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From Monroe Milstein to the Met Gala: Madness
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 2:I 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 1:I was gonna say I'm still in March yeah.
Speaker 2:So I'm way behind.
Speaker 1:This 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 2:That's right At WFMR 91.3, fm Orleans, with the voice and spirit of Cape Cod. That's what we are.
Speaker 1:And we're worldwide on WOMRorg.
Speaker 2:And this is Suede, this is.
Speaker 1:Suede with she's in Fashion. I love this song. This is my new favorite fashion song.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, all right, because it used to be fashion.
Speaker 1:I know yeah, but how many times? I mean, you know fashion.
Speaker 2:I've only counted up to like 700, and then I quit.
Speaker 1:What.
Speaker 2:How many times we played that song oh.
Speaker 1:Yeah Well, not quite every show, no.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:Certainly frequently when I have fashion stories. Well, today I have fashion stories, like always, and I found Suede she's in fashion.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you've been in fashion.
Speaker 1:I 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 1:And 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 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:And 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 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And which was run by the Milstein family.
Speaker 2:Yeah, 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 1:And they went public a couple times, which I don't quite understand.
Speaker 2:Well, 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 1:He 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 2:Yeah, a loss leader, right? Yep, there you go, and.
Speaker 1:I 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 2:Right, that's fine. Yeah, no problem.
Speaker 1:So my dad always sold them and I was going up there to talk to them about expanding their size range.
Speaker 1:I 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 2:Anyway, 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 1:Yes, 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 2:Okay, well, at least there's something holding it. We're trying to. Yeah, they say Balenciaga.
Speaker 1:This 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 2:Yeah, I mean, that makes all the difference and it's the adjustable. Wait, it's the belt.
Speaker 1:Well, that makes it cotton that makes it worth 925 dollars.
Speaker 2:Oh, 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 1:I mean how can you go wrong? Yeah, you really can't can you. And it's a skirt.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and it's less than $1,000. What are you complaining about, people? I know what's wrong with you.
Speaker 1:You 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 2:Oh, okay, so— what is an unattractive shape? So, what is an unattractive shape?
Speaker 1:It'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 2:Half of a tubular. Half of a tubular, you know it's like a half pipe.
Speaker 1:Right, 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 2:Uh-huh, yeah, it's just it is not practical, it's hideous. Okay, it's just a flex for whoever's got it.
Speaker 1:basically, 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 2:Okay, is it a backpack?
Speaker 1:And 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 2:Oh, I see yeah.
Speaker 1:And it's got like a guitar strap.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, that's very 80s, right, and it's also very 50s.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean it's just. And oh, people are shelling out thousands of dollars For these things, so whatever.
Speaker 2:There is nothing new. We've had that conversation before. There really isn't.
Speaker 1:Well, 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 2:Yeah, that's what I say yeah, we're not doing that.
Speaker 1:So—.
Speaker 2:That sounds crazy, but okay.
Speaker 1:A few things to mention.
Speaker 2:Wasn't there another controversy over Balenciaga recently?
Speaker 1:I'm not sure what was it.
Speaker 2:I don't know, did they do a Sean Combs thing? Did he have some shoes through them or something?
Speaker 1:oh, I don't know.
Speaker 2:I 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 1:I do know, though, that Met Gala just took place, yeah, and I wasn't going to talk about it.
Speaker 2:Oh my goodness, how come I think people would be expecting you to talk about it? I know yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, just a couple of things. The theme this year was wings, armor and fashion felonies.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:Now I'm going to say that the wrap towel skirt is a fashion felony.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm, yep, the fashion police would have been all over that one, I'm sure.
Speaker 1:Well, 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 2:I mean yes, so were yes, so were there futuristic things or Well, I don't know whether these are.
Speaker 1:I mean, it was like kind of Game of Thrones type of I don't know, is that futuristic?
Speaker 2:Not, really no. Well, I mean no, planet of the Apes is, but not Game of Thrones.
Speaker 1:Yeah, 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 2:I guess yeah.
Speaker 1:She 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 2:at the Met Gala.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they're going— they're all grabbing for their ozempic and giving themselves extra injections at the table.
Speaker 2:Okay, I see Zendaya's outfit. What the heck is that?
Speaker 1:Describe what you're seeing the heck is.
Speaker 2:Describe, 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 1:Yeah, that's what she wore to the dinner.
Speaker 2:Is a strange. Okay, that's a strange thing. Then there's yeah, uh, I don't see, I don't see another one.
Speaker 1:Well, 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 2:It'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 1:Well, 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 2:So you mean the other look of hers, the blue one? No, no, the blue and green one.
Speaker 1:Describe the blue and green one that was the gothic bouquet warrior.
Speaker 2:Yeah, 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 1:Well, 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 2:Huh, 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 1:Oh, 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 2:No, this is actually 2023.
Speaker 1:Yeah 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.
Speaker 2:Although 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 1:Yeah, 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 2:Does it, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:I 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 2:How 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 1:Well, it's nauseating.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And 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 2:Yeah, I agree with you, but yeah, we're in a weird place right now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, a little weird. A little weird right now. A little weird, all right, well, I'm going to switch.
Speaker 2:All right, we're switching it up here on the Ann Levine Show on WOMR FM 92.1 in Provincetown.
Speaker 1:Coming to you on the radio. Yeah, all right, I can't help it. I love the Florida man stories.
Speaker 2:I 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 1:So 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 2:So he's got a floating hamster ball or hamster wheel and he's out in the water.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he left Florida. Oh my God, he made it to Georgia, which that in and of itself is kind of miraculous.
Speaker 2:Yeah, even from Jacksonville, because Jacksonville is a very big city.
Speaker 1:Yes, 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 2:Just man Right. Uh, not just Just man Right.
Speaker 1:Uh-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 2:How do you keep anything in it that I in it, that doesn't spin around and get? I don't know.
Speaker 1:Well, 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 2:learn. I don't know. It's so stupid With a lawn chair.
Speaker 1:The gator parked itself in his driveway and the man approached and sat in the armchair in front of it and waited.
Speaker 2:Wow.
Speaker 1:Okay, 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 2:I like to get a sand chair, a going to sit right down in front of them and say, hey, how's it going.
Speaker 1:Yeah, a folding chair. And sit down in front of them, have them to my back, show them my booty.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's really good. That's very smart, very clever.
Speaker 1:So Pope, yeah, Leo, pope, leo XIV, I've heard of him Pope.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Leo.
Speaker 1:Pope Leo XIV. I've heard of him, yeah, from Chicago, chicago. I wonder if he's got an accent, a Chicago accent.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I didn't really notice much of one when I did hear a little bit of him speaking.
Speaker 1:I 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 2:Very nice.
Speaker 1:Release 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 2:That'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 1:Yeah, 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 2:anything, 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 1:Oh, okay, 16, well in the United States, so it's got to be the first inauguration.
Speaker 2:Actually 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 1:Oh my.
Speaker 2:Yeah, 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 1:So what would you say, as the professor of the Ann Levine Show? What is the moral? What is the lesson?
Speaker 2:The lesson that I learned from that Don't do that on the 4th of July.
Speaker 1:Okay, yeah, that's the lesson I learned. Good point, yeah. So if you want to go to New Hampshire or—.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, if you want to go to New.
Speaker 1:Hampshire. 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 2:Local news.
Speaker 1:I 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 2:Oh, this would be very exciting to see one of them. That's a lovely bird and easy to identify.
Speaker 1:Well, 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 2:Yeah, they breed from the southeastern United States to eastern Peru and northern Argentina.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they're totally not Cape Cod birds. No, but it's getting warmer, stuff's moving up that used to be down.
Speaker 2:Well, they're gorgeous. Yeah, I'm going to have to go find them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Go, stalk them. Yeah, so A local co-op here is trying to bring Go Fish Forward with schools.
Speaker 2:Oh, you mean for their menus.
Speaker 1:That's right.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay.
Speaker 1:So here's what they're bringing. This is at Knotset School Cafeterias.
Speaker 2:All right, yep.
Speaker 1:And we know some kids that well, they're not kids anymore. But that went to Nassau.
Speaker 2:That's true.
Speaker 1:This is what they're bringing Monkfish, dogfish burgers.
Speaker 2:I'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 1:First of all, just never mind. Yeah, all of it, it's horrendous and to bring it to schools.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, Fish burgers. Fish burger is good. You know, I like a fish burger.
Speaker 1:You'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 2:That's not right. It's supposed to be processed into a little circle.
Speaker 1:Well, 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 2:Yeah, because of you have to be so much more careful with seafood than you do other things.
Speaker 1:You know, as far as refrigeration and contamination and cross-contamination. And just tasting horrible.
Speaker 2:Well, and then there's that right.
Speaker 1:Preparation and freshness, Ugh Anyway. So a third grader was getting their haddock and asked if it was vegan haddock.
Speaker 2:Ah, yes, well, that makes good sense.
Speaker 1:So 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 2:No, definitely not. That's very funny.
Speaker 1:One of my favorite stories, local stories. I mean, this is total schadenfreude on my part.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:But the Rotary. In Hyannis, right off the Rotary, is a restaurant called Bamboo.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And it is a quote Chinese restaurant in Hyannis. It's like an Asian, but it's Pan Asian.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So 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 2:Pao chicken Right, yeah, yes. Crab rangoons Right, and throw something Korean in there too, you know, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Totally 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 2:Yeah, 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 1:There's one thing from there that I like, and that is steamed vegetables.
Speaker 2:Oh, so I thought you were going to go with the egg drop.
Speaker 1:No, 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 2:The illusion of protein.
Speaker 1:The 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 2:I 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 1:Now Twice Apparently.
Speaker 2:It's not the same person, is it?
Speaker 1:No, okay, and that's what's nuts about it, it's. You know, people are literally driving through Bamboo Restaurant. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:And it is not a drive-thru restaurant, it is a sit-down restaurant.
Speaker 1:Yes, 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 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And so this would be on her list. Right, it's Szechuan calamari.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay.
Speaker 1:So 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 2:Soy sauce, some around there too. You know which is really just concentrated salt. Know, concentrated salt.
Speaker 1:It certainly is. Now, what do you like from Kwan's Kitchen?
Speaker 2:I like their house fried rice.
Speaker 1:Now what is house? Fried rice.
Speaker 2:It'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 1:Now, how's the shrimp?
Speaker 2:It's very good.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I can't imagine, I can't imagine, I can't imagine.
Speaker 2:Yeah, 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 1:Well, 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 2:well, 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 1:Let's see, oh shoot, something just flew out of my head. Okay, oh, the French Open.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, Girls played the other day. The championship was amazing, wasn't it?
Speaker 1:I thought it was incredible. Tell, do tell well I did.
Speaker 2:I 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 1:Well, I wonder, is it changing now the ranking?
Speaker 2:that'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 2:Well it was. I can look it up though.
Speaker 1:It was super. I don't know, Azarenka was very disappointing. I thought she totally lost her cool.
Speaker 2:Yeah, a couple times.
Speaker 1:Yeah, 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 2:If 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 1:France. 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 2:And then complained about the conditions in the tournament as well, and it was like dude.
Speaker 1:The conditions were bad on both sides of the net same conditions it was windy and dark and cold for everybody.
Speaker 2:Yeah so, or rainy, I mean for a lot of them, because they weren't under a roof right I mean they had.
Speaker 1:It was like borderline whether or not they were going to close that roof Right, which totally would have favored her.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it would have favored Zabalenka.
Speaker 1:I 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 2:Yeah, 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 1:that 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 2:That's the right word for it. She changed the mood of the room altogether.
Speaker 1:And 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 1:Okay, 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 2:Exactly.
Speaker 1:Anyway, it's like all right, unplug it.
Speaker 2:The thing we can't do it without.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Unplug 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 2:Just stop it yeah, okay.
Speaker 1:Because 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 2:Oh no.
Speaker 1:Near their transmitter building and took down the transmitter.
Speaker 1:Oh 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 1:So 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 2:It'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 1:It'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 2:No, not really. I mean, they'll paw at the ground a little bit, but yeah, they're not really yeah.
Speaker 1:I 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 1:Um, 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 1:October 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.
Speaker 1:That 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 3:Shema 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.
