Can't Stop Buying shirts

Prednisone is supposed to help, but what happens when it flips every switch in your body at once? We’re talking candidly about corticosteroid side effects and the real day-to-day fallout: a heart that won’t settle down, sleep that disappears, cravings that feel like a possession, and the weird emotional intensity that makes you buy “just one more” thing you do not need. If you’ve ever felt like your meds changed your personality, you’ll recognize the tension between relief and regret.

From there we slide into food anxiety with receipts. We break down the viral “bread washing” test, why some wheat bread is basically white bread with coloring, and how vague terms like natural flavors can hide a lot of processing. We also run through a list of American foods and additives restricted or banned elsewhere, including chlorine-washed chicken, ractopamine-treated pork, potassium bromate in bread, and preservative-heavy snacks. It’s not a lecture, it’s a nudge toward defensive shopping and clearer labels.

Then we let ourselves be ridiculous because the internet demanded it: yes, scientists investigated whether mayonnaise can be a musical instrument. We use that as a palate cleanser before jumping back to real life, including weight gain frustration, shout-outs, visitors arriving, a cleaner who has fully checked out, and the kind of strange news that makes you grateful you can still laugh.

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Transcript

Cold Open And Station Welcome

SPEAKER_03 0:00

Should be our worst problem.

SPEAKER_04 0:11

Where is my mind lost enough? This year to buy without a word. I had a plan to cross the world, but haven't left this island Hello.

SPEAKER_00 0:23

Welcome to the MV show. It's Tuesday, April 7th, 2026. And we are coming to you from W O M R 92.1 FM in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Joining me is Big Sexy. I'm just gonna call him Big Sexy over there. Pushing the knobs, twirling the tiles. Yeah. Michael over there.

SPEAKER_02 1:02

We're also listening to uh 91.3 FM. WFMR. Or lanes. And we're streaming worldwide at W O M R G.

SPEAKER_00 1:15

Perhaps you could tell us about our opening song here.

SPEAKER_02 1:19

It's called Spring. Which I thought would be appropriate. Today feels, you know, the last few days have been a little spring-like. A little. I like it. I'm a big fan of Ed Sheeran.

SPEAKER_00 1:38

I'm a fan of everyone, pretty much.

SPEAKER_02 1:41

Well, yeah. Yeah, I'm a fan a fan of creatives. I guess I could put it that way.

SPEAKER_00 1:47

Yeah, the non-creative singers don't do it for me so much.

SPEAKER_02 1:52

No, not me too. Me too.

SPEAKER_00 1:56

Oh. Well, I hope you all enjoyed a festive Easter weekend. Um he came back. I heard he came back again.

SPEAKER_02 2:09

Yeah, right. Um then turned right around and left.

SPEAKER_00 2:14

He comes back every year, kind of like Casey and the Sunshine Band at the Melody tent. Every year. Um, you know, I don't I don't ever have to be concern myself with whether or not Casey and the Sunshine Band or the Yachtly crew are gonna be at the Melody tent.

SPEAKER_02 2:36

Right. No, I mean, yeah, uh up to this point it's it's happening every year. Which I'm grateful for, you know. I'm really grateful for Casey and the Sunshine Band.

SPEAKER_00 2:48

Well, why didn't you play them?

SPEAKER_02 2:50

Well, because I wasn't thinking about you hadn't mentioned them, so I wasn't thinking about them in particular. You know, I was thinking about spring, so I did Ed Sheeran and Spring. You know, you know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_00 3:03

I I guess so.

Casey And The Sunshine Band Hack

SPEAKER_02 3:05

But uh Casey and the Sunshine Band got me out of a lease in an apartment.

SPEAKER_00 3:10

Well, do you tell?

SPEAKER_02 3:12

Well, I I rented a downstairs apartment from uh from a lady and uh and it was fine, but it was a little too expensive, and I needed to get out of there, and it was I was I was really really kind of isolated. I was a young man, I didn't want to be out in the middle of nowhere. So I wanted to move, and she's like, nope, can't do it, not letting you go. And I'm like, oh, okay. So I so I borrowed some stereo equipment from a friend of mine, uh and I put the speakers against the uh the wall in the basement. Right, and I put a Casey in the Sunshine Band on album on to run continually and cranked it up and went to work.

SPEAKER_00 4:03

Well, there you go.

SPEAKER_02 4:05

And she came downstairs and she turned it off. And uh, which she wasn't allowed to do. She's not allowed to go into the apartment to and you know, unless she gave me notice ahead of time. So we had a big fuss about that, and finally she said, All right, I'll let you out of here. I did that for three days.

SPEAKER_00 4:26

Well, and so it worked.

SPEAKER_02 4:28

Yeah, it worked fine.

SPEAKER_00 4:30

Well, thank you, Casey.

SPEAKER_02 4:32

That's right.

SPEAKER_00 4:33

For altering the course of history.

SPEAKER_02 4:36

And then I uh then I moved into a place with two other dudes uh about a block away from Jerry Falwell's church.

SPEAKER_00 4:42

Oh, good. Much more that was much more suited to where you were at.

SPEAKER_02 4:47

It really was, yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 4:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 4:49

Yeah, really good. Three stoners down the street from Falwell.

SPEAKER_00 4:53

Congratulations.

SPEAKER_02 4:56

Well So thank you, Casey, and the Sunshine Band. That's what I'm saying.

Prednisone Side Effects Spiral

SPEAKER_00 5:02

So um, health-wise, I'm not doing too well. Uh we'll be talking to you about that at some point. Yeah. Not today, but I have been on prednisone to try to deal with or to try to address what it is assumed to be uh inflammation in my lungs. So uh the prednisone has had just horrendous consequences.

SPEAKER_01 5:43

It's had quite an effect, hasn't it?

SPEAKER_00 5:45

It came as no surprise to me. I've been on prednisone before, but not these quantities. So when I started this uh essentially trial to see if this would help me, my first instruction was to take 80 milligrams of the water.

SPEAKER_02 6:06

Yeah, which is a which is a lot.

SPEAKER_00 6:08

Yeah, well, that night I ran into the bathroom, smashed my mirror, cutting up my hands, painted a portrait of the Mona Lisa in blood on the wall, and then ran out naked, climbed up in the apple tree, and did like a Mr. Peeper's and started throwing apples down and passing by rodents.

SPEAKER_02 6:41

I see, yes.

SPEAKER_00 6:42

Um, that's the effect it had on me.

SPEAKER_02 6:45

Right. And the next day Well, and you had a sandwich uh in your hand while you were doing it.

SPEAKER_00 6:51

Oh no, I had like a Renfare turkey leg in each hand and one between each toes.

SPEAKER_02 6:59

Yeah. Because now I was a makes you hungry.

SPEAKER_00 7:03

I was a committed ethical vegetarian up until about four months ago and or maybe six months ago, and for reasons, yeah, Thanksgiving time, for reasons that again are complicated and and relate to health. Um, I had to start eating meat again, which I know there are people out there that are are gonna say, no, no, no, you don't need to do that, blah, blah, blah. Someday I'll explain to you why I actually did need to do that.

SPEAKER_03 7:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:39

That's a whole other you don't want to hear. Trust me, you don't want to hear about that right now. Anyway, so in addition to like tearing my hair out strand by strand, right, yeah, and weaving a hammock for my voodoo doll.

SPEAKER_02 8:02

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00 8:03

Um, I can't stop eating meat. And I mean meat, like now, I'm someone that Michael would not have thought of bringing me any meat product. No one would have thought of it. You know, people I I ate fish occasionally. Um, if we were going to have dinner with other people, like at someone's house. Um, I had my ways of, you know, eating around it, or really close friends knew, okay, we gotta have some like vegetable-heavy meal um to take care of and. Anyhow, now I'm like, forget the vegetables, forget the carbs, forget it all. Just bring me a stack of meat. I can't tell you how anathema that is to me, and also to Michael, who's like, you know, in the kitchen, uh we've got another roast on the way.

SPEAKER_02 9:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 9:19

Tomorrow morning from Instacart. You know, I can't keep up with it. Anyhow, the 80 milligram thing was absolutely unsustainable.

SPEAKER_02 9:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 9:32

My resting heart rate was like 150. It's ridiculous.

SPEAKER_02 9:37

Yeah, you well, you were at least in uh aerobic territory, so somewhere around 140. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 9:42

Oh, it was terrible.

SPEAKER_02 9:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 9:44

And I didn't sleep a wink that first night. Blood sugar flying all over the place, everything just shaking the worst. So I went, the doctor immediately said, okay, go down to 20. And I did fine on 20, but I didn't notice any improvement. And so I brilliantly said, What if we try 40? Well, here's the thing with 40.

SPEAKER_02 10:15

40 gives you um all of the side effects and none of the benefits.

SPEAKER_00 10:22

Well, yes, pretty, pretty much. Yeah, it's like I'm uh well, there's two things. I can't stop eating meat, and I'm a lot of meat.

SPEAKER_01 10:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 10:37

Also, or just anything. I ate a salad in bed last night at three o'clock in the morning.

unknown 10:46

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 10:47

Before we before we went to bed, it was prepared well ahead of time.

SPEAKER_00 10:51

I said to Michael, I know this sounds really weird, but could you put a salad on my nightstand? Yeah. Um, but that's hardly the only thing I ate last night.

SPEAKER_02 11:02

No, but and and at least it's not meat.

SPEAKER_00 11:05

Well, you know, yeah. I mean, I did have a carb freak out last night. Um, I'm I'm not proud, but hey, I'm saying it like it is.

SPEAKER_02 11:17

Well, yeah, I mean, that's the kind of person you are, really.

The Striped Shirt Buying Compulsion

SPEAKER_00 11:20

But then there's this other thing that happened, which is that I and I said to Michael the other day, as I had just clicked buy B-U-Y on something.

SPEAKER_02 11:35

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00 11:36

You can't stop buying shirts. And it's true. I can't.

SPEAKER_02 11:45

No, you are stuck in a thing. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 11:48

Well, I'm stuck in a thing, and I also know why. I'm a little more than a little obsessed by shirts, and and I want like a different shirt on every day.

SPEAKER_01 12:01

Okay, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 12:02

And something happened to me sometime in the last year, which has made the shirt thing kind of hilarious. I can't any longer deal with wearing any prints unless it's something really. It's gotta be subtle and symmetrical, or it's gotta just flat out be stripes. And so pretty much every shirt I have now is striped, and different colors, different fabrics, different whatever, but a solid color for me doesn't work really well. At least I don't what do you think?

SPEAKER_02 12:57

Well, I mean I no.

SPEAKER_00 13:03

Right. So Michael means no. Yeah. So I I but then I'm not like gonna put on something that's like a floral print or what are they a heritage print, you know, like fake Hermes or real Hermes for that matter. I just want colors. I want more than one color on my shirt, and I want it to be straight lines. So anyway, you open my closet now, and it's like a freaking circus, backstage circus costume rack. It's just like this kaleidoscope of every color of stripes you can imagine. So um, and I am not stopping now, by the way. Okay, the other problem I'm having is graphic tees. And this is a huge problem that Michael has.

SPEAKER_02 14:11

Yeah, it's kind of a problem, yeah, for me.

SPEAKER_00 14:13

Um, and I feel like I I don't feel comfortable, I don't feel myself like throwing on a graphic tee and going about my day if I'm leaving the house, you know, or people are I'm seeing people. I don't feel good in a graphic tee.

SPEAKER_02 14:36

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00 14:37

Um, but I sure like these other shirts.

SPEAKER_02 14:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 14:42

So there's another one on the way. I can't wait to see it. Um, and and then there's this whole thing now, and I've talked to some of my friends about this, where like spring and summer, all this everything is spring and summer now. All the ads, all the catalogs, right? So I'm already in my head, I'm like, now wait a second, this particular shirt that I'm wearing right now, which I've got to say is pretty cool, it's from anthropology, it's it's blue and white stripes um in the body, and then the same blue, but with some sort of mustard stripes on the sleeves. I love a mixed stripe. Yeah. Have I told you, fashionistas out there, that a mixed stripe is the be-all and end all?

SPEAKER_02 15:46

That's it, huh?

SPEAKER_00 15:47

And you gotta look for them. When you find a shirt or an anything that's got one stripe, say on the sleeves, and then a different thing in the body, or vice versa, or maybe sometimes you can find one where there's half that's one stripe, and then the other half is a subtle play on that. Okay, yeah. Uh, that to me is the ultimate. That's what I'm looking for. So that's how I end up in these anthropology shirts, because you put in mixed stripe, and they're like, Yeah, we got that, we got something for you. Just hand over the credit card. Yeah. You're all you're all set. Oh my god. Um so many things, so many things to discuss with you. Now, speaking of shirts, yeah, I can't stop buying them. Right. I can't stop buying them for myself or for Michael because you know, that's how I do. And I there's a shirt I bought for Michael. When was it, Michael?

SPEAKER_02 17:07

Uh I don't know. What shirt are you talking about?

SPEAKER_00 17:10

Your favorite shirt, your Thomas Pink.

SPEAKER_02 17:14

Oh, it's been several years ago.

SPEAKER_00 17:16

Well, it's gotta be more like 10.

SPEAKER_02 17:19

Yeah, about 10 years ago, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 17:20

And you were a larger size.

SPEAKER_02 17:23

Exactly.

SPEAKER_00 17:24

And the shirt does not fit you anymore.

SPEAKER_02 17:26

Nope.

SPEAKER_00 17:27

And I have been looking everywhere to find the shirt. It's a Thomas Pink German Street. It was a limited collection, really unusual. Um Thomas Pink makes the most incredible shirts.

SPEAKER_02 17:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 17:48

Uh, and I'm not exactly certain why I splurged on this particular shirt and ordered it from you, for you from London. Or it may have been from there, might have been a store like Mr. What the heck is the name of that store in LA? I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 18:10

Mr. Close.

SPEAKER_00 18:13

No, it's something really stupid. It's like Mr. Dapper or something. Oh, okay. Yeah. At any rate, um, I I found it. I was like, oh my gosh, I think Michael would love this, and lo and behold, it turned out to be your favorite shirt. And since you told me, I don't know when, sometime in the last year, that it's too big for you and you're really sad about it because it was your favorite shirt.

SPEAKER_02 18:43

I have been You've been looking, I had no idea you were on the hunt.

SPEAKER_00 18:48

The hunt, you could call it the hunt. I have like 300 different alerts that I get.

SPEAKER_02 18:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 18:58

Because there are so many different ways of describing this shirt.

SPEAKER_02 19:02

Right, yeah, I got you.

SPEAKER_00 19:03

Um and so I'm constantly getting, we found your on eBay, on Vestair, on Poshmark, yeah, on all these different sites. I'm I'm looking at all of Europe. Um trying to find one. I found one other one, but it was also a double X, uh, which is the size you have that's way too big. Yeah. So but at least I knew it exists because I was starting to feel a little cuckoo. Anyhow.

SPEAKER_02 19:41

Um shirts. Shirts, yeah. Buy them or not, you know. I mean, you you you you you might you might be addicted.

SPEAKER_00 19:50

We need to get that, we need to get the sound clip from the great Gadsby, the uh the original, the Robert Redford, and Mia Farrow, who plays Daisy, comes in and opens his armoire or his chest. I I don't remember exactly what if it was a drawer, and she pulls out all the shirts, and she's sort of on the bed with all the shirts and saying, Oh, all the shirts, all the shirts. Do you have any idea what I'm talking about?

SPEAKER_02 20:32

No, I mean I I'm gonna guess it's about all the shirts.

SPEAKER_00 20:37

Okay. Well, you are one live wire today, I gotta say.

SPEAKER_02 20:41

Oh, whoo, good to know.

SPEAKER_00 20:43

Yeah, big big sexy and in quiet mode.

Fake Wheat Bread And Food Additives

SPEAKER_00 20:47

Um so there's stuff that's been going on with food that I've been reading about. And it's scary. Uh some of it's funny, some most of it's just scary. Creepy American weird.

SPEAKER_02 21:07

Well, I've got I've got a food thing for you too, but we'll go with it. No, we'll do yours first because you're talking about scary foods, and I'm not. Well, I mean, maybe not.

SPEAKER_00 21:21

Maybe not.

SPEAKER_02 21:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 21:25

Okay, I don't know what that is.

SPEAKER_02 21:27

I know. I know, but you it will become clear.

unknown 21:32

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 21:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 21:34

Um, so anyhow. All right, there's a brand called Nature's Own Wheat Bread. It's really common.

SPEAKER_02 21:45

Yeah, I've I've seen it around. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 21:48

And it's a big loaf of what looks to be sliced wheat bread.

SPEAKER_01 21:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 21:57

Okay, so. Turns out that you do this bread washing test with it.

SPEAKER_02 22:08

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00 22:09

I've seen it done a million times now. Really? It's colored bread? Exactly. And you take a slice of it, you hold it. Oh man. You hold it under some water, squeeze it out, do it again, turns white.

SPEAKER_02 22:26

No way. Turns white. That is disgusting.

SPEAKER_00 22:32

Okay. Uh I think that.

SPEAKER_02 22:35

That is so wrong.

SPEAKER_00 22:38

And so.

SPEAKER_02 22:42

But it does explain why you can look at the labels on so-called wheat bread in the store, and nutritionally it's no different from the white bread.

SPEAKER_00 22:52

Well, and in some cases it's worse because they use this caramel coloring.

SPEAKER_02 22:59

Right, right.

SPEAKER_00 23:01

Oh man, that's which has all kinds of. The other thing I learned is that if something says natural flavors, bag it.

SPEAKER_02 23:11

Yeah, it does not mean it's the flavor of the thing you're you're looking at for one.

SPEAKER_00 23:17

I saw a guy like doing a whole yogurt thing, uh-huh. Like in a bodega, and just taking yogurt off the shelf and saying, okay, so here's your Yo play. And it's got 25 milligrams of sugar in this little Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 23:37

Insane. And it weighs 30 milligrams, by the way.

SPEAKER_00 23:42

Right. And it's got this, that, the other, all this stuff, stabilizers, chemicals. And he finally gets to Siggy's yogurt.

SPEAKER_02 23:53

Oh, yeah. The uh is that Icelandic or something?

SPEAKER_00 23:56

Something like that. Two grams of sugar.

SPEAKER_02 24:00

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 24:01

You know, like reasonable.

SPEAKER_02 24:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 24:04

We don't all have to be jacked up on sugar all the time. Apparently. But I mean, eating sugar free in quotes is pretty bad for us for the most part.

SPEAKER_02 24:19

Well, I mean, your our brains run on glucose.

SPEAKER_00 24:23

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 24:24

So but we are artificially sugar free and and live. You know, completely.

SPEAKER_00 24:35

However Well, that's not. We're talking about refined, I'm talking about refined cane sugar and corn syrup. All this awful stuff that's you can absolutely live without any of that.

SPEAKER_02 24:48

You sure can.

SPEAKER_00 24:50

Uh so now there are 60 well let me let me go back here a little bit.

SPEAKER_01 25:01

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 25:02

There are a lot of American foods that are banned or restricted all over the world.

SPEAKER_02 25:12

Yeah, yep.

SPEAKER_00 25:14

One, and uh this list freaks me out because I eat some of this stuff. Chlorine washed chicken.

SPEAKER_02 25:26

Oh, that sounds awful.

SPEAKER_00 25:28

Has been banned in the EU since 1996. Is that what we are we getting bleached chicken? Those rotisserie chickens. Yeah. They're chlorine washed. Yep, and it's used to mask poor farming conditions. So, I mean, for every reason, that one's gotta go.

SPEAKER_02 25:53

Yeah, I agree. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 25:55

Then there's ractopamine treated pork.

SPEAKER_02 26:01

Okay, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 26:02

Over 160 countries, including China and Russia, banned pork from our pigs.

SPEAKER_02 26:10

Right, because we're jacking them up to make them uh bigger and have less fat.

SPEAKER_00 26:15

It's a muscle growth additive.

SPEAKER_02 26:17

Yeah, that is so messed up.

SPEAKER_00 26:20

Mountain dew.

SPEAKER_02 26:22

Mountain dew, yeah. Yes. Yeah, oh my god. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 26:26

Contains bromited vegetable oil, BVO, which is a flame retardant. Banned in Japan and the EU.

SPEAKER_02 26:40

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 26:41

Um, a lot of our bread, potassium bromate bread and buns used in many U.S. breads. It's an additive link to cancer, banned in the EU, Canada, and China. Insane. Hormone beef milk. Um, so any any milk like dairy, you know, from cat cows um treated with growth hormones.

SPEAKER_02 27:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 27:09

And then there are the preservative heavy snacks.

SPEAKER_02 27:14

Uh well, that's all of them. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_00 27:16

Well, products with BHA.

SPEAKER_02 27:18

Yeah, BHA, BHT.

SPEAKER_00 27:21

Right.

SPEAKER_02 27:22

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 27:22

Um, so for instance, Red 40 and Twankies, uh-huh. Restricted and banned in several European nations. And then here's one that you might find to be a bit of a shocker. Ritz crackers are sold with different formulations in Europe because the ones we eat here have too much hydrogenated oil.

SPEAKER_02 27:56

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_00 27:58

So what the heck?

SPEAKER_02 28:01

Yeah, yeah. And well, you you know what? Uh, if if you go to a subway uh store in the UK, right, they cannot call their bread bread. Yeah, I know. It has too much sugar. So it has to be classified as cake in the UK.

SPEAKER_00 28:23

You know, I have a friend who um this is about a year ago, who went to Italy for a month to work. And he came back and and was sending posts about, oh, look at this food, look at this bowl of pasto, look at this cannoli, look at just all these like food porn pecs all over social media, comes back, gets on the scale, and he lost 10 pounds.

SPEAKER_02 29:05

Oh my goodness, isn't that something?

SPEAKER_00 29:08

And I'm and in France, oh no, in Italy.

SPEAKER_02 29:12

Okay, yeah, wow.

SPEAKER_00 29:14

I mean, you get rid of a bunch of this garbage, you can eat whatever the heck you want. Yeah, you just have to make better choices. And listening, listen to me lecturing, I'm lecturing myself, yeah, essentially, because what I really want right now is meat or an entire rotisserie chicken.

SPEAKER_02 29:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 29:40

Um, oh God, Michael, I have another sad thing about this to tell you.

SPEAKER_03 29:45

Oh no.

SPEAKER_00 29:47

Now, I have to confirm this one. I'm not a hundred percent certain. I only saw one little AI thing about this.

SPEAKER_01 29:56

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 29:57

But prepared salads and salad kits.

SPEAKER_02 30:01

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 30:02

They say that those that the the greens in those are chlorine soaked to keep them um having a more stable shelf life. Um, basically, folks, I know you all know this already, but you're on your own in this country. You've got to do defensive shopping, defensive eating.

SPEAKER_02 30:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 30:33

Yeah. So, Michael, what were you gonna tell us about food?

Can Mayonnaise Count As Music

SPEAKER_02 30:37

Okay. Um, about twenty-five years ago, a question was asked on the uh on the cartoon SpongeBob SquarePants. Is mayonnaise or can mayonnaise be a musical instrument?

SPEAKER_00 30:59

Could could it be or is it?

SPEAKER_02 31:02

I what exactly that's the question. Patrick Starr asked this question. Okay. Right? Well, the question has been answered. Okay. Uh let's see, Dr. Rachel Durkin, head of global music technologies at Northumbria University, and her team of experts decided to see if scientifically mayonnaise could be considered an instrument.

SPEAKER_00 31:33

All right.

SPEAKER_02 31:35

And, you know, it's been an internet meme ever since. Did not. You know, Patrick said something about that. So to come right out with it, uh, yeah, mayonnaise can function as an instrument and in particular a quite versatile instrument. Um, they found out that there are, you know, different ways of of like tapping on the like a jar of mayonnaise or whatever, you get different frequencies.

SPEAKER_00 32:08

Okay, just stop right there. Okay. Yes. Okay, you know, remember we discussed last week that it's a come to Jesus time for you. Now, Jesus was just here.

SPEAKER_02 32:24

Hey, I'm not the people at this at this university who decided to be a good thing.

SPEAKER_00 32:28

You're the person, you're the person repeating it all and saying how fabulous, fascinating, fun this is.

SPEAKER_02 32:37

Well, hey, it's it can be technically a musical instrument.

SPEAKER_00 32:44

Okay. What okay, let me ask you a different question. What cannot technically be considered a musical instrument?

SPEAKER_02 32:55

That is a very good question. I don't know. We would have to ask these guys in Newcastle about that.

SPEAKER_00 33:01

I'm not asking these guys anything. I think they're losers. I think they just hate mayonnaise. Or maybe they're obsessed by mayonnaise and they want to have as much of it around as possible.

SPEAKER_02 33:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 33:15

Um, but the fact that you have glommed onto the story kills me. It's a good story. Because except it's a good story, except I think it needs to be expanded to point out that truly anything can be a musical instrument.

SPEAKER_02 33:40

Well, I mean, there's a lot more experimentation that has to go on to determine that, I would think. Why?

SPEAKER_00 33:46

Well, because experimentation.

SPEAKER_02 33:49

You would have to start using everything as a musical instrument to see if it could be.

SPEAKER_00 33:53

There's no question. One of my favorite things is about um Adele. Rumor has it, and there's this deep kick drum that starts in the beginning of that. That's what it sounds like.

SPEAKER_02 34:09

Right.

SPEAKER_00 34:10

It's actually a recording of Adele kicking a stair in anger with her foot.

SPEAKER_02 34:19

I see.

SPEAKER_00 34:21

So, you know, if Adele's shoe can be an instrument, I think we can anything can be an instrument.

SPEAKER_02 34:30

Well, you know, that's a that's an interesting question right there. Is it Adele's shoe that is the instrument? Or what's it? Or the stair. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 34:37

Well, let's say, you know, is it the drumstick or the drum?

SPEAKER_02 34:42

Ah, well, that is a very good question.

SPEAKER_00 34:47

Yeah, well, it it they go hand in hand.

SPEAKER_02 34:49

I think it is the drum, actually.

SPEAKER_00 34:51

But uh Well, what if you use brushes? Well, yeah, it's still totally different sound.

SPEAKER_02 34:58

Gonna sound different because you're using something different on the same instrument.

SPEAKER_00 35:04

God in Himmel, save me from this perseverating. Ugh.

SPEAKER_02 35:10

Well, hey, you know, it's about food.

SPEAKER_00 35:13

Jesus might still be around. You know, he just he just he just rose again.

SPEAKER_02 35:20

Yeah, but right like three days later he's gone, right?

SPEAKER_00 35:24

But it it it hasn't been three days.

SPEAKER_02 35:26

So Well, isn't today the third day?

SPEAKER_00 35:30

No. Sunday, Monday, Sunday to Monday, one, no, this is the second day. So it probably is still around. You have one day to get yourself straight with Jesus. Okay? One day. Uh-huh. And I I'm gonna recommend that as soon as possible, as soon as we get off the air, you begin a midnight vigil or a 1 a.m. vigil, it'll be. Um, and and work on some of these issues. Um I'm just saying, it's just a thought, honey.

SPEAKER_02 36:13

Right.

SPEAKER_00 36:13

I don't know. I don't know nothing.

SPEAKER_02 36:15

I know I don't know. Also, no, nothing.

SPEAKER_00 36:18

I

Weight Gain And Medication Frustration

SPEAKER_00 36:19

know that I have gained a solid 10 pounds on one month of prednisone, and I've gotta say, I'm pretty angry about it.

SPEAKER_01 36:29

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00 36:30

It just doesn't seem fair um to be uh, you know, having a health crises and your medicine is making you sicker. Now, before everyone writes to me and tells me uh uh, you know, their story, I know, I know, I know. I've been through this a million times.

SPEAKER_03 36:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 36:58

Where the cure is worse than the disease. But gosh, this is frustrating.

SPEAKER_01 37:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 37:07

And I want these 10 pounds off. I keep thinking if I just stop taking the prognosis, these pounds are gonna fall off magically. Yeah, that's that's not what's gonna happen.

SPEAKER_02 37:19

It's not how that works, really.

SPEAKER_00 37:20

Yeah, no, and I know that the doctor that I'm going to on Thursday is gonna kick my butt about this. Um, and probably put me on some other horrible drug to I never mind.

SPEAKER_01 37:42

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 37:42

Um,

Birthdays, Visitors, And Appointment Chaos

SPEAKER_00 37:43

I have neglected to do some shout-outs.

SPEAKER_02 37:50

Okay, yeah, yeah. Shout-outs. Oh yeah. You kind of we have kind of forgotten somebody, didn't you?

SPEAKER_00 37:57

And it's not not for not having thought about it, just for being a bit distracted to say the least.

SPEAKER_02 38:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 38:05

But Artemis Buffington. Happy birthday. Yeah. We love you so much. We we truly do. Oh, good. That's really good. Yeah, Michael gave you some applause right on. Well deserved, well-earned. Um, and another one that I'm gonna mention that's coming up, but I don't want to forget it, is Jose Lynn. Oh, yeah. Who thank you, Michael. That's that's so uh organic. Yeah, he he might have some um news to share with us. We might be breaking some news about Jose Lynnwolf.

SPEAKER_02 38:57

Oh, okay, all right. That'd be good. Yeah. I've been wondering what's going on with that guy.

SPEAKER_00 39:02

Well, get on the uh the old text machine there and see what you can find.

SPEAKER_02 39:09

Okay, I'm gonna find out something.

SPEAKER_00 39:11

Uh what else was I gonna say?

SPEAKER_02 39:16

I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 39:17

Oh god, this week. Okay. A lot of you enjoyed hearing John Baker, Silver Lake, on the show.

SPEAKER_01 39:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 39:30

Was it it was the week before last. Well, or two weeks ago. John Baker, Silver Lake is on his way back to town.

SPEAKER_01 39:41

Yeah, he's gonna be uh gonna be well back here coming up here.

SPEAKER_00 39:45

And as he refers to himself, I'm a publicity whore. Those are his words.

SPEAKER_02 39:53

Yeah, right. And nobody be uh, you know, don't get the lawyers involved or anything. We didn't say that. Those are his words.

SPEAKER_00 40:00

Far be it from me to deny him a microphone at my table.

SPEAKER_02 40:05

I guess that's true.

SPEAKER_00 40:07

Uh so he and his partner are coming back for an extended visit to help us do a bunch of stuff in the house. And also one of my best oldest friends from who lives in England now is coming. Are they all getting here Thursday?

SPEAKER_02 40:31

Uh maybe.

SPEAKER_00 40:33

Oh no, wait, Wednesday eighth.

SPEAKER_02 40:35

That's Wednesday.

SPEAKER_00 40:36

Oh my gosh. He's getting here Wednesday. Okay, yeah, and everybody else they're getting here Thursday, and then you and I have nine doctors' appointments on Thursday.

SPEAKER_02 40:47

Right, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 40:49

And that's not really much of an exaggeration. No, you've got a surgeon, you've got a dentist, I've got a cardiologist, I've got a visiting nurse.

SPEAKER_02 41:04

Yeah. Uh we got a it is a bunch of stuff, so we've got so many people.

SPEAKER_00 41:09

Does anyone

The Cleaner Who Barely Cleans

SPEAKER_00 41:10

out there know anyone who cleans just a decent person? Yeah, like in the dentist, uh, you know, well, anywhere in Cape Cod.

SPEAKER_02 41:20

Right.

SPEAKER_00 41:21

Well, uh, yeah, but not like you know, so we have this quote cleaner, and uh these are big quotes.

SPEAKER_02 41:30

Yeah, they're doing a lot of lifting.

SPEAKER_00 41:32

Yeah. Uh she has gone from being a fantastic cleaner to however many years later, she walks in, she drags a swiffer around, the same two places every time she comes in, she runs the vacuum, she rolls her eyes, and she leaves. And that is so accurate.

SPEAKER_02 42:03

That's the funniest part. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 42:05

And Michael and I can count on the fact. So she's supposed to come here twice a week for short visits because we have a lot of turnover with guests and visitors and so on. So what I generally have her do is she'll she'll come in and I say, can you please, you know, flip that room, change the sheets, change the shower, the the towels, and you know, just give a go-round with the Swiffer in the vacuum um in some other section of the house.

SPEAKER_02 42:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 42:46

Uh, but Michael and I know we can count, she can be counted on, not for much, but for this, that at least two or three times a month we are going to get a text from her on the day, some usually maybe two hours from when we're expecting her to walk in. Yeah, yeah, that's that one of two things has happened. Either something's gone bonkers with her brand new Volvo, or her dog's foot hurts.

SPEAKER_02 43:29

Right, it's gonna be something dog or car related. Yep. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 43:34

And so sure enough, I was thinking this morning, I woke up, okay, good, she's coming. She can take care of the room upstairs because Peter will be getting here on Wednesday, right? And then John and Sue on Thursday. And I want her in here before any of those people get here. And she says, I I can't come today. My dog was limping last night and now he won't stand up.

SPEAKER_02 44:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 44:09

Now this happens to her dog all the time.

SPEAKER_02 44:15

Yeah, well, he's uh he's delicate. He's uh he's a very delicate uh golden.

SPEAKER_00 44:21

Yeah, she's a delicate golden.

SPEAKER_02 44:24

Yeah, I think that's I think that's more of it, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 44:27

And I mean, here's the thing is she now has moved in with her boyfriend's family. So she's got her boyfriend and his parents in some big ass McMansion in Watertown, but nobody to the mother takes the dog to the dog park every week. She now drives to the Cape, she's got a house in Falmouth, she's pretty much just abandoned it. She drives to the Cape now to like see a couple clients, and it's very begrudging. Yeah, very begrudging. Yeah, so and she's checked out. So if anyone else, you know, get in touch with us, levineradio at gmail.com.

SPEAKER_02 45:27

You can do that.

SPEAKER_00 45:28

Anxious for a cleaner. And just someone decent, just a good person who d does their job.

SPEAKER_02 45:40

Um I have one more story for uh Oh, tell me. Yeah. Um I don't think I mean we're we got 15 minutes left, I guess, or something like that. But uh here's a all right, this is a good

Stuffed Turnip Dropped From Near Space

SPEAKER_02 45:54

one. Not food related, alright? Okay, okay. A company, a British tech company, has decided they wanted to go for a world record of some kind, and they did something very odd. They took uh a stuffed animal. Emmy. A nine-ounce yellow green creature that looks kind of like a like a turnip with an eye patch.

SPEAKER_03 46:28

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 46:29

I guess. And they took it up into the sky over Kingston, New York.

SPEAKER_00 46:35

Well, okay, now just wait a second. They took it up into the sky. What does that mean? I will tell you in a moment.

SPEAKER_02 46:42

All right. One thousand one hundred and six one hundred and sixteen thousand four hundred and nineteen feet over Kingston, New York via a high-altitude balloon. Okay. And then the balloon popped.

SPEAKER_03 47:00

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_02 47:01

And they waited to see what would happen to the turnip. With toy as she fell. Uh-huh. Who? You're Emmy, E M-Y is the.

SPEAKER_00 47:12

Oh, and it's and we're giving a gender assignment now. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 47:16

Yeah, I don't know if it's a guy or a girl, but uh, yeah, I'm whatever it is. It's well, no, it does say her return trip here. Okay. Anyway. Some observers thought, okay, she's gonna get burned up on the way back in, because that's what happens when you re-enter the atmosphere.

SPEAKER_00 47:35

Yeah, but what were what are we, a thousand feet?

SPEAKER_02 47:38

No, a hundred and sixteen thousand, almost a hundred and seventeen thousand feet.

SPEAKER_00 47:43

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_02 47:44

This is way up there. And it she will have to come back through the atmosphere.

SPEAKER_00 47:49

Now, this thing is a nine-ounce stuff. A nine-ounce stuffed toy.

SPEAKER_02 47:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 47:56

Okay. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 47:58

But she didn't incinerate what happened because she freeze. The density of the thing is low. The speed wasn't fast. And so she fell right on down and right on through, and then hit the ground and kind of, you know, bounced off.

SPEAKER_00 48:19

So I have a couple questions. Let's start with this. This is interesting to us why.

SPEAKER_02 48:28

Uh because it's something people did.

SPEAKER_00 48:38

Yeah, see, every day the eight and a half billion of us people on this planet do stuff. I don't find the vast majority of it interesting.

SPEAKER_02 48:53

This I I know obviously this is a uh a publicity stunt. For what? For a company named Raspberry Circle, which uh uh originally developed Emmy as an AI compan companion. What does that mean? There's a lot of those online. There, you know, uh chat bots that you can talk to.

SPEAKER_00 49:15

Oh, I see what you're saying. For humans.

SPEAKER_02 49:18

Right.

SPEAKER_00 49:19

So more weddings in the future.

SPEAKER_02 49:22

I guess, yeah, or something. I I don't know. Yeah, if you want to marry a turnip. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 49:28

And there are there are those.

SPEAKER_02 49:30

But uh but that's yeah, that's originally where the character came from. So I'm and so they made a stuffed animal and dropped it from space. Well. And it landed just fine.

SPEAKER_00 49:45

There are, you know, uh speaking of interesting things people are doing. Uh-huh. Um, how about the Artemis?

SPEAKER_02 49:54

Uh, we're going to the moon again.

SPEAKER_00 49:57

Yeah. I mean, if you wanted to talk about interesting things going on in space, I would think that might have been at the top of your list. I don't know. I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 50:08

I mean, that kind of makes sense, but you know, there's someone dropping a stuffed turnip with an eye patch. Yeah. That's a thing.

SPEAKER_00 50:22

I I got a I got a Facebook message from someone. It's a meme. It says, friends come and go like waves of the ocean, but the true ones stick like an octopus on your face. Well, kind of. Yeah, I think that's probably true. Well, I don't know how to take that. I'm not it and it's not from someone that I I know that well. I mean, we like brushed past each other in college several times a million years ago. Um, and suddenly I got this.

SPEAKER_02 51:02

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00 51:03

Well, I just don't quite get it. I I don't quite understand what to make of it.

SPEAKER_02 51:09

Well, you know, the real friends hang on. That's all.

SPEAKER_00 51:12

Like an octopus on your face.

SPEAKER_02 51:15

Yeah. You can't get them off.

SPEAKER_00 51:18

Can't get around it. Can't go through. How did that go? Going on a bear hunt.

SPEAKER_02 51:25

Uh can't go over it, can't go under it, can't go around it.

SPEAKER_00 51:28

Gotta go through it.

SPEAKER_02 51:30

Yeah, that's it.

SPEAKER_00 51:31

Wow. Those were the days when you had songs like that. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_02 51:40

Those are very very song-like. Hey, here's another fun thing, all right?

SPEAKER_00 51:44

Yep.

Disney Robot Chaos And Shirt Lore

SPEAKER_00 51:45

Oh, I can't wait.

SPEAKER_02 51:46

Disney Tokyo. Who? Disney. Oh. Disney Tokyo. They've got a um when you go you know wandering through Disneyland, there's all kinds of things happening uh around you on the ground, but there are also things happening up in the buildings. Uh-huh. And quite often you'll look in a window and you'll see a character peeking out of it or something. Uh-huh. Usually these are robots as a punzel. Yes. And there was a Rapunzel.

SPEAKER_00 52:18

Are you kidding?

unknown 52:19

No.

SPEAKER_00 52:20

I guess that.

SPEAKER_02 52:21

Not even kidding, yeah. In uh Rapunzel's Forest. I guess something in Tokyo's uh Disney Sea amusement park. She's leaning out a window, she's singing a song, and two ravens come up and start pulling out all of her hair. There's video of it. It is absolutely hilarious. They're tearing the hair right out of her.

SPEAKER_00 52:53

Well, see, I think they're on prednisone.

SPEAKER_02 52:55

It's quite it's quite possible. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 52:58

That's what it sounds like to me.

SPEAKER_02 52:59

You know what? I think you figured it all out.

SPEAKER_00 53:02

I think I did. I think I figured out the whole thing. Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_02 53:06

You know what?

SPEAKER_00 53:07

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 53:07

I've been telling you, we have to talk to people about the the show Pleurus.

SPEAKER_00 53:12

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 53:13

Um, and because we're gonna re-watch it, I think Michael. Now I'm thinking that prednisone has something to do with it. With what? With the whole with with that whole thing, with pleuribus. It's prednisone based. What is the whole premise of pleuribus?

SPEAKER_00 53:31

Uh okay.

SPEAKER_02 53:32

It's got people doing all kinds of things.

SPEAKER_00 53:34

Well, it sure does.

SPEAKER_02 53:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 53:36

Eating meat. Eating meat. Like talking to people, buying shirts, buying shirts and stuff.

SPEAKER_02 53:44

Oh yeah, that's crazy. Out of control shirt buying. Absolutely nuts. Yeah, we can't. We gotta do something about that.

SPEAKER_00 53:51

I know. Uh I Silver, speaking of shirts and buying shirts, Silver Lake. Okay. This is something I so relate to. He passed by. Um, for those of you who know or don't know, J Press is a major shirt maker. Well, clothing maker, but major high quality. Um, the label's been around forever, high standards. You can count on a J Press garment.

SPEAKER_02 54:30

Okay. I don't know about them, so yeah.

SPEAKER_00 54:32

Well, that's good because I'm not even gonna tell you the price of a J Press shirt.

SPEAKER_02 54:37

Ah, okay.

SPEAKER_00 54:38

At any rate, uh he passed by at some point. There was this J Press shirt that he fell in love with. It was wide stripes, vertical stripes. Now, when I say wide, I don't mean like super wide, but wider than your classic shirt. No, yeah, no, and pink and white.

SPEAKER_01 55:07

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 55:08

Um a nice sort of soft pink. He has been chasing that shirt for years. Uh-huh. Now, here's the problem. I am now chasing that shirt.

SPEAKER_02 55:25

Well, yeah, that that would be the problem.

SPEAKER_00 55:27

Because of course I'm determined. Aha! I found it.

SPEAKER_02 55:31

Right.

SPEAKER_00 55:32

You know, that that will be me.

SPEAKER_02 55:34

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 55:34

Or he'll get here on Thursday and surprise it'll be on his bed or whatever.

SPEAKER_03 55:42

Right.

SPEAKER_00 55:43

Um, which won't be made because of the freaking cleaner. But anyway, um the I passed by a coach in 1985, I think it was.

SPEAKER_02 56:06

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 56:06

That has haunted me to this day.

SPEAKER_02 56:10

Oh.

SPEAKER_00 56:11

And I've been thinking since I've been parting up, parting with a lot of stuff, like divvying up Oh, what what what is this?

SPEAKER_02 56:24

This would be the the song ending the show.

SPEAKER_00 56:27

Yeah, I'm aware, but which song?

SPEAKER_02 56:29

It's called Good Dogs and Sad Songs.

SPEAKER_00 56:33

Aw, who does this song?

SPEAKER_02 56:34

Uh Ian Munsik is his name.

SPEAKER_00 56:38

Well, this is certainly sweet. Uh what was I saying?

SPEAKER_02 56:46

You're talking about shirts.

SPEAKER_00 56:48

I know, but specifically, do you have any recall?

SPEAKER_02 56:52

Uh no, because I was over here pushing some buttons. Total no recall is the name of this film.

SPEAKER_00 57:00

Alright. Uh,

Closing Thanks And Donation Ask

SPEAKER_00 57:03

this brings us to the end of the Anne Levine Show for April 7th.

SPEAKER_02 57:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 57:08

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