Daydream Drama

Michael's "radio voice", sets the stage for an enlightening discussion on Lily Miola's "Daydream," a gem unearthed on Britain's Got Talent. We then shift gears to highlight the dynamic role YouTube plays in the music industry, before diving into Snoop Dogg's latest masterpiece, "Missionary," produced with Dr. Dre and featuring an unexpected collaboration with Sting. It's all about the power of discovery and surprise in the music world!

Journey with us as we celebrate the incredible rise of artists who owe their fame to singing competitions. From Meghan Trainor's youthful success at just 30, to the chart-topping careers of "American Idol" alumni like Carrie Underwood, Adam Lambert and Scotty McCreery, we uncover stories of triumph and perseverance. Along the way, we tease Angelina Jolie's portrayal of Maria Callas, a role that delves into the singer's fascinating past with Aristotle Onassis and earned her an EIGHT MINUTE Ovation at Cannes.

The thrill of espionage and the nostalgia of yesteryears converge as we dissect The Agency, a modern spy drama set against a tumultuous global backdrop. Our conversation weaves through the complexities of CIA operations, memories of the Y2K scare, and pays tribute to fashion icon Polly Mellon. And then it happened. We somehow lost around 13 minutes of our show. We didn't have time to re-record  so Michael added an episode of Five Minute Mysteries, and old-time radio program unravelling a cunning murder mystery in a Turkish bath steam room, where an ingenious murderer almost commits the perfect crime. It's a suspenseful ride full of twists, turns, and clever deductions that will keep you on the edge of your seat and it's only five minutes long ;)

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Transcript

Speaker 2 0:20

Hello, welcome to the Ann Levine Show.

Speaker 1 0:24

This is Ann Levine. This is Ann.

Speaker 2 0:26

Levine, and that is Michael over there.

Speaker 3 0:30

Hello.

Speaker 2 0:31

And we are coming to you on WOMR 92.1 FM in Provincetown Massachusetts.

Speaker 3 0:41

That's right, and 91.3 FM Orleans and streaming worldwide at WOMRorg. Womrorg.

Speaker 2 0:53

Michael's got the most satiny, but it's also he's got a little grit in it.

Speaker 3 0:59

Is that what it is? Voice Radio voice.

Speaker 2 1:03

His radio voice is. I think I just heard it for the first time. Yeah okay, I'm serious. I think I just heard it as though I just met you or as if I'd never met you.

Speaker 3 1:27

I see.

Speaker 2 1:28

I think I just heard it in a vacuum for the first time. Okay, yeah.

Speaker 3 1:35

That should concern you. You're in a vacuum.

Speaker 2 1:40

You know, not much surprises me, yeah, any longer. But this star, just this star, this show does star. You, michael, over there.

Speaker 3 1:56

Hello, and we are listening to Daydream by Lily Miola.

Speaker 2 2:05

And she is Daydream by Lily Miola.

Speaker 3 2:07

And she is. She's a cute little Brit who did well on Britain's Got Talent, and this was a song that she wrote for it.

Speaker 2 2:17

I see Well, that's exactly what it sounds like. So it is what it sounds like it is.

Speaker 1 2:28

Yeah it's a pretty song.

Speaker 3 2:30

The lyrics are really. I like it.

Speaker 2 2:34

Did you hear this on one of your newfangled radio stations?

Speaker 3 2:40

Uh no.

Speaker 2 2:42

Okay, where'd you hear it? I?

Speaker 3 2:43

heard it on YouTube. Youtube To begin with. Yeah, you know'd you hear it, I heard it on YouTube. Youtube To begin with. Yeah, you know I do a lot of YouTube.

Speaker 2 2:48

Well, I know, but I didn't know that you use it as a source for music choices.

Speaker 3 2:54

Well, you know what that's funny? You say that because now YouTube really is the place where the music comes out.

Speaker 2 3:02

Well, that's yeah, it's been that way for a while.

Speaker 3 3:06

Right, but I mean that's so and. Snoop's new album just dropped Snoop Dogg and Dr. Is it Dr Dre? Yeah, and he's got a brand new album and that's just what hit on Friday. I listened to that too. That was pretty cool.

Speaker 2 3:24

Well, I was going to talk about the Voice, so, in light of that, maybe it's a good time for you to tell us about this album and we'll work from there backwards.

Speaker 3 3:39

Okay, what would you like to know? Would you like to know what Snoop Dogg's new album is about?

Speaker 2 3:48

Yes, I'd like to know what you like to know, what snoop uh snoop dog's new album is about. Yes, I'd like to know what it's like. Did you like it is I?

Speaker 3 3:51

did like it. Yeah, and one of the reasons that, uh, I wanted to, you know, to hear it to begin with, is that we heard him do a track off of it on the voice, on the Voice Featuring, featuring, sting, which it's which when you first hear that sounds totally peculiar. It does sound odd, right, but it was actually really good, yeah. So, but you say Well, the album is called Missionary.

Speaker 2 4:25

Missionary, missionary, and now my understanding and oral pleasure A-U-R-A-L Ooh. Now, my understanding is that it's Dr Dre and Snoop Right, and then, in addition to that, each song has a guest artist.

Speaker 3 4:47

Not all of them, I don't think, but several of them do yeah.

Speaker 2 4:52

And so we know there's Sting. Do you know anyone else?

Speaker 3 4:59

Yeah, I'm trying to bring it up here and I can't do it at the moment.

Speaker 2 5:02

Oh, okay, I'm trying to bring it up here and I can't do it at the moment. Oh okay, well, anyway, the Voice is a show that I wouldn't even think of watching for a long time in my life. Yeah, nothing about it interested me in any way, shape or form. And then, and I don't remember why or how, I saw a season of it or part of a season of it and I kind of got into it. And then you and I both started watching it and, as we've said about other shows that we watch, this is fast-forward television.

Speaker 3 5:43

Yeah, because there's a lot of silliness that should go away.

Speaker 2 5:47

Yeah, so you fast forward through that stuff. Then you watch the singers and then you fast forward. So every segment of it, if you're watching it on TV, every segment gives you sort of two parts. One part is blah, blah, blah, nonsense.

Speaker 3 6:13

Right.

Speaker 2 6:15

Either some sort of gag with one of the stars.

Speaker 3 6:19

Or some kind of back story or a story of the boo-hoo of this person's life. Right, because there's usually crying.

Speaker 2 6:27

Yeah.

Speaker 3 6:28

Yeah, I think it's a requirement to be on any of these shows.

Speaker 2 6:31

That there's some kind of tragedy in your life or some profound difficulty, and then you get to hear people sing, which is pretty fascinating, and sometimes they are terrific.

Speaker 3 6:53

Yeah, that is true.

Speaker 2 6:55

These singers. What we found this year? I certainly found this year. I certainly found this year there were a couple of things. First of all, the judges this year were Michael Bublé.

Speaker 3 7:11

That's right. First time, first time judge.

Speaker 2 7:14

Reba McEntire.

Speaker 3 7:16

Right, I think her second time.

Speaker 2 7:18

Gwen Stefani.

Speaker 3 7:20

Yeah, and Snoop Dogg.

Speaker 2 7:23

And Snoop Dogg.

Speaker 3 7:25

And Snoop yeah.

Speaker 2 7:30

And he was, of course, the last person in the world that I was expecting to ever see on the Voice, but Snoop Dogg has done very smart things most of his life, and one of them recently has been to turn on the money-making machine.

Speaker 3 7:51

Yeah, which he certainly has. He's stepped right into it.

Speaker 2 7:55

And now that he's what, what is he? 70?

Speaker 3 7:58

Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 8:00

Wow, okay, wow okay. So he's 70 years old and he's big fat daddy, skinny grandpa right, and he's had a really rough year. One of his sons died, a cousin died, um, so he was all emotional. But he's about getting all emotional and he calls on the holy gangster ghost yeah, ghost which, yeah, exactly I mean. To me that's all I ever had to hear him say right, yeah was okay.

Speaker 2 8:41

I'm calling on the holy gangster ghost to help me make a choice yeah, gangster ghost between these two singers, and he's very smart and insightful and he knows way more about music than I ever thought he did yeah, yeah a lot of people I think are surprised, you know. I mean like, yeah, like how to produce a country artist, right, yeah, For instance. So when I say music, I don't mean what some people I'm related to would call music, I mean pop. Music call music, I mean pop music, all genres, yeah, genre. All of the genre Alex Trebek. I'll never be able to say that word again.

Speaker 3 9:38

Without thinking of Alex.

Speaker 2 9:39

Correct and I know I'm not alone, which doesn't make me feel better about it.

Speaker 3 9:47

Yeah, I guess that's true.

Speaker 2 9:49

Anyhow. So this year on the Voice, what I found was that the most entertaining parts of it were watching Snoop watching and watching mr buble gwen. Stefani could not bore me more yeah, yeah um and reba's adorable, but you know, I don't know if she is.

Speaker 3 10:20

but yeah, she, she loves to jump into the middle of the corny stuff though. Yeah, you know the goofy stuff that they're doing and it's like, oh, come on please.

Speaker 2 10:31

Yeah, absolutely. But I think she jumps into the middle of whatever script is put in front of her.

Speaker 3 10:37

Yeah, that's probably true.

Speaker 2 10:39

At this point with complete enthusiasm.

Speaker 3 10:42

She does have a new television show, a new sitcom.

Speaker 2 10:44

Yeah, called Grampy's.

Speaker 3 10:47

Pappy's Place.

Speaker 2 10:48

Pappy's Place. Happy, happy, yeah. Well then there's that, yeah, anyway. So when the finale came around, which it did this week, when the finale came around, which it did this week, and I even saw the five finalists, I said to Michael, are you kidding? Those are the finalists.

Speaker 3 11:15

I know they got rid. As far as I'm concerned, they got rid of the best singers very early on.

Speaker 2 11:21

Yeah.

Speaker 3 11:28

And you know, I don't know why that happened, but it did and they ended up with, you know, like the second class, I think.

Speaker 2 11:34

Oh, or third, yeah. And then you know, America decides out of the last five who it's going to be, or so they say.

Speaker 3 11:45

Right yeah.

Speaker 2 11:46

And you know it wasn't even my most favorite of the remaining five was voted out.

Speaker 3 12:05

Yeah, he was the first one to go.

Speaker 2 12:07

No, he was the second one to go.

Speaker 3 12:08

Oh, okay, and the guy is a musician as well, which you know.

Speaker 2 12:15

Right.

Speaker 3 12:16

None of the rest of them were that.

Speaker 2 12:18

I could really tell. And the one who won was that Filipino guy. Yeah, the one who won was that Filipino guy.

Speaker 3 12:25

Yeah, he's got a great voice, but it's not a pop music voice.

Speaker 2 12:31

It's not an anything voice. Let me put it this way it might be a grave voice. I don't have an opinion about that because I don't like it.

Speaker 3 12:44

Yeah, okay.

Speaker 2 12:54

So I can't say to you yeah, I mean, maybe if I sat down with someone who could say, okay, listen to that and listen to that and see how he's able to do this and this, maybe to do this and this maybe, but just like seeing him on TV and listening to the songs, no, yeah.

Speaker 3 13:16

So, and I mean, he didn't sing really any pop songs, for one thing, you know, or not many anyway, he went more toward um broadway kind of stuff and uh and old standards. There was a lot of that. There was an enormous amount of um throwback music as well, to 40s, 50s, a lot of sinatra well in in the entire show. Yeah throughout the whole series this year. Yeah.

Speaker 2 13:49

Yeah, which was odd because in the cases of a couple of them they seemed like acts Right. And there was that one guy that you know every time you saw him it.

Speaker 3 14:07

and now an episode from the frank sinatra show right and he, he does what he does very well yes it's just, it doesn't really it's not really the thing.

Speaker 2 14:20

Imitate someone else right so emulate yeah well, I'm gonna go as far as say imitate, because he did not. He didn't make any of it his own no he straight off took the songs, used the same phrasing, the same everything.

Speaker 3 14:45

Although on a couple of them he did use, like Michael Buble's phrasing, you know, because Michael's covered a lot of these songs too.

Speaker 2 14:55

But my point is he wasn't doing his own thing. I agree. I totally agree, any of it.

Speaker 3 15:01

Yep, and when he got cut he knew that and he knew why. Yeah.

Speaker 2 15:07

I mean, this guy's going to have a career. If he does have one, yeah, in Vegas.

Speaker 3 15:14

He's going to have a lot of fun, yeah, just doing what he loves to do Doing a lounge act. Yeah, yeah Hi.

Speaker 2 15:19

You're in Vegas, you're drunk. Hi, you're in Vegas, you're drunk. You just lost almost all your money, but you had 20 bucks to watch my show.

Speaker 3 15:30

That's right.

Speaker 2 15:31

Now, if that's not depressing, I don't know what is.

Speaker 3 15:34

Well, okay.

Speaker 2 15:35

But that's my vision.

Speaker 3 15:37

I'm with you on that.

Speaker 2 15:39

That's my vision. That's my horrible vision of this guy. Maybe he'll get work on Broadway. I don't know. His voice is good enough.

Speaker 3 15:50

Yeah, he's got a good voice.

Speaker 2 15:52

But can he do anything else? We will never know.

Speaker 3 15:58

We never found out on this show.

Speaker 2 15:59

We never saw anything else. So, anyway, there were people that were styled terribly. There were people who were given, in my opinion, really bad advice.

Speaker 3 16:18

Right, their coaching was off.

Speaker 2 16:22

And I don't mean just their vocal coaching, which was way off in some of the cases. I mean their styling.

Speaker 3 16:31

Right and the take on the music.

Speaker 2 16:38

Yeah.

Speaker 3 16:39

Yeah, the whole. Thing.

Speaker 2 16:41

Their direction. They were given poor direction. That being said, of the final five remaining, there was one clear standout who got the boot.

Speaker 3 16:56

Yep.

Speaker 2 16:57

And at that point I thought I don't know who's in charge of how this turns out. I certainly know that there are other powers at play besides people calling in to vote.

Speaker 3 17:22

Yeah right.

Speaker 2 17:25

So whoever makes these choices and why is a complete mystery, and I have to say that maybe you know, michael, because you keep up with this stuff more than I do. Has anyone in the last five years of the Voice gone on to have a big hit that you know of?

Speaker 3 17:53

No, not that I know of.

Speaker 2 17:55

Okay.

Speaker 3 17:56

There might be, but not that I know of. No, I don't think so.

Speaker 2 18:00

Well, I mean that should tell you something right there, because American Idol, for instance, all of them, when you think about, like those idol singers who went very quickly, yeah. Fantasia Jennifer Hudson, kelly Clarkson.

Speaker 3 18:21

Carrie Underwood.

Speaker 2 18:22

Clay Aiken, Carrie Underwood.

Speaker 3 18:25

Yeah.

Speaker 2 18:25

You know there was a Megan Trainor, Wasn't she on Idol?

Speaker 3 18:33

I don't believe so. Okay, never mind she may have performed on Idol, but yeah, she wasn't a contestant.

Speaker 2 18:40

Well, I thought we knew she was a contestant on something.

Speaker 3 18:44

Marjorie Taylor Greene, I think was a contestant on Idol.

Speaker 2 18:49

Are you freaking, kidding me I?

Speaker 3 18:51

am not even kidding.

Speaker 2 18:52

All right, I don't want to talk about that anymore.

Speaker 3 18:56

I mean audition. Never made it to the thing. Oh, okay, that's a relief.

Speaker 2 19:02

Now, Meghan Trainor, why do we know that she's from Cape Cod? Well, I don't know.

Speaker 3 19:13

She was dealing with the Spampinato brothers. They were helping her out or something. It had something to do with her and her start in her career and we know those guys and we've got friends who know them very well. So that's my understanding. But you know, other than that I don't know, and she from the vineyard or or from, uh, from around, she's from around here somewhere, right?

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Speaker 2 19:43

megan trainer. Um, she's from around here somewhere, right? Meghan Trainor, I'm trying to figure this out because she rose to prominence signing with Epic. Yeah no, I guess it was all about that. Bass she's from Nantucket. Yeah no, I guess it was all about that. Bass she's from Nantucket.

Speaker 3 20:09

Okay, sorry, nantucket.

Speaker 2 20:13

Anyway.

Speaker 3 20:13

I meant Nantucket, not Martha's Vineyard.

Speaker 2 20:15

Guess how old she is.

Speaker 3 20:17

She's 30.

Speaker 2 20:20

Yeah, are you guessing or did you just read?

Speaker 3 20:22

that no, I just guessed.

Speaker 2 20:24

Yeah, she's 30. Oh Okay, I was thinking that's young.

Speaker 3 20:31

Oh yeah, well, me too, but I think she's young.

Speaker 2 20:36

No, when I saw that she was, I would have guessed she was closer to 35. I see, okay.

Speaker 3 20:42

She was closer to 35. I see.

Speaker 2 20:44

Okay, anyway. So yes, those idol singers had these careers. They're in our lives, we know who they are.

Speaker 3 20:55

I think there's really only, I know of only one. Okay, now we've got Daniel Bradbury. She's a season four winner, she's got 15 songs on the Hot Country chart, and Morgan Wallen from 2014. He had an album in 2023 that reached number one on the Billboard 200. So you know, those are two voice contestants, but most of them we don't really ever hear from anymore.

Speaker 2 21:32

No yeah, adam Lambert.

Speaker 3 21:35

Oh my God, yeah, that's right.

Speaker 2 21:38

I'm remembering, like these other idol people.

Speaker 3 21:42

Yeah.

Speaker 2 21:43

Scotty McCreary. Yes, there are tons of.

Speaker 3 21:44

McCreary yes.

Speaker 2 21:46

There are tons of them there really are.

Speaker 3 21:48

There are so many that went on to have and are still out there working and doing well, doing really well. Yeah.

Speaker 2 21:58

And whereas the Voice has produced not a thing that I'm aware of.

Speaker 3 22:07

Well, a couple of them, you know. Like I said this, Morgan Wallen had a number one album.

Speaker 2 22:14

But I don't know who that is. That's the thing. Like I'm saying, that didn't penetrate my mind.

Speaker 3 22:19

Right, well, it's from the Voice from 2014.

Speaker 2 22:22

Right which. I never saw. Yeah, but you didn't know. I mean, did you?

Speaker 3 22:28

No, no, I don't really listen to country too much either.

Speaker 2 22:33

Right, and so anyway, American Idol was successful at producing successes.

Speaker 3 22:46

Oh yeah, oh, who's that other one?

Speaker 2 22:51

Wayne Casey.

Speaker 3 22:54

Oh well, yeah, Casey Basie, yeah, I like him. That's not who I was thinking of, but it's going to come to me eventually, country singer. No, I've lost it.

Speaker 2 23:07

Okay. Well, if you look up American Idol winners, successful American Idol winners, the list will be long and crazy. Yeah, I betcha, the list will be long and crazy, I betcha. But now I'm thinking of tragic voice things on the voice that were tragic. Wendy Moten, do you?

Speaker 3 23:39

remember Wendy Moten, I do remember, and her voice was—oh, I was thinking of Chris Daughtry, by the way.

Speaker 2 23:44

Oh yeah, there's another onery, by the way.

Speaker 3 23:45

Oh, yeah and Clay.

Speaker 2 23:46

Aiken. I said Clay Aiken, yeah, yeah, so anyway, yeah, so you're right.

Speaker 3 23:54

Yeah, that was tragic.

Speaker 2 23:55

Paris Winningham.

Speaker 3 23:57

Mm-hmm.

Speaker 2 23:58

Another voice singer he was. That was a tragedy.

Speaker 4 24:02

Yep.

Speaker 2 24:04

Should have won. So the only two that I remember are two people that were amazing that didn't win, didn't get close.

Speaker 3 24:18

Yeah.

Speaker 2 24:18

So and should have Anyhow. What can I say about this show Except?

Speaker 1 24:25

You know, If you.

Speaker 3 24:30

Well, it's fast forward TV. So, yeah, you want to listen to the voices and see how it goes. That's like we do, you know.

Speaker 2 24:38

Okay, yeah, but definitely I mean maybe the shtick is for you. It's not for me no, I can't handle it at all. The shtick, yeah, um, I'm really glad that they stopped where it used to be that each mentor. So those are the stars would give the people on their team a thing, so it was.

Speaker 3 25:18

A t-shirt or a or a jacket, john.

Speaker 2 25:21

Legend used to give a jacket, and last year Reba McEntire was giving tater tots, which was so depressing, and she had a little vending machine with her.

Speaker 3 25:38

And the season before that she was doing chicken right Something? Chicken tenders, yeah, something like that I was doing chicken right Something Chicken tenders. Yeah, something like that I don't know the whole thing. It's like come on.

Speaker 2 25:49

Just got so stupid. And then there was someone had a lunchbox and thank God they stopped doing that.

Speaker 3 26:00

Yeah, I'm glad.

Speaker 2 26:02

It stopped having. It couldn't be original anymore, although I would like a Blake Shelton jacket, I think, since he bailed.

Speaker 3 26:19

You like his jackets better.

Speaker 2 26:20

I like his jackets. Yeah, that's what I like his jackets, yeah. That's what I miss the most. All right, so I did a thing that I didn't think I would do, except I realized that Michael wouldn't do it with me, so I watched Maria.

Speaker 3 26:41

Oh, you did yes.

Speaker 2 26:41

Okay, the Maria Callas movie with you did.

Speaker 3 26:43

Yes, okay, the Maria Callas movie with Angelina Jolie, correct, mm-hmm?

Speaker 2 26:48

And am I correct in saying you would not have watched that movie?

Speaker 3 26:51

with me? Yeah, not terribly interested yeah.

Speaker 2 26:54

Okay. Well, I'm not sure what to say about it and what to think about it.

Speaker 3 27:03

I see.

Speaker 2 27:04

I know that I can tell you. Here's what I can tell you. Spoiler alert she dies, okay. So Calliston died in what? 1980 or something? Okay, she's been gone a long time, which she was in the news when I was alive. Are the events like Onassis? Are the Onassis events? So she, aristotle Onassis left Maria for Jackie Onassis. So that was a huge thing when Jackie met and married Aristotle Onassis. It still is, when you think about it. But of course, in the background there's Maria Callas, who was considered, and still is by many, the greatest opera singer of all time. I have no basis on which to say, yeah, she was. No, she wasn't one of the greats. Yes, definitely for sure. Um, anyway, this is the story. She died at age 53, which is the age that analina, analina, angelina joolie is currently, and I don't know.

Speaker 3 29:15

Angelina Jolie got an eight-minute standing ovation at Cannes.

Speaker 2 29:30

Okay, I know that some people don't know about the length of a minute. Michael and I are acutely aware of how long five seconds is, or 10 or 30 seconds, because we're in radio. So when you're quiet, when there's jet air for five seconds, that's a long time. Okay, so I have a strong sense of how long a minute is. It's a long time, and eight minutes is ridiculous. How long that is. Now, the fact that this room full of people stood up and clapped for her for eight minutes is nonsense, okay, total nonsense. Who has done something that extraordinary? Who?

Speaker 3 30:35

I don't know.

Speaker 2 30:41

How long was that?

Speaker 3 30:44

Six seconds.

Speaker 2 30:46

Exactly.

Speaker 3 30:47

Yeah.

Speaker 2 30:47

Okay, so just you know, do that for seven minutes and 50 seconds more. Yeah, anyway, it's a crazy amount of time. Yeah, anyway, it's a crazy amount of time. And so my sense of—now if it was Callis herself returned from the dead. You know to sing an aria. Oh yeah, there's your eight-minute standing ovation easily.

Speaker 3 31:20

Okay, yeah, I can see that.

Speaker 2 31:22

Right. People would be very excited. Angelina Jolie pretending to be Maria Callas.

Speaker 3 31:28

Yeah.

Speaker 2 31:29

It just wasn't. I don't know. I can't imagine any single acting job that earns that, Can you?

Speaker 3 31:47

Hmm, no.

Speaker 2 31:51

I mean.

Speaker 3 31:52

No, not really. I mean that's a.

Speaker 2 31:55

No, and when you hear something got a three minute standing out a four minute. Oh my God.

Speaker 3 32:01

Yeah, eight what.

Speaker 2 32:02

Eight. What is that Eight You've gone to McDonald's.

Speaker 3 32:07

Maybe they got paid off. You bought your yeah, the whole audience. They bought the audience you bought your Happy Meal.

Speaker 2 32:14

You ate it. You came back. They're still applauding. That's eight minutes.

Speaker 3 32:19

Right, there you go?

Speaker 2 32:20

I don't know, I do want a happy meal and I have a happy meal on my mind. I've never had one and I don't know.

Speaker 3 32:34

Maybe that's not that happy really.

Speaker 2 32:37

Maybe when you get to my age, you just think Well, something I'll never do is have a happy meal, yeah, yeah. Anyway.

Speaker 3 32:47

You crossed that one off the list All right.

Speaker 2 32:50

First of all, as you might expect, the wardrobe, the sets, the sound, the music all of it was extraordinary. It looked fantastic, Angelina Jolie looked fantastic. Now she looks nothing like Maria Callas, although both very beautiful women, so that was odd. The one thing about it that when I first heard about it, I thought, oh, how insane. Did I talk about this already, About how weird it would be she would be as a choice Physically. How weird.

Speaker 2 33:53

We may have mentioned it last week or something, but it doesn't matter Because of what an opera singer should look like.

Speaker 3 34:00

Uh-huh.

Speaker 2 34:01

It doesn't matter.

Speaker 3 34:02

Nope.

Speaker 2 34:03

Why.

Speaker 3 34:05

It's not important to the story.

Speaker 2 34:11

Oh, it actually is, and the reason it works in this case is because it's literally the last days of Maria Callas, when she had wasted away and up until then she had known as being robust, physically robust and powerful, not fragile and it would have been important to the story in this case. Anyhow, it's so stylized and it's all taking place in the mind of Maria Callas, so there are hallucinations and schmellutionations, and I'm pretty sure that I'm not hallucinating when I say I feel that it's felt generally by the audience that I've given too much time to this already. Okay, mission Impossible there was a Mission Impossible festival.

Speaker 3 35:30

Like a marathon, yeah.

Speaker 2 35:32

Which Michael indulged in and recorded what all of them.

Speaker 3 35:39

I didn't record any of them. Well, whatever. It was just on the channel that we were on.

Speaker 2 35:45

Yeah, so there was. One of the funniest things was I couldn't tell one from the other too well, because a lot of the same characters played by the same people.

Speaker 3 36:00

Right, there is a lot of crossover. I mean there's that particular group, that's in every one of them, but there are other people that also cross over. At least you know, temporarily, maybe, right.

Speaker 2 36:12

Yeah, what do you think of that whole franchise?

Speaker 3 36:17

Well, I mean, they make quite an action movie. There's a lot of action, it's great stuff. Visually it's awesome. I love the idea of Mission Impossible but I grew up with it, too, watching the original Mission Impossible on TV. So I've always loved the idea of it and it's cool. I didn't watch the Ghost Protocol one, much of that because I was really kind of bored with the whole. I didn't think that one was very good. But they're all right. I like them. I like there's some comedy in there. I like Simon Pegg, I always like anything he does. So you know that's what I'm saying, mission Impossible-wise. And I love the song Laszlo Schifrin, or Lalo Lalo song. Laszlo Schifrin or Lalo Lalo, yeah, lalo Schifrin, that's a great song and they do a very cool version of it at the end and I thought it was Snoop, but it's Kanye. There's a cool Kanye song to it.

Speaker 2 37:37

Yeah, that was a bummer finding out that it was Kanye.

Speaker 3 37:40

It did sound like Snoop, but yeah, because I wanted to.

Speaker 2 37:45

it sounded like Snoop's voice. Yeah exactly.

Speaker 3 37:50

Anyway, it wasn't and that was weird, but you know.

Speaker 6 37:54

Mm-hmm.

Speaker 3 37:55

Yeah.

Speaker 2 38:36

Well, I have become finally more confused about streaming service streaming services than I've ever been. Most recently is now this crossover between Samsung OLED and the David Letterman channel, the David.

Speaker 3 38:41

Letterman fast channel.

Speaker 2 38:41

Yeah, which is a 24-7 Letterman channel. So what I can think of that, I don't know about other 24-7. You would know this, michael 24-7 TV channels.

Speaker 3 39:03

You're not asking anything, yet what? What do you want to know are do they exist?

Speaker 2 39:08

yeah, there's tons of them.

Speaker 3 39:12

Name a couple pluto tv is an entire network of A thousand channels Runs 24-7.

Speaker 2 39:22

No, no, no, no, no, a single.

Speaker 3 39:26

The Antiques Roadshow channel 24-7. Bob Ross 24-7. Name a BBC show. There's probably a 24-7 channel for that. They're everywhere.

Speaker 2 39:45

Okay, so that's my point. I'm not this is something that I'm not aware of but this is a channel that's only available through the use of.

Speaker 3 40:00

On the Samsung One, yeah. On a Samsung one, yeah on a Samsung OLED and it doesn't have to be an OLED, oh really it's just on their? No, it's on their, it's on a Samsung TV. We don't have an OLED. I know that but we get, we get this service, so I didn't know that, but we get this service. I didn't know that. Yeah, we talked about this.

Speaker 2 40:31

Okay, well, I don't understand. So thank you for explaining. There's this new David Letterman channel and it's all David Letterman 24-7. And you can only see it on a Samsung, and this is the first crossover I know of that's to a particular device. So you don't have to. You know there's no way you can pay for this channel as a streaming service. You have to own a particular device and it's an expensive device. So it feels like people talk about cutting the cord and I was recently trying to figure out will we ever get to the point where that is doable?

Speaker 3 41:45

Oh my goodness, If for millions and millions of people it's, they're doing it every day.

Speaker 2 41:51

I know that.

Speaker 3 41:52

Yeah.

Speaker 2 41:53

Uh, I'm wondering if is I'm sure that's something you could do, right? Yeah, you could cut the cord.

Speaker 3 42:06

Yeah, I would want a DVR situation. I would want to be able to record things when they come on so I don't miss them. But you can figure that out too. It's all easily done so you can record.

Speaker 2 42:28

So so, for instance, like special events, what would be the things you'd want to record so recently, as I had been saying before, with these new streaming services and what not? The agency okay, that's Paramount Plus. If you're streaming, that's combined with Paramount Plus, is now combined with Cinemax, which is combined with Showtime, and it's like Showmax and Paramount Plus. So that's one I have not managed to untangle yet. But the agency, which is Michael Fassbender, dominic West, richard Gere and a cast of thousands, is one which we just saw the first episode of and it is really good.

Speaker 3 43:42

It's a little confusing, but we've just started, so we're still trying to learn a few things. It's a spy thing.

Speaker 2 43:51

Yeah, I mean it's going to definitely unwind. At first it was really hard to tell. In the very beginning we knew where we were, you know what city and which country, and then suddenly we weren't sure. You know. We switched to the next scene. Okay, where are we? And we had to figure that out, and so a lot of stuff you're figuring out as you go and the background, um, so you have to figure stuff out. Oh, that was so and so, or oh, that was so-and-so, or oh, that was so-and-so. It's really interesting. From what I can understand at this point, it is the CIA operations out of London. That's where this takes place, and if you watch something like the Diplomat they will have you assume that the CIA offices are in the American embassy, not in, but in the same building complex.

Speaker 3 45:21

Yeah, I mean, they probably ought to be, you would think.

Speaker 2 45:23

Right, and so it seems like that. It seems like that's what's going on at this point too, although it's hard to tell. And I don't recognize London. London used to be a city that I knew somewhat. I don't recognize it, the same way I don't recognize New York anymore, for that matter. But this show is really, really interesting and takes place in this new world we live in. Character says about London is wow, you know, there used to be three satellites on the top of the Russian embassy and now there are 30. And you know they say well, you know, the Cold War is back and worse than ever back and worse than ever.

Speaker 2 46:37

Yeah, so things are very much updated, you know, to current situations in the world.

Speaker 3 46:46

Oh yeah, yeah, and they're talking about Ukraine and Belarus and everything, yeah, and fairly recent developments actually, yeah.

Speaker 2 46:56

So it's nerve-wracking, it's frightening, it's really good, the cast is amazing, the acting seems superior and the sets are really interesting. Brave new world out there in some of these buildings and these offices in these buildings, and technology is so far above and beyond anything that you know the old in the year 2000. Oh boy, we were so worried about that. We were worried about that yeah the year 2000.

Speaker 3 47:52

Yeah, oh boy, the year 2000.

Speaker 2 47:54

Yeah, oh, boy. And yeah, you know, I'm reminded that funny thing about that, about Y2K, which wasn't actually the beginning of the millennium, but generations to come will not figure that out. Yeah, so it doesn't really matter, we're getting dumber anyway, right. So the fact that the ones who lived through it haven't figured that out yet, whatever 25 years later, doesn't matter much, but my brother stored gallons of water in his oven as part of the preparation for midnight Y2K.

Speaker 3 48:58

That seems like an odd place to keep your water. I'm just saying.

Speaker 2 49:02

Well, you know it was yeah. Where do I store all this water?

Speaker 3 49:08

Yeah.

Speaker 2 49:09

And you know him, when he says store, he means hide.

Speaker 3 49:15

Yeah.

Speaker 2 49:16

Put it somewhere that no one will see it.

Speaker 3 49:19

Right.

Speaker 2 49:19

Not because he's actually hiding it.

Speaker 3 49:21

No, no, no, no, no To him.

Speaker 2 49:23

A tidy room is a room that looks like nothing is in it.

Speaker 3 49:27

For me I would call this a VCP, a very clever place. So you put it there and no one can see it, but you know where it is and of course that's the first place.

Speaker 2 49:39

I forget every time, but right that's what I call it very yeah but I've never put, uh, I've never stored my water in the oven nor, nor have I um, nor have I stored my water in the sense that I felt that it needed to be hidden. But this was not hidden. This was stored. He got cash. He did all these batteries. You know like getting ready for the world to collapse. Yeah, well, guess what?

Speaker 3 50:26

we're still collapsing.

Speaker 2 50:27

So yeah, we're on our way we're still in collapse, so if you're looking for somewhere to store your water, don't forget your oven, that's right.

Speaker 2 50:37

You might want it to be your oven. Okay, well, I'd like to mention the death of Polly Mellon, who passed away a few days ago at the age of 100. And if the Mellon name sounds familiar to you, it's Carnegie Mellon. The same family. Yes, indeed, polly was the editor and arbiter of fashion for most of her life, so for about 80 years. And she was the editor at Vogue, at Harper's Bazaar and others. And for the late great Polly Mellon, please put a light on. Love is blindness. I don't want to see. Won't you have the night around me? All my love.

Speaker 1 51:51

Blindness. A little day Without money, no call and no warning. Baby, you're dangerous and young, that almost makes sense. Love is drawn in a deep well of secrets and no one seems to have taken my name.

Speaker 4 52:48

Honey love is.

Speaker 1 52:55

Love is blindness. I don't wanna see, won't you around me All my life Blind, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love. Love love, love, love, love, love. Guitar solo.

Speaker 4 54:23

Another five-minute mystery. Hello, Mr Minton, how are you Well? Hello Joe, You're going to take a nice Turkish bath in the steam room, mr Minton.

Speaker 7 54:56

How are you Well? Hello Joe, you're going to take a nice Turkish bath in the steam room, mr Minton. Yeah, Look at that fat Joe. All right, here's the towel you like. A massage after maybe no, no.

Speaker 5 55:06

I haven't time Say, is old man Wallace in there getting steam? I said I'd meet him.

Speaker 7 55:09

Yeah, yeah, he must be plenty hot by now. There's five or six customers in there. Oh, I'll open the door for you, mr Minner. Oh, thanks, joe, call me in ten minutes. Sure, sure. Let me see. Mr Turner said I should call him in fifteen minutes. Mr Wallace said that what's the matter? Steam pipe broke. Maybe Somebody getting burnt.

The Disappearing Knife Murder Mystery

Speaker 6 55:32

What's the matter in there? You got trouble. Who screamed that? Poor man, wallace, has just been stabbed to death. He's been stabbed in the back. Well, george, you find anything? There's still a lot of steam in that room, chief, but I searched it thoroughly. There's no knife anywhere Ceiling floor, walls and yet Wallace was stabbed. There's no doubt about it. And, what's worse, the room was so thick with steam. No one saw the murderer do it. What about the men that were in there? I searched them thoroughly, chief. Nothing but this collection of towels. Joe, did you see anyone go into that steam room with anything but a towel in his hand? You were standing right here at the door all the time.

Speaker 7 56:04

No, sir, chief, just towels and maybe a toothbrush. Toothbrush, yeah, toothbrush, with a little black case After the murder. Mr Minter handed it to me as he came out of the steam room and told me to put it in his locker. But I didn't have time here it is right here.

Speaker 6 56:18

Let's see Toothbrush. All right, good, solid plastic tube with a top to put it in. You couldn't stab a man. Wait a minute. This holder, george, quick Get Mintern in here. I'm going to look in that steam room once more, but now I know what I'm looking for. Mr Menden, would you please get a robe on?

Speaker 5 56:40

The chief would like to see you in here a minute. I'm glad to talk to the chief anytime but. I'm sure I've told him all.

Speaker 6 56:42

I know about this thing. Here's the chief now. Oh hello, mr Menden. Just a couple of questions more. Is this your toothbrush and case? Why, joe? I thought I told you it is yours and you had it with you in that steam room when Wallace was killed. Minton, I'm arresting you for the murder of James Wallace.

Speaker 5 57:00

Do you know how Minton killed James Wallace in the steam room of a Turkish bath? The chief will explain his deductions in just a moment. In the meantime, ©.

Speaker 4 57:07

BF-WATCH TV 2021.

Speaker 5 57:51

And here's the chief to tell you how James Wallace was killed.

Speaker 6 57:53

The method used was most unusual. When we think of stabbing, we think of knives, but no ordinary knife killed James Wallace. It was a disappearing knife. Ah, how could a knife disappear, chief? It's impossible. Not if a knife were made of dry ice. Mintern's toothbrush holder was a plastic mold in the shape of a dagger In it. He carried into that steam room a dagger made of dry ice, withdrew it from the mold at the proper moment and stabbed Wallace. He counted on it dissolving in the steam. Before it was discovered, I found a piece of it giving off its own form of steam in one corner of the steam room. Minton killed Wallace and almost got away with a perfect crime if the murder weapon had disappeared © BF-WATCH TV 2021.

Speaker 2 59:22

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