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For the Birds
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Dive into this enlightening episode of The Anne Levine Show, where we explore the vibrant wildlife of Cape Cod, sort of. From the return of robins and the intriguing habits of seagulls to larger discussions about cultural resonance and current events, there’s plenty to keep you entertained and informed. Discover how the behavior of these charming birds impacts local ecosystems and fosters connections within nature that resonate with our daily experiences. We don't actually use the word, "Ecosystem," anywhere in the show.
We also reflect on the health of Pope Francis (who was feeling a little better today), discussing implications for the Catholic Church and the potential for a conclave, inviting listeners to think about the intersection of tradition and modern challenges. Amidst these serious topics, we break down the film "Conclave," addressing its narrative and thematic depth while encouraging a deeper understanding of leadership within the context of faith with an all star cast.
As we round out the conversation, we touch upon pop culture—specifically the upcoming Oscars and the hilarity being brought by Conan O’Brien, who Anne and Michael think is a comedic genius. Prepare to laugh, reflect, and engage as we navigate a rich tapestry of subjects in one captivating episode.
Plus, we'd like to apologize for the over-wordiness of the AI in describing this episode, the show really not terribly serious at all.
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Introduction and Restaurant Talk
Speaker 1I want to know if you've ever eaten in a restaurant in Port Angeles.
Speaker 2I don't believe, so I've driven through several times. Meanwhile ten years later, my niece, the daughter of my sister, is getting married.
Speaker 1The Anne Levine Show. If you're not listening, you need to be listening. I love this. A whole section of sharks. Oh, Mr Engineer.
Speaker 2You guessed right it's time for the Ann Levine Show. This is today and everything else is yesterday's mashed potatoes.
Speaker 1W-O-M-R 92.1 FM, provincetown, and that over there is Michael. She is always right, always right. Hello, hello and welcome to the Ann Levine Show. It's February 25th 2025. And I am, of course, joined by the ever-everything Michael over there.
Speaker 2Hello.
Speaker 1Ooh.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1He's sounding dulcet. Is that what that's called? Yes, dulcet.
Speaker 2Okay, sweet, sweet, dulcet, nice. Okay, yep, dulcet.
Speaker 1You know who's got an amazing voice.
Speaker 2This kid who's singing right here.
Speaker 1I don't know who is this kid?
Speaker 2It's Michael Jackson.
Speaker 1Oh yeah.
Speaker 2Not the same voice, as you know, as later on in life, but no.
Speaker 1Not the same anything as later on in life.
Speaker 2Exactly. It might not even be the same guy If they haven't done DNA, you know.
Speaker 1Well, I just I't done DNA, you know.
Speaker 2Well, I just I think we could, you know.
Speaker 1Normally Now is this are you playing this in honor of robins?
Speaker 2I am. I've got a yard full of them.
Speaker 1Tell me about them.
Speaker 2I've got a hundred robins in the yard. They came in a week or so ago and they're staying and they're staying. Yeah, they're our robins.
Speaker 1Oh.
Speaker 2They're the ones that live here.
Speaker 1Okay.
Speaker 2How do?
Speaker 1we know that.
Speaker 2Well, because Do they have?
Speaker 1to show ID when they.
Speaker 2Two things happen. Do they have to show ID when they Two things happen. In October our robins fly a little south. They're about September, october but when that happens, canada sends a bunch of robins down here as well, and we have a huge influx of robins in October as well, and they stay all winter long, basically. And then when they leave, our robins come back and you can tell that the big difference is that these guys are singing all the time In the winter they're not. They're not making nests, they're not really defending territory or anything. They're just hanging out and eating holly berries and stuff like that. So, um, that's what's happening there, but anyway, yeah, we got a ton of them now these robins yeah have come the end of february yeah to capeod for the summer.
Speaker 2Yes.
Speaker 1Are they aware that none of the clam shacks are open yet? Like there are no? Oh well, no, they're robins, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2I'm sorry, not terribly concerned about the clam shacks, but Well, do you know what I was thinking of?
Speaker 1Seagulls.
Speaker 2Oh well, yeah, of course Right.
Speaker 1And so pretty much all they care about seagulls.
Speaker 2Right, well, around here they got two things.
Speaker 1Are places to poop and.
Speaker 2French fries, french fries and herring. True, yeah, we do have herring gulls and I've seen wow, have I seen some stuff?
Speaker 1Yuck, it sounds violent.
Speaker 2I watched a gull swallow, a fish so large that it couldn't fly. It could only hop away.
Speaker 1What did it do? Did it disgorge it?
Speaker 2No, it had to sit there.
Speaker 1Sit there.
Speaker 2Yeah, until what? Until it digested enough that it could fly, because it was too heavy. The fish was just too big.
Speaker 1It was hilarious. And I made fun of it too. Yeah, I'm like you goofball?
Speaker 2What are you doing? Trying to swallow a fish your size? It was not wise, yeah.
Speaker 1Now, okay, I've never thought about this in my life because I don't want to. Yeah, but you got me going.
Speaker 2Okay.
Speaker 1So now, when a seagull plunges into the waters, what do they do? Do they just grab and stab with their beaks, or do they pick them up with their feet?
Speaker 2They don't use their feet.
Speaker 1Okay.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1Because you know other things do use their feet, yeah, To carry away.
Speaker 2Right, but gulls have like, like semi-webbed feet, so they don't really grab gotcha, so they don't have like talons not really all right.
Speaker 1So are they able in any way to do anything with their beak contraptions to say, take a bite of a fish, or is it like whoop, I caught this and there's nothing I can do now but put it all in my belly?
Speaker 2in my throat. Well, they don't try to tear things apart, for one thing. They do eat things whole. So that's how they want to do it and it's the easiest for them. However, what they will do when it's not fish is that they will pick up a clam or another sea creature in a shell, an oyster or something like that, and carry it up into the air and then drop it usually onto my—.
Speaker 1Onto a rock.
Speaker 2Well onto a rock, or for the most part. I think every herring goal on Cape Cod drops all of their stuff on the parking lot at West Dennis Beach.
Speaker 1True, there's a lot of that there.
Speaker 2I ended up like one year I had 37 punctures in my tire and that's all it was was just from shells and stuff from driving up and down on West Dennis Beach in the parking lot.
Speaker 1It's crazy. We should drive over there and just see what is going on.
Speaker 2It is one of my favorite places on the Cape.
Speaker 1I've got to say, I had to say that this week is supposed to be pretty great weather compared to what we've been having Like close to in the 50.
Speaker 2We're supposed to have 51 one of these days maybe tomorrow.
Speaker 1So, um, it's good to kind of get out, stretch your legs a little bit yeah I say this to myself more than to anyone else. These are words I am saying oh, okay, how's the?
Speaker 2Pope doing, he's not doing. Great is he? I heard he's— At least at the time of this recording. I don't think he's doing great.
Speaker 1He has pneumonia right.
Speaker 2Yeah, double pneumonia, you know, pneumonia in both lungs. He's been in critical condition. I'm not sure what his situation is at the moment, though.
Speaker 1He's been in the hospital for 10 nights.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1Still in critical condition. In critical condition with pneumonia and kidney issues. Yeah, still in critical condition. In critical condition with pneumonia and kidney issues. Yeah, so, oh gosh, there's Okay, yeah, and then?
Speaker 2Cardinal Dolan, remember him, remember that guy. We've seen him a lot. He says that the Pope is probably close to death. So that's what he said, cardinal Dolan, yeah, timothy Dolan, is he from Boston? Yeah, yeah. So that's the guy. Is he from Boston? Yeah, yeah. So that's the guy Well, now we're going to have a conclave. Yeah, we're going to have a conclave, and we've got to wait for the smoke. Yep, white smoke, black smoke, who knows?
Speaker 1Well, let me say, in light of what is or isn't happening with the Pope and what may or may not happen with the Pope, this is a really good time anyway to watch Conclave.
Speaker 2Oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1The film.
Speaker 2We talked about it. It's got. What, Rafe? Is it Rafe Fiennes it?
Speaker 1is Rafe Fiennes. It's got Isabella Rossellini, oh right. And I'm forgetting the other. Is it Fmurry, are you?
Speaker 2laughing because I say that yeah. Well, I say yeah because did I make you start? Uh, make you do that oh, I've been here.
Speaker 1Yeah, I've been hearing you say that forever. Yeah I've said it forever stanley tucci stanley tucci john yeah, um, oh, carlos deets, who is fantastic, you know, I kind of want to watch it again.
Speaker 2Okay.
Speaker 1It's really quite.
Speaker 2Got a lot of talent going on in this one.
Speaker 1There is a lot of talent in it, and it's If you don't know much about what goes on in a papal conclave, this is great.
Speaker 2Yeah, it certainly is going to give you an idea of what's going to start happening here pretty soon.
Speaker 1Yeah, and how old is Pope Francis?
Speaker 2I don't know, but I'll find out.
Speaker 1And so, anyway, the whole thing that goes on in the Vatican with the—did you find out? No, oh, I'm sorry. Okay, well, anyway, the whole thing of these conclaves is just unbelievable, unbelievable. And of course, this film Conclave has an—.
Speaker 2He's 88, by the way.
Speaker 1This is not a good week for 88 olds no yeah anyway, we'll hear more about that later yes, um more, more fun at the end of our film is just stunning and it's, I don't know. Even if you feel like this isn't, I recommend this film. If it didn't end the way that it ends, I wouldn't recommend it as strongly, also because Poppy over there is very sick, anyway check out this movie.
Speaker 1This is perfect timing to see this and it's up for a bunch of who cares Freaking Oscars. Can we talk about the Oscarsars? Sure we don't have to, certainly why not there?
Speaker 2that's happening?
Speaker 1when is that? Is that like sunday?
Speaker 2or is it that soon?
Speaker 1I don't know I don't know anything. I'm extremely confused I.
Speaker 2I just know that they, you, that it wasn't long ago when the nominations and stuff came out.
Speaker 1Well, there's only one thing about the oh, the Brutalist.
Speaker 2March 2nd, so it's pretty soon actually. Yeah, that's.
Speaker 1Sunday yeah, okay. Well, the good thing about the Oscars that I'm aware of is that Conan is the host.
Speaker 2Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1And Conan is Conan's, almost like America's spokesperson at this point.
Speaker 2He's really underrated. He's a. Is he underrated? Yes, yeah.
Speaker 1By whom? By uh by uh the ratings.
Speaker 2NBC for one who kicked him out of the tonight show chair to put in uh, to put Leno back in. That was ridiculous. That that was hideous. He is so funny and if you listen to the podcast you know O'Brien Needs a Friend. You will hear that he is so fast, his wit is so quick that it's really— he's brilliant, it's so impressive.
Speaker 1He's brilliant and it's not just his wit, it's his knowledge beast. I mean what he knows about—he's an American history buff. He's a guy that can sit down and rattle off the presidents, you know.
Speaker 2Right. How do you want him Alphabetically? Exactly yeah, service, yeah, or by beard lengths of service.
Speaker 1Yeah, or do you want, or like by beard lengths. Right yeah, he can do any of that. Yeah, and he has. He's got tremendous knowledge of. For someone who, and he's got a bachelor's in liberal arts, yeah, I mean, it's from Harvard, but so what? He, you know, it's a bachelor's in liberal arts.
Speaker 2He can. He's pretty good with a guitar. He's pretty good with a guitar and you know and a lot of things. A lot of people don't know that he wrote for years for Saturday Night Live. A lot of people have no idea that he did that.
Speaker 1Oh yeah.
Speaker 2That's how he started, I know. But you ask him and people will just talk about the talk shows. You know what I mean. They forget that that was a huge chunk of his career. Right there Was.
Speaker 1SNL yeah Well, it was certainly the jumping off point. Right yeah, and he got poached, as it were, I believe from the Harvard Lampoon. I mean, he was the, whatever it is editor-in-chief of the.
Speaker 1Harvard Lampoon yeah, but I don't know if he applied for the SNL job or if it was like a headhunting. I'm not exactly sure how he ended up there, but that, of course, all led to him being tapped to do. What was it called Late Night? Yeah, late Night with Conan O'Brien. I just had a really weird memory, okay, and it gave me a little pain at the base of my skull on the right side. I see yeah, craig Kilborn.
Speaker 2Oh goodness, yes, that's who Conan replaced, right? Yes, yeah.
Speaker 1And was there or was there was Whitney coming? Was someone Whitney, someone Brown?
Speaker 2Oh, A Whitney Brown. A Whitney Brown who was also a Saturday Night Live guy, I believe.
Speaker 1Wasn't.
Speaker 2A.
Speaker 1Whitney Brown in that chair for 20 minutes.
Speaker 2You know what he might have been.
Speaker 1I don't even remember that there was this weird little parade of and initially Conan seemed like he was going to be just I don't know. Didn't seem like a whole lot of something was going to happen with him, yeah and that show. But wow, did that blow up? And anyway, he has really come to be to me. He's sort of the he's my man for making statements. I've never heard him make a statement, a social statement, a political statement, an anything statement that was off-base or that was offensive.
Speaker 2Uh-huh. No, he's very, very thoughtful about what he says.
Speaker 1He is thoughtful.
Speaker 2Even for being so quick-witted about it, you know.
Speaker 1Right, yeah, exactly, and he definitely has endeared himself to. I mean, he did a whole series of tours with Michelle.
Speaker 2Obama, Uh-huh.
Speaker 1I mean, he definitely has attracted best and brightest.
Speaker 2Yeah, I agree, and he's helped a lot of people come up a lot of comedians, yep.
Speaker 1And he's loyal. Yeah, oh my God, he is loyal. Yeah, oh my God, he is loyal Anyway.
Speaker 2I didn't end up watching all of the rest of the SNL 50th.
Speaker 1Uh-huh. I only watched like the first half hour.
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Speaker 2Right, well, I mean, it is Of like a six-hour show. Yeah Well, it's like three hours and 35 minutes, I think.
Speaker 1But yeah, yeah Well it's like three hours and 35 minutes, I think. But yeah, but at some point he must have come up around. Did I mention I don't know if I did that Miley Cyrus and Britney Alabama Shakes what's her last name?
Speaker 2Right, I don't know, I just call her Britney, yeah, from the Alabama Shakes. What's her last name? I don't know, I just call her Brittany, yeah, from the Alabama Shakes.
Speaker 1I hate it when I can't Think about what I want to think about Brittany Howard. That Miley Cyrus and Brittany Howard Did on that show, a cover of Nothing Compares.
Speaker 2Right, yeah.
Speaker 1And it was so good. It gave me chills and if you had said to me beforehand okay, next up in music we've got Miley Cyrus and Brittany Howard singing the Prince song famously by Sinead O'Connor. I would have said oh, my God.
Speaker 2Yeah, I would have been with you there too.
Speaker 1What a miserable idea. And everything except Miley Cyrus' dress was perfection.
Speaker 2Right on.
Speaker 1It was so great and thank God, it was just the dress that was wrong.
Speaker 2Well, I think they both have awesome voices. I love Miley's voice. She's got a huge voice. Oh yeah, and so does Britney. But the fact that nothing compares to you is not a huge voice song. It's a I mean, you can, it can be huge, but it's not a big song. It's a soft, intense song. It's a soft, you know, intense song.
Speaker 1Well, they didn't do it nice and easy. I'm quoting Tina Turner there for you youngsters that don't know. No, I mean it was wow, powerful, yeah, very powerful. And I don't know who in the world thought that up. Maybe it was M those two singers. That song I can't imagine. It's just the most unlikely thing. But fantastic, it's worth watching.
Speaker 2And also listening to.
Speaker 1Okay, If you insist. If you insist. Well, I finally got to watch a film that I had been waiting for for a very, very long while A year, I'm going to say. I'm going to have to say Sing Sing, and Sing Sing is now available to rent, and it will certainly be free. Oh, I don't know how long it'll take. How long do these things take? I don't know, Anne, oh, who is that? But Sing Sing is so fantastic. It's about the RTA, which is oh shoot.
Speaker 2Isn't that the bus service on the Cape?
Speaker 1Yes, and it's a fantastic movie yeah. Not about busing, though. Rta is Rehabilitation Through the Arts. There you go, and it is a program that I've known about for many years because I listened to Ear Hustle.
Speaker 2Right, and you're very involved with the Innocence Project and stuff like that. That's right.
Speaker 1Yeah, and so now I don't have my ducks in a row here as far as people's names are concerned, but the RTA does theater programs, among other things, inside prisons, and there have been several, it's been brought to light on not all things considered, not all things considered.
Speaker 1This American Life did a piece on Henry V which was performed at several different prisons, and essentially what they do, what the people do, is come into some heavy, heavy prisons with some people that have been around. A lot of them are doing life Just horrendous and they hand them Shakespeare, for instance. And now I know that I took an education class at one point in my life when I was thinking about being a teacher. That didn't last very long, but I'm laughing at myself thinking that I could control a classroom. I have absolutely no ability to do that. But the idea of handing Shakespeare to a group of people who don't know anything about theater, don't know anything about Shakespeare In most of these cases have not completed high school, you know you would think it would be just such a tall task for these men to memorize, learn, understand, mean I mean that's, that's the big part, right, the you know, they, they help them understand what it is that they're saying and how it applies.
Speaker 2You know how it would apply in real life, so that it makes it a little easier for them to put it out there.
Speaker 1Right, but I mean, having been in theater arts for a huge chunk of my life. I can tell you right now that Shakespeare, with a bunch of overachieving you know high-ranking school blah-biddy-blahs like myself Shakespeare is hard.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1It's hard to memorize and it's hard to understand fully. I mean you have to plumb some serious steps. Anyway, everyone I've ever heard from these RTA programs any of the inmates talk about these plays and Hamlet gets done a lot. King.
Speaker 1Lear gets done a lot and it's amazing. Lot, yeah, um, and it's amazing. They have complete and full appreciation and understanding for what they're, what Shakespeare was saying, right on a multitude of levels. Yeah, anyhow. Yeah to my knees, as far as I was just shaken and as soon as it stopped I started crying. Colman Domingo is the star of the film and I believe might be nominated for an Oscar.
Speaker 2I don't know. I just had that Coleman Domingo, who is?
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Speaker 1such a fantastic actor and I can't think of the guy's name, that Divine G. But what is his name besides that, clarence?
Speaker 2Macken, yeah, Coleman Domingo best actor.
Speaker 1Oh, okay. So yeah, Watch this. I think Coleman deserves it. He was so—Coleman Domingo is one of the finest actors we have. I mean, I have never, seen him in anything that wasn't superb, where he wasn't superb. But Macklin, this guy, he's the actual inmate. I don't know how they pulled. He's the actual guy that Coleman Domingo is playing. Yeah, right, so, so, so you're just. It's mind-blowing. Most of the people in this film are not actors, right yeah. Most of them are inmates, including the number two on the call sheet.
Speaker 1Yeah, so there Am I being too inside baseball.
Speaker 2I don't think so.
Speaker 1Alright, I don't know if I'm being clear about this film. Well, let's be clear about this.
Speaker 2Okay, yes, we're halfway through and you're listening to the Ann Levine Show On WOMR 92.1 FM In Provincetown and WFMR 91.1 FM in Provincetown and WFMR 91.3 FM Orleans and we're streaming worldwide at WOMRorg and we're happy you're here.
Speaker 1You know I was going to say all of that right off the top.
Speaker 2Yeah. And then and then Rockin' Robin happened and you just lost your mind.
Speaker 1I lost my, I lost it.
Speaker 2You lost it.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1You took me down a side road.
Speaker 2Yeah, it happens, it happens. Yeah, sorry about that.
Speaker 1Anytime I have to speak to Michael Jackson. I'm not going to say about Just speak to Michael Jackson in quotes the issue. Well, I get a little fachotted. I see, okay, that's a combination of an Italian word, a Yiddish word and a South Boston word.
Speaker 2Okay.
Speaker 1I don't know what it means either.
Speaker 2Well, all right.
Speaker 1Fichatted.
Speaker 2Fichatted, okay, fichatted.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2All right Well.
Speaker 1I think that one of—.
Speaker 2We've all learned a new word today.
Speaker 1Yes, Could you spell that please?
Speaker 2Don't say we're not educational.
Speaker 1I've never said that.
Speaker 2Well, no, I'm talking to the audience.
Speaker 1That's my—oh yeah, no, if I've had any— You're going to learn? Something, whether you like it or not if I've had anything on my mind in these many, many years at womr educating, my audience has been number one, number one absolutely Primary amongst all of it.
Speaker 2Yeah, without question. Everybody knows that.
Speaker 1Well, of course they do. Yeah, I'm that boring teacher that you know people look the other way.
Speaker 2They do that. However, they've listened by the millions, so you know it's true.
Speaker 1I feel a little, in addition to fachaded. I feel a little hot. I'm running hot.
Speaker 2Oh man.
Speaker 1And I think I know why. I think I know why I started doing something.
Speaker 2Oh, I know what it is too, yeah.
Speaker 1I've started doing something in the past couple of days. Well, actually I've got this whole thing going now, where I am trying to keep myself from gaining any weight, keep my blood pressure from going up, keep my blood sugar from going up. I'm trying to gain control of my health.
Speaker 2Or better control anyway, yeah.
Speaker 1Yeah, to some degree, and there's a lot that I do. Already Did I talk about celery salad, yet have I talked about celery salad?
Speaker 2I think you might have, I don't know. I think you did, though.
Speaker 1There's a new game in town and it's called celery Celery salad. By the way, poke salad for all you. Poke salad, annie fans. Very dangerous, you can. That's great. I'm clacking myself up. Most people listening have never heard of poke salad or poke salad.
Speaker 2Annie Great song. I love that song.
Speaker 1There's this stuff called pokeweed, and when it's little baby, baby, baby, just little thing, this weed coming out of the ground, you can. If you cook it long enough with some lye in it, you can get it to soften up and you can eat it. Yeah and it's. I know I soften up and you can eat it. Yeah and it's. I know I mean it's like brutal stuff, but it's also deadly poison. Well, you got to boil it first. Well, yeah, yeah, but it's still deadly poison. That's great, it's just boiled, deadly poison. Anyway, if it gets towhat am I even talking about? Poke salad? Yeah, well—.
Speaker 2Don't eat it. How about that? How about we—here's another educational thought for you folks listening Don't eat poke salad. That's right. It's dangerous the more you know.
Speaker 1That's right it's dangerous the more you know. So celery salad, however, and I hate celery.
Speaker 2Yeah, you're not a celery person.
Speaker 1No, until now. Yeah, but you do like the celery salad. I love celery salad so much yes, I do. And cabbage Anyway. So in In lieu of other things, I've tried in my life to have better control of my health.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1I have recently started and when I say recently, like over the weekend lemon juice, cinnamon, organic ginger and honey.
Speaker 2Yep.
Speaker 1Like two shots Local honey and then a little boiling water. Yeah, you just buzz that right up.
Speaker 2Yep and yeah, and slug it down, and you know what I'm going to say. A teaspoon of ginger on your gut will make you a little warm. I am, I don't know.
Speaker 1Absolutely. I don't know. This is going to be next winter. Should we have another winter like this? Should we have another winter like this? And the inaffordability of the oil and the electricity kicks in again, the way it did this year?
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1Here's your answer.
Speaker 2That's right. And you really like it, don't you? It tastes really good.
Speaker 1Yeah, really like it, don't you? It tastes really good, yeah, but right now I want to. I want to take a cold shower.
Speaker 2I feel so hot yeah so hot that ginger will do that and the cinnamon is a warming spice. Yeah, cinnamon just is kind of fanning the flames of the ginger, Like okay, you go girl.
Speaker 1And then it's like, oh, and lemon juice, what'd you need that for? Just to make it just a little.
Speaker 2Distract you a little bit.
Speaker 1Yeah, and the honey is the nice part.
Speaker 2The honey and the cinnamon keep you going From Annie's Crannies in Dennis, Massachusetts. By the way, the honey.
Speaker 1Yes, always buy local honey people.
Speaker 2It is so much better for you, especially if you have allergies.
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Speaker 1Well, it has more properties, more health properties. It can do more for you. It's not that it's better for you.
Speaker 2Well, I mean it can because it is local. Anything that you might be allergic to, that it is in the air, it can help you with.
Speaker 1Right, so Right. I just don't want to give other honey a bad name, man.
Speaker 2Oh no, Honey is great, but local honey is best.
Speaker 1Raw honey is even better.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1Local raw. So there's this person on Instagram named One Funny, lisa Marie. Okay, Go now and check her out. She is like the funniest person ever Somewhere in the New York metro area and yeah, I mean, it could be like Bergen, it could be Jersey, I think it's New York somewhere. She's Italian and she has, first of all, the most incredible accent you've ever heard in your life Italian New York accent, unbelievable, and she's just funny. Have you seen her, michael?
Speaker 2I don't think so.
Speaker 1I don't know the name I don't think so.
Speaker 2I don't know the name.
Speaker 1She is. I think I've sent you I've probably sent you a couple of her clips, but anyway, she's very much on my mind right now and every time I listen to her I think I want to sit down and have coffee with this woman. I want to hear the conversation or just hear her. Just hear her speak to me in person. She's such a throwback to like Bay Ridge. Does anyone out there know what Bay Ridge is?
Speaker 2I'm feeling awfully strange You've been having. You know, the past couple of days have been kind of weird. Anything to do with that? Maybe it's because of all the ginger. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1Well, I don't know if the ginger is what has been preventing me from sleeping. I don't think so.
Speaker 2That's probably not. It no In addition to lemon, honey, ginger, cinnamon. Get a hold of paleo, golden milk and vital proteins.
Speaker 1Oh, I don't even know you got some organic ginger right, yeah, and I've got like Supplement City. I've been taking spirulina tablets.
Speaker 2Which, by the way, our dog likes a lot.
Speaker 1Our dogs love the spirulina.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1Which doesn't surprise me, because they both love, I mean, they love grass.
Speaker 2Yeah, right, yeah, which is essentially what spirulina is, but they like the little tablets. Yeah, that's very funny.
Speaker 1Which I found out totally by accident. Obviously I didn't think that I would hand them some pills, yeah that they'd like them, but they do.
Speaker 2Okay, I got something. What you got. If you watch TV and you like things that are on TV to watch Reacher Season 3 is now out there. We've talked about the show before. We've both seen all of season 1 and 2 and I've seen the first episode of season 3 and I was blown away cause I had no idea what was going on. And then when they tell you what's going on, it's like oh my, wow, it's very, very cool. Alan Ritson, very, very big man playing Jack Reacher. Man playing Jack Reacher and the antagonist is a guy he has to look up to. Literally he must be six foot seven.
Speaker 1Oh, so you mean? Oh, I didn't understand that.
Speaker 2Yeah, so this Reacher's character is supposed to be huge. Well, he's supposed to be 6'5", but Alan Richson is only 6'2". But he's big enough and he fit the part well enough that he got the job. The guy he's going against this time, I think is actually 6'7" or 6'8". He's huge.
Speaker 1And how does that affect the way it all looks? Because Reacher's supposed to be like this huge, threatening beatdown.
Speaker 2That's right, and you see this huge threatening man against this other huge mountain of a man. Yeah, it's really—it's good mountain of a man. Yeah, it's really, it's, it's good. And uh, reacher, reacher teaches the guy a lesson at the beginning, which actually is where all of his problems with him start where is this available to watch?
Speaker 2it is on amazon prime at this moment. Yep, three episodes are out right now and then next week there's going to be a new one, and then you know every week after that until I think there's eight episodes, eight or ten. Anyway, it's a great show. It's a lot of action, it's very cool. I have a lot of fun with it and, like I said, the first episode is one of the. The first half of the first episode is one of the. The first half of the first episode is one of the best things I've seen on tv in years, because it really threw me it's very, very cool, this one that you just saw yeah I'm gonna have to um yeah, you haven't seen it yet, but you know you going to have to see it.
Speaker 2It's very, very cool.
Speaker 1Do you want to watch it again, or should I just?
Speaker 2sneak it in. I mean, however you want to do it, I'll watch it again anyway.
Speaker 1All right? Well, no, I enjoy watching things with you. There aren't a whole lot of things that you and I both enjoy watching, although I mean together.
Speaker 2Well, we watch, you know, we got our shows, our regular shows.
Speaker 1But our regular shows like Well, we've got Jeopardy right. Do you know how much of a backlog of Jeopardy we have, though it's not huge. Oh, okay.
Speaker 2There's a lot of repeats in there. Oh, alright, I feel like it's Maybe a week, that's it, but yeah, it's but other. And then Family Feud, of course. We've got a bazillion of those and all of those are repeats, or most of those are repeats anyway, and it doesn't matter, because they're hilarious. We watch it because they're funny, not because we're trying to learn anything on there, that's for sure. Yeah, and what else we got Elspeth, elspeth and Abbott, elementary. Oh, yeah, yeah. So I mean, you know, we got some.
Speaker 1And St Dennis Medical.
Speaker 2Yeah, I love that show. That's a funny show.
Speaker 1I would like to know just what the heck is going on with that show. I wonder if it's popular. I wonder if it's doing well. I hope it is. Yeah, me too. I can't stand these shows that I like that go away. Chicago Med. Right, yep, that one's happening, but the one that you and I have somehow turned into loyal consumers of, pardon the dangling participle. There is Deal or no Deal Island.
Speaker 2Oh my God, I can't, even say it without laughing yeah, I don't have any idea why I watch it at all, but I'm usually fascinated every time I do.
Speaker 1Same with me. Yeah, and I don't get it. I find most of the people on it are despicable.
Speaker 2Yeah, most of the contestants are just awful and you don't want any of them to win.
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Speaker 1It's really funny, yeah, and I'm not sure what we are supposed to. You know like Survivor, for instance. Absolutely, I am a Survivor person. I watch Survivor. I think it's—.
Speaker 2New season of that coming up too, right?
Speaker 1Yes, I think that starts this week. Actually, there we go. This month is gone. I think we can say goodbye to March, bye-bye, bye-bye Not to March, to February.
Speaker 2To February. Well, march will be gone too. Yeah, in a couple minutes.
Speaker 1Yeah, a few minutes after that. Oh my God, there's so much going on. Yeah, it's coming up.
Speaker 2So any St Dennis yeah. I want it to keep going. David Alan Greer right Wendy. Wendy McClendon Covey, she is, she is so funny.
Speaker 1Fabulous. Yeah covey she is. She is so funny, fabulous, yeah, and there are a couple of people from superstore that are on there right that I adore, uh. So yeah, it's, it's an adorable show. It really is. I wish it was. I hope it makes it. It's. It's kind of on my list with Abbott Elementary.
Speaker 2It's got a 90% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, so that's pretty good.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, well, I hope that means something. Yeah, me too I'm not sure what anything means anymore.
Speaker 2And that's on Peacock or whatever that network NBC.
Speaker 1The brutalist. Every channel, now every network, has like three channels. Yeah, they have like two streaming channels and a channel, and they are getting your money out of you.
Speaker 2Yeah, one way or the other.
Speaker 1Many ways in our case. Yeah, just try to cancel a subscription. I dare you.
Speaker 2Try to cancel a subscription to anything Condé Nast. That's like a year and a half long battle right there.
Speaker 1Michael and I ended up with two subscriptions to Vanity Fair.
Speaker 2Yeah. Which we like. We like the magazine? Yeah, but we don't need two of them.
Speaker 1We don't need one.
Speaker 2Well, no, but.
Speaker 1But anyway, at some point I thought and the other thing, the new yorker and I know people I know, but I don't care who you are. There's no way, if you have any kind of life, to get through the New Yorker cover to cover in a week, unless you're a speed reader of some kind or another.
Speaker 2Well, I am.
Speaker 1Yes, but you don't enjoy the New Yorker.
Speaker 2No, I mean. Occasionally I like the cartoons. That's my thing with the New Yorker. No, I mean.
Speaker 1occasionally I like the cartoons. That's my thing with the New Yorker. That's the best part.
Speaker 2And an occasional opinion piece, but yeah.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah. So anyway, they would constantly be stacking up. I'd be putting them in a guest room or giving them to people.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1And ultimately realized this is stupid, this is expensive. I need to stop this and I need to stop vanity fair. I need to stop all.
Speaker 2I need to stop vogue anything in print yeah that I'm getting right, because we've got it all online too. That's the other thing you know.
Speaker 1Yeah, I mean it doesn't have the same—it's not the same, but regardless, it took—I am still trying to get rid of our second subscription to Vanity Fair. Yeah, it took me about a year to get rid of it.
Speaker 2It did. It actually took a little over a year yeah. Yeah, it took me about a year to get rid of it.
Speaker 1It did. It actually took a little over a year, yeah.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1And I can say one thing Whatever that law is now that it has to be as easy to unsubscribe as it is to subscribe, yeah, that's the right thing to do right there. Oh, please, I hope that's in effect.
Speaker 2I really do, or that it will be soon. Probably not.
Speaker 1Why.
Speaker 2Although be in executive order against it, because you know it happened prior to November.
Speaker 1Did it.
Speaker 2Yeah, I believe so.
Speaker 1Oh man, I'm so tired of the traps I really am, I'm tired of being trapped into—.
Speaker 2Yeah, I know it's awful, I hate it.
Speaker 1I use Rocket Money, which is helpful, and they do say that they can help you unsubscribe and cancel subscriptions.
Speaker 2Right. Have they been able to do that for you? Have you had that work?
Speaker 1Very, very few and far between are they able to cancel until something like this. Every now and then they can cancel something, but usually oh Well, let me just say I recommend it. I'll tell you more about it at some point, but what a terrible loss we had yesterday. Roberta Flack passed away at age 88. And what year did this song come out?
Speaker 2Oh, oh, I don't know.
Speaker 1Oh, it's just so beautiful, just an incredible song, and it made it came out in 72.
Speaker 2Yeah, it was actually written in 1957. By whom? By a guy named Ewan McCoyle. A British political singer songwriter wrote it for Peggy Seeger, who became his third wife a little later. But yeah, and she sang the song when they were doing clubs around Britain and in the 60's it got recorded several times and then in 72, that's when Roberta turned it actually into what it is.
Speaker 1Well, I don't know if this song could be the huge hit that it was when it came out in 1972.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1I don't know if it could be, but I've got chills just listening to this song that I know so well and enjoy listening to Roberta and this gorgeous song. The First Time Ever I Saw your Face and for Ms Flack, please put a light on At my mind my love and the first time.
Speaker 2Ever I lay with you, I felt your heart so close to mine and I knew our joy.
Speaker 1Would fill the earth and last Till the end of time my love.
Speaker 2The first time ever, I saw your face, your face, your face.
Speaker 1Your face.
