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We've got a papal election, celebrity soup moments, and dogs celebrating birthdays! Welcome to the delightfully unpredictable world of The Anne Levine Show, where host Anne and co-host Michael Over There™ masterfully weave through cultural touchpoints both global and hyperlocal.
The Vatican's white smoke signaled the arrival of the new Pope Leo XIV (formerly Robert "Bob" Prevost), a Chicago-born 69-year-old with surprising inaugural priorities including AI ethics. Meanwhile, the Met Gala celebrated Black dandyism with Rihanna announcing her pregnancy in Marc Jacobs, Zendaya channeling Diana Ross and Bianca Jagger, and Diana Ross herself wearing an 18-foot train embroidered with family names – a powerful recognition of Black fashion's enduring influence on mainstream couture.
Against this backdrop of world events, Anne and Michael celebrate their dog Yaya's third birthday, lamenting how quickly our beloved pets age and wishing scientists would focus less on space exploration and more on extending canine lifespans. Their discussion ventures through social media absurdities (Taylor Swift's jet now has its own Instagram account), unusual news (a Vermont town swore in AI chatbot "Greg" as ceremonial mayor), and celebrity dirt (Kylie Jenner being escorted from Art Basel after sitting on a $40,000 chair installation).
The conversation takes a uniquely Cape Cod turn with shark cam footage capturing a drag queen paddleboarding with seals in Provincetown, prompting officials to respond with "Shantay, you slay. Also, please exit the SEAL nursery area immediately." Historical tidbits about beard taxes in England and Russia provide educational value, while frank discussions about aging – complete with references to "neck flaps" appearing at 55 – remind listeners that The Anne Levine Show delivers both entertainment and authenticity in equal measure.
Join us weekly for this uniquely engaging blend of news, nostalgia, and observations that somehow manage to capture the zeitgeist through a lens both intimate, expansive, and flappy. Where else will you find conversations that jump from papal elections to paddleboarding drag queens with such seamless delight?
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Show Introduction with Anne and Michael
Speaker 2I want to know if you've ever eaten at a restaurant in Port Angeles.
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Speaker 3You guessed right it's time for the Anne Levine Show. This is today and everything else is yesterday's mashed potatoes. W-o-m-r. 92.1 FM. Provincetown.
Speaker 1And that over there is Michael. She is always right, always right. You're a spaceman in Tulsa, so you cover it up in clown white. All these elegant boys make such delicate toys and they know it.
Speaker 2Hello, welcome to the Ann Levine Show. This is Ann Levine on WOMR, and we are starring today Michael over there.
Speaker 1Hello.
Speaker 2This is 92.1 FM in Provincetown.
Speaker 3That's right, and 91.3 FM WFMR Orleans.
Speaker 2And we got Counting Crows.
Speaker 3Well, yeah, and we got WOMRorg, where we're streaming 24-7 worldwide.
Speaker 2How about that? That's true too.
Speaker 3It's amazing, it really is, when you think about it.
Speaker 2Spaceman and Tulsa. That's what we're playing.
Speaker 3Love this song and, if you're interested, counting Crows will be at the MGM Music Hall at Fenway on the 26th of June.
Speaker 2Really. Yeah, I'm interested. Okay, well, there you go At the MGM at Fenway. I don't even know what that is.
Speaker 3Well, I mean, we'll just go to Fenway and we'll find it, I'm sure, right, right.
Speaker 2Fenway, and we'll find it, I'm sure, right, I mean, is it what Fenway concerts are called now, or?
Speaker 3is it?
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Pope News: A New Papal Election
Speaker 2That's what I know about it. Okay, I thought you might know something. You don't know something, so we had white smoke this week.
Speaker 3Oh, that is right. Oh wow, we did.
Speaker 2Which means we've got a new poppy. That's right.
Speaker 3A new pope, pope Bob.
Speaker 2Leo XIV is his pope name, his new pope. Pope Bob Leo XIV is his pope name, his new?
Speaker 3name.
Speaker 2His real name is Robert Bob Prevost. Yeah, and he was born in Chicago. Go Bess.
Speaker 3Yeah, you are.
Speaker 2And he did missionary work in Peru and he's a member of the Augustinian Order.
Speaker 3Right.
Speaker 2Yeah, now this part kills me. His inaugural address emphasized peace, freedom of the press and the ethical considerations of AI.
Speaker 3Okay, all very important things, I think.
Speaker 2Yeah, and wow, go Poppy yeah.
Speaker 3He's been very critical of the United States administration, the current administration, well, and he was during their last go through, when he was still Cardinal Bob, yeah.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 3Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2Well, he's spry, young, 69.
Speaker 3Yeah, I know they wanted a guy that could be around for a while. They were hoping right and still not too young.
Speaker 2How long was Pope Francis?
Speaker 3I don't know, was it 15, 16 years?
Speaker 2That's a good run.
Speaker 3Yeah, that sounds pretty good. I mean, you know, if you're a pope, right?
Speaker 2Oh yeah, now I wonder why he picked Leo XIV. 12 years, 12 years, yeah, okay, not bad.
Speaker 3Right yeah.
Speaker 2And right before him was it the German Shepherd, but then before him was it JP2?.
Speaker 3JP2, yeah.
Speaker 2Wow, all right. Well, it was, that's today in Pope News. Yes, that's our Pope News. Yeah, the Ann Levine.
Speaker 3Show the world's most educational radio program.
Speaker 2And we may not mention Pope News again until there's the next Pope.
MET Gala 2024: Black Dandyism
Speaker 3Or something Alexander Pope or you know something like that, but not really papal kind of news.
Speaker 2Yeah, papal news yeah, metgala, oh yeah oh yeah, that happened took place that was interesting well, yeah, and I gotta say the theme this year was called super fine, tailoring black style, celebrating black dandyism and menswear.
Speaker 3Right Yep.
Speaker 2Now I can think of one designer whose name escapes me.
Speaker 3Oh, okay, all right.
Speaker 2Yeah, he's the guy that does all the. He's in Harlem. He does all the dandy clothes, uh-huh. Can you see, if you could? I can't remember his name. He's got a store.
Speaker 3Is it Dapper Dan?
Speaker 2Yes, Dapper Dan. Yeah, Now personal. I don't know who the designers were that they were celebrating. I'll be honest with you, I couldn't get too deep into this. Michael and I had a busy week with relatives visiting We'll get to that but didn't get a chance to really put in the time for black dandyism, right. But Dapper Dan is the man who makes dandy clothes.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 2For well, for anyone, but his target audience is black men. Yeah, all men, yeah, all right. Okay, rihanna showed up in a Marc Jacobs rig, okay, and announced her third pregnancy. Oh, that's right, I'd heard about that. Yeah, yeah, third pregnancy.
Speaker 3Oh, that's right, I'd heard about that.
Speaker 2Yeah, zendaya.
Speaker 3Because she was like in her third month and it was showing a little bit.
Speaker 2Yeah, she had a little bump. Zendaya did an homage to this pair, which maybe you can come up with a connection, I don't know An homage to Diana Ross and Bianca Jagger. I'm not sure what that means, but she was wearing an all-white suit, so is that something Now? Bianca Jagger used to wear an all-white trouser suit frequently, right?
Speaker 3yeah.
Speaker 2But Diana Ross.
Speaker 3Maybe it's the hat. Oh, because the big kind of floppy hat very Diana Ross.
Speaker 2It is yeah, I think so. Okay, well, there you go, and then Diana Ross who was there.
Speaker 3Yeah, it's exactly the kind of hat from 1975.
Speaker 2Okay so, that was the mashup Right. Diana Ross herself was wearing an 18-foot train. Oh, my Embroidered with her family's names. Diana Ross herself was wearing an 18-foot train oh my Embroidered with her family's names. Now these embroidered trains have become a thing, and it's Meghan Markle's fault, in my opinion.
Speaker 3Was it the wedding dress?
Speaker 2Yeah opinion, was it the?
Speaker 3the wedding dress? Yeah, remember she had this like intricately embroidered train with had all 50 states. Uh, in it, didn't it?
Speaker 2for some. I don't think it was.
Speaker 2It 50 states somebody did yeah, I don't think it was megan mark, megan markel at her wedding to Prince Harry doing America. Maybe I'm wrong, I don't know. I don't remember. I know that it had all kinds of symbols special flowers symbolizing certain things, certain things and little. There were little hints about her relationship with harry um and the dress. The dress was pretty awesome, I I've got to say, but the train was not so fab with that dress. Yeah, well, as I'm remembering it right now I don't know, she was in a coach and there was that lunatic preacher. Remember him.
Speaker 3Oh yeah, In.
Speaker 2Westminster Abbey, yep.
Speaker 3He looked like he was from Britcom, like from Father Ted or something I know. It was insane.
Speaker 2The whole wedding was so crazy because you had the Brit side. You know stiff upper lip and all that.
Speaker 3Right.
Speaker 2And Prince Charles and Camilla and everyone. Well, the queen, she was still alive, everyone looking absolutely miserable. And then there was Team African American, which, you know, included African American luminaries right, well, and many of them were Megan's friends, right?
Speaker 3yeah?
Speaker 2but it wasn't a group that you normally see at one of these things, that many Americans and that many people of color, and I mean, like Oprah was there and Gayle King was there, well, yeah, that cracks me they're Siamese twins. They are. They joined at the wallet.
Speaker 3That is very, very funny.
Speaker 2Well, that's where they're joined. Yeah, um, anyway, met gala surprise performance by stevie wonder and usher okay and uh, it was the influence of black fashion on mainstream couture. Now that is huge.
Speaker 3Yeah, oh yeah, no question.
Speaker 2So, right, this second I'm wearing a hoodie. I wear a hoodie very often. I love hoodies. That comes from black culture. It's a long way down. I wish I had the speech in front of me that Miranda Priestly gives about the importance of fashion, why it's important, and I wish I had that and the trickle down Right and how it gets to eventually gets to the store shelves From a trickle down Right and how it gets to eventually get to the store shelves.
Speaker 1From a runway to.
Speaker 2Target Yep, and I buy a lot of my hoodies at Target actually.
Speaker 3Anyway, you know they're good for that. They got a lot of them.
Speaker 2I need to have that. You know how Judge Judy has that letter about pitbulls right up on the lectern.
Speaker 3Oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2I need the.
Speaker 3Oh, you need the fashion, the importance of fashion. Yes Statement ready at all times.
Speaker 2And because of my dad. I started crying. As soon as I heard that I was like yes, yeah, it's important. By the way, it was Larry Levine's 99th birthday on Saturday.
Speaker 3Oh yeah, that is correct.
Speaker 2Larry Levine a blessed memory.
Speaker 3You know, you did say birthday Sorry.
Speaker 2It was his birthday.
Speaker 3I know the day he was born. I understand, I know there's also another birthday.
Speaker 2Well, that's a different birthday, that's yesterday's birthday.
Speaker 3Really big deal.
Speaker 2Yaya turned three.
Speaker 3Our little Yaya, our little dog, our little tiny dog.
Speaker 2Who's just a baby puppy.
Speaker 3Yeah, she's still very small, but she's now three years old. She's very tall, though Quite tall.
Speaker 2I can't stand the lifespan. Who was it? Somebody recently I saw on Instagram saying screw space exploration, screw research into, you know, black holes and various other things on the planet and even climate change. Sit down and come up with a way that our dogs live for twice what they live now yeah, or three times what they live now yeah. Or three times what they live now. Yeah, because I refuse to accept the fact that, at age six, our dog, rosie, is a senior-ish middle age.
Speaker 2Right, yeah, and our cats, who are nine, are old, all right.
Speaker 3I know I don't like it either. I don't like it either. I don't like it one bit.
Yaya's Birthday Celebration
Speaker 2Very upsetting, extremely upsetting. Alright, I've got a few.
Speaker 3So happy birthday, Yaya.
Speaker 2Happy birthday, yaya, I have to put up her picture.
Speaker 3You know what I'm going to do just for a second here. I'm going to do some of this.
Speaker 2We have a song for our little Yaya, we sure do Go little Yaya, go Yaya, the tiny rocket. Go little Yaya, go Yaya, the tiny rocket.
Speaker 1Go little Yaya go. A whirling blur of light. Go little Yaya go. Could almost fit my pocket. Go Yaya go, go Yaya go.
Speaker 2She runs and she runs, and she runs and she runs.
Speaker 1And she runs, and she runs, and she runs. There's a theme here she runs and she runs, and she runs and she runs.
Speaker 3Yesterday she ran far more than I've ever seen her do in one entire day. She went all through the up in the backyard. She was way the heck up there running back and forth up there. Then we came to the side yard. She was over there. We were out in the woods. She was running like crazy. Then we came back to the house. She started running like crazy in there and then she came inside and started running.
Speaker 2She was running around in the house. She was just non-stop. She was like it's my birthday tomorrow, Yay.
Speaker 3Yeah, very excited because they know that they get a boy. They get the treat on their birthday.
Speaker 2Yeah, we who are usually very stringent with our dogs, give them steak actually filet on their birthdays, and they both get it. That's right, because chas ve shalom that one should.
Speaker 3Right one get it and not the other Right. No, that would not work. No.
Speaker 2No, and even the cats sometimes get shrimp.
Speaker 3And this is not just their birthdays, but their gotcha days, the days that we adopted them.
Speaker 2We do that as well, so four times a year, yeah, plus special holidays.
Speaker 3Right, well, you know, you know, yeah, that kind of thing.
Speaker 2What dog doesn't love Christmas?
Speaker 3Yeah, anyhow, or corned beef.
Speaker 2Or St Patrick's Day for that matter. Yeah, so there you go. Our dogs are half Jewish, half Christian.
Speaker 3Yep. Yeah, the inside half is Jewish.
Speaker 2That's interesting. I never thought of it that way. Alright, I got a few Instagram things here. First of all, taylor Swift's Jet Now has it's own Instagram. Jet okay, now has its own instagram of course it does now get this. Oh boy, a parody account tracking the swift jets. Every move got 1.2. Now there's a. There's a real account for her jet, yeah, and there's a parody account about it. Gotcha, yeah, the updates that it posted. Okay, leaving Kansas City emotionally burdened. That was one of them.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 3Oh, and who doesn't really?
Speaker 2And here's the other one that I took note of Really, and here's the other one that I took note of Landing in.
Speaker 1Milan with seven types of cheese on board.
Speaker 3Yeah, yeah, oh that sounds exactly right. It does yeah.
Speaker 2And I'm thinking I should start a Taylor Swift parody account, because remember last week I was talking about wanting to be a micro influencer true, true, no I want to be uh, I gotta come up with, I gotta come up with something. I need an angle yeah, that's right yeah I don't think it's gonna be a swift angle okay because I'm not that much of a fan. I can't help it, but something.
Speaker 3Something, maybe a counting crow. We are accepting ideas here, folks. We are.
Speaker 2Please go to the Facebook group of the Ann Levine show or to the Ann Levine show Instagram or any of the other Ann Levine Show Instagram, even better or any of the other.
Speaker 3Ann Levine Show things that are out there.
Speaker 2And let us know your ideas for a good parody account.
Speaker 3Yeah, not one with parrots, but a parody.
Speaker 2Oh, thanks for the clarification.
Speaker 3I've been watching a lot of parrot and cockatoo videos lately, so that's been on my mind.
Speaker 2I'm glad you were able to let those pixels out.
Speaker 3Thank you, yeah, me too.
Speaker 2Okay, here's one of my favorite things. Last week we talked about the guy in Florida that was trying to pay for gas and convenience store items with Monopoly money. This week we've got a Wisconsin man story.
Celebrity News and Instagram Drama
Speaker 3A cheese head Wow.
Speaker 2Who's proposing using cheese as legal tender Right on Now, I would. There are things I would trade for a block of cheese, uh-huh, you know all kinds of things really yeah, such as oh dear such as oh dear well um a piggy bank shaped like a pig.
Speaker 3Oh okay, well, you do have you already have one of those? That's why I'm saying oh, I would give him one for a block of cheese.
Speaker 2Oh right, yeah, so in Curd we trust Right, and here's my favorite, because AI really has got me and a write-in campaign led to a chatbot named Greg getting sworn in as the ceremonial mayor of a Vermont town.
Speaker 3Really, oh, that's awesome.
Speaker 2Greg the robot is now the mayor Right and his policies include and I want to move to this town mandatory siestas.
Speaker 3Oh, good one.
Speaker 2And more pickles at town events.
Speaker 3Okay, you know what I'm on board with Greg. I'm voting for him.
Speaker 2Greg's my man. Yeah, when is election day?
Speaker 3uh is it tomorrow? Uh, it's today, the 13th right, I mean, yeah, it's midnight, so it will be later today okay yeah, all over the place, I know in dennis and I know they're uh in brewster and yarmouth and yeah, local elections are happening.
Speaker 2Well, we gotta go do that voting thing we do.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 2Alright, now I've got some celebrity dirt bag news Okay, alright. I love celebrity dirt bags.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 2Well, kylie Jenner is. Who has? Didn't we speak about her last week? She's got the most Instagram followers of anyone, right?
Speaker 3One of them. Yeah, she doesn't have the most.
Speaker 2She's like the fourth, she's four. Instagram has the most.
Speaker 3Right, exactly.
Speaker 2And then Kylie Jenner, or whatever.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 2Well, she went to Art Basel.
Speaker 3Okay, and where?
Speaker 2I'm not sure Florida. I think it was Miami. Okay, and she goes in to the exhibit. Let me look this up, because I think it was Miami.
Speaker 3I mean, that's the one I know about, because we've had a friend who was.
Speaker 2Yeah, we had a friend who On an exhibition there. Let's see, he had some beautiful things there let's say he had some beautiful things there. Uh, oh, she was travis.
Speaker 3She was with travis scott yeah, I think that's her husband yeah, so well, they share two children, whatever that mean oh, okay, maybe and this was Art Basel Miami. All right.
Speaker 2Yep. So she walks into this exhibit and sees this chair and goes love this chair and of course she either took a selfie or had someone take a picture of her sitting on this chair.
Speaker 3Right.
Speaker 2Well, it was a $40,000 installation. Oh great, it was a piece of art, great. So Dirtbag Kylie was grabbed, by security, of course she was. And escorted out gently, supposedly. You know God, entitlement doesn't even I mean all right, look a $40,000 chair yawn, yeah, yeah, I'm with you. I can't even.
Speaker 3I mean it'd have to be like wow, it would have to be like a rocket chair or something. I mean, come on A rocket chair, something it would have to do something.
Speaker 2Something for celebrities to ride into space. Yeah, I don't know, I got no patience for that.
Speaker 3Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2Honey Badger got no time for that.
Speaker 3Right, exactly.
Speaker 2Okay, now Ryan Gosling yeah, yeah, yeah, Dirt bag.
Speaker 3Birthday twin, you know. Of yours yes, yeah, november 12th.
Speaker 2Well, he has started a workshop called Plastic Self-Awareness.
Speaker 3Uh-huh.
Speaker 2No clue what that means.
Speaker 3Okay, I mean, I have a little bit of an idea.
Speaker 2Okay, go ahead.
Speaker 3It's a self-awareness that evolves, that changes. That is flexible not quite fluid, but it is. You can stretch it. It's like plastic. Well, I would say that's more like rubber than I mean plastic, but plastic is often used in that sort of way.
Speaker 2Okay.
Speaker 3Yeah, and plastic and elastic actually are often used in the same way. Just you know.
Speaker 2Well, it's a wellness retreat.
Speaker 3Okay.
Speaker 2And so one of the workshops is, and it's called, kennergy.
Speaker 3Oh, wow, wow. He is really milking that one. What is that? Explain what that is. He was ken in the in the barbie movie.
Speaker 2So right he's, he's taking that for a ride well, for a literal, literal ride, because one of the workshops is horse girl healing oh well, there you go you know. So horse girl healing yeah, that's where you take energy for a ride, yeah. And then there's plastic self-awareness, toxic positivity through jazzercise Wow that sounds really beastly. Well, it is, and this is. You know, it's for men, or those who identify as men.
Speaker 3I suppose I was going to say, as soon as you said jazzercise, you just knocked out all of the men I know.
Speaker 2Well, but it's toxic positivity, Right yeah, through jazzercise. Now, to be fair, I don't know why I want to be fair about any of this. But he is, you know, millennial. Are they millennials? No, what are they now? Gen Z, the 20-somethings, yeah.
Speaker 3I think so.
Speaker 2They're into all sorts of weird stuff. Right so Jazzercise, they love retro stuff. Right so Jazzercise, they love retro stuff.
Speaker 3That is true. I actually saw somebody with a zoot suit. Where did we see that? We saw it on TV the other day.
Speaker 2Oh, do you mean on Jeopardy?
Speaker 3No, it wasn't that Isaac guy, it was a full suit with the hat and the whole deal. I can't remember where the heck it was. We saw it, but it was, and it might have been part of something some you know award show or something that was going on.
Speaker 2Well, it's weird that you mentioned that, because larry levine in his yearbook is called.
The Aging Process and Neck Flaps
Speaker 3You know how there's most likely to succeed most like right yeah, his was the original zoot suitor really Really Yep Right on, so even way back then he was fashion.
Speaker 2He was fashion baby he was. So anyone interested in Ryan Gosling's Kennergy Wellness Retreat, just dial 1-800-DIRTBAG.
Speaker 3Okay.
Speaker 2All right now.
Speaker 3Hey, I want to remind people that they're listening to the Ann Levine Show on WOMR and WFMR 92.1 and 91.3 FM and streaming worldwide at WMRorg.
Speaker 2That was so radio of you. Thank you, it's beautiful.
Speaker 1Thank you.
Speaker 3I've actually gotten quite excited by the commercial with the girls doing the delicious dish again.
Speaker 2Oh, I really appreciate that it's Molly Shannon and Anna Gasteyer.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 2And that was the sweaty balls, one of the funniest things ever on SNL, Yep.
Speaker 3And they're using that for a commercial for something now I can't remember what but Some insurance.
Speaker 2Yeah, very funny and I'm glad to hear them back. I know me too. It's scary how, like you were just pointing out something, I had also noticed that Royal Match, which is the most dumbass phone game series of all time. And God help you if you play a phone game, because you're going to get commercials for it every five minutes. Five minutes, yeah, courtney cox and lisa kudrow right doing a commercial are the latest people doing a commercial for that.
Speaker 3Yeah, I mean uh and courtney cox did not look anything. I didn't recognize her I did I mean I? I knew who it was only because of her proximity well, you're talking about her plastic surgery yes, yeah, I am, it's it's not right.
Speaker 2I, you know, I used to the mirror and I think, god, I wish I could get these neck flaps removed, or I wish I could get my jowls lifted. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean I'm making myself sound much worse than I look, I think, but yeah, I got jowls and neck flaps. You know they're in the early stages.
Speaker 3Well, I mean as soon as you turn 55, you start flapping. Everybody does.
Speaker 2Yep, and I think that the neck people say it's the back of your hands. I have to say the back of my hands are pristine.
Speaker 3Yeah, back of my hands look pretty good too, actually.
Speaker 2But are the most aging. And your neck? Yeah, for me I think it's just the front. Yeah, I'm on neck, I'm team neck, neck flaps yep, I have friends. I have a friend, sean, and she and I send each other almost daily little videos, mini videos of what salad we're eating and our neck flaps Every damn day. Yesterday she had beans, white beans and escarole. That was her salad, oh my god. And yeah, and her neck flaps were. And my friend sean is a beautiful, slim, trim, you know body, body-conscious woman and it didn't matter.
Speaker 3That's so funny. No, it does not matter, she's in perfect shape, it doesn't matter what you've done all your life You're flapping.
Speaker 2She hit 55 this year and kaboom, happy birthday. Here are your flaps, wear them in good health.
Speaker 3Oh boom, you are flapping. Happy birthday. Here are your flaps Wear them in good health.
Speaker 2Oh God. Well, my third dirtbag story took place right here, oh no, On Martha's Vineyard. Wow, All right. And TikTok caught Ben Affleck by himself, quote solemnly exhaling into a bowl of clam chowder.
Speaker 3Okay.
Speaker 2And so hashtag Ben Fleck soup was a huge trend.
Speaker 3I had no idea. All right, so he's giving a little cool off and people are being weird about it.
Speaker 2Was the soup too hot or was life too hot? So that's the, of course, his fans, that is really stupid. I'm sorry. Well, of course, his fans, that is really stupid.
Speaker 3Maybe I'm sorry.
Speaker 2Well, of course it is. Maybe I mean it's a TikTok thing.
Speaker 1Oh God.
Speaker 2So why does?
Speaker 3anybody care. He doesn't even care.
Speaker 2Now I've got some more local stuff, Provincetown stuff.
Speaker 3Okay, all right, did it, did it, did it, did it, did it.
Speaker 2A shark cam caught and this is only in Provincetown people and why we love it. Drag queen swimming with seals. So we had a local paddle boarder. Oh, that is in full wig and lashes was spotted by Noah's live stream. Noah N-O-A-A Right, yeah. And the caption read Shantae, you slay. Also, please exit the SEAL nursery area immediately. Oh, that is very funny. So, yeah, you can go up to P-Town and see drag paddle boarding, okay yeah right, who doesn't want to do that?
Speaker 2No one. Provincetown is the best, one of the best things on the planet, I gotta say. And speaking of Provincetown and just generally around here, here's how it is it's foggy, it's sunny, it's 40 degrees and it's also 89 degrees. That's correct degrees, that's correct. It's insane spring weather on Cape Cod and the islands. It's ridiculous.
Speaker 3It's really been a lot of fun, hasn't it?
Speaker 2Upsea, downsea, one day you've got 68 degrees.
Speaker 3the next day you've got 45 and thunderstorms and an inch and a half of rain, and the day after that it's nice and sunny again, but it's only 52.
Speaker 2Everything is busting out Apple, blossoms, lilacs, daffodils. Oh yes, guys.
Speaker 3So green, I love it.
Speaker 2And the grass is growing too fast.
Speaker 3Yeah, way too fast actually.
Speaker 2I mean truly, it almost needs biweekly mowing Yep.
Speaker 3Yeah, this year. I don't know why it's growing like it is, but it is going nuts.
Speaker 2The apple tree is doing stuff it hasn't done in years.
Speaker 3Yep.
Speaker 2There are blossoms everywhere. They fall. It looks like snow so beautiful, gorgeous. They fall. It looks like snow so beautiful, gorgeous and I can't breathe.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 2No pollen everywhere I'm sneezing, I'm coughing, my eyes are schmutzik. It's really's really quite unpleasant.
Speaker 3Yeah, there's a lot of that going on. That's one of the trade-offs you know I mean. But for a lot of people it doesn't bother them. It didn't used to bother me, and now I've started to develop a bit of a thing with pollen Damn it.
Speaker 2I have too. Yeah, I never had anything. Oh, that's what I was going to say. So you get neck flaps, right neck flaps and hay fever.
Speaker 3Oh, yeah, right.
Speaker 2Yeah, it's all part of aging folks. I don't recommend it. And you have to pee every 10 minutes. Well, it's all part of aging folks, I don't recommend it. And you have to pee every 10 minutes? Well, then, there's that. But hey, what can I say? It's all you know. As my friend Peter would say, it's better than the alternative. It's better than the alternative, and by that he means it's better to have neck flaps and hay fever than to be dead. I mean, that's when he says the alternative. That's what he means.
Speaker 3Right, and the Kardashians, of course, think the other way. The alternative oh.
Provincetown Updates and Parade
Speaker 2Plastic surgery let's get chopped up. Yeah, I would, as I said, I would have my neck flaps tightened, okay, if I could, and I would also have my eyelids. I would have blepharoplasty. I would have my eyelids lifted, mm-hmm. Freshened, yeah, lifted, freshened, yeah, but I don't got Honey Badger, don't have money for that.
Speaker 3No, that's a lot of money. Yeah, they don't mess around. Those people want lots and lots. So what are we doing now?
Speaker 2Well, there's a parade coming and you? Well, we could take Rosie to this parade. There's a parade coming, yes, oh, and you, I don't know? Well, we could take Rosie to this parade. It's the commercial street parade. Deep breath of mildly disinterested dogs.
Speaker 3Oh, that could be Rosie.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, interested dogs. Oh, that could be rosie. Yeah, yeah, so she'd just be walking along. You know, drag queens on paddle boards not really, you know, just like yeah, nothing, nothing all that different how long do we have to walk down here? Yeah, I don't want to buy jewelry. I don't want to buy expensive sculptures. I don't want to mark Jacob's collar. Get me out of here. Yeah come on, and so supposedly there's going to be a jazz band a la New Orleans Funeral type situation.
Speaker 3Oh, okay.
Speaker 2Walking behind them, the dogs playing trombone. Versions of Beyonce songs.
Speaker 3Oh, right on. Yeah, that's the way to do it.
Speaker 2I want to be there. I want to be at every Provincetown event, including Tig Notaro, two shows in August and Fortune Feimster. You are still on my-.
Speaker 3Yeah, you are on the list, young lady. Angry angry list.
Speaker 2I was going to say young lady and lady, and then I realized, yeah, compared to us. Yeah, so if your dog won't walk in this parade, just put it in a wagon, or, oh, yes, carry them. Oh, all right, yeah, and have plenty of snacks.
Speaker 3Right, yeah, that would I mean. That's a given anyway, really.
Speaker 2It really is a given, yeah bring some snacks, come on. Yeah, dogs will do a lot for snacks Sure, a lot. But I keep at home, next to my desk, a black dog tote bag full of snacks for dogs. That's right, healthy.
Speaker 3They don't know. It's there either, because if they did, they'd.
Speaker 2No, it's really funny. They think that I'm a magician and that I just put my hand down and ta-da.
Speaker 3It does seem that way. It's very strange because they don't ever try to get there Chicken jerky.
Speaker 2Yeah, ta-da, it's a Paul Newman heart-shaped dog biscuit, yay, bacon.
Speaker 3Oh, bacon-flavored Yum.
Speaker 2Yeah Well, you bought it. Well, yeah See, now I would never buy something bacon-flavored because I immediately think a few things Salt, fat, not kosher in the least.
Speaker 3Right.
Speaker 2Now I don't keep kosher.
Speaker 3All things dogs love, by the way.
Speaker 2But I'm not a pork person. Yeah, and that is. You know, that is generational, whatever it is Heredity. Generational heredity? Yeah, no, you know like there's generational trauma. Well, in my generational Judaism there's a no pork clause, which has nothing to do with how I was raised. There was bacon, there was pork tenderloin, there was all kinds of treif.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 2And the other one is shrimp.
Speaker 3Oh right, yeah, One of my very favorite things, oh right, yeah, one of my very favorite things.
Speaker 2By the way, our cousins who were here took us to the old Yarmouth Inn for a beautiful dinner in Yarmouth Port, one of our favorite restaurants anywhere, and they had on their menu forever lobster pappardelle.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 2Which was so delicious it was the best thing on the menu is exactly the same, except they got rid of lobster pappardelle and replaced it with lobster crab ravioli.
Speaker 3Yeah, Blech, don't do that yeah.
Speaker 2Don't you dare.
Speaker 3Yeah, so this is your't do that. Yeah, don't you dare. Yeah, so this is your warning. Um, you know about that.
Speaker 2So I mean, everything was delicious. I had the panko crusted haddock. Um, you had a burger for the first time in I don't know how long.
Speaker 3Yep.
Historical Beard Taxes and Grooming
Speaker 2And all was delicious. Um one of our cousins had scallops risotto, the other one had. Did he have chicken piccata or sole piccata? I had the sole yeah, which is one of their standbys, as was lobster popA. I'm so infuriated, yeah, infuriated.
Speaker 3Yes, you certainly are.
Speaker 2I told the waitress that it was absolutely unacceptable and she needed to tell the owner.
Speaker 3And she actually told you to tell him yourself.
Speaker 2But when I went out, when we left, he was no longer at the reception. Dais Right.
Speaker 3Okay, all right, here we go. It's my turn, please, please. Because, we haven't gotten to the educational part of the show yet and we're almost over. Okay, so we don't want to miss out on this kind of thing. Okay, because this is a heavy duty political news both russia and england have instituted beard taxes what not no?
Speaker 3not not recently, but they have in in in the, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, whiskers were all in vogue. So the treasury decided ooh, we got a lot of wars going on, we need some money. We're going to tax facial hair. And they did, oh my God. For many, many years. And in 1698, peter the Great, the great guy that he was, said I am going to civilize these lunatics. And he imposed fees on all of his subjects to cut their beards or pay a fine. Well, how about that?
Speaker 2That's something that should be put into action right now.
Speaker 3You know what? I do not disagree with that, yeah.
Speaker 2My cousins Ann and Mitch, who were here and who just got back from a National Geographic tour of the South Pole. Unbelievable, the pictures, the videos, the whole thing. But we were looking at pictures of their sons. There are a lot of sons in this family. They are all fully bearded. That's like, yeah, cut it out. That's how they all come now I know, that's just part of the thing.
Speaker 2You hit 30, you start growing that beard or that mustache, the whole facial hair thing. Um, I know that a return to complete clean shavenness is coming back well, here I have.
Speaker 3I actually have something to tell you about that. Well, tell me. In a paper titled mirror mirror on the Wall the Effect of Time-Spent Grooming on Wages, economists Jayati Das and Stephen DeLoach conclude that men can increase their weekly wages by 6% for every extra 10 minutes they spend a day on grooming. Well, so the more groomed you are, the more you're going to make.
Speaker 2Well, so if you're sitting there trimming, oiling, combing, waxing all that facial hair, Doing all that stuff, you might end up making some more. I don't want to hear anymore about women and doing their faces. You know the whole the complaints men have had traditionally which are?
Speaker 3which are what?
Speaker 2women taking too much time to put themselves together see the quotes. Those are no longer the complaints oh, it's that the complaints are now, that they don't do that enough.
Speaker 3No, the complaints are that you don't look anything like you do in your picture, because it's all filters and makeup and all that stuff, and when you see someone in person, they don't look anything like that in real life, neither do the men. Well, the men aren't using the filters, oh, no, do the men?
Speaker 2Well, the men aren't using the filters?
Speaker 3Oh no, not really.
Speaker 2Michael, I have two friends, and I won't name them, who will not put a picture anywhere you know, even privately, without first running it through filters.
Speaker 3Yeah, I know a lot of those people too, swimming themselves down Right. I don't know a single guy that does that.
Speaker 2Okay, I know the guys and when we're off the air.
Speaker 3Are they straight? Not the two, I'm thinking of Okay, all right, that's just still. I still, you know, I rest my case.
Speaker 2Do you?
Speaker 3do yeah.
Speaker 2You rest your case.
Speaker 3Yeah, I think I've made a case.
Speaker 2All right Out of what.
Speaker 3Leather Out of whole cloth.
Speaker 2A leather case. Yeah, yeah, I have.
Speaker 3Red leather, yellow leather yellow leather.
Speaker 2Oh, look at you yeah look at you with the uh, the stuff there yeah, the, the, the, the play, backstage, play stuff all. Now there is an Instagram account that is a must-see. It's called the Goddess Boys Must-see, must-see, must see, must see. It's one of the most hilarious, fabulous things I've seen in a long time. The goddess boys okay, now, uh, I'm not sure what that oh, oh am I still here? You're here, oh my God. I say that to myself 20 times a day.
Speaker 3Am I still here, yeah.
Speaker 2Yeah, am I still doing this. You are, you are Is this still where I am, it's happening.
Speaker 3You're doing it and yeah, but you're about not to.
Closing with Michael Bolton Tribute
Speaker 2Well, we got some sad news which I don't enjoy sharing at all. But Michael Bolton has got glioblastoma, which is brain cancer that is virtually insurvivable, which unfortunately, I know from personal experience. It took my niece when she was 34 years old. But Michael Bolton is so extraordinary. This is his song, Beautiful World. And for Michael Bolton, Put a Light On.
Speaker 1Put a Light On. I'll carry the weight. No mountain is too high. It's never too late. There's always a sunrise. All of our needs, our hopes and our dreams Awaken on an open door. I see a spark of light in the dark. We'll be wiser than before. We got love like we've never been heard. We got lives like we've never been burned and, after all of the lessons we've learned, we're gonna make this a beautiful world, a beautiful world, oh oh, we're gonna make this a beautiful world.
Speaker 1Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Everything's gonna be much better when we come together. We got a love like we've never been hurt, eyes like we've never been burned and, after all of the lessons we've learned, we're gonna make this. Gonna make this a beautiful world, gonna make this a beautiful world, make this a beautiful world when we come together, when we come together, when we come together. We're gonna make this a beautiful world. When we come together, we're gonna make this a beautiful world. When we come together, we're gonna make this a beautiful world. ©. Transcript Emily Beynon.
