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Hamming It Up
Ever found yourself at a holiday dinner where the menu unexpectedly challenges tradition? Picture Elen and Lary's festive feast where ham boldly joined the lineup of roast beef, chicken, and kugel. This humorous culinary mashup celebrated the extremely rare convergence of Hanukkah and Christmas (only the 5th time ever), a delightful reminder of the joy in blending traditions and sharing laughter over a plate of latkes. Also, we delve into the history of "kugelgate," and discover how it could have been avoided altogether.
Now, let's pivot from the dinner table to the rugged terrains of Survivor Island, tipping our hats to Rachel's stellar victory and Sue's strategic genius, proving once again that age is just a number when it comes to outwitting and outlasting. This season's nod to older contestants evokes memories of Rudy, the wise 75-year-old, while sparking conversations about the dynamic layers age brings to the game. We also revisit the dark comedy "Vengeance," and it's Allison from Orleans who keeps us on our toes with her knack for unraveling plot twists, reinforcing our enthusiasm for this engaging flick (AND Survivor).
Our entertainment journey doesn't stop there. We're recommending that you immerse yourself in the suspenseful world of espionage with "The Agency," where Michael Fassbender and Richard Gere shine against a London backdrop. If oil and intrigue are more your speed, join us in dissecting "Landman," where Billy Bob Thornton and Jon Hamm deliver gripping performances set amid the complexities of the Texas oil industry. Available on Paramount Plus and Prime Video, these series promise a perfect blend of humor, drama, and insight.
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Is this the eighth night? We line with family Recall with great pride, our escape from great tyranny. Kindle the lights. Remember the Maccabees.
Speaker 2:Hello Shalom, happy Hanukkah. Welcome to the Ann Levine Show. It's New Year's Eve.
Speaker 3:As well as being the. Is it the eighth night Getting close?
Speaker 2:anyway, yeah, let's see. Yes, it is the eighth night, so there we go. So there you go. This is what? The fourth time in history that Hanukkah and Christmas. Fifth time in recorded that Hanukkah and Christmas.
Speaker 3:Fifth time in recorded history is what it was Now, when we say recorded history, we mean Christmas, right. It means since Christmas was invented.
Speaker 2:Right yeah, which I find hilarious yeah because Hanukkah obviously was there before.
Speaker 3:that it's funny. You mean Christmas, hanukkah obviously was there before that it's funny.
Speaker 2:You mean Christmas was invented after Jesus was born.
Speaker 3:Oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:What a funny.
Speaker 3:That's very weird, right Long after Interesting. It wasn't like a couple years later, it was hundreds, a thousand years later, you know that kind of thing.
Speaker 2:I think 1400 is, I think, 15th century.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Is when.
Speaker 3:It really became yeah, they.
Speaker 2:That kind of Quashed all of the. All that stuff Heretics. Well the pagan right. The pagan rituals of Yule Right.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And turned it into Of Yuh Happyule Right and turned it into happy birthday Jesus.
Speaker 3:Exactly. Anyway yeah, fifth time it's happened. Last time, I think was like 114 years ago or thereabouts.
Speaker 2:I wish it would happen every darn year.
Speaker 3:It worked out pretty good.
Speaker 2:Right, it was good it's perfect because, by the way, I want to mention that this is the acapella group 613 oh yeah and it's of course bohemian more latkes, this is such a genius. That's right more latkes, this is such a genius and more sufganiyot, that's right.
Speaker 3:Latkes and donuts, yum yeah.
Speaker 2:I'm sorry, I get caught up in listening to this, it's so funny. Well, the English and the Hebrew and this. So it's great because, even though everyone in attendance at this particular At what. At this particular celebration dinner was Jewish. It was on Christmas night. Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 2:Or Christmas afternoon. So there were Christmas elements also.
Speaker 3:That's right, yeah.
Speaker 2:And our hostess did our hostess with the mostest, did the most. She and her husband both wore ugly Christmas sweaters represent and there were favors on the table for like Christmas favors and there was like gelton little Christmas bags. It was hilarious. Yeah, it's pretty funny, but my favorite part of this whole thing. First of all, there was so much food that I can't even believe how much food there was.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I know it was crazy, but the funniest part of it all was so her husband, larry. Right, ellen and Larry were our host and hostess. Excuse me, right, ellen and larry were our host and hostess. Excuse me, and larry, she called me and says well, I don't know what to tell you, ann, but larry has declared that for hanukkah he wants ham, yeah, so I know well you know it's okay, yeah, I mean continue.
Speaker 3:You know it's Okay, yeah, I mean continue. But it's very funny to me, Even funnier than you think.
Speaker 2:Well, it's funny to me because this is a guy who doesn't eat meat.
Speaker 3:I know yeah.
Speaker 2:He has not eaten meat.
Speaker 3:It's also a Jewish holiday and it's ham.
Speaker 2:Yeah, right, of course.
Speaker 3:But I saw several people online doing the same thing.
Speaker 2:You're kidding me.
Speaker 3:No.
Speaker 2:Under what auspices?
Speaker 3:Including one of our friends in Florida, Nancy.
Speaker 2:She was having they had a big ham, oh yeah. Where is she? Yeah Well, nancy, nancy, she was having, they had a big ham. Oh yeah, where where she? Yeah, well, it's, it's so crazy. Yeah, but nancy gets a little bit of a pass because nancy, although she is jewish, raised by jews. She does run a chain of barbecue restaurants, so she's involved in a lot of pork and ham. Yeah, but still for Hanukkah dinner.
Speaker 3:Yeah, or did she?
Speaker 2:have like a Christmas.
Speaker 3:Well, I'm not sure that she was hosting it, but she posted pictures, I see. That's what I'm saying of the event that she the family thing that she was at- Well, to me this was so hilarious because so the host wanted a ham. Yep and the hostess wanted a-.
Speaker 2:Roast beef.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 2:Which, okay, that makes sense.
Speaker 3:That's very typical.
Speaker 2:But everyone else wanted chicken, so there was a 10-pound chicken, 10 pounds of roast beef and a hunk of ham.
Speaker 3:Yeah. And then there was a kugel, the size of oh my goodness, yeah, I don't know it was like 23 by it was big enough 18. That's the thing. One of the people who was there was there for Kugelgate.
Speaker 2:Right, we have to discuss Kugelgate. Right, we have to discuss Kugelgate, but we had asparagus.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we had-.
Speaker 2:Big salad, a massive salad. Oh the starters. Stuffed mushrooms, oh right, baked brie Shrimp cocktail. It was the most trefidich Hanukkah meal of all time. And so there was the kugel, the salad, the asparagusparagus, the I feel like I'm forgetting the ham, the chicken. Oh latkes, oh right, yes, of course, latkes, applesauce, it was just the most.
Speaker 3:Such an embarrassment and, and then dessert.
Speaker 2:All right, Now dessert was so stupid. So Ellen decides she wants to serve an apple strudel.
Speaker 3:Which is lovely.
Speaker 2:With ice cream and berries. Right and cut up pineapple. That's the dessert.
Speaker 3:Oh, and some chocolate truffles. Oh, those were just. Yeah, those were passed around.
Speaker 2:Oh, here, here's a bunch of candy, just fancy candy, Just pass that around the table. But she had also said to us also, please bring a dessert. We brought the salad, the chicken and the stuffed mushrooms. She said also, if you could bring a dessert, yeah, which we did, which we did.
Speaker 3:A tiramisu cake.
Speaker 2:Yeah, which was sitting behind a water pitcher.
Speaker 3:Yeah it was hiding back there.
Speaker 2:And no one even saw it. And then I suddenly said hey, wait a minute, what about this tiramisu cake? Well, by then no one could even think about eating another molecule of anything. Think about eating another molecule of anything. So we left there, having left an entire tiramisu cake.
Speaker 3:That's right.
Speaker 2:She wanted to give Michael some to bring home. He refused.
Speaker 3:We have so much at home already, so it's crazy Not in the, and it's Larry's favorite thing.
Speaker 2:It's your favorite thing, which is why you bought it, but anyway, it was fun having the holiday mashup. Yeah, it really was, even though it still would have been fun if it had just been Hanukkah.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:But my friend Ellen loves a holiday and she doesn't care what holiday it is, she likes decorating.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2:So she had bows of holly all along yeah deck the halls yeah of holly. All along the halls, yeah, yeah, all along the countertops and jingle bells hanging and sparkling, you know, branches coming at it, so it was like a winter wonderland in there, anyway, and Bob's Kugel, all right.
Speaker 3:So some of you may remember, yeah, some of you may remember this from a few years back, yeah, all right.
Speaker 2:So a few years back there was a Hanukkah dinner. Was it a Hanukkah dinner or a Rosh Hashanah?
Speaker 3:I can't.
Speaker 2:I think it was Rosh Hashanah a dinner or a rosh hashanah, I can't. Uh, I think it was rosh hashanah. And of course I woke up that morning with a sore throat, right. And so I called ellen and I said listen, this was at ellen's house also, but a different cast of characters. At any rate, I, ellen, I've got a little bit of a sore throat. And she said don't even think of coming here.
Speaker 3:Right, this is just post-pandemic.
Speaker 2:And it's what I would say to her now post-pandemic or any time. Yeah, exactly her now post pandemic or any time. Um, yeah, exactly, if I get sick, it doesn't matter when it is not good. So she said no, you're not coming. So I said okay, yeah, but maybe you could send me home a little something, right, in particular kugel.
Speaker 3:Right yeah, send some kugel home.
Speaker 2:Well, michael came home with what did you even have?
Speaker 3:Brisket.
Speaker 2:Some brisket which I don't eat.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Great Red meat don't eat, Maybe some Timmis.
Speaker 3:Maybe, yeah, yeah, it's possible. And like that was it. No kugel yeah.
Speaker 2:And I actually I had the baits. I'm going to call her the next day and say ellen, you sent no kugel, that's right, what happened? What happened did I not say to you? Oh well, before that we did a show like we're doing now, and mel um, who no longer lives around here yeah he's moved to maryland now, but mel used to always be at all of our jewish holiday gatherings right and he would always, as he was leaving, just stand and wait for ell Ellen to hand him leftover kugel and leftover, whatever, and she would even make extra chopped liver for him because he loved her chopped liver and there would always be she'd have the metal portion.
Speaker 2:And so I got on the air and I said, um, I was sent home sick. I was alone on Rosh Hashanah. It was very lonely, it was very sad and I got no kugel Because I know where it went.
Speaker 3:And all of this is 100% true.
Speaker 2:It was true, but I was of course being totally tongue in cheek when I said and I know where that cuggle went, mel, uh-huh, mel has the cuggle, he always takes the cuggle. Well, two days later, and I didn't think another thing about it, we went on, we did the rest of the show Blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 3:It was a. We were goofing around and moved on. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Well, two days later, ellen calls me and says me and says did you speak on the radio about mel taking the cuggle? Yeah, I said. Oh my god, yes I did. And who on god's earth could have heard that show and somehow reported back to you? Because Mel is not our demographic at all? No, very elderly man who this is not his cup of tea.
Speaker 3:Not technologically oriented, no yeah.
Speaker 2:He wouldn't have any idea how to listen to this show. But someone and I found out who, and I'm still not mentioning their name, someone that knows him heard the show and called him and said these two idiots were on the air. I'm imagining it's this. Well, I know who it is About, you and how you stole the kugel. Well, anyways, he calls Ellen and says Oi, ellen, I can't believe it. Yeah, someone on the radio. Those two, anna Michael on the radio, talking about how I stole the kugel. Well, she's dying laughing that this is somehow even a thing.
Speaker 3:Right, yeah.
Speaker 2:And so she calls me hysterical, and so we're laughing, we're talking. I said I know who did, did this, and how could they want to? Poor mel, you know, put him through a thing anyway. Um, if you're still listening to the show, hello right. Well, how?
Speaker 3:are you anyway? So? So the point is, there was, I was at that dinner. Yes, you were one of the other participants from the other night was also there and she remembered it and and it, that's right, right. And so she's like, if we're bringing a kugel, we're going to bring a lot, because we're not going to go through this.
Speaker 2:We don't want to have Kugelgate again. And it's hilarious, so they brought the most massive Kugel I've ever seen.
Speaker 3:Like lasagna size.
Speaker 2:Oh no, it was bigger than most lasagnas. Okay, I thought it was huge. Yeah, it was big Anyway. And as I'm about to leave, I said all right, so now I want the kugel. And of course, there was so much food. I mean, she gave us I don't know how much and we're never going to finish it, but anyway, don't know how much, and we're never gonna finish it, but anyway, um, what was I gonna say about kugel gate?
Speaker 3:well, we were. That was it. We were explaining why you know the whole situation and why we even I brought it up earlier oh, no, no no.
Speaker 2:Oh, that kugel gate mystery was solved when I finally spoke to Ellen after she called and said were you on the radio? Talking about this and I said so Ellen, where did the Kugel go? Mel didn't take it. You didn't give it to Michael. Oh yeah, good point. No one't give it to Michael.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah good point.
Speaker 2:No one else we know had any, she said I wrapped it up and hid it in the back of the refrigerator for Larry Good for her. So the hostess? She held back.
Speaker 3:She shorted you, she shorted you she shorted me on Kugel I mean, and that's the whole, that's the whole gate part right there exactly the cover-up ellen was deep throat, so uh yeah anyway, plenty of kugel was had and is still being enjoyed.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah enjoyed by all. That's right, and we had a delightful christmas dinner, hanukkah and I've got to say this year maybe for the first year and for reasons that are not clear to me my very favorite part of Hanukkah has been watching the candles. Oh, okay. And I can't say that I always sit and sort of stay with the candles the whole time.
Speaker 2:But I've been doing that and I've been enjoying it and I keep thinking I want like a 365 menorah. I see, okay, yeah it would get a little. I guess you'd have to do, maybe you could do a week. I guess you'd have to just do a menorah a week, okay, yeah you could do that, but. But I would want it to go on.
Speaker 2:You know, I just love this yeah, candlelight is pretty and I'm I'm loving it, and the fact that a hanukkah candle only burns for about an hour. So the commitment to you, know you, you don't want to blow them out unless you have to whatever go out, go to bed, whatever you have to do you don't leave them burning. But you don't just sort of random dinner's over, you blow them out. That's not how it works. They burn down, that's how it works. They burn down, that's how it works. Um, and so I've really been enjoying watching them burn down and I'm feeling like, uh, I want more hanukkiot throughout the year.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 2:So we need to say a big Hanukkah. Thank you to Allison in. Orleans who sent us a beautiful card and a beautiful message and she had a couple of questions. That is correct. That's right. She had a couple of questions.
Speaker 3:That is correct. That's right.
Speaker 2:She had a question and comment.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 2:The first was about Survivor.
Speaker 3:That's right. She was wondering where we were sitting as far as Survivor goes, because we were getting to the end of this season.
Speaker 2:And she hadn't heard us mention it, right, it had been a while. Oh yes, allison, to answer your question, we are in it 100%. We loved it. We watched the whole thing.
Speaker 3:And I don't know about you, but I think we totally agree with the end result.
Speaker 2:Yes, that Rachel won. Yeah, and that that was was that was well deserved given what else went down, very well deserved. Very glad sam didn't win. Sue is actually someone that I enjoyed uh sue for those of you who don't is a contestant who turned 59 years old during the taping of the show and she is by far, I believe, the oldest contestant ever to be on Survivor.
Speaker 3:I don't think so. But no, no, I think Rudy in one of the first few seasons was like in his 60s.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I believe so.
Speaker 2:All right, well, tell us about Rudy.
Speaker 3:I'm looking him up right now, all right.
Speaker 2:Well, that's what I was going to do. Anyhow, she was, yes, rudy's oldest person ever, 75. He was on the show twice, yeah, once when he was 72 and once when he was 75, right, um, and he just passed away, actually At age 91. So he must have been on quite some time ago.
Speaker 3:Yeah, he was very early on Season one with Richard the naked guy.
Speaker 2:Oh, yes, yeah, Sue may have been the oldest woman in that. It's quite possible, yeah, uh, at any rate, she was a trip because many things. Quite an extraordinary woman who accomplished a lot of things in her life, um, including, um I believe she holds a record for the largest number of plastic surgeries endured by one person in the shortest amount of time. But, and passing for 45. Right, there was a 60, and in season one there was Sonia, who was 63. Sonia, isn't she the queen, the one that won like that must be a different one.
Speaker 3:Yeah, anyway, like that must be a different one. Yeah, she didn't. Anyway, julian season 17 was 61 and two others were 59 at season 9 and season 39 well, I think that it would.
Speaker 2:It's good for the survivor franchise, particularly if you have a 61 uh 59 yearold woman who was one of the final three.
Speaker 3:Yeah right.
Speaker 2:Have more people, have a wider age group, you know. She did not also Past a wide net.
Speaker 3:She had an idol through most of the time she was there and never told anybody. You know that was brilliant.
Speaker 2:The older people are also a little wiser.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:You know they're not so they're not quite so giddy.
Speaker 3:Right, and they're not trying to impress people. You know, in the same way, not in the same way. Not in the same way, yeah.
Speaker 2:And so they don't find an idol and start running around the beach telling everyone. So she was able to keep her own counsel. She was loyal to the people that she made alliances with. Yeah, that she made alliances with.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And she was able to hold on to her idol right up until the last time she could play it Right. It was a job well done.
Speaker 3:Yeah, no, she did very well, but Rachel Rachel.
Speaker 2:Well, Rachel won four or five immunity challenges. And she was on the bottom for weeks and then pulled a bunch of blindsides. Yeah, and she was great. She was a really great player. Anyway, allison as you can hear by now, to the great joy of all our other listeners, yes, we're still in Survivor, and the other thing you mentioned is the film Vengeance, which Michael and. I have recommended a few times.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I spoke about it a couple weeks ago, and Michael watched it again recently?
Speaker 2:Yeah, and we were at least. I was surprised to find out that you knew immediately who'd done it. Who did it? Oh, and I don't know, do we? Is it a spoiler? How long has this movie been out? Five years, something like that. That whatever, yeah, um, she figured out who did it right right away, which I certainly did not uh, not right away, so I still recommend that film that's a.
Speaker 3:It's a great movie. Yes, I absolutely loved it. I loved watching it the second time, even though there's kind of a twist at the end, even knowing that I still loved it in the beginning. It's a really black comedy in the beginning when our protagonist and one of his pals are hanging out talking about stuff, just talking about life and women and whatever one of the funniest scenes in a movie. It's very subtle, but I think it's hilarious. The whole 100% thing. I love it and it cracks me up and I still do that all the time say 100% and Lauren has started doing that.
Speaker 3:Oh, really Saying 100%, yeah, yeah, it's very funny. 100%, yep.
Speaker 2:Well, lauren's a little behind times on that, but she should see the film. Yeah, she should. Now we have a lot of things to tell you about.
Speaker 3:Oh boy, Do we?
Speaker 2:I have been absolutely absorbing media of all stripes the agency, okay, the agency. You must see, I'm trying to think now I'm not remembering. Okay, this is on Paramount Plus or Showtime, depending on what you have Right, yeah, and I'm not sure where else you can see or Showtime, depending on what you have. Right, yeah, and I'm not sure where else you can see, I guess Hulu. Yeah, I don't know. You got to look these things up because it's gotten.
Speaker 3:They're getting around, yeah.
Speaker 2:It's getting very confusing because many different services have them at once. But the agency really is fantastic. The agency in question is the CIA, but this takes place, at least at this point, in London for the most part, and it stars Michael Fassbender, richard Gere, katherine Waterston, india Fowler, jeffrey Wright and Jodie Turner Smith. Jeffrey Wright and Jodi.
Speaker 3:Turner-Smith, it's really good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's really very good. It's frustrating as all get out because they released, I think, four episodes initially, and now you have to wait. They're making you wait, but I don't care. Go for it, get into it. Watch the first one, two, three, four, however many, and just take it for a spin. Yeah, I think it is really, really quite excellent. The other one that has me. It has sucked me in hard, which I was not expecting it to do at all.
Speaker 3:Okay, what is it? What?
Speaker 2:were you going to say?
Speaker 3:What is it?
Speaker 2:It's called Landman.
Speaker 3:Ah, yes, and what were you going to say? What is it? It's called Landman. Ah yes, I hear many things about this show from you. I've seen several clips on YouTube I haven't watched any of it, but I've seen a bunch of clips on it and it looks pretty cool.
Speaker 2:I want to warn you, it's Billy Bob right, it's Billy Bob Thornton.
Speaker 3:It's Billy Bob Thornton.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and he's fantastic.
Speaker 3:Yeah, he is.
Speaker 2:The character he plays is really something Fantastic. And this is a story about a land man in Texas. A story about a landman in Texas and he's an overseer of oil fields and he's the actual overseer. So he's not, you know, big oil in an office.
Speaker 2:That's John Hamm, who's in this by the way, right, yeah and so is demi more um john, seeing john ham playing a texan oil uh-huh oil, big oil guy, yeah, is fascinating, because you know, I really only expect john ham to kind of be one thing always the, the madman guy yeah, or a wasp of some kind.
Speaker 2:But to hear him, with the accent and the kind of the texas, the posture, he did go to the university of texas at austin oh, you're kidding, no and he's from st louis, missouri well, I didn't know about his texas connection, but he's really great and I think we're far enough away now from mad men. Yeah, he that you. It's not that jarring, you know, and I don't want to, you know.
Speaker 3:I think of Jon Hamm as much on Saturday Night Live as. I do Mad Men now because he does the cameo roles all the time. It's awesome.
Speaker 2:He's so funny yeah, he is very funny. Yeah, but this is the first time I've seen him playing a serious role. That's very far from what I think of as as a yeah, I got you. And it's really great. And Landman I got to say it's one of the favorite things I've ever seen. And if I had to say watch Landman or the Agency, I'm going Landman.
Speaker 2:Okay land man or the agency. I'm going land man, okay, never, as I say, dreamed. But one of the things about it is I'm learning a tremendous amount about oil, about big oil, about how it really works right the all the back door dealing and well and the front door dealing and the fact that you know you're dealing with, with big drug money, and I don't mean big pharma, I mean cartels.
Speaker 2:So you're dealing with drugs coming over the border from Mexico and the land rights versus the mineral rights on a piece of land, and it's just. There's a tremendous amount to be learned. So it's good, it's an education, it's entertaining beyond belief.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 2:And there's also stuff.
Speaker 3:Now, where do you see that one?
Speaker 2:Well, aren't you cute to ask about that. Let's see Land man. I'm looking her up here. I know I should have done it already. Paramount Plus.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 2:Now Paramount Plus has seems to have taken over everything and I don't know how, why or when that happened, but it's oh. You can also watch it on Prime. Prime Video has it. Prime Video has it. It's Billy Bob Thornton, michelle Randolph, allie Lorder, kayla Wallace, demi Moore, jacob Laughlin oh he's fantastic Jon Hamm, and on it goes, and it's written by Taylor Sheridan. Taylor Sheridan is Taylor Sheridan is responsible for Yellowstone. He wrote that. He wrote 1823, 1923. He wrote all of the Yellowstone franchise. He wrote Tulsa King and Mayor of Kingstown and Lioness of Kingstown and Lioness. Now, for those of you not in the know, those are like the top five shows right now written by this one guy. Lioness is another one. It fantastic, it's so, so good. I highly recommend it. And I haven't gotten to tulsa king yet well, I'm gonna recommend that one.
Speaker 2:So and you've seen all the clips oh yeah, many, many, many times.
Speaker 3:actually, I will watch some of them several times because they're awesome and Stallone is incredible. He really is.
Speaker 2:Well, let me warn you about YouTube and our friends out there who have spouses or partners or friends who watch YouTube.
Speaker 2:They're going to just watch all the clips and more or less have felt like they've seen it all and never sit and watch an episode with you. I'm just saying, when I mentioned one of these things to Michael, like I mentioned Tulsa King the other night, he said oh yeah, stallone, he's fantastic. I said have you watched this? No YouTube clips. So yeah, I guess that's another way you can go if you don't want to pay for a streaming service YouTube clips, alright, alright.
Speaker 2:Here's a film that I recommend. It's called Small Things Like these, which stars Cillian Murphy and Emma Watson. The producers are Matt Damon, ben Affleck and Cillian Murphy, which I didn't find out until after I watched it. But it's an Irish film and takes place in Ireland and I think it was done by an Irish film company and is a foreign film, is considered a foreign film, is considered a foreign film.
Speaker 2:It's a sweet, sad, soft, small. It's a very small film. Small, it's a very small film, and by that I mean there are no great vistas, open characters, just a good person, and he has a wife and, I think, four daughters and they're very poor. He, he is in the business of digging and delivering coal and it's just Ireland, the Magdalene laundries, which we know is was, but there still are apparently more of these places open than we would be led to believe Kind of systems when young women who are quote in trouble In various ways One of them is by being pregnant Out of wedlock who get locked up in these Nunneries. Anyway, it's beautiful. It's a beautiful little film. What have you been watching?
Speaker 3:Michael. Oh, you know all kinds of stuff Like what, but nothing really terribly interesting. I do have something related to online stuff, though.
Speaker 3:Since we're talking about streaming services. By all means. That's right. If you live in the state of Florida, oh man, if you live in the state of Florida, a new law goes into effect in a few days and because of it, pornhub is pulling out of Florida. The world's largest pornography site is leaving the state of Florida. They're cutting all the feeds to the state of Florida because Florida is now going to require that a third party company verify the age and residences and stuff of people who want to go on Pornhub. And Pornhub said we're not going to put people through that we're pulling out of Florida.
Speaker 2:And that happens on the first Well, now my question is what about OnlyFans, for instance?
Speaker 3:I imagine that it's going to apply to that as well.
Speaker 2:So basically it's either— no.
Speaker 3:OnlyFans isn't pulling out of Florida.
Speaker 2:But maybe they're—.
Speaker 3:But people who are going on OnlyFans are going to have to register with the state.
Speaker 2:Well, I do not have a whole lot of good things to say about the state of Florida, um and so where normally I would be saying that sounds good to me, that doesn't sound like a bad law to me yeah, you're going to have to upload your government ID to every site you want to go to Exactly.
Speaker 3:And that's the problem.
Speaker 2:Right. So I was going to say I'm sure there's part duh to this whole thing. That is not cool. So yeah so, no, no good. So yeah so, no, no good, no, florida A lot of people are bailing Mm-hmm. From what I understand, buying real estate in that state is a lot easier than it was a few years ago.
Speaker 3:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:So go on quick, yeah, but be ready to. You know, have to register with the state if you want to watch porn.
Speaker 3:That's right, so speaking of watching porn At every site you want to go to yeah, oh, really.
Speaker 2:Yes, at all porn sites.
Speaker 3:Yes.
Speaker 2:All porn sites? Yes, well, I mean what they're saying. I believe what the state of Florida is saying is that you basically have to register in certain ways to use the internet. Okay, you may disagree, but that's what it's sounding like to me. I'm not saying that everyone uses the internet to watch porn. Um, I'm saying that how far can it be to go? You know what I I mean?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I know what you're saying.
Speaker 2:I think that Florida has proven that when it comes to an individual's rights, they don't particularly have a whole lot of them.
Speaker 3:Well, yeah, you have the right to shoot and kill somebody if you're really afraid.
Speaker 2:Precisely, or if you're just a schlemiel yeah and someone walks on your lawn, so yeah, in a hoodie like a black kid in a hoodie. Yeah, you can shoot him or anyone in a hoodie, because you can't tell. You can't tell what race they are. Sometimes, when I wear a hoodie, I am mistaken for a young African-American male. Are you Actually not, Not in the hoodies.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I wouldn't have thought so yeah.
Speaker 2:You got a lot of sparkles on your thing, so you know, maybe not. Can I just say one thing? Normally I would just let that fly, but what do I own that has sparkles on it truly.
Speaker 3:All kinds of things.
Speaker 2:Are you kidding me?
Speaker 3:Your hands.
Speaker 2:Yes, I wear jewelry. Yeah, but I mean, I don't own any clothing that has any sequins or sparkles or glitter on it.
Speaker 3:Well, maybe not anymore, although, although there's probably still some upstairs. Probably have some fancy shiny stuff upstairs, yeah fancy shiny.
Speaker 2:Anyway, I don't I. I just feel that people are listening to this and they're thinking, oh, I knew it. Here's this broad sitting there in a velour track suit that's been bedazzled no, it wouldn't be like that.
Speaker 3:It would be like a gold track suit oh great yeah yeah.
Speaker 2:No, that is an a lie. I swear I have never owned.
Speaker 3:No, I'm not saying you have one.
Speaker 2:I've never owned a tracksuit.
Speaker 3:Over a red velour one, it would be gold. I've never owned a tracksuit of any kind, I wouldn't have thought so yeah.
Speaker 2:I've never owned a velour outfit. Bedazzle, I mean 90ss, maybe here and there outerwear.
Speaker 3:Oh, my father was larry levy that's right how dare you how you design coats too I know nothing was bedazzled.
Speaker 2:It was 100% mohair, yeah, but that's another story. All right, I watched a film that has gotten tremendous acclaim. It's called Anora and so far I have talked to three people besides myself who have seen it, and they're all women, and the other three loved it and thought it was fantastic. And it's being hailed as I don't know something, I'm not going to say masterpiece. I don't understand what was groundbreaking new. I don't get it. I do not get it. It is. There's a lot of sex, a lot of nudity, and it's about a sex worker in Brighton Beach, brooklyn, and the Russian mafia.
Speaker 2:It is a new film, so I won't say more than that. Those are things you find out in the first two minutes, and it looks like it was shot on my iPhone, and that might be part of why. Maybe it was shot on an iPhone. I have no idea. Maybe it was shot on an iPhone. I have no idea. I don't know enough at all about the technology of video, of film, of anything. It sure wasn't film. I can tell you that Michael's now going to look it up and tell me.
Speaker 2:I am yes, no, you know how you say a thing. It was like hell. Look it up and it'll say it was on 36 millimeter or whatever the hell. Yeah, um, but I don't know. But I do know that, uh, it's a. It's an unusual looking film from how it was filmed. The actors are excellent. I thought the writing was subpar and that I knew within 10, 15, I don't even know how long it was. It's not that long a film. I knew within 15 minutes precisely what was going to happen.
Speaker 3:I knew every damn thing that was going to happen. A movie like that I would. Yeah, I can't watch that.
Speaker 2:Now I might not be. I know a tiny bit from Brighton Beach, I mean, I know where it took place, I've been there. I know what it's like down there.
Speaker 3:But Eugene O'neill had some memoirs, except can I just? I hate to correct you wasn't eugene o'neill?
Speaker 2:if it was, it would be hilarious. You stopped me cold. Who was neil simon? Oh my.
Speaker 3:Simon, oh, neil Simon, oh, my God, yes, okay.
Speaker 2:It's a slight difference. Yes, of course. Yeah, no, it wasn't.
Speaker 3:That's funny, you know, I might have seen it playing at the Eugene O'Neill Theater or something like that.
Speaker 2:Except that would be, oh, that you mean Brighton Beach Memoirs is playing at the Eugene O'Neill Theater.
Speaker 3:It's quite possible, yeah.
Speaker 2:Well, that would have been, I don't know, 30, some odd years ago, but yeah, so it was totally predictable, bummer, totally predictable, and Bummer. I am not someone who is oh my God, oh yeah, I didn't realize where we were. Yeah, we're there, this is calling you. This is calling you.
Speaker 1:From.
Speaker 3:Baghdad Cafe, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Uh, I am calling you, can't you hear me?
Speaker 2:This song. I can't think of her name, it's Venetta Steele, venetta Steele and it's from a long ago film called Baghdad Cafe, which I highly recommend. It was a very good independent film and this song kind of tears me up, and it tears me up, at any rate I'm. I chose this in light of the 179 souls who were lost in a plane crash in South Korea and for each and every one of them, please put a light on you.
Speaker 1:I am calling you. I know you hear me, I am calling you. A desert road from Vegas to nowhere, someplace better than where you've been, a coffee machine that needs some fixing and a little cafe Just around the bend. A hot, dry wind Blows right through me, the baby's crying and I can't sleep, and I can feel a change is coming Coming closer. So, swearing me, I am calling you. Can't you hear me? I am calling you. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
