Anne Levine Show
Funny, weekly, sugar free: Starring "Michael-over-there."
Anne Levine Show
Probably the Apocalypse
Pope Francis has passed, Sterling K. Brown's "Paradise" is mesmerizing television, and Michael has discovered the joy of creating music with AI. Welcome to another episode of The Anne Levine Show, where our conversations meander through culture, technology, and occasionally, the end of the world.
Michael enthusiastically shares his latest creative endeavor: writing lyrics and using AI to generate custom songs. From birthday tributes to twisted lullabies ("There are no ghosts under the bed... just a bit of blood and gore"), his creations showcase how technology can enhance rather than replace human creativity. The demonstration of these songs provides both entertainment and a glimpse into how accessible music creation has become through emerging technologies.
Our book recommendations transport you across time and experience: Paul Murray's epic "The Beasting" offers a sweeping family saga, while Paul Harding's "This Other Eden" explores mixed-race families on a tiny Maine island in the early 20th century. We also rediscover "Allied," a 2016 WWII film starring Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard that somehow flew under our radar despite its star power and compelling storytelling.
The most thought-provoking moments emerge when we contemplate existential questions raised by "Paradise" - what happens to art, culture, and human achievement during apocalyptic scenarios? Does the Vatican's priceless collection mean anything in a world where survival itself is threatened? These philosophical musings sit alongside lighter fare like the etymology of financial terms and debates about why Cape Cod men of a certain age favor ponytails.
Check out Michael's AI-generated songs at suno.com under "Michael Over There" and join us next week as we continue our journey through the meaningful, the curious, and occasionally the absurd. Your weekly reminder that education and entertainment need not be mutually exclusive.
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Speaker 5:And that over there is Michael, she is always right, always right.
Speaker 1:Hello, welcome to the Ann Levine Show. It's April 22nd 2025. Oh, just another day in paradise, right everybody?
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:That's Michael over there.
Speaker 2:Hello.
Speaker 1:And he's sounding very low.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't know. Oh, you know why? I think I know why I've been doing a lot of singing, a lot of singing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, we'll be talking about Michael's singing. Oh okay, I'm sorry we weren't with you last week. We had some Passover obligations.
Speaker 2:Well, and your back exploded. So come on Right.
Speaker 1:It's just another day in paradise. Michael, I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 2:You couldn't move, so we couldn't really do the show.
Speaker 1:Okay, it didn't exactly explode.
Speaker 2:Well, no, my term I used earlier was it went nuclear it was hyperbolic.
Speaker 1:You're being hyperbolic, but it was Passover. Yeah, we did and so I was in and also belated Happy Easter to those of you who observe, that's right. Celebrate. Of you who observe, celebrate. I heard the funniest story Smosh story. Someone wrote into reddit an A I T.
Speaker 2:A right. Am I the jerk right?
Speaker 1:and it was about M-I-T-A. Right, am I the jerk, right, mm-hmm. And it was about this woman who's like 28 receives an Easter basket from her husband. Okay, and it's pretty luxurious, it's got chocolates and stuff in it, but then it's got three different kinds of perfume, right, and it's like over the top, really intense, yeah. And so her sister shows up. She's about the same age, she's like 30, I guess, and she starts in with you know what the heck did you do, you know?
Speaker 2:right, um, yeah, how do you get this?
Speaker 1:yeah, what did you do? Cheat on him and it turned into this whole thing. And so the um basket recipient says to her sister you're a jealous hag, ooh, yeah. And throws her out of the house.
Speaker 2:Wow, well, it got. That's not a term that's used a lot. I know that was the part of it.
Speaker 5:I didn't like.
Speaker 1:And I mean she said a lot of horrible things other than you know. Did you cheat on him? She said a lot of horrible things about them. But I was laughing to myself that these sisters one of whom is 30, the 28 and 30, get into a smackdown about an Easter basket.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it does seem a little weird, oh my God.
Speaker 1:And Easter baskets at all are the weirdest thing.
Speaker 4:Okay.
Speaker 1:No, I just think you know we're celebrating the resurrection of Jesus.
Speaker 2:Well, you know what the kids aren't.
Speaker 1:With chocolate? Well, they never are.
Speaker 2:That's right. That's why it is what it is.
Speaker 1:Well, no, there are other holidays that don't have baskets full of candy.
Speaker 2:Name a Christian or a big holiday that doesn't have some kind of candy. Name a Christian or a big holiday that doesn't have some kind of candy involved.
Speaker 1:Epiphany.
Speaker 2:It's not a big holiday.
Speaker 1:What are the big holidays?
Speaker 2:Christmas, Easter, Good Friday.
Speaker 1:Good Friday doesn't have candy. Good Friday is when you go to church. You do the Stations of the Cross.
Speaker 2:You spend most of the time on your knees, yeah, but well, you know what? I have to count that as Easter, though, so it's still coming around there.
Speaker 1:And you got Palm Sunday.
Speaker 2:Yeah, also Easter. Oh, okay, all right, I see what you're up to the whole area around Passover is really has been grabbed by the Christians. As you know, the Easter season what? Yeah, I didn't think they did stuff like that, what yeah?
Speaker 1:I never knew that yeah.
Speaker 2:Well, you know we are an educational show and, by the way, I want to remind people that you're listening to WOMR 92.1 FM in Provincetown and and WFMR 91.3 Orleans, the voice and spirit of Cape Cod, and we're glad you're here.
Speaker 1:We are glad you're here.
Speaker 2:You're listening to the Ann Levine Show, by the way, and we are the most educational broadcast today.
Speaker 1:Yes, happening right now. We are, yeah, now speaking of Easter and things eschatological.
Speaker 6:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Pope Francis passed away. Oh, that's right, frank died. So, as I mentioned in our last show, there will be a whole conclave situation going on which you'll be able to watch if you're interested, because on our last show he was still alive but shaky and he had just had like the quickening the death quickening as opposed to the birth one. And anyway, the Conclave is coming up.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So when all the Cardinals watch the movie Conclave.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there's a lot of cool people in it too. Yeah, it's got a huge bunch of stars in it oh yeah, it's, it's uh.
Speaker 1:Ray fines, isabella rossellini um um, I love her so much oh my god, I always have stanley tucci. Oh yeah, john lithgow, it's, it's one of those.
Speaker 2:I think there's a requirement in Hollywood now that if there is a film that has something to do with Italy that Stanley Tucci has to be involved.
Speaker 1:I think it's really law well, because he's touring, you know, doing his show. I don't know, actually, if that show is still functioning. It was not it wasn't all that.
Speaker 2:You know travel. You know food, travel logs or whatever you want to call them. Aren't all that after Anthony?
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, no, absolutely.
Speaker 2:That was the epitome, and now everything is kind of. I personally, you know, because that was the epitome and now everything is kind of—I personally, you know hold up everything against Anthony Bourdain.
Speaker 1:Oh, as far as a food show goes, I mean, those shows were just amazing, yeah, and he was amazing and I miss him so very much.
Speaker 2:I do too.
Speaker 1:Okay, so we can leave Easter.
Speaker 2:Passover Pope Easter's behind All right.
Speaker 1:Easter Passover Pope. Yeah, here are some things. I hope the conclave will be short. I totally abhor the things in the rope.
Speaker 2:That something here that rhymes? Yeah, okay, very good.
Speaker 1:It was a good try, thank you, I was close, I you. Yeah, I was close. Yeah, I mean, yeah, yeah, you really were, I was close. I must say that I am not alert at all. Right, but be that as it may, okay. So, speaking of the Pope dying, right? So, speaking of the Pope dying, I listened to my friend Nell and watched a the first episode, and I have to say that I knew instantly what the twist was going to be, and so I felt a little disappointed, disappointed that I could tell what was coming. And then I watched the second episode and I was like, okay, this is good, I'll want to watch more of this. And I turned it off. And then, oh, I don't know, I spent a little bit talking to my husband and then I thought you know what, let me watch episode three. Yeah, well, last night I wrapped up season one of Paradise.
Speaker 2:How about that?
Speaker 1:I watched the whole darn thing and it's so good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was not disappointing, was it?
Speaker 1:It's Sterling K Brown. It's a. Sterling K Brown joint it's so quirky, it's so odd.
Speaker 2:K Brown joint it's so quirky, it's so odd, but I love it.
Speaker 1:Well, it's really great and it's terrifying. Yeah, I hate to give us any kind of spoilers about it, but there's a weather catastrophe, I will say, on the planet, and so it has to do with what happens as a result of that, which is scary, and nukes start flying all around the globe. It's global, this catastrophe, and I started realizing what would happen and why. And I was. And, in light of that, when I heard that the pope had died, I was thinking about what would happen to the Vatican, what would happen to the pope and to all the big red puffy cardinals flying around over there? What would happen to the Vatican? What would happen to the Pope and to all the big red puffy cardinals flying around over there? What would happen to all of the art?
Speaker 2:that they own.
Speaker 1:That was one of the.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, that's the issues, yeah.
Speaker 1:You know, tig Notaro, to whom I listen on a weekly basis, who is joined by Fortune, feimster and Mae Martin on the Handsome podcast, talks about occasionally, when it's germane to whatever they're talking about. The number one thing we have to be concerned about is climate change and weather change and environmental disasters, and what she says is if there's no planet, none of this other stuff matters. None of this other stuff matters. And when you start to think about what's in the Vatican, if the world is ending, who cares? The art ceases to—things cease to have importance and value and meaning. All right, I'll move on.
Speaker 2:No, there's another level to that. What's that which I personally heard George Carlin talk about? The earth is going to be fine, the earth will be just fine Eventually. No, it's not going away. Nothing's going to happen to the earth. People, on the other hand, may entirely go away. The earth may shake them off like fleas, but it will come back, and it will come back quickly and beautifully and be what it is, just without us.
Speaker 1:Right, ok.
Speaker 2:There's a difference. Ok, you don't want to save the earth, you want to save the people.
Speaker 1:So I do want to save the earth.
Speaker 2:actually, the earth is going to be fine I've been here for 13 billion years and all kinds of stuff, all kinds of cataclysms have happened, say, that again Cataclysms.
Speaker 1:I'm talking specifically about this show. It's a TV show, yeah, so the Earth.
Speaker 2:I know, but you were talking about Tig and her position and I'm saying well, you know what? There's another position.
Speaker 1:Well, it doesn't. Either way you want to frame this and look at it, whether or not the Earth will survive Is irrelevant. If you frame this and look at it, whether or not the earth will survive is irrelevant. If the people are all gone, art is going to be meaningless. Everything's going to be meaningless. Of course it is Right.
Speaker 4:To the people.
Speaker 1:You said what about art? Because there won't be people. I'm responding to your question.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we've already done the art part.
Speaker 1:All right. Anyway, I really highly recommend it. Sterling K Brown is a genius. The show is brilliant.
Speaker 2:He's got such an interesting mind, it works very oddly.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, it's fascinating so, um, love, love him, love paradise, and um, I'm now obsessed by another show and concerned, and also not concerned, whatever. Now I did some big, big reading. I did a lot of reading in the past couple of weeks. What have you been reading? First and foremost, the Beasting by Paul Murray, which is epic. It's an epic novel about a family seen from several different points of view.
Speaker 2:It's pages long wow so it's a big um, it's like stephen king book it's a big commitment, yeah, but it's worth it.
Speaker 1:It's great, and I it's one that I highly recommend, one that I Well, I won't talk about what I didn't like so much, but here's another one that's extraordinary, and it's called this Other Eden, a Novel by Paul Harding, pulitzer Prize winner, paul Harding. That is a oh I don't know, maybe 150, 200 pages, and it's about Does that even qualify as a novel?
Speaker 2:Of course, wow, that's very small.
Speaker 1:No, that's kind of. Is that normal? That's average.
Speaker 2:Wow, yeah, most books are 200, 250 pages, right, well, I mean, but you just said 150, so that's you know.
Speaker 1:I said 150, 200, I mean I'm guessing which is, but but anyway, it's um kind of an incredible and it's about a little island, tiny island off of Maine, and starting in it's like that other book I was talking about oh shoot, what was it called when the woman gets marooned on a Canadian outer.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, of course I don't remember what that is, though I didn't read it, oh shoot.
Speaker 1:No, but you heard about it, yeah. Anyway, this is incredible, incredible to read about race. This is incredible, incredible to read about race. It takes place at the turn of the last century, so we're talking about a story that goes back well, actually goes back to the 17th century, but the action of this takes place in the 30s 40s. And it's this tiny island and it is populated by mixed race families. Now, when I say families, there are like four families, tiny island, and what it's like to live here in New England for a calendar year. It's also combined with many things. It's beautiful, it's lyrical. Those of you who like literary fiction would, I think, find this really intriguing, and the story is one that I've never heard before. It's about people from Africa and people from Ireland who married, who intermarried, and because of sailing routes, et cetera, all right. This Other Eden by Paul Harding. So them's my two books that I recommend to you. Paradise is my movie. Pope Francis is my deceased. Oh, yeah.
Speaker 1:Now maybe you can tell the audience and give a demonstration of what you've been up to.
Speaker 2:Okay, sure, all right, I wasn't ready to do that just yet, but all right, I can get there. I've been playing around with AI music and it's been a lot of fun. I've been going to uh, there are a couple sites out there that I go to and what I've been doing is I have been writing songs, I've been writing all the words, uh, and trying to figure out the rhythm and the meter to go with a particular particular genre, and then I put it into the AI and I tell it how I want it to sound and it tries to come up with something. It doesn't always work. It sometimes comes out really, really weird. I've had one that came out that sounded like a recording was being played backwards and forwards kind of at the same time, but it's just people talking and you can't understand any of it. It's very Simon and for Anne's great niece.
Speaker 2:Lillian and it's been a lot of fun. And okay, we can. I suppose we can play a little bit of something, right, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1:That would be great.
Speaker 2:What do you want to hear?
Speaker 1:Well, I'd like to hear. I know you have many, many compositions, but I would love to hear a song for Jose Lin, whose birthday was a few days ago. Happy belated birthday, and here's a gift for you from Michael Levine.
Speaker 6:Hey, Jose, just want to say you make our day when you tune in to play.
Speaker 5:Get up everybody. Time to celebrate. It's your birthday and we can't wait. Jose Lin, you're number one. You're Jose Lynn, you're number one, you're number. You're number one. Got us dancing, having fun. We're dancing, having fun. Birthday vibes Turn it up. Oh yeah, oh yeah, you're our favorite. Show some love. Show some love today. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Every time you send, that text makes us smile. You're just the best. Always there, through and through. This party's just all about you. Stand up, everybody. Let's make it great this celebration. Just can't wait. Jose Lin, you're number one. You're number. You're number one. Got us dancing, having fun. We're dancing, having fun. Birthday vibes Turn it on.
Speaker 1:turn it on. Oh yeah, oh yeah. So there you go, jose Lynn.
Speaker 2:So there's that yeah.
Speaker 1:Hope you enjoyed that.
Speaker 2:I want to make sure that he knows, and everybody knows, I didn't do this, you made this.
Speaker 1:Yes, I did.
Speaker 2:Yeah, this is. I didn't make this, so I don't want credit for it. Well because we were talking about the stuff that I've been doing. But yeah, this is awesome, but I did not do this one folks.
Speaker 1:So Well, I made this one. And be careful, all you other listeners out there, because I have your birthdays, I have your addresses and your phone numbers.
Speaker 2:And the fun part is that we can just plug it into the song and it'll sing it with your name, so that is pretty fun it would be.
Speaker 2:It would be different though yeah, oh, yeah, yeah yeah so, but can, I'm gonna play a little bit of something I've done, um, just so people can hear that too, because it's it's not all that there are. I mean, you can pick a genre and make your own kind of song. It's one of the coolest things ever. I did this one for our grandson, simon. It's a lullaby. It's a lullaby.
Speaker 4:The evening's gone, it's time to sleep. I pray the Lord, your soul to keep. Now gently rest your sleepy head. There are no ghosts under the bed, no frights or banshees hiding there. I've seen a few around here before. No snarling teeth and frightening hair, just a bit of blood and gore, a tiny little thing you can hardly see.
Speaker 2:So that's one of my lullabies for Simon.
Speaker 1:So there you go. Michael's been up to.
Speaker 2:Oh man, it's been a blast. I've been having so much fun with this.
Speaker 1:It's been a marathon.
Speaker 2:Yeah, here at the M&A Show.
Speaker 1:Studios.
Speaker 2:I have 16 songs that I've made public. So far that I've written.
Speaker 1:Do you want to tell people where to find your songs?
Speaker 2:Yeah, you can find them at sunocom and just look for Michael over there.
Speaker 1:Is that what it's called?
Speaker 2:That's what I call myself.
Speaker 2:Okay so yeah, I have a bunch of different kinds of songs and it's a lot of myself, okay, yeah, okay. So yeah, and I have a bunch of different kinds of songs and it's a lot of fun, but there's a lot of kids' songs, because I'm putting a bunch of them together, kind of a record sort of thing, to go along with a book that I'm going to send to the kids the kids, yeah, with the lyrics and a picture that goes along with the song. It's fun, I'm having a blast, it's great, and we'll hear another one by the time we get done with the show, near the end there. So that's what I've got. However, that's not the only thing I've got for you folks. Let's see, because we are the most educational show happening right now. Let me tell you a few things.
Speaker 2:This week, the United States Supreme Court halted deportation of detained Venezuelans. Halted deportation of detained Venezuelans. The US launched strikes on Yemen and an oil terminal, killing at least 64 people. The Houthis say A trial of nearly 200 people starts after Turkey protested their leader. There's a person dead after protests against Kentucky fried chicken branches in Pakistan.
Speaker 1:Oh my.
Speaker 2:God and a United States senator says the traumatized man deported to El Salvador was moved to a new prison. But we're not going to talk about any of that. What we are going to talk about is the origin of the word bank. Okay, you ever wondered where that came from, because I actually kind of have wondered.
Speaker 1:Well, I know where it comes from in Greek.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:So it comes from the word for table.
Speaker 2:Yes, or more specifically, it comes from, specifically from the Italian word banca, which means bench, and in 15th century Venice, jewish money lenders were not allowed to own property, so they had to conduct their business on benches in the piazza and that's why it ended up being called a bank. Now, more, more financial.
Speaker 1:More financial.
Speaker 2:More financial information here Ready.
Speaker 1:Fun financial facts.
Speaker 2:How about the word credit? Any idea where that comes from?
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:That's Latin, yeah, for the word credo, meaning I believe Uh-huh, or I believe you'll pay me back.
Speaker 1:Wow, yeah, how about that that is certainly.
Speaker 2:Here we are. Thank you very much. It's the Ann Levine Show teaching people new stuff all the time.
Speaker 1:Well, I'm going to.
Speaker 5:Right.
Speaker 1:Michael's facts of the week. I didn't know we were doing etymology. I'm glad we did some etymology. Yeah, and I'm fascinated that now the greek word for bank is trapeza, like trapezoid, which is also how you say table.
Speaker 2:Interesting Okay.
Speaker 1:Right on. My Greek friends ever mentioned that this came from the fact that Jews were money lenders.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:Et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 2:Right. Well, that's because we were talking about Italians.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, no, I mean, I'm sure it's the same. It can't be a coincidence. Look, you were Jewish. You had a piece of furniture.
Speaker 4:Right, I think that's what.
Speaker 2:That's the whole thing. You got it, jodhans. You have encapsulated it perfectly.
Speaker 1:Exactly On which you to do business. Yeah, because you couldn't have a building as such. No, you could have a table or a bench, or maybe a nice ottoman.
Speaker 2:Right. But well, it wasn't yours though. You know you just had, you know you couldn't own it, you just could sit there.
Speaker 1:You couldn't own a piece of furniture.
Speaker 2:Well, not the property it's on, so no Uh-uh.
Speaker 1:Well, couldn't you have your table at home and you unfolded it in the morning and you took it to the market square.
Speaker 2:You know you might be able to do that, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and was there just furniture lying around in the Italian streets?
Speaker 2:Well, in the piazza where they hung out, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't think so. I don't think there was furniture. Yeah, I don't know, I could be wrong, me too, yeah. But there's no furniture.
Speaker 2:Where's the furniture? Anyway? Really, that's what I want to know.
Speaker 1:Well, judd's, as I was saying, oh, there's another fact, exactly.
Speaker 2:Yes, good one.
Speaker 1:Go ahead, go on.
Speaker 2:The guy yeah, the Jordan's Furniture guy who is? I can't remember his name, but he's done their commercials here on the East Coast for forever and he's got very little hair but a long ponytail. Oh, it's classic. And a beard and everything, and he's just always been there, and now he has retired, so they're going to have to do something else, I guess.
Speaker 1:Now his name, not for nothing, and I'm taking this back to furniture and tying this all up.
Speaker 2:Okay, good, oh, good one Is.
Speaker 1:Elliot Tattleman. Tattleman, perfect, and he's retired and he won't be doing. I'll tell you what I will miss about Elliot Tatelman is the accent. Yeah, the accent is pretty good, which makes him absolutely. That's why I don't hate him, because the ponytail is enough to make it, except it's so Cape Cod Men in their 50s and 60s do these.
Speaker 2:It really is, isn't it yeah?
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's like they've got to let their hair grow long.
Speaker 2:You know what? I think they just get tired of cutting it yeah.
Speaker 1:I think it has more to do with. You know, they think it's got an anti-aging effect. That it gives them some kind of cool hipness.
Speaker 2:Okay, I wouldn't have thought that as a guy.
Speaker 1:Oh, totally, totally.
Speaker 2:Right, but not as a guy. I'm not going to think that. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:Obviously you don't think the same thing anyone else thinks.
Speaker 2:All right. Well, you have a point.
Speaker 1:Right, but I'm talking about the people we know I'm not going to mention them in town who are men of a certain age with ponytails. Yeah, and it's.
Speaker 2:And I think they just got tired of cutting it. That's what I think.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't. I think it's definitely a statement. I don't think men simply let their hair get really long because they're tired of cutting it.
Speaker 2:Okay, but I do, I know, so we'll have to agree to disagree on that.
Speaker 1:Not necessarily.
Speaker 2:I have a slightly closer viewpoint, so you know, that's all. I'm a little more familiar with being a guy.
Speaker 1:A little, yeah, okay, I'm a little more familiar with being a guy. A little, yeah, okay. We watched a movie that was interesting to me for a few reasons, but one of the main reasons is because I never heard of it and I never saw it before, and it's called Allied. Oh yeah, it stars Brad Pitt. I never heard of it and I never saw it before, and it's called Allied. Oh yeah, it stars Brad Pitt and Marianne Cotillard. It's a World War II film that takes place in Morocco in London, obviously. In Paris.
Speaker 2:Yep.
Speaker 1:And then it goes to London and it's about a Canadian fighter pilot and a German spy and it's about a lot to do with spy craft, yeah, and the various things that go on and the way they're handled.
Speaker 2:It's not a true story, but the writer heavily researched everything like heavily researched everything and so many things really happened that are actually sort of reflected in the movie. You know, there were these incidents, a lot of these incidents, where you know the Germans and the Allied, you know they were having affairs, they were getting together. There was a lot of that going on, yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, this surprised me because it wasn't something I set out to watch. We had been watching, actually, reacher, oh yeah, and this just started after it. That's right. And I realized wait a minute, is that brad pitt? Is that marianne co? Oh yeah, what movie is this?
Speaker 2:yeah, I don't remember ever seeing this either. I think what was it? 2016 or something like that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was nine years ago, yeah so I was just really surprised. And then I saw it was a world war. So I was just really surprised. And then I saw it was a World War II movie. And I was more surprised because that's a genre that I—.
Speaker 2:That is something you're really into, yeah.
Speaker 1:I love World War II movies. Yeah, I love World War II movies. So I was really surprised that this one with this star marquee was one that I never heard of and never knew anything about. So I partially recommend it, partially recommend it. If you like a World War 2 film or a spy film, give it a whirl. Yeah, I wouldn't say spend the money to buy it necessarily no but hey if it's on Hulu or whatever, after you finish watching Reacher.
Speaker 1:After you finish watching Paradise. Oh yeah, if we're on Hulu, right, by the way, that's where Paradise is streaming a very interesting story, and the craziest part about it for me was I'm not. I don't really cry at movies. That's not when I cry. I cry at other things, but I'm not a movie weeper.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And that film, Allied, actually got me. I was crying at the end. Yeah, it's a very powerful. It gets better as it goes and it gets very powerful.
Speaker 2:You know, and the, what do you call it? The chemistry with those two, with Brad and Marion Cotillard is amazing. And I think that's a big part of what makes it happen, you know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there was a certain believability. Yeah, um, that it might not have had otherwise. I remember thinking that they were both doing excellent acting jobs and, in a way, brad pitt playing this canadian uh was a French-speaking Canadian, a bilingual Canadian.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:And, believe it or not, there are very few of those, just some stalwart diehards in Quebec.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But listening to him speak French, which there's some of that in the beginning.
Speaker 2:I like how she mentions to him that it's very Quebec, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:And she's got a nickname for him. She calls him Quebecois, yeah, and so I liked that whole part of it and Brad really leaned in. He leaned into it. Yeah, he made an effort. He didn't phone it in. In my opinion, he did a good job.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think they both did yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and well, she's, just she's amazing, isn't?
Speaker 2:she's magical yeah, I, I agree. Uh, she doesn't really have to do much, she can just walk around and stand there on a slip yeah yeah, I mean, well, that's the thing too, that that was one of the things about it.
Speaker 1:That was oh, I don't know a little how you say Contrived, not believable.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I mean, you know, you've got like two of the most gorgeous people on earth who just happened to get hooked up.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Anyway, in Morocco.
Speaker 2:In Morocco yeah.
Speaker 1:But you know, it happens, I guess.
Speaker 2:That's what I heard, A lot apparently.
Speaker 1:So that's a film that I watched.
Speaker 2:I feel like I watched something else yeah, you watched an entire season of paradise that's true, that's what you watched, but see, that was. That was one day okay, yeah, but here's, here's the deal. You, you quit at episode six and you're like I got to go to bed. I'm wiped out. I forgot that part. I'm so tired, I have got to go to bed.
Speaker 1:And I said this flipping show. I can't stand this Right. So then I go into the bedroom.
Speaker 6:Yep.
Speaker 1:Oh, and I'm standing there. And I went and grabbed the remote Yep.
Speaker 4:Oh, and I'm standing there and I went and grabbed the remote Yep.
Speaker 3:Yep.
Speaker 1:Well, we've had a wonderful time spending this hour with you, hour with you and for the 59 hostages, living and dead, being held in Gaza now for a year and a half.
Speaker 3:Please put a light on. Put a light on. Let it shine through. Put a light on. I'll find you Put a light on, or make it true, empty rooms Filled with memories Of faces I don't know, but somehow understand they're waiting too. Every stranger passing by could be the one to see the light inside. My heart is here to break free. Put a light on, let it shine through. Put a light on.
Speaker 5:I'll find the light. Put a light on and make it true. And the world spins wide, I'll find a way.
Speaker 3:I'll lay home. Put a light on, let it shine through. Put a light on, I'll find you. Put a light on and make it true. Hey there, superstar, who you are sets you far Above the rest. I confess what a mess. I'm possessed by your flair, john Baker. You're the one they're talking about Every damn day. There's no doubt when you strut across that stage Got me feeling so deranged.
Speaker 3:John Baker's in a show with me, can you believe what's meant to be? Tomorrow night, we'll make them see John Baker's in a show with me, with me, in a show with me, with me. Mon ami, c'est parfait, tu es né pour briller. Je te suis, je te sais Sur la scène. On va danser. Hey, c'est la vie. La danse, c'est la vie, c'est magique, mon chéri. Those LL Bean boots hit the floor, making moves they can't ignore, hitting marks and stealing, stealing hearts, fucking, killing, all these parts. John Baker's in a show with me, with him, me. Can you believe what's meant to be Meant to be? Tomorrow night, we'll make them see John Baker's in a show with me. Your laugh, your style, that perfect smile, the way you own the stage for miles and miles, star breakers in a show with me, and I know With me the greatest thing There'll ever be, ever be the whole damn school.
Speaker 3:Is gonna see John Baker's in the show With me.
Speaker 4:I'd like to have a cookie or two so I can share with a friend, and if I don't have any, I'll have to go get some again. Chocolate chip cookies and cookies with cream, peanut butter, sandies the cookies of my dreams. I'd like to have a cookie or two so I can share with a friend, and if I don't have any, I'll have to go get some again. Oatmeal cookies, gingerbread, spice the bigger the better, and two is so nice. I'd like to have a cookie or two so I can share with a friend, and if I don't have any, I'll have to go get some again. Snickerdoodles awesome, they're magnificent. Put some of them around me. You'll wonder where they went. I'd like to have a cookie or two so I can share with a friend, and if I don't have any, I'll have to make a little bit of a mess here.
Speaker 4:Lillian in the car she screams Like it's a birthday or something, but her birthday's in April, not November. The sound is really frightening. It's just that she likes to sing, but the radio is off. It isn't playing. Oh, lillian is singing. Oh, lillian is singing. Oh, lillian is singing. Oh, lillian is singing. Singing in the backseat. Mommy, turn it up now. Taylor Swift is on now, but she isn't on the radio. She isn't on the radio. So Lillian is screaming. The sound is so frightening Because she isn't on the radio. She isn't on the radio. So Lillian is screaming. The sound is so frightening Because she isn't on the radio. She isn't on the radio. Oh, lillian is singing. Oh, lillian is singing. Oh, lillian is singing, singing in the backseat.
Speaker 6:Oh, Lillian is singing. Oh, lillian is singing. Oh, lillian is singing, singing in the backseat. Oh, lillian is singing. Oh, lillian is singing. Oh, lillian is singing. Oh, lillian is singing, singing in the backseat.
Speaker 6:Wish I was a dinosaur, a Tyrannosaurus Rex or a speedy Velociraptor or an Archaeopteryx. I'd like it for a day, but not a minute, more than I'd be a pterodactyl or an armored stegosaur. I'm a tank man, but hey, being a kid is alright. Got a whole lot of stuff to do. Paint a picture, ride my bike. That is after I get out of school. I also have some chores. No big deal. Being a dinosaur is cool, or a tiger, or a giant or a flea, but being me is a whole lot better Play a game, watch a show, eat some dinner, read a book, spend the weekend goofing off. Being a dinosaur may be a big mistook. Wish I was a mighty shark, a great big white swimming by, or a hammerhead searching out the deep, catch my fish, dinner on the fly, spend a day cruising the waves or sunning in my favorite lagoon. Then I'd glide and echo with the whales and swim the afternoon. But hey, being a kid is alright. Alright, got a whole lot of stuff to do. Paint a picture. Ride my bike. That is after I get out of school. Gotta clean up my bedroom. It's not all that bad. A shark would be a great way to be, but being me is a whole lot better.
Speaker 6:Wish I was a Bengal tiger hanging out in a green jungle all day. Check out these stripes. Don't call me Tony Now. Please get out of my way. I need to find a place to sun and nap. I'm a tiger, not an owl. I'll lounge about in the shade for a bit and then go on the prowl. But hey, being a kid is just great. Got a whole lot of stuff to do. Paint a picture. Ride my bike. That is after I get out of school. Might have to help set the table, but it isn't that bad at all. Tigers are a great way to be, but being me is a whole lot better. But being me is a whole lot better. Badoo-badoo-badoop-badoop-badoop-badoop-badoop-badoop.
Speaker 5:Scoobadoobadoop-doop-doop-doop-badoop-badoop-badoop-badoop-badoop-badoop-badoop.
Speaker 6:Roar-roar-roar-roar-roar-roar Badoobadoobadoop-badoop doop, doop, boop, boop, boop, boop, doop, doop, boop, boop Is a whole lot better.
Speaker 5:I'm a-bombing, I'm a-bombing, I'm a-bombing, I'm a-bombing, I'm a-bombing, I'm a-bombing, I'm a-bombing, I'm a-bombing, I'm a-bombing, I'm a-bombing, I'm a-bombing, I'm a-bombing, I'm a-bombing, I'm a-bombing, I'm a-bombing, I'm a-bombing. ¶¶. Thank you. ©. Transcript Emily Beynon.
