The Anne Levine Show
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The Anne Levine Show
The Case of the Missing Toothbrush
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Welcome to a summer episode of unexpected delights, bizarre trends, and head-scratching stories from around the world. We dive straight into the latest viral beauty craze that has dermatologists everywhere sounding alarms – a young influencer creating full face makeup looks using nothing but refrigerator condiments. From a mayonnaise base to barbecue sauce contour and mustard eyeshadow, this food-as-cosmetics trend somehow led to a sponsorship deal with a vegan aioli brand, proving that sometimes the strangest ideas find their audience.
Speaking of unusual oral care choices, KFC has partnered with an Australian brand to create fried chicken flavored toothpaste complete with biscuit-shaped caps. "For the smile that says I just kissed a bucket" – we couldn't make this stuff up if we tried. This seamlessly connects to our medical oddity of the week: a 64-year-old man who just had surgery to remove a toothbrush he accidentally swallowed as a child and forgot about for 52 years.
From Nebraska's "Livestock Looks" fashion show featuring cows in glittery hoof booties and sequined-tuxedo-wearing farmers, to Florida's spinner shark that launched itself out of the water to head-butt a surfer mid-air, to Anne's new nickname of HR Chuckin' Stuff™," we've collected the summer's most surprising headlines. We also examine the phenomenon of porch pirates leaving product reviews after stealing packages, Earth's mysteriously accelerating rotation, and the fascinating fact that our bodies contain more bacteria than human cells – making us essentially elaborate housing for our bacterial tenants.
Join us for this eclectic journey through the weird and wonderful. And don't forget to visit us at the WOMR Summer Series events at Wellfleet Preservation Hall on July 28th and August 25th from 5 to 7 PM. We'd love to chat about all these bizarre stories and whatever new oddities emerge by then!
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Show Introduction
Speaker 1I want to know if you've ever eaten in a restaurant in Port Angeles.
Speaker 2I don't believe so. I've driven through several times. Meanwhile ten years later my niece, the daughter of my sister, is getting married.
Speaker 1The Anne Levine Show. If you're not listening, you need to be listening. I love this. A whole section of sharks. Oh, Mr Engineer.
Speaker 2You guessed right it's time for the Ann Levine Show. This is today and everything else is yesterday's mashed potatoes.
Speaker 3W-O-M-R 92.1 FM Provincetown. And that over there is Michael. She is always right, always right.
Speaker 1Good morning everybody. It's just past the midnight hour here on WOMR 92.1 FM in Provincetown Massachusetts.
Speaker 2That's right, and 91.3 FM WFMR Orleans and we're streaming worldwide at WOMRorg Community Radio, right here for Cape Cod and beyond.
Speaker 1This is Ann Levine and it's the Ann Levine Show, and that was Michael over there.
Speaker 2Hello.
Speaker 1And we're here to bring it Right.
Speaker 2Oh yeah, we're bringing it. Oh yeah, we're bringing it, definitely yeah.
Speaker 1We've got Marvin Gaye, got to give it up.
Speaker 2Yeah, I love this song, I really do.
Speaker 1And all of you who listen to Blurred Lines all the time on the gram.
Speaker 2Oh yeah.
Speaker 1And on the talk, this is the original song. This is the one that Robin Thicke got sued by for totally ripping off Blurred Lines.
Speaker 2And he won Yep.
Speaker 1Marvin Gaye won.
Speaker 2Yeah, you know what else I noticed about this song? This is a you can tell Prince's Marvin Gaye influence, it's. It's, yeah, you know, there's a lot of it kind of in here in the voice and the I don't know. It's very cool.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2And it reminds me of him.
Speaker 1Of Prince. Yeah, it reminds me of Marvin Gaye.
Speaker 2Well, it reminds me of him too.
Speaker 1Marvin Gaye is someone of whom Also.
Speaker 3Yeah, also yeah.
Speaker 1Of whom we should be reminded. That is true Often, yeah.
Speaker 2That's what I heard.
Speaker 1So here in Provincetown, cape Cod and the islands we're having a cuckoo summer.
Speaker 2We're having a summer, aren't we? We?
Speaker 1are having a summer and it's you know. Weather has been pretty bad, has continued January. There have been some nice days, but let's face it.
Speaker 2Well, I mean, at least it is summer now, right, because it took a long enough to get here.
Speaker 1Those are true words.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1Well, to go with summer, because I can't think of a better time for use of this new saucy makeup trend.
Speaker 2Oh, oh what do we got?
Speaker 1what do we got?
Speaker 2we are seeing like a barbecue sauce or something or wait, it's very summery.
Speaker 1Wait, okay, oh no yeah, go for the round, yeah well you were, you were this person and you need to meet this person.
Speaker 2Oh no, I don't, I really don't.
Speaker 1You two?
Speaker 2Yeah, that's not someone I should meet probably.
Speaker 1Yeah, no, I think it is, because this is a 23-year-old influencer. God, when is that word going to go away? Yeah, from Portland. Uh-huh, now they don't say Maine or that was my question. Yeah, I'm assuming we're talking about Oregon, but Okay, yeah, I don't know. So she creates full face makeup looks using nothing but stuff from the fridge door. Oh my God. And it's oh no she does not Mainly condiments.
Speaker 2I'm thinking, yeah, I mean, she's got her ketchup blush. Don't say it yet.
Speaker 1May I please?
Speaker 2do this to you. Yeah, okay, okay, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1Okay, she starts with a full base of mayonnaise.
Speaker 2I would have expected that, yeah, which she says is surprisingly moisturizing.
Speaker 1Michael, I want you to it is mostly oil. I want you to confess, if you need to, and I think you do, why you said barbecue sauce.
Speaker 2Because it's summertime, so I thought that's, and you said saucy, so I'm like okay, summer sauce, barbecue sauce, the first thing that came to my head.
Speaker 1Well, she contours with barbecue sauce the first thing that came to my head. Well, she contours with barbecue sauce, she highlights with ranch dressing, oh my god, and claims that yellow mustard makes the perfect pop of color for eyeshadow. Oh that's insane. Ketchup is the go-to blush and lip gloss.
Speaker 2She can't actually really do that. Oh, yes, she can oh? Man, wait, do you know how hot mustard is really? Even that mustard, if it's just left on something, how it can burn Ooh.
Speaker 1Now, when she needs lip gloss, dab of honey mixed with olive oil.
Speaker 2Okay.
Speaker 1And she says it's not just makeup, it's a snack Beauty and sustenance babes.
Speaker 2No, she's insane, she's a loon.
Speaker 1Like a fox, because she's now being sponsored by a vegan aioli brand. Oh my God, she's being sponsored.
Speaker 2No Well, yeah, I know, yeah, I understand that people, people are stupid.
Speaker 1So yeah all the people are yeah well, no, just the people that are signing on, you know dermatologists don't even do that predictably, are begging her followers not to do this yeah, don't do it and here's one viewer comment I tried your look, and now my face smells like a picnic, picnic accident yeah, it will do that, won't it? Now here's one thing okay, the trend is gaining steam. One guy used hot sauce for lip plumper.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah. Well, there's a lot of weird lip plumping things going on and I don't get it and cut it out. Well, he is recovering.
Speaker 1You know, a friend of ours was just talking about this. A friend of mine is visiting a little tiny island in Greece where I spent a great deal of time.
Speaker 2Oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1And back when I used to go there, it was pretty low-key, pastoral hidden gem.
Speaker 2Right.
Speaker 1Now it's overrun, you know, predictably, and it's a huge tourist destination. This port, the whole sort of town center, is mobbed with 20 and 30-year-olds with those huge plumped lips, right, yep, and plumped is the wrong word, I know, I'm not sure what do you call them. They're like balloon lips, yeah, yeah, they don't.
Speaker 2And they do them many different ways. They're doing it many different ways, you know. They're doing it with fillers. They're doing it with suction cups. What's that? Where they put like a suction cup thing on their lips To like ruin their lips. Yes, that's yeah, but for a while they look weird like they want them to God. Yeah, it's really really strange.
Speaker 1Well, now you can do hot sauce.
Speaker 2Yeah, hot sauce sure.
Speaker 1Yeah, uh-huh, uh-huh.
Speaker 2Yep, brilliant, brilliant, go ahead, everybody do that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Blind yourself, that would be a good one.
Speaker 1Well now, this is not exactly along similar lines, but it relates to a story that is so I'm just going to go ahead and throw it in here.
Speaker 2Okay, all right.
Toothbrush Tales and Body Mishaps
Speaker 1Okay, just chucking stuff Straight from China. What? Just chucking stuff right in the show? Well you know, yep, that's why they call me hr chucking stuff, that's right oh good one hr chucking stuff. That's very good, that's right. I'm your friend when things get rough. Yeah, now does it go. Can't do a little and you can't do enough yep okay, that brilliant, brilliant lyrics. Okay, this took place of course, brilliantly.
Speaker 2You're talking brilliant lyrics on a series that is basically, uh, some guy's acid trip that he turned into a kid's show?
Speaker 1Aren't most series someone's nightmare, or acid trip or yeah, something. Anyhow, this is a 64-year-old Chinese man just underwent surgery last month, okay, after complaining of abdominal pain, and they found a toothbrush lodged in his intestines. Oh my, oh, my God. What happened? Well, the story is that he accidentally swallowed it when he was 12.
Speaker 2Oh, my goodness.
Speaker 1And so he'd forgotten the incident. He says how do you forget swallowing a toothbrush when you're 12?
Speaker 2Well, I mean I can do that, I could do it. Yeah, All right. Well, I mean I can do that I could do it.
Speaker 1Yeah, All right well.
Speaker 2It could happen.
Speaker 1Well, okay, we should take you for a scan, because that's how they.
Speaker 2Well, I mean, I've been scanned, you know, and I know these things to be true.
Speaker 1Well, you know, that thing they found that looked like a different thing.
Speaker 2Uh-huh.
Speaker 1We should have that rechecked. Might be a different thing.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, okay, it was lodged and calcified in scar tissue, that's horrible, uh-huh, wow, and this couldn't have been the first time he had trouble with it either. You know it's just he must have been it. You know chronic indigestion or something I don't know. What the heck do you? How do you ignore that? I don't know how do you ignore a whole toothbrush in your intestine? Diagonally Very weird.
Speaker 1There's a horrible story that really goes with this one, about a man In whom Was found. Now this reached all the way up to his rib cage From his rectum. Oh no, a hand, a silicon hand. Are you, oh, wow, no, wow, with a fist? A hand, a silicon hand?
Speaker 2Are you? Oh, wow, no.
Speaker 1Wow, with a fist.
Speaker 2And not the kind from Saturday Night Live with the little tiny hands, not Donald Trump hands. No, no, no, no.
Speaker 1This reached all the way. Wow, the x-ray. Holy smoke which you can see shows it at the base of his rib cage.
Speaker 2Well, now he couldn't have forgotten about it, right?
Speaker 1Oh, no, no, no he ended up at the hospital, needless to say, which is why there's an x-ray of this. Wow, it was not forgotten, okay. It was not calcified or lodged in scar tissue, Mm-hmm. So anyway, yeah, Whoa that's really awesome. This is nothing. Also, this wasn't in his stomach.
Speaker 2No right.
Speaker 1Oh gross, Thank you. Well, here's a story that will now not seem that gross, which is related to our story about our man in china okay, yep so, um, and yeah, this was a marketing fever dream there's an australian oral care brand called high smile, called high smile. Um, oh, hi smile. Yeah, hi guys, diananda, how are you? How are you guys? Um kfc uh-huh got together with this oral care brand, High Smile.
Speaker 2Okay.
Speaker 1And they have unveiled a limited edition fried chicken flavored toothpaste.
Speaker 2Yeah, I want it.
Speaker 1I want to try it. No, freaking way. I want to try it. That will not cross the threshold of my home. You're going to have to arrange.
Speaker 2It'd be funny if you brushed my teeth out in the front porch. I think not on the property quite frankly, oh well, you can't prevent that. I think town square the cartelage perhaps.
Speaker 1The gazebo on the village green is where you will be doing this oh, in front of a crowd, hey, that might be good doing this, oh, in front of a crowd.
Speaker 2Hey, that might be good. So they've released influencer kits which the chicken people have, the kfc okay, this is kfc.
Speaker 1Yeah right, okay, they have. They're the chicken people. They've've released these influencer kits which have fried chicken scented toothpaste.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1A biscuit shaped cap.
Speaker 2Oh, for your head. You mean like a hat.
Speaker 1No for the toothpaste.
Speaker 2Oh, okay, All right, yeah, hat no for the toothpaste.
Speaker 1Oh okay, all right. No, no, no. A cap Toothpaste. Cap Gotcha, you don't have to put this on your head while you brush your teeth.
Speaker 2Oh no, you said they're sending them a press kit, so I thought maybe there were multiple items. Genius idea, yeah.
Speaker 1If it's biscuit shaped yeah, now see. Shaped yeah, now see, now I want it. I want a biscuit shaped like trucker hat yeah, that would be genius. It would be good, wouldn't it? Yeah, alright, get to work on the prototype, michael.
Speaker 2Oh, a pictured pirate's hat. Are you know the same, the right shape, so we can start right there.
Speaker 1And so they're saying your mouth deserves better, better than what Popeyes Better than arsenic? And saying yeah. Okay, no argument there, I guess right For the smile that says I just kissed a bucket. Oh.
Speaker 2God, yeah, I just kissed a bucket. Oh God, yeah, I just kicked the bucket.
Speaker 1Right, exactly.
Porch Pirates with Reviews
Speaker 2Wow, yeah, I just kissed You're getting it. That's it's. I mean, I want to try the toothpaste though.
Speaker 1Well, before you tried the toothpaste. Now I'm kind of circling back to the whatchamacallit, the condiment full face makeup.
Speaker 2Uh-huh yeah.
Speaker 1And I want one of these deals. I wonder what can I do to? I want to start my micro-influencing campaign. But I'm not sure what I can do. I want to get the attention.
Speaker 2Well, you can send people to exotic destinations.
Speaker 1What the heck? What do you mean?
Speaker 2send them't, send you didn't send your friend there, but you sent them to places that you've been, you know, on their little trip out there.
Speaker 1That's what you do yeah, no, I want to talk about other than giving advice. Advice and voice hey, very good other than giving advice and and and increasing the joy in other people's lives, which of course I want to do. I want this to be something I can actually do and then reap the rewards. So in other words, I want a jewelry company, right?
Speaker 2Okay, yeah.
Speaker 1That wants to send me stuff.
Speaker 2Right, so you can wear their stuff. So I can have their stuff Right, okay, yeah, that wants to send me stuff.
Speaker 1Right, so you can wear their stuff so I can have their stuff, Right, okay yeah. I want. So how do you get a jewelry company? I mean, and this has to be, you know, for someone of my my years.
Speaker 2Well see, that's where the difficulty lies, lies, because usually the primary prerequisite is 20 years old, right, I mean in your 20s? That's where all these people are.
Speaker 1No, but I see other things. There are the craziest ads for things like.
Speaker 2Here are the trousers for women over 50 yeah, yeah you've seen that stuff I've seen a whole bunch of them, yeah, and I've got, uh, I have a, uh, a family member who's trying to be an influencer and they're putting everything out there, yeah, all kinds of stuff. Anybody says, hey, you want to flog this? They're like, oh, yeah, and it's awful.
Speaker 1Then there's all this makeup stuff for women of a certain age. So there's this whole world of items that are out there, and the women and men pictured in these videos don't look that different than I do. So you don't have to be 20. You have to be 20 if you want the huge dollars, but I just want a few pieces of jewelry or some clothes.
Speaker 2I see.
Speaker 1You know I want big gift certificates to my favorite stores.
Speaker 2Right, well, okay yeah.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2Okay, well, first you have to start being an influencer. Oh, shut up which. That would be step number one, right, mm-hmm, you haven't even started that one yet.
Speaker 1Well um.
Speaker 2Your social media presence is next to nothing, except maybe on instagram, but it's still not even close to what you need to be what do you need to be?
Speaker 1maybe I can like pimp you To influence. Yeah, oh yeah, to do some influencing.
Speaker 2I'm so influential.
Speaker 1No, you are. You know what I'm going to put you in a full face of makeup, not condiment makeup.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1Just good quality.
Speaker 2Well, I do look good in it. You know yes, I know yeah.
Speaker 1And then put you in some fashion looks, some jewelry looks. I mean, instagram loves nothing better than a quote cross-dresser which has ceased to really mean anything anymore.
Speaker 2Yeah, that's true. I mean, it's just kind of what people wear.
Speaker 1I can say and here's Michael in his new universal standard eyelet blouse. Oh yeah, okay the blue one, you can have like a really cute little t-shirt under there, full face of makeup, and I can do some video of you.
Speaker 2I can do the voiceover who's going to do this makeup? Because it's got to be blended into my neck right, because otherwise it's going to look weird.
Speaker 1Listen to this.
Speaker 2Listen to this You're already getting ready Now, hey, I know how some of those weirdos look Right, and I don't want to look like that.
Speaker 1I can blend.
Speaker 2You perfectly, I can blend you perfectly.
Speaker 1I can blend you perfectly. I just need a shade or three lighter in my foundation right, yeah because you are um.
Speaker 2You're like conan colored yeah, yeah, I'm fairly pale, you're white, fairly pale. Genetically absolutely white.
Speaker 1Yeah, you're a very, very, very white person. Yep, all right.
Speaker 2Well, it wouldn't be, and I don't like that, by the way. I'd rather have you know, have something interesting.
Speaker 1Have some melanin, something I hear you, but I don't, something of interest and color, but you don't no Well see, that can help with your makeup. You have a face for makeup and you have a body for my clothes. You and I, well, and I have a body for my clothes, you and I, well, and I have a body for yours. I mean, you and I have interchangeable items.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, a lot a lot of them, yeah, so, um, anyway, uh, here is because it wouldn't be the anne levine show without our fashion moment. True, well, I've been telling you about crazy, crazy stuff that's been showing up on runways.
Speaker 2Oh yeah.
Speaker 1This one is amazing, and this was in Nebraska.
Speaker 2Wait, fashion in Nebraska.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2I mean okay.
Speaker 1What's your question?
Speaker 2Who was looking at it. I mean, is there a discernment there? The press, okay.
Speaker 1At the Greeley County Fair, someone decided to do some couture and they put on an event called Livestock Looks, oh no, and it featured local farmers dressed up in their gear by this guy, the designer, and all I know about him is that I couldn't actually find his name in this story. People who write these stories are just ridiculous. They don't give you the information Anyway. So these farmers got all dressed up in their couture and most of them had well, they all had. Going down the runway, one guy was walking with a chicken, holding a chicken, and then, like they were walking down with their cows of the animals, in outfits like the winner, a dairy farmer named Stan.
Speaker 2Way to go, Stan.
Speaker 1He was in a sequined tuxedo, of course he was. Leading a Holstein named Tootsie.
Speaker 2I'll bet she's beautiful.
Speaker 1And she was wearing glittery hoof booties.
Speaker 2Oh nice.
Speaker 1And a boa.
Speaker 2Very, very nice.
Speaker 1Then there was Probably had contact lenses too. They had a bull wearing a yeezy tan duster coat, god, which that's my favorite.
Speaker 2Uh-huh.
Speaker 1And then they had.
Speaker 2I'm Bully the Kid.
Speaker 1Right. Then they had a cattle farmer in this sort of like Versace knockoff print. I mean, I'm looking at it, it looks like Versace, but it's not. It's whoever this guy is Some Yutz in Nebraska.
Speaker 2Okay.
Speaker 1I shouldn't say Yutz, because I'm sure this guy is not a Yutz.
Speaker 2Yeah, he's probably not Jewish.
Speaker 1Then they have a cow in cow print oh, I love it.
Speaker 2Of course, the holstein is very cow print, but, uh, all right, I love it, that's great. Now, was it a similar cow print to the actual cow or, uh, were they changing its spots? They?
Speaker 1They weren't changing its spots, it was a cow print. I mean, you've seen cow print on stuff? Of course I have yeah. Right, it was that.
Speaker 2Right, but I mean, a cow already has its own print, so I mean, was it similar?
Speaker 1That's the joke, honey. Was it similar? Yeah, you mean, could you tell? Yeah, of course you could tell. Oh, okay, yeah, it's a cow in cow print.
Speaker 2It's like if I put so not really a really good cow print, Not one that will fake you and be like hey, that's an actual cow.
Speaker 1Yeah, it was head to tip to tail With hoof boots.
Speaker 2Hoof boots, yeah, oh my god oh, my god, um.
Speaker 1So I love that part, the cow and cow print now, that was a genius funny even though I am a hundred percent against dressing animals yeah, you're, yeah it ticks me off and I'm including putting like bow ties and sweaters and little hats on your cats and dogs. I am fully against it yeah and I can barely deal with putting collars on our dogs, except they need them because they sometimes want to run away with various people.
Speaker 2Well, yeah, I mean all the cool people Come on.
Speaker 1Yeah, they don't know that. Well, maybe they do know they're hostages. Remember we one time found Rosie's collar in the road and she had somehow done that herself.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, well, that was a mess well she got, I mean, when we first got her, she was received. She got out of her whole harness just by looking at me and blinked and then she was out. Yeah yeah I don't know how she did it. I dream of genie, magic, come on she just slipped out and it's a 50 poundpound dog. Yeah, I don't know, but she sticks around though.
Speaker 1Yes, she does, she's learned.
Speaker 2She has learned she comes up and lays on the porch if she's, you know, done wandering around. Yeah, she's a good dog.
Speaker 3All right so here's one I just want to mention before you move on.
Speaker 2You're listening to the Ann Rain Show On.
Speaker 1WLMR In Provincetown. On WFMR you know what? On WLMR, bear Week. It's one of my favorite things ever on anything. Is you know these porch pirates right?
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah I see a lot of videos of them right.
Speaker 1Well, there's one in suburban dallas who's putting reviews online and doing unboxing oh really yeah.
Speaker 2Oh, that's a porch pirate yes oh my god, that's funny as hell.
Speaker 1Unboxing, oh really, yeah, oh, that's a horse pirate.
Speaker 2Yes, oh my God, that's funny as hell.
Speaker 1So this guy steals Amazon packages and then leaves handwritten critiques of the item on the owner's door.
Speaker 2I see, wow, there's something really wrong with that guy.
Speaker 1So this has been happening. This has been slowly reported, but it's gathering steam and now this is turned into a thing of course that people do, right. So this has gained. This thing of being a porch pirate and leaving reviews and doing unboxing is leading to a rash of people doing this, okay, leading to a rash of people doing this, okay.
Speaker 1So one homeowner opened their front door and found this note, this rug is ugly Soft though. 2.5 stars, I see. And then another one got why order gluten-free crackers if you don't even have real cheese? Try harder, mm-hmm. And someone got a set of silicone muffin trays and was told fine, where's the drama? Three stars for effort. Now, this, this is the one in dallas. He signs the notes, daryl, and underlines it with a little flourish, and the pen choice is sparkly gel. And this is a quote from the quote authorities it had. The paper has a distinct scent of axe body spray on the paper. So dary, the porch pirate with opinions, has created a thing that is now. Now, who is this guy Like? Put all of this together, okay, what are you getting for an age, a level of schooling you know what I mean.
Speaker 2Yeah, I'm not qualified to answer that, because this is juvenile.
Speaker 1Right, so you're thinking.
Speaker 2But it's not a child. So it's not a child.
Speaker 1So it's just a very ill-equipped adult Except this person sounds clever.
Speaker 2They sound like a jackass. Is what they sound like? They sound like a jerk. They're a thief.
Speaker 1Yes, I realize that they're a thief.
Speaker 2yes, I realize and they're trying to capitalize on their themselves being a thief for likes on the internet well, that's not gonna happen.
Speaker 1It's happening now. You just you were just talking about it. My point is that this person is in big trouble and is going to get caught because, you know, between the handwriting I mean, it's not like this person's trying to conceal themselves very well.
Speaker 2Right.
Speaker 1And they will get caught, yeah, and then they're going to be a felon and probably face prison time and it's going to be a nightmare. Good for them. Okay, I didn't know it would make you so angry.
Speaker 2It's something they requested, that future All right.
Speaker 1That made me laugh this whole thing. Yeah, see, it doesn't make me laugh.
Speaker 2I, I get that, I get that maybe this will make you, because if someone was doing trying to take this stuff off my porch and left me a note, I'd be. I'd be finding out where they live.
Speaker 1It would be easy. You'd call the police and it would be over in about 15 minutes, given where we live. Anyway, this is Dallas, so there's a little more work to be done there.
Speaker 3Okay.
Speaker 1It's much larger. Excuse me All. Right, here's one that might make you laugh. Do you know about these things called spinning sharks?
Speaker 2no, I don't believe so or no spinner, spinner sharks I know what spinners I mean, like a fidget spinner yeah, a spinner shark, an actual shark in the water. No.
Speaker 1All right. Well, last week in New Smyrna Beach, Florida yeah, been there. Of course, Florida man it's not even. You don't have to look for Florida man information.
Speaker 2No, it's everywhere.
Nebraska Fashion and Bear Week
Speaker 1It's just how it is, yeah, anyway. So now New Smyrna Beach is known as the shark bite capital of the world, which I didn't know, so that means maybe.
Speaker 2Yeah, I didn't know that either.
Speaker 1Maybe a handful of shark bites, bites yeah.
Speaker 2Why do I keep doing that? I don't know, I don't know, boyts, boyts, why do I keep doing that? I don't know? You got this. You're trying you're unconsciously trying to do a different accent Well that'll make I don't know which one That'll make my life easier, boyts.
Speaker 1If I don't have to think about accents, they just come out. Yeah, maybe I have accent turrets or something that could be. Yeah, maybe I have accent to rats or something that could be. So there's a shark and a surfer named Darren Kay was out enjoying the waves when something happened. A spinner shark launched itself out of the water in a full spiraling leap and head-butted him Mid-air. Oh my God, knocked him clear off his board.
Speaker 2Oh, that's hilarious. A spinner shark gets up to 110 pounds.
Speaker 1Well, holy and Darren Kay told reporters. It felt like, why do I want this to be in Australia? It felt like getting hit by a car. It felt like getting hit by a car and I'm just really glad its mouth wasn't open.
Speaker 2These guys are mostly Gulf of Mexico, Atlantic Coast.
Speaker 1Well, I don't know where, what that something Smyrna, new Smyrna Beach? Well, I know where Old Smyrna is. So I mean not ancient Smyrna but upstate New York Smyrna. Anyway, and of course, because this is the time we live in, the whole thing was caught on video by a beachgoer Florida man vs Shark air edition, so he was knocked over. He had to make sure he wasn't bitten.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, that would be the first thing. And he did get this major hit from the shark and of course he got. He gets back on his board and keeps on surfing Because, as he put it, I wasn't going to let the shark win.
Speaker 2That's right.
Speaker 1Well, later on he ended up at the hospital.
Speaker 2Yeah, no kidding. Yeah, you've just been hitting a head with a 110-pound shark.
Speaker 1With bruising and a concussion. Yeah, yep, and he had on an Apple Watch when it happened. Heart rate of 195 BPMs. Oh, that's all At the moment of impact. Oh, my goodness. Um, so yeah, so you better watch out for spinner sharks.
Speaker 2I never heard of them before no, I hadn't either go for mexico indian ocean. Uh, they're not they. You won't find them, though a lot in uh australia bummer. Well, there's other stuff to worry about down there oh, and you'll find them in the mediterranean as well what?
Speaker 1yeah, they must be moving. I mean, the idea of a shark in the mediterranean is absolutely I don't know, that just sounds so weird yeah impossible. I wonder where in the mediterranean? Well, anyway, yeah, um, here is something that you're gonna really enjoy a couple of stories. So NASA has confirmed the passing of 3I slash Atlas, which sounds like the name of one of Elon Musk's kids or something yeah, is the third known interstellar object to visit our solar system. The comet about the size of Manhattan was first spotted in June and zipped through the outer system on July 2nd. Wow, and unlike previous Veditors, this one had a bright comma and visible tail. Oh, cool. So it delighted. Astronomers and existential philosophers were everywhere, of course.
Speaker 2Yeah, there's a comet with an invisible tail.
Speaker 1Well, a comma? Yeah, that's not an Oxford comma, that's a scientific comma. I think it's more than scientific.
Speaker 2Scientology comma.
Speaker 1Otherworldly.
Speaker 2Yeah, paranormal.
Speaker 1It's a clearing comma. Yeah, so now you've been talking about how the days are flying by right.
Speaker 2I have spoken about that partially because I'm old Right, and two because they are. Well, guess what? You and I both feel like it should still be the middle of May, at least. And here we are in the middle of July.
Speaker 1Two to two, a shortening in the Earth's rotation, shaving off about 1.5 milliseconds since July 9th. See, we are shorter Two more micro short days are expected on July 22nd and August 5th. That's just wrong. Well, yeah.
Speaker 2Yeah, we can't let that happen.
Speaker 1Well, how scary is that the Earth is spinning faster, yeah, yeah, we can't let that happen. Well, how scary is that the Earth is spinning faster, yeah, which makes me think we're just going to start going so fast that we're going to fly off. You know how things do when they spin too fast.
Speaker 2That's right. Yeah, we're just going to fly off towards the heliopause or something. See, the thing is, the problem would be is, if it stopped, then we'd fly off.
Speaker 1No, I don't mean we, I mean the whole planet.
Speaker 2Oh well.
Speaker 1Yeah, well, we kind of are flying off anyway.
Speaker 2You know we're out in space flying around.
Speaker 1Yeah, but you know, get flung out of our solar system, yeah.
Speaker 2Well, we don't want to do that.
Speaker 1No, I know we don't want to technically, but what a roller coaster ride that would be.
Speaker 2That would be for a couple minutes, and then everybody would freeze.
Speaker 1Have you seen this roller coaster? I think it's in Italy, it's somewhere in Europe, but it's inverted the drop. No, so you go, you know, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, up, up, up.
Speaker 2And then you go backwards.
Speaker 1Well, you get to this top. You can't see where you're going. You can't see the bottom. That's every good roller coaster. Is that way you're going. You can't see the bottom. That's every good roller coaster is that way. Well, this one, actually, you go around at the top and you start heading down backwards in other words facing you're, you're looking at the ground, yeah, yep.
Speaker 1So what do you call that? Like at what degree? It's beyond scary. I mean, this is something that the warnings before you get on this thing are. I think you have to like sign, because people lose control. People have there's constant incontinence. Do you remember that roller coaster in cedar rapids where people would just and this is pre like iphone videos? Yeah you'd see these pictures of people getting off and who would their pants.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1Well, apparently this thing has to be hosed down after every ride, and there have been. You know, I would not want to do that. Oh yeah, yeah, this sounds. I went in the Tower of Terror.
Speaker 2And which is very freaky, because it's because you drop 10 stories free fall. Right, I mean, you have a harness, but yeah, you're dropping 10 floors all at once.
Speaker 1Now remind me where that was.
Speaker 3Disney's California Adventure which is the sister park to Disneyland.
Speaker 2They're right there together, yeah, and it doesn're right there together, yeah, and it doesn't exist there anymore. I think it's still at Disney World maybe, uh-huh, but yeah.
Speaker 3Disney World.
Speaker 2It was wild, though it was very, very weird to just be sitting there and then, all of a sudden, everything just drops.
Speaker 1Yep, well, see, that sounds less frightening to me than this. So much less frightening.
Speaker 2See, that's what I'm saying. I could do that one but, I'm not going to barrel straight into the ground. I just would not be able to handle that, that's right. Yeah, I just would not be able to handle that, that's right.
Speaker 1Yeah, well, on the same topic, because, believe it or not, today I have things to tell you. My brain is working differently today.
Speaker 2Well, I don't know, maybe that's why that no accounting for some things.
Speaker 1There certainly is no accounting for anything in my opinion. But so it's july shortest days ever, um, not meaning the the least amount of sun. Meaning meaning less than 24 precise hours.
Speaker 2Right, yeah.
Willie Nelson's "The Maker"
Speaker 1Right, so even scarier. New thing now Summerween.
Speaker 2Summerween.
Speaker 1Yeah, oh no, july is the new October. Yes, QVC, thank you.
Speaker 2All the shopping networks, thank you and most of the drug stores you know who always decorate.
Speaker 1Oh yeah, for all the wings yeah, well, it's a thing now where craft stores are putting skeletons next to pool floats and then these things of kids trick-or-treating in sandals like flip-flops, uh-huh. Then there are some towns hosting reverse haunted houses. So where you go in and people are sitting down for dinner and having a nice conversation. Well, it says where the candy screams at you.
Speaker 3Uh-huh.
Speaker 1So yeah, and all this Halloween action, now it's.
Speaker 2Halloween in everywhere.
Speaker 1Well, I mean this thing of getting people to buy stuff. Yeah, they have to find new ways A-seasonally yeah yeah, just drives me nuts you right now that if you want a beautiful new cashmere turtleneck and you know gloves and a hat to snuggle up by the fire, it's prime shopping time well, there you go, yeah, yeah, fall, hey, uh, speaking of a prime time, we we need to get to our educational segment on the show, you know?
Speaker 2oh, because we are the most educational program. Well, radio right now, obviously yes, yeah and this is something that, uh, that probably, uh, you've never thought about, but it is absolutely 100 real. We have more bacteria living inside of us yes, then we have cells. Yes, the human body contains around 100 trillion cells and up to two quadrillion bacteria bacteria so let's say like if aliens were to abduct you and take you into space and check you out, they would probably reasonably conclude that humans exist to provide homes for bacteria.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2That's why we're here, folks.
Speaker 1Of course it is. Yeah, I mean, that's so obvious, and we love to feed them with our probiotics.
Speaker 2Well, yeah.
Speaker 1We take extra bacteria.
Speaker 2We do In pills and try to take care of them.
Speaker 1That's right and nurture them yeah.
Speaker 2And make them feel good.
Speaker 1Yes, Because they make us feel bad.
Speaker 2We don't want cranky bacteria when they're unhappy.
Speaker 1Exactly, yeah, exactly. You have today designed a syllabus for every science teacher in America. Oh, thank you In America.
Speaker 2Oh, thank you.
Speaker 1Because I do believe that's about where science quote class, where it's legal, is. At this point, you know that would be a great presentation and there could be a bacteria and a little bit you could talk it into. I'm serious, yeah, oh God, yeah, I mean it pretty much seems like. Another favorite idea of mine would be listening to your educational story. Listening to your educational story would be how to describe to people what those numbers mean. What a trillion?
Speaker 2is oh yeah, because that is actually very hard for people to understand. Yes, yeah.
Speaker 1And what the difference between a million and a billion is. Yeah, that's something that's really hard, very hard to wrap your mind around.
Speaker 2Agreed. Hey, you know what? We don't have a lot of, a whole lot of show left, but before that, I want to mention that WOMR has got a couple get-togethers this summer. What do we have? We've got the Mondays Summer Series. They're at the Wellfleet Preservation Hall on July 28th from 5 to 7 and August 25th from 5 to 7. Come hang out with us.
Speaker 1Absolutely.
Speaker 2So yeah, Michael will be there and we'll you know, we'll chit chat that would be great yeah just so you know that's what we're.
Speaker 1We're, uh, we're gonna hang out and talk with people well, and it's like I said at the top of the show, it's bear week, true um, and not just in provincetown in colorado last week. Yep, so last week, and and you'll be told now, there's a new thing never leave snacks in your car. Ah, a colorado family returned to their driveway in their other car to see something large, furry and mildly panicked inside their locked suv oh, I've seen a video like this.
Speaker 1Oh, no a black bear had apparently opened the car door, climbed in and got into some leftover food or gum wrappers like some fast food bags Right, and then somehow locked the door.
Speaker 2You hit whatever button and it locked itself in. Well, couldn't figure out how to get out. Oh, wow.
Speaker 1And so the bear had what was described by authorities. I love authorities, yeah. As a panic attack, right, of course, as a panic attack. Right of course, they shredded the entire inside of this SUV. What?
Speaker 1do you tell the insurance company? Well, they're not going to believe you. They said they are utterly speechless. Yeah, I'm not going to believe you. They said they are utterly speechless. Yeah, well, we're listening to one of my favorite songs. This is Willie Nelson doing the Maker from the album Teatro, and originally. On October 7th, 251 hostages were taken from the Nova Music Festival in Israel. So far, 148 have been released alive, one of whom just took his own life last week. 49 bodies have been returned, 50 are still unaccounted for alive or dead, 23 are likely still alive. And for those 23 people who have been in captivity for nearly two years, please put a light on. I'm strange in the eyes of the maker.
Speaker 2I could not see. What a fog in my eyes. I could not feel.
Speaker 1What a fear in my life and across the great divine In the distance, I saw the light.
Speaker 2I saw John Batten walking to me with the maker guitar solo to me with a maker. My body has been unbroken by law and danger steep, dangerous steams.
Speaker 1I can't work the fields of Abraham and turn my head away. I'm not strange In the hands of the maker, brother.
Speaker 3John have you seen the homeless daughters? Standing there With broken wings. I have seen the flaming swords there over east of here, burning in the eyes of the baker.
Speaker 1Burning in the eyes of the maker.
Speaker 3Burning in the eyes of the maker. I'm a man. Guitar solo oh river, oh river Rides from your speed. Guitar solo. Guitar solo. Guitar solo, guitar solo. Guitar solo. Guitar solo. Guitar solo, guitar solo. Thank you. The opinions, viewpoints, conclusions, conjecture, estimations, guesses, presumptions, judgments, ideas, imaginings, impressions, sentiments, inclinations, inferences, notions, speculations, suppositions, suspicions, theories, thoughts, realities, truths or assumptions of the hosts, guests, visitors, callers or listeners of the Ann Levine Show belong to those individuals who have expressed the opinion originally. They do not necessarily represent the opinions of WOR, wfmr or its affiliates. Enjoy.
