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This week's show jumps right into the chilling narrative of "Heretic," Where two Mormon missionaries cross paths with a mysterious stranger played by Hugh Grant (who delivers a performance both captivating and creepy as Mr. Reed). With unforeseen twists and a suspense-filled atmosphere, this film keeps you guessing, even if you think you've seen the end coming. Our review offers a blend of admiration and critique, celebrating Grant's enigmatic portrayal amidst an eerily compelling storyline.
From the cinema's eerie thrills, we pivot to the equally surreal experience of a former U.S. President's funeral service, where reality seemed stranger than fiction. Imagine curious women with silver wands and a surprising musical interlude by Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood—elements that turned a somber occasion into a tableau of pop culture intrigue. Reflecting on the unchanged appearance of Amy Carter, we couldn't help but draw humorous parallels to a character from "Steel Magnolias," all the while navigating the maze of family connections in the public eye.
Our exploration of modern media trends takes a critical turn as we dissect the peculiarities of a Daniel Craig film (Queer) that misses the mark in its cartoonish excess. We also dive into Elon Musk's gaming scandal, unraveling a tale of deceit where the world's richest man brags about his gaming abilities yet resorts to hiring a "booster" to help him with "Path of Exiles," We then touch on the shifting value of awards and the perils of social media shopping, we wrap up with a heartfelt tribute to Oron Shaul and the Israeli women hostages released in Gaza, reminding us of the enduring power of music and memory in connecting us to those we've lost. And also putty to put on your face.
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Hello, hello.
Speaker 1:Welcome to the Ann Levine Show, starring Michael over there.
Speaker 3:Hello.
Speaker 1:It's cold outside, kick it in. I love this song. When's this from?
Speaker 3:Uh 87?.
Speaker 1:Really, and what's the name?
Speaker 3:of oh, no, 97. What's the name?
Speaker 1:of the band.
Speaker 3:Big House.
Speaker 1:Big House. It's cold outside.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:For many reasons. This is the song. It's also a great song. Oh, how is everyone? Yeah, just gliding along enjoying everything that's happening. It just gets stranger and stranger, don't it?
Speaker 3:Well, yeah, I think you're right.
Speaker 1:I have nothing to say about anything that's been happening.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 1:As they would say it in Vietnam, in the world, and I need y'all to read a few books so you know what that means.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you've mentioned a few.
Speaker 1:I have, I have. Did I mention them all? Maybe not, but wow, there's a lot to find out. There's a lot to find out, there's a lot to know. At least there was for me. Did we talk about heretic? No, we saw it yes, we did but we didn't talk about it hmm well, michael and I saw a film called Heretic starring Hugh Grant.
Speaker 3:That's right. And two girls. I don't know who they are.
Speaker 1:Let's see Sophie Thatcher.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, the one who sang the song at the end.
Speaker 1:Chloe East, topher Grace. Oh, that the one who sang the song at the end, chloe.
Speaker 3:East Topher Grace. Oh, that's right, he was yep.
Speaker 1:Elle McKinnon and Stephanie Levine. Okay, no idea what those two people did, but Well, there's also Carolyn Adair, River K kodak and l young yeah two l's, yeah, so anyway, um, what'd you think?
Speaker 3:about the movie. Yeah, what do you? What would you like to know? Would you like my general impression? You want me to start deep diving right now. I don't know where you want to go.
Speaker 1:Yeah, wherever you like. What did you think of the film that we watched?
Speaker 3:I thought Hugh was awesome.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 3:That's mostly what I thought about. He was very creepy. This is, I don't know, is this classified as a horror movie, or, I don't know, it's a psychological thriller, if nothing else.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I guess that's what you'd call it.
Speaker 3:Right, yeah.
Speaker 1:But it's also got some what philosophy or some existential questions I would say that you're dealing with.
Speaker 3:Right, anyway, he was amazing. Actually, everybody was pretty great, but it wasn't what I expected going in. So, I was happy about that, because I don't like a movie to. I don't like to know what's going to happen when I get there, you know, or when I'm watching it. Right, and I had no idea what was going to happen in this one. So that whole thing was great.
Speaker 1:True.
Speaker 3:And you know I like the way it ended. I saw the ending way early.
Speaker 1:Oh, I didn't.
Speaker 3:I even mentioned it to you when it happened.
Speaker 1:But, um, I said, oh, foreshadowing oh I thought you were a particular thing and that?
Speaker 3:no, I knew that was gonna. That's, we were gonna use that near, near the end. So it's just. You know we're talking very mysteriously Because we don't want to tell you everything about the movie.
Speaker 1:Well, here's what we can tell you. It's the story of a guy named Mr Reed, and that's Hugh Grant. Now, we don't know anything about him, do we?
Speaker 3:No.
Speaker 1:Do we know where this?
Speaker 3:takes place. You mean the town.
Speaker 1:Yeah, or the country for that matter.
Speaker 3:It's in the United States, I'm pretty sure In the US.
Speaker 1:Okay, and it's two Mormon missionary young women show up at this house.
Speaker 3:Right, because he has at one point in time said I'd like to know something more about LDS Church of Latter-day Saints.
Speaker 1:And so he invites them in to chat. They said, well, we need a woman to be here. And he said, oh, my wife's in the kitchen making a pie. Right, oh, my wife's in the kitchen making a pie, and so they head into the house and the rest of the film takes place in this house, and it is creepy. I guess it could be considered horror.
Speaker 3:I mean, that's what it's actually called. They're calling it that. Oh a horror. Yeah, yeah. Heretic is a 2024 american horror film.
Speaker 1:Okay, yeah well, um, I would say, some parts of it are more horrifying than others I mean arson, very creepy stuff. Yeah, yeah, that's for sure. But the creepiest parts of it, in my opinion, are the psychological creepy parts of it, in other words, the fear that is instilled in the two young women, the fact that they're so often not sure kind of where they are. What's going on, right, you know who this man is, what he's doing, what his plans are. He, he's very charming.
Speaker 1:It's Hugh Grant, it it is but looking like his grandfather yeah, yeah, that is true, he's which is partly that he's grandpa age and partly that they've made him to look.
Speaker 2:Yeah, a little grayer. Oh, he's, very fuzzy.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:He's got like fluffy eyebrows and his hair is kind of.
Speaker 3:Yeah, he's not completely put together, he's a little disheveled, he's extremely disheveled?
Speaker 1:Yeah, disheveled, he's extremely disheveled. Anyhow, as far as I don't know, is there anything else bad that you think?
Speaker 3:Well, other than the fact that I did know how it was going to end, I just saw that coming, which was kind of a disappointment.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I didn't see that coming at all.
Speaker 3:I didn't, however, however, see what was going to happen in between at all, you know because, the twist of the story is really weird yeah very, very weird so yeah, I did not even come close to thinking that was going to happen.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so it was definitely. And what a bizarre interesting that they had Topher Grace in the role that he was in. He was an elder in the clergy.
Speaker 3:Right going out to check up on the girls and making sure they're okay.
Speaker 1:Right, and it was just.
Speaker 3:Because the weather got really bad.
Speaker 1:It did snow and wind, yeah, and it did all those creepy things that it's supposed to do Anyhow. Yeah, to do anyhow. Um, yeah, it was, I don't know. As far as recommending this, I'm not sure. What do you think, michael?
Speaker 3:I don't, I don't know, I don't. I don't want to recommend it to people because I'm afraid that it's not going to be as scary as some people think, especially when they call it a horror film.
Speaker 1:I mean, we're not talking. Texas Chainsaw Massacre here no, no. Or anything of that. No, I mean, there's some disgusting stuff, but Not a lot, it's more that there, I mean, I think, as I said before, I think it's more that there's a little disgusting stuff, but it's not like gory.
Speaker 3:No, I don't know. I liked it, I, I would. I'm not going to see it again.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:You know if it's coming on the TV. You know on a channel I'm not going to stop when I, you know, pass by it.
Speaker 1:No, I'm going to go a little faster yeah.
Speaker 3:Actually, but you know it was an interesting hour and a half.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm going to say that I don't particularly recommend it. I'm not going to sit here and say, oh, you've got to see this.
Speaker 3:I'm going to give it a six and a half out of ten.
Speaker 1:Six and a half out of 10. 6.5 out of 10. Yeah, I'm going to have to go 5.75. Okay, maybe I don't know.
Speaker 3:I mean it's yeah, it's just it's more than average. It's more than an average film, but it's not that much.
Speaker 1:We watched the whole thing. Yeah, which Right it was actually a watched the whole thing, which certainly for me says a lot. Okay, so that was that film that we didn't. We did play the darn song.
Speaker 3:Yeah, oh, last week Didn't we week didn't we show? I think we did knocking on heaven's door.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah the sophie tucker and she was in thatcher thatcher sophie tucker yeah oh my god, I wish anyone listening to us would who Sophie Tucker was.
Speaker 3:There's going to be somebody out there. There'll be someone.
Speaker 1:I'm guessing two. I can think of two people who might know.
Speaker 3:Okay, well, that's good then.
Speaker 1:Well, no, there's a third who definitely knows. All right, but oh gosh, we should have some Sophie Tucker to play at some point. Yeah, Sophie.
Speaker 3:We've done that before.
Speaker 1:We have played Sophie Tucker, I believe, so I know we've played Belle Bart.
Speaker 3:Right, I thought we played Sophie ages—but we haven't played Belle in ages either, so you know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, true. Yeah ages either. So you know, yeah, true, yeah. Now one thing I didn't get to last week, uh, because we ran out of time real fast yeah, was the james earl carter of Blessed Memory funeral.
Speaker 3:We did talk some about it.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 3:About the closed captioning on the song and stuff.
Speaker 1:Yep which, if you need a reminder, was Grady one, two, 3, 4 To Diddy.
Speaker 3:That's right. And those, by the way, are lyrics to the song Amazing Grace. That's right In the.
Speaker 2:In the closed caption. It was amazing.
Speaker 1:Amazing. That was so funny. I kind of feel like Now this is really ghoulish. I agree this isn't PC, okay, but that's never been our calling card particularly. We're irreverent. Given everything that I said about the coronation of King Charles, I have a note that I made while I was watching the funeral, which was beautiful.
Speaker 3:Jimmy Carter's funeral. Yes, okay, yeah.
Speaker 1:That something went on that totally reminded me of the coronation, and it was this Washington DC where all of the big funerals and other church events take place. It's sort of the marquee church in DC, so Episcopal right Now. They had and I don't recall seeing this before they had women escorting speakers to and from the dais. So James Carter's grandson had a eulogy and so this woman went to escort him up, show him to the dais, make sure he was comfortably installed and then walk away until he was done and take him back. Now these women were all fat and they were terribly fitted, terribly unflattering and bizarrely I I don't even know how to describe it yeah, I'd have to see a picture.
Speaker 1:I was going to say look up a picture and see if you can. Well, the other thing they had is these wands. They had these long silver-colored wands and they reminded me of that woman at King Charles Coronation who was walking around holding that sword out in front of her.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:In that blue dress, Uh-huh yeah, remember her.
Speaker 3:I do remember that, yeah.
Speaker 1:They looked exactly like her.
Speaker 3:That's very funny.
Speaker 1:Just the same kind of. Now these women are members of the clergy of some sort. You know they weren't like in charge, it didn't seem, but they were probably ministers or whatever they were.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:Or wand, ladies, I don't know.
Speaker 3:Yeah. But, they— I don't know what a wand lady does at church. I mean, they're really—.
Speaker 1:Well, I'm describing it.
Speaker 3:Oh, okay.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they take speakers, they escort speakers to and from speakers. They escort speakers to and from and when, when oh shoot.
Speaker 3:Maybe it's like a cattle prod and if you go down the wrong aisle they zap you with it.
Speaker 1:Wouldn't that be fabulous? Yeah, it could be.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's probably what it is.
Speaker 1:But they had them like against their shoulders oh, that's probably what it is but they had them like against their shoulders. Oh, do you know what I mean.
Speaker 3:So they have got kind of a kick.
Speaker 1:A kick.
Speaker 3:You know, like a shotgun, when you pull the trigger, boom back, you know. Well, I mean, you got to have it in your shoulder in order to absorb that Straight.
Speaker 1:I see what you're saying yeah, yeah, no.
Speaker 3:No, not that Okay.
Speaker 1:It would have to be their own kick.
Speaker 3:All right. So the wands themselves don't have much of a kick, and these wands are the thickness of, you know, the Alec Baldwin microphone. Okay, yeah.
Speaker 1:They're really thin. In fact, they look like the antenna that would have been on your rabbit ear, okay, little pointers.
Speaker 3:They're really thin Silver. They're prods. They're cattle prods, they're something.
Speaker 1:And I don't know what the heck they are.
Speaker 3:Like tasers it just made me.
Speaker 1:It put me in mind of the things that got me at the coronation, which was the smoke and mirrors, the voodoo, the magic it's like. Who are these women? What are they wearing?
Speaker 3:Yeah, what is that?
Speaker 1:They were all wearing the same thing. And what are these wands?
Speaker 3:I do not know.
Speaker 1:So is it like? Are they the shepherds of saints? I don't know.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I couldn't tell you. I don't know what that's supposed to be. I don't know what these wands are meant to be. I mean, I've been to a lot of churches down south and they do a lot of stuff, a lot of different stuff.
Speaker 1:But I've never seen anybody with a wand. Well, I don't know what else to call it.
Speaker 3:Yeah it was no like a pointer, I know I know you're talking about yeah, long silver stick yeah so cattle prod.
Speaker 1:I think this is much smaller than a cattle prod, not shorter.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 1:Narrower.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so it's really painful then, because it's very small yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, it's for little, tiny people who are misbehaving. Yeah, the other thing that happened and I don't. I'm just a grumpy old woman, which is why I'm even mentioning this, but Gareth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood sang Imagine.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, you told me about that. I didn't see that part.
Speaker 1:And it seemed out of place. I'm not sure why. I guess it's because having these major celebrities, you know, get up in church with their guitars and sing pop songs.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I don't, it was just. It seemed odd, it seemed out of place.
Speaker 3:They might have been friends.
Speaker 1:Oh, absolutely yeah. So I'm sure they were asked by the family. I'm sure the family had plenty to do with the service. I don't think they had anything to do with those women and their but it just seemed out of place. I don't know how else to explain it. It's like oh and pop stars.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, I don't know.
Speaker 3:I think that's like the norm for a celebrity funeral.
Speaker 1:But it was a president of the United States of America. It's not a celebrity funeral.
Speaker 3:Well, he was a lot more than that, though.
Speaker 1:That's my point. This just didn't rise to the occasion, in my opinion.
Speaker 3:I gotcha.
Speaker 1:And so and I could be completely off base, but I'd like someone to tell me what they were doing there. It was funny when I was watching it and you suddenly saw them sort of from a distance, from further back in the church, appear. I was like, who are they? And then it kept coming in closer and closer, zooming in, and they zoomed all the way in and I was saying no, no, who is that? And until it said on the chyron, garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood my brain had not accepted it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:So anyway, and you know the Lord may strike me down for saying this, but Amy Carter's a mess, amy Carter's a mess and I, you know who she looks like now she looks like oh shoot, jodie.
Speaker 3:Foster.
Speaker 1:No, that would be, I think, jodie Foster. She looks like oh who. The heck. Daryl Hannah in Steel Magnolias. Okay, wasn't it Daryl Hannah? That was the hairdresser.
Speaker 3:With the glasses?
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's exactly. Okay, exactly what she looked like. All right, yeah, you know she. Basically she has not changed much since we were introduced to her when she was 12 or 13 in the White House. Yeah, that has pretty much stayed the way it is. Is she James and Rosalind's only child? I believe so yeah. So then that grandson that got up must be her son.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:Very, very attractive and beautifully spoken man.
Speaker 3:Nice.
Speaker 1:So he's got to be. I don't know, I don't know how old is Amy Carter? She's got to be what? 55 or so.
Speaker 3:I don't know. 57.
Speaker 1:57. Yep All right. 57. Yep All right. Would you say that the person that I'm reminded of yeah, you said Daryl Hannah.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:With the glasses. Yeah, yeah, okay. So it's the right kind of vibe.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:Alright, anyhow. So that was. Those were a couple of things that I had meant to mention last week before I started talking about. She's the only daughter, oh, but there are sons, yeah.
Speaker 3:Three boys.
Speaker 1:Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah, so they must be older than she, because I don't remember ever seeing, yeah, fourth child. I don't remember ever seeing them in the White House. You know, in those years it was like they must have not been growing up there. So then this grandson might have been I don't know whose son might have been. I don't know whose son Could have been anybody.
Speaker 3:Well, she's got two kids. Who are they?
Speaker 1:I don't know. Oh, all right, I figured you were looking at a thing.
Speaker 3:I am, but you know it's long. So, mm-hmm, hugo James Wenzel, and then Wenzel.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I wonder if that's like.
Speaker 3:So she's got two kids, but from two dads.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, yeah, I wonder if that's like oh, so she's got two kids, but from two dads.
Speaker 3:Oh, okay, yeah.
Speaker 1:Did not know that. Look at all the things we don't know anymore. Yeah, okay, I saw most of a film called Queer Okay and it's Daniel Craig and it's taken from the book Junkie written by William S Burroughs, and it's an American expat in the 50s in Mexico, mexico City, and who's the American? Daniel Craig.
Speaker 3:Ah I see Another guy coming around taking our jobs.
Speaker 1:That's right.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm, and so it is one of the most highly stylized films I've ever seen.
Speaker 3:Okay, okay, more than the Barbie movie.
Speaker 1:You know I didn't watch most of that.
Speaker 3:Okay, I didn't need to watch much more to know that it's about as highly stylized as anything I've ever seen.
Speaker 1:Well, this is yeah, this is way stylized. I do not recommend this film. Okay, I found it to be first of all stylistically, I just I couldn't watch it.
Speaker 1:it's too cartoonish huh, okay but on such a serious subject. Subject it's a gay American man who goes to Mexico City to try to have some hookups and he becomes infatuated. And he has a lot of bad luck initially and then he becomes infatuated with this much younger guy and the rest of the film, I mean, takes a lot of twists and turns, if you decide to watch it.
Speaker 1:I won't totally destroy it for you, but it looks like and he looks like. I mean, the directing was so odd, it was all just odd Off. I don't know. I don't really know how to describe it.
Speaker 3:Okay, so how about? It's not your thing?
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's not my thing. I don't think it's your thing.
Speaker 3:Uh-huh.
Speaker 1:But I know it's not your thing, michael, over there, I know you would not like this film, okay, uh. So it felt like it looked like a play. It looked like the film West Side Story, the original.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 1:You know how that whole set looked like a set, yeah Right, so it was that kind of thing. The colors were. It was sort of primary colors.
Speaker 3:Interesting Okay yeah.
Speaker 1:A lot of yellow and blue and red. I think those are primary colors, wouldn't you say?
Speaker 3:There are some of them.
Speaker 1:Yes, and so Daniel looked kind of weird. He had dark hair. Kind of weird, he had dark hair. Um, his costumes looked like costumes, even though they weren't. I mean, he was in a shirt and tie most of the time. Um, I guess I'm not saying anything terribly coherent or interesting about this film, and that's my review okay, not terribly coherent or interesting about this film, and that's my review.
Speaker 3:Okay, not terribly coherent or interesting All righty Queer with Daniel Craig.
Speaker 1:Yeah, now of course it won the. I don't know the. The Italian something award. Yay, yeah, the awards are meaning less and less they really are. We talked about the Globes a little bit. Yeah, here's something what you got elon musk cheats at video games?
Speaker 3:tell about that it is absolutely amazing. This man the the richest man in the world. He got more money than anybody.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 3:But it's not enough. He wants to be known as one of the best video gamers ever on the planet, right, and so he, uh, he pretends, and he hired some people to play a character for him in a, in a game called path of exiles. And, uh, this is a very big game. It's made by some guys in New Zealand. It's a big deal, and all the people who play it are nerds. They're not just playing the game, they've got spreadsheets out. They are calculating everything, every move they make in this game. And what's it called? Again, path of Exiles, path of Exiles.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's a sword and sorcery, you know fantasy kind of game, dungeon game kind of thing. But uh, in order to get to the point to where elon musk's character was, which was level 97, he would have had to have put way more hours than he's got into it. He just could not do it Because he doesn't have that kind of time. He just doesn't. I mean, he's got all this other crap. He's going around talking crap to everybody else doing that stuff. He doesn't have time to play these games anyway. Um, he decided to do a live stream the other night of him playing, and so what he did was he got the his booster guy whose name is, uh, uh yan ma I don't know, what that means.
Speaker 3:Booster guy yeah, what is the guy who plays his character for him?
Speaker 3:oh, okay he says I want my, I want my guy for a while I'm going to do a live stream. So he goes out and he's playing this game and people all around the world are watching him and he's clicking on things that are grayed out. And when you're playing a video game, everybody knows if it's grayed out, you can't click it. If it's got a color or whatever, you could click it. If it's grayed out, it's not going to work. Okay, but he kept clicking it. He kept clicking it.
Speaker 3:There are ways to take when you beat up a bad guy and there's loot to pick up. There are ways to pick up stuff and put it in your inventory. There are very quick ways because you want to do things as quickly as possible and be as efficient as possible, because this is a hardcore game. It's very hard to play at this level. But elon is clicking and dragging things into his inventory, which is completely what someone who's never played the game before would do, because that's how you would do it the slow, stupid way, not the way like I've been playing this for seven years now, because it could take that long to get to that point. Anyway, he got found out and he's denying it, which is ridiculous, because there are so many people that have watched him streaming this and watched other streams where he wasn't actually playing, one of them in which a bunch of Chinese text came up while he was playing, while the character was playing, showing the people watching that the server he was playing on was in China. Oh God.
Speaker 1:And where was he supposedly?
Speaker 3:Oh, he was in the United States or hanging out at Mar-a-Lago or whatever. He wasn't even playing the game, but anyway, it's ridiculous. So people have called him out on it and his response uh, one guy, asthma gold.
Speaker 3:Uh, a youtuber and a and a gamer. Um called him out on it and Elon took away his checkmark that he paid for. Took away his checkmark. So basically shadow banning him, because if you don't have a checkmark, your posts aren't going to go up to the top where people can see them and he might have gotten rid of his account altogether. He's doing this to anybody that is mocking him. He's having little fits, little conniption fits.
Speaker 3:He also had a fit over Biden making a tweet that got so much more love than one that he posted versus in the past few days, screaming at people saying why is he higher up in the stats than I am? And he's told them they have to make it so that his posts go above everybody's all the time, so that he can get the love and not someone else.
Speaker 1:What do they call officially? Now that Twitter is called X, what is a tweet called?
Speaker 3:I don't know. Okay, Just curious. I don't care it's Twitter. I mean I'm not. I don't care it's Twitter, I mean I'm not going to call it X. It's stupid. And people are going to call it tweet. So even on X.
Speaker 1:Okay, well, twitter is a conundrum for me. I've signed up for Blue Sky.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'm on there too, but.
Speaker 1:I don't do anything there either.
Speaker 1:I don't do anything anywhere anymore. I've started spending more time on Instagram because I get no joy out of scrolling on Facebook. I get no joy out of scrolling on Facebook and that's probably because I'm not following enough accounts that aren't friends. You know what I mean. Aren't people that I know? Okay, so I'm not seeing stupid dog tricks and you know animals doing funny things and babies speaking five languages fluently. I don't know. All the hilarious stuff are really cool recipes. That's stuff I'm seeing on instagram. Yeah, at this point um the other, but there's one thing about instagram that makes me nuts and it's the ads and it's the number of ads, and Instagram believes that there are a few things I need.
Speaker 3:Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1:One is a pair of waterproof sneakers. Oh, uh-huh.
Speaker 3:Well, you better get on it then, yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, any of Several brands. Okay, because just when I think they're not showing me any more Allbirds ads, some other brand Pops up. For some other waterproof sneaker.
Speaker 3:That's very funny.
Speaker 1:Um, the other thing is jewelry of a particular type that I hate and it's sort of like oh my gosh, they look like. Remember the candy?
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, the candy necklaces and stuff Like candy bracelets.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, they're these sort of bracelets, stretchy bracelets. They look like they're plastic.
Speaker 3:Looks like they've got plastic. Well, who wants a stretchy necklace or bracelet anyway? Really.
Speaker 2:Well.
Speaker 3:They're going to break. They're not going to last.
Speaker 1:You do for one thing.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but they don't last See, they break.
Speaker 1:That doesn't mean you don't want one.
Speaker 3:Well, I have them, but the ones I like are the ones that don't do that, the ones I like the most anyway, they don't break that. You know the ones I like the most anyway, they don't break, dang it.
Speaker 1:Who wants a broken bracelet, see Well, I have some that I love, that were a gift that I got recently, that I got recently. So these are like big plastic looking. These look like bracelets you would get for, you know, a child's birthday party gift bag. Yeah, they are not attractive, there is nothing about them and they are absolutely juvenile and I don't understand. And they're saying look, you can stack them, you know, and they're so thick that it only takes like five of them to go from your wrist to your elbow. They're really ugly. So, and I keep getting, I keep getting ads from different companies for similar jewelry, right stuff that looks kind of the same. And the third and most important oh, no, there's. There are four things. The third thing that I keep getting ads for is skin putty.
Speaker 3:Okay, I don't know what that is, but it sounds gross. Okay, I don't know what that is, but it sounds gross.
Speaker 1:Skin putty Well if you have some little wrinkles that you would normally perhaps ignore. Oh my God.
Speaker 3:Or take care of and you want to fill them in Take care of with maybe some Botox or some yeah that's asinine. What's it?
Speaker 1:called, anyway, the stuff that you inject. Yeah, this stuff fills in, literally. Yeah, and it comes with a thing, a trowel Well, not a trowel, but the thing you would use to smooth it down.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'm telling you, if you've got to use skin putty, you've got self-esteem issues that you need to work on.
Speaker 1:Oh, I don't think that's even. I don't think in the world we live in it's got anything to do with self-esteem or lack thereof.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 1:I think it's, oh my god, like you're buying this, thinking this is going to work. You know that this is going to work. You know that this is going to look okay. You know that you are going to look like these women and men in these ads, like you have flawless skin.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Like your wrinkles are gone.
Speaker 3:No, You're going to look like you have on skin putty skin putty that sounds so disgusting it is disgusting and what's amazing to me, is it made from skin. Maybe that's why they call it skin.
Speaker 1:Maybe it could be. It could be made from tilapia skin?
Speaker 2:I don't know.
Speaker 1:But what is mind-blowing is that it comes in 30 shades, enough that they can match virtually any skin tone. Yeah, with skin putty. So that's the third thing, but the fourth and by all means the most important thing that Instagram somehow thinks or knows that I need more than anything else is a brassiere. Oh, congratulations. Well, thank you for that, except that it's a particular brassiere. It's a brassiere made for women over 50. And there are about eight companies that make these things.
Speaker 1:Okay, they're so sagging, or because the women are so very heavy, or whatever reason it is. They guarantee that they will pack you into one of these bras and they'll smooth out your back, they'll lift up the girls high and proud, they'll make it all look perfect. Exactly when you hook the bra, it does that, it makes sound effect. Yes, yes, and so it is the most. And they're all called different things. Okay, slightly, I mean they have different company names, slightly different branding, but basically the message is grandma, your and I don't. Here's what I don't understand. Other things why do, why does or how does Instagram come up with this algorithm?
Speaker 3:Simply by your age. Simply by your age and is it their experience, or anyone's experience, that showing someone an ad?
Speaker 1:for the same thing every five minutes is from a different company, is going to be useful? I have no idea. Yeah, see, I just don't understand, because it doesn't. It certainly does not inspire me to. What it inspires me to do is close up the program.
Speaker 3:I'm going to tell you this Don't buy anything off of Instagram, don't buy anything off of Facebook. Don't buy anything off of a social media site. Oh, never you don't know who you're buying it from to begin with.
Speaker 1:Anytime I buy anything and I know you know this, I've told you this, and I know you know this, I've told you this but anytime you want to buy anything, get out of your social media account, go online, go to the website.
Speaker 3:Yeah, go look it up, Make sure there is a website.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and make sure it's a real company. You can start there and look at their return and exchanges policy, etc. Etc. But, wow, people must really be freaking out. It's interesting because we don't know what the state of things will be later on today as far as TikTok is concerned, oh yeah.
Speaker 3:TikTok's back already.
Speaker 1:Oh, it is yeah, okay.
Speaker 3:It's gone from midnight to sometime the next day, sometime the the the next day. But yeah, they turned it back on and said because trump said he's gonna, he's gonna take a look at this and not do anything about it, he's gonna take a serious look at it before he does anything.
Speaker 1:So okay, yeah, I'm not sure how it was already his move to make, but whatever um what do you mean?
Speaker 3:it was biden's move to make. But whatever, what do you mean? It was Biden's move to make?
Speaker 1:and Biden left it to Trump Right Before the inauguration. That's what I mean, yeah, anyway, oh, I was going to say that the amount of money that people are making on TikTok, that people are making on Instagram, is just incredible, and I wish I was smart enough to, or had the time, the wherewithal, the, whatever it is. You need to do it.
Speaker 3:Not for me. It's very cutthroat yeah.
Speaker 1:Indeed, this is Shlomo Barr playing the flute, and it's a little prelude to the road to Caesarea. For Oran Shaul, a soldier who was killed in Gaza in 2014,. A soldier who was killed in Gaza in 2014. Oron Shaul, a blessed memory, who is one of the four hostages released today. And for Roni Gonen, emily DeMari and Doron Steinbrecher, who were released alive.
Speaker 2:Please put a light on Shalom the water was a fountain of water and only the sky was a prayer of man Shalom. The sand and the sea Are made of water and only the sky Is the prayer of man Shabbat Shalom. The sky is falling, the sky is falling. The sky is falling, the sky is falling. Um, um, thank you. Shalom, sh'lo yigamer, be'olam Ha'chol, ve'hayam Risheru, shel ha'mayim, ve'rak ha'shamayim, and only the heavens and the blue sky, the sea and the sea In the stream of the waters. Shalom.
