texted that. And he was typing in the email.

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That's why you tell him to go through the portal.

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Exactly.

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That's insanity. Top five grossest celebrity vaginas go. Do you see a lot of celebrities?

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A fair number, I'll be honest.

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I know you don't.

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Know who they are. I don't want to know a lot of the times because I think you might act differently or something. But I've caught myself in very awkward situations where you go through the whole consult in person in my office. We go down to doing the exam, and when you're putting in a speculum, you want to ask questions or make it somewhat conversational. What do you do? Oh, I'm a writer. Oh, what do you write? What stuff? It's just like, Oh, I created a TV show. Then they say the TV show, and then I.

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Feel like an idiot. Do you ever use slang terms for vagina? Or do you only say for a vagina?

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For a vagina.

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Oh, you say a vagina? That's it. Like Coolie Cod. Do you ever use Coolie Cod?

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Nope, that's a new one.

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You also are the G-Y-N for Pete in here's wife, Sam. You've seen Sam's vagina and my wife's vagina. Whose is better? Whose vagina is better? My wife's.

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Or Pete's? I told you, I don't remember.

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You told Pete as his wife is childless. She's 35. You told her that she has plenty of time. Now, how old are you comfortable with women having babies currently?

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I mean, I've delivered women in their 50s biblically.

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What the fuck?

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I think that a lot of the times people don't really fully get some of the complications that can happen because you're 52. This is the first time you're becoming pregnant. That said, we know how to take care of women who are high risk, we're not afraid of it. And when people want a family, they'll do anything to get it. And my job is to make sure that it's safe and everyone's healthy.

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I have 52. That seems old. All right. Knowing how much it takes to upkeep and maintain the vagina, how thankful are you that you're a man?

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I always tell people it's a self-cleaning oven. Leave it alone.

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Leave the vagina alone? Yes. Why then do some of the vaginas just smell to high heavens?

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I think a lot of it has to do with what we do to change nature. And when we get rid of nature, then more opportunistic bacteria can overgrow. Sometimes you'll get a smell that's slightly off. I'll be honest. The worst thing about being a gynecologist is feet. Is feet? Feet. Feet are right in your face. You're like up in stirrups and.

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You're just.

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Like feet. So someones comes in in the summer. They're wearing Tory Bert shoes, but they don't wear socks. Right. And their feet stink and they're right in front of your face.

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I asked all told you once while you were examining my wife, I was like, I had my fingers inside of a woman and I could feel something pokey. And I asked you if it was the IUD had slipped down and I was actually touching it because I felt like a sharp needle. Is that truth? Is that what I was feeling? What was.

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I touching? It's the strings of.

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The IUD. This was sharp and hard.

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It would be like the end of a fishing line.

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Like pokey. Okay.

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That is exactly what it's like. That's what I was feeling. That is exactly what it's like, like a fixed fishing line.

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Couldn't that pop a condom? No. I don't like anything sharp and pokey pointing.

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At me. I trim the strings inside the cervix, so you shouldn't be able to feel them if.

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I put it in. My days of IUDs are over. You need to give me the names for the surgery, the little snip. I need to do that.

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Oh, the vasectomy.

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Yeah, I have to do that immediately.

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I should have already done it.

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We wanted to make sure the baby was healthy and I don't know. If they make it eight months, I feel like, all right, this kid should live forever.

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That's my thinking. It's a.

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Good, lofty goal. . Well, this is my goal. No, keep them alive. I've got a squirting answer. What's your squirting answer? It says squirting is the expulsion of urine during an orgasm. Female ejaculation is a release of both urine and a substance from the skeins glands. I like, , okay. All right. The skeins glands-They are peeing all over your place. Yeah. That's what I've learned. According to WebbMD. After you delivered my son, I gave you a gift to the Tomoko Japanese spa. You did. Okay, you. You said thank you. I think when I gave it to you, fine. But you never talked about it ever after that. Now, did you actually go?

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It was great. You went? Yes.

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Did you do the thing where it was for the two people with the sushi? With the sushi.

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You did it? Package, yes.

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I felt like you.

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Didn't do it. It was for my husband's birthday. We did it after the pandemic had-So you-We didn't do it before.

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-used my gift as your birthday. Did you act like it was yours?

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I did. No, he knew it. He knew it... He knew it was.

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A gift. Okay, but that brings me to... I give everybody that's a guest on my show a gift, but I don't buy them anything. I just take something from my house that I don't want my house anymore and I just give it to him. That's very nice. Well, it can be nice. But do you remember what I asked for you to do on our second child?

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No.

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When you were going to have the surgery? I said, What did you need to fix?

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Oh, the smirk.

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The smirk. Yeah. So we had that emergency C-section the first time, and I felt like that it was like a little bit of a smirk. The scar was a little bit of a smirk. Again, she doesn't heal well because of the bleeding disorder, so it's going to be there forever. And there's no hair because of laser hair removal. Too much information. But anyway, so I'm just staring at the smirk. I was like, Hey, could you fix that? I'm not positive you fixed it. Now it's more like a weird, crazy joker smile. So the bandages are over her scar. Her mother came out, was with us. And when you removed the bandages from her scar, my wife's mother said, Oh, wow, Stephanie's scar is a lot smaller. That's her son's wife. That was the first thing that was said. That was the first thing that my wife heard as bandages were being removed. So I, for my wife's first Mother's Day, got her coffee mug. She loves coffee. Nice heath ceramics coffee mugs and had it put in on it. Oh, wow, Stephanie's scar is a lot smaller. And then Mother's Supporting Mothers written underneath it.

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And that was her Mother's Day gift. She thought it was funny. It's very appropriate. It was silly. It was a ha ha ha. Then my mother-in-law visits and she gets rid of defaces the mugs. The mug. Yeah. So I get upset. But she didn't know, but I had already taken a photo of it. So the next time she visited in our guest house, I had this made. I had this made. And you blew that up. Right. And this hung above our guest room. So every time she had a sleep, this was in her room. And this has been there for four years. And I'm passing this on to you. So this is now yours. Oh, great. I don't know if you have space for it, but.

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I've got the perfect place for it.

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What's it like just always being on call? I've never been actually diagnosed with IBS, but I've shit myself way more than I ever want to admit. I need a schedule. I need to know what my day is going to be like. The stress that you must go through of knowing like, I have to wake up and go to the hospital right now, that's absurd.

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It's a lot. I think it's one of the main reasons people stop doing OB at a certain point in their career. The way I do it isn't how 90 % of physicians across the country do it.

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Or even the world. What you just don't answer? You keep your phone on silent? No.

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You just don't sleep? No. I mean, most places there's one doctor who's on call for the whole group, and that person does all the deliveries overnight or for a 24-hour period so that everyone else can sleep and be in the office the next day and not look at you. It's awful.

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But you are waking up occasionally in.

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The middle of the night? Yeah, all the time.

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All the time? Yeah. How annoying for your husband? He didn't sign up for that.

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He's gotten used to it. He did not like it in the beginning, but it's good. I mean, when he's there, it's helpful. He travels a lot. But when he's there, it's helpful because from 10:30 PM to 1:30 AM, a tornado could be going by, and I'm very difficult to wake up.

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What time do you go to bed normally? 9:30. I'm right there with you. What time do you wake up?

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I mean, sometimes I'll wake up at 4:00 AM and be going the whole day.

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Do you have any hobbies? Do you exercise?

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I work out with a trainer 2-3 days a week. Saturday, Sunday, for sure, potentially Monday. Babies are born at like... If they're born between 3:00 AM and 4:00 AM, 2:30 to 4:00, we call it the witching hour. Because then it's like 4:30, approaching 5:00. And it's like, Well, now what do I do? I don't have to be in the office until 9:00, or I don't have to be into the operating room until 7:15. And so a lot of times you just push through, you start your workout. Because if you go to bed at 5:00 and you wake up at 6:30, you're on Mars.

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No, you're wrong. It's awful. I take sleep anywhere I can get it. Oh, no. Just go back to... Any sleep is better than no sleep.

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It depends on where you are in the rim. If I wake up on Mars, I'd much rather just push through the whole morning.

[00:38:13]

I'll ask you this because I was having a conversation with a man who happened to be a gay man. He's married. I brought up monogamy. And he laughed in my face saying, That's not a thing in gay relationships. And I said, That's insane. I go, I know tons of... I said, I go, I know tons of gay men that are in monogamous marriages. And he says, No, you don't. And the reality was he was right, I don't. I just assume that I do. Are you in a monogamous relationship? I am. Have you always been?

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Yes. See. I just don't want anything. I don't want any STDs, but it is a rarity.

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That's over generalizing a little bit.

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To be monogamous in a male relationship.

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You think it's that rare? You think you're that unique? I think it's common. I just think that guy hangs out with tons of wild sex freaks.

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It's possible.

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I don't want the stress of another relationship. That's my fear.

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I agree.

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The one or two upsides of a relationship is like, Okay, I don't have to stress about somebody else.

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I'm too busy to have another relationship.

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You like to travel?

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Love to travel.

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Where's your favorite places.

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To go? The Maldives.

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Oh, God, it takes so long to get there. I've never been, but that's too long. That's a whole day of traveling.

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Well, no, I mean, you hop to like Tokyo, you stay one or two nights in Tokyo, then you hop to Singapore and.

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Singapore Maldives. You fly first class the whole way?

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On points.

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Okay, I don't care how you get there. You don't have to act like you're.

[00:39:55]

An everyday man. I book all my travel 330 days in advance.

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That's so funny because you know exactly when you're going to be free because you have to tell these women nine months in advance, I'm not going to be here. Isn't it weird that you affect people's sex life? People have sex around your schedule.

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It's a little weird. I think.

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People do. No, we definitely do. There's no scenario where we're ever going to have a baby in March. Is that.

[00:40:23]

When you leave? It's a popular time to leave.

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Where does a woman's pee come out?

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Right under the clearest and right above the vaginal opening.

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It's always confused me. It's always confused me. Well, honestly, I hope I'm never in your office again.

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I am not offended.

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But I thank you very much for being on the show, Dr. Finkie.

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Thank you for having me.

[00:40:48]

If you're about to use an electrical appliance tonight that uses a lot of energy, just ask the question, is this a good time? If it's before 5:00 PM or after 7:00 PM, it is a good time because it's outside of peak hours when less of us are using electricity at the same time. To take more control of your electricity usage, go to esbnetworks. Ie/time-to-sign-up. Esb Networks, energizing your everything. In 2017, Libby Caswell was found dead in a motel room in Independence, Missouri.

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We have a term called JDLR, which means just don't look right.

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My name is Melissa Jetson, and I've spent the last year talking to Libby's friends and family, uncovering details of her life and the secrets that may have endangered it. I knew.

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[00:41:40]

Wouldn't admit it to me at first. Join me on a journey to uncover what really happened to Libby Caswell.

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Law is set up to punish.

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Families in this situation. Libby's case stands out in my.

[00:42:00]

Mind and keeps me awake at night. What happened to her is unknown. It's something that I need to know.

[00:42:09]

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[00:42:36]

Space heater. No. And my whole leg, put my knee down and my foot burnt until it's a big bubble. And this, kale.

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Chips are delicious. They're too oily when I get them.

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They shouldn't be soft.

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At all. They should be really crispy. That's what I said.

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Every single time. You are yelling at me. And this?

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[00:43:20]

Tasha. Well, that was a great interview, don't you think, Carl? I want to thank Dr. Finke for being on the show. He's an amazing person, and I hope we'll become best friends. And if you have a vagina and you're in the L. A. Area, you should do yourself a favor and let that man see it. Karl, for the record, is a Burn a Doodle. He's a rescue. I rescued him from a very expensive breeder. Listen, some people are embarrassed when they have like a doodle. I love my Burn a doodle. But don't worry, anytime I spend that much money on design or breed dog, you know what I do? I double the amount that I donate to best friends. They're a great organization that deal with actual rescue dogs. I've got some stand-up dates coming up in San Diego and Reno, boyswearpink. Com. It's a clothing line I started for toddlers because I have a little boy and I like to dress him in pink and then have everybody go, Oh, you have a beautiful girl. I'm like, Why? Because he has pink on? I just start a real hostile conversation in front of my son.

[00:44:27]

My son, who is now four and less cute than he was at three. But when he was three, his voice was so cute the way he would mispronounce words. And I said to myself, I'm going to really miss this when he gets older. This just this sweetness, the voice. And so every night I would ask him to tell me a bedtime story and I would record it. And I thought it'd be a cute thing to have this library of all these stories. So from time to time, I'm going to let you hear one of my son's bedtime stories. I hope you like it. There's a good chance you won't because it's a child making up a story and it's not your kid, so it's not interesting to you. But it's only a minute long. All right, I'll see you next week. Thanks for listening.

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Went upon a time and I.

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Saw, saw, saw some planets.

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But.

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Every planet had a distant animal.

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Had dinosaurs.

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The.

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This mommy thought?

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Baby.

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Dines. So there's some.

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Planet and.

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Planet had- Wait, so there's one planet that just had rabbits and one planet had bunnie? What's the difference between the planet that had rabbits and the planet that had bunnie s? The end. Okay, goodbye.

[00:45:58]

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[00:46:34]

We have a term called JDLR, which means just.

[00:46:36]

Don't look right. On season two of my podcast, What Happened to? I take a closer look at Libby Caswell's life and death.

[00:46:44]

Libby's case keeps me awake at night.

[00:46:46]

What happened to her is unknown. That's something that I need to know.

[00:46:51]

Listen to What Happened to Libby Caswell on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[00:46:58]

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