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Thigh Guy Summer
Coming to you from the heart of Cape Cod, this episode of the Anne Levine Show dives headfirst into what hosts Anne and Michael have accurately dubbed "autumn in June" – the peculiar weather pattern where New England seemingly offers just two seasons: a lengthy autumn spanning October to June, followed by a brief summer interlude.
Fresh off their unplanned hiatus (thanks to Anne's 16-hour tech support nightmare with Apple), the duo returns with an abundance of bizarre stories and cultural observations that showcase their trademark humor and chemistry. Their conversation weaves seamlessly between outlandish Florida crime stories – including a meth-fueled alligator encounter and a shoplifter named John Publix stealing from none other than Publix grocery – to the inaugural "Wiener 500" race featuring six competing Oscar Mayer Wienermobiles, each representing different regional hot dog styles. They drove up to 65mph in the race.
We explore the fascinating and sometimes troubling world of celebrity transformations, focusing particularly on Kelly Osbourne's dramatic new appearance. Their thoughtful discussion questions why celebrities undergo such extreme changes while denying the obvious work done, extending to similar transformations by Meghan Trainor and the career-altering consequences of Jennifer Grey's infamous nose job. This leads naturally into current fashion trends, from the return of Capri pants to the emergence of "Thigh Guy Summer" with its ultra-short men's shorts – much to Michael's dismay.
Beyond pop culture commentary, the show delivers unexpected educational content with Michael's segment on the origin of "Smart Aleck" (traced back to a 19th-century New York City pimp and con man), family vacation disasters at Cape Cod candy stores, and hilariously disturbing AI-generated food concepts with names like "Swamp Surprise." Listen now (or later or whenever) to experience this perfect blend of humor, cultural insight, and the unexpected tangents that make the Anne Levine Show a delightful escape from ordinary radio programming.
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Speaker 1:And that over there is Michael. She is always right, always right. Hey everybody, this is Anne Levine and this is the Anne Levine Show Starring Michael over there.
Speaker 2:Hello, hello.
Speaker 1:And we are coming to you from WOMR 92.1 FM in Provincetown, massachusetts, and Michael over there.
Speaker 2:And 91.3 FM WFMR Orleans, the voice and spirit of Cape Cod. That's who we are.
Speaker 1:That's who we are.
Speaker 2:Who are you? Well, you know as a collective WOMR and WFMR. Yeah, all of us.
Speaker 1:Thank you for clarifying, because they're all out there with their notepads. Well, they're all out there, that is for sure, with their taking scores, taking names, taking numbers.
Speaker 2:They are out there now. Well, the people are here, right, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:Some of them are Hello people. Hello, welcome back. Yes, welcome back to autumn in June.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:That's what we're calling it now. Never mind Christmas in July, QVC. Right here on Cape Cod, it's autumn in June.
Speaker 2:Okay, yeah Well, you know, that kind of makes sense, right, Well yes, if you've got Christmas in July I just want to mention, as Hang On, sloopy is faded out.
Speaker 1:Oh, this is the McCoys fronted by the late great Rick Derringer, who passed away on May 26th at the age of 77.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So we wanted to give you a little Hang On, sloopy that's right, I love that song anyway His biggest hit and the other big hit that some people will remember is rock and roll Hoochie Coo, yeah La dee mama, mama, light my fuse. It's that one, yeah, um, okay, so autumn in june, autumn here's what michael and I realized, although he he put it um that we basically have two seasons. We have autumn, which starts in october and goes through june, and then we have six to eight weeks of summer. Yeah, and that's it.
Speaker 1:There's your new england weather and every few years there is a little bit of winter, you know but just a scooch at least in our area of new england yeah, I mean, yeah, no, I mean it's not like snow or anything, just really bone chilling cold yeah, we're not Vermont people.
Speaker 1:No, this is not Vermont. No, hey, brattleboro, I'm looking at you. So, god, we have so much to tell you about. It's ridiculous. Last week we did our traditional Emily Lemien Memorial Day show, partly because it's a tradition and we do that every year and partly because everything in my tech world crashed and burned. Yeah, last week, my phone, my, my pc, my everything. So, um, we, we had, uh, we, I was on for my phone. Okay, I was on a 16 hour it session with an Apple.
Speaker 1:She's not even kidding, no 16 hours and I have it documented because I had them, confirm, I had them. Tell me, actually, how long has this been? And at a few different places I said how long has this been To try to shame them, to try to apple shame them into getting my food? If I start talking about this, my blood pressure is going to go through the roof. I'm not, but anyway, anyway, we have so, so, so, so much stored up and we're thrilled to be back with you now. I did mention brattleboro, um, who's also known as silver lake, right, yeah, and who admits he's a publicity whore, okay, and likes his to be name checked john baker. Yep, so I'm mentioning John Baker, wasn't he in a show?
Speaker 2:with you.
Speaker 1:Yes, john and I were in a lot of shows together and we wrote a little song for him, and one of the reasons I'm mentioning John Baker right off the top here is because I just talked about Vermont and because there's an account on Instagram that we both follow, both follow and you all have got to go to.
Speaker 2:Instagram right now and look at at goddess boys.
Speaker 1:Oh my God, yeah, it is absolutely hypnotic.
Speaker 2:It is hilarious. I don't know if I've seen any of this.
Speaker 1:Unless John has sent me some, I don't know.
Speaker 2:He usually sends me cat stuff.
Speaker 1:Right, well, so John, just so you know, michael looks at everything you send him. He doesn't really look at it very much that I send him. I do send him a lot.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there is a large difference in the number of things that are sent.
Speaker 1:I don't know if I even bothered to send you Goddess Boys, unbelievable. Just look it up, it will be your new obsession. And for Pride Month, which just started the day before yesterday, happy Pride.
Speaker 2:Happy month also.
Speaker 1:Happy month and happy June. It's June 3rd and at Goddess Boys on Insta, okay, insta, oh. And there's this guy, dan. I think it's Dan Midler, rick Midler, I'll look it up.
Speaker 2:Middle, middle.
Speaker 1:You better look it up, yeah I'll, I'll look, I'll get back to you with that one, yeah, um, well, unless there's something else you wanted to discuss. Michael, yeah, I've got a Florida man. I have two Florida man stories, okay.
Speaker 2:No, I don't have anything in particular right this second, but I do want to mention that we are the most educational show on the radio right now, and that's been proven over and over again.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:We want to get some of that in Well, yeah.
Speaker 1:There's a lot to learn here, that's right. And, yeah, we're going to spend the next. I guess we've got about 50 minutes left telling you the things yeah, and they're all true, they're all real and we've co-signed on all of it. Yeah, all right. Lakeland, florida oh, I've been there. This ends so well. This doesn't end well, let me just tell you. But few stories about people under the influence of methamphetamine end well.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So this is a 42-year-old it.
Speaker 2:You might say it's a symptom of use is things ending tragically?
Speaker 1:yeah yeah, well, this. This is a 42 year old named timothy schultz. Timmy, yeah, he's not going to answer anymore. So he was on a ton of meth. You don't need a whole lot. No, you don't. And he was first seen misbehaving at a convenience store. Now, I don't know what that means, but that's what was in this article. Okay, so, misbehaving at a convenience store? Now I don't know what that means, but that's what was in this article. Okay so misbehaving at a convenience store Maybe knocked a thing of chips off the counter, probably, or opened one up and started to eat them, or whatever.
Speaker 1:No, I'm thinking the whole rack, yeah, or knocked over a whole rack of something.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he's just been a pain, just being a pain, then he, in Lakeland, went swimming in a lake.
Speaker 1:Ah, inhabited by alligators, yeah Within a gated community?
Speaker 2:Was this at night? Yes, yeah, okay, that's really. Yeah. I've told you many times I've swum in a little pond and you've swung With alligators. It had gators and Copperheads and stuff would swim through there too, but we were always aware Of where all of these were. Well, you weren't.
Speaker 1:Were you on the current kind of meth, or was that just like OG?
Speaker 2:meth? No, that was. That was, like you know, 12 and 13 years old. I know, yeah, life is meth at that point, yeah.
Speaker 1:So, anyhow, this guy gets completely crunched on the arm by an alligator and he manages to haul himself out with this horrible right arm gaping wound. Yes, yeah, and someone had. Well, he ran and got some out of someone's yard because now he's in this gated community, Right?
Speaker 2:yeah.
Speaker 1:And then he comes up on land out of this lake and he's in someone's yard and he grabs their garden shears and I guess he's going to use that to try to, like you know, go after the alligator. Okay, yep. Well, that didn't work.
Speaker 2:That gator, done him wrong.
Speaker 1:Well, so he got himself into a car just someone's car, yeah and started cutting up the upholstery and the seatbelts with the garden shears. Oh, and the cops arrived. I know right, police in Florida.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean for what really? Come on, Some problems with upholstery.
Speaker 1:Well, get this. They tried to subdue him with stun guns, uh-huh, and it didn't work, yeah.
Speaker 2:Because that's your meth that's your math. Well, he had to been really cranking on it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah and then do I have to tell you what happened? He did not emerge. Uh, he was unalived. Yeah, um, because that's what happens, yeah, and when the tasers and the stun guns don't stop you and you keep coming at the cops With your garden shears.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's.
Speaker 1:But I just to me it's. Look, it's a testament to the people of Florida, that's right. But mainly this is a story in praise of methamphetamine, in praise of blue ice, walter.
Speaker 2:White. You got it, that's right. The Heisenberg principle.
Speaker 1:Now here is one of my favorite stories ever, and it happens to be from Hollywood, Florida. Oh, okay Do people even realize there's a Hollywood Florida. I mean non-Floridians.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I've also been there, Still have I.
Speaker 1:I've lived right next door.
Speaker 2:It's a cute little place, or was when I was there, you know.
Speaker 1:This is a story for me, A man listed in the arrest and court documents as John Publix.
Speaker 2:P-U-B-L-I-X. Like the grocery store, okay.
Speaker 1:Was arrested after shoplifting from a Publix.
Speaker 2:Oh well, he can get anything he wants there. He's a Publix.
Speaker 1:Wait. So John Publix, dressed in a pink and black dress, with a black wrap around his face and a mask, filled a green Publix bag with items including blue bananas, icelandic, icelandic glacial water coke, zero vanilla frappuccino and fried breaded shrimp totally 25 dollars and 25 cents.
Speaker 2:I'm with him on all of those things.
Speaker 1:I thought you would say that is my ideal public space.
Speaker 2:It really sounds pretty good to me, yeah.
Speaker 1:Exactly so. After being apprehended, he was found wearing only black tights and gloves, concealed in his crotch area. Oh my God, it's unclear whether John Publix is his real name or an alias.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, yeah, because Publix with an X is.
Speaker 1:Isn't that?
Speaker 2:great. Oh, that's awesome.
Speaker 1:That is my kind of Florida man right there. In the pink and black dress. That's right and he's got the right name. And buying Michael's perfect John Q Publix. Buying Michael's perfect dinner of vanilla, frappuccino, gatorade and fried breaded shrimp.
Speaker 2:Yeah, fried breaded shrimp. That's the part that really got me obviously.
Speaker 1:Now here's a thing that I bet you would like the Wiener 500.
Speaker 2:Oh, I know about this.
Speaker 1:So this was on May 23rd. Six Oscar Mayer Wienermobiles competed in the inaugural Wiener 500 race, each representing a regional hot dog style. That's correct the Slaw Dog Southeast, the Sonoran Dog Southwest, chili Dog South and Seattle Dog.
Speaker 2:And the Seattle Dog, and I don't understand.
Speaker 1:What the hell's a Seattle Dog?
Speaker 2:It's got cream cheese on it oh ew. Yeah, and I don't know how that ended up being a Seattle thing, because I don't know of that.
Speaker 1:What is that? That's horrible.
Speaker 2:I don't know about that. That's not right.
Speaker 1:Can I?
Speaker 2:A Seattle dog's going to have weed in it for one thing.
Speaker 1:Can I mention your sandwich, some of your sandwich favorites, if you don't want, me to Sure.
Speaker 2:I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1:Well, you recently had hot dogs, oh yeah, and cheese.
Speaker 2:Hot dogs and cheese.
Speaker 1:On whole grain bread. Yeah, amazing, it was an amazing architectural. Next time you have that. I've got to take a picture of it from the side. Okay, because the hot dogs you know, sliced on the bias, as it were, and the exact squares of cheese. It's just awesome looking. Okay, anyway, but thank God there was no cream cheese, but I was reminded of cheese and hot dog and you, which is Seattle anyway, so I don't know who won.
Speaker 2:I do, who the southeast oh?
Speaker 1:yeah, so that is the slaw dog. Yeah, hey, sign me up for that.
Speaker 2:And that would be a good one too, yeah.
Speaker 1:You make the best coleslaw.
Speaker 2:Oh, thank you, I have to tell you, yeah thank you.
Speaker 1:And there's a trick, mustard.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:I'm not telling anybody, okay, yeah, that's not for the air. Yeah, I'll beat. Telling anybody Okay, yeah, that's not for the air. Yeah, I'll beat it up. So the event concluded with a festive wieners circle. Uh-huh.
Speaker 2:Yep.
Speaker 1:Celebration complete with condiment sprays. Yeah, isn't that something? It's something.
Speaker 2:It's bleh yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, I mean I it's something. It's bleh. Yeah, I mean I'm picturing. Oh my God.
Speaker 2:And those things go pretty fast. Actually, what do you?
Speaker 1:mean, they go fast.
Speaker 2:The hot dog, the Wienermobile.
Speaker 1:How fast do they go?
Speaker 2:I can't believe it. Oh, no, no, they've got fairly sizable engines to do what they do. No, I think they were going up to like 120 miles an hour on the track, which is for a.
Speaker 1:Wienermobile. I want evidence, I want everything. I need to look this up because all I have is text. You know, some people I know can't read anymore. They have to look at pictures. Yeah, I'm not naming names, just pointing out a fact I can't read anymore. Right, I wasn't talking about you, but I don't have my glasses.
Speaker 2:That that's the problem.
Speaker 1:I have a question for you. Yeah, have you seen? I actually know the answer to this, but Kelly Osbourne.
Speaker 2:You showed me a photo, the other day.
Speaker 1:Did you recognize her?
Speaker 2:I did not. Okay, not at all.
Speaker 1:So Kelly Osbourne, look her up, people. You'll remember Kelly, who was sort of well known for her signature things like Purple hair Sometimes it was green when she went to that lavender hair.
Speaker 2:that was gorgeous. Actually it was fabulous. I loved that for a long time.
Speaker 1:And she had really interesting haircuts. And of course she's Ozzie and Sharon's daughter.
Speaker 2:And was a fixture, you know, on Fashion Police Yep.
Speaker 1:And just adorable. Yeah, australian, adorably. Well, look up a picture of her now. You will not believe it. I didn't. I kept looking at the caption thinking, no, this is the wrong picture with the caption. You cannot recognize her Now.
Speaker 2:She looks very generic now actually.
Speaker 1:Well, generic, you say that meaning generic in quotes pretty. Right, yeah, you know with all of the fillers and all of that.
Speaker 2:It's a look that they're all going for.
Speaker 1:It's horrible and I don't know why.
Speaker 2:Well, here's the thing, but she got it.
Speaker 1:She had gastric sleeve surgery. She had gastric surgery in 2018.
Speaker 1:So, that's seven years ago now, and I remember this. She lost a bunch of weight. She looked cute, and I remember this. She lost a bunch of weight. She looked cute. She still had her signature, you know, still lavender hair, still Kelly, just a smaller dress size. Well, she claims that everyone's just off their rockers and it's just because she lost weight. Uh-huh, now, I can tell you right now that she has not had plastic surgery. Well, she's had extensive plastic surgery and here are things to look for. Look at a before and after picture. Look at the shape of her chin, for instance. She used to have a heart-shaped face. She doesn't anymore. She has a rectangle now. Um, her eyes have been completely. What can I tell you? She's uh, she says oh, she says part of it is because she's gotten TMJ.
Speaker 2:Okay, yeah, so her jaw locks up every once in a while and clicks on her.
Speaker 1:So she gets Botox for that.
Speaker 2:Okay, yeah, that is actually a common treatment for that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean as someone who is loud and proud about Botox not that there's any in my face right now. Let's put it this way If I had plenty of extra dough plenty I'd head on over and get my angry 11s ironed out, you know. So I can tell you that I've never gotten botox treatments in my life and had someone say, oh, and I didn't recognize you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh, that's a good point, yeah.
Speaker 1:It's such BS. When people say, oh, it's just Botox, that's not what happens. They tell you. They might say, oh, did you get a new haircut? Or wow, you look rested. Or oh, you look fresh something.
Speaker 2:But they're not going to say oh, did you have plastic surgery Right? Your face isn't moving. Did you have something done?
Speaker 1:Yeah, anyway, she's terrifying, looking to me, I mean I love her and I don't know who she is anymore. Yeah, and why do people want not to be themselves? I don't know who she is anymore, yeah, and why do people want not to be themselves? I don't understand that. I'll tell you another one that kind of freaked me out Meghan Trainor, and I love Meghan Trainor.
Speaker 2:She's lost a lot of weight.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but she's done something else and I'm not sure what it is, but she doesn't look the same. She doesn't look quite, as you know, like alien, as Kelly Osbourne does, yeah, but she definitely—.
Speaker 2:Kelly's got a head start, though, you know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean her father's. Ozzy Osbourne. Yeah, that's a head start right there.
Speaker 2:Exactly Well, and her mom is Sharon.
Speaker 1:Okay, so Well exactly, yeah, now see her mom, here we go. There's someone who's had a lot of oh yeah. Stuff done, but she still looks like herself.
Speaker 2:You know what I mean, right, but you know what? When do you stop? When do you have so much work that you actually stop being the person that you were before? Because she's probably at that point.
Speaker 1:Oh, you're just saying like replacement parts.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:You know that, like physics, yeah, that philosophical.
Speaker 2:Right, yeah Well, I don't know there's a tipping point there. I think she's reached it.
Speaker 1:But as long as you still look, look, I don't know what's going on in Sharon's head, literally yeah, but as long as the outside of it still looks like Sharon Osbourne, whatever, okay, I mean I don't care deeply about it, yeah, but when you truly turn into something else that I've never seen, it's upsetting. You know, jennifer Grey's nose job just doesn't seem like as tragic as it always did.
Speaker 2:No, but she certainly doesn't look like she used to.
Speaker 1:Well, she made the hugest mistake in show business like of all time, you know. She went from being one of the cutest girls in the world to being someone no one could recognize yeah, I mean yeah as being jennifer gray right she, I mean for at least another 20 years.
Speaker 2:Anyway, you know, now I'm like oh yeah, that's jennifer gray right after ferris bueller's day off.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, what a what a horror. So Meghan Trainor's looking very bizarre hard after her pregnancy Right, okay, yeah. And that she had breast enhancements. She got a boob job. Now, unless she had them put so far up that it's affecting her face, that's not what happened, yeah, right. So people are really weird about making these dramatic changes and then not being willing to cop to it and where's the base?
Speaker 2:now I want to know.
Speaker 1:I don't know, but not on her, no, no, there's no junk in her trunk, but there's a lot of junk on her face. Yeah, and her boobs are fake, so whatever, there you go. And her boobs are fake, so whatever.
Speaker 2:There you go.
Speaker 1:And Kylie Jenner oh, what's not fake on her, really? Ortega are doing this weird thing now, which is they're bleaching their eyebrows, but they're bleaching their eyebrows to the point where you can't tell they have eyebrows. Okay, so that's like a trend, you know, and it should have been in my weird body roundup segment last time, but that's what I have for this week, okay, bleaching eyebrows. Well, so Kylie Jenner did it. No one knew who she was carpet in a red, in a tight red bustier bodice, satin and zippers and all the you know this like crazy, oh, paired with a khaki mini skirt, like a preppy pleated mini skirt, okay, and no one recognized her.
Speaker 2:How funny.
Speaker 1:So they are now no longer. She's no longer sporting that look.
Speaker 2:Huh. So, oh my God, Got the mascara out right away and put some on before the end of the night. Yeah her boy brow.
Speaker 1:Yeah, hello, the Unlevine Show is brought to you this week by Boy Brow from Glossier. If you would like to do something fabulous for your eyebrows, boy Brow, I like it. Do you think they'll send me any free? I don't know, god, I hope so. Okay, so, michael. Oh God, I hope so. Okay. So Michael, yeah, this is a new trend, okay, yeah, that might interest you to hear about. Okay, and it's called thigh guy, summer Thigh guy yeah Okay, called thigh guy summer.
Speaker 2:thigh guy, yeah, okay, and hot girl summer. It's not a hot girl summer, now, it's thigh guy, thigh guy and it's thigh guy, because the shorter the inseam short shorts.
Speaker 1:Yep, okay, yes, we're back to that, wow, and it's like five inch and even three inch inseams oh my god so like my boy. Short underwear, yeah right, pretty much that's what we're talking. Yeah, those of you out there won't know, but Michael was, so celebrities like Paul Mescal Okay, well, now he's a dad guy, you know and Alexander Skarsgård, oh wow, okay, yeah Are leading the trend.
Speaker 2:This is very silly.
Speaker 1:Which has extended to and includes Speedos and retailers such as Marks and Spencer and John Lewis, reporting strong sales.
Speaker 2:Yeah, y'all have fun with that stupidity. I got done with that crap in the 70s after I got out of gym class.
Speaker 1:I was done with that crap in the 70s. After I got out of gym class. I detect some resentfulness here. Gucci and Dior are featuring short shorts on the runway. Oh boy, and it says this shifts. I love this article. It's from the Guardian, so I should read it with an English accent. This shift reflects a broader cultural emphasis on health, body confidence and practicality, especially with the rise in cold water swimming and sauna use.
Speaker 2:Yeah, okay, what the hell does that mean? You know people are doing a lot of that. You know getting in the sauna, jumping in the ice water?
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2:So you want shorter shorts when you do that, I guess, or it's supposed to make you more fit, which it does. Neither of those things, but that doesn't keep people from using things like that as evidence of something.
Speaker 1:I understand that you seem quite upset about this, but it is thigh guy summer, yeah, okay yeah, and it's cold. Well, they can have it.
Speaker 2:And they do yeah, because I'm not going to play that stupid stuff.
Speaker 1:Well, maybe this will interest you.
Speaker 2:That's gym class from the 70s.
Speaker 1:Michael, it's the runway. Now is what it is. Yeah.
Speaker 2:And we are old. I'm going to tell you what it is and we're going to circle back to one of the first stories. What it is and it's. We're going to circle back to one of the first stories. It's some designer on meth saying you know, uh, having a flashback about seven wearing those shorts in the 70s we didn't even get there yet.
Speaker 1:We're getting there, we've got that. That story's coming up next, um, but, but, but first this you know who the pioneer woman is? Right, yeah, the redhead, reed drummond. Okay, well, she's famous for making crazy like mac and cheese. Yeah, like super starchy fatty comfort food. Yeah, I don't know where, in the Southwest maybe. Anyway, there's a new summer fashion collection available at Walmart which is known as the Pioneer Woman Fashion Line. No way, it features lightweight, stylish pieces, perfect for warm weather, including.
Speaker 2:Gingham. We got a bunch of gingham.
Speaker 1:Floral print blouses, wide brim fedoras and comfy pajama sets. Accessories like gold-tone hammer jewelry and floral denim tote bags Add to the collection's rustic charm.
Speaker 2:Yeah that sounds stupid.
Speaker 1:Well, it sounds like Little Ho on the Prairie is what it sounds like it kind of does, doesn't it? Yeah, it sounds so horrible, yep, so just put that in your yeah.
Speaker 2:Oof, don't, don't.
Speaker 1:Yeah, now guess what's back? Yes, the.
Speaker 2:McRib Capri pants. Oh, okay, so.
Speaker 1:I read this they never left upstate New York. Well, they never left anywhere, really Okay. And so Capri Pants. Yeah, this article says the beloved 90s and early 2000s trend of Capri Pants. That's ridiculousri pants, that's ridiculous.
Speaker 2:Wow, that's very arrogant, isn't it? How about let's go back to the 40s?
Speaker 1:well, exactly anyway, that's what's happening in the UK in particular. Wow, okay, so I'm sorry. England, ireland, scotland and Wales, yes, but you guys don't look good, and bubble skirts and dresses are the dominant trend.
Speaker 2:I hate bubble skirts. I don't like them.
Speaker 1:I hate them. Yeah. And, of course, once again originating in the 50s, resurging in the 80s and then again in the aughts. Blah, blah, blah, blah blah.
Speaker 2:And they're talking like it's a brand new thing. It's just come on, forget about it.
Speaker 1:Well, forget about it, there's nothing new. No, there's nothing new in the world. It's ridiculous. Okay, so a book.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, let's talk about books, shall we? The binding uh, on a book, or is this a book?
Speaker 1:this is a book. This is a book title there's a binding.
Speaker 2:Binding, huh Right, I don't Well, I mean, if it's a book.
Speaker 1:It's been bound right. Yes, it's a book called the Binding.
Speaker 2:Right, so there's a binding for the binding.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I would imagine so At any rate. At any rate, the binding by Bridget Collins highly recommend.
Speaker 2:Highly recommend.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, particularly if you want to listen to something, because Karl Prokof does the narration and he is mesmerizing. So it's a—I hate using these words, but I have to. It's a story that takes place hard to know when, a long time ago, okay, and it's got some magical realism in it.
Speaker 2:Is it in this galaxy or one far, far away?
Speaker 1:Only this galaxy. I don't read about other galaxies. And Bridget Collins wrote it. Did I say that already?
Speaker 1:It came out in 2018 and I don't know how I missed it First time around, but it is so fabulous and it's magic, it's queer, it's back in time and it's haunting and it's like out on the moors, it's like a withering height setting. Okay, yeah, and it's got Prince and the Pop. Well, no, it's not like trading places, but it's got high class versus low class. All of that in quotes, mm-hmm and class distinctions, yeah, and that kind of stupidity. It's awesome, okay. Oh, my gosh, I just realized something, michael. What is it?
Speaker 2:What did you just realize, Ann?
Speaker 1:I just realized that it's time for you to educate us. Oh, it is Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, I didn't realize it was time for that, but welcome to the educational part of the Ann Levine show. Today I want to talk about the origin of a particular phrase, one which you may have heard during your lifetime and one I've certainly heard in my time, and that's the phrase or the term smart aleck. Okay, any idea where that came from?
Speaker 1:Well, I have an idea now, but tell us.
Speaker 2:Oh, you do, okay. Well, it comes from a guy named Alec. I figured, yeah, alec Hogue he was. I'll read this to you celebrated pimp thief and confidence man operating in.
Speaker 2:New York City you know, in the what In the— In the 30s, I think Okay Right, Okay Right. And he ran a con that he called the panel game, in which prostitutes, their pimps and some cops on the take were fleecing unsuspecting citizens, or unsuspecting johns having earned the name smart alec, when the cops uh, let's see busted him for, oh, for cutting them out of the. So they, he had cops on the take and he cut him out of the game and they called him smart alec and that's where the name came from.
Speaker 1:The old cops on the take. Yeah, eh, that's right, I liked it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh, my God, smart Alec Celebrated.
Speaker 1:Pimp, celebrated pimps yeah. I mean is there any other kind really?
Speaker 2:Well, no not really.
Speaker 1:Who doesn't love celebrating a pimp? Huggy Bear Remember.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, celebrating a pimp huggy bear, remember. Oh my god, yep, that's a celebrated pimp right there. What? Was that was that starsky and hutch, I think. And who was that? Uh, oh uh, you know what? I knew his name yesterday, the other day. Yeah, I saw a picture of him yesterday and I knew, um, and I can't remember for the moment. Now it's lost. I'll look it up, all right um, little britney spears moment.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, yeah. So she was on a flight from cabo to la and the passengers were quite alarmed when suddenly there was cigarette smoke in the air oh no yeah, and it was britney, and she lit a cigarette on a plane. Oh great, yeah. When the stewardess came over and this is recorded recorded because of course everyone got their phones out yeah, she said, oh, I didn't know that I drank vodka and vodka makes me feel smart and she went on this crazy rant.
Speaker 2:Wow.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean Brittany's messed up. Her mind is quite a jumble.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it certainly is.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:It certainly is. And speaking of rock stars, taylor Swift, tay-tay she showed up in New York at the Bowery Ballroom Uh-huh, tiny, tiny little place. Yeah, and she appeared under the alias Betty's Cardigan how funny. And she introduced her new album, moonstone how about that? A collection she described as her most vulnerable yet.
Speaker 2:Oh, there you go.
Speaker 1:I have a Taylor Swift story.
Speaker 2:Tell me, you know, have you heard of the? You know Taylor's Version albums? No, because all of her old albums her old first albums belonged to a record company. She wanted control over her music, so she re-recorded the songs oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well as of a couple of days ago. She now owns all of her music, including all of the old stuff.
Speaker 1:Right on. Yeah so she owns the originals and the records.
Speaker 2:That is correct.
Speaker 1:Yep, pretty amazing, yeah, pretty amazing.
Speaker 2:And it was Antonio Fargus, by the way. Played played hug ebear on starsky and hutch oh, what a bizarre.
Speaker 1:Yeah, when was that? That's from the 70s, yeah, I mean when 75 to 79 is when it ran wow. We had a local situation here. In Chatham there's a place called Sweet Escape, which is one of Cape Cod's, and I don't understand why this is a thing here, but Cape Cod's celebrated fudge and penny candy stores, yeah, and I don't know why that's a thing well, candy at the beach is fudge and taffy are at every beach, probably because they started making it with uh, with salt water right, that's, that's your salt water taffy, right, so I don't know, but but uh, but it's, and it's also possible that being at zero elevation is uh, is uh, makes making fudge easier.
Speaker 2:Uh, you know which it does?
Speaker 1:that's so scientific, yeah I, I'm thinking like fudge and the beach, yeah, and summer have never.
Speaker 2:I know they don't always go to yeah, no, because you can't pick it up for one thing. Oh my God, it's going to be all over you Well.
Speaker 1:Memorial Day weekend.
Speaker 2:I love it though.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but in the winter.
Speaker 2:I used to make a lot of fudge.
Speaker 1:Well, you know it's autumn in June. Yeah, true, true, could be fudge time. Yeah, so a huge family who were all traveling to Cape Cod last weekend and for those who don't know, that's not a good time to come here. Yeah, memorial Day weekend.
Speaker 1:No, no, it's not warm, it's not sunny, it's not any of the things you think it's going to be yeah, at any rate. So this cranky family, all wearing matching T-shirts, for their Cape Cod vacation planned a photo shoot at Sweet Escapes, which is this fudge penny candy emporium in Chatham. Yeah, okay, okay, okay. And they started having little. They started sniping at each other, okay. And while they were buying stuff at the counter before the picture, Okay, yeah.
Speaker 1:Was going to be taken. So there was a huge argument over sunscreen. Oh man, yeah, there was a huge argument over sunscreen. Oh man, yeah. Then some member of the family, some man, was upset because there weren't sugar-free options. Don't expect that there will be sugar-free fudge options yeah sugar-free anything? Yeah, but he was upset then this one child started.
Speaker 2:This is not the big city, people. No and we don't turn it into the big city for the summer time or for any time, and we love our sugar here.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yes, that's right, you and your, no sugar so then a little kid started crying, and then an aunt said she was leaving Cape Cod altogether.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:And this family is pretty much coming to blows. You know, like all ages, all sizes, all everything, all in matching t-shirts, and so this half, only half the family made it into the final photo.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:And so a member of the staff was asked about this thing, and they said we see this every week.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's so crazy, oh God.
Speaker 1:Well, in addition to.
Speaker 2:Vacations are so stressful for people. It's so the opposite of what they're supposed to be.
Speaker 1:Well, and when you, any time, you go anywhere with a huge number of family and you're all dressed alike.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:It's bound to be a disaster. Okay, it's just bound to be so. Ai I don't know how y'all feel about your AI out there. I find AI is very helpful for some things, yeah, and completely destructive for other things, mm-hmm. And if you ever use AI for something and you want to save it you want to save that chat or that response or whatever it is just cut and paste, because ai will tell you we're going to generate a pdf or a docx or whatever the heck it is for you, and they put up a link and you click and it downloads and then you may go later to open it and guess what? What? It's something you've never seen before.
Speaker 1:Something you never said it's some AI fantasy, oh great yeah. So I'm warning you.
Speaker 2:You heard it here. You got someone else's conversation or something.
Speaker 1:Well, or like something you said two weeks ago, combined with Right, okay, that's very weird yeah. So here are a few things that were AI generated, and this is just from people Typing in things like protein forward breakfast say.
Speaker 2:Okay, yeah, or that's a me kind of thing at this point.
Speaker 1:Well, here are some of the responses that came up Chocolate garlic cake, known as the vampire slayer, oh boy, cake known as the vampire slayer, oh boy, and that's what. That's what they called it. Uh huh, here's one that you'll love the ai called it that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know how that, how that doesn't really work.
Speaker 1:Garlic is an anti yeah, that's why it's called the vampire slayer. Yeah, okay, here's my favorite one, really Boiled Caesar salad. Boiled Caesar salad Yep, and I'm thinking, ooh, that's like crouton soup.
Speaker 2:Or who is Caesar, and how long did they boil him?
Speaker 1:Oh my God, Spicy tuna ice cream.
Speaker 2:I would have to try that.
Speaker 1:Here's one that actually sounds, of all of these, in some ways the most disgusting Baked bread smoothie.
Speaker 2:Oh, wow.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so you bake some bread and throw it in a blender with some wet stuff Very odd Eggplant latte.
Speaker 2:Okay, yeah, uh-huh.
Speaker 1:Okay, here you go, michael. This is to go with your boiled Caesar. You have an appetizer of boiled Caesar salad, right, yeah, okay. Well then you can follow it up, after you have your soup for dinner, with instant pot s'mores soup oh how nice.
Speaker 2:That sounds very good and you just put all the s'mores ingredients in an instant pot and turn it on. Is that what you do?
Speaker 1:because that's weird yes, and then what do you? What's your liquid? What's your? Broth, I guess I mean it doesn't matter at that point, put some bone broth in there. Yeah, put some bread smoothie in there.
Speaker 2:Oh hey, you know what? You got some good ideas.
Speaker 1:I saved the best for last, though.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay.
Speaker 1:And I think you will love this one Avocado shrimp brownies. Oh wow, and AI named it Swamp Surprise, swamp Surprise. I'll say yeah, oh my God, wow, oh, unbelievable, unbelievable, oh yeah. Anyway, seriously, people, be careful with AI. Because, see, this is the kind of thing that this is hilarious. But if you've say, put a bunch of prompts in for something or talked in a conversation or whatever it is, you know you've done.
Speaker 2:That actually is serious to you.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:This is what can come out. You might yeah, you might get this kind of thing.
Speaker 1:You may go open that and have here avocado shrimp brownie recipe. You were asking about Exactly yeah. And that's because you mentioned guacamole or something Right Three months ago Exactly. So yeah, that's very interesting. Oh, you want to hear another great, just one more tech thing to round us off. Okay, Round us off. You know how I got you a. Did I get you titanium or stainless steel cutting board?
Speaker 2:Whatever?
Speaker 1:Titanium yeah, okay, so well, grandma doesn't say where this grandma is, or anything, it's just that she used her iPad as a cutting board.
Speaker 2:She used her iPad as a cutting board, which I can totally see happening, yeah, you know, not soon but you know, at some time, you know, a big one flips over side up, it could look like you know, a titanium cutting board, a metal cutting board, why not? That's very funny.
Speaker 1:Well, oh, I have such a great story about a drone, but how much time do we have left?
Speaker 2:We don't have enough time.
Speaker 1:We don't okay. Well, loretta Swit passed away this week. For those of you who don't know, loretta Swit was Hot Lips Hula Hand right on.
Speaker 2:MASH On MASH, the television series.
Speaker 1:And we love her. We miss her. We're playing. I Grieve by Peter Gabriel in her memory and for Loretta Swit. Please put a light on In all the dogs and cats, in the flies and rats, in the rot and the rust, in the ashes and the dust. Love carries on and on, and on and on. Life carries on, and on, and on and on. It's just a car that we ride in A home.
Speaker 2:We reside in the place that we hide, in the way we are tied in, and life carries on and on, and on, and on, and life carries on and on, and on. Love carries on and on, and on. Did I dream this belief or did I believe this dream? Now I can find relief, I agree.
