Anne Levine Show
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Anne Levine Show
Babs, Bagels, & Birthdays: Brilliant
Can a single performance define an entire era? We unravel the singular magic of Barbra Streisand, likening her impact to that of the finest bagel on a plate of onion rolls—truly a standout. Our exploration of her legacy in "Funny Girl" and beyond offers a joyful escape from the political chatter of election week, reminding us of the boundless charm Streisand continues to bring to the entertainment industry.
Join us as we navigate through a literary adventure with "Carla's Choice," the latest installment in the George Smiley series by Nick Harkaway, son of John le Carré. My initial skepticism gave way to admiration as the book seamlessly captured the essence of its predecessors. Alongside this literary treasure, we dish out TV show recommendations, including a new medical drama (Brilliant Minds with the New Spock - Zachary Quinto - that promises to fill the void left by "The Resident," providing fresh excitement for both bookworms and screen enthusiasts.
Sarah Silverman takes the stage in her special Someone You Love and we examine both her bold contributions to comedy and her candid discussions on representation in Hollywood. Her trademark wit and honesty shine through as we tackle topics from her stand-up specials to the intricacies of casting choices. We round off with a whimsical debate on the peculiar Oreo cookie-flavored Coke Zero (It's real and it tastes like an Oreo), while pondering the complex duality of the American Dream, balancing the allure of new opportunities with the hurdles faced by immigrants on their journey.
Also: Birthdays, LEE, the amazing film starring Kate Winslet, Andy Samberg, Alexander Skarsgaard, Marion Cotillard, Somebody Somewhere (YAY!), our last visit of the year to Original Seafood, and Puerto Rico.
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Listen, girl, how Please? You've got to face facts. You don't look like the other girls, I know, but You've got skinny legs. You stick out, yeah, but. And you are out, yeah. But, eddie, I'm just trying to tell you something. I'm sorry, kiddo, why don't you just give me a chance? Come on Out, out, out. I love loose bikini. Suppose all you ever had for breakfast was onion rolls. Now, all of a sudden, one morning in walks, a bagel. So I mean, you take a look at it and you say what is that? Until you tried it. So that's my trouble. What's your trouble? I'm a bagel on a plate full of onion rolls. Nobody recognizes me. Listen, I got 36 expressions Sweetest pie to toughest leather, and that's six expressions more than all them Barrymores put together.
Speaker 2:Hello.
Speaker 1:Instead of just kicking me, why don't they give me a lift?
Speaker 2:Welcome. Well, it must be a plow To the Ann Levine Show Starring Michael over there.
Speaker 3:Hello.
Speaker 2:Happy Tuesday.
Speaker 3:Oof Happy, tuesday Oof Happy.
Speaker 2:Tuesday yes, yeah, once again. Uh, this is Babs, in case you didn't know. Oh yeah, funny girl. The greatest star, yeah, she is in the pantheon of greatest stars. The greatest star, yeah, she is in the pantheon of greatest stars.
Speaker 3:I agree, I agree.
Speaker 2:And there's a reason of course for this song today, and we'll be getting there in the show.
Speaker 1:She's too fabulous. Back in the show hey, listen, kid. I know I'd be divine because I'm she's too fabulous Back in the day.
Speaker 2:What year did this movie come out?
Speaker 3:Uh 19. Oh boy, 60-something 67? 8?. I don't know, but back then 68.
Speaker 2:68. This movie came out Yep, that voice she must have been. How old, what is that? 50 years ago.
Speaker 1:I don't know, you don't.
Speaker 2:Oh God, 60?.
Speaker 1:Almost 60 years ago.
Speaker 2:So, she had to be 20-something.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, Right, yeah, anyway, thank.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Anyway, thank you. Babs Represent.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:She's representing.
Speaker 3:That's right.
Speaker 2:She's the bagel on a plate of onion rolls. That's right.
Speaker 3:Or Fanny was yeah.
Speaker 2:Nah. Barbara was too, and still is the finest bagel.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So, like I said, I'll get to this. As Sarah Silverman would say in her Speck of just special right, put a pin in that there you go okay yeah, uh, so many many things to discuss today and you'll be happy to know, know that none of it's politics won't be discussing the election, so you're safe.
Speaker 1:Until next week.
Speaker 3:I mean on the Anne Levine show.
Speaker 2:I don't know, next week I don't think so that would be election week, yeah, I don't think so. That would be election day, yeah, but at that hour it'll be midnight Monday night, Tuesday morning, that's right.
Speaker 3:We'll get all those early risers.
Speaker 2:That's what'll happen the early risers and the partiers from the night before the paul risers all right, I am for the first time in quite a while.
Speaker 3:Actually, I have not been reading anything much, wow well since, well, since my eye, oh yeah, I guess that's true.
Speaker 2:Problem. Yeah, yeah, but recently I've become involved with the new John le Carré novel.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you were telling me about this the other day, which I didn't think he could have done because he's no longer with us.
Speaker 2:Yeah, ghost.
Speaker 3:Yeah, ghost. Apparently. His son, however, is doing it in his stead.
Speaker 2:Well, his son, whose name is Nick Harkaway.
Speaker 3:He's quite an accomplished author, right? He's got many, many books.
Speaker 2:He's written about seven novels.
Speaker 3:I believe yeah.
Speaker 2:And I've never read any of them and don't really know anything about them, which doesn't mean anything except that saw that there was a new John le Carre novel out and that the estate of John le Carre, however it works, worked whatever came up with a deal with the publisher that Nick Hardaway would write a John le Carre novel.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So it's called Carla's Choice, a John le Carre novel by Nick Harkaway.
Speaker 3:I see Okay.
Speaker 2:Now, if it wasn't John le Carre, whose novels I adore and adored, it probably would not have caught my interest, but I saw that it had great reviews.
Speaker 3:You are kind of glad it did, though, aren't you?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I listened to the sample, fully expecting not to like it, but I did like it and I got a hold of it and I'm obsessed. I'm about halfway through so I can't give a full-on any kind of review. But it's John, sorry, it's George Smiley and it's Right, that group, the John LeCouré group, right yeah. And fits into between Spy who Came In From the Cold and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. This fits in there.
Speaker 3:Somewhere, okay cool.
Speaker 2:And it features some of your favorite villains and heroes from John Le Carre novels, from George Smiley novels.
Speaker 3:Right, it makes sense yeah, I mean he's putting it right in the middle of the timeline from George Smiley novels Right, it makes sense. Yeah, I mean he's putting it right in the middle of the timeline too, right, so yeah.
Speaker 2:It's really good, and there were a couple of times because I've been extremely aware of the fact that it's not John le Carre. Uh-huh, it's not John le Carre, because you know, that's like the. That's the thing, right, right, that's what's unique about it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, exactly, it's a John le Carre novel that.
Speaker 2:John le Carre did not write.
Speaker 3:It's very cool.
Speaker 2:So I've been acutely aware and I found myself a couple times saying to myself that sounds like John le Carré.
Speaker 3:Uh-huh. So, Well, his son might have a little insight into.
Speaker 2:Well tremendous how he did things, you know Tremendous amount of insight which would not be the case with all authors and their offspring.
Speaker 3:Yeah, true. But in this case yes, well, yeah, in this case you've got another author, Right, yeah?
Speaker 2:A talented, experienced author of a certain age who totally has a handle on this, and I recommend this book I certainly do. If you like John le Carre novels, certainly. Even if you don't, it stands alone in my opinion Very cool.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's nice.
Speaker 2:So that's a book recommendation. I think it's been a long time since I recommended a book.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it might have been a while.
Speaker 2:So anyway, oh, I do want to say, before I move on here happy birthday Andrea.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Happy birthday to you. Yeah and I hope it's fantastic. Enjoy your day. I think it. I think the date might. It might be tomorrow the 30th.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, I think so.
Speaker 2:I think that's it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and to all you Halloween babies out there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, boo yeah, ghost yeah. When is nine months before? Is that like February 1st?
Speaker 3:Yuck, yeah, yeah, right around there.
Speaker 2:They're like almost Valentine babies, yeah, end around there.
Speaker 3:They're like almost Valentine babies.
Speaker 1:Yeah, end of January Boop.
Speaker 3:Yeah, because I'm a mid-November and I'm a Valentine baby, as is everybody in my family for the most part.
Speaker 2:Yes, and lots of other folks that we're friendly with.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it seems to be a very popular day around me, and I don't know why, because, uh, when we look it up and we look up, you know the most common birthdays. Yours is much more common than mine is. However. I know so many people with my birthday. Personally, I know a ton of them. I mean, there's my sister, there's my aunt, there's her husband, there's two people I went to high school, were in my high school class with. It's just, it's nuts.
Speaker 2:Well, I think there are cycles in families. Like in my family everyone's July. There are cycles in families, Like in my family, everyone's July.
Speaker 3:I mean there are a couple of exceptions, but we're a whole swarm of July birthdays, right, so you're being conceived around my birthday, see mid-November. Yeah, yeah, something like that.
Speaker 2:Yeah but like five years after, oh yeah.
Speaker 3:Well, yeah, of course.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so okay, I was lamenting the fact that no new good medical dramas. Well, guess what I found?
Speaker 3:You found one, didn't you?
Speaker 2:I found one. I finished the Resident. I don't know if I said that.
Speaker 3:Very satisfying, oh, okay good, I finished the Resident. I don't know if I said that Very satisfying.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, good.
Speaker 3:To me yeah.
Speaker 2:I think I did mention this last week.
Speaker 3:You did like the well, you did talk about it, I didn't know. You mentioned that it wrapped up. I'm not sure it did. Okay, yeah.
Speaker 2:It didn't last as long as it probably could have or should have. Well, I mean, thankfully, it probably could have or should have, but in terms of didn't last as long as Grey's Anatomy. Holy smokes that is not my favorite anymore they can't kill it.
Speaker 3:It's the series that won't die yeah, it really is just painful.
Speaker 2:It's so painful at this point. So, yeah, if you want to watch is just painful, it's so painful at this point. So, yeah, if you want to watch Grey's Anatomy, go back to the beginning, and I would say stop after episode 15 or so. So. But what I did find is a new series called Brilliant Minds.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 2:Okay, and it stars Zachary Quinto, who Michael told me is most famous for.
Speaker 3:Well, not most famous for, necessarily, because he hasn't been typecast in in a way that his predecessor was, but he's the new spock, he said. You know in all the star trek movies, he's the new guy and when you say typecast, what did you mean?
Speaker 3:well, because leonard nimoy once he became spock he was pretty much Spock. After that it was hard for him to find other work, you know. But Zachary has been busy he's been doing. The first thing I ever saw him in was Heroes, which was a show years ago about mutant kids who ended up with superpowers and stuff.
Speaker 2:Oh, was he one of those kids.
Speaker 3:And he was the bad guy. Yes, he was Silar, I think it was his name Mm-hmm. Yeah, so that's where I most remember him from, but he's in a lot of stuff now. He's a very busy guy.
Speaker 2:Well, this series Brilliant Minds is for me kind of a ugh.
Speaker 3:finally, yeah, you got something new to watch.
Speaker 2:So Zachary Quinto, I haven't actually done a search on him. I should have by now. I don't know where he's from. I don't know what his background is. I really don't know anything about him, except when you told me that he was like the new Spock. Yeah, I remember seeing 10 minutes of that at some point. Right, star Trek is very definitely, as far as I'm concerned, three seasons long.
Speaker 3:He was born in Pittsburgh, by the way. Oh, he's 47.
Speaker 2:Uh-huh, yeah. And his background does it say let's see Born in.
Speaker 3:Pittsburgh. Yeah, born in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 2:Did he study?
Speaker 1:acting.
Speaker 2:Is he?
Speaker 3:Central Catholic High School, mm-hmm, participated in musicals and won the Gene Kelly Award for Best Supporting Actor, and attended Carnegie Mellon.
Speaker 2:University.
Speaker 3:School of Drama Okay.
Speaker 2:Carnegie Mellon. Yeah, so there you go, it shows. And for those of you Well, you all probably know, Carnegie Mellon is one of the best theater arts and music schools. And anyway, I'm not surprised, because in a lot of cases you can really tell a well-trained actor from a not so well-trained one. Anyhow, Brilliant Minds is set first of all in New York City, in the Bronx. It's at Bronx Hospital.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 2:So right there and it looks like Bronx quote Bronx Hospital. I don't know that there's a hospital in the Bronx called Bronx Hospital and I don't know if they're talking about Einstein Medical, which is a pretty fabulous hospital these days, is a pretty fabulous hospital these days? At any rate, this place doesn't look like Grey's Anatomy or the Resident or these huge, well-lit, soaring hospitals with spotless gleaming. You know the rooms, yeah, you know. They look like fabulous, modern hotels, the hospitals that are featured in Grey's Anatomy.
Speaker 3:Right, yeah.
Speaker 2:In whatchamacallit, I can't even remember his name. The Good Doctor, the Resident, yeah all of those guys even Chicago. Med right.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and none of these hospitals are like that. I mean, if they've been around a while they've got all their weird, very strange hallways and odd-shaped rooms. Yeah, it's nuts. It can be very crazy.
Speaker 2:Well, bronx Hospital looks exactly like a Bronx Hospital.
Speaker 3:It's got low ceilings, the lighting is eh, I mean you know I mean who needs it, unless you're operating, you know, and even then, you know, sometimes it might be an intern with a flashlight you don't know. Well, they make good flashlights now, well anyway.
Speaker 2:So Zachary Quinto plays a neurologist who works with a psychiatrist and he is completely patient-oriented and he's also an interesting combination of like a 2024 neurologist and a Luddite. Uh-huh so he uses, like at home. He has a landline and he only uses the landline. I see, okay, I can totally relate to that.
Speaker 3:I actually yeah, I kind of dig that really, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:And there's lots of sort of modern, some modern stuff, that modern contemporary I should say there you go yeah.
Speaker 2:Things that he's not too familiar with. He definitely isn't, you know, scrolling. He's not scrolling anything. Anyway, a really interesting character. He's not scrolling anything. Anyway, a really interesting character. He's tall, dark, and he's dark in his mind and he's physically dark. His character is gay and out and that's just how it is. You know what I mean. That's not like a, it's something you find out, I guess, in the first episode. Yeah, you know where you see him in his. He lives in a funny kind of ground floor apartment somewhere in the Bronx. His mother is a surgeon. He comes from quote a medical family. He's an only child, comes from quote a medical family. He's an only child. I won't say more than that because you should watch it. It's really interesting and the characters, the interns, all of that are interesting people with interesting backstories, with interesting backstories. And this is the guy you know. He's the guy you want to be your doctor. He deeply cares about his patients and that's kind of the through line in the stories is that he deeply cares about his patients.
Speaker 2:And he believes in trying to in these difficult neurological cases in particular, he wants to try to figure out exactly what this person feels, thinks, is going through and why. So it's kind of endless. I mean, you know the opportunities to do interesting stories. You know is that you've got these patients and again, I don't want to spoil it.
Speaker 3:Well, yeah, all kinds of I mean a problem could be anything.
Speaker 2:Exactly yeah, so you know, you've got people with.
Speaker 3:Or nothing. See, then there's that yeah.
Speaker 2:With physical problems, with psychological problems, misdiagnosed, right, this latest character, oh my God. Now I think we're five episodes in to the first season, or maybe six. They're not dropped all at once, but get in there and watch the first few. I really, really recommend this show.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 2:It is fascinating and that's Brilliant Minds. That's right. Yeah, okay, that's right.
Speaker 3:That's a good one. Hey, I have a recommendation.
Speaker 2:And he's Jewish, a gay Jewish doctor, I see who could have imagined.
Speaker 3:Well now, Zachary Quinto is actually gay and out, but he's not Jewish, he's Catholic.
Speaker 2:Well, he can't help it, no, but he is Italian-Irish. Well, he's fabulous. What were you going to say?
Speaker 3:I was going to say I was talking about things that are cool.
Speaker 2:Okay, right, because that's what we were talking about and I'm like I got a thing that is cool. Okay, coke zero oh jesus, I know what's coming people coke zero.
Speaker 3:That is a diet right. Yeah, no sugar, no caffeine In the black bottle Can or can. They're making it now Oreo cookie flavored. And it is so good, disgusting. No, it's just like an Oreo. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2:You're anti-Oreo. I don't want a liquid decaffeinated bubbly brown.
Speaker 3:Well, it's not decaffeinated, it's just de-sugared.
Speaker 2:Well, it's zero Isn't zero. No sugar, no caffeine.
Speaker 3:No, just no sugar, whatever.
Speaker 2:I don't want a caffeine. I don't want a caffeine one.
Speaker 3:I don't want a liquid Oreo.
Speaker 2:I do. Well, anyhow, do you drink it with a glass of milk? No but you know what Coke Zero Oreo flavor they?
Speaker 3:used to do milk and Pepsi on Laverne and. Shirley. Do you remember that?
Speaker 2:You mean like make a float.
Speaker 3:I don't know, but that was a drink that they used to drink on that show and I'm like, oh my God.
Speaker 2:I don't think I could ever do that.
Speaker 3:But now that you mention it, with the Oreo soda I might put a splash. You could put a splash of cream in there. Oh, that'd be good.
Speaker 2:All right, You're turning into my mother which there. Ooh, that'd be good. Alright, you're turning into my mother which.
Speaker 3:Oh, it is so good and I'm not the only one who says so I've given it to other people and asked them what they thought, and they're like oh, it tastes just like an Oreo.
Speaker 2:Right, that's what they say. They don't say fabulous, I want more. They say, oh, I want more. They say, oh, I want to see what that tastes like, yeah.
Speaker 1:And then they say oh, it does taste like an.
Speaker 2:Oreo. Yeah, Now I tasted it. I did not think it tasted like an Oreo.
Speaker 3:No, you thought it was fruity Gross, which of course Coca-Cola itself is pretty fruity.
Speaker 2:It's the cola nut. Yeah, anyway, yes, so just in time for.
Speaker 3:Halloween. I love this stuff and it's limited. You know it's a limited time, so it's going to be gone, baruch Hashem, and it's annoying me.
Speaker 2:I would rather have cotton candy grapes.
Speaker 3:I drink almost nothing but water. Yeah, but now I've got that. I only get the little cans of it, and then I'll have one of them usually every day, yeah, yeah. Yeah, you got a little stash, better stock. It is so good. It is so unusual that it tastes just like an oreo.
Speaker 1:It's very weird yeah, yeah, um so there's that, yeah, there's that I could find Find it in your grocer's, your grocer's.
Speaker 3:Grocer's place where they put stuff like that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there's a face that I keep making when I think about that.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Okay, do you see the face? I'm trying not to.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, that's yeah Okay.
Speaker 2:I'm not glad that I saw that face. I'm sorry. Oh, we saw a film, oh boy did, we, yeah, we did. Really quite fantastic. It's called Lee L-double-E and it stars Kate Winslet, Andy Samberg Could not believe that Marion Cotillard, Josh O'Connor and Alexander Sarsgaard, Alexander Sarsgaard, yep, so amazing and interesting cast, so amazing and interesting cast.
Speaker 3:I couldn't believe Andy Samberg when we were watching it and I suddenly said what the hell just happened? What is he doing in this film? He was good. Well, yeah, I mean, he's like he's the other guy, yeah, in the. Yeah, I mean he's like he's the other guy, yeah, in the movie.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so it's the story of Lee Miller, who was a Vogue model, born in the USA and moved to Europe, and moved to Europe, I think, when she was an adult. She moved to England and she modeled for British Vogue and then later on in life became a photographer for British Vogue and she was really into photography and she hung out with and this is before World War I this group of French artists, photographers, notably well, man Ray, picasso and others, and they all hung out in the south of France having extraordinary lunches, oh yeah, and, you know, swimming in the Riviera, and a whole bunch of fabulosity, anyway. And then World war ii right, and so in the middle of world war ii, we decided that she wanted to be go to the front lines and be a photographer, right, and the brits said absolutely, not, no way. She was a resident of the UK, that's where she was living during the Blitz, and she took incredible photographs of the Blitz.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:And then she said I want to go to the front lines. No way, no, how the Brits wouldn't let a woman go. And then she said, oh my God, I'm an American. She kind of remembered that let a woman go, yeah. And then she said, oh my God, I'm an.
Speaker 1:American.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's right, she kind of remembered that when the Americans came over and they said you know, knock yourself out.
Speaker 3:Yeah, just don't get in our way, right yeah.
Speaker 2:So that's where she hooked up with this guy, david Sherman, who is the character that Andy Samberg plays, and she, lee Miller and David Sherman went to Germany and documented the atrocities of the camps of. They were and they incredible documentation of Hitler's apartments in Berlin Not the bunker, but his actual she took a.
Speaker 3:She got in his bathtub and had a photo taken of herself in the tub.
Speaker 2:Yeah, a lot of the photographs that she took will be familiar to you.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:They're famous iconic images. An extraordinary woman that I had known that she existed, mainly because I know her. I know the photographs right right. Yeah, photographs in my life were the famous part.
Speaker 3:And I knew that name as well and did not know it was a woman.
Speaker 2:So so Anyway, the film is amazing. Kate Winslet, kate.
Speaker 3:Winslet is mind blowing. She is, so there's nothing she cannot do.
Speaker 2:And she plays quite an age range. Yeah Too. Anyhow, I really highly recommend this film. It's on demand.
Speaker 3:I highly recommend Kate Winslet.
Speaker 2:She's so great, yeah, what.
Speaker 3:The other thing that keeps sticking in my mind with her is the documentary now thing. Remember when they did that.
Speaker 2:What did she do in that one?
Speaker 3:There was that pair of women and I can't remember exactly the story, but there was like a two-parter, wasn't it? I don't remember at all.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think, wasn't it. I don't remember at all, I think so. Yeah, I don't remember at all, but phenomenal, phenomenal performance and an outstanding film. And Andy Samberg, a Jew played by a Jew, whoa.
Speaker 3:Yeah, how about that?
Speaker 2:Well, that brings me to really the crux of the biscuit here.
Speaker 3:Oh, we're in biscuit territory now folks.
Speaker 2:We are, and I'm gonna need a flashlight at some point here.
Speaker 1:Uh-huh.
Speaker 3:Oh, you're actually gonna need a light or something over there I might need a light Anyway.
Speaker 2:Sarah Silverman.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:Now, sarah Silverman is the comedian that you all know and maybe love, but certainly know. I've never been a fan never, and that's because so much of her comedy features featured more than it does at the moment. Scatological humor yeah, she's a potty mouth.
Speaker 3:She's a gross-out comedian.
Speaker 2:And also sexual, but the gross-out stuff. Right yeah, what I never sort of stuck around to notice until recently is that, wow, she has a lot to say.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:And she's incredibly courageous and she says out loud what she wants to say and what she feels should be what needs to be said. Yeah, and she's really God brave. I mean, I would think that she needs security 24-7.
Speaker 3:I know she. I don't know that she needs it 24-7, but I do know that she does need it and that she, you know, regularly gets death threats and stuff for well number one just for being a prominent Jew. She doesn't have to be anything else but a prominent female Jew. Holy smokes. You used to get all the love on Twitter from folks who are like hey, let's find a female Jew who's online here and send her horrible stuff.
Speaker 3:Yeah so they used to do that to you. I'm sure they do it, you know I'm sure she gets so much of that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and not just about being Jewish, but Jewish and.
Speaker 3:Well, I'm being a woman for one thing, yeah.
Speaker 2:But I mean, you know the gross-ass stuff, yeah, and I could see where a lot of people get offended by some of the other stuff she does. Yep, and I'm not going to get into that stuff because I'd like you to first check out Someone you Love, which is her special, that she did a year ago and hang in there with it, there with it.
Speaker 2:It is, there's a lot of really funny stuff. There's a lot of interesting stuff too that Sarah talks about and stories that she tells about. You know she's from New Hampshire. Did you know that?
Speaker 3:I'm not sure. No, I don't think I knew that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so you know, growing up in New Hampshire being the only Jewish kid like anywhere, you know, certainly, like in school she was, they were in the sticks, you know, of New England, which is not what you'd expect, I think, at first glance. Anyway, she tells stories about being a kid and her family. She's got four siblings, three sisters, one brother. One of her sisters is a rabbi.
Speaker 3:I think I did know that actually from a previous special.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, A speck of dust.
Speaker 3:Maybe I'm not sure that's a special that she did. I don't know what the names of them are. I never pay any attention to that.
Speaker 2:Anyway, she's a bodily fluids comedian yeah um, to a certain degree, but don't let that prevent you from getting to the rest of it. Her stand-up so well-crafted and boy, she can tell a story Like I mean, that's, you know, that's what comedy is. Yeah, storytelling and it's a lot of hilarious stuff, a lot.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, yeah, that's very funny.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, she is currently dating Rory Albanese, who is a really well-known comedy writer and he's written for, you know, snl. He's written for the Simpsons. He's written for you know, he's been on that sort of track Famously. One of her first boyfriends when she moved to California was Jimmy Kimmel.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, I knew that too, yeah, and.
Speaker 2:I forgot that but was reminded Now. She also has a podcast called, oddly, the Sarah Silverman Podcast.
Speaker 3:Huh, that's so weird.
Speaker 2:It's fascinating. She talks about various stuff, it's topical, and then she takes calls. You know people record and send them in. Yeah, and I think it's called Speak Pipe, which is where you can go and record a question for her.
Speaker 3:Uh-huh.
Speaker 2:And she answers it and she takes the questions seriously. She's so compassionate and wise and things that you really wouldn't expect. And I find her podcast. I've listened to some. I haven't been obsessively listening to it, but it's very surprising and a lot that I wouldn't expect from her. A lot that I wouldn't expect from her. Now she has had a quote feud with Katherine Hahn.
Speaker 1:Oh.
Speaker 2:And when I mention Katherine, Hahn, Michael will tell you what Grey's Anatomy.
Speaker 3:Katherine Hahn. Yeah, oh the rabbi.
Speaker 2:Exactly.
Speaker 3:Oh the rabbi, Exactly, oh the rabbi, yeah, okay.
Speaker 2:Now From.
Speaker 3:Transparent Exactly.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I love her Right. I had the wrong person in my head, but Michael thinks of her as the rabbi. Yeah, Yep. Which is fascinating because she is not.
Speaker 3:Jewish I know, but that's the first time I saw her was on that show and she was the rabbi and I'm like, okay, that's the rabbi.
Speaker 2:Well, sarah Silverman has coined the phrase Jew face, meaning Jewish people, particularly women, but not only being played by Gentiles Now.
Speaker 3:Or how about Zachary Quinto the Gentile playing the gay Jewish boy?
Speaker 2:Well, the Jewish part is not. He's got Jew face no, I think he's a perfect, he's perfectly suited to this role, but I wouldn't say well here. First let me explain. There is no shortage of Jewish women who could play the rabbi as you think of her.
Speaker 3:Yeah, true, in Transparent, yeah.
Speaker 2:And there is, or who could play Mrs Maisel, played famously by Rachel Brosnahan.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 2:And who could play. Oh gosh, there's so many. I have a list.
Speaker 3:Richard Libertini played Jews.
Speaker 2:Exactly Right.
Speaker 3:Very, very Italian guy.
Speaker 2:Exactly.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And so there are lots of Italians, yeah.
Speaker 3:Al Pacino Right, the Merchant of Venice.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so anyway, it's a little disturbing, and so, Rachel sorry Sarah had mentioned being frustrated about Catherine Hahn being cast as the rabbi in Transparent.
Speaker 3:I see.
Speaker 2:At that time. Yeah, and so it was. It's been written about as a feud. It was written about as a feud between Katherine Hahn and Sarah Silverman, and I kind of don't think it was really a feud, uh-huh, but it made for interesting copy because Sarah Silverman Right. Yeah, until recently, when guess who was cast to play. Joan Rivers in the upcoming Comeback Girl, the Joan.
Speaker 3:Rivers story Katherine.
Speaker 2:Hahn. Wow, okay, yeah, so if there was a quote, you know something that Sarah points out and I will get off this topic after I mention this A fact that I'm very aware of being Jewish and Israeli is that, and Sarah Silverman says you know what is everyone in such an uproar about when it comes to Jewish people? And she says Jewish people account for half of 1% of the world's population. Yeah, and she said so. If you round down, it's zero.
Speaker 3:It's zero, yeah.
Speaker 2:And so that's pretty much what it is, and I want everybody to calm down and or, you know, just think about that sometimes when you feel like you're in overwhelm, as someone I was related to used to say oh, speaking of people I'm related to, there was something Jan said that I didn't get to at one point and I don't think I ever got back to it. It was just one thing she said about a favorite place to shop online shopping which she refers to online shopping, as she refers to television shopping right as online shopping.
Speaker 3:Oh, I see, Okay Right.
Speaker 2:So she really can't shop online. That would require a lot.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, that would be a big deal.
Speaker 2:But she's got online shopping channels on pretty much any waking hour. So she said now, when it comes to fashion, I enjoy QVC. That is my favorite. See, that is my favorite. Now, I do wait for when they have free shipping days, because the shipping is outrageous, oh yeah yeah. And knowing that she knows what she knows, it's probably true. And she said there's a designer named Candace Cameron. She's an actress. I love her clothes and then I said, oh, I do too. Actually I've got one of her shirts.
Speaker 3:I had no idea.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that I've got an eyelet, a white eyelet. Summer shirt yeah, as opposed to winter eyelet.
Speaker 3:Right, well, yeah, which would be a whole different thing.
Speaker 2:But she said one thing that was just so hilarious to me about QVC clothes. Now there's a designer that I really love. It's I-M-A-N. That's the brand. I said, oh, that would be Iman. Yeah, the Somalian model. She goes right. She was married to the one that died. That's right, and that would be David Bowie. Yeah, anyway, iman does have a line of clothing and accessories on QVC.
Speaker 3:And do you like them?
Speaker 2:I-M-A-N. Do I like them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm going toA-N. Do I like them? Yeah, ning.
Speaker 2:I'm going to say hard, pass, hard, no.
Speaker 3:I'm a hard pass on Candace Cameron too.
Speaker 2:I am too, but that's for different reasons. Yeah, which will bring me. I'm trying to see. Oh, by the way, you know what's back? Yeah, airplane, Is Somebody Somewhere?
Speaker 3:Oh, that's right, yeah.
Speaker 2:So this is going to be either the third or fourth and final season of Somebody Somewhere, and the seasons are only like maybe eight episodes and it's a half hour show.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So, for a small amount of time, investment, watch this show if you haven't.
Speaker 3:It is a great show, bridget.
Speaker 2:Everett and Jeff Hiller.
Speaker 3:Jeff Hiller, that's right.
Speaker 2:And they are fantastic and it's on HBO. It did get picked up for, as I said, this is the final season.
Speaker 1:Is it third or?
Speaker 2:fourth, I think so Third and final, or fourth and final, whatever it is, but don't start at the beginning, because you're talking about maybe three hours a season, right?
Speaker 3:You're going to whip right through it.
Speaker 2:I'm not talking Grey's Anatomy here that you need to spend part of your life like a significant part of your life. Right, you have to devote to it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, as much time as you do sleeping. Really, I mean to catch up. Well, precisely precisely so.
Speaker 2:I just want to remind everyone, if you don't know, that it started the final season on HBO, and if you haven't seen, it must see yeah, it is must see.
Speaker 3:I love both of these people.
Speaker 2:Lee must see brilliant minds must see Carla's Choice, must read now and you can watch some.
Speaker 3:Sarah Silverman, if you want to.
Speaker 2:Oh, sarah Silverman, the Sarah Silverman podcast, yeah there you go. And then you've got Someone you Love.
Speaker 3:Someone you Love.
Speaker 2:The special. I recommend it. I recommend it. Yeah, I'm glad. In a way. I've always felt weird. I said I was done talking about Sarah Silverman, but I'm back for a second. I've always felt odd, that I didn't like her and that I felt kind of allergic. And I would say think to myself. I don't really understand what her great appeal is. I just never. I didn't like her. She was on one season of SNL. She was one of the people that got booted. But she's been around. She's done a lot of voice work, she's been in a lot of films and I would say I don't get it. Now I get it. I finally got it. I educated myself, all right. So when the comeback girl comes out starring Katherine Hahn as Joan Rivers, I think I will watch it, even though she's not a bagel on a plate of onion rolls.
Speaker 3:No, no, she's definitely not.
Speaker 2:She's a hot-crossed bun. Oh man On a plate of onion rolls.
Speaker 3:I'll take an onion roll Irish soda bread.
Speaker 2:I like onion rolls.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I like an onion roll, but I like a bagel too, mm-hmm, but like a bagel too.
Speaker 2:Well, speaking of yummy things, the end of the season came Really. I still think of it as summer.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:When, up until and here I'm writing a song even as I speak to you until the last clam shack closes.
Speaker 3:There you go, yeah.
Speaker 2:That should be a song about summer on Cape Cod.
Speaker 3:I agree.
Speaker 2:Well, the best clam shack, which is Original Seafood.
Speaker 3:The Original Seafood.
Speaker 2:Closed this last weekend.
Speaker 3:For the season.
Speaker 2:And Michael and I went for one last hurrah.
Speaker 3:We did and oh my god, oh my god yeah we ended up bringing home at least as much as it does seem, as much as we ordered, we brought home home.
Speaker 1:Yeah, even though.
Speaker 3:I ate a ton Right.
Speaker 2:I ate.
Speaker 3:You nibbled really.
Speaker 2:Well, I mean, that's just not.
Speaker 3:You know, let's just, they brought us three pounds of fried pickles for one thing.
Speaker 2:And that was the best part.
Speaker 3:Like a whole jar of fried pickles.
Speaker 2:It was not a whole jar um, you see it was a lot you had fried scallops and fried shrimp yeah and well, it's all you know. Michael said I'd like to taste the calamari. I had clam strips. I said close your eyes and I will give you a piece of calamari. Yeah, I mean, you know, it's all one big fryer basket. It's not like they have different oil.
Speaker 3:No.
Speaker 2:True, it's just all or a different batter.
Speaker 3:No, no, it's all pretty much the same, it's all disgusting and it's so delicious. So we went and I had this weird thing that I mentioned, I had the haddock the last two times we went. This time I was going big, this time it was an end of season grand slam, that's right.
Speaker 2:That's right, yeah, so we went there and we made our mark.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yep, and now we have to wait until like Memorial Day or thereabouts, I think that they probably open in April. I don't know, as I pointed, out to you.
Speaker 2:It's not like there's nowhere now, until Memorial Day, to get a fried clam.
Speaker 3:Ah, true.
Speaker 2:It's not like there is. Oh my God, we're at the end of the show. We are, and I didn't get a chance to talk about Puerto Rico.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Which I wanted to talk about, yeah.
Speaker 3:Well, we did say we weren't going to talk politics on this show Right. We'll leave you with this lovely song, though.
Speaker 2:We will, and what I'm going to say is for all of the citizens of Puerto Rico and for the 800,000 Puerto Ricans who live in New York. Please put some lights on.
Speaker 1:And good lighting. I like to be in America.
Speaker 3:Okay, buy me in America. Everything free in America For a small fee. In America. Buying on credit is so nice One. Look at us and they charge twice America. Oh, hey, I'm out, I'm out, I'm out, I'm out.
Speaker 1:Buying on credit is so nice One. Look at us and they charge twice I'll have my own washing machine.
Speaker 2:What will you have, though, to keep clean? Skyscrapers bloom in America. Cadillacs zoom in America.
Speaker 1:Industry boom in America. 12 in a room in America. Industry boom in America 12 in a room in America. Lots of new housing with more space, lots of door slamming in our face. I'll get a terrace apartment. Better get rid of your accent.
Speaker 2:Life can be bright in America. If you can fight in America, life can be bright in America.
Speaker 1:If you can fight in America, life is all right in America. If you're all white in America, america, la la, la, la la la America, america, america, america. Here you are free and you have pride. Long as you stay on your own side, free to be anything you choose, free to wear devils and shine shoes everywhere. Crime in America, organized crime in America, terrible time in America. You forget.
Speaker 2:I'm in America. Thank you, I think I go back to San Juan.
Speaker 1:I know a boat you can get on, Bye-bye. Everyone there will give big cheers. Everyone there will have moved here. Go, go, go go. Thank you.
