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The of Madness August
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Ever had a car salesman call you by your deceased sister's name? Welcome to Anne Levine's world of absurd encounters and anniversary reflections. In this hilarious and sometimes heartbreaking episode, Anne and co-host Michael Over There™ dive deep into wedding disasters and anniversary traditions while celebrating their own 10-year milestone.
The pair trade stories that will make you cringe, laugh, and possibly reconsider that elaborate wedding you've been planning. From the groom who called his bride by his ex-girlfriend's name during vows (yikes!) to the bride who accidentally took sleeping pills instead of painkillers before her ceremony—only to have her dog tear off her veil and take a dump by the altar. These aren't fictional nightmares; they're real-life wedding day disasters.
Perhaps most shocking is the tale of a New York couple who charged guests $2 for water during their 95-degree outdoor wedding and provided a buffet with no plates or utensils. As Ann wisely advises, "If you can't afford a wedding, don't have one, or have the wedding you can afford." The hosts make a compelling (obviously) case for potluck weddings where community and connection replace extravagance and financial strain.
The conversation takes unexpected turns through Florida Man chronicles (including one who broke into a stranger's house to avoid his angry wife) and a fascinating historical dive into August 20th's significance—marking both the official end of the Civil War and women gaining the right to vote. Through it all, Anne and Michael's chemistry and humor shine, reminding us that finding levity in life's awkward moments might just be the secret to surviving them.
Listen now for a blend of personal stories, cultural commentary, and heartfelt reflections that will leave you laughing and contemplating the strange traditions we hold dear. And yes, Anne is still hoping for that "dead sister discount" on her next car purchase.
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Welcome and Summer Visitor Season
Speaker 1Hello, hello, welcome to the Ann Levine Show. It's Tuesday, august 19th 2025. I'm Ann Levine. That's Michael over there.
Speaker 2Hello.
Speaker 1And we are coming to you from WOMR 92.1 FM in Provincetown Massachusetts.
Speaker 2And WFMR 91.3 FM Orleans, and we're streaming worldwide at WOMRorg. We certainly are, and it's that crazy time of the summer when every person you ever met in your life.
Speaker 1Comes to cape cod, and they all come bunched up during one week.
Speaker 2Yeah, I hate it. Yeah, well, you know, that's what happens, though no, but I mean there's a whole summer I know, but most people want to be as close, close to September as they can get, because that's when it's really nice.
Speaker 1Well, except it was really nice other times.
Speaker 2Yeah, I know, but that's when it's too crowded.
Speaker 1then it's really frustrating. It's crowded now. What are you kidding? What are you kidding? Yeah, no, it's very crowded now. I think we can agree. Yeah, I, I yeah yeah it is crowded and um yeah, so it's frustrating because truly, every family member, every friend, every, everything, everything, the parties, the make of my dreams come true. Yeah, well, anyhow, the big celebrations, we had a big celebration, uh-huh.
Celebrating Our Tenth Anniversary
Speaker 2Our 10th anniversary. That's true. That was one of the celebrations we attended.
Speaker 1We did attend it.
Speaker 2Yes, that was a big deal.
Speaker 1It was 10 years, our 10th anniversary anniversary. That's right. I don't. Who made up? These things, uh, you mean the, the idea of gifts, particular gifts, yeah, I mean yeah you know, okay, I get paper, I get leather, some of it, you know, and then later in life, if you make it this far, oh you get a ruby, oh, you're now a diamond.
Speaker 2Right.
Speaker 1Whatever Gold, silver schmover, I think the— but tin copper, I think the idea— Wood yeah.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 2The idea was at the time, these were the things—they're in order of their value. No, I get that Of their preciousness. I get that their preciousness.
Speaker 1I understand that. Okay, that makes sense to me. What doesn't make sense is things like tin.
Speaker 2Well, I mean, they were made a long time ago, so it could make a little bit more sense, if you look at it like that.
Speaker 1I don't look at it like that. I don't look at it like that.
Speaker 2Yeah, that's what I was thinking, because even long ago a tin what? Oh, I don't know. Anything you wanted to last.
Speaker 1Or a copper, what, or a leather, I don't know. So anyway, this year I.
Speaker 2A bucket could apply to all of those things.
Speaker 1Well, good, because who needs more buckets than?
Speaker 2newlyweds, we need very few buckets. Now, however, people did need a lot more, many more buckets in the past.
Speaker 1That's fine. Why can't we update? They have.
Speaker 2To what? And it's all diamonds, gold and precious jewels. No, no, no, no.
Speaker 1Do you?
Speaker 2know what? The modern 10 year anniversary diamonds. Why didn't you get me that? Because I got you 10. I know Alright, because that's traditional, and that's Because I got you 10. I know, all right, because that's traditional, and that's what I've always gotten you what is traditional 10. Yeah, I've got you what was—I made with my very own hands something out of wood for you.
Speaker 1Yes, you did, and that was gorgeous. I'm not saying that it's not possible.
Speaker 2I slathered you in copper on our copper anniversary. Let's have a fight on the air for our anniversary.
Speaker 1I'm just saying.
Speaker 2That's what I've been doing.
Speaker 1I'm just saying that. You know, I did not stick with copper and tin. I didn't stick with tin for you Right? Because really, what was I going to get you Made from 10?
Speaker 2Well, that's a very good question, yeah. I mean that you would actually wear, like an old advertising sign or something like that. Well, now you tell me no, that's something I can think of, that's made of 10. Now you tell me Alright, I didn't think of that's made of tin.
Speaker 1Now you tell me All right, I didn't think of that, I just went ahead and got you something that I thought was nice, that wasn't made of tin and you did, and it's absolutely beautiful All right, we have a couple of other celebratory things. That's right. Nicholas Lord Soul oh, my goodness, was your birthday last week.
Speaker 2Happy birthday babe, I think he's going backwards now, right Is he?
Speaker 1I think so Well he lives in Australia, so it goes backwards every year.
Speaker 2Good point. Yeah, I forgot about that.
Speaker 1It goes the opposite way.
Speaker 2They got the whole Benjamin Button thing going on.
Speaker 1That's correct. They get younger every year going on, that's younger every year and also we had a wonderful time at our friend oe's birthday. Yeah, that was a lot and we went to a beautiful afternoon party at her house and fabulous friends, fabulous food. Oh, I gotta tell you people, if you have a moroccan jew in your life, go yeah go eat at their house.
Speaker 2Yep, the most fantastic food that, or uh, you know, uh, fine, fine ali well, she has one or two things to do maybe, oh yeah.
Speaker 3Oh, yeah, she has one Maybe.
Speaker 1I'm busy, but oh my gosh, the tabbouleh, the tabbouleh was amazing.
Speaker 2Yeah, it was, it was mind-blowing.
The Car Salesman Mishap
Speaker 1And falafel and tzatziki, and oh, it was just the best, the best, the best, the best. Yum yum, yum, and it was a delightful party. Yes, and it was a delightful party. Yes, it was. We have good friends in common it was good weather. Yeah, it was really terrific. We were going to have a party this weekend. That had been our plan and we just thought, you know what? I'm glad we didn't because we have so much going on. Oh my gosh, we had cousins here on Saturday.
Speaker 2Oh, that's right, and they're still around, so they'll be back, I hope.
Speaker 1And we have friends coming tomorrow. Some are staying with us, some are just here for the—it's berserk out, yeah, of the summer, just here for the it's berserk out. Yeah, well, it's that anniversary, wedding time of year yeah, it is, and that's what I'm saying I got some stories.
Speaker 2Okay, all right tell me some stories about, because you are. I mean j you know. Of course that's when everybody wants to be married.
Speaker 1Well, a lot, but August is a lot also, you know, yeah, well, you know why?
Speaker 2I think Because there are no holidays in August, right, and that gives you. You know, august has now got something special in it also, right?
Speaker 1Yeah, that's what I'm thinking well, we have the same entanglement that happens every. It's like the third or the second weekend of august is when everything, every darn thing happens. Yeah, but anyway, I have some stories about some other weddings and anniversaries. Oh, okay, that took place this August and I thought, in honor of our anniversary, I would present some of these. Okay, yeah, I'm ready To y'all All right, I'm going to start with now. This just happened to me Put a pin in car salesman.
Speaker 2Okay, yeah.
Speaker 1Okay, because this just happened to me. All right. This just happened to me, all right. So in bedford excuse me, bedfordshire, england a groom named andrew accidentally called his bride sarah uh-oh, the name of his ex-girlfriend during the wedding vows.
Speaker 2Oh, oh no.
Speaker 1Her name's Rebecca.
Speaker 2Oh, no, no, no, that is the worst.
Speaker 1Yep, now she took it in stride. Okay, all right. And of course the whole thing went viral because TikTok because, Schmickmuck and debates on Reddit about whether this is a harmless flub or a red flag.
Speaker 2Okay, yeah, but you know what? There is never any topic that isn't a debate on Reddit somewhere. Oh no, I know.
Speaker 1I know Just throwing that in there. Yeah, but this was a story that started on reddit. Got picked up by the new york post okay so that's ultraviolet, ultra viral. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, speaking of this now, as you know, michael, and as many of our listeners know who are close to me, my sister passed away when she was 39 years old, and that was a long time ago, the year 2001. Anyway, so we're dealing with buying a car right now. Yeah, and it is really. It is so aggravating and hair-pulling.
Speaker 2It's an unpleasant experience, no matter how you do it.
Speaker 1And everything they say about car salesmen is true, especially when they call you and say Hi, elena, how you doing? Oh no, yes. Yes, oh no. Yes, elena, how you doing, oh no?
Speaker 2yes, yes, oh, no, yes now, oh did that?
Speaker 1just just happened to me oh, my goodness about I don't know 12 hours ago, yeah, oh, wow, mm-hmm, and I let it blow by me forgot to mention it to you, but my hope is that it's worth, say, $1,500 off.
Speaker 2Oh yeah. Yeah, that would be good. That would be very good.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2Because I mean, elena did get the pretty girl discount.
Speaker 1She did Because she was an exceedingly pretty girl, yeah, she was a stunningly gorgeous and if she could still get that for you.
Speaker 2Oh yeah, all power to her.
Speaker 1Well, exactly, and so I'm thinking that could be, you know, the silver lining right of being called elena first thing in the morning. Yeah, yeah, yeah hi Elena.
Speaker 2It had to be very shocking yeah, how was your weekend?
Speaker 1um, I was like, and I wasn't feeling that good when when I first woke up yesterday morning and so I said, hi, um, it's all right. By the way, this is Ann, and I could hear the salesperson blush.
Speaker 3I could hear it?
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, there was just this mortification of the flesh?
Speaker 2Yeah, of course, because I mean the guy. You've known him for ages and he actually did know your sister.
Speaker 1Yes.
Speaker 2Yeah, so he just conflated which sister he was talking to well, he didn't.
Speaker 1Just I mean, it's not like, oh gosh, she passed away last week you know what I'm saying?
Speaker 2no, but I would say you know, if you tell me about those sisters over there, elena would be the first one he would talk about. You see, that's my point.
Speaker 1I don't see how that works.
Speaker 2That's the first one that he would think of and the first one that he would talk about. So I think that's all. That's just what happened here.
Speaker 1I'm not saying—.
Speaker 2On a subconscious level that snuck through and sort of stabbed him right in the backside.
Speaker 1I'm not saying it was anything else. I'm not saying he did it on purpose, obviously no, of course not. But I'm saying I'm hoping I get the dead sister discount.
Speaker 2Oh, I see You're going for oh.
Speaker 1Oh, are you kidding? I'm going all the way I got you. Are you kidding? I'm going all the way I gotcha? In fact, I'm going to send a text and it might say here's what I'm looking at the price breakdown. Best regards, elena. Oh, I'm just, I'm thinking about it. Yeah, okay, you know.
Speaker 2Look, you got to find the bright side of tragedy in my opinion, I can't really argue that you have to do that and, of course, being Jewish, that is something that you are required to do.
Speaker 1Well, of course, it's part of the culture Of course you got to find humor in tragedy, Otherwise what do you? You got.
Speaker 2I don't know.
Speaker 1A married couple.
Speaker 2I heard about them.
Wedding Disaster Stories
Speaker 1Discovered during Post wedding photo reveal that Long time family friends Referred to Simply as wife A and husband A had left the reception early. The reason they were offended by the seating assignment.
Speaker 2Oh, no, oh wow.
Speaker 1Now, this happened to us. Now, this happened to us. So, despite the host placing them with people they knew and worked with, the couple found the setup unacceptable and informed the groom's mother before storming out without leaving a gift.
Speaker 2Oh my God, that's lunatic.
Speaker 1Yeah, Now see what you should do is what Friends of Ours did at our wedding Just change the place settings.
Speaker 2That's right. Yeah, that's what they did. They just moved them and sat where they wanted to. Yeah, I was to. Yeah, I was furious.
Speaker 1Yeah, not because I was furious because of what happened to other people that were sitting next to them. Yes, so it wasn't that they changed theirs so much as by changing these other people's.
Speaker 2There were some very awkward pairings right and well, and not to mention when they did change seats, they really only spoke to each other oh, yes, of course right, so the other, the people on either side of them, weren't involved in any any conversation with them, for yeah, for the rest, of the evening anyway, yeah, yeah. It was all very yeah.
Speaker 1It's not right. Don't do that. People don't do that. And if you feel like you need to do that for some reason, don't just do it. Get someone you know, speak to someone, yeah, in charge, whether it's, you know, a wedding planner, someone in the bridal party, somebody.
Speaker 2Yeah, do something, Because I mean, if you've ever, you know, had a wedding, you understand that very likely there has been an enormous amount of agonizing about who sits where, because there's a lot to consider Exactly and it's all been considered at least as much as it could have been.
Speaker 1That's already been done Exactly, and in our case we had a small wedding. So it wasn't like one of these you know, 20 tables with 200 people or something, where it didn't, where it was diluted.
Speaker 2It was really specific yeah, and we and we paired people next to people that we knew they would find interesting. It's just, it was just ridiculous. But I mean, thankfully, not all of them did that, just a few of them. But it did it rocked the boat a little bit.
Speaker 1Here's one of my favorite. I'm still bummed out, and the reason I was even reminded of this is because and our cousin that came to visit us was one of the victims of place changing.
Speaker 2Oh, that's right yeah.
Speaker 1Yeah, and I still feel weird about it. Anyway, here's one of my favorite wedding things. Okay, this is some classic stuff. This is from Adelaide, from Dillana, all righty, where you have Rise Up Blides and Rise Up Blides.
Speaker 2Right.
Speaker 1And for Jennifer Hudson, not Hudson, jennifer Lopez, hudson, jennifer lopez, um jade jensen experienced a series of mishaps. She actually accidentally, first of all, hit herself in the head with a champagne cork, yeah, during like a pre-ceremony bridal brunch.
Speaker 2So that's always good to look at. So opening the bottle Right, Pow head wound immediately, because that's some serious miles per hour there.
Speaker 1Well, and then here's a part that's in this story that I find fascinating Accidentally took sleeping pills instead of painkillers.
Speaker 3Oh no.
Speaker 1Now, well oh no, but what's worse, right? I mean, when we say painkillers here, are we talking about a couple Tylenol? I don't think so. I think we're probably talking about something a little more heavy hitting. Yeah, and so is it better if you're a little dozy or if you're whacked out on opioids.
Speaker 2Well, that's a good question. I don't know Now. I don't know the rest of the story. Were they a little dozy or were they asleep?
Speaker 1Well, I don't think she was asleep, because mid-ceremony, oh no, her Kelpie dog. What's a Kelpie, do you know?
Speaker 2I don't know. I'll look up a picture.
Speaker 1Yes, please do, because this Kelpie pulled off quite a scene. Oh, quite a lovely dog.
Speaker 2Yes, an Australian sheepdog Okay.
Speaker 1Yeah Well, her Australian sheepdog tore off her veil. He's like I hate this thing thing, get it off of you and then went right by the altar and took a poop, oh my god, during the ceremony.
Speaker 2Oh, that is hilarious, wow, okay, now, apparently kelpies are a cross between Scottish Collies and, apparently, dingoes.
Speaker 1Well, so yeah, that's what you want at your wedding people.
Speaker 2Right.
Speaker 1For comic whatever. Well, you know, I only know one, dingo, and I adore him.
Speaker 2So you know, martin, yeah one, dingo, and I adore him.
Speaker 1Martin yeah.
Speaker 2Yes.
Speaker 1We love Martin.
Speaker 2Yeah, so that's all I'm saying. These are beautiful-looking dogs, a lot like Rosie. Actually, if they were all black, they'd look very much like her.
Speaker 1Well, very much like her. Fortunately we did not have any pets destroy, or or certainly I mean tearing off the veil and then you know pooping.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1Pooping on the altar.
Speaker 2That's quite a, that's quite a situation there, right? Well, you know it, it's. You can frame it a bunch of different ways, right? You can frame it as a, as a bad omen, right, because the dog took a dump on the wedding, or or you could frame it as um, you know he was comfortable enough. This is home, right, you know? So I don't know, uh, I'm not framing it either way. That's, it's hilarious. Bring more of that, please.
Speaker 1That's funny, I know right, I I'm all about. I mean, I definitely am. You know, next time you and I get married to each other, we're not going to have a wedding. I don't think we should have a wedding, I think we should just elope okay, alright, good idea. I'm all for. This whole thing with weddings is just ridiculous. It's so out of control. It's crazy, isn't?
Speaker 2it. I mean there is so much stuff, oh my God, so much stuff.
Speaker 1What a bunch of insanity yeah.
Speaker 2And I mean— Our wedding was lovely. Our wedding was fantastic. It was.
Speaker 1And you know what I think about it sometimes compared to what people do for weddings. Now I mean auditioning makeup artists, auditioning hairdressers, all this bizarre, you know.
Speaker 2That is very strange, isn't it?
Speaker 1I can't even imagine no, neither can I. Good grief, anyway and a stylist, or the ones where they have costume changes.
Speaker 2Those are my favorite, where the bride has two or three dresses, uh-huh, like one for the ceremony, one for the cocktails and then one for the dinner yeah, well, see, our wedding, like you know, was not big, no, and everybody who was there was a friend or, in the case of, like the photographer and the videographer, was very good friends of a friend who was there. Yes, it was personal. Right, it was all. I mean all of it. It was just yeah, there was no.
Speaker 1I mean the hair and the makeup people were friends, that's right, and they were doing us favors, yeah it was so well-intentioned and we didn't audition them.
Speaker 2No, and they did a great job. I mean, that's what they do for a living. They do a great job, but I mean man. So weird though what people go through now, it is.
Speaker 1Now here's the kind of wedding I'm talking about. This was in New York.
Speaker 2Okay.
Speaker 1As.
Speaker 3I say in the month of August.
Speaker 1I did have one of those Don't want to talk about it. This one was it was 95 degrees.
Speaker 2Ooh in New York.
Speaker 1And it was outside Okay and they were charging their guests $2 for bottled water.
Speaker 2Are you kidding? No, oh, wow, okay.
Speaker 1Not to mention what the prices were for other things to drink. Oh my God Then.
Speaker 2So this wasn't even cash bar, this was cash liquid, yeah, cash, anything, right, wow, now that's very strange. Now I wonder if those things were donated and then all of the money was going to go to the couple for, like, their honeymoon or something. But I don't know well here, if you didn't know that ahead of time.
Speaker 1This would be really weird here is the amazing part, and I have a feeling this might have been in the park. I mean, it's in new york, so although it doesn't say we're in new york yeah, maybe it wasn't in the city, but that's all I can imagine. Here the reception served food buffet style, providing no plates or utensils. Oh my God, they forgot. So anyone who wanted to eat anything. Oh my God, that is insanity. They had to stand around these buffet tables and pick at things with their hands.
Speaker 2Oh wow, that's awesome, no napkins nothing. That is awesome.
Speaker 3And this says this particular the lack of basic amenities combined with flies the flies around the buffet led to widespread outrage online.
Speaker 1Now, I'm not sure what they mean by widespread outrage.
Speaker 2I can understand the outrage. The widespread is interesting. Maybe they had friends who were just joining in, you know. Wow, here's another one, or maybe spread across the entire. You know all the demographics of you, know who attended. I don't know that's. Widespread is a very interesting word for entire. You know all the demographics of you, know who who attended.
Speaker 1I don't know that's widespread is a very interesting word, for I mean, if I go to a wedding right, if I'm invited to a wedding and I am asked to spend two bucks on a bottle of water, yeah, yeah, in August when it's 95 degrees, I mean any time of the year, but come on.
Speaker 2Yeah, that's just insane.
Speaker 1I don't know that I'm staying.
Speaker 2I'm with you.
Speaker 1You know, I certainly am not staying for the reception. I'm not staying for the reception.
Speaker 1You know I might sit through the ceremony and then you know, take my present and go home, right, yeah, I mean, that's unconscionable. And if you can't I'm going to say this one more time If you can't afford a wedding, if you can't afford a birthday party, if you can't afford whatever the heck it is, here's a clue, here's a suggestion Don't do it. Don't have a wedding if you can't afford it, or have the wedding you can afford. I saw this really cool wedding that was a potluck and so it was don't bring any gifts, bring something to eat. And they had like, yeah, I think that's really cool yeah, well, and it's a very it's a.
Speaker 2It's a.
Speaker 1That's a great thing, because feeding people is a wonderful, you know well, yeah, and I can just see that, like it, like everyone's outside you're at, say, picnic tables or whatever the heck it is so much more of a community event. Yes, yeah, and what a wonderful thing you know to to make food for a couple getting married.
Speaker 2Yeah, it is, it's great.
Speaker 1Yeah, I can totally see where that could be a very thoughtful, just a really neat thing to do. I agree with you and I am voting for more of those.
Speaker 2That's a wedding.
Speaker 1I want to go to Right. The last thing I want to do is like slither into some Spanx, yeah, and have to do all getting gussied up and then to sit down and eat like dry chicken breast or what they're saying is vegetarian.
Speaker 2Mm-hmm Right.
Speaker 1You know, which is usually something miserable. Cauliflower, which, as you know, I eat a lot of.
Speaker 2It doesn't have to be done low.
Speaker 1Who goes to a wedding and says this food is fantastic? No one. Because it never happens, never. Here's another.
Speaker 2Okay.
Speaker 1I'm ready. A groom smashing cake into a bride's face.
Speaker 2Yeah, all right, that's a thing that happens.
Speaker 1Not.
Speaker 2And shouldn't.
Speaker 3Not by consent.
Speaker 2Okay, not and shouldn't not by consent okay.
Speaker 1And did she say like don't even freaking think about doing that?
Speaker 2she got injured, oh man, and humiliated well, of course, yeah, if she doesn't know it's coming, yep and their marriage ended, oh, within a year okay, some it might have ended right there. It might have been okay, we're doing the annulment thing.
Speaker 1I mean that whole thing of feeding each other a bite of cake.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1All right, that's sweet, that has its plates. It's a symbolic thing right Right. But this thing of smashing people with cake I don't know, Some of this stuff is just absurd.
Speaker 2I don't know how that got to be the big thing that it is, because it happens a lot and it's consenting, but they're smashing cake in each other's face. Well that's different.
Speaker 1But if you're some.
Speaker 2I don't understand this cake smashing part.
Speaker 1That's the thing If you're some guy that you know takes some big piece of cake and smashes it in a woman's face. Or if you're anyone, if you're any configuration gender wise, and you just decide, without consent, to pick up some piece of cake and smash it in your new spouse's face.
Speaker 2No, no, you are absolutely in the wrong.
Speaker 1No, yeah, no, there should be you should not be. You can't do that there should be. I have an idea for a new cake. Ah, okay, which? There should be a sheet cake with annulment papers.
Speaker 2Aha.
Speaker 1You know how they do. Like a photograph on a cake.
Speaker 2Yes, I love it. Yes, oh my God, that's hilarious Sign here Right on the cake.
Speaker 1Yes, should you pick this up and smash me in the face, you will be receiving a copy of these by midnight this evening.
Speaker 2Yeah, oh, that's hilarious, that's very funny.
Speaker 1So here's one that I love. It's kind of adorable but kind of weird. This is in Austin, Texas. Aha, A father of the bride. I've eaten a bunch of crawdads there, you certainly have Right off a piece of paper on the table. That's right. It was like that wedding in New York.
Speaker 2Yep, no plates no utensils, no plates, no plates, no, nothing, just throw it on the table and off you go and off you go so in austin, father of the bride.
Speaker 1So everyone lines up and you go down the aisle in order, right, uh-huh? Well, the father starts walking down the aisle by himself okay, uh-huh, without the bride, exactly, yeah so his wife he gets about halfway down the aisle says you know, jim, jim, you forgot melanie, whatever you know, and he just turned bright red, ran around, ran back, got his daughter, so it, and he was horrified, right. But it's just.
Speaker 2It makes for a fun video because he is so nervous.
Speaker 1Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2Yeah, he was so nervous that, yeah, he just totally forgot Poor dad yeah.
Speaker 1I mean, yeah, it was. But I can just see where, depending on the bride, depending on the bridal party, right, this could be a marriage-ending incident.
Speaker 2Yeah, exactly, I totally agree. That's what I can't deal with.
Speaker 1It's these brides and grooms who take themselves so seriously, yeah, or who feel like they have to try to make it look like. You know they can put together some extravaganza. It's very sad really, Mm-hmm, you know they can put together some extravaganza.
Speaker 1It's very sad really, mm-hmm. You know, I want to tell this couple in New York do over, do over. You know, invite everyone over, right. Well, now they should make dinner for their guests. Oh, yeah, at this point. Yeah, you tried it the other way, and well, now they should make dinner for their guests.
Speaker 2Oh, yeah, at this point. Yeah, you tried it the other way.
Speaker 1And they should have a shower where they get plastic utensils and paper plates. Okay, good one as their gifts.
Speaker 2Very. Oh yeah, I like it Very nice. Yeah, here's one, so they're prepared.
August 20th Historical Significance
Speaker 1Well, exactly so they're prepared for this picnic wedding. Yeah, damn it, damn it. It could have gone so right and it went so wrong. Yeah, two bucks for water. That's absolutely, that's absolutely ridiculous in new york, where there's the best tap water of anywhere exactly it is amazing here's one, and I have seen something like this happen. A maid of honor got up to do her toast right to the bride and groom right 10 minutes ah, yes monologue about her own life, uh-huh, mentioning the couple once very briefly. Oh my god, that's great my moment.
Speaker 1Bombed out of her mind.
Speaker 2Great yeah, wonderful.
Speaker 1And people started booing who? So people are booing, people are trying to drag her off the yeah, yeah, come on. Get her away from the mic and get her to shut up. Um, I'm, I'm saying that not only should it be, uh, um, a potluck okay, but it should be no alcohol oh, okay, yeah, yeah, absolutely people get so bombed at weddings and in the midst of their bombedness, do the most ridiculous things. And here's a classic yeah I going to get loaded and talk about myself. Yeah, in this weird dress.
Speaker 2Yeah, don't even do that.
Speaker 1Here's an amazing one that involves an Australian shepherd, oh okay. Now these seem to be the dogs that you maybe don't want at your wedding.
Speaker 2Ah, okay. Well, they are, you know, herding dogs for one thing. So they do have a job to do, and when they're not doing it, they do get a little antsy.
Speaker 1Well, this is horrible. I'm just going to say right here trigger warning. This is horrible.
Speaker 2Okay.
Speaker 1Okay, so a man and a man's daughter.
Speaker 2He looked like a man.
Speaker 1A man's daughter, right, I'm sorry A man had a daughter.
Speaker 2Okay, in Australia.
Speaker 1Well, it's an Australian shepherd.
Speaker 2Oh, okay. Okay, so this they actually are becoming super popular in the United States.
Speaker 1This young woman, okay, decided to marry a young man that her father could not stand okay and he was dead against this wedding, ah, going forward and never came to peace with it and was an angry jerk about the whole thing. Oh nice, the whole time thing. Oh nice, the whole time culminating with so the father daughter dance.
Speaker 2Right, yeah.
Speaker 1He got up with their Australian shepherd and danced with the dog and danced with the dog.
Speaker 2Wow, okay, alright. Yep to the song hey lady you got a dick for a dad right dick dad.
Speaker 1Yeah, and see to me that's. I was gonna say that's a red flag. It's not just a red flag, it's a don't have a wedding, don't have a father daughter dance. Don't you know? Who are you doing that for?
Speaker 2well, I mean, maybe for herself, you know, maybe it's like I want my princess day because that. You know, that is a lot of that. You know that does happen.
Speaker 1But if you're going to have a princess day, plan one without your father, who hates you.
Speaker 2I am not arguing with that at all.
Speaker 1You're right, that's exactly what she should have done, exactly.
Speaker 2Yeah, yep, it said I'm doing my princess day in the Bahamas. Bye, or something you know.
Speaker 1Yeah, here's another one. Okay, I got a lot of these.
Speaker 2Well, hey, you're right, but I got. You know, I got.
Speaker 1I know Would you like to cut in as it were.
Speaker 2Well, you know we have to be educational. I know Right, Please explain Well, because we're the most educational program on the radio right now.
Speaker 1That's right.
Speaker 2I forgot about that, that's right, and so we have to. You know, we got to. You know, put that out there. But what I'm actually want to talk to you about is tomorrow.
Speaker 1Okay.
Speaker 2Because tomorrow is actually a fairly auspicious day. Okay, because tomorrow is actually a fairly auspicious day and many people don't know any of this. Okay, okay, all right. August 20th 1866. Oh, boy, was the official end of the Civil War. Okay, it was officially declared ended by Andrew Johnson on that day. Mm-hmm, the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote was ratified on August 20th 1920. Oh, I see where you're going with this. See, this is a big day and along with those other huge things, here we go. 1993, the Oslo Accords. Oh, august 20th, okay.
Speaker 3That's a thing that happened.
Speaker 2I mean, you know no one's, you know, we're not worrying about that now anymore. Also, here's something else rather historical Leon Trotsky assassinated August 20th You're kidding 1940.
Speaker 1I've got to look up what Hebrew date these correspond to. I'd be interested to see which, if any of these are the ninth of Av or Tisha B'Av.
Speaker 2Right, yeah, well, here's—i've got one more.
Speaker 1Go 1920.
Speaker 2Yeah, the American Professional Football Association was formed you buried the lead. Which became the NFL. So yeah, the NFL was also born on August 20th. You know, you could have just said that and left all that other boring stuff at the same time that women got the granted the right to vote came football they also got the right to make chicken wings every year exactly. Yeah, they're all now widows. Yeah, football widows, yeah, it's so. Anyway, there you go. Well, that's what happens on August 20th.
Speaker 1Now run the stand for me again.
Speaker 2Okay, the end of the Civil War, mm-hmm. The 19th Amendment was ratified, the Oslo Accords concluded, trotsky was assassinated and the NFL was born.
Speaker 1August is a very strange month, it really is. Well, thank you. So there you go, huh.
Speaker 2Thanks for educating us Some educational stuff right there. So now you know right there.
Florida Man Stories and Show Closing
Speaker 1So now you know is a year after the wedding. So the bride, during the ceremony, her husband's sister-in-law pulled out her phone and live-streamed the entire wedding to the groom's ex-wife.
Speaker 2Wow, yeah, okay, yeah, okay, yeah.
Speaker 1So the sister-in-law and the ex-wife had remained close.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1And so she live-streamed the wedding to her Wow.
Speaker 3Okay.
Speaker 1So I'm not sure. Who did she think who was this favor for?
Speaker 2Well, yeah, actually, that's the question, right, yeah, who was that? Why?
Speaker 1Then, after the ceremony, the sister-in-law Went to the ex-wife's house and comforted her. This woman is a complete lunatic.
Speaker 2Wow yeah, she's a wacko.
Speaker 1Yeah, okay. So what do you?
Speaker 2I don't know what you do with that.
Speaker 1Well, needless to say, it has destroyed a bunch of stuff. All right, here comes a very funny one. So this is a Florida man, okay, okay, so this is a Florida man post-wedding story. Well, thank you.
Speaker 2You're welcome.
Speaker 1So a 44-year-old Florida man had a huge blow-up fight with his wife. Uh-huh, and did he storm off to a bar, hotel, the car, no, what did he do? He broke into a stranger's house and he claimed he was avoiding his wife's anger. That's why he did it. He stayed several days. Oh my God, he didn't just hide, he moved in Wow. He cooked't just hide, he moved in Wow. He cooked meals, helped himself to the pantry oh my God. Took luxury baths like bubble baths Wow.
Speaker 2And he did like this, like they'd go off to work and then the house was his.
Speaker 1Airbnb. They were away. Oh, okay, wow, he stayed in the house for like four days, that's just nutty yep, yep so that's a classic oh yeah, that's a good one and then this does not involve happy couple okay um. Well, anyway, when they got home um this guy, by the way, um the, the homeowners returned and, of course, found that their entire home had been trashed and broken into right um and some hobo had been living there for a month. Yeah an angry husband, yep, and he was charged with burglary, burglary theft, trespassing Yep.
Speaker 2All seems reasonable from here.
Speaker 1I know it seems like there should have been more charges.
Speaker 2Yeah, a little more. Yeah, a little more jail age or something, I don't know yeah.
Speaker 1And here's one from Cape Coral, okay, which of course is another Florida man. Yeah. Florida 35-year-old Florida man.
Speaker 3Okay.
Speaker 1With a long rap sheet. Uh-oh, a stranger's driveway late at night and gets out of the car.
Speaker 2Right.
Speaker 1Goes to try to open the door. Okay, but it's not his house. He has pulled in to the wrong house.
Speaker 2Okay, he has pulled in to the wrong house. Okay, yeah.
Speaker 1So the police, the people inside are horrified. There's some guy has driven in and is trying to get into the house. They call the police. The Popos show up and they find the following in this guy's car in the driveway Okay, two handguns. Oh, okay, a bag of weed. Uh-huh, several stolen debit and credit cards oh good, good, good good.
Speaker 2This guy is very and then his story.
Speaker 1Oh, I just came here because I needed directions.
Speaker 2His story oh, I just came here because I needed directions. Oh okay, did he say to what? I don't know that he did. Yeah, just directions. Yeah, to the nearest Wendy's. I don't know what he said. Oh okay, yeah, well, I can understand that.
Speaker 1Yeah, that's quite a situation. Yeah, wow, I have to recommend something that you must listen to people. It is a novel called the Appeal.
Speaker 2Yeah, listen, or just pick up the book and read it. But, yeah, you should do this. Well, no, you should not the book and read it. But, yeah, you should do this.
Speaker 1No you should not, you should listen to it. Definitely it's written by Janice Hallett. If you don't know who Janice Hallett is, she's considered sort of the modern Agatha Christie A lot, and most of them are written using text messages emails voice messages.
Speaker 1Well, which is what she does. Janice Hallett you get sort of these clues drops this trail of breadcrumbs. Now, in the case of the Appeal, it's a cast of about 10 different people I mean there are more characters, but sort of 10 main characters and it is one of the most hilarious. It's dark but hilarious, and one of the things that's fantastic about listening to it and I know if I had read it I wouldn't have gotten anywhere near close to what I got out of hearing it. Okay, all right, the voices, the characters, the whole thing is because you're hearing these texts and emails. I know this may sound. Think of it as an epistolary novel, okay, but using updated methods of sort of written communication.
Speaker 1We don't write each other letters anymore. We text each other, we email each other, we leave voicemails okay, that's what we do. That's what this is, and on the occasion that something was written on paper that there's some ephemera that gets put into the record also, and it is a freaking scream. It's hilarious. I mean it's a murder mystery.
Speaker 2Uh-huh, uh-huh.
Speaker 1And, as I say, it does have a dark side, but it had me laughing my butt off pretty quickly.
Speaker 2I haven't done it yet, but I'm going to. It is. She's got a lot of books out there.
Speaker 1She does, and I'm in the middle of another one, but I don't like it quite as well. Oh, you're kidding, oh no not even. Oh my gosh, I didn't get to talk about smoke.
Speaker 2Oh yeah, Well, we'll have to do it another time, or, you know, we can continue it for a podcast extra thing. But yeah, our broadcast show is ending.
Speaker 1This is the Parting Glass, this version of it. This is a Scottish song from the 1600s 1500s, and this is Ye Vagabonds and Boy Genius doing this version this week. I'm asking you to please put a light on for Eviatatal David and Ram Breslavsky, two hostages that you've probably seen video of or photographs of being held in Gaza, emaciated. Emaciated, barely able to stand, completely destroyed mentally, physically, emotionally, and videos of them digging their own graves were posted by H Group this week. So for Eviatar and Rome, please put a light on.
Speaker 3There is a fair maid in this town who surely has my heart beguiled. Her rosy cheeks and ruby lips I own. She has my heart enthralled, my heart enthralled. Don't fill to me the parting glass. Good night and joy be with you. All. Of all the comrades that e'er I've had they are sorry for my going away and of all the sweethearts that e'er I've had, would wish me one more day to stay. But since it falls onto my life that I should rise and you should not, I'll gently rise and I'll softly call Good night and joy be with you all. Good night and joy be with you all.
