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Peacock Pandemonium
Ever wondered what happens when you accept a ride on a rock legend's private jet? For British boy band McFly, it meant having their passports defaced with explicit Sharpie drawings courtesy of Rod Stewart himself. We dive into this shocking story of celebrity mischief gone too far, exploring the real-world consequences when the nearly 80-year-old icon's "prank" left young musicians stranded at customs.
The tennis world provides its own drama as we break down Taylor Townsend's gut-wrenching US Open defeat. After dominating the first set 6-1, Townsend faced a nightmare scenario—eight match points in the second set tiebreaker, all squandered. We explore the psychology behind this collapse and what it means for her comeback journey. Meanwhile, Carlos Alcaraz's unexpected shaved head sparked rumors until the truth emerged: a brotherly haircut gone hilariously wrong.
Animals take center stage in our wildest stories—from a 200-pound tortoise named Turbo shutting down an Italian highway to a peacock ransacking a Los Angeles grocery store's produce section before moving on to the chip aisle. We also discuss the Florida ice cream shop forced to recall their iguana-flavored creation (yes, with actual reptile meat) and an Italian man who called authorities because his espresso was "too strong." As summer officially winds down, we reflect on the season's passing and what autumn might bring our way.
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Hello everyone. Welcome to the Ann Levine Show With Michael over there.
Speaker 2:Hello.
Speaker 1:We're coming to you from WOMR 92.1 FM in Provincetown Massachusetts.
Speaker 2:That's right. And WFMR 91.3 FM Orleans, and we're streaming worldwide at WOMRorg. Well, we sure are, and maybe even the universe actually.
Speaker 1:Oh well, you never know Although this is terrestrial. I don't know, I don't really know. You never know, although this is terrestrial, I don't know it's hard to know Terrestrial radio Right what that means.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, you know, I think, the airwaves, you know the stuff in the air. I don't think it ever really disappears. Okay, so you know. That's scary, yeah, or comforting, depending on what you think, speaking of comforting, yes, we're listening to this song. Yes, this is a very big part of you know my being a younger person, maggie Mae. Yeah, this was a huge, huge song Of course it was.
Speaker 1:It sure was it still is. Yeah In my opinion.
Speaker 2:In my opinion, oh no, it's still a great song. You just don't hear it on the radio.
Speaker 1:Rod stewart, no, you don't every two seconds, yeah and you never heard that little intro with the no, with the loot or whatever that is right either either one of those intros you know, I mean, you don't usually hear.
Speaker 2:Even the longer, it usually starts off with just the tap tap on the snare, yeah. And there you go, they cut off all the rest. Or you know, radio did quite often anyway, but not this radio station. Heck, no, no. You're getting the real thing. You are, you're getting the real thing, and that's actually that's. I couldn't, you couldn't be more accurate about that. This station is about the realest thing I know.
Speaker 1:It sure is.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean everybody here is doing what they love and for fun.
Speaker 1:You know, I think some listeners pledged to me privately oh cool, but I don't know. If they pledged to me privately, oh cool, but I don't know if they pledge to the station, oh, so if you did pledge to the station and I don't know about it, let me know yeah we would like to know. I will happily thank you on air.
Speaker 2:Or privately. I know a couple people. Yeah, we have some couple people yeah. We have some long-time.
Speaker 1:Yes, long-time listeners, and we'll speak about you publicly and privately. Yeah, just so you know. So, rod Stewart, the original back-to-school song for me anyway, I mean, I just remember this was kind of like oh gosh, it's late September and I really should get back to school.
Speaker 2:I gotcha.
Speaker 1:Okay, yeah, yeah. Well, it's September 2nd 2025. And I just I'm not even.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And I, just I'm not even. And, of course, here on the Cape it has been feeling like, you know, it could snow any minute. It's been so cold. It's been very strange, hasn't it?
Speaker 2:Well, it has no it's been cool Right For me.
Speaker 2:I mean, it has gotten down to like 52 degrees, so yeah, and it's that's chilly, it during peak summer and, I know, in august it's very, very weird. And I don't know. I heard, you know, I heard, when the uh, when aaron was still at uh, you know gaining speed as a big-time tropical depression heading this way, a guy on the news on the Weather Channel said you know what it looks to me, because of these storms, that August is canceled. Yep, and that's exactly what happened All of the hot weather just disappeared.
Speaker 1:Went away and now we have springtime weather. Yeah, I'm calling this not springtime, I'm calling this autumn. Yeah, well, okay, all right. I mean, I wish it was springtime.
Speaker 2:I wish we could rewind. Well, yeah, it is very green for spring.
Speaker 1:Yes, but it's not. It's autumn, but it's not it's autumn. Anyway, it hasn't exactly been sun weather, beach weather, pool weather. Certainly for the last couple of weeks it's been very, very cool.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, and not that kind of cool.
Speaker 1:No, not that kind, but it's the usual. Everything's going on per usual, right You've?
Speaker 2:got friends visiting.
Speaker 1:Yes, we do.
Speaker 2:That's cool.
Speaker 1:Lots of friends still coming in for a while and then everyone forgets they know us until may.
Speaker 2:yeah, that's you know what happens which has its.
Speaker 1:It has its highs and lows exactly.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean there are. There's a good side to it and you know, and and sometimes this also does not feel so good- well, so you know.
Speaker 1:So, speaking of Rod Stewart, yeah, he's turning 80 shortly, but he's still basically 12.
Speaker 2:And here's what happened.
Speaker 1:Okay, there's this boy band called McFly and I'm not familiar with them.
Speaker 2:I mean, I've heard of them. I don't know if I know any of their music. I might, if I heard something.
Speaker 1:Well, they're Brits. Yeah, rod Stewart was flying on his jet, on a private jet from the UK to the US. Okay, and he said, okay, mcfly boy band, I'll give you guys a ride on the private jet. So they were thrilled On the private jet, okay, so they were thrilled and his agent, rod Stewart's agent, handles all of the paperwork and he holds the passport for Rod Stewart and whatever.
Speaker 2:Right Makes sense right.
Speaker 1:Right and fills out immigration. All that stuff customs forms Exactly.
Speaker 2:This guy's a star.
Speaker 1:He doesn't have to do that stuff he's got people for that. Well, and neither does McFly if they're flying in Rod Stewart's jet. So Rod Stewart says to them hand me your passports and your declaration forms or whatever, and your declaration forms or whatever, and I'll hand them over, all of this in a packet, to the agent.
Speaker 2:He'll handle everything on the ground Right, it's all done. It's a done deal.
Speaker 1:Well, so what did Rod Stewart, almost 80 years old, do I know?
Speaker 3:that.
Speaker 1:He got out a Sharpie. He got out his autographed Sharpie. He got out his autograph Sharpie, uh-huh, and he drew penises on all their faces. Their passport On their passport, photos In their passports oh, my God.
Speaker 2:Okay, yeah, what a guy.
Speaker 1:Yeah thanks, what the heck Thanks for the ride, rod Stewart. Oh, what a guy. Yeah thanks, what the heck Thanks for the ride, rod Stewart. Oh my God. So of course they get there and they don't know this has happened.
Speaker 2:Right, of course.
Speaker 1:No, they're going to hand over their passports their passports get passed over Right, and these were not discreet little doodles.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, I mean, a Sharpie doesn't do a really discreet doodle.
Speaker 1:Huge full page right across their government issue, the whole thing, yeah, and so they're standing there and they had to get so it was this whole thing of them getting, you know, permitted to even enter the us oh my god yeah, and they finally did. And of course they had to get brand new passports, like their first stop. When they got to whatever airport it was maybe JFK they had to go to the embassy and say hello, I've got a huge penis.
Speaker 2:They should have been able to get rid of Sharpie on their picture, though, because the photo is laminated.
Speaker 1:No, but it wasn't just on the picture. These were huge.
Speaker 2:I see it was a full page, Full page.
Speaker 1:Right full passport page Right okay. So it's on, like Sharpie, on all the information.
Speaker 2:Okay, so that's pretty funny.
Speaker 1:It's kind of, but it's also you know, and apparently he was blasted out of his mind. That's a shock.
Speaker 2:He would probably have to be. Yeah, because that's really man. That's very strange behavior, it's funny, but yeah, that should not be acceptable.
Speaker 1:Well, yeah, I would not have been laughing, if I mean, you know, if you had done that to my passport? No, no, I would not be amused. And then I have to go to the embassy.
Speaker 2:I would not be amused from that point on.
Speaker 1:Be like oh yeah, no, rod Stewart drew this on my passport. Yeah, really boy band, is that?
Speaker 3:what happened?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't know, but anyway, and of course, going through passport control at the moment in and out of this country is tricky at best. So yeah, so anyway, I would say that I don't know, I haven't read their statements about it, but they're probably not the biggest Rod Stewart fans, or maybe they are, you know what I mean, it's got to be one way or the other.
Speaker 1:And it would have, I got to say it would have struck terror in my heart if I landed in Heathrow. You know I'm thinking in reverse. And then I've got to get through, say, british passport control. Then I have to go to the us embassy right with this defaced and say, hey, I've got uh yeah I got testicle trouble on my passport. My genitals, you know, took selfies of themselves, whatever.
Speaker 2:Somebody's genitals are in my passport, rod Stewart.
Speaker 1:Yeah, bad, bad boy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was not. That was funny, but not very smart. I mean, did anything happen to him?
Speaker 1:Of course not. No, he was just like oh my agent will take care of this.
Speaker 2:You know, what I'm hoping is that one day, someone from McFly or someone that they know is going to do something pretty major on Rod.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, I think they should spray paint a huge dick on his plane or something. The flying Rod Stewart and the flying Johnsons.
Speaker 2:Right, I mean if he owns it, if it's leased, you don't want to do that. I mean because then a lot more people are involved.
Speaker 3:Yeah so.
Speaker 2:Because, you know, then a lot more people are involved, yeah, so yeah. So yeah.
Speaker 1:I have to go through and think out the whole scenario now.
Speaker 2:Well, yesterday was Labor Day. Yeah, it sure was.
Speaker 1:Which I can't believe. But anyway, labor Day, first celebrated in 1882 in New York City I always think of it as being Chicago, but it was New York, oh yeah, okay, because it's union, right, right right, union workers, absolutely. And they wanted a holiday. I mean, they wanted a day off. You know, saying holiday sums up a different meaning than day off. And then there were a bunch of national strikes that went on and on and in 1894, grover Cleveland said all right, all right, stop fetching. Here's your holiday, here's your day off, so yeah.
Speaker 1:So since then it's turned into a tribute to workers' rights. Except it's not, it's the official end of summer. Yeah, it's cookouts, parades, mattresses on sale. Why is it that? When it's like Memorial Day, why are bank holidays, or what you call bank holidays? I guess we call them federal holidays here.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Why are they always a time for mattress bargains? I don't know.
Speaker 2:I really don't know. Yeah, except early in the year when it's not mattresses, it's linens, see Well it's all about your bed. Yeah, mattress related, but they really focus on the linens in like January and February Wow. I don't know why.
Speaker 1:Well, it's because you need something to put on all those freaking mattresses. Ah, that's what it is. Yes, thank you, thank you I deserve that. Yes, so now the other Labor Day tradition and we're halfway through it. I can't believe it. The US Open.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:In Flushing. Well, is it in Flushing? Believe it, the US Open. Oh yeah, in Flushing. Is it in Flushing? Still, yeah, I think of Flushing Meadows when we were kids, but anyway, it's in Queens.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And so there's been some stuff.
Speaker 1:ben shelton had an injury to his shoulder, yes, and he said his quote on it and, and if I think he fell actually uh-huh, and he said it's the worst pain he ever felt in his life. Oh man, now that's some serious stuff. Yeah, I'm thinking of the worst pain I ever felt in my life. I don't know how he was not screaming, if it, you know, but anyway, um, and he wanted to try to like muscle through, yeah, and his team was like, oh, no way yeah, don't this could be. This could end up being like what this could end.
Speaker 1:Yeah, absolutely yeah so he had to go out, which was a shame for the American team. And then there was this absolute gut-wrenching match between Taylor Townsend. Now I think she is from Chicago. I may have that wrong, okay, all right, but Taylor Townsend, for those of you who don't know, is an American tennis player and she sort of started to appear on the scene like five years ago, and then she kind of went blinked off our screens and she had a baby. She's done well with doubles.
Speaker 2:Right? Yeah, because she won Wimbledon doubles in 2024 and the Australian Open in 2025. Right and doubles. But that's really yeah, that's really all I know her from and she's been like trying to get back into singles and to get her rating, you know to, to get a high seed and all that right, yeah.
Speaker 1:And then she had a baby and he just turned four. So she's had a lot going on, but she's been really working on her fitness, which was a problem, and suddenly there she is on armstrong um, facing this czech player whose name cracks me up. Her last name is krejcikova, but her first name is barbora right barbora krejcikova barbora, um which I want to say barbara, but it's too fun to say barbora okay, yeah um and taylor like beat her six to one.
Speaker 1:in the first set it looked like Taylor was going to cruise to victory. Then the second set was this nail-biter that went into a tiebreaker 15-13, and Barbora ate Eight. Count them match points. Eight match points for Taylor.
Speaker 1:Eight match points eight match points for taylor and she missed them all, couldn't do it, and it was just, it was like, and everyone was on the edge of their seat thinking, okay, this is it, she won, absolutely and it got. It did get exhausting. I mean, I was just, you know, like clutching the sides of my chair and holding my breath and people were already lined up to get autographs and were jamming, you know, coming down from the stands to jamming the aisles.
Speaker 2:Right, you have to celebrate with her. The stands to jamming the aisles, right. Yeah, they're ready to celebrate with her. It's horrible, got an American and then.
Speaker 1:Barbora beat her and the second set, taylor just fell apart. I mean the third set. And Barbora, I can't help it. It sounds like Natasha, she sounds like a villain. Krejcikova ended up winning that. That third set, six to three. Yeah, so it was heartbreaking. Um, taylor just lost it. She couldn't move on. And I said to michael can you imagine the nightmares you'd be having, Like how hard it would be to live with having lost eight match points, eight match points. It's not like a game or set point.
Speaker 2:No match, we're done.
Speaker 1:Get one and we're done Right and I've seen it happen to other players where they just can't convert. There's like a psychological yeah thing that that locks in at some point. Yeah their nerves that get too overstimulated, or something you know the excitement comes a little too early so it that was a bummer, yeah, but you told me about this thing that happened. That was so disgusting.
Speaker 2:Oh, at the open, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:About Piotr, this Polish player, kamil Madj Kra. How do you say it, madj? I'm going to say Madj Krazak.
Speaker 2:Okay, Madj Krazak.
Speaker 1:Yep had just won his match. Yeah, and he's signing autographs. And he spots this boy, Little blonde kid, yep, named Brock, who's leaving over the railing, and Madj Krazzek takes off his sweaty hat the one he had been wearing in this match and goes to hand it to the kid. He tosses it to him.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And out of nowhere, this older man in the crowd reaches over and snatches the hat midair.
Speaker 2:I don't think the kid even had a chance to put his fingers on it. He grabbed it because the guy handed it up to him and he's moving on because there are many other people that he's leaving. He's still signing stuff for other people Yep, leaving he's, he's got. He's still signing stuff for other people yep, and he handed this to the kid and expecting I I'm sure that the kid was going to take it and the guy next to him snatched it grabbed it right out of from in front of him and the tennis player did not even see it at the moment so at that
Speaker 1:moment yeah, so the the crowd went. Well, I mean, you know like, and it was not put out, posted on instagram. This this man grabbed it um, his name is piotr szaszerek and he's a polish ceo.
Speaker 2:He owns a paving company.
Speaker 1:He's like a multi-multi-millionaire, you know, and so this man, it grabs it. So, and of course, it's 2025. It's filmed by a million people, exactly. It's uploaded to Instagram and like less than one minute later.
Speaker 2:It's this huge thing and, yeah, people very quickly found out who he was, yep, what he does where he works, and started checking out his websites and stuff.
Speaker 1:So I mean in in within a half an hour oh, within less than half an hour, because, well, the first thing that happened is that, uh, maj krzak saw this and launched a search for the little boy right and he, he found him. Yep, and personally a brand new hat, another hat and all sorts of like US Open swag to this kid. Now this, piotr Czesarek, is the villain of all time.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:And he came out and made a public time. Oh yeah, and he came out and made a public apology.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, I think it's very funny that that's what it's being called.
Speaker 1:Well, he said it was a necessary lesson in humility.
Speaker 2:Uh-huh yeah nice way of saying it Right. His first response was I was faster.
Speaker 1:yeah, and whoever gets there first, it's theirs yep, and so he got destroyed, oh yeah, by the internet, so he had to make that apology.
Speaker 2:He got tons of like negative reviews on his website about his company and everything. It's just yeah, because people are like, don't work with this man, this is what. Look what he's done.
Speaker 1:Horrendous yeah.
Speaker 2:It just made me embarrassed to attack a public figure. Blah, blah, blah blah blah. Oh, brother, and we are going to go after you legally, which is, you know, it might be the case in Poland, right exactly, it's certainly not the case here.
Speaker 1:It sure is not.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:So good luck with that. Yeah, piotr, yeah, mr Cezarek, what a pig Ugh Disgusting, disgusting. Yeah, cute news from the US Open Is that for mixed doubles, it's gonna be Alcaraz and Emma Raducanu.
Speaker 2:Oh, really Isn't that cute. Oh, how fun. I like her too.
Speaker 1:And they've got some sort of name now for them, like Razacanu or something.
Speaker 2:Oh, cool yeah.
Speaker 1:And there are rumors.
Speaker 3:How could there not be?
Speaker 1:rumors? Yeah, Because when you play tennis with someone you know, you might as well be dating them. That's true. But what an adorable couple if that's real, but anyway.
Speaker 2:Emma and Carlos sitting in a tree.
Speaker 1:So the other thing that, of course, got all kinds of news, which is a huge eye roll, but it's a funny story is the fact that Al Caraz showed up for the US Open with no hair. Yeah, so he showed up with what do you? It's like basically a shaved head. Yeah, yeah, what do you? It's like basically a shaved head.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah and um, yeah. Just, there's like a a week and a half growth at the most on his head, Right, yeah?
Speaker 1:So, um, and everyone's been oh what's that all about?
Speaker 3:And?
Speaker 1:it's this, it's that, it's the other thing. So he finally had to address it, because it's all anyone wanted to talk to, it's his hair. Talk about his hair. Well, it turned out his brother, and I can relate to this just totally. His brother said hey, let me cut your hair. Oh no, I'll do it, oh no. And his brother, oh, man Made like, took the clippers and destroyed it. Yeah.
Speaker 2:He like Did a stripe straight down the middle.
Speaker 1:Yeah, whatever, he did One of those things, some crazy thing, and so he was forced to shave his head because it was such a disaster.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, that is so funny.
Speaker 1:So that is what happened.
Speaker 2:That's a better story than what I thought.
Speaker 1:Exactly, yeah, so it's growing in because we were talking about how that's got to be like a little bit of I mean, forget how it looks or whatever. That is how it looks or whatever that is. But you know, if you're out there in the sun with no hair on, your head.
Speaker 2:that's got to be a little dicey. It is, I promise.
Speaker 1:But if you, and if you are not someone who's used to wearing a hat or a headband, or a head covering, then you have to do that. Yep, you know it's a head covering Right, then you have to do that. Yep, you know it's a bit of a thing, so anyway, but yeah, his brother did it that is so fun. That's the news, yeah.
Speaker 2:That's what you got brothers for. That's the news To do stuff like that.
Speaker 1:That's awesome From the US Open.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:And next week I can't believe this we'll be able to tell you who won everything. So I got a bunch of stuff about animals. Oh, you do, I do. Okay, and it's funny. Tell me about animals, funny animals. All right, we could talk about a chicken. I've heard of a chicken before. Well, this is in the? U is a brit chick, okay, um, so this hen walked into this sounds like you know, into a bar not a bar, but a yoga class, okay. So some hen from a nearby farm next to this yoga studio walked in, strutted across the mats, pecked at people's water bottles and then perched somewhere and the instructor tried to coax her out, but the chicken was just like not moving. How funny out, but the chicken was just like not moving, how funny.
Speaker 2:So it's like I'm laying and I'm laying an egg, I'm laying an egg right here, on your yoga mat that's right that's what I think about this, this spot.
Speaker 1:I love it. You know that the animals in the uk are actually hilarious.
Speaker 2:They are very, very funny. I've seen Creature Comforts.
Speaker 1:Tell me about that.
Speaker 2:It's a series by Nick Park where they go out and talk to the great British public about animals and then they come back and animate it in claymation as animals.
Speaker 1:I forgot about that show.
Speaker 2:that was a long time ago I mean, there was like one video for the longest time of animals at the zoo and that was basically it. And then, yep, that became so popular that they did an entire series and it's really, it's awesome, yeah yeah, look that up online. It's really cool yeah actually yeah, it's creature comforts, yep so well, here's.
Speaker 1:Here's another one. Someone called for an uber for himself and his goat.
Speaker 2:Yeah, right.
Speaker 1:Wasn't his date, was it, who knows, could have been. So this Brit rolls up to pick up his passenger and had a goat.
Speaker 2:Yes, of course he did.
Speaker 1:So this driver decided of course he did. And so this driver decided well, all right, all right, I'll let a goat in my backseat Now. See, I think most drivers would have said no.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think most would, and my concern would be and maybe because I don't know too much about goats, but I know well, I know something about goats. I had a bunch of them in my backyard a few years ago. But would be. They're going to destroy, they're going to eat the inside of my vehicle.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they're going to give it a shot.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they're going to. You know, bust through some. I mean, we had goats that like mowed down an acre of greenery in one week, Yep, but anyway. So the guy says, all right, okay, I'll take you and said that the goat sat very calmly on the back seat.
Speaker 2:So funny. Someone's got a trained goat.
Speaker 1:Well, the driver, you know, you rate the passengers, oh yeah, right, yeah, yeah. So the driver gave the goat five stars? Yes, of course. And the passenger, you know the, the human got three stars for bringing the goat for bringing your goat.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that is very funny so I love that story well, I've got one that I I love more. That's about a, an invasion from a member of the bird family. What are birds called? We went through this. Birds yeah, that's right, they are called birds, yes. Avian, yeah, yeah, well, we have another avian story, and this is from LA, and I love this. Okay, yeah, well, we have another alien story, and this is from LA and I love this. Okay, Okay so.
Speaker 2:It's a Randy Newman song. I love LA.
Speaker 1:You're right, yeah, and that song was playing in a grocery store. Aha, when some shoppers noticed that tomatoes were kind of flying off this tomato display, there was a peacock in the store. Ha, ha, ha, ha, yeah, full-sized iridescent shrieking Boy peacock, and it's strutting through the produce section. Of course peacock has to be a boy. Knocking stuff over.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I imagine.
Speaker 1:So first it went to the tomatoes, then it went to the grapes oh yeah, grapes are good. And was pecking to the grapes oh yeah, yeah, grapes are good, yep. And was pecking at the grapes, oh yeah, then apples. Now I'm thinking, oh my God, this store had to throw out their entire produce section.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, but anyway, my favorite part is I mean, if they paid attention to stuff like cleanliness and things like that. Well, which?
Speaker 1:that's the scarier version of this which is that Right exactly Once all the customers left, they just like said all right, let's put these back on the shelves.
Speaker 2:Right, exactly, wipe that one off, Uh-huh uh-huh.
Speaker 1:So, um, they were trying and of course the employees are trying to get this thing out of the store. You know, customers are running out. It's scary to be confronted by a peacock and well, any kind of bird. Yeah, it can be. Yeah, I mean, I had a bird in my house one time, um, and it was awful, you know, trying to get it out. It was really it.
Speaker 2:It's freaky birds, there's no you can't connect to a bird. I mean, I had a swan get cranky with me once.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:But then again I also had another swan that brought all of her babies within like six feet of me. So you know, you never know. You've seen both sides of the avian I really have, yeah, of the swan, the mute swans.
Speaker 1:Well, in response to, like all the employees of this store and some customers trying to corner this peacock, the peacock suddenly flew up. And yes, they do, oh yeah, and onto the potato chip section okay, that's right.
Speaker 2:He's like you know what? I've had some fruit, right, I need some.
Speaker 1:I need some crunchy carbs now yep so I'm gonna get me some cheetos or yeah so then everyone's running in because the peacock's like up high, like out of the danger zone. These people are feeling.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And like throwing potato chip bags and corn chip bags, yeah, and then people are trying to lure it out. So one customer grabbed a thing of breadcrumbs and said oh, I'm gonna make a bread crumb chow. Oh, yeah, yeah that worked. That worked really good meanwhile, it's like hogging down on right tortilla chips, oh yeah fritos so um that's very and then everyone's taking selfies. I would have loved to have seen any of this. An employee with a shopping cart shield finally got it.
Speaker 2:That is so funny.
Speaker 1:Yeah, animal control showed up, wrangled it, escorted it outside. Now, where did this come from? You tell me? Well, I don't. Where did this come from, you tell me?
Speaker 2:Well, I don't know when was this In LA In LA? Well, I mean, it could be from somebody's yard. Somebody's yard, yeah, a lot of people have had peacocks as pets. Oh God, it could be from a zoo or from any kind of thing like that.
Speaker 1:But um, yeah, yeah well, a peacock walking into a store in la, it's just so I don't know it's so well in seattle it's.
Speaker 2:It's fun because if you go to the woodland park zoo in seattle, they have peacocks, but you're never going to find them on a display. Matter of fact, most of the time they will be in the parking lot, oh God, and you've got to go around them. Yeah, they're out in the parking lot goofing off, you know, looking for whatever anybody's got left. You know leaving behind? Yeah, peacocks. Yeah, big, big old peacocks.
Speaker 1:Yeah, peacocks, big old peacocks.
Speaker 2:Well, they are big and I've been around so many of them just like that out in Washington by the zoo.
Speaker 1:Well, little tiny flying dinosaurs, which are what little songbirds and stuff are, are one thing, but when the birds are huge, when you have geese, when you have a peacock, when you have a swan, it's terrifying. I want to hug a swan. Yeah, I really do. I would love to hug a swan.
Speaker 2:Stop that right now. You know I am part of a Facebook group that says you might as well call the hearse because I'm about to pet that thing. Oh, and of course you are. Of course you are. That's me.
Speaker 1:Well, there's another animal disrupting the public story. That's amazing. All right, this is in Italy, is it a peacock. No, oh, okay, this is a different dinosaur, but a dinosaur nonetheless A 200-pound tortoise.
Speaker 2:Oh, wow, okay, Named Turbo.
Speaker 1:Uh-huh, escaped from a private garden and made its way very slowly 200 pounds onto the highway. Wow, ah, and within minutes cars were backed up for miles. Yeah yeah, and it just sat down in the middle lane.
Speaker 2:He's like oh man, this is warm, I am going to get some heat off of this Yep. Oh my God, that is wonderful.
Speaker 1:Right, that's the greatest story ever, isn't it amazing? So the police show up and what are they going to do? Right, that's the greatest story ever, isn't it amazing? So the police show up and what are they going to do? Right, like say you're under arrest.
Speaker 2:I mean they could try to pick him up and carry him off of the road 200 pounds, you couldn't get me within.
Speaker 1:I don't know a country.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Of a 200 pound tortoise, this huge dinosaur wearing armor.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I'm oh.
Speaker 2:I'd be right there.
Speaker 1:I would be gone.
Speaker 2:I'd be knocking on his shell like hey, buddy, come on, I'd be on Rod Stewart's plane, get out of the road man.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, I would be gone. Get up on the medium, be gone, get up on the medium. So eventually, yes for um. Oh, what are they called? Again, state troopers, no, no, no. Italy, what are they called? Oh what do you call the police there? I'm forgetting it right now. Polizia, no, no, no, there's some, not gendarmes.
Speaker 2:Not gendarmes.
Speaker 1:Okay, but it's the Italian, I'm forgetting the word. Anyway, I hear you out there screaming, I know, you know. Anyway, four officers lifted him up slowly and carefully into a van and this tortoise hissed the entire time. You know that they were driving it wherever Carabinieri, carabinieri, that's it. Yeah, thank you, that was going to drive me crazy. So, for Carabinieri? Yeah, because what's his name? Peter Sellers was always running into. Oh, yeah, right, yeah, after the Fox Right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, carabinieri, that's right.
Speaker 1:That is such a deep cut right there.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I'm sorry people.
Speaker 2:If you haven't seen that movie, people see it After the Fox. Yeah, there, yeah, I'm sorry, people haven't seen that movie. People see it after the fox. Yeah, it's a nutty it is the funniest.
Speaker 1:it's so fun. One of the funniest movies ever. One of my favorite lines from that movie is take this soap and wipe those lips off your face. So you got to see that movie people, yeah, so, anyway, hissing all the way home. Right, that's what that tortoise did. Okay, disgusting.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, no, I get that Florida story. Well, hold on. I got one tiny little thing we gotta do.
Speaker 2:we don't have a lot of time left we don't, I didn't even we don't have all that much time left, but I have to get in our educational segment and because of that it's gonna be short. However, it's absolutely top notch. I'll assure you of that right now. I'm going to give you a recipe today and you can try this at home. Oh no, that's right. Oh no, you can try this at home. It's a recipe for low salt salt potatoes, and if you know anything about what I'm talking about, salt potatoes are a thing from Syracuse, new York. Yep, that has somehow transported it across the entire state of New York, where you get yourself a bag of these little potatoes and they've got a bag of salt in there, and you throw them all in a pot and cook it and it's lots of salt. So that is most.
Speaker 1:That's mostly the flavor that you're going to get when you're eating them. A bag of potatoes and a pouch of salt from Salt City, Syracuse.
Speaker 2:Yep, it's like five pounds of potatoes and half a cup or a cup of salt. It's so gross. You can't put too much salt in it. That's the thing. But on the back of the bag, and I know this because our niece, Ann's niece, came to visit and was lovely and brought me a bag of salt potatoes, because I can't get them here.
Speaker 1:Michael's from there, you can't get them here. Michael's from there, you can't get them here.
Speaker 2:And so she brought them down. I looked on the back of the bag and it says low salt option. Okay, so now, if you're going to do salt potatoes from the bag, here is how you do the low salt option of salt potatoes. Yep, you add more water and use less salt. Wow.
Speaker 1:Yep, you add more water and use less salt. Wow, yep, smacking myself on the head right here. Hey, that's it. It says that on the bag.
Speaker 2:It is that easy, yeah Well you know, so you know, people should know these things. It's what we could call nowadays a hack. It's a life hack. It's a salt potato hack, oh my gosh, yeah, oh, my gosh Well. So don't forget people.
Speaker 1:What do you do so?
Speaker 2:you boil your potatoes in like this brine In very, very salty water, yeah, and then what? And then you take them out.
Speaker 1:And that's it. That's the whole deal.
Speaker 2:You can eat them like that, and when you let them dry, because they are going to dry, when you pull them out of boiling water, just the heat Right.
Speaker 1:Their own heat is going to dry them and the salt.
Speaker 2:But the salt is going to be like caked all around the outside.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:And that's yeah, and that's what it is. You got to rinse them off. That's what I do. Before you cook them. No, I rinse them off after. And you just pour, you know, put butter on them or whatever, or eat them just like that, and they're a thing and they're very, very good.
Speaker 1:I love them they're totally a thing. Yeah, I've had many people say to me um, because my family's from upstate new york, my mother's family and so saw, potatoes are like a thing. Yeah, um, in their world. And I've had people, friends, mine, and we all get together and they'll say, okay, tonight we're having whatever it is we're having and salt potatoes. And people say, now, what is that? And I'm like, believe it or not, salt potatoes are salt and potatoes. Yep Period the end the end. Yep Period the end the end.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so no chicken. Speedies, on the other hand, are chicken and Italian dressing. Italian dressing and bread. And riggies.
Speaker 1:Right, that's rigatoni from. Utica.
Speaker 2:And tomato pie.
Speaker 1:Tomato pie Also another thing.
Speaker 2:Not what you think.
Speaker 1:Tomato pie. No, tomato pie is kind of like pizza without.
Speaker 2:It's very strange, yes, but it's good. It is good, yeah, the bread itself is. I mean, that's what it's all about. It's just this. Really, it's bread.
Speaker 1:You're reminding me of mater.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:We'll have to talk about it. We will, and you'll have to get some.
Speaker 2:Yeah, okay, get some maters, yeah.
Speaker 1:Do I have time for a disgusting recipe?
Speaker 2:Yeah, A disgusting. Hey, you've got a recipe too.
Speaker 1:Well, it's not really a recipe. It's recipe adjacent. Oh, I see, okay, and it's Florida which I started to tell you this before?
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:But I want to leave our audience with something to really think about. So an artisanal ice cream shop had to issue a really gross recall because and they're known for making flavors like and I'm pretty sure this is on Key West, which makes sense in a weird way Key Lime Pie ice cream which to me sounds unbelievable.
Speaker 2:I can't imagine it. I've had like Key Lime Sherbet, but not ice cream.
Speaker 1:Doesn't that sound amazing?
Speaker 2:Yeah, it really does.
Speaker 1:We've got to write to holy cow and tell them. They need to add this Key lime yeah, and one of their most popular is mango habanero.
Speaker 2:Ooh, okay.
Speaker 1:Now right. Yeah, I think it would be such an interesting experience to eat ice cream with that delicious mango flavor, but then get hit in the face.
Speaker 2:Yeah, with some serious heat, Yep yeah.
Speaker 1:That's got to be, so you know, dissociative an experience.
Speaker 2:Right, because the flavor is going to be very hot, but the ice cream is not. It's the opposite. It's got to be wonderful.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's got to be just an experience. Well, anyway, these geniuses decided they were going to make. Now I can tell you about a place in Mantucket that one year did bass ice cream. Right, yeah, my sister and her boyfriend had to try it. Well, her boyfriend had to try it.
Speaker 2:I know of some folks who were in Japan who had salmon ice cream and seaweed ice cream.
Speaker 1:Well, how about iguana ice cream? Why? Because this place.
Speaker 2:This place. No, I mean for an iguana, because I had an iguana, I didn't know you could give them ice cream. Actual chunks of iguana meat, oh boy yeah. I don't like this idea very much. It's horrible.
Speaker 1:So the owner? Of course they were. It's so disgusting.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:They said they were trying to be sustainable because this particular iguana is an invasive species in Florida.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:So they say they're trying to turn the reptile into a new protein source? Okay. So they say they're trying to turn the reptile into a new protein source? Yeah, and it quote of course tastes like chicken.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, I mean, why wouldn't it Rattlesnake kind of does, which is weird?
Speaker 1:Customers who thought they were like getting pistachio or dulce de leche ice cream.
Speaker 2:See, if they don't know that it's going to be in there.
Speaker 1:That is just wrong and they're like it's so gross. And health officials swooped in, pulled the product. They got fined a ton Iguana ice cream.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that is so disgusting.
Speaker 1:And of course, they were swarmed. The place was swarmed by reporters and looky-loos and they were asking people how it tasted, and so now I'm going to tell you Okay, crunchy, and not in a good way, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Okay, crunchy and not in a good way. Yeah, yeah, okay. It makes me think of Monty Python. Have you ever seen the candy sketch where the crunchy frog was one of the candies? No, and an inspector is like you mean to tell me that there's a real live frog in this chocolate. And he said well, no, it's dead. Oh God. He said did you take the bones out? He says no, it wouldn't be crunchy then oh.
Speaker 1:Lord.
Speaker 3:Jurassic.
Speaker 1:Park ice cream.
Speaker 2:One of my favorite sketches.
Speaker 1:Yes, gross, it is hilarious well, I quick, quick, quick, quick palate cleanser. Yeah, okay, okay, italy, we're going back to italy and the carabinieri once again were called time. Someone who took a page out of the American playbook, right?
Speaker 2:The.
Speaker 1:McDonald's hot coffee playbook. Oh, okay. A man called the police on a barista because his espresso was too strong and he said it was a health risk my god so, wow, the okay you're drinking espresso which, by the way, it's its first definition, is strong yeah, that's the first
Speaker 1:word strong yeah, so he, so the authorities. So I'm picturing these carabinieri from After the Fox right, Right yeah. These like Keystone Cops kind of Italian version guys showed up, tested it, so can't you see them all with? Their little tiny espresso, testing it and talking about it, and then, finally, it was determined to be ridiculoso.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's awesome, that is awesome.
Speaker 1:But this man was all ready to sue this place. Oh wow, this cafe Going to sue him place.
Speaker 3:Oh, wow.
Speaker 2:This cafe Going to sue them for coffee. That is too strong.
Speaker 1:Espresso is too strong. I call Carabinieri.
Speaker 2:Oh man, that is absolutely ridiculous.
Speaker 1:We've made Italy look pretty bad today. But to be fair, we spend a lot of time every week making our own country look less than.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, I guess that's true.
Speaker 1:Yeah. I mean there?
Speaker 2:might be a reason for that too, though.
Speaker 1:I know. Yeah, believe it or not, we're not living up to our potential at this point. No, we're not. So Labor Day has come and gone and summer is winding down Officially not quite over, but unofficially, kind of in the rearview mirror. So I'm going to say this week think about your summer. Think about the wonderful times you've had or the terrible times you've had. Either way, it's in the book. Now we're closing the book on summer 2025. And for the coming autumn, please put a light on I never will forget those nights.
Speaker 3:I wonder if it was a dream. Remember how you made me crazy. Remember how I made you scream. I don't understand what happened to our love, but, babe, I'm gonna get you back. I'm gonna show you what I'm made of. I can see you, your brows get shorter in the sun. I see you walking real slow, smiling for everyone. I can tell you my love for you will still be strong After the boys of summer have gone, guitar solo.
Speaker 3:Out on the road today I saw a deadhead sticker on a Cadillac. A little voice inside my head said Don't look back. You can never look back. I thought I knew what love was, but did I know those days are gone forever? I should just let them go. But I can see you, your broad skin shining in the sun. You've got the top pulled out, the lady around you. I can tell you my love for you will still be strong After the poison summer has gone. I can see you, your brown skin shining in the sun. You've got that hair that's like fat nose wave that rose on me. I can tell you my love will still be strong After the boys of summer have gone. Thank you.
