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Accents aren't for everybody. We kick off our Thanksgiving special with a nod to Tones on Tail's hit "Go" from 1984, launching into a lively chat about the peculiarities of leap years, followed by a quick introduction to the show for those who have never heard us before (I know, right?). We then shift gears to dissect the Hulu drama "Say Nothing," diving into its gripping portrayal of the Troubles in Ireland. With a fascinating cast including Lola Petticrew and Maxine Peake, we question the historical portrayal of Jerry Adams, sparking a fiery debate on his controversial legacy.
Our globetrotting journey continues with a playful appreciation of accents and cultures. Our Kiwi friend in Australia, Nicholas, allows us to almost humorously butcher an Australian accent as well as tackle the complexities of the Scottish brogue and the allure of the Irish lilt. We also spotlight some standout episodes from the Handsome Pod and share our love for a variety of content, from podcasts and books to music and historical tidbits. It's a cultural smorgasbord, with laughter, banter, and recommended listens for everyone to enjoy.
As the holiday season approaches, let's indulge in comedy and film reviews, like Cross (Amazon Prime), Somebody Somewhere, and Say Nothing, then switching to podcasts like "Smartless" for its laid-back celebrity chats. Our mixed review of "Succession" includes admiration for Kiernan Culkin, while we also share thoughts on films like Jesse Eisenberg's latest work. Ending with our Thanksgiving meal plans and a dental story which may or may not be humorous, this episode is packed with all of the pop culture shenanigans you expect from our nearly 800th show. Also, Happy Thanksgiving (to those who celebrate)!
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Thank you. Welcome to the Ann Levine Show. It's November Thanksgiving time, it's the 26th and it's 2024. Go.
Speaker 2:I heard about that.
Speaker 1:This song is called Go by the Tones on Tail. By the Tones on Tail.
Speaker 2:It's a song from Ireland from 1984. That is correct.
Speaker 1:When everything happened. I guess, when a lot was happening. A lot had happened and a lot was continuing to happen. Hey, that's amazing, huh.
Speaker 2:It is Totally I'm amazed.
Speaker 1:You're listening to the Ann Levine Show on WOMR 92.1 FM and you're listening to Michael over there.
Speaker 2:That's right on WFMR 91.3 FM Orleans and streaming worldwide at WOMRorg. That's right. All the time we do this all the time.
Speaker 1:We do do this all the time, 24-7. We do do, yeah, 24-7, 7-24.
Speaker 2:That's right 366 days a year.
Speaker 1:What does that mean?
Speaker 2:Well, I'm accounting for a leap year. I knew it. If it were to happen, I knew you were going to say that Well yeah, of course. Why wouldn't I say that? It's just so you.
Speaker 1:It's just so you to say to mention leap year when it's not a leap year.
Speaker 2:No, but one's coming up pretty soon.
Speaker 1:Always is.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yep, that is true. So I'm playing a little tune here from Say Nothing, which is a drama that's playing right now on Netflix, I believe.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:Michael's going to check that for me. Oh good, what do you mean? Oh good, is that such a task? It's on Hulu. It's on Hulu yeah. Actually and get Hulu watch it. It's so good and it's about the troubles. What an amazing word for what went down.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:Between the UK and Ireland.
Speaker 2:Uh, uh-huh the troubles yeah, it was bloody horrendous war I guess, yeah, well, I mean terrorism in both directions States was called and still is the recent unpleasantness.
Speaker 1:I've never heard that.
Speaker 2:Well, that's by many people in the South, you bet.
Speaker 1:Well, you say you bet. I mean, I don't know when anyone was saying that but Okay.
Speaker 3:Well, probably today.
Speaker 1:Oh Well, I have never heard that.
Speaker 2:It's not that out of date. Okay, for some.
Speaker 1:Well, the star of say did I say, say anything? I probably said it twice by now.
Speaker 2:I think you said say nothing. It's say nothing, because that's what I looked up.
Speaker 1:It's Say Nothing. And it stars an extraordinary woman named Lola Petticrew, and she is joined by Anthony Boyle, hazel Dupe, with whom I'm in love. She's what an amazing actress. She was phenomenal. Josh Finnan and Maxine Peek, who plays the role of Dolor's Price as an older woman, and Lola Petticrew plays her as a young woman.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and it's really quite phenomenal, petticrew plays her as a young woman.
Speaker 1:It's really quite phenomenal.
Speaker 2:I don't think I know who any of those people are, though Do I know any of them? Would I recognize any of them?
Speaker 1:The actors? I'm not certain you watch a lot more British TV than I do?
Speaker 2:We were just talking about Irish pronunciation earlier today.
Speaker 1:Right, so it's very possible that you would recognize these cast members. I didn't, but what I did have happen from Say Nothing is I learned so much, particularly about Jerry Adams ah, yeah what would you if you were going to say something about Jerry Adams? What would you say?
Speaker 2:um, I don't know, ira leader uh-huh, good guy, bad guy um, he wants, he wanted history to look at him as a good guy. I'm not sure he's such a good guy really well, that's true.
Speaker 1:Now, I would have said he was a good guy.
Speaker 2:Uh-huh.
Speaker 1:Having seen this, I would say he's one of the most evil forks ever on the face of planet Earth. Now, okay, that's a little extreme. What I would say is one of the most manipulative and maniacally manipulative people yeah ever and people his people, and when I say his people like his own close people, his coterie, like the people right around him yeah his chief advisors, officers, best friends you mean the people that are like all around him all the time oh yeah
Speaker 3:yeah that's another way of.
Speaker 1:And they suffered terribly because of him, directly because of him.
Speaker 2:Yeah, true, true.
Speaker 1:And they knew it was going to happen. Yeah, I mean, he knew it was going to happen. Anyway, regardless, this is an actual woman. This is about an actual woman and an actual series of interviews that she did that were released after she passed away, and this series was made Say nothing.
Speaker 2:Gotcha.
Speaker 1:And boy, it is quite extraordinary. Thank you now for the recommendation see, there you go, good one we trade back and forth. Yeah, we do, we trade back and forth, we do oh, very good well, you know that was one of the problems. Yeah, was say nothing. Is that how they wanted to do? Was say nothing. It's terrible it made me just want to move to Ireland and speak in that accent and drink Guinness 24-7.
Speaker 2:Okay, except not really, I'm going to work on my Scottish accent.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's a whole.
Speaker 2:I know it's going to be difficult, but I am like 39% Scott.
Speaker 1:Uh-huh.
Speaker 2:So you know.
Speaker 1:Well, I find that so helpful. Yeah, because the Americans I know who are of scottish heritage have wonderful brogues. Yeah, they do, don't they? Especially the ones around here? Yeah, in massachusetts, oh yeah heck, yeah, heck, yeah, yeah, wicked. Eh, it's, they speak wicked good Scottish. Yeah, yeah, ghost.
Speaker 2:Yeah, ghost. So this is the Ann Levine Show. A pop culture and whatever we think about show right it is. People wonder what our show is about. That's why last week when we did the show, we started with what the show is about, in just case anybody new is listening. That's what we're all about.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we're going to tell you about podcasts. Yeah, books, movies, streaming stuff, television.
Speaker 2:Music.
Speaker 1:Music Books. Michael said that you know stuff.
Speaker 2:Music, Music books, Michael said that. You know, stuff, all kinds of stuff, yeah, so.
Speaker 1:Travel.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Let's see.
Speaker 2:Including Historical facts. We have many historical facts on this show and accents, right, yeah, no Historical accents. So just in case you were wondering, we were indemnified by our friend nicholas, that is in australia.
Speaker 1:that's right for making fun of the australian accent. Yeah, and he says no problem with him because he's a kiwi, right, he's no good at it either he thinks they sound cuckoo also. So it's not that they sound cuckoo, it's. That is the single most difficult accent for an American to forget. Master, to even imitate.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah. Success for successfully. You have to be really exposed for years to you know, to get it, to get it right.
Speaker 1:I can say well, you need, yeah, you need a vocal coach. I can. I figured out how to say rise up lads, rise up lads. Oh yeah, rise up lads. Figured out how to say rise up blades, rise up lie. Oh yeah, rise up blades. That's razor blades there you go and jennifer lopez, see, I screwed it up already, jennifer lopez, jenna.
Speaker 2:You try it, jennifer Lopez Great.
Speaker 1:So that's that, that's our accent.
Speaker 2:That is what we do, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, jennifer, jennifer, it's the low.
Speaker 2:Now the good news is is that when we do have problems with's actually listening right now on WOMRorg to the show in Australia, yeah, which helps us how? I don't know, not at all. Well, we're international.
Speaker 1:But I sort of had it there for a minute. Jennifer Lopez, jennifer Lopez, jennifer Lopez uses. Rise Up, blides. Oh yes, rise.
Speaker 2:Up.
Speaker 1:Blides yeah, okay, alright, whatever, yeah, and she has the smoothest legs on Bondi beach. Bondi, bondi beach. Okay there, I said that you sure did. Okay. Now people listen as a couple of you out there now. So, as a couple of you out there know, some of what I'm seeing is referring to some stuff that was on Handsome Pod recently. They all work on their Australian accents. Oh, I see, and so far, all they can say is razor blades and Jennifer Lopez, oh, okay.
Speaker 3:All right.
Speaker 1:And that's where those two things come from.
Speaker 2:I gotcha.
Speaker 1:Now not enough of you have tuned in.
Speaker 2:I see.
Speaker 1:In particular, there is one person in Silver Lake that I'm ready to strangle.
Speaker 2:What? The guy who's currently scouring the archives, listening to every moment we've ever recorded? Yeah, that one.
Speaker 1:Because he has not listened to one episode of Handsome.
Speaker 2:Pot. He's too busy listening to the end of each one.
Speaker 1:He said he's caught up on every last episode.
Speaker 2:Okay, and I believe him.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I believe that's true too. He's listening to every last episode. Okay, and I believe him.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I believe that's true too.
Speaker 1:He's listening to this right now.
Speaker 2:This is almost 800 episodes.
Speaker 1:And he just blushed a little because he knows what I said is true, we're like at 780 episodes. Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so.
Speaker 1:Hippie Thanksgiving Thanksgiving All right, yeah, sure. Hippie Thanksgiving Thanksgiving All right, right, yeah, so I can try.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I didn't realize what you were doing until you tried it the second time.
Speaker 1:Hippie Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2:Right, right, I don't think so. It's a good try. It's a better try than I made. I think it's a valiant effort.
Speaker 1:Yeah because you're not trying at all yeah. Okay, so here's the thing Handsome Pod is the best podcast. Those of you who have not paid attention have not not listened. I have no help to offer you. You can still always try. Yeah, that's true. Give it a whirl, start from the beginning, just keep going just keep swimming. I recommend yes, I recommend the Amanda Klutz episode.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:And the Sarah Silverman episode.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, that's got to be a good one.
Speaker 1:Those are my two favorites. Okay, they're all freaking hilarious.
Speaker 2:I love all of those people.
Speaker 1:Fortune. Feimster is my spirit animal.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm, she really is. I truly understand that. I can see how that would be also.
Speaker 1:Yeah, she is so funny.
Speaker 2:She's one of the funniest, most genuinely funny people out there, and she is so generous.
Speaker 1:She laughs so generously. Yeah laughs so generously. Yeah, and she is the number one improv improviser that I know. I mean you can tell on the show that when someone brings a bit she never denies it, no matter where you know she stands, she dives right in and she accepts it and commits to it and she's amazing I always forget that I'm supposed to do that, so yeah yeah, and tig, also phenomenal Tig Notaro.
Speaker 1:And Mae Martin, who's a complete cuckoo and I love him to pieces. All right, so let me tell you a little bit about Mae Martin. I may have told you some of this before, but real quick. Mae Martin is a Canadian actor, slash comedian. Mae Martin is May Martin's trans, refers to himself as trans, but he doesn't use any binary pronouns, so May Martin refers to themself as a man. Okay, you figure it out. I'm trying, I'm trying, I'm trying people, um, so here's a deal. May Martin has had top surgery, but not bottom surgery. Uh, however, styles themselves as a gay man. Now, I'm not making this up, these are Mae Martin's words M-A-E Martin, that they like to look like a gay man or a twink, as may calls it.
Speaker 1:Anyway, these are the three kooks that are on that podcast and it is absolutely hilarious beyond belief, and every week they have different people. Celebrities ask a question, and so they do do their upfront chat, chat, chat, chat, chat. Then there's a celebrity asks a question. They answer the question, then you hear the celebrity's answer to the question, and most recently it was Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone. Does it get better than that? No, okay, I have a new podcast for you, particularly those of you who need a penis to listen to. It's called Smartless. Okay, it is the following three men Sean Hayes, will Arnett and Jason Bateman, and they do a similar podcast Will Arnett and Jason Bateman and they do a similar podcast to Handsome Pod, but Smartless features an actual guest, so every week, so they.
Speaker 1:This last episode I listened to was Alicia Keys. Oh, they had Tim Walls on a few weeks ago, which was a great episode, very charming and funny. Do any of you remember him? Sorry, too soon. Anyway, smartless is, I think, kind of a response to Handsome Pod, in the sense that it's three pals hanging out and talking about stuff, which makes it so enjoyable. Because I don't know about you, but that's really what I want from a podcast. I want a hangout. What do you think, michael?
Speaker 2:Okay, I mean sure.
Speaker 1:Does this sound like something you'd like to listen to?
Speaker 2:Like this, american Life isn't a hangout no, but that's a great podcast oh, that's my point.
Speaker 1:yeah, no, I'm not saying that these are the best podcasts um among in the pantheon of podcasts. Simply that, if you just want to kind of feel like you're listening, You're sitting around with a bunch of friends, exactly. And they're funny. Smart Jason Bateman, will Arnett, sean Hayes that is a wild group of three, yeah, and they're all so different, they're so clever, they're so funny and the way they bust on each other is hilarious and they have great guests.
Speaker 2:So there you go, so there's another podcast I recommend.
Speaker 1:And what was that called?
Speaker 1:again, smartless smartless and and if it's, you know I like it because, yes, you can put it on when you get in bed and fall asleep listening to it, and it doesn't matter. You know it's not like if you're listening to this American Life or if you're listening to a political pod or to a history pod or to something more important. You know you might want to stay awake for it and it also might give you a little anxiety. Some of my podcasts give me terrible anxiety and so lately I'm listening to stuff like this.
Speaker 3:Like Smartless.
Speaker 1:So it's a good hang and I recommend it. I listened to Pop Culture Happy Hour this week, which I used to every week, and then I don't know, that's sort of what Michael and I do.
Speaker 2:Yeah, kind of.
Speaker 1:yeah, you know we do a rundown of pop culture things and that's what Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast does, which I do recommend highly. They review films and books and they I think it's a half an hour long and they do deeper dives at times. This week they talked all about a film that's new, called Blitz, and it stars, of all people, jesse Eisenberg and Kiernan Culkin. Okay, now, kiernan Culkin is someone with whom I'm in love because Succession yeah, what a just perverted, fabulous pervert dweeb. He was on that show. So when I say in love like how you're in love with a pervert, that didn't sound good.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:Are you with me?
Speaker 2:I am not, no, absolutely not, with you right there. No.
Speaker 1:Oh no, you didn't like that show, did you? No, no, because I didn you right there. No, oh no, you didn't like that show, did you?
Speaker 2:No, because I didn't like anybody on it. I didn't like any of the characters.
Speaker 1:Well see, I loved Kiernan and I loved Jerry.
Speaker 2:The only one that I liked at all, and that was just for a few moments, was Tom oh Tom and Greg. All for, and that was just for a few moments, was tom oh tom and greg, but uh, yeah, but other than that, you know, I I didn't really I wasn't interested in what happened to any of them, so well, there there was the story and what the people actually did, and then there were the characters and I was able to separate them in some ways and I found a lot of it very funny actually.
Speaker 1:But anyway, be that as it may, blitz Now, but don't turn off your phone, your whatever you're listening, your computer, whatever you're using to listen to this. It's about the Blitz in London and about a child that gets sent away, a Jewish child to live with a Christian family, to be saved from the Holocaust. And so you've got Jesse Eisenberg and his cousin Kiernan Kalkin, his cousin Kiernan Culkin, and they end up going on a birthright trip together to Poland. And it's actually a very funny film. Okay, so we're not talking like Monty Python funny, it's wry, it's witty, it's fun. It's not a Holocaust movie. In quotes you know you won't be grossed out, freaked out, upset. You know you won't have to turn it off. It's a really excellently written by Jesse Eisenberg film and beautifully acted, highly, highly recommend, highly.
Speaker 2:Where would you?
Speaker 1:see that Highly when would you see that? Well, I don't know if it's on demand at this point, frankly, or if it's streaming anywhere. It's in theaters. It's in theaters, but it's been out for a couple months. So, unless you type in Blitz and find out, it will remain a mystery.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:What's been going on in your world, Michael? Anything to recommend.
Speaker 2:Yeah, a 15 yard dumpster. That's been in my world. I am filling up a dumpster to the top with a bunch of junk from garages and stuff that should have been tossed long ago. Wow.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Back-breaking work. I haven't broken it yet, but yeah, it doesn't feel too good.
Speaker 1:By the way, blitz is on Apple TV, okay, so thanks for grabbing that. Yeah, so dumpster filling yeah, but not diving.
Speaker 2:I've been pretty busy doing that, uh-huh.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So dumpster filling, yeah, but not diving I've been pretty busy doing that, uh-huh. And what have you watched?
Speaker 2:You know what I've been watching? No, I've been watching the new Alex Cross. It's just called Cross and it's on Amazon Prime and it stars Aldous Hodge and he's a big guy. He's a very large man as Alex Cross, and I'm used to in movies and seeing Alex Cross portrayed on a screen it's been Morgan Freeman. These two guys don't look anything alike, nothing, nothing even close. So it's really interesting. There's a different attitude because of that, because the Morgan Freeman, alex Cross, was more of a brainiac or strictly brainiac. This guy is a brainiac and he's got a ton of muscles. Anyway, and here you go.
Speaker 1:Ryan Eggold oh Ryan.
Speaker 2:Yep, he's the bad guy. Perfect Tom from the Blacklist, your favorite, that's right. And what? What was that other new amsterdam?
Speaker 1:was he on that show?
Speaker 2:yes, he was, yep, yep I love him so, yeah, anyway, it's a good show. It's really, it's really, uh, it's really very well done and it's a series, so it's got a long story arc and it's already very interesting. So Amazon Prime, it's Cross and check it out. It's pretty good, I liked it. We'll be checking that one out. Yeah, I'm going to watch that one.
Speaker 1:Well, I'm going to watch that one. Well, I'm going to see your cross and raise you. Day of the Jackal.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, wow, Is that Eddie?
Speaker 1:Redmayne. It is Eddie Redmayne as the Jackal right and he is really pretty fantastic and the whole series was absolutely edge of the seat. I could not stop watching.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Now there are more seasons to come.
Speaker 2:Isn't.
Speaker 3:Carlos, isn't that the name of the?
Speaker 1:character oh, I'm pretty sure, I don't know. Maybe you could look that up because, it doesn't say that here. Yeah, no, I don't think it does.
Speaker 2:I think they just call him the Jackal, but I think I mean I read the Forsythe book.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:No, but this is, and he's also based on a real guy.
Speaker 1:So Well, this is a whole new thing. Eddie Redmayne as this incredible villain yeah, like ice in his veins Pretty extraordinary character and, given the different things that we've seen Eddie do, I'm starting to think he's the new Daniel Day-Lewis. He can do anything.
Speaker 2:Yeah, isn't that crazy.
Speaker 1:He can play any gender.
Speaker 2:Or both or no gender, because he's doing cabaret right now.
Speaker 1:The Danish Girl.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:The Stephen Hawking movie. What was it called?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't know, I don't remember now.
Speaker 1:Well, I'll look it up.
Speaker 2:Why don't you? Because I'm looking up something else.
Speaker 1:Now let me tell you that playing opposite Eddie Redmayne is an extraordinary woman named Lashana Lynch, and I don't believe I know her from anything. I don't think I've seen her elsewhere. I'm probably she's his nemesis or his counterpart. She plays the MI6 agent that's trying to track him down, aha, and she is really spectacular and believable and I love her. It's all about love today, people. Yeah, I love her. It's all about love today, people.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I love all these people here's, by the way, Carlos the jackal.
Speaker 1:Ursula Corberto plays Maria Carlos' wife, the jackal's wife, and then you've got Eleanor Matsuda, richard Dermer and Leah Williams heading a fantastic cast. Everyone in this is terrific, and I defy you to start watching and then stop. That's what I defy, aha, I defy you to start watching and then stop. That's what I defy, aha, I defy you.
Speaker 2:See if you can do it. Huh, Is that what you're?
Speaker 1:saying it's not easy.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:All right, so say nothing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we talked about that Day of the Jackal Yep Peacock.
Speaker 1:Is it Peacock? Yes, Now I did finish watching Disclaimer.
Speaker 2:Right, yeah.
Speaker 1:And I can't remember if I had finished last week.
Speaker 2:I don't think you said you'd finished Well.
Speaker 1:I've finished and, to my great joy, found out that it was the end of season one.
Speaker 2:Ah, yes.
Speaker 1:And the cliffhanger is so painful One of the most painful cliffhangers ever and I don't know what to do with myself and I clearly have probably a year to go until I get a response to the slap heard around the world. But like that, yeah, life.
Speaker 2:Yeah, what are you going to do, really, yeah. Yeah, yeah what are you going to do really? Of course it will be a year. In like 87 minutes or so, it will seem like it We'll be opening and closing the pool in no time 87 minutes. Yeah, it doesn't take long.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, now that the dumpster's getting full, it just feels lighter it does feel a little lighter doesn't it All over.
Speaker 2:Here's something that's a little lighter.
Speaker 1:What's lighter?
Speaker 2:It's another television program, a man on the Inside. How about that one?
Speaker 1:That is quite good. I'm trying to.
Speaker 2:It's actually based on an Oscar-nominated documentary called the Mole Agent, which is a real story about a guy, a retired guy, who answered an ad placed by a private detective in a newspaper and became a mole in a secret investigation of a retirement residence in San Francisco.
Speaker 1:This is precisely what this is. Yes, this isn't a. This is yes, this isn't a takeoff on that. That's exactly the storyline of this. It's on Netflix streaming.
Speaker 2:It's not all true, because it's been adapted. The story itself is real, but there's a lot of funny stuff. It made by mike sure, the one of the guys who created the uh, the good place.
Speaker 1:So it's, it is a comedy oh no, it's hilarious and ted danson right, he's the guy. Yeah, he's the mole the man on the inside and it's very, very enjoyable for one reason because the inner workings of it's not, it's kind of assisted living. It's like, uh, I guess it's assisted living. You know, it's one building, it's senior living anyway, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's what they call it yeah.
Speaker 1:It's senior living. So you definitely have people in the 70 plus or 75 plus category. Yeah 75 plus category yeah, and what I love about it is the out loud and proud recognition that, no matter what age you get to, not much changes inside yeah, so true your desires and your feelings and your wants and you know waking up and thinking. You're still in your 20s. All that is 100 still active yeah, it happens and uh and there's some of that's great and some of that's painful as it gets, but I recommend this and it's also hilarious.
Speaker 1:Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah. And, as we know, men die a lot sooner than women. Women have a longer life expectancy, so of course, this home um is populated mostly by women right and like most, uh, like most nursing homes as well.
Speaker 1:You know, if you go into which, this isn't isn't, but right, yeah, but close enough yeah and of course, in walks ted, who you know is playing a man in his late 70s, right, and still looks pretty sharp, you know, looking sharp, dressing well, and the women are glommed onto him and it's very funny and very charming and it's you don't need a whole lot of brain power for this one. It's again, unlike the jackal, which is I don't think it will upset you, but it will excite you. You know you'll sort of be, you know.
Speaker 2:Right, well, that's. It's meant to be a thriller.
Speaker 1:Yeah Right, yeah A heck of a ride, but or say nothing, which is intense and true.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And you know is somewhat disturbing at times. This is just fun.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:This is fun and it's very interesting.
Speaker 2:Well, and there is some you know reality in there about you know aging and right and all that. That, uh, which is one of the reasons ted wanted to do the show, is because he said people, we need to talk about some of these things absolutely so yeah, so they, you know it's not. There are will be some sort of serious moments, but yeah, but it's yeah, really really. I suppose it's a funny show.
Speaker 1:It is. It's very charming.
Speaker 2:I really am enjoying it, so you should do that one.
Speaker 1:Well, I'm enjoying having you know these different it is on Netflix, by the way.
Speaker 2:Did we mention that? I did mention that Streaming on Netflix.
Speaker 1:By the way, did we mention that? I did mention that streaming on Netflix, I'm enjoying having different sorts of things to look at. I'm going to remind you, because Mr Silverlake himself recently wrote to me, that he finally got around to watching Monsters.
Speaker 2:Oh right, the Menendez brothers.
Speaker 1:And he said it is by far one of the best acted, written, directed, photographed things he has ever seen, full stop. Yeah and he's a Hollywood guy. And he is a Hollywood guy. He was born in a crib of Hollywood. That's right, and so it comes with. That's our way of saying that's a very high recommendation.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:So, once again, if you haven't seen it, get on it Get on it, people.
Speaker 2:What are you doing already?
Speaker 1:What are you doing? Did you miss Dahmer? Did you watch Dahmer? I don't know Dahmer was amazing.
Speaker 2:Is it made by the same people? Yes, yeah. Yes, dahmer was amazing. Yes, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yes, it was earlier that came out a few years ago.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And I never would have watched it, and there were two episodes I had to fast forward, through which I think I mentioned yeah, yeah. That were a little too gruesome for me. That were a little too gruesome for me, but the incredibly interesting parts of it, well, it's all incredibly interesting, it's fascinating and it is absolutely unbelievable. So, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:That's one to watch, and I'm telling you when you get to the parts that are like I can't with this. This is too disgusting. Just fast forward, Come on, you can do it. I know every one of you and I know you can all do it yeah. Michael and I are, to varying degrees, addicted to the New York Times spelling bee.
Speaker 2:Yeah. And it can be a problem.
Speaker 1:I find it quite problematic and occasionally traumatic.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it can be really hair pulling. Yes, yeah, it can be really hair-pulling.
Speaker 1:Yes, yeah. And there comes a point for me. There are different levels to achieve, and so you've got beginner solid, good, nice, great, amazing, amazing and genius. Yeah, amazing, amazing and genius, yeah, okay. So if I start one of these things now, what you have is you have seven words, sorry, seven letters in a circle, and then you have one letter in the center, and in each word you must use the center letter, correct. You can use all the other letters in any order you want, as many times as you want to make a word, yeah, but that middle, only them, and the one in the middle.
Speaker 1:Yeah right, that middle one's got to be in every word.
Speaker 2:It's hard. It can be very, very hard.
Speaker 1:Well, it starts out easy as pie and then usually, if I don't, every now and then one will come along that I kind of zoom through to genius. Not that often, but lately I'm finding I'm getting stuck at amazing oh no I know, and that's frustrating, because who wants to stop there?
Speaker 2:yeah, see, I can't stop there. It has to. I have to go to genius or I'm not done exactly and and. Yeah, I just cannot live with it like that.
Speaker 1:I can't either. And then you get to the genius point. Now, sometimes amazing to genius is a matter of, say, 15 or 20 points which, depending on the length of the words, Right and how difficult the puzzle is, Because sometimes the puzzles will have 200 words.
Speaker 2:You can make from those letters and sometimes there will be 80 words.
Speaker 1:Or 20.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that you can make from it and you're never going to get them all.
Speaker 1:Well, the less there are, the easier for me, because sometimes you'll have an ending Like if you have ING in your puzzle or ED in your puzzle.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there's going to be a lot of those in there somewhere.
Speaker 1:You know plurals and gerunds, and you know youurals and gerunds, and you know you can take one root and make whatever four words out of it, and I always forget one at least.
Speaker 2:Ah, yes.
Speaker 1:So that gets frustrating.
Speaker 2:I have tried, I have hit the genius mark and kept going on one puzzle because I just kept the words just kept coming to me. But that doesn't happen very often, you know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that never happens to me, you get there and you're like you're done hey look if they say genius. I'm like who am I to?
Speaker 2:argue with the New York Times. There you go. Yeah, that's a good point.
Speaker 1:I don't even respect the New York.
Speaker 2:Times anymore.
Speaker 1:So you know, they say genius. I say oy. I'm finished.
Speaker 2:There you go.
Speaker 1:Time to go to Russ and Daughters.
Speaker 2:Oh, that sounds like a great idea.
Speaker 1:I watched Cash Cab today.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, yeah.
Speaker 1:Just one episode.
Speaker 2:All right, yep, they're still floating around out there, aren't they?
Speaker 3:Who. I love that show.
Speaker 1:Oh, the Cash.
Speaker 2:Cab yeah. Repeat episodes of Cash Cab yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, this was a relatively recent one. Oh cool, and these two Jews get in this cab and say Russ and Daughters.
Speaker 2:There you go.
Speaker 1:And so Ben Bailey does his thing of you know like. Russ and Daughters what's Russ and Daughters? And they say, the best smoked salmon and caviar bar? None yeah In any borough In the Jewish Museum. None yeah In any borough In the Jewish Museum. Oh, they were going to the original which is down on Delancey.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay. Anyway, Well there's one in the Jewish Museum people that is so great, yeah, so great.
Speaker 1:Just go there and nosh.
Speaker 3:I'd like to go there and nosh and check out all the cool stuff at the museum.
Speaker 2:The museum they got some great chagall works there.
Speaker 1:Yep, they're pretty awesome yeah anyway, uh, yeah, it put me in mind of all the things, because this year I love the fact that hanukkah starts on December 25th.
Speaker 2:Yeah, how about that?
Speaker 1:How about that? People Put that in your stocking. I like it, I like that. That—i like it when that happens, because then there's none of this weird feeling that you're missing something, or other people are having a holiday and you're not, I don't know. Just the stupid stuff that unfortunately we grow up with in this country, or a lot of us do, and it's very difficult to get past. Do you agree?
Speaker 2:I would think so. I mean, I haven't had that problem right growing up. Anyway, we didn't do Hanukkah, we were fully full on into the. Christmas thing.
Speaker 1:But if you weren't? My point is, if you didn't have Christmas, let's say you were alone on Christmas wouldn't you feel kind of weird? Didn't you feel kind of weird?
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's what I mean, but you know, here, before Christmas, though, you've got to do Thanksgiving, and that is coming up.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:And it's just in a couple days, people.
Speaker 1:Yeah and here's what I have to say about Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2:Hi, now we're going to have a very small Thanksgiving dinner with some friends, right, and then we're kind of doing. I'm going to make another turkey here at home, a little tiny one for us.
Speaker 1:Well, here's the thing.
Speaker 2:You won't eat any of it, but yeah.
Speaker 1:Well.
Speaker 2:It'll smell good though.
Speaker 1:It will smell delish and I'll have stuffing.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And pie.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:I don't know why I had to be german for a second, but anyway. Um yeah, we have a a classic levine sitch, and I say classic, but this is all our fault. Yeah okay, this is my fault. In fact, I'll say, this is all my fault. Oh, wow. So we decided to have Thanksgiving with these few friends and talked about well, why don't we? You make some things and we'll make some things. Now, how did it end up that we're making the turkeys? The stuffing and the pie. How did that?
Speaker 2:happen. Wait a minute, that's most, that's really the requirements.
Speaker 3:I know, yeah.
Speaker 2:So throw some mashed potatoes in there, and then you're good. Well, Well you get some vegetable.
Speaker 1:You need a few vegetables. Actually, I know not for you. Yeah, some beans. Beans are good, it's so funny. Green beans. Our co-host said now, oh shoot, I just remembered we have something I have to RSVP to. Okay, let me write that down. But our co-host said now, I'm not going to make a green bean casserole or any of that kind of thing, and I could not have been happier. That is not on my list, is it on yours?
Speaker 2:Oh, I don't have anything in particular on my list.
Speaker 1:I have creamed onions.
Speaker 2:I want a turkey sandwich the next day, you know. So that's really that's where I'm going.
Speaker 1:I'm going to say this I'm going to say something the day after sandwich the next day. That's what I'm going. I'm going to say this I'm going to say something.
Speaker 2:The day after sandwich the next day. That's what I'm going for.
Speaker 1:You know what we could do. We could cancel the whole thing.
Speaker 2:Just make a few sandwiches Go to the store.
Speaker 1:Buy some sliced turkey. It's not the same. Make a little stove top.
Speaker 2:It's not the same. You've got to smell the house up. That's true, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, your coats, your outerwear has to smell like Thanksgiving. That is correct.
Speaker 2:It's a holiday requirement.
Speaker 1:Right up until you put it away for storage in, I'm going to say, April.
Speaker 2:April.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I went to the dentist.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I'm going to tell you anyone on Cape Cod needs a dentist. Get in touch with me, because my dentist is not only arguably the finest dentist whom I have ever seen, he's also one of the nicest men I have ever met.
Speaker 2:And he's funny. Oh, and he's also my dentist. So there, so there.
Speaker 1:So there, yeah, he is a prince, my dentist, and he had to do a couple of things on one side, and then he has a couple of other things to do on one side. I have a broken tooth, I got a bunch of things Dang and he told me that, you know. He said this is such a strange time of year. He said it's the holidays, right, we're supposed to have fun, we're supposed to be happy, we're supposed to have fun, we're supposed to be happy, we're supposed to celebrate and enjoy. He said but this is the heaviest time of year on my schedule and he says it starts with halloween oh yeah, of course, and everyone walks in here with cavities and busted teeth from all the candy, he said.
Speaker 1:And then he said the sugar thing never really stops, he said but what does happen? And there were two of these ahead of me. There were two emergencies ahead of me. Were two of these ahead of me? There were two emergencies ahead of me, both from people who had been grinding their teeth so hard that they cracked teeth wow he said, the anxiety this time a year is through the roof, so people don't be grinding your teeth.
Speaker 2:And yeah, take a minute, be thankful.
Speaker 1:Watch the podcast, you know what I want to mention someone have some pie? What.
Speaker 2:Have some pie.
Speaker 1:Have some pie. Yeah, relax. Don't unnecessarily watch any football games, you know happy birthday, andy happy birthday, andy yeah, and for our dear friend and listener, david pimenta. Dav Pepper, please put a light on I am.
Speaker 3:And you know me like a river knows how to flow. My body is the story you are always told the sun may rise, the sun may fall, but only you may ever see me too, so only you can tell that this is who I am. This is who I am. Send the white horses Seems, I've exhausted those fickle games. I played those fickle games. I play. See my good fortune. Only you may ever see me See me too, so only you can Tell them this is who I am, this is who I am, this is who I am. This is who I am, this is who I am. No lie, no lie. This is who I am, this is who I am. This is who I am.
