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From Monroe Milstein to the Met Gala: Madness
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A towel with TWO buttons (and any "adjustable" belt) for $925? Welcome to the strange world of Balenciaga and high fashion absurdity. The passing of retail legend Monroe Milstein at 98 reminds us of a more grounded approach to business. The co-founder of Burlington Coat Factory built a $3 billion empire while remaining refreshingly down-to-earth – riding the subway daily, calling store managers personally, and embracing his first coat sale at a $10 loss as his "lucky break." His journey from a young man with "bad acne and greasy hair" to retail titan offers a striking contrast to today's celebration of excess.
Speaking of excess, this year's Met Gala theme "Garden of Time" brought us everything from Zendaya's gothic bouquet warrior ensemble to Doja Cat's controversial wet T-shirt look. While celebrities paraded in renaissance fair and Game of Thrones-inspired costumes, we can't help but question the tone-deafness of such lavish displays of wealth in our current economic climate. Is there beauty in this spectacle, or just increasingly desperate attempts to stand out? We think you may know the answer already.
Our journey through the absurd continues with classic Florida Man stories – including Reza Baluchi's attempt to float to London in a homemade hamster wheel before being intercepted by the Coast Guard. When stopped, he threatened to detonate a non-existent bomb and brandished a knife, all while claiming to promote "peace and love." Meanwhile, another Florida man's strategy for handling a six-foot alligator in his driveway involved simply sitting in a lawn chair until help arrived. We also share local Cape Cod news, from tropical birds appearing where they shouldn't be, to the poor restaurant that's been crashed into by cars twice in two months. Join us for these stories and more, including a touching tribute to American-Israeli peace activists whose lives were tragically cut short.
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Hello, welcome to the Anne Levine Show. It's Tuesday, june, something.
Speaker 2I don't know, 9th or something, 10th, 10th, yeah. Yeah, june's been weird, because I still think it's supposed to be May and every once in a while I think it's supposed to be March.
Speaker 1I was gonna say I'm still in March yeah.
Speaker 2So I'm way behind.
Speaker 1This song is. By the way, this is the Ann Levine Show. Hello, that's Michael over there. Yeah me too, and we're coming to you from WOMR 92.1 FM in Provincetown Massachusetts.
Speaker 2That's right At WFMR 91.3, fm Orleans, with the voice and spirit of Cape Cod. That's what we are.
Speaker 1And we're worldwide on WOMRorg.
Speaker 2And this is Suede, this is.
Speaker 1Suede with she's in Fashion. I love this song. This is my new favorite fashion song.
Speaker 2Oh, okay, all right, because it used to be fashion.
Speaker 1I know yeah, but how many times? I mean, you know fashion.
Speaker 2I've only counted up to like 700, and then I quit.
Speaker 1What.
Speaker 2How many times we played that song oh.
Speaker 1Yeah Well, not quite every show, no.
Speaker 2No.
Speaker 1Certainly frequently when I have fashion stories. Well, today I have fashion stories, like always, and I found Suede she's in fashion.
Speaker 2Yeah, you've been in fashion.
Monroe Milstein: Burlington Coat Factory Founder
Speaker 1I yes, I have in more ways than one. Well, I'm thinking about someone who was a major influence in the fashion world, even though you may not think of him as Fashion capital F. His name was Monroe Milstein oh yeah, pronounced Monroe, not Monroe. Monroe Milstein, who was the founder of Burlington Coat Factory, that's right. Who was the founder of Burlington Coat Factory? That's right.
Speaker 1And he passed away this week at age 98. In fact, I was shocked when Michael said, hey, didn't you, haven't you mentioned Monroe Milstein before? Yeah, and I said yeah, and he said he just passed away and I was like no way, that had to have been some years ago, but I didn't realize he had made it to 98. Yeah, anyway, monroe Milstein, his father I think his name was Abe had this coat business. It wasn't thriving, but he used to buy stuff from my dad and at some point he said to my dad hey, I've got this son Monroe, maybe you'll take him under your wing. And as my father described him, he was this very young guy with really bad acne and like greasy hair.
Speaker 2Okay.
Speaker 1And like he didn't hold himself well, Not conducive to retail necessarily. Well, or to wholesale. I mean, it was just my father was like no, no, no. Needless to say, burlington Coat ended up being a $3 billion empire.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1And which was run by the Milstein family.
Speaker 2Yeah, until like in 2010 somewhere I family. Yeah, until like in the 2010s somewhere I think. Yeah, they went public Like 2013 or something like that. Yeah.
Speaker 1And they went public a couple times, which I don't quite understand.
Speaker 2Well, you, buy all your stock back and then you become a private company again and then you can go out and, you know, start offering stock again, if that's what you want to do well, he, uh, was from the bronx.
Speaker 1He rode the subway every day. He called the store managers himself, which drove them crazy. Um, but that was one of the things that made him great. And he sold his first coat at a $10 loss, but he called that his lucky break.
Speaker 2Yeah, a loss leader, right? Yep, there you go, and.
Speaker 1I once had a meeting with Monroe and his son and some other people that were on the staff, and this is going back to say 90—it's going back to the 90s. So you were just a child, I was a very small child, but my father said, no problem if you walk around by yourself in the garment center and take meetings with big retailers.
Speaker 2Right, that's fine. Yeah, no problem.
Speaker 1So my dad always sold them and I was going up there to talk to them about expanding their size range.
Balenciaga's Towel Skirt and Fashion Absurdities
Speaker 1I wanted smaller sizes and larger sizes, and they wanted to know what I was going to do about that, I think, and I said, well, let's figure it out. Anyway, I got dismissed very quickly because I didn't have an idea right off the bat. So that was karma kicking me in the butt. Dad turned them down, they turned me down. But anyway, I knew Monroe and he was a family man, as they would say, and completely down to earth, never in a million years expected to be as successful as he was, by himself or by anyone. Yeah, how about that? So fantastic? So to the late great Monroe, Milstein hats off, coats on, all right. So fashion From the fantastic to the absolutely absurd. Okay, balenciaga, one of my favorite quote designers to hate, they are so obnoxious. Designers to hate they are so obnoxious.
Speaker 2Anyway, they just came out with they sent down the runway which would have been a while ago, but now it's showing up in stores. A wrap skirt. Okay, is that unusual?
Speaker 1Yes, because it's gray, it wraps and it's made out of terrycloth, so essentially it's a towel. That's right. And yeah, people are saying it looks like you just got out of a very expensive shower. Okay, it's got two buttons.
Speaker 2Okay, well, at least there's something holding it. We're trying to. Yeah, they say Balenciaga.
Speaker 1This is their quote. It's crafted from terry cotton, with two buttons and adjustable belt. You know as if. Oh well, there you go you go.
Speaker 2Yeah, I mean, that makes all the difference and it's the adjustable. Wait, it's the belt.
Speaker 1Well, that makes it cotton that makes it worth 925 dollars.
Speaker 2Oh, yes, oh yes it does it's a hundred percent, hundred hundred percent. Uh, terry cotton, that's correct okay and it's gray.
Speaker 1I mean how can you go wrong? Yeah, you really can't can you. And it's a skirt.
Speaker 2Yeah, and it's less than $1,000. What are you complaining about, people? I know what's wrong with you.
Speaker 1You know they came out with also an $1,800 bag. Their bags are things that I have major trouble with. I mean, the shapes are just—I can't with the shapes of these bags. Not really—not practical or— Not practical, not attractive.
Speaker 2Oh, okay, so— what is an unattractive shape? So, what is an unattractive shape?
Speaker 1It's kind of hard to explain, but the bottom of the and these are leather bags right. Okay, yeah, the bottom of their bags, instead of being flat right straight across is what I mean they like go up. Cross is what I mean they like go up. It's like a slope, like an arch Right. Okay, so it's like a rocker the bag has got kind of like a rocker shape on the bottom. Rocker meaning rocking chair.
Speaker 2Half of a tubular. Half of a tubular, you know it's like a half pipe.
Speaker 1Right, yeah, okay, and, and it is first of all so, you've got these two holes, these two narrow holes, on either side of your bag, so the room in the bag is absolute, is cut off and stuff falls into either side yeah. You know what I mean.
Speaker 2Uh-huh, yeah, it's just it is not practical, it's hideous. Okay, it's just a flex for whoever's got it.
Speaker 1basically, yeah it's like ooh, there's a yeah. You can tell what that is when it goes by. And the other thing they do is this thing their biker bag, which they're really famous for.
Speaker 2Okay, is it a backpack?
Speaker 1And I'm thing they do is this thing, their biker bag, which they're really famous for. Okay, and I'm like excuse me, I had 20 of these in decades past. It's just a big leather sort of satchel with with biker attributes, it's got like a little fringe and it's got a lot of hardware on it.
Speaker 2Oh, I see yeah.
Speaker 1And it's got like a guitar strap.
Speaker 2Oh yeah, that's very 80s, right, and it's also very 50s.
Speaker 1Yeah, I mean it's just. And oh, people are shelling out thousands of dollars For these things, so whatever.
Speaker 2There is nothing new. We've had that conversation before. There really isn't.
Speaker 1Well, critics of Of the skirt, of the towel skirt, the 100% Terry Cotton Skirt with adjustable belt right. Adjustable belt yeah, with two buttons and an adjustable belt yeah, oh my god, um say that it's ironic luxury and I say you know what Frig you?
Speaker 2Yeah, that's what I say yeah, we're not doing that.
Speaker 1So—.
Speaker 2That sounds crazy, but okay.
Speaker 1A few things to mention.
Speaker 2Wasn't there another controversy over Balenciaga recently?
Speaker 1I'm not sure what was it.
Speaker 2I don't know, did they do a Sean Combs thing? Did he have some shoes through them or something?
Speaker 1oh, I don't know.
Speaker 2I don't know. I don't know. I thought he was attached to them somehow it's very possible, but I don't know.
Speaker 1I do know, though, that Met Gala just took place, yeah, and I wasn't going to talk about it.
Speaker 2Oh my goodness, how come I think people would be expecting you to talk about it? I know yeah.
Speaker 1Well, just a couple of things. The theme this year was wings, armor and fashion felonies.
Speaker 2Okay.
Speaker 1Now I'm going to say that the wrap towel skirt is a fashion felony.
Speaker 2Mm-hmm, yep, the fashion police would have been all over that one, I'm sure.
Speaker 1Well, it was the Garden of Time, was the official name, okay, the garden of time. So it was like dungeons and dragons, like ren fair, that's what people kind of went back in time the majority of people.
Speaker 2I mean yes, so were yes, so were there futuristic things or Well, I don't know whether these are.
Speaker 1I mean, it was like kind of Game of Thrones type of I don't know, is that futuristic?
Speaker 2Not, really no. Well, I mean no, planet of the Apes is, but not Game of Thrones.
Speaker 1Yeah, Okay, well, I don't know that anyone was dressed in planet of the apes stuff, and they may have been yeah but zendaya uh-huh wore two looks, so she did a costume change so she had a red carpet and then, uh, an event.
Speaker 2I guess yeah.
Speaker 1She wore a gothic bouquet warrior, uh-huh. So I don't know what that is. And it was. What the hell is that? Yeah, I want to know. Use your imagination, because it can't be worse than what it looked like. It was like flowers, but then there was a shield and it was maison margiela, which I actually have been a fan of some of their gowns in the past. Um, and it felt like I could see wearing that. Not the gothic bouquet warrior, no. And then for, I guess, dinner, which is the most hilarious thing. It's this dinner that they always serve. I think they always serve vegan food. Now, no one touches anything. Who's going to eat something?
Speaker 2at the Met Gala.
Speaker 1Yeah, they're going— they're all grabbing for their ozempic and giving themselves extra injections at the table.
Speaker 2Okay, I see Zendaya's outfit. What the heck is that?
Speaker 1Describe what you're seeing the heck is.
Speaker 2Describe, describe what you're saying. Um, okay, it's. It's a very morticia adams-esque kind of dress. Um, except not as form-fitting. But it's got, you know, it's all black and everything but her headpiece.
Speaker 1Yeah, that's what she wore to the dinner.
Speaker 2Is a strange. Okay, that's a strange thing. Then there's yeah, uh, I don't see, I don't see another one.
Speaker 1Well, look up um Gothic bouquet warrior. Look up Maison Margiela M-A-R-G-I-E-L-A Um Zendaya. The the one you're describing Is the Givenchy gown With a midnight In quotes headpiece. So she had this Huge thing on her head.
Speaker 2It's probably where she was storing her Ozempic, it looks like if you took A spade from A deck of cards you know that kind of shape and you turned it, kept pointing, which is where the you know the point is pointing sort of downward at a 45-degree angle Right, and then filled it with a bunch of flowers and put it on your head Right. That's what it looks like.
Speaker 1Well, that's where you put your cigarettes, your yeah, your injectables, um, your xanax, whatever you know, your purse that's your purse on top of your head there yeah um and yeah more. She was giving more tisha adams for the Garden of Time. Yeah, now, this is what I loved, my favorite look.
Speaker 2So you mean the other look of hers, the blue one? No, no, the blue and green one.
Speaker 1Describe the blue and green one that was the gothic bouquet warrior.
Speaker 2Yeah, that's actually quite pretty, but it's like a weird mermaid-ish kind of outfit. Is what it? What it looks like to me? Uh, half blue, half green, um, opaque and translucent and you know, and her hair is got green in it and yeah, so, uh, it's. It's odd, but it's really. And and she's got serious raccoon makeup on, yes, so she looks like a zombie in it actually, because it's so dark around both top and bottom of her eyes. It's very, very dark. Gothic bouquet warrior. The garden Garden of Time.
Speaker 1Well, my favorite look and you will want to see this was Doja Cat. Oh, who wore my least favorite look? I'm not sure if that was, it might have been the year before last, where she was a cat and she had this whole thing over her face and her head to make her actually look like a cat. Uh-huh, she looked so scary. She had makeup.
Speaker 2Huh, yeah, she had—well, she had one point where she had her nose— there was makeup and stuff on her face to where it looked like she had a cat nose.
Speaker 1Oh, she actually had something over her face like some kind of stocking thing over her head Something a little different. Oh, are you looking at this year?
Speaker 2No, this is actually 2023.
Speaker 1Yeah Well, anyhow, this year she wore on purpose and I don't know who made this, wow, wow, yes, A wet T-shirt. That's what she wore to the Met Gala. So make of that, will you.
Met Gala: Garden of Time Outfits
Speaker 2Although she also had two outfits. Oh, I only knew about the one, because another one is kind of a weird zoot suit swimsuit with huge, wide shoulders and kind of a. It looks like a swimsuit on the front. That's kind of a weird zebra tiger stripe. Yeah, well, and a and a, an almost bride of frankenstein wig perfect, yeah, perfect, doja cat, but I do see the long wet t-shirt, yeah, and her makeup dripping, yeah, um yeah, yeah, she said I'm dripping in fashion.
Speaker 1Yeah, it looked like I don't know, maleficent's garden shed. That was total Morticia Adams, black roses, cardi B. So anyway, because her butt needs more accentuation, yeah well yeah uh. Jeremy pope came in a mage cloak and Bad Bunny had a huge bouquet on one shoulder and there was someone dressed as Moss. It was just ridiculous. And of course, there were critics and fans alike. I am a critic. I say no to all of it. The Met Gala really makes me sick.
Speaker 2Does it, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1I mean it's just, it's a big costume parade. Yeah, of course it is, you know and it's all about how skinny, how wealthy and how you know how much money you can spend yeah. Yeah, it's just ugh.
Speaker 2How much money you can wear because they're not spending it. You know it's so. A lot of these things are just being borrowed for the event.
Speaker 1Well, it's nauseating.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1And these are times when I guess it's classic, you know, for the country right now, but it just doesn't seem like a time where celebrating wealth to that degree is.
Speaker 2Yeah, I agree with you, but yeah, we're in a weird place right now.
Speaker 1Yeah, a little weird. A little weird right now. A little weird, all right, well, I'm going to switch.
Speaker 2All right, we're switching it up here on the Ann Levine Show on WOMR FM 92.1 in Provincetown.
Speaker 1Coming to you on the radio. Yeah, all right, I can't help it. I love the Florida man stories.
Speaker 2I can't help it. I love the Florida man stories. I can't help it. Well, they're great. Yeah, well, can't argue with the Florida man story, they're awesome.
Speaker 1So Florida man, Reza Baluchi, age 51, was intercepted by the US Coast Guard near Tybee Island, Georgia, while trying to float to London on his homemade hamster wheel.
Speaker 2So he's got a floating hamster ball or hamster wheel and he's out in the water.
Speaker 1Yeah, he left Florida. Oh my God, he made it to Georgia, which that in and of itself is kind of miraculous.
Speaker 2Yeah, even from Jacksonville, because Jacksonville is a very big city.
Speaker 1Yes, it certainly is because Jacksonville is a very big city. Yes, it certainly is. Yeah, so the Coast Guard said this is manifestly unsafe. Well, please. Now here's the amazing thing. This is what makes a Florida man Okay, and not just.
Speaker 2Just man Right. Uh, not just Just man Right.
Speaker 1Uh-huh. When he was stopped in Georgia, he threatened to detonate a bomb. Uh-oh, there wasn't one. And then he brandished a 12-inch knife and eventually surrendered and he claimed he was raising awareness for peace, love and people in need. Uh-huh, and that's how to do it, people, that's how you help people in need. Yeah, you get on a hamster wheel to London and, you know, with a knife. So, anyway, I just the idea of this gigantic thing, you know, floating around, yeah, yeah, I love it. And then we have.
Speaker 2How do you keep anything in it that I in it, that doesn't spin around and get? I don't know.
Speaker 1Well, and they were saying it was a thing that he made from buoys, paddles and just this crazy thing and like bicycle pedals and I don't know. And then we have in cape coral, a place in florida that I really hate, hated, let's put it that way. Yeah, okay, local man diffused a standoff with a six-foot alligator. This is so classic, oh man, how don't they?
Speaker 2learn. I don't know. It's so stupid With a lawn chair.
Speaker 1The gator parked itself in his driveway and the man approached and sat in the armchair in front of it and waited.
Speaker 2Wow.
Speaker 1Okay, even after the gator lunged. By then someone had called whoever you call animal control or something. That's what I do when there's a vicious animal that could kill me.
Speaker 2I like to get a sand chair, a going to sit right down in front of them and say, hey, how's it going.
Speaker 1Yeah, a folding chair. And sit down in front of them, have them to my back, show them my booty.
Speaker 2Yeah, that's really good. That's very smart, very clever.
Speaker 1So Pope, yeah, Leo, pope, leo XIV, I've heard of him Pope.
Speaker 2Yeah, Leo.
Speaker 1Pope Leo XIV. I've heard of him, yeah, from Chicago, chicago. I wonder if he's got an accent, a Chicago accent.
Speaker 2Yeah, I didn't really notice much of one when I did hear a little bit of him speaking.
Speaker 1I did hear a little bit of him speaking During his first Sunday blessing at St Peter's. He launched into a Gregorian-style chant and just kept it going. Okay, so he was just singing and singing and the crowd was stunned into silence and no one knew what to do. So the best part about this is the stuff that showed up online like karaoke with the Pope. Right, yeah, and let's Sing with the Pope. There's a tutorial. The Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music.
Speaker 2Very nice.
Speaker 1Release this thing. And, of course, tiktok Instagram flooded with duets, remixes, blah blah blah, well, yeah. And people trying to chant in Latin. So Gregorian chant.
Speaker 2That's why I really couldn't figure out what his accent was when I first heard him, because he was speaking in Latin. So you know, it's weird anyway.
Speaker 1Yeah, I'm trying to think of what latin would be. Um, well, I'll have to, I'll have to think on that. Some latin phrases with a chicago accent not okay, blessed. Um, italy has, like a tour de france. They have a, a bike thing, yeah, and so it's called the giro d'italia, and they rode through the vatican gardens gardens, oh cool. And he blessed them. He blessed the bicyclers and praised them as models of discipline, endurance and humility. So, yeah, there you go. Now. Local news, do you have?
Speaker 2anything, michael? Do I have anything? Well, I do have something educational, because we are the most educational show on the radio. Yes, right now. So let's talk about the first time Americans set off fireworks In the United States of America. How about that? Okay, any guesses as to when that would have been Fort McHenry? No, actually much earlier.
Speaker 1Oh, okay, 16, well in the United States, so it's got to be the first inauguration.
Speaker 2Actually it was the 4th of July 1777. That's a year after the Declaration of independence and six years before the war was even over. Right. But they, you know, they're like, hey, we've done it anyway, we're gonna, we're gonna celebrate yeah, we drove through south carolina to get these sparklers. That's right, yeah yeah, oh man, I have been who. One of the scariest things I have ever done in my life is drive through an area of the state of Washington, through a reservation, a Native American reservation on the 4th of July.
Speaker 1Oh my.
Speaker 2Yeah, because all the fireworks are available for sale there. They're illegal in the state of Washington, but you can go purchase them on the reservation. But on the 4th of July, and we were just trying to go through, no one wanted to buy anything. Oh man, it was a war zone. We had rockets flying across the road, bombs going off next to us, oh my god, smoke everywhere. It was nuts. We had to, we were had to slow down to a crawl to go anywhere and then we, eventually we just pulled off the road and had to stop and wait for, uh, some of it to subside, for some of it to subside.
Speaker 1So what would you say, as the professor of the Ann Levine Show? What is the moral? What is the lesson?
Speaker 2The lesson that I learned from that Don't do that on the 4th of July.
Speaker 1Okay, yeah, that's the lesson I learned. Good point, yeah. So if you want to go to New Hampshire or—.
Speaker 2Well, yeah, if you want to go to New.
Speaker 1Hampshire. Avoid Pierce County, washington on your way on the 4th of July. Good idea, okay, yeah, yeah, don't go through Shreveport. Yeah, although everything takes you through there, yeah it's so true, so true, although everything takes you through there. Yeah, it's so true. Now. I don't know if you know this, but I'm going to Cape Cod now. I'm switching it up to local news.
Speaker 2Local news.
Florida Man Stories
Speaker 1I don't know if you know this. There have been Swallow-tailed Kites Spotted nesting on the upper Cape. I have not seen that. Five of them together in one tree, no kidding, and that's a Massachusetts record. Now, swallow-tailed kites for those of you who don't know are tropical raptors. Wow, are tropical raptors, wow, and they're usually found in the Carolinas. Speaking of South Carolina, yeah, so famous for fireworks and swallowtail kites.
Speaker 2Oh, this would be very exciting to see one of them. That's a lovely bird and easy to identify.
Speaker 1Well, you've got to get out there with the camera. Yeah, come on, man. They're all sitting in one tree waiting for you, waiting for their close-up.
Speaker 2Yeah, they breed from the southeastern United States to eastern Peru and northern Argentina.
Speaker 1Yeah, they're totally not Cape Cod birds. No, but it's getting warmer, stuff's moving up that used to be down.
Speaker 2Well, they're gorgeous. Yeah, I'm going to have to go find them.
Speaker 1Yeah, Go, stalk them. Yeah, so A local co-op here is trying to bring Go Fish Forward with schools.
Speaker 2Oh, you mean for their menus.
Speaker 1That's right.
Speaker 2Oh, okay.
Speaker 1So here's what they're bringing. This is at Knotset School Cafeterias.
Speaker 2All right, yep.
Speaker 1And we know some kids that well, they're not kids anymore. But that went to Nassau.
Speaker 2That's true.
Speaker 1This is what they're bringing Monkfish, dogfish burgers.
Speaker 2I've never had dogfish. I've caught a lot of dogfish, but I've never eaten one. How about monkfish, the most disgusting, looking pretty yeah they're very, they're very weird looking, but I know a lot of people eat it oh yeah I mean some people call it like quote poor man's lobster.
Speaker 1First of all, just never mind. Yeah, all of it, it's horrendous and to bring it to schools.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, Fish burgers. Fish burger is good. You know, I like a fish burger.
Speaker 1You're thinking like of a fish cake or something. Yeah, yeah, no, this is in school, a piece of fish and slap it on some bread.
Speaker 2That's not right. It's supposed to be processed into a little circle.
Speaker 1Well, one day there was haddock and I could definitely yeah, I could hang with some haddock. I love that one, yeah even though fish at school, just that's wrong I worry about that.
Speaker 2Yeah, because of you have to be so much more careful with seafood than you do other things.
Speaker 1You know, as far as refrigeration and contamination and cross-contamination. And just tasting horrible.
Speaker 2Well, and then there's that right.
Speaker 1Preparation and freshness, Ugh Anyway. So a third grader was getting their haddock and asked if it was vegan haddock.
Speaker 2Ah, yes, well, that makes good sense.
Speaker 1So we still have the people who are? Really confused about what vegan means. Yeah, it does seem to be. It means no animal products. Yeah, not even honey. And including leather yeah. Shoes, yeah, you can't wear or use. There are even vegans who won't wear wool Right, so it goes far. But as far as food goes, yeah, no animals involved. That means no dairy Right. So yeah, and fish are not on the menu.
Speaker 2No, definitely not. That's very funny.
Speaker 1One of my favorite stories, local stories. I mean, this is total schadenfreude on my part.
Speaker 2Okay.
Speaker 1But the Rotary. In Hyannis, right off the Rotary, is a restaurant called Bamboo.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1And it is a quote Chinese restaurant in Hyannis. It's like an Asian, but it's Pan Asian.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1So it's one of these places where you can get like sushi probably pad thai, yeah, and you know, and chow mein Kung pao chicken thai yeah, and you know Kung.
Speaker 2Pao chicken Right, yeah, yes. Crab rangoons Right, and throw something Korean in there too, you know, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1Totally so. It is not really Chinese, but that's how they advertise themselves and that's I understand. There's no decent Chinese food on Cape Cod. You're going to tell what you think. The exception is I disagree. Michael likes Kwan's Kitchen.
Speaker 2Yeah, I mean, you know I don't eat everything on their menu though. Yeah, I eat very few things that are on the menu menu and everything I have had from there I love, I like a lot.
Speaker 1There's one thing from there that I like, and that is steamed vegetables.
Speaker 2Oh, so I thought you were going to go with the egg drop.
Pope Leo XIV and Local Cape Cod News
Speaker 1No, I mean, yeah, that's good yeah, yeah, but it's just, you know, salt and fat, which is a delicious combination. Yeah, so it's a cup of salt and fat with some egg white in there to give you the feeling that it's okay.
Speaker 2The illusion of protein.
Speaker 1The illusion of health, of health anyway. Bamboo, the second time in two months, has been crashed into, oh no, by a car coming off the rotary. Oh no, and I mean big time this time. The sedan hopped the curb, slid across the parking lot and embedded itself halfway into the foyer. Oh my God, and just barely missed the koi fence.
Speaker 2I haven't seen any of this, because I actually don't—I try to avoid the rotary, yeah, so I'm always going, you know another way, up and down the independents or whatever, but wow.
Speaker 1Now Twice Apparently.
Speaker 2It's not the same person, is it?
Speaker 1No, okay, and that's what's nuts about it, it's. You know, people are literally driving through Bamboo Restaurant. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2And it is not a drive-thru restaurant, it is a sit-down restaurant.
Speaker 1Yes, it is Now, side note, one of their big items. The people someone was telling me oh, I remember who it was Lisa, lisa, happy Easter when they opened told me that it's a great place to go and get appetizers and a drink.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1And so this would be on her list. Right, it's Szechuan calamari.
Speaker 2Oh, okay.
Speaker 1So basically everything is fried, and then they put some kind of I don't know duck sauce next to it Right, some sort of sauce. Some sort of sauce.
Speaker 2Soy sauce, some around there too. You know which is really just concentrated salt. Know, concentrated salt.
Speaker 1It certainly is. Now, what do you like from Kwan's Kitchen?
Speaker 2I like their house fried rice.
Speaker 1Now what is house? Fried rice.
Speaker 2It's their— Kitchen sink. Yeah, kitchen sink fried rice. There's a little bit of everything in it. It's their kitchen sink fried rice. There's a little bit of everything in it, and the steamed vegetables. And then I've got shrimp and broccoli from them before too, and it was great.
Speaker 1Now, how's the shrimp?
Speaker 2It's very good.
Speaker 1Yeah, I can't imagine, I can't imagine, I can't imagine.
Speaker 2Yeah, and they're really big, Well, and you know what the other thing is, though they're great people, they're really cool people, and that's one reason that I like going there. But I like the food. I wouldn't go if I didn't like it. You know, even if but I like the food, I wouldn't go if I didn't like it. You know, even if I did like the people, you know I wouldn't go. But no, I like going there.
Speaker 1Well, we definitely have made that mistake is going somewhere because we love the people. Yeah, yeah, it's somewhere because we love the people. Yeah, yeah, um it it's uh.
Speaker 2well, anyway, yeah going somewhere, because you love the people, not always. Not always great, no, but I do. I do love the food too, so you, so you know there you go, at least what I've had.
Speaker 1Let's see, oh shoot, something just flew out of my head. Okay, oh, the French Open.
Speaker 2Oh yeah, Girls played the other day. The championship was amazing, wasn't it?
Speaker 1I thought it was incredible. Tell, do tell well I did.
Speaker 2I wasn't sure it was going to turn out how it did, but the uh, the world's number one and number two female tennis players met up, uh, in the final of the french open at roland garrot and um, and it was kind of went back and forth. The first two sets were, you know, each one of them won a set, and then it all kind of started falling apart. So for Arena Sabalenka anyway, the world's number one.
Speaker 1Well, I wonder, is it changing now the ranking?
Speaker 2that's a good question? I don't think so, because I think it's because they're earned through points. You know, not, not wins necessarily, but um, I'm not sure how far arena was ahead in first place. I know, like yannick center, guys have got to get like 30 000 points to catch up with him to to get to first place. I know, like Yannick Sinner, guys have got to get like 30,000 points to catch up with him to get to first place. So he's there for a long time, but with the women I'm not sure.
Speaker 2Well it was. I can look it up though.
Speaker 1It was super. I don't know, Azarenka was very disappointing. I thought she totally lost her cool.
Speaker 2Yeah, a couple times.
Speaker 1Yeah, and I mean sort of for the whole match and she was almost crying and she was screaming at her box. And then Coco wins and there's this huge there had been this huge, like you know cheers of Coco, coco with the French crowd, yeah, and that's not easy to get from them no, it's not.
Speaker 2If you're an American, yeah um anyway well, I mean, it's been 10 years since an American and that was Serena and Serena loves.
Speaker 1France. She's got an apartment in, won there, and that was Serena. Yeah, and Serena loves France. She's got an apartment in Paris and the French people love Serena, but you know they're not so pro-American, especially right now. Yeah, but she as a rank then got up to accept her award totally begrudgingly her second place, only a million dollars, whatever. Yeah, bummer, and she was like I'm sorry, I play such bad tennis. You know she went into this thing about. This was my worst day ever on the tennis court.
Speaker 2And then complained about the conditions in the tournament as well, and it was like dude.
Speaker 1The conditions were bad on both sides of the net same conditions it was windy and dark and cold for everybody.
Speaker 2Yeah so, or rainy, I mean for a lot of them, because they weren't under a roof right I mean they had.
Speaker 1It was like borderline whether or not they were going to close that roof Right, which totally would have favored her.
Speaker 2Yeah, it would have favored Zabalenka.
Speaker 1I had no love for her by the end of it. And you don't get up to accept an award and talk about how bad you played.
Speaker 2Yeah, you know, because you talk about how well your opponent played exactly, and it was a hard. Yes, you know I mean, that's the sportsman, yeah, like, way to. Or sports persons like you know way to do it and it was totally like she pricked the balloon.
Speaker 1that was the atmosphere, yeah. And then coco gets up to accept the cup, which is this been, you know, just altered? Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2That's the right word for it. She changed the mood of the room altogether.
Speaker 1And so no sympathy, no love, and I have gone from being a reluctant sabalanka supporter well, because of her tennis is great, yeah, but now I I'm not liking her again.
Speaker 1Okay, I've got a story about a radio station not our radio station, but a station engineer got a phone call middle of the night, um, because the dj had spilled coffee on the mixing board, uh-oh. And so the engineer is like, okay, get out the manual and I'm going to walk you through troubleshooting over the phone. And this is classic IT, not, I'll be there in two minutes, because you just spilled coffee on the most valuable thing in our station, right? Yeah, you know.
Speaker 2Exactly.
Speaker 1Anyway, it's like all right, unplug it.
Speaker 2The thing we can't do it without.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1Unplug it, plug it back in whatever you know, just like total useless. And then the DJ is interrupting this troubleshooting um direction right and says, dude, the board is on fire now, oh my god. So, needless to say, the board did end up getting trashed. Yeah, and it was, you know, the pepsi syndrome, my god um, but yeah, lit it on fire. Coffee lit the board on fire, great. So, michael, I'm gonna tell you stop drinking coffee. Okay, by the board over there, no problem just.
Speaker 2Just stop it yeah, okay.
Speaker 1Because who are you going to call Ghostbusters? Of course, of course you are. That's right. That happened at a radio station where a cow bit into a buried transmission line.
Speaker 2Oh no.
Speaker 1Near their transmitter building and took down the transmitter.
Speaker 1Oh man, oh man so who was the idiot that put it in the ground without being in a, uh, a pipe for one thing, I know it's just. The whole thing is horrendous. Wow, yeah, um. And so, for those of you who may not know, your transmitter and this may just be totally obvious next to your mixing board, right, which is where the sound is going through on its way out to you, yeah, then the transmitter transmits that sound Out to the antenna Right which sends it to everybody Right which sends it to everybody Right.
Speaker 1So without your transmitter and I mean we've had our transmitter go down because of storms and things Rarely- Well, we've had to replace it. Right. And then we've had one that got really old and had to be replaced, and it's a major thing, obviously, it's absolutely huge. That's what puts you on and keeps you on the air.
Speaker 2It's something that you have to plan for years because it's not you know right and you've got to have the new one to go.
Speaker 1It's a whole, yeah, it's a whole major thing. But I just love the fact and this is a 10 000 watt station, huge station, yeah, that a cow, a cow, yeah a cow it wasn't like some sort of mountain lion, I don't know. I'm trying to think like it could not have been deep. I I mean cows are known for digging, are they?
Speaker 2No, not really. I mean, they'll paw at the ground a little bit, but yeah, they're not really yeah.
Speaker 1I mean this cannot have been buried deeply enough. It certainly was not. As you say, it was not enclosed. Yeah, it was nothing. Um, I've got another radio story which I'm going to might have to wait for next week.
Speaker 1Um, I've got a few things I want to mention here. This is a song it's a Passover song that talks about the depression that comes after madness, craziness. So I'll just tell you about a little bit of the madness that's been going on lately. First of all, you probably heard that a bunch of I'm not even going to get into that story. Let's talk about Judy Weinstein and Gad Haggai Israeli-American not Israeli-Americans American-Israelis, so Americans who moved to Israel and went to live near the Gaza border to try to foster peace between Israelis and Gazans, and they ended up getting kidnapped.
Speaker 1October 7, 2023. And I think it was God was shot. Judy was a poet and a teacher of mindfulness. God was a musician and a chef, and they were known for their kindness, their belief in coexistence, and they taught English to Bedouin children and they advocated constantly for the dignity of all people, including Palestinians. And they were what Israelis refer to as peaceniks and it's a term that means what it sounds like, and you know they would get ribbing just for being like old hippies.
Remembering Israeli-American Hostages
Speaker 1That morning of October 7th, they were shot and abducted by Hamas. Judy called for help and then the line went dead. So after 20 months this week, their bodies were found in Han Yunis and brought home, and brought home. Then, a few days later, the body of a Thai hostage whose name was Natapong Pinta was abducted alive during the October 7th attacks and his body, like Judy and her husband, was recovered by the Israeli military and Shin Bet Shabbat. Now, so this is not oh, hamas handed over some hostages, dead or alive. Israel went in and got them from underground, so it's hard to say this, but it's true. They were killed by people they had been there to help. So may all of their memories live forever. May we say their names Judy Weinstein, god Haggai, natapong Pinta over and over and never forget them. For the three recovered hostages, please put a light on Shalom Shalom.
Speaker 3Shema Sashayah, chagasah, chagasah, chagasah, chagasah, chagasah, chagasah, chagasah, chagasah, chagasah, chagasah, chagasah, chagasah, chagasah, chagasah, chagasah, chagasah, chagasah, chagasah, chagasah, chagasah God, our God, our God, our God, our God, our God, our God, our God, our God, our God, our God, our God, our God, our God, our God, our God, our God, our God, our God, our God, our God, our God, our God, our God, our God, our God, our God, our God, our God, our God, our God, our God, our God, our God, our God, our God, our God, our God, our God, our God, our God, our God, our God. Shabbat Shalom. Thank you.
