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Very Clever Trees
How many languages exist in the world? The answer might shock you—7,000 distinct tongues, with one disappearing every 40 days. This linguistic extinction crisis represents one of humanity's greatest cultural tragedies, as each language contains unique perspectives, knowledge systems, and ways of understanding our world that can never be recovered once lost.
Between discussions of vanishing languages, we dive into the absurdity of high fashion with Giuseppe Zanotti's $1,000 "Amelia Invisible" jacket—literally selling nothing but a receipt and an empty box. When the Emperor's New Clothes becomes reality, who's the real fool? People are actually buying these non-existent garments, proving once again that luxury marketing knows no bounds.
Our deep dive into Florida Man territory brings us to a gas station (why is it always a gas station?) where an intoxicated customer attempted to pay for fuel with Monopoly money, insisting it was "legal tender in the Community Chest." With a blood alcohol level of 0.3, he's apparently tried this scheme at multiple locations, earning bans from five gas stations and three convenience stores across the region.
Being the most educational show on the radio this very second, we also explore the fascinating science behind the Tonka bean tree—nature's lightning rod that channels electrical strikes through its trunk to eliminate competing vegetation. When lightning hits, these remarkable trees funnel the energy straight into the ground, killing vines and ensuring their survival against all odds. It's a reminder that in the ongoing apocalypse, cockroaches and Tonka bean trees will likely be among the last standing.
From social media influence (apparently you only need 1,000 followers to be a "nano-influencer") to bizarre wedding stories from India, our educational journey covers ground that no classroom would dare. Join us every Tuesday on WOMR 92.1 FM Provincetown and WFMR 91.3 FM Orleans, or stream worldwide at WOMR.org. Because where else will you learn about invisible fashion, Monopoly money scams, and lightning-proof trees all in one hour?
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Speaker 1:Hello. This is Ann Levine and this is the Ann Levine Show coming to you from WOMR 92.1 FM in Provincetown Massachusetts, and there's Michael over there.
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Speaker 1:With electric feel, and that's how we feel. And it's Tuesday, 05-06.
Speaker 2:Oh, good one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, 25. It's Tuesday, May 6th.
Speaker 2:We could still be drunk from all the cervezas. Oh, I was thinking of Cinco de Mayo.
Speaker 1:And I was thinking of Star Wars Day, May the 4th.
Speaker 2:Oh right, well see, it's been one heck of a weekend. It really has.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we're so hungover. Oof, yeah, wow, I'm still hungover from this morning when I had to get up to cancel my manicure appointment.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's always great when you have to get up to cancel something.
Speaker 2:Well, you know the problem there. The specific problem with this one, though, is that your girl is gone Wow, your nail tech has moved. Your girl is gone Wow, your nail tech has moved on to somewhere else yes, and they will never tell you where.
Speaker 1:Of course, they won't tell you where, because they want you to stay there, right? So my nail tech win who was not only someone that I really loved and enjoyed, someone that I really loved and enjoyed Vietnamese woman who at age 18, 19, 20, something like that went to you guessed it Israel to study drip irrigation, and she was in a lot my hometown.
Speaker 1:That is something, and it was so weird and of course we would have very strange conversations about, because her English is terrible. So I mean, for all I know, she could have been. You know, maybe that was all just a mistake, right?
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, it could be.
Speaker 1:And she was really, you know, in California, in the Napa Valley.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah.
Speaker 1:But she would say things to me like you know, shabbat shalom, yuppie, kala. So it was really weird. Every now and then she would like bust out a hebrew word or phrase, um, but yeah, she didn't learn a word, I mean which while she was there. Um, which is kind of typical, because I knew English speakers who had been there 15, 20, some odd years.
Speaker 2:In Israel, you mean.
Speaker 1:And couldn't go into say a grocery store Really and ask you know, or place a deli order. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, wow, um, you know, or a place, a deli order? Yeah, yeah, wow, they just complete. Now are, uh, okay, english speakers. Now are we talking about americans, canadians, australians, brits I mean not australians and brits so much.
Speaker 1:These were Jerusalemites, mostly Americans, that I was aware of. These are people that I met.
Speaker 2:I'm just wondering, because there's a certain cartload of arrogance that goes along with living in a place and refusing to learn the language. That's really awful.
Speaker 1:Well, in the case of some of these people, it was a literal—.
Speaker 2:That's a different language, lady.
Speaker 1:Rise up blades. Yeah, rise up blades. There you go. That's how you say razor blades in Australian. Okay, I've got to talk to my Australian cousin sometimes, sometime, and ask him to bust out the language for me.
Speaker 2:Oh, that would be a good idea. Yeah, he did critique one of your AI-generated songs.
Speaker 1:Well, he said it was of your AI-generated songs. Well, he said it was the best song he ever heard, because it was about waiting for Guffman. Does not border anything any countries that speak other languages except Mexico. Right, yeah, but plenty of people that border Mexico speak Spanish or speak some Spanish.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, yeah, I mean, that's really fairly common.
Speaker 1:But that's part of the problem with this country is that the idea even of speaking a foreign language to other people in their native surroundings is just not conceivable. No, it's just, it's weird.
Speaker 2:So anyway, no-transcript and you know, they won't have any of that.
Speaker 1:Guess how many people in Israel care about that, yeah, or in France, I mean, or anywhere.
Speaker 2:No, but I'm talking about around here.
Speaker 1:Well, you know that the more languages you learn, the easier it is to learn new languages. Yeah, I've heard that, which seems like you know you'd run out of space but you don't you make more space or something you make more?
Speaker 2:space or something. Well, there's a guy I follow on YouTube, xiaomannyc, who speaks I don't know how many languages. It's just absolutely ridiculous. And he's a young man and he speaks languages that are quite often, I mean nearly dead. Right, I mean languages. He goes and finds these very obscure things and he learns how to do them and then he goes and speaks to native speakers of this language and it's really, really fascinating.
Speaker 1:Well, I'm going to say that, based on some research I did recently, maybe he's a cheater because there are 7,000 known languages. Some research I did recently Maybe he's a cheater because there are 7,000 known languages in the world which stunned me. I never would have guessed that many 7,000. Okay, yeah, they are disappearing at a rate of one every 40 days.
Speaker 2:Yeah, isn't that something.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and it's a huge disaster for the planet, for the environment, for culture, for all sorts of stuff. But I did find that the most endangered language right now is in South Africa and it's a clique language okay so it's like an o with an exclamation point yeah yeah, that's, that's the language, that's what it's called. Oh okay, it's like oh, oh yeah, oh um, and it has one speaker.
Speaker 2:One left, right, yeah, and that's what's happening Every 40 minutes. The last speaker, or every 40 days. Right, the last speaker of a language is just. They're aging out, they're dying, yeah it's awful. It's very sad, yeah, I agree.
Speaker 1:Well, it's time to mention, of course, the Emperor's New Clothes. Okay, giuseppe Zanotti, who is I?
Speaker 2:think Giuseppe is Zanotti Zanotti. Okay, alright.
Speaker 1:Z-A-N-O-T-T-I. Giuseppe Zanotti. He's a designer. What does?
Speaker 2:Giuseppe translate Joseph. Okay, so Zanotti, he's a designer. What does Giuseppe translate Joseph? Joseph?
Speaker 1:Okay. So, giuseppe Zanotti, however you want me to say, it pulled an emperor's new clothes, and now I know him for shoes. I don't know his clothing at all.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:And maybe this is why I love his shoes. There was a pair that I really wanted for our wedding, but they're too. You know, they're crazy expensive.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Anyhow.
Speaker 2:No one saw your shoes, by the way.
Speaker 1:I know because I took them off.
Speaker 2:Well, and you had kind of a longer dress, so Right, not really a shoe showing dress.
Speaker 1:Got to be honest, I don't remember what shoes I had on.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't either.
Speaker 1:I think it was a simple tasteful black, not black, navy blue flat. Yeah, I think it was, of course. So he's selling I know we're old. He's selling a jacket for $1,000. Okay, and it's invisible.
Speaker 2:Oh great. Oh wait a minute. Did they actually put this on a runway? Yeah, I've seen. Oh yeah, I remember seeing. Oh, wow, that's so funny.
Speaker 1:It's called and, and this jacket has a name, as as clothing items do the the Amelia Invisible, amelia Invisible, invisible jacket. Yes, beautiful, $1,000. Now you know wearing it. Oh my God, wearing it.
Speaker 2:I get it. Oh, it's as light as can be. Yes, it goes with anything.
Speaker 1:Light as a feather, perfect for summer. Just throw it over a dress, right or not, it doesn't matter, no one's going to know. Weatherproof yeah, nothing will happen to the jacket. Here's what I want to know Okay, so you go to the store, okay, or you go to the store, okay, or you go to the Giuseppe Zanotti boutique. And you, what do you?
Speaker 2:What do you do with this jacket? Do you take your receipt and frame it?
Speaker 1:and put it on the wall. Well, no, here's the part I want to see, because it's the only evidence you have. It's where they take the hanger over by the register and you give them $1,000. Right, do they wrap this and put it in a huge? Do they put?
Speaker 2:it in a box. It's got to be boxed for $1,000, yeah.
Speaker 1:Now, do they have these ready under the counter?
Speaker 2:I wouldn't think so no, I want to see them do this. No, they would not have them ready under the counter because that's not personal enough, or maybe it's just an online order. Okay yeah. Available only online. That's possible, although there could be shipping problems.
Speaker 1:I want to know how many of these. Yeah, so when it shows up, it's just a label, right, exactly. Yeah, yeah, you PS hand you a label. So I want to know how many of these have sold, because I guarantee you, people have bought this.
Speaker 2:There's going to be some knucklehead out there. There's got to be the first one too. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so I enjoyed that story, oh yeah.
Speaker 2:That's a good one.
Speaker 1:I've also got. There's an AI generated okay, ai generated Right, and we all know what that means these days Book starring a hero named Error 404. Oh really, the plot is a data orphan lost on the internet trying to reset his parental controls.
Speaker 2:I see, very nice.
Speaker 1:So I say the whole thing is an existential crisis.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:I agree For all kinds of reasons.
Speaker 2:It sounds though a bit, you know, tron-like.
Speaker 1:Well see not having seen Tron, because I only do really new stuff.
Speaker 2:Tron is dated. Tron is very. I only do really new stuff. Tron is dated. Tron is very, very old, although there is a newer version.
Speaker 1:Of course. When is Tron from Original Tron? The 70s Somewhere in the 70s, oh my God.
Speaker 2:It was a baby, jeff Bridges. He was like 14 or something.
Speaker 1:Not really.
Speaker 3:Well, that's ridiculous. He looked it.
Speaker 2:If you look at it now, you're like that guy's 14 years old, because now he looks like 108. Jeff Bridges? Well, because he is. Yeah, see, so that long ago I'm alive man.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, in the middle of the last century. That's my Jeff Bridges. Oh God, stop it. That's my Jeff Bridges, he's got to be looking at 80.
Speaker 2:That was very good, your Lebowski thing.
Speaker 1:I'm alive man. The dude abides and he's the dude forever and ever.
Speaker 2:Yep, there may be a sequel, by the way. I have heard to the big lebowski?
Speaker 1:I have heard no no, no, same guys no, yeah, I mean I love all those guys.
Speaker 2:John goodman, steve, buscemi john turturro, yep, jeff and jeff bridges I know it was 75, by the way.
Speaker 1:Oh my god it'll be, 76 in december I don't like any of that. News 404. Okay, yeah, yeah. Also known as Kafka for kindergartners. Yeah, okay, yeah, or Control-Alt-Delete for the soul there you go.
Speaker 2:I like it. There should be a Control-Alt-Delete. And, by the way, the last tron oh no, it was 1982, the first one, and then the second one was, uh, 2010 yeah, okay, they've already been two enough enough, tron. What do you mean? There are 900 marvel movies and they're making three more every day, I know.
Speaker 1:I just saw an ad for a new Marvel movie.
Speaker 2:So just put this into the Marvel universe and you can make a million of them.
Speaker 1:I don't want any more. That's my point. I do not want any more. Okay, so I do not want any more. All right, well, okay, so Selena Gomez.
Speaker 2:I have heard of her.
Speaker 1:Well, her fans are called I don't know how we are pronouncing this.
Speaker 2:Okay, selenators.
Speaker 1:Selenators Selen, selenators, probably, yeah, or selenators, selenators, I, I don't know. Selenator, yeah, I was that your arnold doing selenator yeah, sort of Anyway. So on her Instagram she popped up a thank you Selenators message with a photo from the concert, and unfortunately the photo was of a group called Girls' Generation and it was a concert that they did in Seoul 10 years ago.
Speaker 2:Oh really, photoshopped a Korean crowd into Wow, that's very Fox News level, I know.
Speaker 1:And here's the thing about it that we have to remember Is Selena Gomez, who I think she may have more followers than anyone else on Instagram.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:I might be wrong, but I think she's the one. Anyway, regardless, she's got literally millions of followers on Instagram and everyone but she's not putting up her own stories.
Speaker 2:Cristiano Ronaldo. By the way, who is? Who has the most followers?
Speaker 1:Who the heck is that?
Speaker 2:He's a soccer player.
Speaker 1:Okay, how many does Selena have?
Speaker 2:Let me see Okay.
Speaker 1:Cristiano Ronaldo, the soccer player.
Speaker 2:She's number four.
Speaker 1:Okay so With 421 million followers all right, so half a billion people follow her well, here's the thing with cristiano, uh, ronaldo, right.
Speaker 2:the most followed instagram account is instagram, with 6.73 almost six, almost 674 million, right. Cristiano Ronaldo 633 million. So he's 40 million less than the entire total that is following Instagram itself. Well, I think that's great yeah, let's see Leo Messi, another sports ball's. Great yeah, let's see Leo Messi, another sports ball guy. Selena Gomez, and then behind Selena is Kylie Jenner.
Speaker 1:Oh my God, You're kidding me 398 million followers on Instagram. You are kidding me. Is she an influencer?
Speaker 2:Oh yeah. I wonder if she's the number one influencer.
Speaker 1:How many followers do you need to be an influencer?
Speaker 2:That's a good question. I don't know. I mean, it's never been something I've wanted to do.
Speaker 1:I see on Instagram. Of course, it's ads galore.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And they know who you are. They know how old you are, they know your favorite color. They know you have what pets you have. Yeah, and they know who you are, they know how old you are, they know your favorite color, they know you have what pets you have.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:What you like to eat, where you're from, blah, blah, blah, blah blah. They know everything about you and they gear the ads towards you. And I get ads geared towards me with a lot of women who look like me, and they are the influencers of my demographic.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:So you don't have to be a young gorgeous model, you can be an old gorgeous model, and you can do it with as few as 1,000 followers.
Speaker 2:Really, that's what they call a nano-influencer, and that's from 1,000 to 10,000 followers.
Speaker 1:Because I have— and then a mega-influencer which I'm partway there. I've got about 600 followers. All right, good one. The more content you put on, the more followers you get. I'm just saying.
Speaker 3:That is true, yeah.
Speaker 1:But I want to be getting free merch. That's it. Oh, I get it yeah. And so I get these ads, and it's from my demographic influencers.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 1:So I get ads for Judaica for one thing. Oh yeah, okay, I can see that, well, I want free Judaica and I'm happy to sit there and say this is the new necklace from Shalom Jewelry. Oh, yeah, okay, I can see that. Well, I want free Judaica and I'm happy to sit there and say this is the new necklace from Shalom Jewelry. Well, yeah, or this year, this menorah, blah-ba-dee-blah-blah-blah Right Lit my windows.
Speaker 2:Well, I guess you're not influential enough just yet. I'm getting there, you're getting there, you're getting there.
Speaker 1:Well my question is not how do I get to 1,000 followers? I've figured that out, easy enough done. How do I get to? All right. So somebody give me a break here, hand me you know, send me a necklace.
Speaker 2:Well, I don't know, but they're looking for people. So I mean they are out there scouting for people to influence others. All right, Well, I have to look more beautiful.
Speaker 1:I'm not going to do, I'm not going to put makeup on, which is the go-to move. Yeah on, which is the go-to move for when you're putting up content, when you're telling a story you put on your makeup.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1:As the thing you're doing.
Speaker 2:I didn't realize you had to do that. I've been doing it without for years.
Speaker 1:Seriously, you didn't realize it. You've watched Charlotte and everyone's putting their makeup on.
Speaker 2:I know, but I've only put on makeup like a couple times in my life.
Speaker 1:Well, you're a guy, so if you want to get free stuff, depends what you want to get.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 1:So you've got to be like sitting on the back of a trip pickup. If you're, if you're gonna go, use your massachusetts angle uh-huh doesn't matter what time of the year or what the temperature is. You need to be holding an iced duncan yeah, good point. Yep, I agree like the leader size, yeah, and you go from there yeah, I know, I, I agree with you.
Speaker 2:If, if you want to be an influencer in such a, you know, in that, in that realm, yeah well, I wouldn't want to be an. Instagram influencer at all. All right, because it's too static for me.
Speaker 1:Oh, I want to be an influencer.
Speaker 2:I would rather do YouTube and do videos yeah, that's you know rather than Instagram.
Speaker 1:Well, static, I don't. I mean, if I'm doing, say, a three-minute video or a two-minute video or a one-minute video, the length is depending on the length. It's where and how you can post Right, whether it's a story or a reel. Anyway, I have cracked the code, You've done it and I'm going to do more, but maybe I need to be more jewelry forward.
Speaker 2:Well, let's see, let me, let me uh, I'll tell you what it says. I said hey, how did I ask the uh, the magic, uh Googling machine machine what do you need to do to be an influencer? And it says while the follower count is an indicator of reach, it's not the only factor Engagement rate. So that's, you know how many people comment, or you know, like or share, or whatever. Content quality which you've got nailed, and niche relevance will also play a crucial role in determining an influencer's value to their brand. So you've got many of these already. We've just got to figure out what's the niche.
Speaker 1:What is that? Well, Jewish coastal grandma.
Speaker 2:Jewish coastal grandma Perfect, perfect. Okay. So you've even gotten that. I mean, that's fairly niche. So, engagement rate Do you get a lot of comments or shares or anything? Yeah, okay well.
Speaker 1:I mean the two that I did about israel. We just gotta get you up surprisingly thousand followers, that's like.
Speaker 2:That's all we gotta do I guess yeah, no, well, that's not.
Speaker 1:I mean a couple more videos, yeah, and I've got it. That was the followers I have came from two video stories uh, yeah, and. Yeah, and they went far and wide. Of course I was, and these were videos about incredibly important popular topics at the time. They were topical, right. But yeah, no, I could totally do. I can do it, you can do it.
Speaker 2:I know you can yeah.
Speaker 1:And I need to talk more about fashion, probably.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, I mean, and who else should be talking about fashion? Really, precisely, precisely so.
Speaker 1:That's right. And yeah, showing off like my new rash guard.
Speaker 2:You have fashion in your genetics. I do yeah, so come on.
Speaker 1:And well yeah, keeps me up at night, oh yeah, hey, here's a Florida man that I love. Okay, okay, this is one of my favorite Florida men of all time.
Speaker 2:By the way, folks, we still are and I counted still the most educational radio program in the world right now.
Speaker 1:Well, yeah, look what we've already imparted.
Speaker 2:That's right Now a Florida man's story. Come on, Everybody's got to know this.
Speaker 1:Well, this is one of my favorites because this involves an arrested gas station. Of course, it's everyone's favorite place to get arrested. In Florida, it does seem to be that way yeah. Is at a gas station or convenience store.
Speaker 2:Maybe that's just. Maybe everybody's just cranky when they're there, or something.
Speaker 1:I think they go there when they're cranky.
Speaker 2:They go there when they're hangry. I see, or when they're out of gas. Right, so well, you would think that that would make them feel better that they're at the gas station.
Speaker 1:Well see, I always do.
Speaker 2:Maybe there's fumes or something that's really.
Speaker 1:You know I got to say and I've always been this way since I started driving in the late, whatever Mm-hmm In the last century, yes, um, I always loved pulling into a gas station. My car is filling up, hopping out of the car, going into the convenience store part to pay. A little drink or a little snack yeah. Getting a Diet Coke yeah, it's great, Like peanut butter cheese crackers.
Speaker 2:There you go.
Speaker 1:Who invented those? Those are so disgusting and stupid and addictive.
Speaker 2:I love them.
Speaker 1:Yeah me too good, aren't they? And stupid and addictive. Yeah, I love them.
Speaker 2:Yeah, me too.
Speaker 1:Well, okay, so, but I never did this, which is what Florida man did and for which he was arrested, which I'm confused about. Okay, so he filled up his car, goes in to pay and they tell him that's $900 or whatever it costs to fill your car now. Okay, yeah, that's pretty close.
Speaker 1:And he pulls a wad of cash out of his pocket and it's Monopoly money, okay, and he, totally, he counted out the amount. Oh, my goodness, now he was bombed out of his mind. Okay, all right, he had I think was his blood alcohol Maybe that's why they arrested him Was 0.3?.
Speaker 2:Well I, why they arrested him Was .3?.
Speaker 1:Well, I mean, there's also the counterfeit money. Well see, my question is when someone pulls out monopoly money, is anyone even thinking, oh, this is counterfeit money. Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 2:Right, but all it is is counterfeit money. Do you know what?
Speaker 1:I mean Right, but it's a technicality. You know right away that this person is a lunatic or bombed out of their mind or a combination of both. Okay, nobody thinks it's not like counterfeit money that you think you're going to get away with. Do you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, it's pink and blue and yellow and it's tiny.
Speaker 2:I agree yeah. It's not it doesn't look anything like Like money.
Speaker 1:Regular money.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Doesn't look anything like regular money. Anyhow, he did get arrested, which may have had to do with I don't think he. He claimed that it's legal tender in the community chest.
Speaker 2:Okay, wow.
Speaker 1:He was hammered, he's been banned from five gas stations, three convenience stores.
Speaker 2:So he's done this many times.
Speaker 1:I don't know. Sounds that way he got arrested the one time, as far as I know.
Speaker 2:Right, okay, yeah.
Speaker 1:Wow.
Speaker 2:Okay, that's funny, that's hilarious, especially if it's happened more than once. That is killer. I know it he goes around with his Monopoly money. Hey, I need to get me some dinner. Go in and fill up the grocery cart, I know. Hey, I got me a brand new orange $500 bill right here.
Speaker 1:Right here.
Speaker 2:Drinks for everybody, that's awesome.
Speaker 1:So here's my next. I have a lot of stories today.
Speaker 2:A lot. I have a few, a couple as well.
Speaker 1:Do you want to break in, or should I keep going?
Speaker 2:Well, I don't know. We're halfway through the show, by the way.
Speaker 1:Uh-huh, so there you go, okay.
Speaker 2:All right, look the Ann Levine Show on WOMR and WFMR. By the way, provincetown Orleans.
Speaker 1:Massachusetts. Speaking of.
Speaker 2:Provincetown WOMRorg.
Speaker 1:We're streaming around the world.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Fortune Feimster.
Speaker 2:Oh man, you are in trouble young lady Fork off.
Speaker 1:You ticked me off bad.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you really did it this time.
Speaker 1:I wrote to her road manager this is back in the winter, like in, what's that?
Speaker 2:month November, December.
Speaker 1:January, I think it was in November, when the Melody Tent here on Cape Cod it's a 2,000 seat venue in the round and comedians and musical groups play there all summer and I said this is a great venue for Fortune Feimster to her road manager it's 2,000 seats and she pulls in a heavily gay demographic because she's gay. And you know, here we are, right, provincetown adjacent. As far as the Melody Tent goes, it's in Hyannis, yeah and boom. Next thing, you know, it's on the tour, it's on the Melody Tent goes, it's in Hyannis, yeah and boom.
Speaker 2:Next thing you know, it's on the tour.
Speaker 1:It's on the.
Speaker 2:Melody Tent Yep.
Speaker 1:On her Time for Biscuits tour, which I am not advertising.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Anyway, I kept checking to see how many seats they had sold, uh-huh, and it wasn't doing as well as I thought it should have. I think the word really hadn't gotten out by the time. Summer Well, her tour schedule is nuts.
Speaker 2:I agree.
Speaker 1:And I don't think she this is my guess. I don't think she and Mateo Lane, who was her opener, sold enough tickets.
Speaker 2:Also very, very funny. Well, not enough tickets soon enough, Right.
Speaker 1:They would have sold them If it had sold out right away, like Tig Notaro, who's one of her partners in crime on the Handsome um is playing town hall in promenade town in august. Yep well, that show sold out, of course in 10 minutes yeah and I think that the fact that god, I love tig.
Speaker 2:I know I sent you a video. Did you see it? I didn't, okay Of one of her stints on Conan.
Speaker 1:Oh, was it the one where she's pushing the stool around?
Speaker 2:So funny. I'm familiar with that one. It's one of the funniest things there is Because she just and she's right about comedy, right. You know, something can be really not funny at all, but if you keep doing it it gets eventually it's gonna get funny, yeah, and then it'll go up, and down and up, and it's just the more you do. It is yeah she actually example.
Speaker 1:She actually did a show in a club where she was when she was first working out, pushing the stool around, and she pushed. She ended up doing like 10 or 15 minutes on stage. Then she pushed it out into the audience, pushed it out into the audience and then she went out the door of the front of the theater. Oh, my oh that's hilarious audience followed her and she ended up pushing this is seattle, I don't know. Okay, I don't think so, I don't know. She pushed it across the street.
Speaker 2:And the street almost closed down because the audience is following her. Folks, if you have not seen this, we're talking about an older clip from Conan, in which Tig Notaro she is so funny, she is so, so funny and she just goofed once on stage and she just scooted a stool over and it made a noise and the crowd laughed and she said okay that's all it takes.
Speaker 1:And she, for the next half hour, scooted that stool around. Well, to hear her talk about that now is in itself a hilarious story, because you know, conan had always said to her just do whatever you want yeah and um, but the segment producer still has to hear what you're gonna do right and clear it. So she said I'm gonna push a stool around for 10 minutes or seven minutes or whatever the length of her segment right and the segment producer was like I'm going to need a little more. Nope, that's what I got.
Speaker 3:She's like, that's it.
Speaker 1:I got no more so.
Speaker 2:It is so funny. People Look it up. Yeah, check it out. Oh man, yeah, she just kills me.
Speaker 1:You know, I have a really good friend who lives in Minnesota. She lives in the Twin Cities in St Paul, Right yeah, and she used to be a shop NBC it was called back in the day it was NBC's QVC.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:It was NBC's Shop Network. Now it's called something like Shop HQ. I don't know. It's got new owners.
Speaker 2:It's probably changed names a couple times by now, right, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:But back in the day, now, back in the day. Now back in the day. Listen to me, I guess we're going about 18 years ago.
Speaker 2:20 years ago it was the channel for jewelry yeah, you got a lot of great stuff from there and most of what they did at fine jewelry.
Speaker 1:Most of what they did was fine jewelry. Now this is back when the price of gold was really good. It was reasonable right and you could buy a piece of fine jewelry for half or less of what it costs to buy a piece of fine jewelry now.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I mean when I think about you know what I used to get for what? I'm so frustrated that I ever sold any of it. Yeah, because it's worth a fortune now, yeah.
Speaker 2:Anyway, it's worth a fortune now, yeah, anyway. Well, the thing was, when you sold some of it, you got good prices even then, but still, yeah, I mean now Even more than that now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I wish I had hoarded it, but I didn't, and that's me Anyway. When my sister was very ill and was dying, frankly I couldn't sleep unless there was television on, and ideally no commercials and just talking.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:And not screaming.
Speaker 2:It's one of the things that these shopping networks do very, very well.
Speaker 1:It's hypnotic, yep, and it's addictive.
Speaker 2:The level never goes up or down, it stays the same.
Speaker 1:And they have no commercials except for their own stuff, right? So none of that changes, and coming up next hour we have this designer with this line.
Speaker 2:That's right and be here for the first 20 minutes when we show. You know when we have our special showcase.
Speaker 1:Right, so it's even, and one person will be presenting for anywhere from two to six hours.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:I imagine that could really be a slog Wow.
Speaker 1:Well, I'm not going to say her name, just because I'm not, but there was one woman that was on often in the overnights and she kept me company every night and I would fall asleep to her sometimes and sometimes I would buy something she was selling, and right up through when my sister passed. So it was during one of the most difficult times in my life, and after that happened I sent her an email and this is early days for emailing, texting it was really much easier to get in touch with someone. Even though I figured this woman gets a zillion emails a day, she's never going to look at this.
Speaker 1:But I said you know what? You've been keeping me company during one of the hardest times ever in my life. Blah blah, blah blah. Thank you so much. You know you're devoted. Blah blah blah. She wrote me back really soon after I sent it. We started emailing back and forth. Then we moved to the phone. We became friends. She came to New York. We ran around New York together doing weird shopping trips, like buying fake Hermes bags in Chinatown, having a blast, going to restaurants, whatever, for four days or something or something. And her company had a suite for her at the W which was brand new and there was only one in the world and it was very exclusive, and so we stayed there, not in my apartment. And then she came to the Cape and we spent a week here. That was during Katrina, so that was 04 or 05?.
Speaker 3:Do you?
Speaker 1:remember 05. Anyway, long story short, we became very, very close friends and in recent years we kind of fell out of touch. She had two kids and, you know, whatever her life became, she changed careers and like that, we sort of fell out of touch. Well, anyway, recently I shot her a text and I was like yo, sister, what are you doing? What's up? I'm thinking of you. Well, anyway, the point of this story really is to tell you what happened to her recently. Story really is to tell you what happened to her recently. She sent me a picture of herself with her face busted up, this weird like frame thing around her nose. How would you describe that thing?
Speaker 2:You described it well Weird frame thing.
Speaker 1:All right, it's hard plastic. Anyway, her nose is broken in three places and I finally found out what happened. She was house-sitting. Her friend, her girlfriend, had to go out of town for a week and she was taking care of this woman's dog. She had recently rescued a giant doodle. Now, if you've never seen a giant doodle, look it up, google it and see what these things look like. They are.
Speaker 2:they're usually a mix between a labrador and a full-sized poodle.
Speaker 1:But uh, some of them get really, really big, huge yeah, so I mean, some of them are bigger than you can imagine yeah, they're they, they.
Speaker 2:They weigh about 120 pounds.
Speaker 1:So like two or three times rosy Right, incredible. Anyway, now my friend is a very petite, skinny, five foot two woman and this was a rescue. It got spooked when she was trying to get it off leash by some noise or something and went towards her. She got head butted in the nose by the dog and that's how her nose got broken in three places. Yeah, so this is a warning to you If you're very petite, be careful of the dog size Doodle doodles yeah. Giant doodles.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:I actually I've seen these giant dogs on Instagram, not just the doodles like other giant dogs, yeah, that are like five feet tall when they're sitting.
Speaker 2:Cane Corso isn't a tiny dog. Those are huge.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:That's what I mean. Did I say tiny? No yeah, giant dogs, right, yeah, that's what.
Speaker 2:I mean, did I say tiny?
Speaker 1:No, yeah, giant dogs.
Speaker 2:Well, anyway, those guys are really really big.
Speaker 1:I want one. I want one that jumps up on me and it's hugging me like we can dance.
Speaker 3:I see Like its paws are on my shoulders.
Speaker 1:Something huge.
Speaker 2:Right, okay.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, I don't but I do.
Speaker 2:Well, St Bernard would do that.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:You have some news stories for us or?
Speaker 2:educational stories. Oh, you know, I have a thing. Yeah, we've got some educational stuff to take care of here. Let's see I don't know what did my glasses? The Sudanese RSF conducts their first drone attack on port sudan. The uk police arrest five men, including four iranians, over a suspected terror plot. Protesters want morocco to sever ties with israel, so they're targeting strategic ports. The pope is still dead, however. Donald trump posted an ai image of himself as the pope ahead of the papal conclave are you kidding me?
Speaker 2:no, but we're not going to really talk about any of that. We're going to talk about something you and I actually spoke about earlier this week. That, uh, I asked you a question. I said do you know what a tonka bean is?
Speaker 1:yes, and I answered yes and you answered yes you said what is it used for, and I right, I answered right, and you and your answer is it's.
Speaker 2:It's used in fragrances and in food, and in food and in food, right, mm-hmm? Okay, well, the Tonka tree, the Tonka bean tree, is the meanest tree on the planet. Mm-hmm, oh, my goodness. Lightning strikes kill millions of trees every year, not the Tonka bean tree. They have developed a way to funnel lightning straight down through them and into the ground around them and they get rid of all of the vines and all of the stuff that is trying to encroach on the base of themselves, just by getting hit by lightning.
Speaker 1:They're boom.
Speaker 2:Everything at the base is more tonka trees and more lightning strikes, we need a lot of lightning and some tonka bean trees and all the vines gone. Because that's what happens, you know, they get all these strangling vines in the forest. They're in South America and they get hit by lightning. And what they had to find out first? They're like you know what the question was why do Tonka bean trees not get hit by lightning? That was the original question. So they went out and they set up a bunch of towers that did that question. So they went out and they set up a bunch of towers that did, uh, that uh, you know, checked out radio frequencies of lightning and stuff in places where lightning hit a lot, and um, and they noticed, oh, these tonka bean trees are getting hit all the time but nothing is happening to them. So then they had to figure out why that was, and they've done so. But I mean, it's a little complex, but it's about you know the way that they're constructed and the lightning just goes through them and kills all the vines.
Speaker 1:Yeah, all the vines. So I mean, when the apocalypse comes, or the apocalypse is in progress, I should say what will be left are cockroaches and tonka bean trees. Yeah, wow, yeah. Well, knowing about the tonk bean trees makes me feel a little optimistic. Oh good, oh good.
Speaker 2:That's good.
Speaker 1:Which for me is very uncharacteristic.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I guess.
Speaker 1:Having just written a treatise about.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that is true, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the death of everything.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you've written quite a poem. Oh, my goodness, yeah. So now, what do you want to talk about? Alright, look, I mean, we're almost done.
Speaker 1:Well, do I have enough time to talk about? How much time do we have?
Speaker 2:A couple minutes.
Speaker 1:Okay, look, weddings in India.
Speaker 2:We know about them right, I've heard of them. Yeah, they're very long fancy affairs.
Speaker 1:Yes, so there are huge engagement parties. Huge engagement parties. When I say huge, they're all held outdoors because there are too many hundreds of people for any venue to hold.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:Or places where there are no venues as such. There are all these tents put up and there are pre-wedding things and parties and feasts and ceremonies, then the wedding itself and then, after the wedding is performed, there's like a week of stuff that goes on, including, you know, choreographed Bollywood stuff.
Speaker 2:That's right, there is a lot of dancing. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:And music and I don't know, and music and I don't know. Well, in India, and I'm not sure which city this took place in or which province, but anyway, the groom eloped with the bride's mother oh no Nine days prior, and took all of the wedding jewelry, which is a big thing, oh yeah, and the cash, oh wow, and a note saying don't look for us.
Speaker 2:That's hilarious, oh my goodness.
Speaker 1:Ha, so I'm leaving you with that. Yeah, priscilla Pointer passed away. She was 100 years old.
Speaker 2:And so did Ruth Buzzy.
Speaker 1:That's right. Yeah Well, priscilla Pointer I I want to mention is not one of the Pointer sisters which you may be thinking.
Speaker 2:She was on.
Speaker 1:Dallas. She was an actress, but she's most famous For being Amy Irving's mother, oh okay, which makes her Hollywood royalty by osmosis. But anyway she was a big deal in Hollywood. And for Priscilla Poynter of Blessed Memory, please put a light on.
Speaker 3:I'll find you Put a light on, we'll make it true. When the world spins wild, we'll find our way, our way home. Our way home, we'll find our way. Put a light on, let it shine through. Put a light on. I'll find you Put a light on and make it true.
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