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The Case of the Missing Toothbrush

Michael July 8, 2025


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Welcome to a summer episode of the Anne Levine Show (starring Michael-Over-There), chucking out unexpected delights, bizarre trends, and head-scratching stories from around the world for your listening Delight(?). We dive straight into the latest viral beauty craze that has dermatologists everywhere sounding alarms – a young influencer creating full face makeup looks using nothing but refrigerator condiments. From a mayonnaise base to barbecue sauce contour and mustard eyeshadow, this food-as-cosmetics trend somehow led to a sponsorship deal with a vegan aioli brand, proving that sometimes the strangest ideas find their audience.

Speaking of unusual oral care choices, KFC has partnered with an Australian brand to create fried chicken flavored toothpaste complete with biscuit-shaped caps. “For the smile that says I just kissed a bucket” – we couldn’t make this stuff up if we tried. This seamlessly connects to our medical oddity of the week: a 64-year-old man who just had surgery to remove a toothbrush he accidentally swallowed as a child and forgot about for 52 years. Plus: Anne’s intermittent accent.

From Nebraska’s “Livestock Looks” fashion show featuring cows in glittery hoof booties and sequined-tuxedo-wearing farmers, to Florida’s spinner shark that launched itself out of the water to head-butt a surfer mid-air, to Anne’s new nickname of HR Chuckin’ Stuff™,” we’ve collected the Cape summer’s most surprising headlines. We also examine the phenomenon of porch pirates leaving product reviews after stealing packages, Earth’s mysteriously accelerating rotation, and the fascinating fact that our bodies contain more bacteria than human cells – making us essentially elaborate housing for our bacterial tenants.

Join us for this eclectic journey through the weird and wonderful. And don’t forget to visit the WOMR Summer Series MONDAZE events at Wellfleet Preservation Hall on July 28th and August 25th from 5 to 7 PM. We’d love to chat about all these bizarre stories and whatever new oddities emerge by then!

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