
Anne Levine Show
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Anne Levine Show
Science Walks Into A Bar
A ballet clip sent us spiraling back to Kate Bush, and that simple scroll unlocked a bigger conversation: how we hear things differently with time, and why owning your work can change the arc of your career. We start with Wuthering Heights—divisive, daring, unforgettable—and trace a line to Stranger Things, music rights, and the long shadow cast by Bittersweet Symphony’s publishing battle. From there, we jump to the art of rewatching: The Sixth Sense still stuns, Groundhog Day still comforts, and Tootsie still snaps. The question isn’t “have you seen it?” but “what did you miss the first time?”
We also check our current screen obsessions. The Morning Show hooks us again, Slow Horses proves that grime can be genius, Survivor and Amazing Race return with big personalities and bigger locations. Along the way, nostalgia turns tactile: ice‑cream truck jingles, fresh stroopwafels in Amsterdam, and the waxy heft of an Edam or Parmesan wheel—especially when $20,000 in cheese goes missing. That sets up a surprising economics lesson: what a wheel weighs, why age matters, and how a couple of crates can become a headline.
Then the animals take over. A parrot “witness” in Argentina, a Swiss self‑driving car locked in indecision over a cow, a Chilean dog who steals a soccer ball and the show, and a small‑town chicken running for mayor with “cluck the system” on every lawn sign. We round things out with nursery rhymes that aren’t as sweet as they sound, a suitcase of garlic bound for Transylvania, and a light‑speed thought experiment that bends time to zero for a photon. It’s funny, thoughtful, and packed with stories that make you want to rewatch, relisten, and reread with new eyes.
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SPEAKER_00:Hello, everyone!
SPEAKER_04:How could you be?
SPEAKER_00:Great to see you out there. It's Tuesday, September 30th, 2025. I'm Anne Levine, and this is the Anne Levine Show with Michael over there.
SPEAKER_03:Hello.
SPEAKER_00:And we're coming to you on W O M R 92.1 FM in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
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SPEAKER_00:We're listening to Kate Bush, Wuthering Heights, and I was watching an Instagram video of a ballet dancer dancing to this. Oh, okay. And it was a gorgeous dance, and I was sort of felt a little addicted to this music. And also the dance, and I watched it over and over and over again. And at first I thought it was someone singing in Japanese.
SPEAKER_03:Uh-huh. Yeah, because it does have a sort of Well, it sounded like hear that?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. Can you understand words?
SPEAKER_03:No.
SPEAKER_00:Right, so I was looking through the comments to see what this was, and someone mentioned Kate Bush and said, Oh, I've always hoped someone would use this Kate Bush song. Uh-huh. And I said, Kate Bush? Anyway, I went to look it up. I thought, how am I gonna find it? I don't know a single lyric. I know nothing about this song. So just that I never liked Kate Bush particularly.
SPEAKER_03:Okay, right.
SPEAKER_00:Back when she appeared in the late 70s. Anyway, I clicked on her most popular song of all time. This is it? Ta-da! Withering Heights. Yes. Okay. So I felt a little dumb and also a little educated.
SPEAKER_03:I feel a little confused.
SPEAKER_00:Why?
SPEAKER_03:Well, this is anybody's number one. It was I don't know. I d I don't get it. Um you dislike it or I I the voice is certainly at the beginning, just threw me way off.
SPEAKER_00:Yes.
SPEAKER_03:And I and I'm like, I don't know what the heck I'm listening to here. Exactly. I probably have to listen to it a lot in order to get to the point to where I'm like, oh, okay, this is cool because it just throws me.
SPEAKER_00:Well, I listened to it a lot, and where it fades out here at the end, I particularly liked. Anyway, got a little lesson in Kate Bush, and really all I knew of hers that I listened to with any regularity was Don't Give Up, Peter Gabriel. Right. And she sang in the chorus of that. Okay. Yep. Of that song. Um, so I I knew that, you know, this kind of to me, screechy soprano voice I was familiar with.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Uh, but I was never a fan of anything of hers I heard.
SPEAKER_03:Look, I I I get uh Yoko Ono's, you know, do you grandkid out of this, yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, I thought you were gonna say I get Yoko Ono's popularity or something. Oh no, no. Yeah, no, exactly. Exactly. Well, that from the beginning of it.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, at the beginning. That's where I mean I it it went off the rails immediately for me. Right. And then it kind of tried to fix itself. And you know, I mean the song does admirably, I guess, but you know, then I I'm still lost.
SPEAKER_00:Right. And I know that it's called Wuthering Heights, and that she apparently wrote a lot of music inspired by literature, films, I don't know. Um what do you call it? Echrastic.
SPEAKER_03:Um I don't know. I don't know that word.
SPEAKER_00:It's it means when you're inspired by paintings or literature or to in poetry it's used a lot. Anyhow, um I there you go. Yeah, there's Wuthering Heights Kate Bush.
SPEAKER_03:Now, my favorite version of uh Wuthering Heights is the semaphore version.
SPEAKER_00:What what the heck is that?
SPEAKER_03:It's a it's a Monty Python sketch. Oh yeah, Wuthering Heights, the semaphore version. It's really hilarious.
SPEAKER_00:Well, see, she may have, you know, that was what the early 70s? Yeah. Yeah, well, so she started up in the late 70s. She had some kind of hit in the UK in 1978, I think. Um, so her career goes back quite a ways. Anyway, there she is, and then she had this huge thing because they used a song in the um soundtrack of a Stranger Things episode.
SPEAKER_03:Okay, yeah.
SPEAKER_00:And suddenly, you know, she became very well known again.
SPEAKER_03:Right.
SPEAKER_00:At this late stage, Kate's about 70 something years old now. She's always been clever. Yes.
SPEAKER_03:She owns every single bit of her music, which is astounding.
SPEAKER_00:And which is a lesson that was learned very hard by a lot of very well known people.
SPEAKER_03:Exactly. A lot of people got completely ripped off.
SPEAKER_00:It's gotta be so hard when you're starting out, right, and you're a songwriter, and a record company comes to you and says, We want to sign you.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00:We want to buy this song. And here are the turn the terms, you know. Um, and you're like, Yes, yes, I'll sign, I'll sign. You know, I mean, these days people have more wherewithal.
SPEAKER_03:Right.
SPEAKER_00:But I can totally see where um that was a bold move in the 70s.
SPEAKER_03:Oh, yeah, absolutely.
SPEAKER_00:To say to a record company, wait, I've got caveats here.
SPEAKER_03:Right, yeah. It's brilliant, absolutely brilliant, and obviously paying attention to what was happening at the time. So yeah. And it has served her very well.
SPEAKER_00:You know, I did a deep dive into the Verve Bittersweet Symphony thing recently. And the whole thing with the Rolling Stones, I think, was so tragic. I really do. Um, you know, they had an agreement with the Rolling Stones that they were gonna lift some of that uh music, but the music they were lifting wasn't actually theirs.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00:It was an orchestral piece that someone else had done based on oh shoot, what song is it? I don't know. Oh, I can't remember another story. Which role you don't?
SPEAKER_03:No.
SPEAKER_00:You know the verb Bittersweet Symphony. Yeah. They earned$1,000 on one of the biggest songs of the 90s.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Because the Rolling Stones sued them after the fact when it became a huge hit.
SPEAKER_03:Saying it sounded too much like something on there?
SPEAKER_00:They had an agreement to dub a certain part of it. I see. Like however many seconds, eight seconds, and then they came back and this thing went through the roof. Huge hit, one of the biggest hits of the 90s. Yeah. And they said, Nope, you took too much, and they won in court, and the Verve never saw a penny.
SPEAKER_03:Oh, that's insane.
SPEAKER_00:I know, yeah, like the freaking Rolling Stones, like they couldn't afford to have this one band that they had an agreement with, you know, yeah, yeah, I get it. Earn the money. And then in 2019, the Rolling Stones said, okay, we'll give Richard uh Ashcroft, we'll we'll let him be part of, you know, he'll be listed as a writer.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:As one of the writers. So you've got Jagger, Richards, and Ashcroft.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:And screw them, I say. Okay. It's a huge tragedy. Anyway, talking about uh owning your songs and stuff. Right. It's a horrible story. I did something that I'm so happy I did.
SPEAKER_03:What did you do?
SPEAKER_00:I was listening to something, uh podcast talking about the Sixth Sense, the film. Yeah. Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osmond, and Tony Collette of all people. A huge movie. And I realized all I remember about that film is the little clips and outtakes that are just part of the Zeitgeist that you see all the time. Like I see dead people, right? And that I went to see it in Canada with Jacob Moon, who was my movie date often because we were two single people who um loved going to the movies. Yeah. So that's what I remembered is that I had gone to the Power Center in Burlington. I remember walking out, and Jacob and I were like, uh-huh, what a film.
SPEAKER_03:No spoilers.
SPEAKER_00:Well, and and I realized I don't remember anything. So I watched it.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_03:How about that, huh?
SPEAKER_00:People, if you've never seen The Sixth Sense, and I'm looking at you, Lindsay and Chuck, just saying. Oh, really? I'm I'm guessing I don't know if they saw it or not. Okay, yeah. But I bet there are a lot of people now who were we children when it came out, or who were born since it came out.
SPEAKER_03:Right, yeah.
SPEAKER_00:And other people like myself who just either don't remember or never saw it. It's fantastic. Yeah. It is so fantastic. Uh so see it. And it's kind of given me a little, a little pep in my step about, you know, making a list of my favorite movies or great films, and then seeing, wait, do I really remember that?
SPEAKER_03:Right.
SPEAKER_00:Or is it just lodged in my head as something like that?
SPEAKER_03:Just like we did uh with uh three days of the condor the other day, you know, when Robert Redford passed. Right. Well and neither of us, I mean, I remembered some of it because I've seen it, I mean, within the past ten years, maybe, but yeah, I hadn't seen it. Right, you hadn't seen it since the very beginning, or or since you first saw it. Right. And yeah, and there was it was so good.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, really amazing.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Sydney Pollock. Wow, incredible directing.
SPEAKER_03:Yep.
SPEAKER_00:Um Faye Dunaway. Just like Tootsie. Another one of my favorite movies ever. I could watch that movie on repeat. It's like you and Groundhog Day.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00:I just am obsessed by Tootsie. That's another one. If you've never seen it, I recommend it.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, that's a very good one. And Groundhog Day, obviously, which was built. I mean, the whole entire movie was made to re-watch. I mean, it's it's the whole you know, kind of the point. Yeah. So and there was so much funny in it. Yeah, there's so many great performances. Yeah. So I'm stuck on that one.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, I know you are. Um, and of course, this is Spinal Tap, which I feel like I need to see again before I see the new one, which is called The End Continues.
SPEAKER_03:Which is out now, by the way. Um as you're listening to this.
SPEAKER_00:Gotta see that one.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:The morning show is back. Okay, yep.
SPEAKER_03:Jennifer and uh Reese.
SPEAKER_00:Yes. Tig.
SPEAKER_03:Oh, Tig's on it. Okay, yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Billy Crutup.
SPEAKER_03:Right.
SPEAKER_00:Um, John Ham.
SPEAKER_03:Oh, it's, you know, it's it's a lot of people might recognize.
SPEAKER_00:And there's some big star that's coming on this season. I don't remember who it is. But anyway, I watched episodes one and two, and I am once again obsessed. Of course, they've only dropped two, or at least as of this weekend, there were only two.
SPEAKER_05:Uh-huh.
SPEAKER_00:Um and yeah, so now I'm waiting. Like that. I'm waiting.
SPEAKER_03:There you are.
SPEAKER_00:Yep. Um, it's Yom Kippur this week, and I feel like the morning show owes me a gesture of atonement.
SPEAKER_03:I see, yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Um remember Yom.
SPEAKER_03:You're making things difficult.
SPEAKER_00:So the morning show? Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:Slow Horses has another season showing. Oh, that's right. Season five of Slow Horses is back out, and Gary Oldman just as greasy as ever. Oh man.
SPEAKER_00:Such a great performance by him.
SPEAKER_03:Such a great show. He's one of the great actors. Yes, he's amazing. I've loved him in everything. He's he's so versatile, and this this character is just uh it would be cartoonish, except he's so cartoonish, yeah.
SPEAKER_00:He's so great. And this guy is such a sleazy scumbag slash genius. So it's perfect.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, it's really, and if you haven't seen that, you gotta you gotta watch that one too.
SPEAKER_00:Speaking of geniuses, horses that go slow. Brilliant Minds is gonna be back. Oh yeah. The paper or paper is it called?
SPEAKER_03:I think it's the paper, yeah. And I haven't seen that yet. Is that another Apple thing?
SPEAKER_00:That is supposed to be absolutely hilarious.
SPEAKER_03:And it's a dun the Is that um Yeah, it's from the people who made the office.
SPEAKER_00:Right, exactly. And then DMV.
SPEAKER_03:The American version of The Office.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:And DMV, which is made by the people who did Superstore, is coming. That's coming up in a couple weeks.
SPEAKER_03:So Okay, and one of the guys from The Office is on it. Uh the guy who played Oscar. Oh. Uh yeah, he's part of the cast.
SPEAKER_00:I can't think of his name, but yeah, you know who I'm talking about. Yep. Yep. Um tons of stuff going on on television. Uh Survivor is back.
SPEAKER_03:That's yeah, Oscar. Oh, that is his name, Oscar Nunez. So that's good. Yes. Ooh, we could have, we, you know, we could have gotten away with it. With what? With you know just saying Oscar. Just saying Oscar and just left it at that, right?
SPEAKER_00:Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_03:Oh, man.
SPEAKER_00:What do you think about the first episode of the new season of Survivor?
SPEAKER_03:I um it's it was very um enlightening. Meaning? Meaning, I learned about a lot about all of these people, so much more than actually I think we usually do. I don't know if it's editing or the way it was put together or what. But I learned more about the people in this first episode than I usually do. Most of the time I walk away from the I it's five episodes in before I'm like, I got any idea who anybody is. Right. And I've but I've already started, I've already got an idea. Uh I guess because the personalities are really big.
SPEAKER_00:They are.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah. I'm and that's and they're very polarizing. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:There, I mean, yeah, it's so the producers did a great job putting this cast together. And of course, I mean, one of the things to me about Survivor is the scenery and the Fiji Islands.
SPEAKER_03:Um just spectacular.
SPEAKER_00:I was so, so very fortunate that I was taken there um on a trip to New Zealand to see my great uncle who lived there. Um, but we made we made a trip of it. We went to the Fiji Islands, that was our first stop. And I'm still obsessed. So getting to see it on Survivor and that water and the beaches, yeah. I can just feel it. I love watching that scenery, and then these lunatics running around doing their crazy scheming and plotting and the uh the challenges which have gotten more complex and difficult.
SPEAKER_03:It's you know, it's like this, you know what it is? The whole season, including the contestants, are all like turbocharged. Everything is cranked up. The challenges are cranked up, the pressure is cranked up, the people are cranked up. Yeah, it's really it's been very interesting already.
SPEAKER_00:And Amazing Race is also back, of course, because they're like, you know, twin shows.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, you gotta have them together there somehow.
SPEAKER_00:Now, what is unbearable to me this year about it is that it's all former Big Brother contestants. Uh winners, losers, whatever. Right, yeah, or fans, polarizing people from that. And Big Brother is a show that I don't know, I watched one time when it first came out. I I can't abide it.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:It is not part of my world. Um, and I don't like the references, you know, I don't want them. I don't it's a whole complication in the amazing race. Um, they did a whole thing, the first episode takes place in the Netherlands, and it is so gorgeous.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, absolutely.
SPEAKER_00:And they did a challenge with Edom Cheese. And all I can think about now is that I want Edom cheese. So in the absence of Eatham cheese, we had friends over this weekend and we gave them some alouette cheese.
SPEAKER_03:That is true, yes.
SPEAKER_00:Which put you in mind of something.
SPEAKER_03:Well, I mean, uh, when I was young, I sang that song almost every day.
SPEAKER_00:Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_03:The French song that Alouette Gente Alouette. That's all I'm gonna do. Okay.
SPEAKER_00:Um, but anyway, uh everybody will I mean that they know that's Aluette Gente Alouette, Aluette, je te plumerais. Yeah. And Michael said, What does aloeta mean?
SPEAKER_03:Right, because well, because I got some cheese. It says alouetta on the on it. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:And I said, Well, it's and I couldn't remember which songbird it was, but I said, Oh, it's about a little bird. It might be a nightingale, it might be a sparrow. And I looked at, it's a lark. Yeah. And I said, but then, Michael, I said, this takes a real Grimms Fairy Tales turn. Because what children don't realize is it's a song to teach you about body parts, essentially. But what it's saying is je te plumerai, which means I will pluck your feet off.
SPEAKER_03:I'm gonna pluck your feathers, I'm gonna remove your beak, I'm gonna take your feet off.
SPEAKER_00:Well, no, it doesn't say it doesn't say any of that.
SPEAKER_03:It doesn't say any of that. Oh. Okay.
SPEAKER_00:It says, I will pluck the feathers off your head.
SPEAKER_03:Right, okay, yep.
SPEAKER_00:Je te plumerai la tête. So I'll I'll defeather your head, and then it goes through. And it's all je te plumerai. Um, it's not I'll cut off your tail or anything like that.
SPEAKER_03:But it's about tail feathers out one by one.
SPEAKER_00:Well, it is about plucking a dead lark.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:And um, yeah, for a children's song that we all learn to sing. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:I mean, I'm traumatized by this song of 63 years old.
SPEAKER_00:Yes. You know? Well, you're traumatized now. You didn't know until I had no idea. Right. Until Saturday, you didn't know. That's right. Um, and it has bothered me always. Because I always knew what it meant.
SPEAKER_03:And you are right, it is very uh grim brothers kind of thing.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, I mean, there are so many things like that that are, you know, you don't think about it.
SPEAKER_03:Well, the the Little Mermaid committed suicide.
SPEAKER_00:Right.
SPEAKER_03:That's the real story.
SPEAKER_00:Right, she did.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah. That is the real story. Not the the Disney version has got a different story.
SPEAKER_00:Right.
SPEAKER_03:But uh, yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Well, in my book about the Little Mermaid, which I had as a child, uh-huh. It absolutely says that in the end. You know, that's what happened. She she threw herself into the sea and that's right.
SPEAKER_03:Well, she didn't know. But she had legs, yeah. Right. So that was it for her.
SPEAKER_00:Legs. Yeah. I got legs. Uh what was I gonna say about things like that? I don't know.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, me too.
SPEAKER_00:Anyway, watch the Sixth Sense and go back and watch films that you've forgotten or that you never saw.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah because you might be in for a treat.
SPEAKER_03:I agree. I agree. That was that was fun to do. I didn't watch the whole thing because I actually had just watched a video earlier in that in the day that same day that had like, you know, 20 things you didn't know about the making of the sixth cents and everything. So so much of it was already in my mind, and I'm like, yeah. And I sat down and basically watched the last half of it, and there was so much I didn't remember. Right. So yeah, and it was uh it's just fascinating. Anyway, okay.
SPEAKER_00:Well, speaking of birds Hello, birds. In Argentina, the land of silver. Argentina, yes, and the Rio Plata, which means Argenta, it is the land of silver. Everything means silver. Argentina or silverland, um, police investigating a murder brought in the victim's parrot. Okay. The bird reportedly squawked, no, por favor, saltame. It's either saltame, I think it's solta me, which means no, please let me go.
SPEAKER_03:We're gonna say sotomayor. Oh my god.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, that's soto. This is S-O-L-T-A-M-E.
SPEAKER_03:Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_00:SOLTA me.
SPEAKER_03:Oh man.
SPEAKER_00:Please let me go.
SPEAKER_03:Accusing a Supreme Court justice is a pretty big deal.
SPEAKER_00:So mimicking the victim's last words. Nice. Apparently. The jury didn't buy it.
SPEAKER_03:And they should not have.
SPEAKER_00:But the parrot became a local celebrity. So the parrot's now like smoking cigars and out at the club, saying no, paparazzi, Rico did it, sunglasses, and and repeats all the time. No, por favor, saltame.
SPEAKER_03:Uh-huh. Okay.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. So you had a parrot testifying um in Silverland. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:Um I that just could not have, I mean, in the in the modern day, that couldn't have flown at all.
SPEAKER_00:Flow insane. Speaking of um stuff about animals and nursery rhymes. Now, see, this is one that oh, ashes, ashes, they all fall.
SPEAKER_03:Oh my yeah, that's all about the the plague.
SPEAKER_00:Right.
SPEAKER_03:Yep. Pocket full of posies.
SPEAKER_00:Ring around the rosy, a pocket full of posies, ashes, ashes.
SPEAKER_03:If you had a pocket full of posies, you you would have something that smelled good in your pocket, so you could pull it out and put it in front of your nose because that apparently kept the evil away from you. Right. So that's what that is, yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Well, see, there's another one. Yeah. Well, what about Pop Goes the Weasel? Oh, that's a good question. The mulberry bush. The mulberry bush. The was it a monkey? The monkey. Chase the weasel. Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. Pop goes the weasel. That's interesting. I don't I don't know. I don't either.
SPEAKER_03:Where that came from, yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Well, a lot of people know that song because um of the ice cream truck.
SPEAKER_03:Oh, right. That that is true. That's the that's the Was it Mr.
SPEAKER_00:Softy or was it was it good humor?
SPEAKER_03:It could have been both because they did play different songs. It wasn't always the same song.
SPEAKER_00:I know there was a particular Mr. Softie song, and I'm not remembering it right now.
SPEAKER_03:I think it was Pop Go of the Weasel. Was it? Yeah, I I think so.
SPEAKER_00:Well, in LA, police disguised themselves as an ice cream truck to catch speeding drivers in a school zone. So listen up, people. Yeah. If you see a an ice cream truck blasting Pop Goes the Weasel in a school zone, which is what this ice cream truck was doing, um watch your speed. Yeah. Because then they were pulling people over in the ice cream truck, which suddenly went from da da to bloop, bloop, you know, sirens and flashing lights, and um pulling people over.
SPEAKER_03:By the way, the band played on uh is one of the songs that the that the ice cream trucks played. Also, Pop Go the Weasel, Turkey in the Straw, and the Mr. Softy Jingle, which is its own thing.
SPEAKER_00:Right. That's what I'm trying to remember.
SPEAKER_03:Its own thing, yeah.
SPEAKER_00:That's what I need to remember. I I wish that could. If we can play that, that would be wonderful. I totally remember this. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:So there you go.
SPEAKER_00:That reminds me of something I've got a cone for. Well, not just ice cream. Not any ice cream. Yeah. But a Mr. Softy monster.
SPEAKER_03:Oh, I see.
SPEAKER_00:And that was one of those double cones, you know, where you would you would have the base of the comb, but then it had like two ice cream holders.
SPEAKER_03:Oh. Do you know what I mean? Oh, yeah, yeah, yes, yes, yes. I've yes. I've never had one. I'm not well anyway, they would it was like two cones connected.
SPEAKER_00:Right. It was one cone, but it had like two heads. Right, yeah. Anyway, and ice cream would go on both sides. And then they would put googly candy googly eyes on it, and it was a monster.
SPEAKER_03:There you go.
SPEAKER_00:And my mother had in the top drawer of her desk this massive box of quarters.
SPEAKER_03:Ah.
SPEAKER_00:And she was prepared. She kind of was prepared. I was prepared. Okay. And I spent all those damn quarters on monsters.
SPEAKER_03:I see. After school. I see.
SPEAKER_00:And I would grab my sister and take her out there, and yep, we're getting ice cream.
SPEAKER_03:That's right, you are.
SPEAKER_00:Well, one day, mom came to me and said, Anne, have you taken the quarters out of my desk? And I probably said no at first, but yeah, I copped to it ultimately, tearfully. I was a little kid, I was probably 10. They were silver. It's when they were getting rid of the silver quarters.
SPEAKER_03:Oh man.
SPEAKER_00:So I spent like$8,000. Yeah. On ice cream. I better. I own some rights to that song. Yeah. I want that song played at my funeral.
SPEAKER_03:Oh yeah. Okay, we'll do it with a bagpipe. Exactly. Perfect. Make everybody happy.
SPEAKER_00:You can get the cats, use them.
SPEAKER_03:Right, of course. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:And Kate Bush. Exactly. We're good. Um, so for Yom Kippur, I would like to atone. I wish I could, Mom, if you can hear me, I'm sorry I took the quarters. Okay? I am sorry about that. Uh so the ice cream truck song. Yeah. Now, speaking of trucks, this is crazy. A self-driving sort of hybrid vehicle, like a truck car sort of situation, but a self-driving one in rural Switzerland came to a standstill during a test drive because it couldn't quote decide whether what in the road, the cow that was in the road, was a pedestrian, a vehicle, or an obstacle.
SPEAKER_03:Oh no. Okay, well.
SPEAKER_00:Now, if it was an obstacle, it would have put its whatever um signal on and gone around it. Okay. Right. Or if it was a pedestrian or a vehicle, whatever the appropriate moves were. Right. But it couldn't figure out what this cow was.
SPEAKER_03:So it didn't know what to do.
SPEAKER_00:So it just stopped 45 minutes until the farmer came along.
SPEAKER_03:Oh my God, that is so funny.
SPEAKER_00:Just, you know, by happenstance, came along and said, Oh, come and see here, Bessie. Come on, Bessie. Yes. Did you say, hear me say Bessie, or did we both say that?
SPEAKER_03:No, I was it was in my head before you before I heard you say it. So yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. So obviously that's what the cow's name was, Bessie's.
SPEAKER_03:Okay, right. Well, that's the Elmer's glue cow, by the way.
SPEAKER_00:Isn't that Elsie?
SPEAKER_03:Oh yeah, it's Elsie. You're right. Yeah, Elmer. I don't know why we came up with Bessie, both of us. I don't either. That's very well, I'm maybe. Maybe I do know.
SPEAKER_00:Well, you know, there's been a lot of married a while. We have been, and there's been a lot of child's play so far on this show.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, we're talking about uh, you know, nursery rhymes and such.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. And ice cream truck jingles.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:And cheese.
SPEAKER_03:Eat 'em cheese.
SPEAKER_00:Oh. I need some Eatem cheese. I do believe I put that on the grocery list. I don't know how it came out. Um but it yeah, I don't know. Eat 'em has never been like in my top ten rotation of favorite cheeses.
SPEAKER_03:Okay.
SPEAKER_00:But seeing it being stacked, you know, those yellow waxy balls to eat them being stacked. Um in in the Netherlands. You know, everything in the Netherlands tastes so good. It really one of the best places to eat. One of the best places to eat.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Um, yeah, you've got your I've never been there.
SPEAKER_03:Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_00:You know, all along the um canals on the bridges, you've got vendors. And so one of the things are fresh, fresh stroop waffles.
SPEAKER_03:Oh. Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_00:So literally right off the press.
SPEAKER_03:Oh, that would be good.
SPEAKER_00:They come out like they're like little waffle cookies with caramel centers.
SPEAKER_03:Oh, yeah. Well, that's one of the reasons I used to go to IKEA all the time because that was the only place I could find them in, you know, back in the day.
SPEAKER_00:Back in the day. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:And oh man. You can get them. I can get them in the grocery store now. Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Uh it's one of those things that eventually became p popular and wasn't just street folk in the Netherlands. Um, and herring.
SPEAKER_03:Right.
SPEAKER_00:And my mother used to just stand there eating herring one after the other until my father was like, uh, Emily, let's go. Come on. He would be so over it. Um, yeah, my mother was a herring hound. She used to eat herring for breakfast. Yeah. A real Swede she was. Um there was a cheese heist in Wisconsin.
SPEAKER_03:Uh-oh.
SPEAKER_00:Yep. Cheese thievery. Well, thieves made off with more than twenty thousand dollars worth of Parmazon.
SPEAKER_03:Oh. So the real thing, you mean? Yes. Yeah. Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_00:From a storage facility in Wisconsin. Oh, wow. And um the police warned residents if you've if you're offered suspiciously cheap Parmesan, please contact authorities. Yes. I mean, only in Wisconsin, right?
SPEAKER_03:Well, yeah. I mean, they they're very serious there about Parmesan. They are serious about their cheese.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. But a wheel of Parmesan cheese, of authentic Parmesan cheese, is a fortune. Yeah, it is. I mean, you know, you would think that making off with$20,000 worth of cheese would require an 18-wheeler, right?
SPEAKER_03:No, a couple guys with a backpack each. Yeah. No.
SPEAKER_00:$20,000? It would be a little more than a backpack each.
SPEAKER_03:Well, let's see, how much would a wheel of that be? Like 50 pounds, right? I mean, a big wheel of Parmesan, I think it's like 50 pounds.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, but I don't know how much one I don't know.
SPEAKER_03:That's what I'm saying. You throw it in your backpack and then you know you're off. You run off.
SPEAKER_00:Right, but I don't think you've got twenty thousand dollars.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:I don't think it's it's ten grand a wheel. Um I'm looking it up. Okay. Because I feel like I have to. Do you have a way to educate us today?
SPEAKER_03:Yes, I do. And here's something that may it's gonna take a uh I'm gonna ask a couple questions, but it may really kind of surprise you. Um it's a science thing. So let's talk about the universe is expanding. You're aware of this, right? Yes. At what speed is the universe expanding? Do you know? At what speed?
SPEAKER_00:Yes. Like miles per hour?
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Oh.
SPEAKER_03:I I don't know because it it is expanding at the speed of light. Okay. Okay. So however, that's not really that's not really how fast it's expanding.
SPEAKER_00:So it's expanding by parsec.
SPEAKER_03:No, no, I'll I'll I'll explain. Okay. If you take one point, like where we are, right here on Earth, right, the universe is expanding in every direction. Right. That means uh from one point it's expanding east and it's expanding west. So that relative to each other, it's expanding at twice the speed of light. Okay. Which is technically not something that should be able to happen, but it does. And it is all the time.
SPEAKER_00:Gosh, I feel so much smarter. I so understand that. I can totally grasp that.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, the the the universe is expanding at twice the speed of light.
SPEAKER_00:Now, is that why the thing I told you about being able to go from any two points on earth directly is the same?
SPEAKER_03:No, no, no. Okay. It also has to do with this other this uh oh man. I had it in my head and then you made me and then I was thinking of something else and I lost it. Uh, we'll come back to it.
SPEAKER_00:Oh.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, we'll have to come back to it.
SPEAKER_00:All right.
SPEAKER_03:A full wheel is expanding at twice the speed of light.
SPEAKER_00:All right. I will bear that in mind. Um a full wheel of Parmigiano Reggiano. Yeah. 80 pounds.
SPEAKER_03:Okay, 80 pounds. All right.
SPEAKER_00:$3,000. Okay. Uh approximately.
SPEAKER_03:Okay, so you're gonna need a small pickup.
SPEAKER_00:Well, it depends on well, a small pickup. So three times seven, you're gonna need seven wheels. Yeah, right? Um you need to.
SPEAKER_03:So you can roll them all right in the back of a pickup.
SPEAKER_00:Uh you can get them into a car, right?
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:Uh I'm just thinking for ease of access for each other.
SPEAKER_00:Now um, yeah, so but that de it depends entirely on how aged it is. So if it's a Parmesan or Reggiano, that's three grand. If it's a different, you know, if it's been aged, say 24 months, um, it's around 1,500.
SPEAKER_03:Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_00:All right. Uh and if it's a Roca Parmigiano, you're around 1600. So the 3,000 is for a woo full wheel of authentic, well-aged cheese.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Uh and then you're paying for high quality, you're looking at about$13 a pound. Yeah. Which is not too much. No. Okay. Not too much. So those are our cheese stories.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah. Um pretty good.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. You know, in Kentucky, this happens all the time, but this time it's really kind of happening. Okay. In a very small Kentucky town. A chicken has been registered as a write-in candidate for mayor. What's this campaign slogan, Michael? Um, a uh person in every pot. Cluck the system. Oh my goodness. All right. I love it. And residents are taking it half seriously. There are yard signs everywhere with the chicken's face and the slogan cluck the system. Oh, that's so funny. Yeah. And so it's looking like this chicken could win the popular vote. Right.
SPEAKER_03:Oh, that's awesome. And I am we know of a cat. We did a story about a cat who who's the mayor of a town.
SPEAKER_00:Yes.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Um, that actually happened.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, that did happen. It's i I think he might still be the mayor, actually.
SPEAKER_00:Like in some tiny town in the UK or something, right? Um a guy, I love this too. Um, in today is like all about animals. A dog in Chile ran onto a soccer field in the middle of the match, stole the ball and dribbled it past two defenders before someone someone was able to grab it and get it off the field. And that earned by far the loudest cheers of the game. Oh, absolutely, yes, absolutely. And local fans are campaigning, this is animals being campaigned for, to have him be signed to the team. And I think there should be dog soccer teams.
SPEAKER_03:Oh, I I agree, yeah. And the rules are I mean, we have the puppy bowl every year, right?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. Which uh please. But I think you need I think we need a soccer field fenced in and a few balls.
SPEAKER_03:Oh, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00:And then however many balls go in.
SPEAKER_03:That's right, just kill all of them.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, I agree.
SPEAKER_00:However many end up in a goal, um, you know, win.
SPEAKER_03:Absolutely. I think this is a you got a great idea here.
SPEAKER_00:I think I do. Yeah. I think I have something happening here.
SPEAKER_03:You have to get some TV people involved.
SPEAKER_00:There are these cat cafes that we've talked about before where you can go hang out and drink your latte and have a cat jump in your lap and whatever.
SPEAKER_03:Yes.
SPEAKER_00:Um, and there are lots of them in Japan. Okay. Well, I want a place you can go where there are dogs. Ah. Where there are puppies. And in particular, dochins.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, that would be great, wouldn't it?
SPEAKER_00:I've seen so many fantastic doch and puppy videos.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:And I want one, don't want one. I mean, I sort of have one. I have a velcro dog. Um, but she's not dochin Velcro.
SPEAKER_03:No.
SPEAKER_00:I mean, dochins like obsess on their owners. Yes, yeah, they really do. To the point where the owners lose their minds a little bit. I've seen that happen. Yeah, like they can't sleep because the dochin is just constantly burrowing into your neck, right, your head, your whatever.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, can't get close enough. They've got to be on the other side of you.
SPEAKER_00:And will not leave you alone. I mean, if they don't have your full focus and attention, you're gonna hear about it. You will. You will hear all this right about it. Uh this is I I got two other minor stories that I really like.
SPEAKER_03:Okay.
SPEAKER_00:A traveler at JFK, and this is a true story, people, was stopped by TSA because he had a suitcase filled entirely with garlic bulbs. Oh my god. An entire suitcase of garlic.
SPEAKER_03:Okay.
SPEAKER_00:And um the garlic farmer? No, two suitcases, um, one with regular stuff in it, one full of garlic. What do you think it was for?
SPEAKER_03:Uh vampire convention.
SPEAKER_00:Yes. Ha! He was going to a Halloween convention. This just happened this weekend in Transylvania.
SPEAKER_03:Oh, I've heard about this, yes. At Vlad's Castle.
SPEAKER_00:And they said TSA posted it on Instagram with the caption Dracula is on the no-fly list. Which I'm glad to know. I don't want Dracula sitting next to me. Oh, no, no, no. No, and what? I mean, I love garlic as much as anyone, but for Stunt, I don't want a plane, I don't want to land in Transylvania or anywhere with a suitcase that reeks of garlic.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, true. No. True. And that's a one-use suitcase.
SPEAKER_00:Right. Well, maybe not for this clown. Right. But I don't want to end up um also sitting on a plane that reeks of garlic. Yep. That reeks of anything. And one of my favorite things this week, because we live in the land of amazing events. We truly do. In Ohio, the police got a 911 call from a man who was in a drive-thru line that was too long. And he wanted the police to bring him a cheeseburger. Now, fortunately, because stuff like this happens all day and all night on emergency lines, which is horrific. Yeah, yeah, true. Um, and most of it gets hung up on and ignored, whatever, um, once they clear that it's not actually someone signaling that they're having a problem. Yeah. Um, so the cops there, wherever this was in Ohio, had enough time to show up and give this guy a citation for misuse of emergency services.
SPEAKER_03:Good. No cheeseburger for you. Right. Oh, that's very funny. No Coke, Pepsi. No coke, Pepsi. Yeah. Uh that's very I you know I remembered my other thing.
SPEAKER_00:Tell me.
SPEAKER_03:Okay, it's another science thing.
SPEAKER_00:Tell me, tell me.
SPEAKER_03:Okay. Imagine you are a photon of light. Okay. Okay. Yes. You go the speed of light. Right. That's your speed. That's fast. Yes. What when you uh as you approach the speed of light, time slows down. When you are at the speed of light, time stops completely. So if you are a photon of light that escaped during the Big Bang, and you reach Earth, you've done it the very same time it happened. Because time has stopped the whole way. For that photon of light, there is no time. It doesn't matter how far it goes, there's no time because it's going at the speed of light.
SPEAKER_00:I need for your instructions, I need a whiteboard, and I need you standing up there with a pointer.
SPEAKER_03:It's a Neil deGrasse Tyson story, by the way, yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Yes. Or Neil deGrasse Tyson standing up there in front of a whiteboard explaining it to me, which is how I learned about this thing that I can't explain.
SPEAKER_03:Right, yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Where he says, from any two points on earth, um, if you like drill a hole from any two points from any point to any other point. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:It's 90 minutes, right?
SPEAKER_00:I think that's what it is. Yeah. Um now I have to look this up. Okay. What else do you have?
SPEAKER_03:Well, that's what I have. I mean, that was two very, you know, speed of light related things there, you know.
SPEAKER_00:Well, so why I know, but I don't understand. Why are you why is it getting to Earth that makes it stand still? Time standing.
SPEAKER_03:It's not getting to Earth. It's just going at the speed of light that makes time stand still.
SPEAKER_00:Okay, but you said so when it get when you get to Earth.
SPEAKER_03:If you are a photon, right, like everything that is illuminating the sky, photons of light, they've all been, they all came from the Big Bang, and they all happened just then. Right. And they're here just that fast to them. Because there is no time between the time they started and the time they got here because they've been going the speed of light.
SPEAKER_00:I just want to cry because I just don't. This is the science. This is the science.
SPEAKER_03:The science, yeah. Show.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:No, it's it's more animals, really. We got a lot of animal stuff, really. You know.
SPEAKER_00:It is. It's science, it's animals, it's nursery rhymes.
SPEAKER_03:Animals of science. I don't know. I don't know.
SPEAKER_00:You need a um a thing for that.
SPEAKER_03:I do.
SPEAKER_00:Well, in the along along the lines that we've been on, I was thinking about now. I remember her name being Miss Jeannie. Oh, yeah. From Romper Brown. There was a Miss Louise. There was a Miss If You Know, you know. Yeah. That's what I have to say about this situation. The magic mirror.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, I think I remember Miss Jeannie. Um, I think that's who I remember. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Right. Well, there were a few different teachers. Yeah. Right.
SPEAKER_03:But do you remember the rhyme? Uh the um not no, not exactly. Not anymore.
SPEAKER_00:Romper, bumper, stomper, boo. Oh, you remembered it.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Tell me, tell me, tell me, do. Magic mirror. Tell me today. Did all my friends have fun at play? Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:Okay.
SPEAKER_00:Well, I'm looking at you all out there. Um, I see Jose Lynn. I see Ollie. I see Chuck. I see all the citizens of Provincetown.
SPEAKER_03:I see Nicholas over there.
SPEAKER_00:Cape Cod and the world, which includes Australia. And we see Nicholas over there. And Craig. And we hear James Taylor, September Grass. So for this final stunningly beautiful last day of September, please put a light on.
SPEAKER_02:But the grass is as soft as a feather in a fella. Oh. So I'll be king. It's a jumper crack. Yeah. Sweetest cut. Oh, yes. All that's all that only to crack.
SPEAKER_01:I got it. I got it. I got it. I got it. I got it.