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Babs, Bagels, & Birthdays: Brilliant
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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 2Hello.
Speaker 1Instead of just kicking me, why don't they give me a lift?
Speaker 2Welcome. Well, it must be a plow To the Ann Levine Show Starring Michael over there.
Speaker 3Hello.
Speaker 2Happy Tuesday.
Speaker 3Oof Happy, tuesday Oof Happy.
Speaker 2Tuesday 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 3I agree, I agree.
Speaker 2And there's a reason of course for this song today, and we'll be getting there in the show.
Speaker 1She'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 2What year did this movie come out?
Speaker 3Uh 19. Oh boy, 60-something 67? 8?. I don't know, but back then 68.
Speaker 268. This movie came out Yep, that voice she must have been. How old, what is that? 50 years ago.
Speaker 1I don't know, you don't.
Speaker 2Oh God, 60?.
Speaker 1Almost 60 years ago.
Speaker 2So, she had to be 20-something.
Speaker 3Oh yeah, Right, yeah, anyway, thank.
Speaker 2Right.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 2Anyway, thank you. Babs Represent.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 2She's representing.
Speaker 3That's right.
Speaker 2She's the bagel on a plate of onion rolls. That's right.
Speaker 3Or Fanny was yeah.
Speaker 2Nah. Barbara was too, and still is the finest bagel.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 2So, 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 1Until next week.
Speaker 3I mean on the Anne Levine show.
Speaker 2I 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 3We'll get all those early risers.
Book & TV Recommendations
Speaker 2That'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 3Actually, I have not been reading anything much, wow well since, well, since my eye, oh yeah, I guess that's true.
Speaker 2Problem. Yeah, yeah, but recently I've become involved with the new John le Carré novel.
Speaker 3Yeah, 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 2Yeah, ghost.
Speaker 3Yeah, ghost. Apparently. His son, however, is doing it in his stead.
Speaker 2Well, his son, whose name is Nick Harkaway.
Speaker 3He's quite an accomplished author, right? He's got many, many books.
Speaker 2He's written about seven novels.
Speaker 3I believe yeah.
Speaker 2And 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 3Yeah.
Speaker 2So it's called Carla's Choice, a John le Carre novel by Nick Harkaway.
Speaker 3I see Okay.
Speaker 2Now, 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 3You are kind of glad it did, though, aren't you?
Speaker 2Yeah, 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 3Somewhere, okay cool.
Speaker 2And it features some of your favorite villains and heroes from John Le Carre novels, from George Smiley novels.
Speaker 3Right, 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 2It'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 3Yeah, exactly, it's a John le Carre novel that.
Speaker 2John le Carre did not write.
Speaker 3It's very cool.
Speaker 2So I've been acutely aware and I found myself a couple times saying to myself that sounds like John le Carré.
Speaker 3Uh-huh. So, Well, his son might have a little insight into.
Speaker 2Well tremendous how he did things, you know Tremendous amount of insight which would not be the case with all authors and their offspring.
Speaker 3Yeah, true. But in this case yes, well, yeah, in this case you've got another author, Right, yeah?
Speaker 2A 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 3Yeah, that's nice.
Speaker 2So that's a book recommendation. I think it's been a long time since I recommended a book.
Speaker 3Yeah, it might have been a while.
Speaker 2So anyway, oh, I do want to say, before I move on here happy birthday Andrea.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 2Happy 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 3Yeah, yeah, I think so.
Speaker 2I think that's it.
Speaker 3Yeah, and to all you Halloween babies out there.
Speaker 2Yeah, boo yeah, ghost yeah. When is nine months before? Is that like February 1st?
Speaker 3Yuck, yeah, yeah, right around there.
Speaker 2They're like almost Valentine babies, yeah, end around there.
Speaker 3They're like almost Valentine babies.
Speaker 1Yeah, end of January Boop.
Speaker 3Yeah, because I'm a mid-November and I'm a Valentine baby, as is everybody in my family for the most part.
Speaker 2Yes, and lots of other folks that we're friendly with.
Speaker 3Yeah, 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 2Well, 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 3I 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 2Yeah but like five years after, oh yeah.
Speaker 3Well, yeah, of course.
Speaker 2Yeah, so okay, I was lamenting the fact that no new good medical dramas. Well, guess what I found?
Speaker 3You found one, didn't you?
Speaker 2I found one. I finished the Resident. I don't know if I said that.
Speaker 3Very satisfying, oh, okay good, I finished the Resident. I don't know if I said that Very satisfying.
Speaker 2Oh, okay, good.
Speaker 3To me yeah.
Speaker 2I think I did mention this last week.
Speaker 3You 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 2It 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 3It's the series that won't die yeah, it really is just painful.
Speaker 2It'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 3Okay.
Speaker 2Okay, and it stars Zachary Quinto, who Michael told me is most famous for.
Speaker 3Well, 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 3well, 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 2Oh, was he one of those kids.
Speaker 3And 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 2Well, this series Brilliant Minds is for me kind of a ugh.
Speaker 3finally, yeah, you got something new to watch.
Speaker 2So 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 3He was born in Pittsburgh, by the way. Oh, he's 47.
Speaker 2Uh-huh, yeah. And his background does it say let's see Born in.
Speaker 3Pittsburgh. Yeah, born in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 2Did he study?
Speaker 1acting.
Speaker 2Is he?
Speaker 3Central Catholic High School, mm-hmm, participated in musicals and won the Gene Kelly Award for Best Supporting Actor, and attended Carnegie Mellon.
Speaker 2University.
Speaker 3School of Drama Okay.
Speaker 2Carnegie 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 3Okay.
Speaker 2So 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 3Right, yeah.
Speaker 2In whatchamacallit, I can't even remember his name. The Good Doctor, the Resident, yeah all of those guys even Chicago. Med right.
Speaker 3Yeah, 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 2Well, bronx Hospital looks exactly like a Bronx Hospital.
Speaker 3It'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 2So 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 3I actually yeah, I kind of dig that really, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2And there's lots of sort of modern, some modern stuff, that modern contemporary I should say there you go yeah.
Speaker 2Things 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 2And 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 3Well, yeah, all kinds of I mean a problem could be anything.
Speaker 2Exactly yeah, so you know, you've got people with.
Speaker 3Or nothing. See, then there's that yeah.
Speaker 2With 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 3Okay.
Speaker 2It is fascinating and that's Brilliant Minds. That's right. Yeah, okay, that's right.
Speaker 3That's a good one. Hey, I have a recommendation.
Speaker 2And he's Jewish, a gay Jewish doctor, I see who could have imagined.
Speaker 3Well now, Zachary Quinto is actually gay and out, but he's not Jewish, he's Catholic.
Speaker 2Well, he can't help it, no, but he is Italian-Irish. Well, he's fabulous. What were you going to say?
Speaker 3I was going to say I was talking about things that are cool.
Speaker 2Okay, 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 3That 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 2You're anti-Oreo. I don't want a liquid decaffeinated bubbly brown.
Speaker 3Well, it's not decaffeinated, it's just de-sugared.
Speaker 2Well, it's zero Isn't zero. No sugar, no caffeine.
Speaker 3No, just no sugar, whatever.
Speaker 2I don't want a caffeine. I don't want a caffeine one.
Speaker 3I don't want a liquid Oreo.
Speaker 2I do. Well, anyhow, do you drink it with a glass of milk? No but you know what Coke Zero Oreo flavor they?
Speaker 3used to do milk and Pepsi on Laverne and. Shirley. Do you remember that?
Speaker 2You mean like make a float.
Speaker 3I don't know, but that was a drink that they used to drink on that show and I'm like, oh my God.
Speaker 2I don't think I could ever do that.
Speaker 3But 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 2All right, You're turning into my mother which there. Ooh, that'd be good. Alright, you're turning into my mother which.
Speaker 3Oh, 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 2Right, 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 1And then they say oh, it does taste like an.
Speaker 2Oreo. Yeah, Now I tasted it. I did not think it tasted like an Oreo.
Speaker 3No, you thought it was fruity Gross, which of course Coca-Cola itself is pretty fruity.
Speaker 2It's the cola nut. Yeah, anyway, yes, so just in time for.
Speaker 3Halloween. 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 2I would rather have cotton candy grapes.
Speaker 3I 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 1It'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 3Grocer's place where they put stuff like that.
Speaker 2Yeah, there's a face that I keep making when I think about that.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 2Okay, do you see the face? I'm trying not to.
Speaker 3Oh yeah, that's yeah Okay.
Speaker 2I'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 3I 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 2Yeah, 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 3Oh yeah.
Speaker 2And 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 1American.
Speaker 2Oh, that's right, she kind of remembered that when the Americans came over and they said you know, knock yourself out.
Speaker 3Yeah, just don't get in our way, right yeah.
Speaker 2So 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 3She got in his bathtub and had a photo taken of herself in the tub.
Speaker 2Yeah, a lot of the photographs that she took will be familiar to you.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 2They'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 3And I knew that name as well and did not know it was a woman.
Speaker 2So so Anyway, the film is amazing. Kate Winslet, kate.
Speaker 3Winslet is mind blowing. She is, so there's nothing she cannot do.
Speaker 2And she plays quite an age range. Yeah Too. Anyhow, I really highly recommend this film. It's on demand.
Speaker 3I highly recommend Kate Winslet.
Speaker 2She's so great, yeah, what.
Speaker 3The other thing that keeps sticking in my mind with her is the documentary now thing. Remember when they did that.
Speaker 2What did she do in that one?
Speaker 3There 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 2Yeah, 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 3Yeah, how about that?
Speaker 2Well, that brings me to really the crux of the biscuit here.
Speaker 3Oh, we're in biscuit territory now folks.
Speaker 2We are, and I'm gonna need a flashlight at some point here.
Speaker 1Uh-huh.
Speaker 3Oh, you're actually gonna need a light or something over there I might need a light Anyway.
Speaker 2Sarah Silverman.
Speaker 3Oh yeah.
Speaker 2Now, 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 3She's a gross-out comedian.
Speaker 2And 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 1Mm-hmm.
Celebrity Feuds and TV Recommendations
Speaker 2And 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 3I 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 3Yeah 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 2Yeah, and not just about being Jewish, but Jewish and.
Speaker 3Well, I'm being a woman for one thing, yeah.
Speaker 2But 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 2It 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 3I'm not sure. No, I don't think I knew that.
Speaker 2Yeah, 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 3I think I did know that actually from a previous special.
Speaker 2Oh yeah, A speck of dust.
Speaker 3Maybe 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 2Anyway, 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 3Oh yeah, yeah, that's very funny.
Speaker 2Oh 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 3Oh yeah, I knew that too, yeah, and.
Speaker 2I forgot that but was reminded Now. She also has a podcast called, oddly, the Sarah Silverman Podcast.
Speaker 3Huh, that's so weird.
Speaker 2It'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 3Uh-huh.
Speaker 2And 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 1Oh.
Speaker 2And when I mention Katherine, Hahn, Michael will tell you what Grey's Anatomy.
Speaker 3Katherine Hahn. Yeah, oh the rabbi.
Speaker 2Exactly.
Speaker 3Oh the rabbi, Exactly, oh the rabbi, yeah, okay.
Speaker 2Now From.
Speaker 3Transparent Exactly.
Speaker 2Yeah, 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 3Jewish 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 2Well, sarah Silverman has coined the phrase Jew face, meaning Jewish people, particularly women, but not only being played by Gentiles Now.
Speaker 3Or how about Zachary Quinto the Gentile playing the gay Jewish boy?
Speaker 2Well, 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 3Yeah, true, in Transparent, yeah.
Speaker 2And there is, or who could play Mrs Maisel, played famously by Rachel Brosnahan.
Speaker 3Right.
Speaker 2And who could play. Oh gosh, there's so many. I have a list.
Speaker 3Richard Libertini played Jews.
Speaker 2Exactly Right.
Speaker 3Very, very Italian guy.
Speaker 2Exactly.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 2And so there are lots of Italians, yeah.
Speaker 3Al Pacino Right, the Merchant of Venice.
Speaker 2Yeah, 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 3I see.
Speaker 2At 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 3Rivers story Katherine.
Speaker 2Hahn. 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 3It's zero, yeah.
Speaker 2And 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 3Oh, I see, Okay Right.
Speaker 2So she really can't shop online. That would require a lot.
Speaker 3Yeah, yeah, that would be a big deal.
Speaker 2But 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 3I had no idea.
Speaker 2Yeah, that I've got an eyelet, a white eyelet. Summer shirt yeah, as opposed to winter eyelet.
Speaker 3Right, well, yeah, which would be a whole different thing.
Speaker 2But 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 3And do you like them?
Speaker 2I-M-A-N. Do I like them.
Speaker 1Yeah, I'm going toA-N. Do I like them? Yeah, ning.
Speaker 2I'm going to say hard, pass, hard, no.
Speaker 3I'm a hard pass on Candace Cameron too.
Speaker 2I 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 3Oh, that's right, yeah.
Speaker 2So 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 3Yeah.
Speaker 2So, for a small amount of time, investment, watch this show if you haven't.
Speaker 3It is a great show, bridget.
Speaker 2Everett and Jeff Hiller.
Speaker 3Jeff Hiller, that's right.
Speaker 2And they are fantastic and it's on HBO. It did get picked up for, as I said, this is the final season.
Speaker 1Is it third or?
Speaker 2fourth, 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 3You're going to whip right through it.
Speaker 2I'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 3Yeah, as much time as you do sleeping. Really, I mean to catch up. Well, precisely precisely so.
Speaker 2I 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 3I love both of these people.
Speaker 2Lee must see brilliant minds must see Carla's Choice, must read now and you can watch some.
Speaker 3Sarah Silverman, if you want to.
Speaker 2Oh, sarah Silverman, the Sarah Silverman podcast, yeah there you go. And then you've got Someone you Love.
Speaker 3Someone you Love.
Speaker 2The 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 3No, no, she's definitely not.
Speaker 2She's a hot-crossed bun. Oh man On a plate of onion rolls.
Speaker 3I'll take an onion roll Irish soda bread.
Speaker 2I like onion rolls.
Speaker 3Yeah, I like an onion roll, but I like a bagel too, mm-hmm, but like a bagel too.
Speaker 2Well, speaking of yummy things, the end of the season came Really. I still think of it as summer.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 2When, up until and here I'm writing a song even as I speak to you until the last clam shack closes.
Speaker 3There you go, yeah.
Speaker 2That should be a song about summer on Cape Cod.
Speaker 3I agree.
Speaker 2Well, the best clam shack, which is Original Seafood.
Speaker 3The Original Seafood.
Speaker 2Closed this last weekend.
Speaker 3For the season.
Speaker 2And Michael and I went for one last hurrah.
Speaker 3We 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 1Yeah, even though.
Speaker 3I ate a ton Right.
Speaker 2I ate.
Speaker 3You nibbled really.
Speaker 2Well, I mean, that's just not.
Speaker 3You know, let's just, they brought us three pounds of fried pickles for one thing.
Speaker 2And that was the best part.
Speaker 3Like a whole jar of fried pickles.
Speaker 2It 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 3No.
Speaker 2True, it's just all or a different batter.
Speaker 3No, 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 2That's right, yeah, so we went there and we made our mark.
Speaker 3Yeah, 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 2It's not like there's nowhere now, until Memorial Day, to get a fried clam.
Speaker 3Ah, true.
Speaker 2It'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 3Yeah.
Speaker 2Which I wanted to talk about, yeah.
Speaker 3Well, we did say we weren't going to talk politics on this show Right. We'll leave you with this lovely song, though.
American Dream Reflection
Speaker 2We 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 1And good lighting. I like to be in America.
Speaker 3Okay, 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 1Buying on credit is so nice One. Look at us and they charge twice I'll have my own washing machine.
Speaker 2What will you have, though, to keep clean? Skyscrapers bloom in America. Cadillacs zoom in America.
Speaker 1Industry 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 2Life can be bright in America. If you can fight in America, life can be bright in America.
Speaker 1If 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 2I'm in America. Thank you, I think I go back to San Juan.
Speaker 1I 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.
