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Socks Are The Pants Of The Feet
Welcome to the wonderfully weird world of The Anne Levine Show, where we dive headfirst into the absurdity of 2025's most baffling trends. This episode takes you on a whirlwind tour of luxury fashion fails, celebrity fragrance disasters, and Florida Man escapades that will leave you questioning reality.
Ever wondered what burnt tire would smell like as a perfume? We explore a South Korean fragrance company doing exactly that, alongside Duran Duran's unexpected pivot into the perfume business with their sold-out scents Neo Rio and Black Moonlight. From Dancing with the Stars judge Arthur Gurunlian's vanilla-infused cologne to increasingly ridiculous celebrity scent descriptions, the fragrance industry has never smelled so desperate for attention.
Fashion takes center stage with Balenciaga's latest crime against common sense: a $900 towel skirt sold separately from its $925 "unlooped loop" leather string belt. We also discuss Croc's instantly sold-out cowboy boots (complete with foam spurs!) and Japan's viral "necklace pants" trend that has people hanging their trousers from their necks instead of using suspenders.
The episode features a parade of Florida Man stories that prove truth is stranger than fiction, including a nearly-naked liquor store burglar who claimed "socks are the pants of the feet" and a retiree who led police on a golf cart chase before offering them a homemade vodka spritzer and handing them a taco as identification.
Food innovation reaches new heights of questionable taste with pickle cupcakes, ketchup-infused chocolate bars described as "deeply unnecessary," and Canadian cheeseburger-stuffed ice cream featuring ground beef and pickle swirl. We also explore the world's most underwhelming record: eating one rotisserie chicken daily for 40 days.
We wrap with a heartfelt tribute to Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys, celebrating his revolutionary musical contributions despite his struggles with mental illness and synesthesia. Join us for an hour of laughter, incredulity, and the occasional moment of genuine appreciation for the beautiful strangeness of human creativity.
Subscribe now and put your burnt tire cologne away – the only scent you need is the sweet smell of absurdity that wafts from The Anne Levine Show every Tuesday.
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Speaker 1:Tuesday, June 17th 2025. And we're starting out with a very unexpected Rio by Duran Duran. Yeah, I've heard of her it's. Her name is Rio, which whatever, but I always hear her name is Rita.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, when I listen to.
Speaker 1:I mean, that's kind of where my mind wants it to go.
Speaker 2:I see.
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Speaker 2:That's right. And WFMR 91.3 FM Orleans, and we're streaming worldwide at WLMRorg Indeed, and hey, you know, if you want to know a good song with the name Rita. Lovely Rita Murdermaid no it's Delbert McClinton and it's called when Rita Leaves. Okay, and why do you say that I mentioned Delbert. Mcclinton and you're like I said oh boy, yeah, why.
Speaker 1:Because I'm assuming it's going to be something that it's not.
Speaker 2:Okay, and you're correct.
Speaker 1:It's not an Right. I know I'm correct, it's not whatever it is.
Speaker 2:You think it is.
Speaker 1:I know.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I know we can. How do you make the reverse sound? Well, that was actually pretty good. I thought it was.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, by who.
Speaker 1:There's a couple of yips in good.
Speaker 2:I thought it was yeah, yeah, by who? There's a couple of yips in there.
Speaker 1:Who's it by?
Speaker 2:Delbert McClinton.
Speaker 1:Right on. Yeah, I can't wait yeah.
Speaker 2:How about that?
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:I'll have to get that sound effect for you, yeah please do Get me the rewind sound.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the reverse and I could play it.
Speaker 2:I could play it for you when you don't realize that you need to rewind. But yeah, I'll just let you know.
Speaker 1:That way, I want one also, anyway, okay, so the reason that I am thinking of Duran Duran is totally bizarre, and it doesn't matter how many guesses I give you. You probably won't guess it, but I'll give you one.
Speaker 2:I have one. What's that?
Speaker 1:If you say it, I'm going to. Well, whatever, what Barbarella no, oh, whatever. What Barbarella, no, oh. Okay, and I don't even know what you're referring? To.
Speaker 2:It's a movie with Jane Fonda.
Speaker 1:No, I know that, but what does that have to do with the song?
Speaker 2:Duran. Duran is the name of one of the characters from the movie.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, I was thinking of Rio.
Speaker 2:I gotcha okay, all right yeah yeah, yeah yeah, very good barbarella yeah the jane fonda movie.
Speaker 1:That's the one. Everyone had that poster. Oh yeah, that. And beau derek, true. And farrah faucet and farrah faucet, yes, all right that. And Bo Derek, true. And Farrah Fawcett and Farrah Fawcett, yes, all right. So the reason I'm thinking of, duran, duran, the whole.
Speaker 2:Rio thing.
Speaker 1:Is because of their recent joint. To use a term from Spike Lee Right they are now. In what business? What do you think? Not music. What's their?
Speaker 2:new product, I don't know NFTs.
Speaker 1:Perfume, perfume.
Speaker 2:Yes, really Okay, they have two perfumes.
Speaker 1:One's called Neo Rio.
Speaker 2:Okay, yeah.
Speaker 1:It opens with a zing of bright citrus.
Speaker 2:Isn't that?
Speaker 1:nice. It settles into juicy fig and finishes with warm aged rum, you know, that actually sounds pretty good.
Speaker 2:I would like to.
Speaker 1:It's playful, tropical and glam, exactly like their Rio music video in a bottle gotcha, yeah, I, I am reading their talking points, okay, yes, the other one, black moonlight, is darker saffron, rich woods and bergamot moody, mysterious and perfect for late night glamour. Now, both scents are Baruch Hashem limited release, but they've flown off the shelves. I don't think you can even get it anymore.
Speaker 2:No kidding, wow, I actually would like to smell both of those things and find out what the heck that means. You know what I'm saying. Well in that case, I want to know about the old wood and bergamot, for one thing.
Speaker 1:You know what it tastes like? The first one tastes like a Mai Tai and it smells like a Mai Tai Right, and the second one smells like a Mai Tai Right and the second one smells like men's cologne.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, I guarantee you.
Speaker 1:I guarantee you they are absolutely unremarkable.
Speaker 2:I was thinking like Earl Grey tea with a cedar shingle stuck in it or something.
Speaker 1:Saffron, Rich Woods and Bergamot Well yeah, the bergamot, that's the yeah. It's standard. They're both standard. Yeah, citrus, fig, saffron, rich woods. Come on, I know it's ridiculous.
Speaker 2:But citrus fig, and who knows what's its sparklies? Yeah, that one sounds good Now. And rum. I need to take you to dancing with the stars oh, by the way this is a whole fragrance segment oh, okay, did it, did it, did it, did it yeah fragrance.
Speaker 1:This makes me so happy okay, as you know, because I'm a recovering fragrant obsessed.
Speaker 2:I'm a recovering pufer. You still have vials and pippets and all kinds of things around here to do all of that stuff still.
Speaker 1:I know it's still sitting around, but when's the last time I even wore perfume.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's been a while.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I've worn it since you have yes, yeah, uh, yeah, no, I gave it up for lent and I never came back. All right, here's one that just blows my mind, dancing with the Stars. Okay, you know the Brit judge. Yeah, arthur Gurunlian is his name. Okay, and he has come out with a perfume called AG.
Speaker 1:And so it's the Armenian-British choreographer turned fragrance star. Yes, and it opens with warm suede. So I'm already out. I know exactly what. This smells like Spicy cardamom and mellows into a soft, addictive vanilla, and it's viral on TikTok, which what isn't yeah.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, I guess that's true, and it keeps selling out.
Speaker 1:Now, unlike Duran Duran, Arthur doesn't have the good taste to just stop.
Speaker 2:I see yeah.
Speaker 1:They keep selling out and then they keep restocking it.
Speaker 2:Right, because I mean that's what you would do, right? I mean at least Duran. Duran is a limited release.
Speaker 1:You'll have to buy it on eBay for $1,000 or whatever. Right, yeah, Now do you know who Storm Reid is. No, I don't think so All right, at least not off the top of my head. Okay, then I'm going to move on to Dwayne Wade. Do you know who he is?
Speaker 2:Is this a basketball player?
Speaker 1:That's correct, yeah okay, he's just come out with something that sounds exactly like Arthur Grumlian's perfume. Oh, I see it's called Intuition, by Aramis Intuition, and it is smooth leather.
Speaker 2:Uh-huh.
Speaker 1:I'm just exhausted. Aged musk and a whisper of cedar.
Speaker 2:Okay, it's nostalgic, but totally fresh yeah yeah, very guy, you know cologne kind of fragrance, yeah, sounds very, very copycat. But now here is, you got a good one.
Speaker 1:Oh, this is just just what I want, and I actually well, I do want to check this out. All right, there's a korean, a south korean. If this was a north korean, that would be hilarious actually. A company that was founded in April of 2022, so three years ago by Jun Lim, a former investment banker turned perfumer. Now right there. What does that mean?
Speaker 2:it means a guy who decided to quit that crazy business and he's got all the money he wants. He can just sit around and smell things well, wait to hear what he smells.
Speaker 1:Um, the brand philosophy is this, I'm reading the brand pushes against the status quo. Its tagline is basically I'm going to delete the expletive or change it. Who effing cares? Embracing unapologetic self-expression and rocket beauty. Okay, products are crafted to reflect a rebellious mindset, honoring Korean artistic heritage with avant-garde, unconventional scents and storytelling.
Speaker 2:So what are they going to make? All the women's fragrances smell like Jovan Musk and all the men's fragrances are going to smell very flowery and stuff.
Speaker 1:Well, just you wait.
Speaker 2:Okay, maybe they'll make it out of fish You're close.
Speaker 1:They offer a wide collection of unisex niche perfumes, including the standout scents like Indecent Cherry.
Speaker 2:What the hell is that?
Speaker 1:It's seductive fruitiness. Uh-huh, drunk saffron. Yeah, okay, it is like it sounds, yep.
Speaker 2:Fig Drunk by, but what was it drinking?
Speaker 1:Well, probably sake, I don't know. Okay, well, or what's a.
Speaker 2:Korean beer, I don't know?
Speaker 1:Okay well, or what's, a Korean beer, I don't know. All right, yeah, fig porn.
Speaker 2:Yeah, uh-huh.
Speaker 1:And Saxon Cognac.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:Their number one scent born to stand out. Slash burnt tire, Really Burnt tire, A wildly avant-garde asphalt, rubber, pepper and incense like a high-speed chase in a candlelit church. Btos horrible is also got steamed rice, which is shockingly beautiful and smells exactly like fresh jasmine rice on clean skin I kind of like that idea, but what's it doing with the rest of that stuff? What you mean with cherry. What was it? Indecent cherry.
Speaker 2:Yeah, or the drunk saffron.
Speaker 1:Well, I don't have descriptions of those fragrances, but theseances have garden garnered praise for their creativity quality and I do not want to wear asphalt and burnt tar or whatever the tire. No, tire, tire, uh. Sustainability they're generally vegan. What uh-huh? That's generally vegan is like a little bit pregnant? Yeah right, exactly. Yeah. Hypoallergenic I don't believe that for a second. And designed to challenge norms through scent. If I ever cuddle up to someone that smells like a burning tire, yeah no, that's right, get the hell out of here.
Speaker 1:Do you know that Elon Musk this is true actually did a fragrance. This is many years ago.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:Not enough years ago, but anyway to smell like burnt hair.
Speaker 2:Really.
Speaker 1:Yeah, right, would you go burnt hair or burnt tire?
Speaker 2:Oh, boy, I might go burnt hair or burnt tire. Oh boy, I might go burnt tire before burnt hair.
Speaker 1:Well, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2:You know Now, just when you thought it smells much more dangerous burnt hair, Because it could be you on fire.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh, there you go. Yeah, there's a name for a fragrance. You on fire emulation yaff. Okay, now there's one more. Okay, because there's got to be, and it's from goop.
Speaker 2:Of course it is, yes, called, it's called.
Speaker 1:Vampire Repellent Spray. Oh my God. And the product promises to banish bad vibes and psychic vampires, and the ingredients include sonically tuned water, so she is remaining just as ridiculous.
Speaker 2:Sonically tuned water yeah.
Speaker 1:Don't you want to listen to that perfume?
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, you bet, I do.
Speaker 1:I mean sorry to the anti-vampire spray.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean that one. Yeah, yeah, oh, my God.
Speaker 1:Well, you'll be happy or not. Oh man To know that that's all I got in perfume news this week. Wow, that was amazing, Wasn't that an awesome segment?
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was really an awesome segment.
Speaker 1:You just have to go long enough, right, they do the work.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that is true. They do it for you, right.
Speaker 1:Everyone out there does the work for us, yep. And then you save it up long enough and ta-da there it is there, it is Yep, just like that.
Speaker 2:Oh, good one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that show All right.
Speaker 2:Now here's a story that it's a Dan Levine show, by the way.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, starring Michael over there. In case people didn't know, maybe if you just tuned in. That's right, and you thought this was.
Speaker 2:You know yeah.
Speaker 1:Something else.
Speaker 2:Something quality oh. God, well, that made me feel great oh, come on, you come on, we're having fun here, we are yeah. Now come on, you come on, we're having fun here, we are yeah.
Speaker 1:Now, speaking of having fun. I told you about part of this, okay, but the Tampa police held a major press conference about a serial killer yeah, suspect. About a serial killer, yeah, suspect and a woman named Derlin Derlin I don't know how you say it D-E-R-L-Y-N Roberts. Yeah, derlin Stood beside the police chief and was doing ASL interpretations and it turned out. Now a lot of unfortunate jokes are going to write themselves here, but a lot of people who speak ASL and a lot of deaf listeners immediately called the station and said what the hell is going on?
Speaker 1:this interpreter is signing gibberish oh my god, and one of them said it looked like she was doing an interpretive dance of jingle bells.
Speaker 2:Wow, very nice.
Speaker 1:Well then, bringing the front of the story back, or the back of the story front. This person, derlin Roberts, turns out is a known con artist with prior fraud convictions. Oh man, now I want to know how did this happen with this idea? Yeah, right to do this, then somehow worm her way into standing next to. Also, you've got to train yourself a tiny bit. Yeah, not to actually do it obviously that's going to happen but to to look like to be able to mimic it.
Speaker 2:yeah you, it's not easy. You're not waving your arms around like a lunatic or something.
Speaker 1:It's not easy, yeah, and I actually from improv. Well, who cares?
Speaker 2:We can't talk about you in sign language. You do it in your sleep.
Speaker 1:Well, they don't need to know that yeah.
Speaker 2:so you just you know.
Speaker 1:But I actually do it. I don't need to know that. Yeah, so you just you know, but I actually do it. I don't do jingle bells.
Speaker 2:No, no, I do anything. Yeah you're— and I'm multilingual. I don't know who you're talking to either.
Speaker 1:I don't either. Anyway, no one's going to understand any bit of that, but how the heck— Then how do you get the job? How the heck, then? How do you get the job? And how do you end up? You're standing next to who do you even the mayor or whatever, yeah. To the police chief of Tampa.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:I mean, this is a Florida woman's story, I guess, but here is a horrendous, an even more outrageous one. The Nelson Mandela Memorial in 2013 featured an ASL interpreter standing next to President Obama. The problem he wasn't interpreting anything.
Speaker 2:Wow, another one.
Speaker 1:And this is standing. What the hell is this? This is Obama right.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Now this man's name is Thomsanka Janchi. Yeah, of course it is, and he later claimed he was hallucinating angels.
Speaker 2:Oh Well, that's nice.
Speaker 1:Meanwhile, his hands were just flapping nonsense.
Speaker 2:That sounds like a very pleasant experience, though.
Speaker 1:Deaf.
Speaker 2:Doesn't it? Would you be afraid if you were hallucinating angels?
Speaker 1:I'm not sure.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't know, that would be cool.
Speaker 1:It could be good yeah.
Speaker 2:I don't know. I've never seen one, so you know, I don't know if they're scary or not, but I don't think they are.
Speaker 1:Deaf viewers were horrified and actually global outrage followed, which, yeah, yeah, it was someone doing this for the president yeah, that's insane at nelson mandela's memorial survey. I mean, but once again, how did that?
Speaker 2:happen, yeah, how, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, and you know, I think it's. I mean, it happened because of someone's amazing audacity, I don't know, and they knew just enough to you know, to make it happen the whole thing. Since we talked about this the other day, I've been thinking of Frank Abagnale and the Catch Me, if you Can, guy, yeah, who did everything.
Speaker 1:Right, oh man, he actually learned how to fly a plane. Yes, he learned how to do surgery, or?
Speaker 2:whatever. Yes, he learned how to do all this, he learned how to do surgery or whatever. Well, he walked he, he learned how to go in, set it up and then hand it off to somebody, because he never actually, you know, did it himself right, but I mean he knew enough to fake it.
Speaker 1:Well enough, right, yeah, that deaf viewers weren't calling in.
Speaker 2:And if you haven't, seen or if you haven't read the book catch me, if you can you should read it.
Speaker 1:I mean they made a movie out of it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's got Leonardo DiCaprio, I think, starred in that and it was okay. I loved the book, though I read it several times when I was younger and I recommend reading the book first. You know what I'm saying. I feel what you're putting down. You got to do it.
Speaker 1:I feel what you're putting down, Michael.
Speaker 2:I hope so.
Speaker 1:So do you remember? Last week I was telling you about the Balenciaga towel skirt.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, the $900 two-button with an adjustable belt, towel.
Speaker 1:Well, about that belt? Oh, it's $925 for the belt, which is the same price as the skirt. Slash towel.
Speaker 2:Oh, the belt doesn't come with it.
Speaker 1:Well, it does or it doesn't, you be the judge, I see. I mean I guess, if you're going to buy one, you should buy them both, Right? It came out that this belt is quote a leather string called the unlooped loop.
Speaker 2:Oh boy, the unlooped loop, which is just a piece of string Cut.
Speaker 1:That you cut, so it's not a loop anymore, right? Yeah, it's a leather string, 925 bucks, and balenciaga says it evokes minimalist tension I'll say it evokes a lot more than that. Oh, my God.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So just when you thought you were all set to go with your Balenciaga summer, it sounds like the most depressing. This is when you put on your burnt tire fragrance, oh.
Speaker 2:I see. Yeah, you put on your burnt tire fragrance.
Speaker 1:oh, I see yeah, when you're wearing the gray towel and the piece of leather string two thousand uh dollar, shoestring or one thousand dollars right, right, I mean, you know, it's not that much money right, that's true, yeah half price actually.
Speaker 2:Lace is like a whole thing now yeah, I've seen a lot of lace going on out there so zoe kravitz has been walking around in a full body black lace catsuit Okay, with nothing underneath.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so she is not receiving kudoi for that. No, no, it's time to throw something over that. Get the. And I have a tip Get the Balenciaga towel skirt. There you go.
Speaker 2:And wear it up under your armpits.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's long enough.
Speaker 2:And then get the unlooped loop Right get the unlooped loop To hold it on? Yeah, that'd be good.
Speaker 1:Here's something that I yeah hold it around you. The unlooped loop To hold it on yeah, that'd be good.
Speaker 2:Here's something that I yeah hold it on around, you know, put it around your shoulders, around your neck there. Yeah, you're all set. Tighten it up.
Speaker 1:And it looks great over the waist. Looks super good the whole thing. It can't get worse. Yeah, now this I have actually seen Like a bolo tie, oh the unlooped loop.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Jesus. Okay, so I saw these and, michael, I think you may have been watching. Whatever it is that. I was watching when I saw these. All right, I'll see if I can remember Crocs.
Speaker 2:All right, I've heard of, I can remember.
Speaker 1:Crocs.
Speaker 2:All right, I've heard of them.
Speaker 1:Now has a cowboy boot.
Speaker 2:No way.
Speaker 1:Way.
Speaker 2:That's very funny.
Speaker 1:They've got all the holes.
Speaker 2:Oh, wow.
Speaker 1:Spurs, Little foam spurs. I don't even know what the spurs are made out of. Yeah, but you know, then they have a shaft. You know, that's like Right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that comes up your leg. Yeah, I mean, they're not up to your knees, but no Boot size.
Speaker 1:Well, cowboy boot size. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Wow.
Speaker 1:And they are $120.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that sounds awful.
Speaker 1:And like Duran Duran Perfume Sold out. Wow, you can't get them now.
Speaker 2:Those sound really uncomfortably warm. You and I Grabbing onto your calves like that, the rubber on your calves like that, I would not like that a bit rubber on your calves like that.
Speaker 1:I would not like that a bit, but your feet are ventilated Feet are different yeah. I mean, forget all of that. Who cares? They are so fugly I have never seen. I saw them on television and I can't remember who it was that said and look, crocs sent me their cowboy boots.
Speaker 2:Uh-huh.
Speaker 1:And I was just appalled yeah. They are the most hideous things, so-.
Speaker 2:I'll have to look them up.
Speaker 1:Comfort is not even part of this conversation. It's just not. Yeah, no, they're not.
Speaker 2:No, no, comfort is not even part of this conversation, it's just not, yeah, no, they're not. No, no, you've removed comfort by adding stuff up. Rubber around your calf like that.
Speaker 1:I couldn't stand it. If you put your feet in anything that hideous, you deserve for it to be uncomfortable. That's my feeling about this, Like comfort if you're actually going to wear them and walk around, you want comfort.
Speaker 2:Those are very goofy looking.
Speaker 1:Oh, you're looking at them, yeah, how hideous is that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that is so weird and I've got to look up what the whole spur is about. Oh, do you?
Speaker 1:see the spur, yeah, and you can't.
Speaker 2:No, I mean, I can't tell what it is.
Speaker 1:Because I don't remember it looks solid.
Speaker 2:So I don't know, I don't know what that is?
Speaker 1:Well, whatever. So what else do we? Oh, in fashion? Oh, my God. Now this is something I might want to. This is something I want to see. I haven't seen this, I just read about this. So a viral fashion trend in Japan is something called necklace pants. Okay, necklace pants. When I say necklace pants, what are you thinking?
Speaker 2:that is Well, I'm trying to figure out whether it's wearing your pants draped around you like a necklace or whether they've somehow found a way to accessorize their necklaces with some sort of trouser situation. So I don't get that.
Speaker 1:Well, it's a little of both. Oh great what it is? And this is viral. This is everywhere. You use necklaces to hold up your pants, so around your neck. So instead of suspenders you get a long necklace, I see, and attach it to your belt loops right, and so your pants are on you, you got those opera length pearls you're good to go well, you're too good to go if they're opera length. Yeah, you're going to be singing quite a song, exactly so, oh my God, can't you just imagine? That's very funny.
Speaker 1:I can so imagine this. I can so imagine I don't know the name of that district where everyone dresses in like the most outrageous neon. Do you know what I'm talking about?
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:I can just see people walking around with their pants hanging off their necklaces. I really can All right. Well, while we're overseas, oh overseas. Here's one of my favorite things, and this is so classic, this is so Scandinavian. One city and they don't say which one it's not Stockholm has installed smart trash cans. That moan gasp, or shame you in Swedish when you throw something on the ground. Really.
Speaker 2:Yes, oh, that's hilarious. Exactly. You've got garbage cans yelling at you. You do are trying to make you feel bad. Exactly that is so, and they said they've gone viral.
Speaker 1:Well, of course they've gone viral some of the cans say things like oh, leave that right there, like these little sarcastic phrases Sure, why not yeah? I love that.
Speaker 2:This looks like a dump. Anyway, you might as well just throw everything there. Yeah God, that is really funny. Oh God, I wish they would do something like that here here, but no one's got that kind of sense of humor well, I don't know about that, but I don't know where you would.
Speaker 1:Yeah, everyone would break them. I mean certain things you can only do in somewhere like denmark or sw Sweden and expect people to not vandalize.
Speaker 2:Right yeah exactly. Or go get their baseball bat and start whacking you with it. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Whatever, just something absolutely horrendous, all right. Tremendous, all right. So here's a guy that could have used a necklace.
Speaker 2:Okay, yep, Where's he from Florida?
Speaker 1:Yes, yay, right on. I'm so glad I didn't have to say it. Okay, Florida man have to say it. Okay, florida man. So a man tried to break into a liquor store wearing only socks okay and when asked why he was doing that wearing only socks by the, he said it's laundry day.
Speaker 2:Oh.
Speaker 1:God. And they said why didn't you just put on pants? Yeah, he said socks are the pants of the feet, of your feet.
Speaker 2:Yes, oh yeah, the pants of your feet. I love it. That is awesome, wow, wow, okay, that good one on you, florida man. Hey, you know what? We haven't talked about? Our educational feature on the show yet.
Speaker 2:By all means this week, on the most educational show on the radio right now, we're going to go back into American history and learn something about one of our founding fathers. Oh, and learn something about one of our founding fathers, oh. After killing Alexander Hamilton in a duel Mm-hmm. And trying to steal Louisiana Purchase Land in an attempt to crown himself Emperor of Mexico what Yep? He was, by the way, acquitted of treason Aaron Burr fled to Europe in self-imposed exile and to escape his creditors. Now, when he was in Europe in his self-imposed exile, he tried to convince Napoleon to conquer Florida. Now, see and install him.
Speaker 1:You know things about Aaron Burr. Yeah, you never dreamed, but in some ways you wish he had achieved. How awesome. Yeah, wow, wow. Well, that's a major Florida man story, emperor of Mexico. Right there, aaron Burr, you know you get it all here. You get the education.
Speaker 2:You sure do you learn something today? Florida, that's right, it's all here. I found out my nephew's living there now. Yes, down near the villages, near the villages. He's Down near the villages, near the villages, not in the villages, but yeah, down near there. Down near there which by the way, the villages take up three counties in Florida.
Speaker 1:Right yeah.
Speaker 2:They're so huge. It's a voting block. I do have a friend who lives there, my old Air Force captain, my boss in the Air Force.
Speaker 1:Now is he the one who was married to the woman that used to cook and make you—.
Speaker 2:No, okay, no, no, that guy wasn't my boss, that guy was actually a neighbor.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, and a friend.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, this guy was my boss when I was in the Air Force, my final boss in the Air Force and a good guy, and he's down in the villages, been there for a long time. So there we go. What?
Speaker 1:do you think about that? You think all right. Well, what?
Speaker 2:do you think about that? I think florida, yeah, okay uh, yeah, these crocs boots stink that's the nicest, now the top part isn't the same kind of rubbery stuff, I guess, but it's still. It's weird, that's just not, and they've made it look like fake alligator the bottom parts of the boots themselves.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:The instep and the yeah.
Speaker 1:They're hideous, yeah, they're awful step and, yeah, all that they're. It's just hideous. Yeah, they're awful. So, speaking of the villages, oh yeah, a driver led police on a 40 minute low speed chase through a retirement community, environment, community, in a golf cart okay when finally stopped, he offered the officers a homemade vodka spritzer and asked them if they would like citrus.
Speaker 1:he he had lemon, lime and orange slices with him, oh my God. And then, when they asked for his ID, he handed them a taco. Oh, this guy is awesome. And they said, no, sir, we need to see your ID. And he said, no, sir, we need to see your ID.
Speaker 2:And he said this is my license.
Speaker 1:Oh, right on, I know. Oh, that is just incredible. It's so great. I love this stuff because you expect to see this, like in a Seth Rogen movie.
Speaker 2:I was just going to say that, yes, this is a Seth Rogen movie. I was just going to say that, yes, this is a Seth Rogen movie kind of thing and not real life, right?
Speaker 1:But oh, apparently it is yeah, yeah, down in the villages.
Speaker 2:That is too funny. Wow, wow, this is my license.
Speaker 1:This is my license. This is my license, all right. Well, okay, speaking of the burrito, oh yeah yeah, I got a bunch of food. Little food stories.
Speaker 2:Little food stories. Little mini food stories.
Speaker 1:Food canapes. Little food stories. Little mini food stories Food canapes. A bakery in Wisconsin is trending, whatever that means, for its dill. Pickle cupcakes Ooh, I don't know. Michael Green cake buttercream with brine topped with a baby gherkin oh, it sounds good and the best review is it's like being slapped by both a dessert and a deli sandwich.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's awesome, I want that. Yeah, I would try that yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, I know you would, yeah, yeah, but as long as you've gone on your burnt tire cologne when you do it, I would probably eat it.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Now here's the reason to move to Texas, in my opinion, okay, all right. In my opinion, okay, all right.
Speaker 2:The one reason Right, and it's this Other than Simon Right.
Speaker 1:A French expat has installed a baguette vending machine that bakes one baguette at a time in a shed in rural Texas, right on, and locals leave tips and love notes for the bread, which I would too. Well, yeah, I mean, I want a baguette vending machine. Well, yeah, yeah, on the corner, you bet, or at the foot of the driveway.
Speaker 2:I'll run right down there right now and get one Mm-hmm, absolutely, I could use a baguette to go with my pickle ice cream.
Speaker 1:Now I want to know what is this vending machine? What do these cost?
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's a good question.
Speaker 1:And I'm thinking I mean Six bucks, okay, so I don't even know how vending machines work anymore. You must have to.
Speaker 2:You have to use a card, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh God, a card.
Speaker 2:A card If you can't put change in it and you just tap, tap on it. No, you don't even have to insert a card into anything. You just kind of tap it on stuff I know or just pass by something and it charges you.
Speaker 1:Well, that, yeah, that's the scary part. Now here is something. Please tell me you don't want this okay. Heinz and a novelty chocolatier have released Baruch Hashem again, a limited edition ketchup infused chocolate bar oh, I would have to try it describe. I knew it. Yeah, I would have to try it.
Speaker 2:Oh god, that sounds rank I like chocolate and spice, you know chocolate and cayenne stuff like that yeah very good together so this is like milk chocolate and ketchup. Yeah, whatever. Well, I would have to try it. I would have to see.
Speaker 1:It's described as sweet, tangy and deeply unnecessary.
Speaker 2:Oh, I so believe that. Yeah, no kidding 100%.
Speaker 1:It's perfect, it's like, it's like Deeply unnecessary. That's one it's for someone you, someone you hate, or like someone, literally, who has everything but you have to hand them like. This is something I would give out as a favor after a dinner party at our house.
Speaker 2:Okay, yep, right.
Speaker 1:That kind of thing.
Speaker 2:Uh-huh. Yeah, it could win a prize, for you know a ham toss, here you go, have some ice cream. Yep, yeah.
Speaker 1:Now Wow, I got more.
Speaker 2:Okay, more food stuff, more food stuffs.
Speaker 1:Wow, this I find ridiculous. Um, and you'll understand why. Man sets world record for eating rotisserie chickens okay, well but this, this record is ridiculous. He ate one per day for 40 days. What is that? That's practically what I would do every day anyway.
Speaker 2:You know what that's true Like what the heck is. Especially since a lot of the rotisserie chickens out there are very tiny.
Speaker 1:Even if they were large. I mean, let's say you're a normal, whatever that means person, then you're a normal, whatever that means person. Then you're going to eat three meals in a day, right, you know, a rotisserie chicken from our supermarket is not going to be a big challenge no no, it's not so I I don't.
Speaker 1:I agree with you, yeah I don't see how this is a world record well, because no one had done it before well, I know, you know, I think a lot of us have now, well, you know and told anybody about it.
Speaker 2:So now, now it's a thing. Now we're going to have people, all kinds of people, breaking that record, because how difficult is that Not? Not, it's not even remotely difficult, it's just sit down and have dinner.
Speaker 1:Yeah, if I had gotten, you know, if I wasn't off the chicken and meat bandwagon easily, I would feel like, oh my God, I can do this. Yeah, how do I need to prove this?
Speaker 2:Yep, that's no problem, I can do it too pretty easily.
Speaker 1:Now here's one that you're probably going to want.
Speaker 2:Okay, yep.
Speaker 1:Because I don't know what to do with you now with all this stuff you want to try.
Speaker 2:Right yep.
Speaker 1:But this one is Canadian, so you've got to cross the border for this one. Okay well all right, ask Jacob to bring you one of these.
Speaker 2:Oh, good idea.
Speaker 1:Except it's ice cream man. A Canadian creamery, went viral. God, I hate that term. Anyway, for their summer surprise flavor, it's vanilla ice cream with ground beef mustard and pickle swirl, oh wow. And it's called cheeseburger stuffed ice cream. Wow.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's what it sounds like.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I'd have to try that too.
Speaker 1:I know you would. That's what's like.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it would be very weird.
Speaker 1:You totally can, michael. I mean this of all of them.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I could actually make that myself.
Speaker 1:This would be so easy Just grab a burger and some vanilla ice cream.
Speaker 2:Yeah, mush them together and there you go.
Speaker 1:Blech you got to accept you wouldn't just be able to sort of have an ice cream cone in one hand and a burger in the other.
Speaker 2:Right? No, you have to mix it all together and freeze, right, of course.
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay, to be fair. Yeah, now this is an idea that I wish I had thought of, or I wish, not necessarily for us, but for something, and this makes Hamtas feel possible again. A bride had 150 guests at her wedding and she got a standing ovation when she came out at the reception and started handing out McDonald's.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:The people went nuts.
Speaker 2:That was the greatest thing, huh.
Speaker 1:Well, don't you think I mean what could be easier, what could be more crowd-pleasing, you don't agree?
Speaker 2:Oh, Lord no.
Speaker 1:Why.
Speaker 2:Well, I suppose. I mean, I'm not part of that crowd.
Speaker 1:Excuse me.
Speaker 2:No, I wouldn't no McDonald's.
Speaker 1:What? Never mind the brand name, I mean, you would some fast what couldn't rock your boat at a wedding I don't know.
Speaker 2:No, it doesn't seem the right to me, oh boy I am completely on the other side of that.
Speaker 1:I have been to so many weddings and formal events where the food was absolutely atrocious. Yeah, okay, it's usually some super dried out chicken breast or I don't know. It's usually not done terribly well Okay yeah, I can see that and there have been times when I can imagine thinking you know what, I wouldn't mind a Filet-O-Fish and surprise instead of this All right, well, I liked it.
Speaker 2:You know what? I can't argue with the Filet-O-Fish thing Word nuggets, because that's really the one thing I want to get, if I'm going to get something at McDonald's.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like I'm saying, it doesn't have to be McDonald's, it could be Taco Bell or whatever.
Speaker 2:Alright, sam, good for that.
Speaker 1:So it's fast food Right, and this was in the UK.
Speaker 2:It depends on what fast food it is. That's all I'm saying. You're not giving me no stupid McDonald's.
Speaker 1:I'm not giving you no stupid mcdonald's.
Speaker 2:I'm not giving you, no stupid mcdonald's a plate full of tacos.
Speaker 1:I'm in okay, and is that your I d? Oh, yeah, that's your id. Yep, now this one fascinating to me. Okay. So a guy broke another world record for the most ghost peppers eaten oh boy, 50 in under 3 minutes, oh boy. And then was immediately taken to the ER, of course.
Speaker 2:He was Now my question is— that would have been my next question, actually.
Speaker 1:Yeah, my question is—now you may want to describe—I don't know. Does everyone know what a ghost pepper is and why you would need to go to the ER?
Speaker 2:Well, I mean, they call them ghost peppers, not because it might kill you. It's that hot, they are so hot, yeah, unbearable.
Speaker 1:They laugh at habaneros. Yeah, and one of them, can you know, can put you down for hours.
Speaker 2:It really can, yeah, and if you're not ready for it, yeah. You can actually be harmed.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So what I want to know is what did they do at the ER? I mean, I guess you get your stomach pumped right, right, yeah, but then just the agony. Yeah, I know, I know, I mean your eyes, your nose, your mouth, your going down your throat, your intestines your stomach.
Speaker 2:How do you breathe those?
Speaker 1:pipes are connected there?
Speaker 2:No, it intestines your stomach. How do you breathe? Those pipes are connected there. No, it's all messed up.
Speaker 1:I mean, I would have to be put in an induced coma, really.
Speaker 2:No, I totally understand and I don't disagree. It's really so awful God.
Speaker 1:Nastiest, one of the worst things I think I've ever heard, I mean.
Speaker 2:Yeah, 50 ghost peppers Wow.
Speaker 1:In under three minutes. Not that there's like any amount of time in one day. Right, that would make that doable. Yeah yeah, it's just horrible. Now I mean that's too hot for me and I love the hot hot hot, hot.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's just horrible. Now I mean that's too hot for me and I love the hot, hot, hot, hot, hot. I do, I really do. I mean that's my thing, I love it, but no, that's too much, that's just too much. I love habaneros, I like to cook with them, but you have to be careful, because it will weaponize the steam and the steam in the air will burn your eyes Absolutely and burn your throat, breathing it in you, just you know. And that's a pepper, that's only you know. Not even it's a fraction of what a ghost pepper is, heat wise. So yeah, wow.
Speaker 1:Well.
Speaker 2:I have this song now.
Speaker 1:This is the Beach Boys. This is Feel Flows, which is somewhat of a deep cut. It's my favorite Beach Boys song and this week we lost Brian Wilson, who is known as the architect of American harmony, and he lived with mental illness, synesthesia and a wild inner world that gave us God only knows good vibrations. Pet sounds California Girls. Do you know that that has 14 chord changes? 14?
Speaker 1:I didn't know that, no you gotta, I would have to listen. Yeah, it's amazing. Anyway, in the end, because of him, we ended up with completely different music landscape. Paul McCartney, in fact, was asked what he liked best this is like in the early, early 60s about the United States and he said the music. And he said what's the best music? And he, without a hesitation, said Beach Boys, hands down. These guys influenced everybody.
Speaker 2:They sure did.
Speaker 1:He was born in 1942 and was writing harmonies no one else could hear by age 16. No one else could hear by age 16. He lived with deafness in one ear and he had auditory hallucinations and undiagnosed mental illness that, he said, felt like a quote psychedelic cathedral. He once said he could see music and described chord changes and colors and textures. That's his synesthesia. And he brought us the Wall of Sound and he had addiction, grief. He had addiction, grief and impulse control problems but he kept on doing it. So we will hear him always in the high harmonies of summer. So for Brian Wilson and for our friends and family in the Middle East, please put a light on ¶¶ Bye, thank you.
