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Canada Day arrives with stories both heartwarming and bizarre from our neighbors in the Great White North. From Stompin' Tom Connors' nationalistic folk music to wildlife encounters that could only happen in Canada, we journey through the quirky landscape of Canadian culture, exploring what makes it uniquely charming and occasionally baffling. Also, Canadian.
The Goose Siege of Calgary stands out as perfectly emblematic of Canadian sensibilities – a family patiently waiting indoors while a "stern but fair" Canada goose holds them hostage on their own patio. Meanwhile, a Quebec man faces a $2,000 fine for sharing a menthol cigarette with a moose (He looked stressed), demonstrating the complex relationship between Canadians and their iconic wildlife.
We reflect on how the once-casual border crossings between the US and Canada have transformed into strictly regulated checkpoints, requiring passports and Real IDs where once a driver's license would suffice. This shift mirrors larger changes in the relationship between these traditionally friendly neighbors.
The conversation takes a darker turn as we examine the fashion world's increasingly bizarre and potentially harmful trends. Major design houses like Louis Vuitton and Hermes sent models walking painfully on the sides of their feet, while other designers deliberately created runway conditions causing models to trip and fall, while another dressed their models as giant spermatozoa. When creativity crosses into potential exploitation, we must question the ethics behind these artistic choices.
Equally concerning are emerging "beauty" trends, from salmon sperm facials to teen labiaplasty surgeries driven by pornography and social media. These developments reveal disturbing patterns in how beauty standards affect physical and mental health, especially among young women.
What strange cultural phenomena have you noticed lately? Share your thoughts and join the conversation about national identity, beauty standards, and the sometimes absurd world of high fashion.
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It's Canada Day, up Canada way on the first day of July, and we're shouting hooray up Canada way when the leaf flies high, when the soul comes to rest and we're singing to our skies, shouting hooray up Canada way on the first day of July. So it's July 1st 2025.
Speaker 2:It's Canada Day.
Speaker 1:And it is Canada Day Up Canada.
Speaker 2:Way. That's right, and this is stomping Tom Connors. It sure is he's a legend, he is a legend.
Speaker 1:Up Canada way. He's famous for having the most ridiculous lyrics.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:That's one of his things.
Speaker 2:Let's see, he's also the guy who did the song. I'm Drinking Canada Dry.
Speaker 1:Yeah, one of my favorites is Bud the Spud, which is. It goes, tomatoes love potatoes. It's about ketchup and french fries. It's so nice, isn't it?
Speaker 2:This is the End of you Show, so it's July 1st 2025, and we're coming to you from WOMR 92.1 FM in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and 91.3 FM WFMR Orleans, and we're streaming worldwide at WOMRorg, the voice and spirit of Cape Cod. That's what we are worldwide at WOMRorg, the voice and spirit of Cape Cod.
Speaker 1:That's what we are. That's what we are, except we're also the voice and spirit of Canada for a few minutes.
Speaker 2:Yeah, for a couple minutes anyway.
Speaker 1:Which you know what.
Speaker 2:What they need some of that from us, because they're getting nothing but bad vibes, you know.
Speaker 1:Well, yeah, from the government of our nation, yeah, but anyway. So Stompin' Tom did some Canada Proud things. He was known, of course he got his name because he used to have this piece of plywood board and he wore cowboy boots and he would stomp the rhythm while he was playing guitar not well and singing his little songs, but he did some things. He mailed a Juno back. Juno is like a Canadian Grammy, right? Yeah, because he said he was protesting too much American content.
Speaker 2:At the Juno Awards.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and in general in the Canadian music scene.
Speaker 2:Oh, I see Okay.
Speaker 1:I'm with him.
Speaker 2:I'm with him.
Speaker 1:He also refused to appear on shows that prioritized American acts, and so this is why you've never heard of him.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, you know, unless, yeah, unless you.
Speaker 1:Unless you're Canadian.
Speaker 2:You know, many times I mean I used to go, I used to be Canadian on Canada Day.
Speaker 1:Yes, you did. On the reg.
Speaker 2:Used to go up to yeah, to Vancouver or thereabouts every year on July 1st for Canada Day, because it was fun Take the kids up there, it was a blast, we'd have a lot of fun, we'd go shopping, I mean it was very cool. And I did hear a little bit about Stompin' Tom Plus Dr Demento.
Speaker 1:Well, yeah, Well, they were, they are. Their thing is brats, johnsonville, brats, yeah, bratwurst, and so that's what they eat on Canada Day.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, well, yeah and you got to drink a lot of Canada.
Speaker 1:Day Well, yeah, well yeah, and you got to drink a lot of stubbies, uh-huh. Anyway, it's a fun day.
Speaker 2:Could be Molson-y.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it could be any beer From the beer store. I'll never forget how my mind was blown. I don't know if it's still like this at all. I haven't been there in ages, but when I lived in Canada there were two ways you could go to buy liquor. You could go to I don't remember what they were called the liquor stores.
Speaker 2:I don't know. They didn't call them the Packies.
Speaker 1:No, no, you've been in Massachusetts a long time. Yeah, I can't think of what they were called Like the license stores or something.
Speaker 2:Yes, okay, yeah, yep stores or something.
Speaker 1:Yes, okay, yeah, and the where you would go to buy beer which wasn't sold at the license stores was called the beer store.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and back in's the lcbo right so the license liquor control board right, that's in ontario, and right lcbc, which is for british columbia right, yeah, the liquor store and the beer store.
Speaker 1:So anyway, now do you know about Canada Day? What Canada Day?
Speaker 2:Tell me about Canada Day, is it's?
Speaker 1:the 1867 Confederation of Canada as a dominion of the British Empire.
Speaker 2:Well, how about that?
Speaker 1:Yeah, talking about colonizing 1867. And, of course, now there's a movement like there is here on Columbus Day. We don't have it on Fourth of July, but there's a hashtag cancel Canada Day movement which is indigenous led and talks about the fact that you know when they did this, they wiped out the indigenous population, essentially.
Speaker 2:Yeah, which they did do yeah.
Speaker 1:With the yeah school graves. They were unmarked. They had these residential schools that native kids had to go to to learn the native just horrendous things.
Speaker 2:Well, I mean, it's no worse than, certainly not worse than here, but yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, yeah, as bad as here, certainly, but on the fun side there are parades featuring beavers mounties and maple leaves. Yep, and they're saying make it a day of listening instead of shouting. Aha.
Speaker 2:So— you know, when I used to go to Canada on Canada Day, Go to Canada on Canada Day, someone gave me a little maple leaf pin, like at the border. Uh-huh, yeah, it's like come on, everybody's Canadian today.
Speaker 1:It was very cool. Michael and I on Sunday were talking about how it used to be when, way back in the olden days, when we were young and would go to Canada, that you barely did anything at the border, you'd flash your license or whatever and go on through. Now you've got to have like real ID and a passport and a visa. Strip search yeah, it's ridiculous, yeah, and I don't blame them.
Speaker 2:No, They've been antagonized really really a lot. Seriously yeah.
Speaker 1:And a lot of Americans have been moving on up there.
Speaker 2:Yep.
Speaker 1:Which used to be a simple thing to do.
Speaker 2:Yeah, not as easy now, Not as easy yeah.
Speaker 1:So things have changed. My brother and his girlfriend are coming here.
Speaker 2:Yes, they are.
Speaker 1:And normally they fly from JFfk right into hyannis yeah, right, that's like a 45 minute flight. They can't do that because jeff's whoops well, anyway, that's my brother's name his passport is expired and his girlfriend doesn't have real ID or an up-to-date passport.
Speaker 2:Right, yeah.
Speaker 1:So they couldn't take a domestic flight.
Speaker 2:Oh, wow.
Speaker 1:You know this real ID thing is yeah, it's really upsetting. All right, let's go back to Canada. Okay, yeah, I've been there, I have too you should go on Canada Day every year. Yeah, I used to live outside Ontario for a few years.
Speaker 2:Went to Dinotown. That was pretty great.
Speaker 1:What the heck was that?
Speaker 2:Well, look, you know, Google it. It's up near Bridal Falls in British Columbia. Took the kids there. It's goofy as all get out, but boy, they had a blast. Dino Town.
Speaker 1:But what is it?
Speaker 2:It's just a place for kids to play. That's all Okay, and I can't explain it any more than that. You would actually have to see a few pictures, all right.
Speaker 1:Okay, so I'm going to start out by telling you about the goose siege of calgary, which is funny. You thought you heard geese honking in the distance on sunday yes, yeah, I thought I did was held hostage in quotes by an angry Canada goose on their own patio in Calgary. Yeah, I believe that, and rather than confront it, they waited it out indoors, so they were afraid to go out. Yeah, okay they were afraid to go out. Yeah, okay, um, and the the local news reports um said the goose was stern but fair it's so canada?
Speaker 1:well, I guess it had a reason, you know. Right yeah, to want them to stay in their home, right yeah, but it was stirred up there. Oh, that's very funny and then there were neighbors trying to help out. Someone brought some feed of some kind, maybe bird feed, and a bowl of water.
Speaker 2:And was doing the like here Gooseyy. Well, yeah, here goosey goose, here goose, oh my God. Eat this drink this oh, that is so funny.
Speaker 1:Yeah so.
Speaker 2:Have you ever been on the receiving end of Canada Goose?
Speaker 1:I have I have too.
Speaker 2:What was yours I have. I have too. What was yours Just?
Speaker 1:an annoyed goose. While going around Green Lake in Washington, we had geese on our campus at Choate, chased us for like a quarter mile. Yeah right, these things are. It's no joke. Yeah, we had some geese. It's no joke. Yeah, we had some geese. And there was a little pond at choat on the campus and there was a little wooden bridge. And when I say little, I mean little. It was this tiny pond, tiny bridge, yeah, and I'm late to my class and I go to cross the bridge and there's a goose on the bridge and it runs to grab me. And back in the day you didn't have backpacks, you had book bags. They were like canvas boat bags, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:And it, like I, dropped my bag and went running to the other side of the bridge and it went and stood on my book bag and started eating my books yeah, yeah, you're gonna learn you a lesson and well, yeah, and so this, this friend of mine came by and he was just hysterical yeah, at me. But he finally managed to chase the goose off and I retrieved my books and went to school and was made fun of, oh, for a couple of years.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Anyway here's another wildlife story. Okay, okay, a Quebec man at a gas station canada day happy canada day.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, he attempted to share a quebecois oui, le quebecois is son accent. Um, they have really weird nasal accents up there. Um, he tried to share a menthol cigarette with a moose. Oh, outside a gas station. What did the moose think? Well, the moose, I think, was into it. But this guy who, of course, whoever was inside this gas station, as they do called wildlife the wildlife police, because that's what they have up there. Yeah, the same people who came to help the goose family, uh-huh, and he was fined $2,000.
Speaker 2:For giving the moose a toke off of his cigarette. For giving the moose a toke off of his cigarette.
Speaker 1:Unauthorized wildlife interaction involving fire. Oh my God, and what did the guy say? She just looks stressed, eh.
Speaker 2:Unbelievable. I met a moose once. It was about 30 feet away, though, and I was very happy about that.
Speaker 1:Where was that when you were in the service?
Speaker 2:No, this was just in the northern part of Washington, up in the mountains.
Speaker 1:You know what I just realized? Or up near the mountains. I didn't mention that this is the Anne Levine Show starring Michael over there. Hello, yeah, well, I never met a moose, which, given everything, was a good thing, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you may have met many mooses, but you have not.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because you did a lot of wilderness. I was in moose territory, but the campsites I stayed at were all. I was thinking about this when I heard about this stupid family that was camping and went to put their food up on a tree.
Speaker 2:Right, yeah.
Speaker 1:And a bear came and like, took it away from them yeah all their food before they could and he was describing what he had.
Speaker 2:It was like donuts and cheetos and stuff like that, yeah just like, really, yeah, camping with that garbage. Well, it was the. It was the kids bag, so it was. You know, so it was. Well, it was the kid's bag, so it was. You know, that was the stuff he stashed to bring along.
Speaker 1:But I'm sure his parents had some other. Where I camped was often these little tiny and when I say tiny I don't even know how to describe the size we're talking about. I don't even know how to describe the size we're talking about, but tiny little islands with, at most, room for two campers.
Speaker 2:And a turtle.
Speaker 1:Well, that's a whole other thing, but there's no bears or moose or anything. They're not little islands, so a lot of safety in that way.
Speaker 2:My brother has a bear. What do you mean? He has one. He lives up near Rochester, New York.
Speaker 1:Should we call?
Speaker 2:And there is a bear that comes and checks out his garbage cans and stuff.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So he gets harassed by a bear.
Speaker 2:They have a camera. That, yeah, and he sends me videos every once in a while.
Speaker 1:Well, you might share them. You know, did you bring enough videos for the whole class?
Speaker 2:No, sorry, I didn't.
Speaker 1:In Saskatchewan. Oh yeah, oh yeah. A man constructed a luxury igloo with faux fur bedding, fiberglass siding and LED mood lighting.
Speaker 2:Okay, yeah.
Speaker 1:Won't get too hot and he had to. He had this was for his Airbnb, igloo.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:And um it was over insulated.
Speaker 2:Gotcha.
Speaker 1:And Airbnb delisted it for excessive insulation.
Speaker 2:Okay, I don't Really, it's real, I know.
Speaker 1:It's real what I know. It's Canadian.
Speaker 2:Hold on Over. Yeah, I know, I understand that, but I don't either. How do you over-insulate an igloo? How do you?
Speaker 1:over-insulate an igloo? Yeah, I don't know. Go to Canada? I don't know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean it's probably. They probably teach that in school up there. I don't know.
Speaker 1:I'm sure they do. I don't know if it's.
Speaker 2:I mean, this guy obviously even knew how to build an igloo. So you know, they obviously teach him something up there igloo-wise.
Speaker 1:Well, I have one last thing to mention about Canada and about Canada animals. Happy Canada Day, by the way. Happy Canada Day, thank you Up Canada way. The RCMP horse that's the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Mounties yeah, an RCMP horse named Maple, really.
Speaker 2:Uh-huh.
Speaker 1:Stole a purse Ha. He snatched a handbag off a woman during a parade.
Speaker 2:Wow, look at that.
Speaker 1:Yep.
Speaker 2:Police corruption.
Speaker 1:Well, the whole, the animals are the whole thing's out of control up there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean see, because they are considered, I believe, like police dogs here in the United States are considered officers, right, oh yeah, so if you have an officer out on the street stealing women's handbags, Well, they had to do AI eh. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they had to get, isn't that? What? Not AI? What's it called?
Speaker 2:IA, ia, yeah, internal. Affairs yeah, but maybe AI also is part of it now, if you look at it in a mirror.
Speaker 1:Well, let's get back to the United States. We also have a little thing this week called Independence Day oh yeah, I've heard of that the 5th of July.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and it's on Friday, which means this weekend is going to be such a zoo.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:On Cape Cod.
Speaker 2:Well, this past weekend was an absolute zoo.
Speaker 1:Well.
Speaker 2:Because the weather was nice, you know.
Speaker 1:Hold on to your short shorts. Yeah, we shall be overrun, We'll be overrun everything song lyrics today, okay. Well, let's talk a little bit about uh, about uh stuff going on in this country, because okay there's no end of. Okay, now, fourth of j, 4th of July. Right, we know who wins every year His name is.
Speaker 2:What? Who wins?
Speaker 1:4th of July, I'm sorry, the Nathan's Hot Dog Contest.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, From.
Speaker 1:Coney Island.
Speaker 2:Right, the winner is I don't know Joey Chestnut. Joey Chestnut, that's it. Okay. He, I don't know Joey Chestnut.
Speaker 1:Joey Chestnut, that's it. He wins every year.
Speaker 2:Yeah, has for many years at least, that particular contest.
Speaker 1:So he is the well yeah.
Speaker 2:Well, there are others. Yeah, it's not just a one time a year sort of thing that these guys do.
Speaker 1:Well, it is absolutely the marquee event.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a big deal. It's on ESPN. Yeah, it's ridiculous, it's absolutely nuts.
Speaker 1:Yes, when that becomes an Olympic sport, that will be when I quit the Olympics.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Anyway, this story makes me kind of happy. It's amazing he has been banned from Nathan's hot dog contest. Uh-oh, and you'll never guess why.
Speaker 2:One guess why. Something in his social media Guess why. One guess why.
Speaker 1:Something in his social media. He has a sponsorship. He just signed a partnership sponsorship with Impossible Foods. Oh, that's hilarious Plant-based meat. Oh, that's awesome. Which is plant-based meat.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's awesome.
Speaker 1:I love that. So your Impossible Burger and your Impossible Hot Dogs. So, yeah, canceled Joey Chestnut. Wow, Exactly, wow, wow, wow.
Speaker 2:How about that? I love that. That's hilarious. I know they're like wow, wow, how about that? I love that, that's hilarious. I know they're like you're not eating our meat, You're eating someone else's fake meat. Oh no, you're not in.
Speaker 1:Eating fake meat, that's so funny Altogether.
Speaker 2:Oh my, that is just weird. I mean, the whole thing is weird, right, the fact that there is a guy named Joey Chestnut who is a celebrity now because he eats 30 hot dogs in 60 seconds. Yeah, come on.
Speaker 1:It's so disgusting that I can't really watch. I mean, there are tricks to it.
Speaker 2:You know the water's got to be there. You have to drink, yeah.
Speaker 1:And then, oh, it's so disgusting, yeah, it is so disgusting. Anyway, here's a really dark story. Uh-oh, because we like to keep it dark. Okay, here on the Ann Levine Show. A man at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport Okay, breached security, ran onto the tarmac and was pulled into a jet engine.
Speaker 2:Oh, my God.
Speaker 1:Now.
Speaker 2:Oh, my God.
Speaker 1:And believed to be a suicide. Oh wow, I know I. That's what makes this such a weird story. Yeah, Right, Of all the ways you know that you can unalive yourself.
Speaker 2:Yep.
Speaker 1:This is the weirdest one I have ever heard.
Speaker 2:Well, add that and you can inconvenience you know, 175 people at the same time. Well, inconvenience. Yeah Well, yeah I mean they're all trying to get somewhere.
Speaker 1:Well, and I can't even imagine the actual actuality. No, I can't, you know, I it's horrifying.
Speaker 2:It's horrifying. I was on a. I was on a train, a train called the Empire Builder that goes from Chicago to Seattle, and I got off the train in Seattle and it starts heading down to California, it goes to Portland and so on. Before it got to its next stop, it hit and killed somebody.
Speaker 1:Well, you know.
Speaker 2:And I'm like, oh man.
Speaker 1:Well, if you want to get, we can just go a little deeper into this. I have a cousin who's married to a train conductor.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1:And she rides the train from Albany to Manhattan Whatever that leg of I can't remember what that is called that goes from Manhattan actually up to Buffalo or to the Canadian border.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:It may have used to have gone to Toronto actually. Oh, the maple leaf.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, I was thinking of the cellar, but that's just a Boston right. Well, yeah, that's the northeast corridor going south from Right okay, whatever we're going north, though All right Going south from Orgo, whatever we're going, north though.
Speaker 1:All right, but this is the big train that goes, not the commuter train that goes all the way up there Anyhow she told us once about how frequently that happens and that that is a popular way that people unalive themselves. Wow, and there's a whole thing about the trains cannot stop quickly enough.
Speaker 2:No, there's no chance of it. There's no way for them to do that. The physics just will not allow it. Right them to do that. No, the physics just will not allow it.
Speaker 1:Right, so therefore it happens.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And more often than any of us would like to think or know, but anyhow, I know, horrible. Anyway, this is not Well. We were in the. You know we're doing dark. Well, and speaking of dark, okay, a Michigan woman we like Florida men and Michigan women dropped her Apple Watch into a vault toilet. Now, having been in a plumber when you were very young, what's a vault toilet?
Speaker 2:I don't know what they mean by that. I mean that sounds like they're talking like a cartridge kind of thing, something that can be removed. But I've got no idea unless it's just a hole in the ground. But I've I got no idea unless it's just a hole in the ground. But well, it's some kind, it's like a tank okay it's like a huge tank okay, well, I mean, it could be like a porta potty that we've got out there. You know, right, you might see on a construction site, but this was right.
Speaker 1:It was something like that yeah, oh, no, excuse me, gesundheit, it was actually a little.
Speaker 2:This was right. It was something like that yeah, oh, no Excuse me Gesundheit.
Speaker 1:It was actually a little cough. Oh okay, she dropped her Apple Watch into a vault toilet. How much does an Apple Watch cost?
Speaker 2:Three to 600 bucks.
Speaker 1:Okay, so you could not. If you paid me six hundred dollars cash money, you laid out six Benjamins in front of me. Benjamins, is that the right? Yeah, yeah. There's no way you could get me to get into a vault toilet tank, but this woman went in after it.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:And so firefighters were called to remove her from inside the tank.
Speaker 2:Oh, wow.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they must have been happy about that. Now does your Apple Watch work after it's been submerged in a sewer for however long? This had to be a couple hours.
Speaker 2:Yeah, wow, it's not going to be any any better, that's for sure, right I don't know.
Speaker 1:It depends what you think about those devices.
Speaker 2:Might be much better anyway, oh, I see it's. You know what it is? It's just a septic tank.
Speaker 1:That's yeah, okay yeah, so she went into a septic tank.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Oh my God, how do you even do that? Oh, oh, all right, so yeah, dark.
Speaker 2:I've never heard it called that. I've been there to pump hundreds of tanks and never heard it called a vault tank.
Speaker 1:Well there, you go Is our weather in new england. I know this has been a whole regional thing. New england weather this year they're calling it junuary because we have had like everything. We've had mostly rainy weather in the 60s and sometimes hovering a little bit above 70.
Speaker 2:Yeah, until like the last week of june it's been horrible, oh yeah.
Speaker 1:then in the last week of june we had two like oh my God, the earth is on fire. We had 99 degrees, Right.
Speaker 2:With 85% humidity.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then 90 degrees with 95% humidity the next day and then back to 65 degrees. Yeah, that night. Very weird. The effect is terrible. Everyone is everyone around here is upset and if you go on instagram, for instance, there are there are a few accounts of boston guys that I follow.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they're amazing, very funny and but they that this is what they've been talking about you know, oh yeah, like I've seen a couple of them where the guy is just screaming that it's 107 degrees the other day and he's like I was in my shots with my ice dunking.
Speaker 1:Yep, you know, getting ready to. And today I'm freezing my balls off, and today I'm wearing a hoodie. You know, yep, what's summer? Where's summer? I don't know when is summer.
Speaker 2:I don't know where she went.
Speaker 1:This week is summery-ish, more summery this week is supposed to be yeah, a little bit more so. Until Friday, the 4th of July, when rain is predicted Of course, yeah, that's right for like three days. Yeah, so it rains every weekend, and it did this last summer too, but anyway, Alright, it didn't rain this past weekend, though I mean not really it, it didn't no well um no, I thought it was weird it's been hazy. It's been like partly cloudy or but not cloudy like nice big fluffy clouds, just kind of hazy.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And weird.
Speaker 2:They're just overcast-y yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but overcast-y not overcast.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:All right, we need to talk about.
Speaker 2:Do you like overcast-ish better?
Speaker 1:Over yeah. I like that. Okay, all right, good one yeah. Okay, all right, good one yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't know how you know that would be a good title for this episode of the show, but I don't know how to spell that.
Speaker 1:How do we spell that?
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1:A sound I heard quite often in my childhood. All right, we need to get to fashion.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:All right, it's gone completely bonkers beyond anything you've seen.
Speaker 2:Okay, so far it has.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:Okay, far it has.
Speaker 1:yes okay, so the spring, summer 2026, 20 and 26, the year of our lord and savior, 20 and 26 um, it's the paris spring and summer runway shows and, of course, the videos have all been coming back.
Speaker 2:I saw I think I saw one and I'll have to double check. But wow, I was I don't know disappointed. That was pretty, yeah, because I did not get it at all. But anyway, let me.
Speaker 1:Well, they've been sending just wacko garbage down these runways. But the worst thing that I saw which was a trend this year, which was a trend this year was designers like Louis Vuitton, hermes and Dries van Notten, who well-known for great German tailoring. Who can tailor like a German.
Speaker 2:Uh-huh, maybe an Italian.
Speaker 1:Anyway. Well, that's another, or a.
Speaker 2:Chinese.
Speaker 1:Yeah, a Chinese.
Speaker 2:Yeah, some of the greatest tailors in Hong Kong there right.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, that's where you go get your Savile Row suits, that's right. At a bargain price, that's right, it's ridiculous. Let me fly to Hong Kong to get a price yeah, on a handmade price. That's ridiculous. Let me fly to Hong Kong to get a price on a handmade suit Ridiculous, all right. So those designers big, huge designers sent models walking on the sides of their feet. Have you seen any of this stuff.
Speaker 2:I'm not sure if no, I don't think I saw that one in particular.
Speaker 1:So they're on the sides of their feet, they've got heels on, they've got. So they're essentially, yeah, and they can barely walk, and I don't know a better word for this but they look crippled, yeah, and so they're just kind of lurching down these runways, and a bunch of them did this. I mean, this was like a trend on the runways, it wasn't just like one rogue designer, yeah, hermes, Louis Vuitton, dries Van Noten.
Speaker 1:Orly, I know yeah, and some of them had thong sandals on, so that was a hoot, uh-huh. So that was a hoot, uh-huh. But the ones in heels were look this stuff up, you will not believe it. There was also a designer, a lesser known designer, who had put, like this, speed bump on the runway, uh-huh had put like this speed bump on the runway, and so sent models down the runway who got to the speed bump and had to trip over it. Oh god, and land however they landed and that was on purpose.
Speaker 2:that's what a hundred percent to see, yep, so so you see these women mostly women falling on their hands and knees, hurting themselves.
Speaker 1:That's ridiculous, wow. So I don't know what the message was. Oh, there was a designer who did people in like ridiculously high platform shoes. I mean like eight or nine inches.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And they, on purpose, had to wobble and fall. I think there must have been medics backstage.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, I'm sure there had to be it was absolutely. Someone's going to get a broken ankle.
Speaker 1:I'm sure.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And how do you? They were hobbling, yeah, in couture.
Speaker 2:That's so wonderful, isn't it? God, yeah, it's ridiculous. So another it's so wonderful, isn't it?
Speaker 1:god yeah it's ridiculous.
Speaker 2:I did see one where the models were all wearing plastic wigs. Uh huh, it was all very, very weird. It's all white and it's like an unkempt sort of bob that's kind of flying around, but it doesn't fly, it's just all solid. It's supposed to look like that.
Speaker 1:Like those molded wig things that you used to put on dolls, Kind of yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh God, very, very weird, but you know. There's a and I think I saw the tall shoe one. I think that's the one that I saw, Because I'm like how is that guy in those boots?
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then directed to, like you know, fall to the side.
Speaker 2:Yep.
Speaker 1:Without permanent damage to their ankles.
Speaker 2:So another one that looked like everybody was wearing some kind of a um, a puffer coat that looked like a, that made them look like a giant sperm yes, oh yes yeah, um, you know, go around their head this. It's just very, very weird yeah.
Speaker 1:There's a cult streetwear label from Sweden called Avavav.
Speaker 2:Okay, yeah, I've heard of them.
Speaker 1:Have you? Yeah, well, they're part of Adidas, oh okay, and they staged a spectacle in Milan. Models emerged from grave-like pits.
Speaker 2:Oh nice.
Speaker 1:And mechanical hands lifted runway sheets out of these pits and the whole thing was just this weird stunt.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And so they would come out of with like duct tape and trash bags and yeah, god, yeah, yeah, okay, well, you know, someone had a vision. All right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't know what that vision was but yeah, they had one Beauty.
Speaker 1:Louis Vuitton is launching La Boutée in fall of 2025.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:Pat McGrath, who was my favorite. When I wore makeup which I've stopped doing and I'm not sure why, but I don't wear makeup anymore, I barely wear lipstick I was thinking— that is true.
Speaker 2:You used to always wear lipstick, even if you didn't wear— Red, yeah, like major lipstick.
Speaker 1:That is true, you used to always wear lipstick, even if you didn't wear much Red. Yeah, like major lipstick and I completely it's. I don't do that anymore.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And I'm thinking maybe I should bring it back. You might want to bring it back. It was my signature. Yeah, that's true, one rim glasses and bright red lipstick.
Speaker 2:See.
Speaker 1:I don't know it stopped being a thing. Maybe it was COVID.
Speaker 2:Yeah, covid changed a lot of things. Yep, yeah. A lot of traditions for lots of people just kind of fell by the wayside because for a couple of years you just couldn't do it Mm-hmm. So you know, people just stopped.
Speaker 1:Or it just stopped being. It's like I'm not going anywhere, I'm locked in my house. You know for the foreseeable future?
Speaker 2:Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1:Why the red lipstick? Maybe?
Speaker 2:I don't know. Yeah, could very well be.
Speaker 1:So, anyway, pat McGrath is introducing a Louis Vuitton lipstick which costs, for a lipstick, $125. Oh my God, and it comes in a little Louis Vuitton case.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:You know, like your lipstick case has got the LV, yeah, and I'm sure no one's knocking that off yet. Anyway, what an insane. It's actually perfect because and you'll hear about this talked about in the fashion world, which is that you've got different strata of people who are interested in buying something designer and the entry level is considered a fragrance right. Yeah, the entry level is considered a fragrance right. Yeah, so for about 100 to 200 bucks, you can buy a small bottle of a super high designer fragrance, right, yep, um.
Speaker 1:And then your next move is into a shoe or a handbag. Now, in the case of Hermes, not even possible. You know $30,000 Birkin bag or whatever.
Speaker 2:Well, hey, you know, I've got a lot of Hermes.
Speaker 1:Well, ties right If you're a man.
Speaker 2:That's right.
Speaker 1:It's a lot easier for me. It is, yeah, um, even a scarf now is ridiculous. We used to buy stacks of them when I was a kid. You'd go to duty-free store, whatever yeah that shows how old I am, um, anyway. So things like a lipstick case and by case I just mean a lipstick case, right? Yeah yeah, that says Louis Vuitton on it that you can pull out of your bag at some ladies who lunch place is going to be a hot item because it's an entry level item that's way above, say, a fragrance in terms of oh, she's got louis vuitton.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you can just tell by looking so I'm.
Speaker 2:I will tell you what it beats a crap out of a 900 towel towel.
Speaker 1:Well, yeah, would you like to describe having seen that?
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, for those of you who haven't seen it, the Balenciaga towel skirt. And put a video up of someone who was checking it out, had it at home, tried it on, and you should take a look at it. At this balenciaga two buttons. It's got two buttons, yep, and that's it. And an adjustable belt, which I didn't really notice. Uh, belt wise, I think it's. I think there's just a little. Um, well, you're supposed like cinching thing on the inside that they're calling the belt.
Speaker 1:That makes it adjustable Because it is one size fits most people up to a size eight.
Speaker 2:It is absolutely the most dull gray color. It's really.
Speaker 1:It's hideous.
Speaker 2:It looks unclean. That's the problem. It's thatous. Yeah, do you know that? It looks unclean. That's the problem. It's that kind of color that looks like it's a white towel that's been left outside for ages.
Speaker 1:Or that's been laundered with the colors too many times.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it just is awful. It's a hideous color. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Then the guy took his own towel. To show the difference, look at this video.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you need to look at it. It's in our Facebook group. Yeah, it's there, ann.
Speaker 1:Levine Show Facebook group. If you're not a member, just knock. We'll answer, we'll let you in. Okay, now, speaking of sperm, which you mentioned earlier, yep, yep. Getting back to that. Getting back to sperm, the important things. There's a craze right now Uh-huh, cosmetics, a cosmetic craze Yep. Okay, that's gone viral among quote clean beauty influencers and I don't know how this is clean uh-huh at all there.
Speaker 2:I think clean just means non-chemical, non-manled chemicals well, this is beef tallow.
Speaker 1:That's beef fat, yeah, and salmon sperm facials, oh my god, and they are viral now we're talking about clean. What about the animals?
Speaker 2:Yeah, Animals are dying.
Speaker 1:Oh my God. So 20-somethings, or however old they are, can lie somewhere in a spa and get this vile?
Speaker 2:goo, can I ask you a question, of course? Who sets these beauty standards Koreans? Who sets these beauty standards Koreans? Who makes them up? Is it an old Korean man?
Speaker 1:It might be. I mean, when you say the—it's anyone thinking, oh, I've got an idea to make a lot of money, okay, but why?
Speaker 2:My question is why is everybody jumping on board? Some of this is really insane.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I mean.
Speaker 2:And I just I don't get. I just I don't get it. I don't understand why it's billions and billions of dollars, this industry, you know makeup and all that stuff and ask any guy. They don't want any of it.
Speaker 1:It's billions and billions of dollars, this industry Makeup and all that stuff.
Speaker 2:And ask any guy. They don't want any of it. Well, that's not true and you know it. Put it in the pictures. They don't want it on the girl sitting across the table from them.
Speaker 1:Oh, well, I don't think you're correct. Well, I'll tell you why.
Speaker 2:Okay, because famously on social media.
Speaker 1:If a woman presents herself with no makeup and without something done to her hair. It's an absolute onslaught of men saying how ugly they are.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:And making comments about how they look.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:And negative comments and I have been. I've received this. I received some of this on a video. I put up a reel. I put up a year ago and I was stunned because it was kind of a political thing and I get guys commenting on. You know how I look yeah, because that's the only argument they have right, but if I had, if I looked, quote beautiful, it would have been different. No different comments.
Speaker 2:No it's not true. Okay, the comments would have. They would have been different, but they still would have been negative. Yes, but they wouldn't have been. They would have talked about how stupid you were not how ugly exactly. That's my point, my point is they were going to say something regardless.
Speaker 1:Yes, but not about how I look If I had been made up and as beautiful as I can be, which I must say.
Speaker 2:They still would have tore you down just as much. Okay, just for another reason, right, that's all. Okay, just for another reason, right, that's all.
Speaker 1:So what I'm saying is men do care very much how women look. Now if they've gone on eyelashes that are a foot long, or those blown up lips or whatever, Uh-huh, which is an increasing number. Right, an ever increasing number. It's terrifying.
Speaker 2:We've got 20-year-olds out there getting Botox.
Speaker 1:Oh, I know I'm getting to that Anyway. So yeah, if you want to get your beef fat and salmon sperm Wow. You know, eek, it'll be like giraffe placenta lip plumper. You know, eek.
Speaker 2:It'll be like that ain't right.
Speaker 1:Giraffe, placenta, lip plumper.
Speaker 2:You know what?
Speaker 1:What.
Speaker 2:We don't have much time left in the show, we don't? We have very little time, so I want to get in. My we have to be educational, yes, so I want to get in, and this fits right into what we were talking about. Okay, okay to get in uh and this fits right into what we were talking about, okay, okay, into the like, uh, you know, the better looking people, all that kind of stuff, all right. Female ducks right, yeah, they have fake hoo-hahs oh you're kidding.
Speaker 2:And they put them out there for the guys they don't want.
Speaker 1:That is amazing yeah For their unwanted suitors.
Speaker 2:they distend their faux vaginas out there for them and they save the real thing for the guy they're looking for. That is freaking amazing.
Speaker 1:How about that?
Speaker 2:Yeah, education here on the Ann Levine Show on WOMR and WFMR.
Speaker 1:Well, just in time for one last thing I'm going to mention here. Okay, in line with the beauty quote crazes and they're calling it the Barbie crotch crisis.
Speaker 2:Uh-huh.
Speaker 1:Teen labiaplasty has surged and doctors are reporting rising number of teens seeking labiaplasty citing porn, aesthetics and body shame.
Speaker 2:Porn. Aesthetics yes, what the?
Speaker 1:hell are they talking about? What am I talking about?
Speaker 2:No, what are they talking about?
Speaker 1:These girls, yeah, hey, heck, if I know. I guess they want their labia to look, quote perfect.
Speaker 2:Wow.
Speaker 1:So they're getting labiaplasty, they're having their labia altered, so they're perfectly symmetrical. Oh, that's insane and not very, I don't know, whatever.
Speaker 2:Wow.
Speaker 1:Not visible.
Speaker 2:That's just weird, okay, yeah.
Speaker 1:Why, oh my God, why it causes, causes pain, major pain. Um it's horrible I don't get it also excuse me, that's an. Those are a pleasure center. You know what I'm thinking of.
Speaker 2:I'm thinking of john baker worrying that his humor's too dark for me yeah, yeah, you, you know, uh, he was in a show with you once, right was john baker in a show with you.
Speaker 1:John baker and I were in several shows oh, not just once, oh, okay several musicals together a long long time ago. Yeah, anyway. So we've got teen labiaplasty, we've got the sperm and beef fat facial.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that ain't right.
Speaker 1:And just to top it all, off.
Speaker 2:Some guy came up with that one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh, what the labiaplasty?
Speaker 2:No the oh the sperm labiaplasty. No, the salmon facial.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no man's going to sit there. And well, that's not true. I was going to talk about the Florida man that ate three squirrels in an abandoned waffle house. Ah but I think I will not, but I think I will not. And this week we say goodbye to Lalo Schifrin yeah, the film soundtrack composer that you know best as well. His most famous work is the Mission Impossible theme.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he was 93 years old. Good for him.
Speaker 1:We're listening to Todd Rundgren. I was going to tell the story of when I met him, but we'll save that for another show. This is Todd Rundgren with Healer. This is Todd Rundgren with Healer. And, yeah, I wanted you to listen to that little run there. He is someone whose voice is not you don't think of the voice. He's got an incredible voice. Anyway, have a wonderful Canada Day. Canada Day Take off eh.
Speaker 1:Take off to the great white north or stay right here and have a wonderful 4th of July. And for Lalo Schifrin, put a light on We'll see you next time.
Speaker 2:Rejoice, rejoice because I'm evil. Rejoice, rejoice, because I'm evil. Your destiny, I laid it for you, but then the choice was never yours, nor mine. When it's time to take this burden on you, then I will take the one you leave behind. You will be a healer, healer, healer, healer, Healer. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
