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And we're getting going. Good morning. Happy that you're joining us once again, friend. Let's take a look at that weather forecast. As you may have heard, milder temperatures today, and that is what we are getting. A high of about 50, so it's going to feel pretty comfortable, but

We are going to have 20-mile-an-hour winds, 25-mile-an-hour gusts here and there. So the breeze is going to keep it a little cooler than it actually is, or at least feel that way. Tomorrow, sunshine high of about 43. Now, Friday, we do have some rain coming into the air, which apparently we need. And the temperature is still mild, high of about 51. Then we cool off leading into the weekend, topping out with sunshine on Saturday. 38 degrees are high there. We're going to look at the low.

Preston and Steve's News Update with Kathy Romano. Tonight's day is Wednesday, January 29th. Good morning, Kathy. Good morning. In the news this morning, an 18-year-old man died Tuesday after he fell from a light pole during celebrations after the Eagles' NFC Championship win over the weekend. Tyler Sepapet.

A first-year Temple University student fell from high up on a light pole onto the concrete sidewalk flat on his back and hitting his head. The tragedy happened Sunday night at 15th and Market Streets in Center City. He was taken to Jefferson Hospital with a brain injury and pronounced dead two days later.

Sabapathy was a native of Toronto, Canada, was majoring in exercise and sports science and was a member of the university's club gymnastics team. Grief counselors will be available for students and staff. Philadelphia police had an internal briefing Tuesday to review Sunday's response and discuss what strategies they will use during the next possible celebration, which could be in just two weeks. The city won't say if they grease the polls on Sunday, adding that they don't want to release public safety tactics.

Authorities are also still investigating numerous reports of other injuries from throughout the night on Sunday, including shootings, a stabbing and assault on police officers. I mean, there is footage of the guy. I mean, it was like he's in the Middle East, like he's firing his pistol in the air. I know. Like three shots in the air. I'm like...

You know, what was the car that drove into the crowd? I missed who she was, what the reasoning was for all that. Yeah, I just saw the quick headline. I didn't see the full details on that story either. It didn't seem malicious. It seemed like she effed up and went through a round of barricade or whatever. But she ended up in the crowd and then panicked. Yeah, that was... I think like three or four people were... No, 20 people were injured. 20, okay. Yeah, that was hard to watch.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement rated a car wash in the Juniata Park section of Philadelphia. Video of the incident shows ICE agents take seven people into custody at complete auto wash. Most of those arrested have been in custody, I'm sorry, have been in the country for more than a decade, according to the advocacy group New Sanctuary Movement of Philadelphia. A new gupta

the CEO of the Welcoming Center, an organization founded in the city in 2003 to help immigrants with things like language and workforce training. He said the raids invoked fear among immigrants in the city, not only those undocumented. Just this week, ICE reported more than 3,000 arrests, just shy of 1,000 on Sunday and Tuesday and nearly 1,200 on Monday. In Philadelphia, per a 2016 executive order signed by then-Mayor Jim Kenney, police will not

comply with immigration enforcement or detain individuals unless ICE has obtained a judicial warrant. In North Philadelphia on Tuesday, ICE officers attempted a warrantless sweep of a restaurant, but the owner denied them access. While the Trump administration said it would focus on deporting immigrants without legal status who have committed violent offenses first, as raids and mass deportations have continued, administration officials

have said those without criminal records have also been deported. Administration officials have already said that the raids could target places of employment, schools, and churches. Changeover among federal government agencies is normal when a new administration comes into Washington, but President Donald Trump has implemented sweeping changes in the first days of his second administration from firing career agency employees to freezing trillions of federal grant funds and halting diversity, equity, and inclusion programs that could result in wide-ranging layoffs.

At least 240 employees are known to have been fired, reassigned, or designated to be laid off. Thousands of employees could be affected by other moves or the grant funds pause. On Tuesday, the White House abruptly began offering buyouts to all federal employees who opt to leave their jobs by next

week, according to a memo from the Office of Personnel Management, the government's human resources agency. The memo, which noted that employees who leave their posts voluntarily will receive about seven months of salary, but must choose to do so by February 6th, listed four directives it said Trump is mandating for the federal workforce, including that most workers return to their offices full time.

The potential large-scale reduction in the federal workforce could have wide-ranging and as yet unknowable implications for impacting the delivery, timeliness, and effectiveness of federal services across the nation. The federal government employs more than 3 million people, which makes it roughly the 15th largest workforce in the nation. Those who choose to take the offer simply have to reply to the email with the word resign in the subject line. In sports this morning...

Ball sacks are yummy. Ball sacks are yummy! What the f*** is that? The Sixers beat the LA Lakers 118-104 last night in South Philly. They did it!

Tyrese Maxey scored 43 points to lead the team, who once again played without injured stars Joel Embiid and Paul George. Maxey hit four three-pointers and made 15 of 26 shots overall from the floor. He also extended his career best streak of 25-point games to 11 straight games. LeBron James scored 31 points for the Lakers. The Sixers, who have now won three games in a row, are at home again tonight and will host the Sacramento Kings. Tip-off is at 7.30.

The Flyers, who beat the Devils on Monday in South Philly, will play them again with a game tonight in New Jersey. The Flyers have 23 wins and 52 points and are three points out of the final wild card spot in the Eastern Conference. The Pup will drop at 7 o'clock. And the Eagles took a few days of rest

but continue to prepare for next weekend's Super Bowl, which is on Sunday, February 9th at the Superdome in New Orleans. While the post-Super Bowl Monday has long been the subject of calls for a national holiday, with many businesses and schools advocating for an official day off, such plans have yet to materialize into widespread policy. But some school districts, like Gloucester City in New Jersey, are already planning ahead in an online post yesterday saying,

The district wrote, all district schools will be on a two-hour delayed opening schedule on Monday, February 10th. It is a rare and special time for families to watch our local professional football team compete in the Super Bowl. We feel that it's important to give students and staff the opportunity to enjoy the game with their families and still attend school and work the next day safely and well-rested. Have a nice evening.

Go birds. It's two hours enough if the kids want to do some drinking. And that's what I have for you this morning. Or, hey, yeah, let's have a national holiday rather than just move a football game to a Saturday. Well, not a national holiday, but they're just saying... No, no, no. I have a report that I will get to later on that says that people would prefer that there be a national holiday on the Monday following the Super Bowl. I will get to that later on this morning. As...

Or you could move the game to Saturday. The age-old discussion. You could move the game to Saturday. The age-old discussion. Yeah. You know, and it always resurfaces. Yep. All right. Well, anyhow, we welcome you to Wednesday morning. We have some Wednesday things we're going to do today. We will check in with Fox Good Day this morning at 7.55. And then...

Before all of that, actually, we're going to have the Secret Text Word Prize. And today we have a chance for you to win tickets to go see Nine Inch Nails, the Peel It Back Tour, Wednesday, August 27th at the Wells Fargo Center. And you can text the word SECRET to 39333 right now. We will send you a special keyword, the secret word,

And then later on, well, you need to send that. You will have to call in later on in the morning and identify that word. And if you do so, you win the tickets. And then we'll grab a random texter and give those away that way, too. So go for it. Text word secret 39333. We also have we have a couple of guests coming by this morning.

Steven Singer is going to be here today. Okay, so we've done this before and we had a really good time with it. And we're going to actually have a contest. We're going to be giving away some prizes this morning, including the gold dip roses that he's going to bring with him. But we're going to play Steven and a Singer.

And the singer is our buddy Kyle Mack. He's going to be here this morning, and he's going to perform special love songs. And we'll see if we can identify these in a game that we play and walk away with some prizes this morning. So it sounds stupid. It is.

But it was a lot of fun. We had a blast doing it. Yeah, so we'll explain the details a little bit later on when they get here. It'll be in the 9 o'clock hour, so we are looking forward to that. It's going to be Kyle Mack and his buddy Michael who plays guitar who's been in here a couple of times to do some things. So we have those things taking place today. We're getting BirdBot put together, prepped for a release, hopefully on Friday if things come together. And it is looking really good at this point. But BirdBot will hit the streets tomorrow.

Once again, in anticipation of this game in New Orleans. And we need some representation of the area. And therefore, BirdBot is going to circulate around our fine town and surrounding areas for the next several days. And then hit the road via...

the goodness of average people, the birds fans, taking this and we'll see if this creation makes it all the way to New Orleans. Absolutely. An organic caravan of love. Yep. So we'll get you the details on BirdBot and

Hopefully we'll get an update today on how he's coming along. BirdBot 2.0, mind you. BirdBot 1 is behind me as we speak. You'll be able to see it on the YouTube stream in just a moment or two. But BirdBot's back and we're ready to do it again. We're going to take a quick break. Come back. The Entertainment Report. The Stupid Question. Yep, that's on the way next. So stay put. We'll be right back. In MMR's early days, we used carrier pigeons for requests. But some people got mad at us.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. Thanks, guys. Super question. Prize pair tickets to see Dusty Slay, the night shift tour, Saturday, 7 p.m. at the Miller Theater. We're having him on this week, right? Yeah, on Friday. Awesome. Yep. All right, so the question that I pose to you is this.

Which famous European landmark is said to have been protected or is said to be protected by six ravens? 215263 WMMR. Yeah, I've never heard of this before. Which famous European landmark is said to be protected by six ravens? I'm going to mention some birthdays while we await that answer of yours. Today is the 29th day of January and let's...

Let's see who we have here. Ed Burns has his birthday today. Saving Private Ryan, which he was great in. We were just talking about him. Why were we talking about him? Yeah, there was, I think he was directing something. All right. It's been a while. Yeah. And we found out actually it hasn't been a while. We just weren't aware of what he was doing recently. But what I've forgotten is he's been married to supermodel Christy Turlington since 2003. Yes, he has. It's a good score. He turns 57 years old. Talented guy.

Heather Graham has her birthday today. She turns 55 years old. Roller girl. Yeah. Nice. She's directing now. She just directed a horror movie. Oh, really? Yeah. Wow. Wow.

And obviously, Austin Powers, she made a big splash in that. We love the scene in Anger Management. It's great. Where she's in a bikini and shoving chocolate cake into her face. It's hilarious. She's great in The Hangover, too. She's terrific. I was watching that recently. Was she, all right, which Feldman movie was she in? License to Drive. Yes. Yeah, she played a character named Mercedes in that. Yeah, you're right. It's Tom Selleck's birthday today. Magnum P.I.

And it's a big one as he turns 80 years old today. 80! Oh, Selleck, man. And just wrapped up Blue Bloods. Blue Bloods was a really big success for him. There was talk that CBS was flirting with the notion of adding on a few seasons. And they eventually just said, okay, we'll just pull the plug. But Selleck keeps going, man. And he looks...

Dude looks terrific. Yeah, for 80 years old. Are you kidding me? He looks phenomenal, man. You know, he was the original selection for Indiana Jones. No kidding. And you know what? He's worked on it over the years. When he was selling, he had a bit of a higher register.

You're talking about his voice. His voice. Yeah. And, um, and so, um, not that it would have killed it, but now you think of Harrison Ford, he's the perfect choice. Yeah, yeah, totally. And he was, uh, he was one of the original Marlboro men, right? Yes, he was. Tom Selleck, yeah, in the advertising campaigns. Uh, it's the Beastmaster's birthday today. Mark Singer has a birthday today. Uh,

I can't do that without coughing. He turns 77 years old. I love that friggin' movie. Oh, my God. Yeah. Dar. Dar. But listen, there were a lot of cheesy scenes in it, and some of the effects weren't all that great, but those little...

suckers that would like suck all your bones and muscles. Creatures that wrapped you, cocooned you in their fleshy like wings and then dissolve you. Yeah, they would wrap their wings around you and you would see somebody rattling around inside and then they would open their arms and it would just be bones. That was a pretty cool old trick. And they helped Beastmaster, you remember. Yeah, in the end, they end up helping. But yeah, that was...

And Rip Torn was the bad guy in that movie. Rip Torn was a scenery-chewing villain. It was hilarious. John Amos was his right-hand man, kind of like a little John-type character. In a diaper. In a diaper. And I'm telling you, it's a classic, man. What else can you add to it to make it so wonderfully pop culture extraordinary?

Who was the femme? Oh, she was great. Tara... Tanya... Tanya Roberts. Tanya Roberts. Tanya Roberts. Yes. Stunningly beautiful. But what I didn't know, Nick just pulled up Beastmaster 2. Yes, I saw it. Kari Wurr was the female lead in that from MTV. It was... Kari was on remote control. Yeah, new levels of horrible. I feel like in the first... When I saw it for the first time, when you see Tanya, you do see her muff, right? I...

I think so. Or is it one of the ferrets? I don't think you see her muff. I think you do, man. I think you're thinking of a different movie. I think you're thinking of... Johnny Roberts' muff. No, no, no, no, no. Because she's around water at the time. I think you might be thinking of Dragon Slayer. No. Because you do see Muffin Dragon Slayer. Yes, where she's swimming underwater.

I don't know. We've got to do a deep dive into the muff and see what we can find out. Let's take a break and then go examine some footage. Also celebrating a birthday today is Adam Lambert. He is, yeah, the lead singer for Queen. It's Queen and Adam Lambert. He does a great job. That's what people are saying. Brings his own thing. Yeah, absolutely. He's in Bohemian Rhapsody. Yeah, he's the truck driver at the truck stop. Has a little...

Wait, who is he? Wayne. In Bohemian Rhapsody. There's a moment where Freddie Mercury is on the phone with his girlfriend. And he's standing out in front of a truck stop. And this trucker pulls up, gets out. He's got a mustache. And he's heavily masqueraded in this. But yeah, that's Adam Lambert. And they're going to go into the bathroom and knock one out. So happy 43rd to Adam Lambert.

Guitar phenom Johnny Lang has his birthday today. He turns 44 years old. We also have Sarah Gilbert, you know, from Roseanne. And also she had a nice run on The Talk as well. It's a big birthday for her. She turns the 5-0. Oh, wow, really? Yeah.

I think the Connors, it's officially wrapped up. Is it over now? It's at the very end. At the very end. Because I read something about it yesterday, I believe. But yeah, she was married to Linda Perry from Four Non Blondes from 2004 to 2019 that they separated.

So don't know if there's any chance that they'll reconcile or not. And then we have Greg Louganis celebrating his birthday today. Won gold medals at the 1984-1988 games on both the springboard and the platform. He was my idol growing up. I swear to God. You guys in the diving realm. Yeah, as a diver. And also, so...

You know, divers have a thing. It's called a Sammy, right? Yeah. That's the brand of a Shammy. And his Sammy, I could never find. It was white. Oh, you said this before. It had little balloons on it and stuff like that. So...

For my birthday, if anybody can find me the white and Sammy with the balloon stuffs on it. The Greg Leganus one. You've got till July. Yeah, till July. I read his book. Did you read it? No, I don't read. It was interesting. You know, he talks about when he hit his head and, you know, being HIV positive and all of that. And the doctors coming in, you know, at the time, you know, people were scared of

And he was using gloves and, you know, it was a big deal. And now, you know, he was told, don't say anything, keep your mouth shut, all this kind of stuff. But it was a good read. So, by the way, he was the only male and second diver in Olympic history to sweep the diving events in consecutive Olympic championships.

games. He got up after smashing his head. He got up and he did another one. It was amazing. Last birthday. Oh, somebody named Oprah Winfrey. Party party at Oprah's house. Oprah turns 71 years old today. She's my idol. I love her. Really? She now has a podcast and it was interesting. I was listening to one. She interviewed Mel Robbins and she talked about

The time when the show ended and then going into her next venture, which I wasn't sure if it was the podcast or something else. The O Network. That was the thing she did. Oh, the O Network. Okay. That was the biggest regret of her life of not taking time in between. Taking a pause. Taking a pause, yeah. Strange penises would bother me. And she's always admitted that. She's been candid about her penis phobia. All right, let's see if somebody knows the answer to this. Which famous European landmark is said to be protected by six ravens and...

And first caller in was Chris. So we will go over there. Hi, Chris. You're on the air. Good morning. Good morning. Sorry about the at work. That's all right, Chris. So what landmark said to be protected by six ravens, please? That would be the Tower of London. Yes. We've all been, right? Yes, we have.

Hang on, Chris. We are going to give you a pair of tickets to see comedian Dusty Slay, who's going to be performing the Night Shift Tour this Saturday, 7 p.m. at the Miller Theater in Center City. And tickets are on sale now via EnsembleArtsPhilly.org. So we got a few things to talk about. Christopher Walken reveals in a new interview with the Wall Street Journal that he...

some modern technology. The actor currently starring on the Apple TV Plus show Severance is revealed, and I quote, I don't have a cell phone, I've never emailed, or what do you call it, twittered? Walken apparently only has a satellite dish at home and watches his show Severance on DVDs. Ben,

Ben Stiller, who directs Severance, recently revealed that he has a rule banning phones from the set on Severance to limit distraction. So it seems like Walken's ahead of the curve. He said, Ben said, crew have to use phones sometimes to communicate. But for me, I like no phones anywhere near the eye shot of the actors. He's been this way for a while. He just does not want to use it. He's one of, there's a handful of people, some high-powered producers in Hollywood. You'd think they would need that. Who don't?

So Stiller says, my least favorite thing is to see a guy hunched down while an actor is acting their brains out and he's scrolling or whatever. So no phones on the set. That is the rule. His love story with John Turturro is really well done and it was the last thing I ever expected to see on a TV show in 2025. But John Turturro and Christopher Walken fall in love on that show. Love it.

But Will Ferrell is still on a mission to be named people's sexiest man alive. Appearing on the Today Show, he joked about his failed campaign last year saying, I got zero votes.

Uh, he says he has big plans for 2025. Uh, he said, I think I may need to do a preemptive photo shoot, pay for some billboards around LA, New York. Uh, we're reminded that John Krasinski won last year. Farrell hesitated before admitting, okay, all right, I guess, but I don't get it. Uh,

He also remained insistent that he's serious about the title last year. Speaking to Today Show, he had declared, I've never wanted anything more badly than Sexiest Man Alive. He also pointed out that comedians rarely get chosen, saying they never have comedians. Can you think of one? I can't. Even when today co-host Savannah Guthrie mentioned Paul Rudd had won, Farrell responded, Paul's funny, but not there. So he really wants it, is what he says.

M. Night Shyamalan, our buddy, has been cleared of all charges in an $81 million lawsuit accusing him of plagiarizing an independent film for his Apple TV Plus series Servant with the jury ruling unanimously in his favor. A federal judge in Riverside, California delivered the verdict after a seven-day trial dismissing claims that he plagiarized narrative elements from Francesca Gregorini's 2013 film The Truth About Emmanuel.

Italian-born filmmaker Gregorini alleged that Servant lifted key narrative elements from her thriller. The film follows a woman treating a baby doll as her child with a nanny enabling the delusion. The indie drama, headlined by Jessica Biel and Kaya Scodelario, made its debut at Sundance, but it flopped at the box office, only pulled in a dismal $226 million.

in Los Angeles and a laughable $9 from a loan ticket in Philadelphia seeking up to

$81 million in damages, Gregorini claimed Servant mirrored her work to a T. But his legal team further dismantled the claims by highlighting the fundamental differences between the two works. Servant is a supernatural thriller infused with Shyamalan's signature eerie suspense, while the truth about Emmanuel is a coming-of-age drama without paranormal elements. They argued that no one can claim ownership of a storytelling archetype.

especially one that has been utilized across decades of filmmaking. The judge dismissed the lawsuit in May. McGregorini refused to let it go, pushing for a trial that ultimately ended in Shyamalan's favor. You know, there's a ton of court expenses involved with that. Oh, God, yeah. Yeah, I wonder how they're going to... I mean, and he's out for that, not unless the court has ruled that they'll have to cover...

expenses for defending himself. When the jury reviewed Gregorini's film and the first three episodes of Servant, they ruled unanimously that no copyright infringement had occurred. Actress Joey King took to her Instagram stories to show off some painful kitchen battle scars. The actress shared photos of burns on her face, chin, and neck, revealing...

I burned myself a few days ago by throwing shallots into a pan of hot oil. And she called her mom for sympathy, but got a hilarious response instead. Her mom said, see, that's why I hate cooking. I'm with her.

Fans also noticed the Kissing Booth actress ditched her bleached eyebrows. King debuted the bold new look earlier this month for W Magazine's annual best performances party. And she also stayed positive by ignoring the internet trolls on TikTok saying, guys, I know I look weird. That's the point. And she wanted to try something different. Yeah, looking at the pictures, she got pretty burned up. But I could see that. I've never understood the boiling oil. Like, what?

Why? Why even cook with that? Look at her. Because it cooks things up wonderfully. You just have to be careful. And you might get scars all over your face. Yeah, she heated the oil up way too high and threw the shallots in and boom. And even just a little...

spot on your hand, you're like, ow! We used to have a saying which was, boy, that's about as smart as cooking bacon with your shirt off. Gwyneth Paltrow has sold her Los Angeles area mansion for a cool $22 million. That has to be a relief for the actress who had the home on the market almost a year. The original asking price was $29.99 million.

So the buyer did get a hefty discount in order to make the deal go through. She bought the house for $9.95 million in 2012. That's a nice turnaround. Gus Martin, yeah. So even at the reduced price, she still came away with a very nice profit on that. I wonder when her, you compare her acting earnings to the goop earnings. Yeah, that's a good question. I mean, how many vagina candles went into that house? Yeah, she sold a lot.

I like this story. Martha Stewart was once approached to host Saturday Night Live, but she turned them down. To be fair, though, she didn't say no willingly. On Monday's Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, she told the story of getting the invite right after serving five months in...

in the federal prison camp in Alderson, West Virginia, after being convicted of fraud in 2005. Do we have a clip of this? We should have a clip of her, yeah. Casey, if you could scroll down a couple there. This is her talking about that. I wanted to, and they asked me as I was coming out of Alderson, that camp that I was in for a while. And my parole officer...

Yeah, she said she was only allowed to be out of the house for eight hours per day. And of course, that didn't align with SNL's hectic schedule. But she said maybe someday.

Maybe someday. Watch her documentary on Netflix. It's good. I got to see that. It's good. So Marissa had recommended to me to watch the SNL music special that Questlove directed and produced on Peacock. And so as I was going to bed last night, I turned it on. Guys, I'm just telling you, man, the opening sequence, the first five minutes is so good.

Freaking amazing. Yeah? Yeah. And I don't even want to like... You don't want to give us any description of it? I don't want to give you any description of it, but like just the editing... Better than Avatar? Yeah. I mean, but you can't really compare the two. I guess you're right. You just... Even if you just watch the first five minutes, it's completely and totally worth it. Okay. Done and done.

Tom Welling, most well-known for playing Clark Kent slash Superman in the TV series Smallville, was less than heroic on Monday night. He was hauled in for allegedly driving under the influence. The actor was arrested in an Arby's parking lot. In an Arby's. I love Arby's. In Eureka, California, just after midnight on Monday.

I was not expecting that. No, no, no. Where the local police department picked him up on suspicion of drinking and driving. So I watched Tom Welling. He and the guy who played Lex Luthor in Smallville, they have a podcast, and I was a fan of Smallville. And he seems like he's... It seems like this was just an Arby's misstep. He doesn't seem like a raging alcoholic. Okay. Hey, by the way, I have it on...

Well, a little birdie told me that Roy Rogers is making a comeback. Did you guys know this? The actual... You know what I've read? I think I had something like that in Connoisseur that they were going to open up a couple of more, but nothing about around here. Let me ask you. You're just finding it on, you know, like Turnpikes and stuff like that? I have to process this now. I do. So, you know what, though? Oddly enough, my favorite thing about... I prefer the Arby's roast beef sandwiches, but I love the Roy Rogers hamburgers. Yeah? They were excellent. Excellent.

There is one, yeah, at Arrest Stop on the Northeast Extension. I do know that. So they're out there. You can find them. By the way, no word from the actor's rep about the arrest.

Catherine O'Hara made sure that she grabbed pieces of her S's Creek character, Moira Rose's iconic wardrobe while evacuating her home during the wildfires in L.A. Did she lose her home? No. Oh. But they didn't know. Eugene Levy lost his house. He did. She said, when I was evacuated, I took a lot of them with me. She said, sharing that she brought, is it Givenchy? Is that how you say that? Well done. She brought...

Brought Givenchy boots and this great outfit, a short dress with big round silver sequins from when I was babysitting in the housewarming episode during season five. She also kept one of Moira's famous wigs from the set. The wig is named Vivienne. Adding that when that went with me in the evacuation, she reflected on being really lucky after her home was left untouched by the wildfires.

Why her co-star and longtime collaborator, Steve, has said Eugene Levy lost his properties. She said, it didn't feel right praying for my home to be saved. The Beetlejuice actress added that the least you can do is feel horrible and just try to find ways to help

others. By the way, I got around to watching Beetlejuice Beetlejuice over the weekend, the sequel. It's really good. It's a lot of fun. She's fantastic in it. And no spoilers or whatever, but there's a lot more Michael Keaton in the sequel than there was in the original. Obviously, he's the draw. And she's just I just love her so much. She's so freaking good. I liked it a lot. And Nick, I did not see that. There's a plot twist.

that takes place that they hid pretty well. Yeah, I was kind of surprised by that too. And Jenna Ortega is awesome. It's really well done. I need to see it. The new docu-series called Spy High. It's got a local twist. It follows the 2010 scandal about Lower Merion School District laptops secretly photographing students on webcams. You guys remember this? I clearly remember this. We talked about it a lot. Yes, so the show will follow Harrington High School student Blake Robbins

A 15-year-old accused of selling drugs. The evidence was a photograph captured on his school-issued laptop without his knowledge or consent in which he was holding a Mike and Ike candy that officials claimed was a pill. The incident led his parents, Michael and Holly Robbins, to sue the school district for allegedly spying on students for remote-activated cameras, violating the Fourth Amendment and other privacy laws. Another student, Jaleel Hassan, also sued for similar reasons. The scandal, which was dubbed Webcamgate,

led to months of hostile legal... I know, it's not a very original name. Led to months of hostile legal battles that resulted in the school district paying $610,000 settlement. Robbins received $175,000, most of which was placed in a trust, and Hassan received $10,000. The rest went to paying the family's legal fees. Now, Spy High will bring the spotlight back to this chapter. Mark Wahlberg is an executive producer through his company, Unrealistic Ideas.

It'll be a four-part series. It's going to premiere at South by Southwest in March, and then we'll start streaming on Amazon Prime Video in April. That's very cool. Really interesting. So we'll see. Was it you and I that used to put the tab over the camera? No.

I don't know if I did. Maybe I did. So not this computer. It was an old computer. But the light used to go on when the camera was on. And I had not turned anything on. And the light would be on while we were sitting here. You would complain all the time that your light was on. If I recall correctly, these were laptops that the school gave out, right, to the students? Yeah. And that's how they had the access. Yeah. And Kathy would hear, put your feet up to the computer. All of a sudden, a voice just comes out. I want to see your feet. No, but I mean, it was a computer issued by the company.

By the way, when will we be seeing your feed? Oh, my God. I completely forgot about it. I have it. And Marissa and I were chatting about it. And then the Eagles won. And now we're planning for Super Bowl. And we completely forgot about it. So we're thinking maybe after Super Bowl, not to strain this ridiculous thing out. You don't want to overshadow the Super Bowl with your feed video. With my feed, right. Exactly.

Have you guys gotten a teaser of it? I have not. Oh, my God. Really? You showed it to me. Well, I saw her doing a little shoot here in the studio the other day. Is it the tub action? Oh, I did send it to you. Yes. What the hell? I'm just saying. Feed people are going to love this. You're going to?

We should get 200,000 followers. Yeah, no kidding. Yeah, right? Yeah. So that was for Instagram when we got 100,000 followers. The motivation for people to sign up and follow was to see a video of Kathy's feet. That's the way. That's perfect. Yeah, just like that. Hold your five head up to the camera. It's just so funny because I love Kathy, but that does absolutely nothing for me, but I know that...

There's people out there. They're going to be excited. I've showed Nick some of the messages I got. They're like, hey, what's your feed account? People think it's serious. I can't wait to see the video. So Lady Gaga is finally speaking out on the harsh reception for the sequel to the Joker film, Joker, Folly, Ado.

The Bad Romance singer reflected on the poor reviews and she said, People just sometimes don't like some things. It's that simple. She starred in the film as the Joker's love interest, Harley Lee Quinzel, who falls in love with the clown prince of crime. The two-time Golden Globe winning actress added,

To be an artist, you have to be willing for people to sometimes not like it. And you keep going even if something didn't connect in the way that you intended. I think she did a solid job in the movie. It's not her fault. The movie was just tonally...

It was just weird, you know, and yeah, I didn't much care for the movie, but she and Joaquin Phoenix do their best. It was criticized for straying too far from what fans liked about the first film, and it's got a 31% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. That was a mistake. It was a slap in the face to the people who liked the first film.

Let's see. Just a couple more quick things. John M. Chu is bringing Oh, the Places You'll Go to the big screen. Yeah, the Wicked director confirmed on his Instagram story that he will be co-directing an animated adaptation of the Dr. Seuss classic.

And he wrote, oh, what a team for my first animated movie. And he added, coming in 28. And the film will feature co-director Jill Colton, known for her work on animations like Abominable and Monsters, Inc. J.J. Abrams directed and produced Star Wars Force Awakens and music also from EGOT winners Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, known for their work of Pasek on La La Land and The Greatest Showman.

Chew is also staying busy with adaptations of Britney Spears' memoir and, of course, celebrating Wicked's 10 Oscar nominations. So that could be pretty cool. But he didn't get nominated. That's what kills him, right? For director, no kidding. He got snubbed for... I mean...

That movie's directed like crazy. Yeah. I mean, there's a lot going on there. Yep. I don't know how they snubbed him. All right, and then one last thing. The Jonas Brothers are teaming up with Disney Plus for a Christmas comedy movie coming in 2025 for the holiday season. The movie, currently titled Jonas Brothers Christmas Movie, will follow Kevin, Joe, and Nick Jonas.

as they try to make it from London to New York for Christmas with their families. The JoBros will also be co-producing the movie that will also feature brand new original songs. The trio has a strong history with Disney, having starred in the Camp Rock movies and their own series Jonas. The video announcement gives a nod to the classic holiday movie Love Actually, which

with Kevin, Joe, and Nick recreating the iconic cue card scene from the 2003 rom-com. So that's what they're playing. I hope they have a scene of them running through Heathrow. Right? That'd be awesome. All right, actually, one more thing. Steve, you had mentioned the Conners. Getting ready to wrap it up. ABC has released a teaser trailer for the show's seventh and final season. There we go. With a special six-episode farewell event. John Goodman, Laurie Metcalf, Sarah Gilbert, and Lacey Goranson all return tonight.

for the final season as well. This is the perfect time to wrap it up because it should have ended three years ago. The new trailer features Goodman's Dan Conner showing him showing how strong the family can be through ups and downs noting nothing can stop us. It will premiere on March 26th. It's wild to see John Goodman on the series now because he is a shadow of his former self. He's got the veneers as well that kind of stand out. Got a little zempic face going on. Alright, we're ready for Eclipse.

In Laws of Man, two U.S. Marshals pursue a murder in the desert of Nevada during the Cold War. And in this clip, Dermot Mulroney, Dermot Mulroney, who is used to playing characters that get a bad guy reveal, talks about being the villain from the opening frame. You're learning what is...

what his scheme is and what drives him as the movie continues. But you know right from the start that he's one of the big obstacles in the main character's way. Wow! You can buy Rent Laws of Man on Apple TV. Here's our next one.

Sci-fi film Star Trek Section 31 focuses on the secret division of Starfleet tasked with protecting the United Federation of Planets. Steven Roygrok portrays Fuzz the Nannikin, who is a creature driving a Vulcan robot. And here...

He shares how he found vocality for the two. Here we go. What if he had a really deep, gravelly, gravitas voice? So where you see the Vulcan, he's very light and hello, how are you? You know, we just talk every day. But then the Nanokin would be like that, like you would go darker and a little bit more rounder. And I played, man. I just had so much fun. Shut the fuck up.

Star Trek Section 31. He sounds like Colin Farrell. Is streaming on Paramount+. By the way, speaking of Star Trek, I've never seen Pierre get as violent as he did yesterday when talking about Star Trek. He was so angry. He was kicking. And then when the mics went off...

He goes over to repair what he broke and things are falling apart on that side of the studio. He went nuts. A true Star Trek fan through and through. Don't worry though, Preston. It's completely fixed.

Oh, is it? No. He leaned it up against the wall. Oh, dear. Oh, dear. Oh, dear. All right. And there you go. That's what we have in the air check for you this morning. All right. We will do a Fox Good Day hit less than an hour from now. We are going to do some giveaways. Steven Singer himself is stopping by this morning, and he's bringing some musical guests as well. Kyle and Michael will be here. We're going to do Steven and the singer.

It's a contest we did. I don't know if we did it last year or the year before, but we've done it before. It's a lot of fun, and it's your chance to win the gold roses. And sometimes Stephen brings them to add a little extra accoutrement. I'm going to count on it. Do you think this is the shot? Do you think Stephen is secretly auditioning for Kyle's Michael McDonald cover band? Go!

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Thanks, Kath. Uh, man, it was a shocking story hearing about, uh, this kid who died, uh, after the, uh, Eagle celebration over the weekend, climbing a pole, uh,

15th in market and fell, hit his head, and a couple days later, he died from the injuries. Yeah. So sad. The next day, I didn't really hear much about it. I heard somebody did fall, and then there was that thing with the car, an accident with that. There were a couple things that took place, but I was not expecting to see this. It was just a terrible story. He was on life support for a while, and they knew it was...

Very serious. And as you've said many times on the air, Preston, okay, that may not seem like that high, but he hit his head. Yeah. And that was it. Oh, you can, yeah, you can be like five feet off the ground and have that happen. And that's why, you know, occasionally somebody will, you know, get punched and knocked out and then they hit their head on the ground and it kills them. Yeah. I mean, we're fragile. We are fragile beings. Yeah.

The New Orleans police have warned ahead of time, don't climb the poles in the French Quarter. And they said that the poles are quite old and they can actually kind of topple over. Yeah. And so they're issuing a warning already for this.

But, yeah, man, whenever I am, like, putting up Christmas lights or something like that on the ladder, I still get pretty damn nervous. And that's just going up, you know, maybe 8, 10 feet or something along those lines. Well, because you hear stories. I mean, honestly, it can be 2 or 3 feet, as you say. It doesn't matter. Now, what surprised me, you know, in this story and a lot of stories, there's usually, like, a crowd around, you know, and, like...

Yeah, and you're almost thinking like... Somebody will get me. Like a stage dive. I think during the actual parade for the win, didn't somebody climb up? Do you remember that story? And they got injured, but it wasn't fatal. I don't remember. Yeah, along the parade route. But yeah, it's...

It's too precarious. I understand that. I'm pretty good with heights up on ladders, but I'm like, man, even if you're changing the batteries in your smoke alarms at home and you get up on a stepstool, it's a little freaky. Well, and the other thing about climbing stuff is not thinking about how you're going to get down.

Because... Oh, I did that constantly when I was a kid. Coming down is way harder. Oh, it is. I think anyway. And I've gotten stuck in a tree. I remember my kids getting stuck in a tree and having to go up there and get them because you're like, oh, this is a different story on the way back down. How did I come up here? Yeah. I don't often remember my dreams when I do. They're reoccurring dreams and I have the same one. And one of them is me being...

being up somewhere and having to i can get up there but i can't get down it's the fear of having to come down and the difficulty it's been like i've been like on a mountain you know like like hiked up but now i can't hike down because the hike up was so difficult same thing with a ladder um a bridge like it's this it's coming down for whatever reason that has me with anxiety but i

You know, it's one of those dreams where I wake up and I feel that anxiety. Yeah. Sure. You know, it's up and all that. Yeah. The most disorienting feeling. And I've seen people do it. In fact, I was cracking up. My friend was trying to come down from the he was up on the garage and he had a ladder off to the side to see that foot placement in the back where you're trying to hit the top step. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's like.

No, no, that's not right. No, no, I'm not on it completely. And it scares the hell out of you. Yeah, being up on a roof and then climbing back down trying to get that first step onto the ladder. You're like, ah, is my foot there? I know, it's freaky. We got some calls coming in. I'm going to go to Joe. Hey, Joe, good morning.

Good morning, guys. Hey, thanks, Joe. I appreciate it. So I see here you have a story where you at a championship climbed a pole. Well, what happened in 1980 when the Phillies won, we were all watching a game in my basement in Mayfair, and I was drinking elephant beer, which was very strong. Elephant beer? Elephant beer. It's like a malt liquor. Okay.

Yeah, but anyway, so we made our way up to Cotman and Frankfurt, and I saw that my friends had climbed a beneficial bank building on the corner. I was not to be one-off. Hold on. Hold on, Joe. Your friends climbed a building?

Okay. Okay.

It's the traffic lights that goes over Frankfort Avenue. Oh, my God. And I started to climb out. And as I was climbing out, people were like winging bottles and cans out. So you get to the top of this pole, and now you're going to try to climb out on the horizontal pole that goes out over the... Oh, my God. You're out of your mind. I made it halfway out, and I said, I better go back. And I couldn't make it back because the pole got... The boom got bigger as you go towards the main pole. Yeah. And I fell. Yeah.

You fell from that? What's that, about 15 feet? 14 feet? It's almost two stories, whatever it is. Oh, my God. It's more like 20 feet. And that traffic light is still there, by the way. Anyway, I fell on my right foot, and I had to be taken to the hospital. And I was in a cast for two weeks. I was so lucky that I didn't hit my head, and my condolences go to that. Yes, absolutely. Yes.

To this day, every time there's a championship, my phone lights up. Where's Joe? Where's Joe DiAz? Oh, my God. And then they started greasing the poles after that. Okay. So, yeah, you were one of the instigators. Man. How old were you at the time, Joe? I was 20. Okay. So, in the age range of this poor kid that passed away, what did your parents have to say when they found out how bad?

You got hurt. I was flabbergasted, but you know, I was crazy Joe, you know, crazy Joe. Yeah. All right. Thanks Joe. Appreciate the story. Take care. My dad was in his twenties. He climbed to the top of the George Washington bridge in New York, the peak and did a handstand. Oh my God. Uh, he made it down. Obviously. Did the cops bring him down or did he do it on? Was they unaware? Uh,

No, the cops were not involved. He got up, did his handstand and got down before anybody came to... No pictures? Hundreds of feet, probably. Oh, yeah. Yeah, way up there. We drive over it and I look up knowing this story about my dad and I get scared. Everyone hates that bridge. God, I want to party with your dad again.

I think I've shared this story with you guys on air before, but I have a family friend and they were skiing one time and they were on the lift and his daughter started to fall. It was one of those lifts where there's just not a lot of protection. What do you call it? A T-lift or whatever? Right, right. T-bar. T-bar. Thank you, Preston. And so she started to fall. So he had to position himself underneath her. The lift continues to go up.

And then he realizes, I'm not going to be able to hold her. All of this is happening within just a matter of seconds. And so he realizes, if I'm going to save her or protect her, I have to fall before her so that I can like kind of cushion her fall. So that's what happened. And they were 25 feet up. 25 feet? Yeah. And fortunately, they ended up...

being okay, although he shattered his leg in a million different places. He was able to buffer her fall in a way that maybe saved her life. No, he made the right call. They're on snow, obviously. But even on snow, you're going over rocks. You don't know what's underneath the chair lift. And it's powder, powder, powder! Powder, powder, powder! I told you this story. It's...

You get nightmares. You get chills thinking about it. It was the Fireman's Fair. I'll never forget it. It was the Fireman's Fair in East Northport. And I got on this rickety ride. I wanted to go on it so bad. And it was the, what is it, like the octopus with the spinning, right? So I'm in the one car and as it starts to go, I'm by myself.

I noticed that the thing, the bar that's holding you in is loose and it opens up like halfway. Yeah, that whole thing, that whole front end opens up, right? Right. It doesn't completely open up, but it opens up. Oh, no. And I'm screaming. I literally... Look at that guy. He's having a blast up there. Oh, my God. No! I'm dying! Oh, this...

It's okay. Oh, my God. I know it's scary, but you're having fun. And I have nightmares about that. And I remember thinking I easily could have been thrown across the street into my favorite movie theater as it was. But it was one of those things when, like Joe was describing, when you're out, there's an adrenaline that takes place when you're climbing. Yeah. And then when you get to the place, you're up there, and then now you've had a moment to think about it. Oh, yeah. That's when the fear sets in. Yeah, yeah. I want to go to...

Sean, because he had a fall in an Eagles game. Hi, Sean. Good morning. Hey, Jersey Black Rock. Jersey Black Rock. Thank you, Sean. That one needs to be dusted off. All right. What's up, bud?

Yeah, so this was about 20 years ago. I'd been thinking of Frigo for a while. We were going on the away trips, usually like Washington, because we'd get a whole shuttle bus together. So we'd all get down there, and they'd put you in a different lot. It was like a FedEx field. They'd put you in a lot with all the other buses. So we were just grayhound bussing with a whole bunch of us, tailgating before the game, the night game. And so we were getting pretty toasted. So I had a great idea to get up on top of the bus. So we all get up on the bus through a little escape hatch.

And a bus driver started screaming, get down, you're going to collapse it. And I go, all right, let's just jump to the other one. And someone goes, all right, you first. Now, whenever someone says you first, just throw your kids out there, don't do it. Yeah, that's just hindsight. So I go to jump to the other bus and I like Superman it and the tops are kind of rounded and they're probably like five or six feet apart and I kind of overshot it and

Oh, man. Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

Wow. Jesus. Oh, my God. But you damaged your spleen, so that could have just a little bit more. Yeah. And it could have been way worse. Well,

Well, alcohol obviously is never a good element when you're trying to do this. But I mean, just in general. So they greased the poles. But I've seen people have climbed grease poles before. Well, but did they? There's a question on whether or not they greased the poles. No, there's a question about whether. Yes, you're exactly right, Kathy. We don't know if these poles were greased. And again, this horrible tragedy with this young man. But like in New Orleans.

I know what they're talking about. You know those poles are... They're antiques. By the way, in the post that the police had issued in New Orleans that says don't climb the poles, there were some comments that were like, oh, well, that's just going to make people do it. But what do you do? Not? You don't say anything? I mean, clearly, you have to make an effort to try to keep people from doing this. And listen, if there's a celebration, if we have a reason to have a big celebration...

uh in a week and a half or so don't climb the poles i mean it's just stop it yeah come on let's just be adults but you can really get hurt bad there was another there was another video of somebody else climbing a pole uh that i saw where i don't know i don't think it was the same one of the guy who died but uh he reached out and grabbed like you know those flags that they have hanging yeah yes yeah he's holding on to it and then that ripped and found the guy fell down into the

crowd and then I never saw what ended up happening to him. What was the story with the, remember the, it was here again, it was on Broad Street. They jumped up on a, on a bus enclosure, you know, bus stop. And they jumped up on the top of it. Oh, and it broke. And it shattered. I remember that. Yeah. Yeah.

I don't know, but I think you're right, Steve, with that analogy of like the crowd will catch you almost like stage. Yeah, yeah. And that, no. No, in fact, the guy who called in, the crowd was throwing bottles and cans at him. Yeah, right.

Let me go to, we have some other people that have climbed things and realized they've gotten themselves in a bad way. Although we have Craig, who's a lineman for the county. Oh! Who's on the line. And hang on, Craig. We're going to maybe get a little music to lead you in with. Because, I mean, how can we not? You're a lineman. And the Wichita lineman is still on the line.

Hi, Craig. You're on the air. Hey, guys. First time caller, long time listener. And thanks for that, guys. Of course. We just wanted to make you feel welcome. All right. So you're a lineman. You've been doing this for how long? I've been in the trade for about 20 years. And it's a common thing.

you know, danger for you guys. It is a common danger. I mean, we do have a lot of safety factors in place and a lot of, you know, training that goes involved while climbing these poles. You guys spoke earlier about the poles in the French Quarter. I've done work down in Louisiana, and I can tell you guys, you're absolutely right. I mean, they just snap at the base of the pole. They will snap at the base of the pole.

It snaps at the base of the pole where the water sits, and it's in the dirt right there. And even though these poles are treated, they only have a certain amount of lifespan if they're installed improperly. So we've had our fair share of broken poles, and we call them actually, when you fall off the pole, we call it cutting out. Cutting out? Cutting out. It's when your gaff actually is not dug into the pole correctly, and you just go for a ride. Wow. Wow.

Wow. Wow. So advice to heed, stay on. Regardless, as you said, Preston, we don't know what's going to happen. But if it does go the way we want it to stay off those those polls, it's like your daughter. Stay off the poll. Stay off the poll. Keep off the poll. Craig, question. Question. Have you heard of or known people who have lost their lives in your industry because of a fall?

Yes. I've had a few people that I've worked with get severely injured, and every so often there is an unfortunate fatality, which, you know, it kind of hits home to us because that's our living. That's what we do. So we always really push safety first.

and uh and teamwork's involved too because it takes a team of us to do what we do so you'd be and you'd be um obviously aware we talk about this all the time people think well you got to be up 30 feet you got to be up 35 feet you could be just a couple of feet and it can be a lethal fall correct that's actually my first time i fell i i wasn't quite as high as i would say no higher than about 30 feet steve and uh i mean i went for a ride and it actually wasn't the fall that got me but

It was riding the pole down and having the splinters kind of pick up in my arms and my neck. Oh, man. And the process of that, removing that and the infection, it was god-awful. A short story, we went to a climbing school with a kid that we actually wound up calling Woodlip.

Because during our climbing test, he cut out and his lip hit the pole and he had a splinter pierced through the labray of his lip into his mouth. Oh, my God. I don't even know what a labray is. And that's freaking me out. It's the mouth labia. Mouth labia. Okay. That's close enough. Yeah. So I assume you're talking about the meat down by the gum is what you're talking about, correct? Yeah.

That is correct. And you guys, just to make this guy feel better, you called him Woodlips. Oh, yeah. It's just sort of right of passage. You make a mistake and we give you that nickname. And then people go, well, he had wood in his lip. Yeah. So, man, I didn't even think about it. And how did you get the name Woodlips? I had wood in my lip. Yeah.

Preston, did you even think about the thought of sliding down one of those wooden poles? There's splinters and wood chipped all over those things. I can't think about it. Holy Christ. Yeah, we need to stop this phone call now. Craig, thank you, buddy.

Real quick, can I give a shout out to all the IBW 126 white hands working today? Of course. You got it, man. We'll give some love and some gas to them. There you go. Thanks, Craig. Take care, bud. Yeah, and everybody stay safe for sure. Let's see. Let me go to Ed. Hi, Ed. You are on the air. Good morning. Good morning. How are you? Good. What's happening, Ed? Oh,

Oh my God.

Wow. So you got called out by Jimmy Page for being an idiot. Does anybody remember idiots? Yeah, it was one of them days. Yeah, it was great. One of them days. It was great, wasn't it? Yeah. All right. Thank you, man. Appreciate it. And these morons are climbing.

the scaffold. Oh my God. Yeah, I've seen that happen. You have those riggings at concerts? Dude, there have been stories. So in the earlier days of Pearl Jam, and Nick, you know this all too well, Eddie Vedder would climb anything and everything. And I was at the Lollapalooza, what was that, 90

Two, somewhere around there. It was the second year of Lollapalooza. And so I'm at Riverport Amphitheater in St. Louis. And the opening band was Pearl Jam.

And we've seen, you know, the live videos. Sure. We've seen Eddie do the climbing and stuff like that. Well, sure enough, man, at some point in the show, he goes to the very back of the shed. It's like the Freedom Mortgage Pavilion. And he starts climbing up the pole, the post, and goes all the way up to the, I mean, like where the catwalks are in the roof. And I'm like, you're out of your mind, man. And we're watching video right now. Yeah.

hanging like 20 feet in the air above at a fairly small concert venue. And dude, he was out of his mind with that stuff. This brings up the perfect opportunity to give a shout out to Steven Flo, who is a wrestler in Australia. And he does, he comes out to Pearl Jam music, climbs up the ropes. A lot of people have sent this to me over Instagram, but I've never heard of a wrestler named Steven Flo until now. And I think it's the greatest. And this dude comes out dressed in grunge, early nineties, Pearl Jam era,

Goes to the top robes and jumps off. And it's just a brilliant promotion. Oh, my God. That's great. He's wearing not only a flannel shirt, but he's got another flannel shirt tied around his waist. Stephen Flo. And he looks a little bit like Eddie. He does. Oh, that's brilliant. Stephen Flo. Oh, that's excellent. I love it. Let me see. I will go to Pete. Hi, Pete. Good morning. Good morning.

Good morning, guys. How are you? Good, man. What's going on, buddy? Well, just two false stories. One, I fell off my own bus at the Philadelphia Folk Festival. The other one was falling off a roof up in Boston, 60 feet in the air and landed on the driveway. 60 feet and you fell onto the driveway. How do you survive that? By consciously going over.

If I had slipped and not known where I was on the roof itself, I could have gone over face first, feet first, any number of ways. And my foreman wanted to pull me out of the hole that I was in. I was spraying down a liquid roof.

And if the fitting had gone, 4,000 PSI, six gallons a minute. I didn't stand a chance there. So I threw the gun, yelled at my foreman, Milt, to call the cops, and off I went. So you, okay, so to escape this high-pressure situation that you had up on the roof, you made the decision to jump off the roof at 60 feet up. Yeah. It was either controlled or non-controlled. Okay, now I get it. So when you hit, what happened?

I exploded both heels, one in 13 pieces, one was in 11. Oh, my God. Split the ankle in half.

A cadaver bone and screws, and the back damage was nominal. So, Pete, let me ask you this. You make the jump, and working up, did you work regularly on roofs and things like that? Forty-some years. Okay, so you probably had a semi-plan. If I ever need to jump, here's probably what I'm going to do, try to land on your feet and roll or something like that?

I was kind of hoping I was going to hit the grass on the other side. So when you go down and you've got it, when you're on your way down, like I would probably pass down. I think I would. Yes. On the way down. Terrifying. But but you make it all the way down. Did you have kind of a plan to minimize your injury? Well, I was trying to roll out of it. Yeah. But land and roll. But I probably saved your life. Yes.

Yeah, without a doubt. My foreman's still mad at me. On the way down, did you have time to grab a snack? 60 feet, sure. A cup of coffee, please. So you yelled to your foreman, call the cops, because you know, at the end of this, they always say it's not the fall, it's the landing that's the issue. Hey, Pete, do you remember, like, this is a stupid question, but I'm just wondering how quickly shock settles in, like, the pain that you felt on impact? Yeah.

Um, the sound sounded like a home run in Fenway Park. It was so loud. I just kind of screamed a little bit and then, uh,

It was like the cops were instantly there. I guess there was a station right nearby. So your body kicks in, though. It's a natural way for your body to react. Your system gets flooded with the chemicals that are going to try to delay at least a little bit of the pain surge. Without a doubt. So that happened. That's what you experienced. And then it all came rushing in at once?

Absolutely. Wow. Wow. The guy tried to cut my boot off, and being a lifelong skier, I went to hit him because I thought, I mean, if you skied, you know that if you've broken your ankle and you cut the boot off or take the boot off prematurely, it lets all the blood in. Yeah, it kind of holds it together until you can get to the medical staff. Pete, what are your lingering long-term effects from that?

That happened. I'm more than likely going to lose my left foot. Oh, my God. It's been 20 years. And you still clearly have real problems with that. Once it acts up, it takes me three or four days to get the swelling down and be able to get it out. It's incredible. Wow. All right. Well, thanks for sharing the story, Pete. I hope things go well for you. Wow. Thank you, guys. Have a great day. Oh, that's right.

That's what it sounded like. Could you imagine? By the way, this is essentially this conversation is a cautionary tale.

And I know we may have a very big reason to celebrate very, very soon. But don't climb things. And I know you've got this huge crowd of everybody's excited and you want to get up. You want everybody to see you and you be the focus of attention and you're leading the cheer and all that stuff. Exactly. It is not worth it. Think about the – from the absolute joy of this victory case, you know, they climbed up there in a moment. And it was not – he was not crazy in a bit.

Apparently just wonderful things about this young man. And then it turned on a dime. That's the first thing I thought of was this guy's in the height of joy. And then boom, in an instant, it's gone. It's all gone. Yeah. And all of this stuff has always made me nervous. Even in my younger days and stuff like that. I remember in college parties, man, my fraternity, these guys love to do stair dives, you know, and I'm like, dude, dude.

please don't. You know what I mean? Like, you know, here I am like 20, 21 years old. I'm like, guys, you're going to get hurt. You know? I have visions of that happening in my fraternity house as well. And guys that had to go to the hospital. And look,

I've done it. I jumped into bushes. I'm a freaking tree man from Groundhog Day at Punxsutawney because I thought it would be fun and funny to climb up that tree. And at the time when I was 21, it was fun and funny. But I just like when I saw the story when you texted it to us last night, Casey, all I could think about was this kid's parents and just how awful it is. By the way, a text came in and said, interesting, no female callers yet.

Yeah, they usually don't do things like this. Oh, you know what? Somebody actually said something to me because I was constantly, when Jace was little, just climbing little things. Be careful, be careful, be careful. Watchers. And they were like, you're scaring him. Like, stop saying, you know, stop always saying, like, be careful. Watchers.

Watch yourself. Don't get hurt. Do more activities. We're not climbing anything. Nah, we did the same thing. We did the same. I got nervous when the kids would climb up on anything when they were younger because I just know it doesn't take much. What you think of, and you live long enough, and I've lived almost 200 years now. You realize those moments and you reflect back on those moments where it was just one second. One second changed everything. So-

To your cautionary warning, Preston, yes, we are in a wonderful place right now, but if anything, let the legacy of this young man be that he will keep people from injuring themselves likewise. All right, listen, I apologize to those of you who are on the phone that we didn't get to go to. I apologize.

charged. Marty climbed a water tower and wrote his name and a girl's name on the side. She was upset about that afterwards. So Marty, it's been on hold for a while. I appreciate it, but we're not going to be able to get to your call. And Chris took mushrooms for climbing a tree and they kicked into the top an hour and a half later. It took him that long to get down. So you never know. When you're climbing up, you don't think about

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All right, it's 7.55. We are going to go live on Fox Good Day in just a moment. So we got to get right back into things. Why don't we take a look at traffic and see how we're doing there. Kathy, what do you have for us this morning? 295 northbound, stop traffic between Route 130 and the 42 freeway. Right lane closed with debris in the roadway. 42 freeway northbound jams the Black Horse Pike to the off-ramp to get to 295 northbound. The off-ramp is... Hold on. I got to interrupt. We're going live on Fox right now. We'll come back to that. Sorry about that. We got about like five seconds, so...

I gotta jump in. I was told 10 seconds, but we'll hear the music. And then I just don't want them to come in the middle of Schuylkill Expressway and whatnot. There it is. There it is. All right, here we go. Boys and girls.

Let's visit with our friends here at Preston and Steve. Preston and Steve, everybody over there. The Gloucester City School District announced they're going to be on a two-hour delay the Monday after the Super Bowl so the kids can stay up and watch the game, right? Right. And then I'll be all groggy on the 10th, February 10th, that Monday. So, Preston, what say you? Take the whole week off. Yeah.

I think they're going to need it. I mean, no, you know, listen, yeah, come on. How often does this happen, as we know, you know? May I ask something, though? The Super Bowl, the game technically is over by when, usually? 10.30, maybe? No. I mean, the afternoon. Isn't it like 11? No.

No, it's more like 10.30. Well, it starts at 6.30. All right, all right. Listen, normal football games last about three hours, but the Super Bowl will last a little bit longer because of the halftime show and the commercials and all that. Yeah, I think 10.30 is the safest time. And then if you get a victory, there's another hour after that. And so there's a lot going on. Well, this goes back to the old thing about the whole Sunday thing. And, Preston, you've been an advocate.

Move it to Saturday. Is that ever going to happen? Probably never. Right. You agree, Mike, or no? I agree. Make it on a Saturday. And I know people don't like change and it's Super Bowl Sunday. But five years after we start it, we'll have accepted it and it'll be Super Bowl Saturday. Why are games on Sundays anyway? It's because of ratings. NFL games.

Well, they're saying the Super Bowl, they won't change it solely because of the ratings that they get on Sunday. And Alex, college football games are on Saturday. So NFL games are on Sunday. Listen, they added another game to the schedule for all these professional teams. What they could have done is added another bye week if they really cared about their players safety and all that stuff. And if they added another bye week, then they can move things back. And then this could line up potentially with President's Day weekend where people would have all.

on Monday anyway, but they don't do that because they don't care about the viewer. But the ratings thing, like everyone watches the Super Bowl. Won't we just move to whatever day it's on? I know, right? The ratings will be even higher. Yeah, agreed. That's what I'm thinking. Absolutely, because the people who are holdouts who never do it are more inclined to say, you know what? I'm going to do it. I'm going to have a bigger party. Do we have to fix everything? I know. Makes me sick. Preston and Steve propose.

Move on. That's right. I don't know. Are your listeners really hyped for this Super Bowl? Oh, no. They really don't care. Oh, come on, Mike. Yes, of course. Everybody is completely stoked. And behind me, you can see this thing we have called BirdBot, which we're making a second version. We did it in 2018 when we had a championship. Yes.

And we're going to send BirdBot out on the streets on Friday morning and have him be passed around by fans. And they're going to add stickers and signatures and things like that. And then it's going to have to find its way to New Orleans where you guys are going to be broadcasting from, which is pretty awesome, too. So maybe BirdBot will make it down there and make an appearance while you guys are broadcasting. But it's in the hands of the people. Like, we hand it off and then we're done with it. Yes. And then we see if it can make it there. We have to get it to.

someone yes to bring it to because we leave sunday so we're broadcasting all week we're going to be there taking over new orleans and we would love to have the bird bot so we have to make that happen they're going to be bird bot 2.0 will be floating on a sea of eagles fandom in an organic caravan from here as you say casey from broad street to bourbon street so we'll get it done mike and alex are you guys going to be broadcasting in different locations to the same spot every day do you know

All five days will be different. Okay, cool. I love that. So we're going to get a taste of New Orleans through you guys. Yes, but if you follow us, we'll announce. Because if you guys know anybody in New Orleans who are Eagles fans or if you know people who are going, please, we want you to come meet us and represent. And we want to take over. You know, I think it would be great. Next Friday, we can give you Monday's location. All right. You guys should tailgate with Anne Rice. I bet she tears it up. Oh, good Lord.

Interview with the vampire. Alex is doing all the voodoo stuff. Awesome. Yes. Yeah. Sadly, she's dead. Oh, Anne Rice is dead? Damn it. It's not going to be very good. Do we know that, though? That's not well. She might be a vampire. Is she really? Is she really? Is she really?

Thank you. All right, guys. We'll see you later. Bye-bye. I've been to New Orleans a couple of times, and we'll come back to traffic in just a second. I've been to New Orleans a couple of times, and one time I was there for a radio convention, radio and records convention, and they brought in a voodoo...

I don't want to say priestess is the wrong word, but they came in and did a thing at dinner because there were some record executives and they paid for this thing. She did not quite a seance. Like a blessing? Kind of, sort of. It was

Did she kill someone? She didn't kill anybody. It was kind of cool. I enjoyed it. Like, that stuff, like, I know and I don't know. Like Serpent and the Rainbow or, you know, that sort of stuff. And it's like, you know, it's like, I don't know. You think of the Stephen King thinner, you know. Yeah.

I don't want to screw around with that. The mojo hand. New Orleans is kind of like Vegas, though. It's pretty impossible to have a bad time there. Also, there should be three or four days tops that you're there because after that, you're like, I need to get home. I need to get out. Not even as a

as a non-drinker, when I've gone, I've had a blast. There's so much going on and it's like you're on an active movie set, but it's the real place. Yeah. And you don't have to drink to have a great time in Vegas either. No, you can be a prostitute. Well, yeah, there's a lot of sex, but I mean, it's just geared towards entertaining you and making sure you have a good time. All right, back to traffic. I can't wait. Kathy Romano, we were in the midst of that, so what's going on at this point, Kathy?

Schuylkill Expressway, eastbound heavy from the boulevard into the Vine. Westbound from the boulevard to Gladwin. 95 southbound jams Cotman to Allegheny. The Vine is jammed westbound the lane. The Blue Route, northbound, heavy volume here. 95 to the media bypass southbound side from the Mid-County tolls to Ridge Pike.

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All right, it is brought to you this morning by me, Preston Elliott. We're going to start with this. An accident during... This is a terrible story. An accident during an indoor track meet at the University of Colorado resulted in the death of an audience member on Sunday. The incident took place at the Mountain Lion Fieldhouse.

during a club sports track and field event for high school students across Colorado. An attending spectator was struck by a thrown weight during a meet. Yeah, the man was struck by the thrown hammer. The meet scheduled listed a weight throw, which is typical for indoor events, and a track and field hammer is a metal ball attached to

A handle by a length of wire that is thrown for distance. The indoor weight is typically heavier with a shorter tether. Rescue crews pronounced and provided medical care, but the man was pronounced dead at the scene. You always think, what if something like that were to happen when you're, like, someone getting hit by a javelin or whatever, but...

Wow. There are a couple of times, and there's video of a guy getting nailed with a javelin. You know, the judges that are out there in the field. But I've not heard of the hammer throw, killing someone before. The identity of the fatally injured man was not released as of yet.

The UK's Royal Navy launched a frantic search for phantom Russians off of the coast after picking up two mysterious sounds in the ocean, only to conclude that the noises came from a gassy whale. Wow. Whale farts. Naval officials feared one of Russian President Vladimir Putin's drone subs had dropped a listening device onto the ocean floor between two islands in Scotland and let rip on an investigation. Wow.

The two toots were detected about 100 miles from where the UK's doomsday subs are based. The official said, we have been analyzing the sounds and now believe that it was a marine mammal, a whale. The sound, first described by analysts as a man-made noise, had never before been picked up on sensors. You can cancel the red alert. It is whale farts.

And it also sparked fears that Russia's deep sea research unit known as Gugi was trying to record acoustic signatures of the British subs to make them easier to track. The locations of the Royal Navy's attack subs and Vanguard class ballistic missile submarines are among the UK's most closely guarded military secrets. They were designed to move through the sea with nary a squeak.

And while it was determined the flatulence was the cause of the false alarm, officials said that they'll take all threats seriously. I would love to hear a recording of an actual whale fart. You would assume it would have to be huge, right? I would think so. You would think so. In Ocean Ridge, Florida, a man was killed after he was caught...

in a wood chipper. Oh, man. Between this and the hammer throw. The deadly accident happened while the man, a contracted tree trimming vendor, was trimming trees by himself on the first day of a project at the town hall and police department property. Lynn Ladner, the town manager, said the man died from his injuries sustaining the accident and said, I am devastated. It's a horrible loss of life.

She added that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has been notified and is en route to investigate. They asked Landner if the man was pulled in headfirst, and she responded saying, I believe he was, yes. Oh, my God. Landner explained that other crew members witnessed the incident and immediately responded along with the town staff and officers.

The victim's family who are in Mexico have not yet been notified. I wonder, so Preston, they have these table saws that can sense human flesh. Yep. And so they will immediately seize up and lock. Right. I wonder if they're working on anything like that because we keep getting, I mean, not that this is a crisis, but it happens enough where is there a way to...

I don't know. Put that technology into wood chippers. That's a good question. Investigation into the accident is ongoing. New York police trying to find the suspects that stole a subway train and took it on a joyride.

video that was posted. How do you do that? That was posted on Instagram by the culprits online shows the trio dressed all in black, including masks, driving an R train on Sunday night. They used a black marker to cover surveillance cameras and may have hit speeds of 30 miles an hour going through at least one station and passing at least one signal. Police think that it was stolen from and returned to a sidetrack at a Brooklyn station. Doors were locked.

I mean, the joyriders likely used train keys. And a second video was also posted online showing someone driving what appears to be another train backwards. It's not clear if they are connected. There have been no arrests so far. Seems a little inside. Yeah.

All right, a whale watcher who was found alive after 67 days adrift at sea is facing jail over the deaths of his nephew and brother on the voyage. Mikhail Pachugin spent over two months in an inflatable dinghy with the dead bodies of his relatives before he was rescued in October last year. And I was...

I started the story, I'm like, well, why is this guy being arrested? Yeah, it's a wild story. He had been drifting for hundreds of miles in the inhospitable sea of Okhotsk in the far northeast of Russia after his engine broke while on an adventure trip to watch whales in their natural habitat. When he was found alive...

The Haggard and Gaunt Mr. Pichugin was hailed as a hero in Russia for surviving for as long as he did in the harsh conditions. However, he now faces up to seven years in jail for causing the deaths of his brother Sergei and his nephew Ilya.

According to Mr. Pichugan, 16-year-old Ilya was the first to die reportedly from starvation, having hardly eaten. And in this account to rescuers, he said after that, his father went crazy. Sergei was crying, screaming, and jumping into the water. Mikhail pulled him out of the water, warmed him up, tried to feed him, but he refused to do so. And after 10 days, he also died. Jeez.

They had on board warm clothes, life jackets, flares, a small supply of food and 20 liters of drinking water expecting their journey to take several days. They also had four boxes of Omaha steaks. No, but listen, but after the catamaran type inflatable lost use of its engine, the vessel drifted at least 625 miles over the course of more than two months.

Rescuers had to look for the trio to no avail, and after a month, they decided they were unlikely to survive, and they called it off because there were storms. But Mikhail was ultimately found on the Kamuchaka... Kamuchaka!

Boom, boom, a gachaka. Peninsula by the angel fishing vessel. Prosecutors have gone after Mr. Pachugan, accusing him of violating the rules of sea transport, so causing the death of his brother and nephew. Instead of being a witness in a criminal case, he's been made the suspect due to his failure to comply with the rules. His inflatable boat should not have gone more than three kilometers from the coast. That's less than two miles.

When the engine broke, they were 37 miles from shore. So he was culpable for their negligence. Okay. Yeah. So what would that qualify? Technically, would that be manslaughter? I don't know what they officially, you know, had logged the rules as Steve or the law. What's his rule in Russia? Mr. Pichugin only survived the lack of food on board because he was overweight, according to the law.

Wow. What a story. Did you play Risk? What's that? Did you play Risk? You know what? Yeah, I hated that game. Okay. But why? Kamchatka was one of the pieces that you could get in Risk. Really? It was strategic because it borders the ocean, so you would try to take over as much as Asia as possible, and you'd get invaded if people could come through Kamchatka. Okay. All right. All right.

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All right, thanks, guys. Real quick, a shout-out. I got this from Brandon Boyd. Oh, really? Not from Incubus. He also goes by Dieter.

He says, I'd like to give a big, juicy shout out to my amazing wife, Tiffany Boyd, who turns 40 on January 29th. And he says she makes every morning so much brighter and is an incredible wife, mother and friend, a huge fan of the show. I converted her back in 2007 when we started dating and commuting into work together. And she's been hooked ever since. And we've even defied the odds. She's from Bucks Co. I'm from Delco. And somehow we made it.

work. Jay Taunt. He said, Tiffany, I love you to St. John and back. Happy 40th and thanks in advance, Preston, and you guys rock. There's a chart out for you, my dear. And then, I wanted to mention this. This is a butt plug. This is from Christine Adams.

who writes in and says that she works for a nonprofit organization in Warrington. She said, we work with individuals with intellectual disabilities. And prior to January 1st, we were known as Shared Support South Incorporated, and now we are Shared Wellness. And she said, we will be opening up a new Shared Wellness facility in Warrington to not only help our individuals with disabilities, but also the community, like single mothers, first responders, veterans, and those who can't afford wellness, like yoga or meditation.

And she said, you do a lot with the community and your support with Filled Abundance and the Camp Out for Hunger. I thought it'd be great if you were aware of our organization. So she just wanted us to let us know that they exist. They're there to help. They are open now in Warrington. So if you know someone who has intellectual disabilities that needs some assistance or maybe even single mothers, first responders, veterans, people like that who can't afford help,

Some things. Reach out to them. They're called Shared Wellness. And they are in Warrington. So I wanted to pass that on to you. Doing good work. And then I got a package this morning. Nick, oddly enough, brought it in to me. Nick is addressed in this, believe it or not. It says, Yo Presbo, cheers from England. Where they have several food items. And they sent me one of these, by the way. They have several food items that they call PUD.

It's our favorite word. And I've included a pack of puds for you guys there. I laugh and think of the show whenever I see them in Tesco or Waitrose.

And I snagged these in some after Christmas sales. Hope you guys like them. Make sure to pass them out before Nick sees the package. Tesco in Waitrose sounds like a Game of Thrones sort of location. Says Go Birds, fresh pud, local putters. And that is from Marshall who sent that in. So I had these here. I got to try one now. If you guys want, I'll try. It looks like they have hazelnut in them, Casey. I'm a big hazelnut fan. It says five times Cadbury dairy milk chocolate balls with truffle center hazelnuts.

hazelnut pieces, and rice crisps. All right, so I told you guys that for some reason my palate has changed over a little bit of time, and I haven't been liking milk chocolate all that much lately. My friend Helen is from Manchester, and she does not like American chocolate, and I never liked English chocolate. I wonder...

If my palate has changed where I might enjoy English chocolate. Pop a pud in your mouth and we'll see what you think about it. I'm going to pop a pud. Anybody else want a pud? Absolutely, yeah. Come on over. Here you go. So athletic. I did catch it, bitch.

Steve, you want a pud? All right, here you go. That was a bad throw. No, it was no problem. Cassie. It's a bunch of athletes in this room. Would you like a pud? Yes. Don't rocket it at me. Nice catch, by the way. I got one last pud. Hey, it's like a prom night, Cassie. Marissa, you can have it. Yeah, let me throw it to you. I'll save this pud for you. This pud's for you. This pud. All right. You going to try it now or later, Cassie? I already just tried it. What do you think? This pud's fantastic. It's fantastic? Yeah. All right. Yeah. Yeah.

Very good. All right. So just thought I would pass that along to you courtesy of Marshall listening in England. And thanks for checking in, brother. We appreciate the gifts. All right. I wanted to pass along this story. I saw this this morning and I was so excited.

Another pod story? No. But my time has come. You know, if you're good at something, if you have a stupid thing about you, some dumb human trick that you can do, in this day and age of social media and the presence of videos on TikTok and Instagram and so on, eventually that thing that you're good at is going to come around as a trend. And right now, apparently, there's a trend of gleeking. Oh, gleeking. You've been doing it ever since I've known you. I am... You're like a...

You're like a lizard. Yeah. I'm kind of a champion gleeker. Not only distance, but accuracy as well. You're gleeking. Kathy's gurning. Yeah. My buddy Justin was a great gleeker. He's probably still got it. Yeah. Yeah. You don't ever lose that, right? Let's explain for the novice what the art of gleeking is. All right. And my mouth's getting dry thinking about it, so I need to take a sip here. You want a pud? Mm-mm. That would be counterproductive. All right.

So if you open up TikTok, search phrase gleeking, you'll be greeted with hundreds of videos which show people with their mouths open and tongues pressed against their roofs. And basically, you're squirting saliva out of the bottom of your tongue. Like a spitting snake. Just like Cobra. So this particular article that I saw this morning answers a question. How does that work?

It involves shooting saliva from under your tongue. And I loved hearing this stat. Around 35% of the population are able to gleek with a much smaller 1% able to do it on command.

I'm a one percenter. You're a one percenter. Wow. You're a wealthy bastard. So why is the human body able to perform this bizarre party trick? Well, there are three major saliva glands in our mouths with the submandibular and sublingual.

Lingual glands. My wife likes that. Being located under the tongue. And these two glands are here to help produce saliva to aid with eating and swallowing. And according to Mark S. Wolf, DDS PhD Dean of the School of Dental Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. There we go. Explain to health.com if you tense the muscles in the tongue just right...

It squeezes the duct and saliva squirts right out of it. I just gleeke three times in a row, man. Really? That's a personal record for me. So you're one of the one percenters? No, I can't do it on command. The environment has to be perfect in, I guess, all three categories there. Preston can do it anytime he wants. I can probably hit the camera that's in front of me here. Ew, no, no. It's not going to get you. We're in the middle of like

like germ season and you're spitting all over the studio. I don't think this is a good idea. Nick is coughing on me. You're spitting. Let's move on to something else. I'm very clean. No, I'm not going to do the story and not gleek. Gleek towards Casey. That's too far away. That's definitely too far away. Steven Singer gave us these Eagles tiny footballs. If I throw one up, can you... While it's in the air? Wait, this is like... Keep shooting. I'll say pull. Okay.

All right. We got it right now. See if you can get it like over here. Okay. Mark it over this way. Like a Jalen Hurts pass. Yeah. Okay. All right. Oh, wow. The pressure's on me now. All right. Ready? And pull. Did you get it? It goes too fast. Oh, damn it. It goes too fast. I don't even think I gleeked on that because I was turning my head. Well, maybe not moving target too hard. All right.

Okay. Anyway, I gleeked at the camera. I don't know if it... I think it went a little bit to the left. All right. Don't worry. They got it. How do porn stars do it? Where's your gleek? Didn't you see it? I did not see it. No. Wait, Marissa, why do you have plastic bags? Yeah, I was going to cover up Kathy so you can go. Oh, my God. And the board, too. All right, watch. I'll try to hit the camera. Here we go. All right.

Hang on. Hang on. No, I already did it. It went way over the camera, by the way. It could have landed on. Kathy, I think it landed on your mug. Yeah. No, it landed on top of your Stanley cup. It was cursed, I think. What's that? I might have cursed. You're cursed? I didn't get it. I didn't hear it. No, I might have cursed. Oh, you might have cursed. I didn't hear it. I thought you said, I'm cursed. Put that dry cleaning bag over your head and weave in. And tighten it. All right. I'll see if I can get the camera. Here we go.

It's going just to the left. Are you guys even seeing it? Are you kidding me? You got it right there, bro. I know. I'm trying to hit the lens. Oh, oh, okay. No. No. What? It hit the camera. Yeah. Which one did it hit? This one right here. Oh, okay. My camera. All right. What else can we do today? We...

That's a queef. All right. No, you disgusting slobs did do that before. Didn't we have somebody in here? We had a young lady blow out a candle. Are we slobs? That was in the earlier days. Did she call us a slob? Disgusting slobs. You called us slobs, though. No, slobs. Slobs is a Croatian term. I got a little slob on the phone screening. All right. Congrats. So let me ask you. Yeah.

Do you know of a group that you can get together with, perhaps? No, I don't. You know what? Is there international travel involved? Is there a convention in Milan? Oh, my God. It's all over here. I don't think it's funny. I'm actually extremely irritated. Okay, I'm sorry, Kat. It's disgusting. You're spitting...

You're spitting on me is what you're doing. I didn't spit on you. You did. It's all over my stuff. It's not on you. No. It's show contact. Okay, but it's right here all over me, things I'm touching. So if you don't feel good, like Nick doesn't feel good, then tomorrow I'm not going to feel good. I feel fine. We'll see about that. But Kathy, you're so resistant to diseases.

Okay. What is that? She's angry cleaning. She is angry cleaning. Marissa brought her some kind of, is that a disinfectant? I'm sorry, Nick. Did you not like that? No, actually, I didn't either. So I didn't care for any of this. Thank you, Marissa. Okay.

Well, then why did you ask for us to do this, Kathy? Shut up. I did not. Nick's throwing stuff around now. I'm not happy either. I don't want to be sprayed by any of this crap. And Kathy's like spraying me with freaking Lysol. It's not Lysol. It's microband. Oh, well, then that's fine. I'll open my mouth next time. You're coughing on me. So let me get this straight. Nick is sick and breathing on you? Is that the problem? He's coughing. Oh, okay. All right. What is that? Thank you. You were coughing earlier, Kathy.

I'm glad I brought this up. It got tense in here all of a sudden. Yes, it did. Tell you why. Because there's spit all over my stuff. Well, that's the surface. What we're really talking about is the prolonged sexual tension that has existed forever. Not what we're talking about. And that whole expectorant thing that plays into your kink. Decades at this point. All right. Well, anyway. By the way, the word is that for the longest time that John Peterson and Barbra Streisand were...

That was their thing, spitting on each other. What? They were involved for a long time, and the spitting was part of their sexual activity. Okay. So that's why I think what you're seeing right here is someone wildly turned on. Okay.

I don't think Dr. Mike would agree with this. No. Okay. All right. Well, we'll call him in for a consult. He would be very upset. All right. Why don't we lighten the mood up here a little bit after this inflammatory leaking story, and we'll do survey sets. Okay. Here we go. All right. Wow. I'm good. Just to let you know. Thank you, Casey. Thank you.

All right, so Newsweek and BrandSpark International have chosen the winners of the 2025 Most Trusted Brands Award based on responses from over 29,000 U.S. survey participants involving more than 162,000 brand evaluations across 284 categories. Can I guess number one? Uh...

They don't have them listed as top. Oh, okay. So these are for specific brands. Like I have, like I'll give you an example. Fisher-Price is ranked best for educational toys. Okay. What about Purell sanitary wipes? They're the best. Wait, but what are their categories? Yeah, so, but it doesn't give me a list. It just gives me the best per category. How people perceive these brands. Yeah, so Fisher-Price you associate with...

and wonderful children's learning toys, correct? Yes, exactly. So shoppers share which brands they trust most and why in categories ranging from baby and kids to food and beverages to retail and restaurants as well. So for dolls...

Barbie is the most trusted brand. For diapers, Pampers is the most trusted brand. And a lot of the Pampers almost becomes synonymous, you know, the way Kleenex became synonymous with the product. And if you want to hear people get heated, talk about their brand of diapers. Oh, really? Yeah. I like the brand I'm wearing now. Yeah, every now and then, like, we would have, like, a box of Huggies. I'm like, ugh. Ugh.

Yeah. I hated the Huggies. Really? Yeah. Yeah. I actually didn't like Pampers either. Okay. Oh, you didn't? No. What'd you go with? The Target brand. I'm not kidding you. They were the best diapers. They never leaked. Yeah. That was my favorite. You have an option. You have an option.

You have to use Huggies or let Preston spit in your face. I'll use Huggies. All right. I'll use cloth diapers. For headache relief and children's cough and cold relief, Tylenol is the most trusted brand. Oh, see, I'm an Advil guy. But not even Advil. I'm ibuprofen all the way. So it doesn't have to be. Straight up, bro. Yeah, it doesn't have to be brand specific. Just ibuprofen. Just ibuprofen. You can't take this, though, right? You're physically. I'm allergic. Yeah, yeah. I'm allergic to ibuprofen or Tylenol.

or as they call NSAIDs, and that does include aspirin too. So Tylenol is my source. So NSAIDs are guys who never have sex, right? Yeah, right, exactly. Does Tylenol work for you for your headaches or whatever? It does. Yeah. Because I feel like the ibuprofen, because I can take both, I feel like the ibuprofen works better than the Tylenol for me. Yeah, ibuprofen and the NSAIDs are anti-inflammatories, so they do something different. From what I understand, things like acetaminophen just kind of cut off the pain for you, like it dulls it.

But ibuprofen goes a step further and it makes the inflammation go down. And it relaxes the gleek muscle. It does. I wish I could take it, but I can't. Yeah.

Then you have for laundry detergent. The most trusted brand is Tide. Which is funny because we had to get new laundry detergent yesterday, and we had been a Tide family forever. But down the shore, we were using Gain, and I love the way Gain smells. So when I had to get detergent yesterday— Sounds like a commercial here. Well, there you go. I love the way this stuff smells. Yeah. So in the post-washing with the clothes, washing, do you believe that the clothes smell fresher?

With gain? Yeah. Okay. For air purifiers, Dyson is the most trusted brand. For air fryers, Casey. Casey was telling us an air fryer story this morning. And blenders, Ninja is the most trusted brand. So here's the deal.

Yeah, Ray's an interesting point. Ninja makes some good stuff, and they're also always being sold on QVC, which I think leads to this perception. Yeah. But I just got an ice cream maker, because I saw a commercial. I saw QVC pushing a Ninja ice cream maker.

But it wasn't rated. Like, I think it's easily accessible. They're usually a little bit cheaper. But we got a different brand that we're really thrilled with. So there's been some Ninja stuff like the Ninja Bullet. Oh, yeah. That's what I have. Right. I think it's good. But there's some other stuff that I think sort of misses the mark. Like, I have a Ninja Sibian, Preston. I am not happy. Not happy with it? No. That's weird. Okay. So, no. I have a Ninja Air Fryer. I used it last night. I actually cooked New York strip steaks in it.

And they turned out great. I couldn't believe it. I was like, I'm just going to take this out for a test spin. And sure enough, 25 minutes later, perfection. And what was the intent? Did it taste better or less fat? Or why the air fryer? Well, all right. So it was kind of a twofold thing. There's too much snow on my deck, so I didn't really feel like going out and grilling out there. And I didn't want to pan sear it or pan fry it or anything like that. And also, the steaks were so thick.

that they weren't fully thawed. It was like a foot thick. Yeah, and I had heard something a couple of weeks ago about steaks that are either frozen or not fully thawed, cooking them in the air fryer. So I was like, I'm just going to give this a go. And I did, and they were great. What was the blender that was like the big crazy? The Nutribullet? No, no, no. What was it? The Vitamix. Vitamix. I have one of those. I have one. And I mean, it is great, but the Ninja is also good too. I have the mini one. I like that.

I bought one because I did my due diligence when there was all the rage. I have a blender that you could put bricks in and puree, but the thing is so goddamn powerful that it's almost useless. Anything you put in is liquefied. The Vitamix, yeah, you can actually make hot soup. Yes, yes. Because there's so much friction.

and so much power in him. For fresh fruit, Dole is the most trusted brand. Sparkling Water, Perrier, is the most trusted brand. I thought Perrier's time kind of came and went. It's still there. I mean, Pellegrino is another popular brand. I like the Pellegrino better than Perrier. By the way, did you hear that for the first time in a long time, regular still water is eking out...

uh, sparkling water. It's eking out. Like in a restaurant, more people are ordering, uh, this is big news. I don't know why. Oh yeah. More people are ordering what? Still water as opposed to the sparkling. That makes sense. You guys like LaCroix? I,

I do. Yeah, but you know what? Polar is the best, I think. Okay. Yeah. Are they a sponsor? They are, as a matter of fact. But when I go to Costco, they have like 35 packs of it. You know who told me about it? Another sponsor, Mr. Steven Singer. For hard seltzer, White Claw is the most trusted brand. All right. So from what I understand, the college kids are drinking the White Claws. And it's not cheap. So I had to do a little bit of research to find out how are college kids...

affording spiked seltzer and as it turns out, natural light actually makes the spiked seltzer as well. How expensive is it? It's like $22 for a 12-pack. Really? You know what I like is the statesides and the surfsides. They're locally made. There's not a lot of...

It's not too sugary. Some of those, I don't care for just how they're mixed or whatever. They're not carbonated, right? The statesides? Well, the surfsides aren't. The surfsides are not. I think the statesides are. Yeah, one of them is not. I like the carbonation, but a lot of people don't. It'll get to them after a few of them, so that's why they like those, Nick, because they're not carbonated. Yeah, they're seltzers. These are the most trusted brands. For vodka, it's actually a tie. Okay.

for Tito's and Smirnoff. Wow, Tito's. Tito's is... All right, hang on. It's not that new.

But it's also not that old. It's way newer than Smirnoff. Right? Yeah. Okay. Let's see. For grocery stores, Aldi is the most trusted brand. Really? Yep. For organic foods, whole foods. For natural organic foods is number one. Aldi's really inexpensive. It's a great store if you don't want to spend a ton. Improvement retailer, home improvement retailer, the Home Depot...

That is the most trusted brand. That's Depot, Preston. What's that? Depot. Depot, I'm sorry. Over Lowe's, huh? Yeah. For insect control, Raid. Most trusted brand. And then the last one on this list for rewards, credit card provider. Capital One. No, because I went on...

They were there in the news recently because they've had some issues. Oh, Capital One. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I did like a few years ago, I did a deep dive on... Actually, maybe last year, I did a deep dive on credit cards and the rewards and everything that you get. And so as I was interested in that, I did not go with Capital One. But I think because...

The card that I found had no yearly fee, and I got very similar rewards, so I went with the no fee. What you're also dealing with is the effectiveness of their various campaigns to convince you that they're trustworthy? Yeah. And whether that aligns with actual user experience. Right, right, right. All right, so interesting look into brands and what Americans find most trusted. Here is another survey. Okay.

According to a new survey, the average American hasn't changed their pizza order in more than two years, while one in seven have been eating the exact same pizza order for over five years. There was a poll of 5,000 U.S. adults across every state. They revealed that half of respondents say their favorite kind of pizza is the very same as it was when they were kids. Well, what's funny is my pizza order changes from...

from which place I'm going. So if I'm just getting pretty generic pizza, it's usually pepperoni, but if I go to Pica's... No, no, Pica's is pepperoni, but if I go to Imperial, it's always sausage. How many do you think you got when you tried that experiment a few years ago of all the pizzerias in Delco? Well, I mean, it's still an ongoing experiment.

So it's every Friday during Lent. I try to go to a different pizza place. I was fascinated by that experiment. Yeah, but it's hard because there's a billion pizza places in Delco. And so my experiment worked for Delco pizza places exclusively. Over 60, you think? No, I haven't gotten there yet. How many freaking Fridays are there in Lent? What's your roster of pizza selections that you go to, Preston? Me? So if everybody's ordering whatever, I'm just like, yeah, pepperoni.

Whatever. That's the go-to. But actually, my favorite kind of pizza to get, believe it or not, is a veggie pizza. But I don't like veggie pizzas that have broccoli or spinach on it. By veggie, I mean...

peppers, tomatoes, and olives and stuff like that. That is my favorite kind of pizza. I don't like veggie pizzas that have veggies on it. Do you know what I mean? Sure. Remember, my pizza place closed years ago and for years I didn't know. I think I recently found

a pizza place. You were distraught. You were actually more angry than when Preston was spitting in your face. Well, one time on the way home, because they have a second location in Roxborough. So on the way home, Jace was like, can you please stop and get that pizza? So I got it on the way home. But I think I finally found a new pizza place. Okay. I like a thin, crunchy crust. That's what I grew up on, Emo's Pizza. That's what it is.

But on the complete opposite end of the spectrum, I think the tastiest pizza out there is the Detroit-style pizza. Casey was the first person to turn me on to that. My God, is that good. And I'm telling you, the Detroit City, Detroit-style frozen pizza at Costco.

It is really, really good. I'm telling you guys. And it's like, I think 11, maybe 12 bucks for two full pies. Okay. Really, really good. Preston, you had asked me for some recommendations for restaurants in Kajahok and I sent you a list. Next time you go. Yes. You got to go to Bar Sarah and get the... I just went to Bar Sarah. Did you get the order? I'm on a diet. What? And I was meeting somebody for lunch and it was just a quick thing. But I went to Bar Sarah, cute little place.

Doesn't even look like a restaurant would be there. It's like in a neighborhood. Yeah, it's right in the middle. But I saw the Detroit pizza on the menu. I'll get it next time, I promise. Oh, my God. It's like unbelievable. It's so good. And yes, it's not if you're on a diet. Okay. Steve, what's your go-to? So I will do...

Recently, I'll do a plain or I'll do a spinach pie. Oh, okay. But I can jump around. I do like a buffalo chicken pizza as well. I love breakfast pizza, which is an entirely other category. And then I do like the Sicilian. Yeah. Detroit. But if we're talking about toppings as opposed to pizza itself...

Yeah, I stay pretty much with either plain or a spinach pie. So think about how many breakfast pizzas we've had in our life. And you know who turned us on to that? It was the FOP. The FOP, I know. Kathy, those were so... In fact, I'm glad we stopped. Because you were taking in 50...

15,000 calories in one breakfast slice. Nick, do you miss the barbecue chicken pizza that was here? Oh, from downstairs? Yeah. It was good. You and I were the big supporters of that. Yeah. Steve, I like buffalo chicken, but it's sometimes a little too spicy for me. No, agreed. You're dancing with the devil when you go to Buffalo.

By the way, half of the respondents said that their favorite kind of pizza is very same as women's kids. I said that, but more than half say that they are open to trying new pizza combos, but they just don't know where to start. And spice apparently makes pizza taste better, according to 49%. Let's see. They have some state breakdown stuff. Michigan is a state with the most people who admit that they've never tried a new pizza ever.

People in different states prefer to eat their pizza in different ways. Like 40% of Georgia residents eat theirs crust first. What? Okay. Backwards knuckle draggers. In Illinois, 53% would rather use a knife and fork than their hands. I'm fine with that. Some people get up in arms about that. I don't mind. As long as you get it in your mouth, it's okay. Yeah, if you're going like the Chicago deep dish, that makes sense. Love Chicago deep dish. Oh, my God. You should...

John, on The Daily Show, John Stewart did, one time he did a breakdown of Chicago versus New York pizza. It is hilarious. And he had, and I love this, he qualified Chicago deepness pizza as a casserole. He's like, it's not a pizza, it's a casserole, which is about true. I don't know if you want to pop it in here, Preston, but-

Did you get the Ringo audio? I did not, but I can. It's pizza related, right? Yeah, it's pizza related. As a matter of fact, here we go. What is the setup to this? This is him. He was on Kimmel and he made a staggering admission. I think you can hear the audience gasp. Is it true you've never eaten pizza? I've never had a pizza. Never had a pizza. Wow. They had all these people in the back going, what? Or a curry.

Or what? I think he says curry. Or a curry. Okay. It's crazy. Well, I'm allergic to several items. On the pizza. You don't know what the footman is half the time.

So folks in Iowa eat the most pizza per month, an average of five times, followed by Alaska and then North Dakota. Alaska pizza? I haven't had pizza in a while. It's been a bit. But there are times I'll go through phases where we're having pizza too often. You know what I mean? That does occur. Yeah, I spent years where that was the case.

By the way, intern Kaylee works at a pizza place and it says, has pizza tea? Meaning she can spill some tea on pizza. Maybe people order. Oh, okay. Maybe we need to hear this. All right, so Kaylee's coming into the studio now. She's one of our newer interns. We have not had her. I didn't know she was a pizza insider. On the air yet. Hi, Kaylee. How you doing? Good. How are you? Good, thank you. So where do you work? I work at the Italian Delay in Brumal. Okay. And...

By this, I thought you meant you had pizza-flavored tea. It tastes terrible. It's just like the scoop. I know, but I don't... What's the tea? We're not hipsters. Usually you spill the tea. Anyway, what's the story? What do you want to tell us? When people call, their caller ID comes up, and you can go into their recent orders and literally just click on what they ordered in the past.

So like you said, like the average person hasn't changed their pizza order. You would be surprised at how many people really don't. Like over years? Yeah, like you can literally go into like 60 day, 120 day and click on the things that they've ordered and see what they've ordered. Do you have any idea as to what, at least what you're experiencing, what is the most common or is it just a basic pie? I would say a plain and a pepperoni is pretty common. Buffalo chicken is also pretty common. The Sicilian is pretty common.

Yeah, I love Sasan. Yeah. That's pretty popular. What's your favorite there? I really like the margarita. Margarita pizza. Margarita pizza. Yeah. One of my favorites. They also do a cheese fry bacon and ranch pizza. And it's like cardiac arrest. It's a cheese fry bacon and ranch pizza. Yeah. Frenzy fry. Wow. Frenzy fry.

Wow. Yeah, Italian Delight's got some good pizzas there. It's under different ownership. I told you guys a story about this. My buddy Brett, he ordered there. And as he was leaving, he was talking to the guy behind the counter. And he's like, I'll see you later. And the guy goes, yeah, I love you too. And my buddy, he gets out the door. He goes, I didn't say I love you. He's like, this guy thinks I said that I love you to this guy?

And that was my story. So what would you recommend? What's the absolute number one pie to get here? Because Casey, you say the pie is good though, right? It is.

Plain pizza's good. Yeah, the plain is honestly my favorite. Like, I think all of it tastes pretty good, especially reheated. And I'm not, like, big on reheating. Yeah, it's a good reheat. But they get it in the air fryer, and it's pretty good. I like that info. Do you have Detroit style there? Yes, the Sicilian, like, the thicker crust. But it's not like Detroit, but it's, like, the thicker, the only thicker. To me, Detroit is, like, the big bubbles. Yeah. No, the cheese goes around the crust.

the perimeter of it and kind of gets baked really crunchy. Oh, man. Oh, is that the difference? Yeah. Well, I mean, there's a couple different. I'd come close to shooting. But there's a couple differences. But yeah, that cheese, that's a big part of it. When we went to that place in Chicago, I didn't like that pizza. That was at Giordano's? That's the classic...

deep dish Chicago style pizza with kind of a corn meal based crust which is different and then they pile the meats and toppings on top of each other and then they put, it's almost like a more like a pie where the

where the filling's on the inside. Yeah, I didn't love it. Yeah, I'm not a huge fan of, I think it's good. I think it's all right. But I'm like, there are different kinds of pizza I'd rather have than Chicago style. But some people who love it, love it. They die by it. Kaylee, thank you very much. Thank you. Her first appearance on the Carson's T-shirt this morning. And we will take you up on your offer of free pizza. Can you just go to Vince online too? Because I got to find out where this place is. Real quick, because I can't find it.

Hi, Vince. Good morning. Hey, good morning. Thank you so much for taking my call. You bet it. So you have something for Casey as far as pizza goes in Delco, right? Leandro's on 69th Street, just a block away from the terminal. Absolutely the best pizza. If you don't like it, I'll pay for it. Leandro's, not Loretto's, Casey. Yeah, it was Leandro's. They got free slices, the thin crust.

Heavy on the toppings. Cheese and spices. Unbelievable. Isn't that where the old Loretto's used to be? Yeah. The only problem is I got to drive past Pika's to get there. Yeah, I know. No, it blows Pika's away. All right, I'll try it. But it's not this. All right. Thanks, Vince. Thanks, buddy. I want to try Pika's, Casey, because I pass it when I go into media. I was just there this weekend, and I always think of you when I pass. No, you didn't like it. Listen, he can't. When he touts Emo's pizza, he cannot. Sure, I can't.

Wait a second. Yeah. You're going to sit there and account for personal taste. I'm serious.

Listen, I didn't think it lived up to the hype. I thought it was pretty good at best. Pedestrian at best. But most of the time, Case, when you recommend stuff, he likes it. Yeah, yeah. I still want to try it. Does he like what Preston said? Yeah, try it. I absolutely recommend that you try it. Okay, thank you. Wait, Marissa, you shook your head. Marissa likes it. Okay, I was just wondering. Oh, yeah, I grew up on Pekus. It's two thumbs up. Yeah, same way. I grew up on Emo's. That's why I love it, you know?

I like it too, but from now on, I hate emos. Oh my God. What's with the energy in here today? I know. You bring this negative energy. You could have just not said anything about Peekus. It's all you. I love that it's your fault. It is your fault. You're spitting at me. Don't worry. Lately, I've been having people turn crap around on me anyway. Hey, listen. The actor where they had the triplets where...

This Is Us, the black triplet. What is his actor's name? What is that actor's name? I forget. Because apparently he's from St. Louis and was going on and on about Emo's Pizza. Sterling Brown. What's that? Sterling Brown. Sterling Brown. I guess maybe he's from the St. Louis area, but he was on one of the talk shows, maybe Kimmel or Found or something like that. No. No.

Doesn't matter. Yeah, it's an uphill battle. It doesn't matter. But anyhow, pizza's awesome, right? Can we agree on that? Yeah. Are we done here? Can we wrap it up now? I want to cry. I know. I do too. That's all right. We're going to take a break. Survey says how many people in the studio want to cry.

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With that, obviously we've been telling you our favorite place to go to get set for Valentine's Day, Steven Singer Jewelers for the gold-dipped roses and all the other things. Well, looky here. The man himself is in our studio, Steven Singer.

Good morning, guys. Nice to see you again. How many times have I been in the studio? 50, 60 times? Oh, way more than that. Yeah, yeah. This is the first time I walked in and Preston hocked Louie right and spit right on me. I thought that was a shot right over Kathy's head. That's what he does. It's a theme today. We're spitting. That's what we do. I feel the love. Yeah.

Can people come down and get spit on in the other corner of Ava Walnut? Absolutely. If it makes you happy, you'll do it. We'll do anything. We'll reach around, spit on, whatever you want. You should fly happiness. So, Stephen, we're going to do some giveaways in a moment. But before we get into the specifics and solicit for our callers and introduce our other guests that are here to help out,

You brought in the new peacock teal rose for us this morning. I did. It's brand new. We had actually a Preston and Steve listener asked us for this about five or six years ago. Really? And it's very hard. We save it to get like 20 shades of blue and green to blend together and look nice because it's all done by hand. It's not a machine situation. It takes a lot of time. And we finally got it.

And we're very proud of it. It looks very, very nice. The ombre, right? It's where they were. Ombre, yes, because it fades from one. It's 20 shades of green and blue on the top.

And on the sides. By the way, how did you get into this whole rose thing anyway? Because, I mean, it's been going on for a long time now. Since 1980. 1980. That's when we introduced them to first Philadelphia and Pennsylvania and then went national years after that. Wow. It was only five years after roses themselves were invented. We were at a craft show and we saw somebody had made one by hand.

Okay. And I looked and I said, you know, that's something I could steal. You know, it's, you know, amateur's borrow, professional steal. So I just stole the idea and I wish I would have invented it, but I didn't. And then it took us, you know, several years to actually make them and get them so the rose doesn't explode. Right. And,

We got it so it was perfect, and here we are. So besides the rose obviously being the easy, you know, yeah, I'm going to get that for Valentine's Day for sure. What's another hot item that you guys have? Oh, we have the Wrapped Up in Love Diamond Necklace. Okay. And we're going to give some of these prizes away, but we have it in all white with diamonds. We have it in rose gold and diamonds and yellow gold with diamonds. I have some samples with me. It's only $148. Okay.

And it's one of the reasons why other stores hate me because for them to make something similar to this, it's at least $300 to $350. That's the thing when we talk about it. We say, you know, during the spots that we're doing for you as well, and we're all customers. So we come in. Again, and this is no BS, the

The price is low, but the look and everything is really nice. Well, you guys know, but we just started really telling it to the public. Yeah. For the first 10 years I was in the industry, I was a wholesaler and manufacturer. I sold every major chain, the shopping networks, independents, and...

I wouldn't give the names, but discount stores. So we were the manufacturer's manufacturer. We sold to them. And it was one of the reasons that I got into the store. I said, I have to be able to do a better job than most of these guys are doing. And we opened the store. And in essence, we sell it wholesale to the public. We don't sell to other stores anymore or do it. And we just make up all the custom stuff ourself.

And in some categories, we are the world's largest seller of that particular category. That's pretty wild. Then like, you know, like some of the big chains, those names that have like 7,000 stores, you know, around the country. So it's, we're able to really work on a very small margin. And we have a,

Two cool things. We have a thousand mystery shoppers, they're called, from my industry group. They go around, look at all the stores around the country and see what everybody's doing. And then we have an algorithm like an Amazon, obviously not as sophisticated as Amazon, that shops everything and we make sure that our prices are always better than everybody else's.

Yeah, yeah. The proof's in the pudding press. Anytime you send somebody over to Stephen and to your location or even online, they always get the same deal we would get. Yeah, we have that thing called the perfect price, which is the one price policy. If the Pope walks in with his head on fire, we don't change the price. Just put him out first. This is the price. And it's always the best value. Right.

All right, well, we're ready to give some stuff away. Stephen's brought the gold-dipped roses, and we have in to accompany, sort of, Stephen, a couple of people. First of all, we're introducing you know him very, very well. He's much beloved, especially in our YouTube community. They just love him to death. Ladies and gentlemen, our friend Kyle Mack is here. Look at that jacket. What's up, buddy?

Oh my gosh. What's up, guys? You look amazing. They're wearing sequined jackets. Kyle has a red sequined jacket. And playing guitar for him this morning. They're both in the Michael McDonald tribute act called Minute by Minute. Hugely successful. Michael is here with us this morning. What's Mike's last name? Ian. Mike Ian. Yeah. All right. So Michael Ian, the microphone is down by his guitar, so you're not going to be able to hear him right now. Hello, everyone.

a phenomenal guitarist who I've had the pleasure to jam with myself. Yes. It's incredible. So what we're going to do is we're going to do Stephen and a singer. We did this, do you guys remember? It was like two years ago. Two years ago. So we're reviving this contest.

And what we're going to do is we're going to get callers on the line. You can call now at 215-263-WMMR. And we're going to pull your phone. You're going to pull you up on the air. We're going to put you on with Kyle and Michael. They are going to play a love song. Now...

The thing that has changed about the song is that Kyle, instead of singing the lyrics to the song, is only going to repeat Steven Singer's name over and over to the melody of the song. So it's wedged in there. Yeah, so you should hopefully be able to pick up what song it is by the melody alone,

But it's made very difficult because the lyrics are not the same. It's just Steven Singer repeated over and over. It throws you off. And Steven will be playing the unplugged electric piano. Unplugged electric piano. This is why my wife wakes me up every morning by singing my name. Yes, I am. I am Steven Singer. Let's take this out for a spin. All right. We're going to go to our phone lines. I've got Michael, who's going to be our first contestant. Michael, good morning to you, sir.

Top of the morning. Top. Where are you calling from, Michael? Philadelphia. All right, bud. We're going to see how well you know your love songs, Michael. Would you say you're a lover or a fighter, Michael? Both. Both. Okay. Did you get up early this morning to write some love sonnets to that special lady in your life?

Oh, all the time. Yeah. I did it this morning. All right, well, here we go. We're going to start. I'm glad we're starting with Michael. Yeah. You don't get any more films. No, that's it. Perfect. All right, Michael, here's our first song. And if Michael doesn't get it right, we'll go to another caller. We'll do two callers, and then we'll move along. All right. If they don't get it. So let's begin. Stephen and a singer. Here we go. Stephen Singer. Stephen Singer.

Stephen sings. Stephen sings. Stephen sings. Stephen sings. Stephen sings.

Steven Singer. Beautiful. Is that done? If you got more. Steven Singer. Steven Singer. Steven Singer. Steven Singer. Steven Singer.

Stephen Singer. Stephen Singer. Yeah. Yeah. Beautiful. What would you expect to pay for that Amazing Maker package? I don't know. This one, I do not know. No? Oh, my God. You know how many girls I Frenched while dancing to this song? All right. Well, let me go to Michael and see if he's Frenched a few ladies and might know. Michael, do you know what song that is? Kyle, that was one hell of a singing. No, I do not. You do not. Oh.

Thanks anyway, Michael. I appreciate it. It's a wonderful song. All right. We'll go to one more call or a shot. I have Pat. Hey, Pat. Good morning. Morning. Go Birds. Go Birds. All right, Pat. Did you hear the song? I did hear the song, and I know it off the top of my head. I can remember it from old school eighth grade dances. Yeah. Can you remember one of the lyrics, the one that gets repeated a lot? Anything? I can't. Oh!

Sorry, Pat. You guys want to name it? Yeah. It's Always and Forever by Heat Wave. Is that too tough? No. It's one of the more difficult ones on here looking at the titles, but that's okay. We need people to be disappointed. No, we need some that are a challenge. So we'll go to Bruce. Hey, Bruce, good morning. Hey, good morning. All right, Bruce, you ready to play Stephen and a singer?

Oh, yeah. All right. This is song number two. Let's see if you know this little ditty. Steven. Singer. Steven. Steven Singer. Steven. Singer. Steven. Steven Singer. Steven Singer.

Steven, Steven Singer. Yeah! All right. Bruce, you should know that one. What song is it? That's Crazy Little Thing called Steven Singer. That's correct! Woo!

Well done. And Bruce, hang on. You just won and here's what we have for you. You won the number one gift for Valentine's Day. One of Steven Singer's 24 karat gold dip roses. Steven Singer's gold dip roses start at just $59 and they come with Steven's lifetime guarantee and fast and free shipping. Real roses from a real jeweler. Dipped in real gold for your real love only at IHatesStevenSinger.com. Steven Singer, I just wanted to tell you if it's okay, I'd like to up the ante on this gift.

We want to give them the 24-carat peacock rose. We want to give them one of our newer displays that hold up to a dozen roses. One to a dozen so it stands up. We're going to give them a fresh rose scent that lasts up to a year. When you put that next to it, it smells like a dozen fresh roses. We're going to give them a rose cleaning cloth. And that's not what all you get. What you also get, and it's wrapped up in love.

Diamond necklace. Oh! Holy hell! So for the next call, the next winner. No, we're going to do it for all of them. For all of them? All right, I'm going to call everybody gets the wrapped up and love diamond necklace on top of this. Holy hell. Oh my God. Okay, well let's make it happen. We will go next to Denise. Hi, Denise. Hello.

Hello. All right, Denise, we're playing Stephen and a Singer. Are you ready to receive the gift of music? I am. All right, Kyle and Michael, let's hear the next song. I wrote the words on my hand. Okay. He did, he did. Stephen, Stephen, Stephen Singer. Stephen Singer, Stephen Singer.

Stephen Singer. Stephen S... Stephen. Stephen Singer. Stephen Singer. Yeah. Yeah.

All right, Denise, do you know the song? I do. What is it? I had the time of my life with Steven Singer. Steven, I got to imagine that you're going to take today's podcast, go into the bathroom with a box of tissues, listen to the music and pleasure yourself. I'm just going to bring it to my wife. I'm hiring these two guys for Valentine's Day to sit this down and serenade her. Yeah.

like that. All right. So, Denise, here's what we have for you. All right, Denise. In addition to everything that Steven had just added to the prizes, you're going to get the number one gift for Valentine's Day. This is one of Steven Singer's 24-carat gold-dipped roses. Steven Singer gold-dipped roses start at just $59. They come with Steven's lifetime guarantee, fast, free shipping, real roses from a real jeweler, dipped in real gold for your real love, only at IHateStevenSinger.com. And

And a wrapped up in love diamond necklace. That's all for you, Denise. All right, we're going to get another caller. And we're doing Stephen and a singer where Kyle and Michael are taking love songs and changing the lyrics into exclusively Stephen Singer. If you can identify from the melody, then you get to name the song and win the prize. So we will go to Terry next. Hey, Terry.

Hey, good morning to you. Good morning, Terry. All right, playing Stephen and the Singer. You ready? Yes. All right, next song, fellas. Stephen Singer Stephen Singer Stephen Singer Stephen Singer Stephen

Sing a feeling. Sing.

Yeah Steven Singer Singer Singer I love it. No, I'm kidding. I would listen to a record of all Steven Singer songs. A song by Kyle. Kyle's voice is beautiful. And played by Michael. And the guitar playing is on point. I'm going to put this on a loop for myself. This is fantastic. I don't know how my head's going to fit through the door to leave here. Terry, do you know that song?

I think it's Sarah Smile. Yes, it is. That's absolutely correct. You win, sir. Hang on. Terry, you won the number one gift for Valentine's Day, one of Steven Singer's 24-carat gold dip roses. Steven Singer's gold dip roses start at just $59, and they come with Steven's lifetime guarantee and fast and free shipping. Real roses from a real jeweler dipped in real gold. For your real love, only at IHateStevenSinger.com and...

a wrapped up in love diamond necklace. I hate steven singer.com. Uh, by the way, we're doing nine of these total. These guys put together a lot of songs. What would you expect to pay for that amazing record package? We are going to go to Jeff next. Hey there, Jeff. Good morning. All right, Jeff, ready to play long body. Hmm.

I'm going to try. All right, Jeff. You need to calm down. All right, all right, all right. Oh, they saw you a minute by minute. What did you think?

It was excellent. I loved it. Awesome. By the way, we might be coming to a famous theater in the Philadelphia area in June. Really? Yes. We can't say what it is yet until we can sign the contract. But... Okay. Be on the lookout for it, y'all. Go to minutebyminutelive.com. Minute by Minute, the Michael McDonald tribute act. And amazing. Amazing. Like an 11-piece band. Correct. It's a badass experience. All right. Let's try this out, Jeff. Here comes your song. Steven Singer...

Stephen Singer Stephen Singer Stephen Singer Stephen Singer Stephen Singer Stephen

Steven Singer. Steven Singer. Steven. Steven Singer. Steven. Steven Singer. Steven. Steven. Steven. Steven. All right. Yeah. Jeff, what song is that? I'm drawing a black. Oh.

Oh, what a great song. He only likes Michael McDonald. Gotta let you go, Jeff. Thank you, though. All right, we'll try another caller. We'll go to James, see if he was paying attention. James, are you there? Here, but I don't know it. You have to find somebody. All right, want to find somebody else? Yeah. Okay, all right. Let's go to, we'll go to John. John, are you there? You too. Yeah. You too. John, did you hear the song?

I did. I believe that was in your eyes. Yes! Yes!

Absolutely. Hang on, John. You are a winner. You got the number one gift for Valentine's Day. One of Steven Singer's 24 karat gold dip roses. Steven Singer's gold dip roses start at just $59 and they come with Steven's lifetime guarantee. Fast free shipping. These are real roses from a real jeweler dipped in real gold for your real love only at I hate Steven Singer dot com and a wrapped up in love diamond necklace. All right. I'm excited for this next one. We're going to go to Brandon. Hey, Brandon. Good morning.

Hey, morning. All right, Brandon. Everybody's just kind of like, hey. Well, they're in love. They are in love. Brandon, by the way, do you have a significant other, Brandon? I sure do. All right. Well, then you're in the right place. We might get you a wonderful gift here. Listen closely. These guys are going to sing a song with only Steven Singer in the lyrics, but the melody might give away. Identify the song and you win. Here we go. Here we go.

Stephen Singer. Stephen Singer. Stephen Singer. Stephen Singer. Stephen Singer. Stephen Singer. Stephen Singer. Stephen Singer.

Steven Sanger. Yes! Yes! All right. Brandon, what song is that? Yeah, I'm drawing a blank. Oh, dude! I thought that was a gimme. It is. All right, thanks anyway. We will go to, we got a bunch of mics on the line. This is Mike H. Mike H, are you there? Hey, Mike, can you hear me?

Nope. Okay, we'll move on to another one. We have Mike F. who is here. Hey, Mike, are you there? Yeah, I'm here. All right, Mike, did you hear that song? Yes, I did. What is it? Is it Prince, Rule My World? Well, Rule My World is in the lyrics, but that's not the name of the song. You want to try again? Oh, okay.

You don't have to be rich. Keep singing. You don't have to be rich to rule my world. Keep going. You don't have to be cool to be my girl. One more line. I just want your extra time and your kiss. Kiss!

The song is called Kiss, Mike. Way to sing it out, brother. You win and here we go. You got the number one gift for Valentine's Day. One of Steven Singer's 24 gold dip roses. Steven Singer's gold dip roses start at just $59. They come with Steven's lifetime guarantee, fast free shipping, real roses from a real jeweler, dipped in real gold for your real love, and a wrapped up in love diamond necklace only at IHateStevenSinger.com.

Oh, this is going really well right now. Listen, just watching Kyle sing the upper register on that friggin' song. It's the best. Kyle, how hard is it to sing not the real lyrics to these songs? It's pretty difficult. Yeah, you're doing an amazing job at it. The hardest part about it is trying to think of how to fit the syllables of Steven Singer into a melody and not get over-anxious about messing it up. We tried... We were going to do a contest one time. It was around Christmas. And we were going to take...

We were going to take Christmas carols and we were going to have the melody of one but singing the lyrics to another. So Jingle Bells but singing Frosty the Snowman's lyrics. It is almost impossible to pull off. Because it's, yeah, exactly. It's so ingrained in your head. But you did it, Preston. Weren't you able to do it? I don't think so. I don't think I pulled it off. But I'll work on that. All right, let's get another caller. We're going to go to Tracy next. Hi there, Tracy. Hello.

Hello. All right, Tracy, we are playing Stephen and a Singer. You ready? Yep. All right, Kyle and Michael, here we go. Stephen Singer Stephen Singer Stephen Singer Stephen Singer Stephen Singer

Stephen Singer Stephen Singer Stephen Singer

That was beautiful. Kyle is such a great singer. How great is Michael? He's a buzz great. I mean, you know, and also I think the little flourishes that Michael is throwing on is giving a hint. I love it. Much needed in many cases. All right. Tracy, do you know that song? Is it Eric Clapton, The Way You Look Tonight? Yeah. Oh. Think about it. Sing the song and sing it to us. Sing it to us. Oh.

Sing the lyrics. Say some of the lyrics. And I said yes. I have no idea. Oh, you do. Come on, you're there. Don't you think that Kyle's a wonderful singer? And I said yes. Thank you, Tracy. Not picking it up. We're going to go to Diane. Hi, Diane. Good morning. Good morning. All right, Diane, did you hear that song? I did. I'm with her on Eric Clapton. Mm-hmm. Um...

And I can't. How does the song go? And I say yes. What does he say? Sorry, say that again. He sings and I said yes, I believe is the lyric before. And I said yes, you feel wonderful tonight. Wonderful tonight. That's it. Yes.

That is the title of that song. Hang on, Diane. Diane, you got the number one gift for Valentine's Day. One of Steven Singer's 24-carat gold-dipped roses. Steven Singer's gold-dipped roses start at just $59. They come with Steven's lifetime guarantee. They are fast-free shipping. Real roses are...

Real jeweler dipped in real gold for your real love and a wrapped up in love diamond necklace only at IHateStevenSinger.com. Do you think you're going to sell out of these, the new peacock teals? I know we are because this was a very limited, it was much harder to make. It took double the time to make. And what we wanted to have, and it takes a year to build enough inventory for Valentine's Day. Wow. Yeah. Okay. So.

But you guys have, like, you rent a place to, or do you have an extra storage facility where all this stuff goes? We have 250,000 square feet. I'm not kidding. No, we know for a fact. And you move a ton of them, but you've got to be careful. And you have also older versions of the Rose available as well, correct? Correct.

Like the classic colors? We have all the classic colors. We have the red that starts at $59. And we have the I Love You, which is a blush color that's $59. So anybody that's just starting their collection, that's a great way to start. And yeah, we have, I think...

colors now. Oh my gosh. Is green popular right now? We're doing Eagle's Rose for autism, which we're raising money and 100% of the money goes to the autism chapter. Excellent. Kelsey's wife. Let's get our next caller on the line and it is Erica. Hi there, Erica. Hey, how are you guys? Awesome. We're playing Steven and his singer. You ready to go? Yes, I am. Kyle and Michael, here's our next song.

Steven Singer.

Beautiful, beautiful. Erica, it's a classic love song. Do you know the title? I sure do. That is My Heart Will Go On. You got it.

Yes. All right. You win, Erica. Hang on. You got the number one gift for Valentine's Day. One of Steven Singer's 24-karat gold-dipped roses. Steven Singer's gold-dipped roses start at just $59. They come with Steven's lifetime guarantee and fast and free shipping. These are real roses from a real jeweler dipped in real gold for your real love. And, Steven, thank you so much for adding the wrapped-up and loved diamond necklace. Only can be found at IHateStevenSinger.com. All right.

All right. I think you skipped this one, Michael. Hang on. That's what we're going to do. All right. So there's two left. We were just going over the numbers of how many are left. And by the way, just a good reminder that these aren't just, they're actual roses sealed permanently in gold. Yeah, real long stem rose.

And, yeah, and you can buy them year-round too, right? We sell them year-round. We have birthstone roses, so you can do every month a birthstone or if it's a mother and two kids, that type of thing. That's great. Obviously, we sell them for Mother's Day. Christmas, we sell a lot of red, green, and white roses together in a triple bouquet. Oh, that's a good idea. When people graduate from school, let's say somebody graduates from Penn State, they'll get like a white and a blue in Penn State colors, that type of thing, or Syracuse, they'll get an orange. Yeah.

And when the Eagles win, we sell Eagles green like crazy. Yeah. And that color is our worst color normally. But Eagles green, when they win, people go out of their mind and sell it like crazy. That's funny. All right. Let's get – we have two more prizes to give away. So I'm going to get Benny on our Xfinity mobile guest line. Hey, Benny. Good morning. Good.

Good morning. All right, Benny, we're playing Stephen and the Singer. You ready? Ready. All right, and we might need to sing along with this, possibly. Yes. All right, we'll see. All right, when you guys are ready. This one goes out to you two. Fingers up, you. Stephen Singer, Stephen Singer, Stephen Singer. Stephen Singer, Stephen Singer, Stephen Singer.

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Steven, Steven Singer, Steven Singer, Steven Singer. Oh, that was beautiful. That was beautiful. Benny, what song is that? Well, now that I'm done crying. Steven has lost his loving feelings. Yes!

Points for you, Benny. Hang on. Here's what we have. You have one of Steven Singer's 24-karat gold-dipped roses. Steven Singer's gold-dipped roses start at just $59. They come with Steven's lifetime guarantee, fast and free shipping, real roses from a real jeweler dipped in real gold for your real love, and a wrapped-up and loved diamond necklace only at IHatesStevenSinger.com. By the way, Kyle, there's a lot of messages on our YouTube stream that are saying we love you, Kyle.

I love you too, guys. Miss y'all. Pass that along to y'all. All right, we have one more to go. One more. One more and then we're finished. So our next caller up is Matt. Hey, Matt, good morning. Good morning. Good morning to see you, Matt. Steven and a singer. We have one more to go and this is Kyle and Michael's favorite one. You ready? Yep. All right, let's go. Steve, Steven, Steven Singer.

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always love you. Yay!

Hang on, buddy, because you're our final winner. And you won the number one gift for Valentine's Day, one of Steven Singer's 24-carat gold-dipped roses. Steven Singer's gold-dipped roses start at just $59, and they come with Steven's lifetime guarantee and fast and free shipping. Real roses from a real jeweler dipped in real gold for your real love and a wrapped-up-in-love diamond necklace only at IHatesStevenSinger.com. Oh, that was just brilliant.

Man, that was amazing. We had almost everyone. Everybody won, but one, right? Yeah. Pretty good. Maybe two. Two. Yeah, yeah. But no, we gave away a lot of great prizes. Thank you for bringing. These guys are fantastic. Aren't they? Oh, my God. Kyle, you know, he's looking at the words for every song. Right. Which is crazy. You know, you think he would have it down. I think he does price checks in a dollar store. How much is this? Dollar. This one? Dollar. He has to look at it. But these guys are awesome.

Awesome. And that's hard to do with his range. Yeah. Oh, my God. That's something else. These guys are awesome. And make sure you go check out. When Minute by Minute has that official gig booked, let me know. We'll make sure that everybody is aware of that because you guys are incredible musicians. And if you have a venue and you'd like to, how do they contact you? What's the best way to contact you guys? You can find...

Contact us with our information on minutebyminutelive.com. Minutebyminutelive.com. Go there. Those forms are our information for contact is right there. All right. As well as video, music, pictures, all that type of stuff. And also these guys play in various bands and stuff. Michael, what band are you playing in now? I'm still with the FM band. FM band. And an ELP tribute, actually. Oh, really? An ELP tribute? Yeah. They got to get coming up. Yeah, actually. Where's that? Sellersville Theater. Sellersville. When? What's the date? Do you know offhand? August 6th.

Shooting for August 2nd, I believe. All right, well, let us know about that because I'm sure we've got some Emerson Lake and Palmer fans that would like to check that out. Excellent. And Kyle, are you with the band right now or no? Right now, I'm just doing quality over quantity. So focusing on the stuff I really love to do. Short answer, no.

Thank you for that answer. I'm currently in a very heavy loitering schedule. Right. And Steven Singer, you're quite busy leading up to Valentine's Day. Yes, sir. We're busy. We're open seven days a week.

And we have 24-hour phone people that live all over the country that will answer and help you over social media, over Zoom, on the phone. Any way you want to communicate with us, we'll do it. Excellent. All right, man. Great to see you. Thanks for being here. Thanks so much for having me in, guys. This was awesome.

awesome. Excellent. Let's hear it for Stephen, Kyle, and Michael. Stephen and a singer. You guys nailed it. All right. We will take a break. We'll come back in a second. And we do have some Bizarre File stories. We'll get to in a moment. Stay put.

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Alrighty, we'll get into some stories. We'll start with this. A New York State police trooper who claimed that he was shot on Long Island surrendered to police on Monday and is now facing charges after officials say he actually shot himself on purpose. Thomas Mesquia.

A once-honored state trooper now finds himself on the other side of law and stripped of his job per the criminal complaint. Officials say the trooper shot himself for attention and sympathy. Wow. The 27-year-old now-disgraced trooper turned himself in. His parents, Dorothy and Thomas Maschia,

Maschia Sr., a former NYPD officer, also turned themselves in. They were charged with criminal possession of a firearm after prosecutors say a gun was found at the foot of their bed. So Maschia has been charged with tampering with physical evidence, false reporting of crime, and official misconduct. Prosecutors say back on October 30th, the trooper pulled to the shoulder of the Southern State Parkway

and he dumped a handful of .22 caliber shells on the ground. Prosecutors say he then drove to Hempstead Lake State Park, shot himself, and then drove back, and he reported being shot by a masked man in a dark-colored charger with New Jersey plates.

The gun used in the shooting was the same one found in his parents' bedroom. A manhunt was underway for several days and a ceremony was held for him when he was released from Nassau University Medical Center. Where did he shoot himself? Do they specify? Doesn't say. Maschia had a background check and psych evaluation when he joined the force in 2019.

Officials say there were no red flags and he passed both the background check and evaluation. He resigned on Friday and is due back in court next week. Can you believe it? For what reason? It said sympathy and attention. Yeah, how?

A Waukesha gym teacher was so intoxicated, a court commissioner on Monday questioned how he is still alive. When he got to work on Friday, prosecutors say 52-year-old Randall Villarreal was drunk five times the legal limit. Five times?

Police were called to investigate a hit-and-run crash. Investigators say Villareal rear-ended another car and then took off. He allegedly told the other driver that he needed to leave because he was a teacher and needed to get to school on time.

The crash victim took a picture of Villarreal's license plate. When police arrived at the middle school, they found his Jeep smashed in the parking lot. Police say Villarreal admitted to driving his kid to school earlier that morning and also admitted to crashing soon after. An officer administered four different field sobriety tests. Prosecutors say he failed all of them, including counting and walking.

The school's principal asked police to search his office and they found alcohol in the office. When you take a breathalyzer test and it says one person at a time, you know you're way over the limit. In court, Commissioner David Herring could not believe Villarreal was that drunk all before 8 o'clock in the morning. He said people don't get to a .40 overnight.

Most people are incapacitated and don't make it. Technically speaking, sir, you could have been dead at point four. Oh, it indicates commitment. Prosecutors charge Villareal with operating a motor vehicle while under the influence and a child in the car and operating while intoxicating intoxicated, causing injury. But that dude was like blackout drunk and went to work. Wow.

A husband in India has admitted to killing and cooking his wife following a heated argument, but cops have let him walk free. Guru Murthy.

told the police that he had slaughtered his wife, Venkata Madhavi, who had been reported missing since January 16th. Normally we'd put you in jail, but this is delicious. The retired soldier told authorities that he had killed his wife for 13 years after slamming her against a wall, which resulted in instant death.

Guru Murthy, a father of two, then claimed to have dismembered her corpse using a kitchen knife before boiling the body parts. Guru Murthy told cops that he had placed her limbs in a pressure cooker for five to six hours and used a pestle and mortar to grind down her bones. He is then said to have thrown the remaining flesh and powdered bones into a lake.

Police seized potential evidence, including a pressure cooker, kettle, and knives from the apartment where the butchering is believed to have taken place. Forensic teams, as well as a dog unit, have searched around the lake for remains, but so far have emerged unsuccessful in their attempts. And a police spokesperson said, we cannot rely on mere allegations. We are collecting all technical and scientific evidence. The case is being investigated. As police continue to interrogate Guru Murthy...

They said he may have killed Madhavi in a fit of rage and did everything possible to avoid the crime being detected. They said, as of now, we don't have any reason to believe that it was a premeditated crime. It seems a result of a petty quarrel. Certainly the recipe involves some sort of premeditation. We are questioning the suspect and we have not recovered any body parts. We do not have enough clues, they said. Wow. Guru Murthy said...

they told police that, uh, she had left home in a fit of rage after a quarrel between the two of them on the morning of January 26th. But during their investigation, police grew suspicious of the husband and they sifted through footage. And, uh, while they showed her entering the house on January 15th, she was not seen leaving the house in the next two days. Maybe this is a stupid question, but did they check the fridge for leftovers? I don't know. I don't know if they did that or not. So we'll see. Visitors to Queensland's Kigari, uh,

Cagari-Fraser Island will see more rangers patrolling popular spots after two children were bitten by dingoes in the lead up to the Australian day-long weekend. Dingoes. It comes after two other high-risk tourist interactions with dingoes in just over a week.

Rangers said a two-year-old child was bitten on the leg by a dingo in the car park near Lake McKenzie on Sunday, a swimming spot that attracts many tourists. The child was given first aid by on-site rangers. Are dingoes routinely aggressive? Because he obviously is crying in the dark that...

The Meryl Streep played the woman and stole the baby. But are they aggressive? I think they are. By nature? I think they can be. And I think they like, you know, work in packs and stuff like that. Darn dingoes. On Thursday, Rangers reported a dingo charged at two children aged 4 and 12 who were swimming in the shallow waters of Lake McKenzie. The tagged dingo, which was already being monitored by Rangers, bit the 4-year-old on the left shoulder and caused superficial lacerations.

Rangers said while the child's mother rushed to pick him up, the father yelled and chased the dingo away, but it did not deter the animal from continuing to loiter around the family. On the same day, a dingo lunged at a child walking with her family along a stretch of beach on the western side of the island. And while the three-year-old girl's parents were able to lift her to safety, spectators from an nearby boat rushed to her aid and attempted to scare off the dingo with a catapult.

Kayaki paddle. Kayak. A kayak paddle. All right, and there you go. That's where we will end the bizarre file. All right, Kathy. Yeah. I know I spit on you this morning, but can you please do me a favor and get a number caller for a secret text word, please?

You like larger numbers? Yeah. Caller number two. 215-263-WMMR. Caller number 200. No, caller number two. 215-263-WMMR. We'll see if you know the secret text word, but be back in a moment.

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What a number. We're going to go to Frank and see if he happens to know what it is. Hey, Frank, morning, bud. Good morning. All right, Frank, what is the secret text word, please? I believe it is hammer. Hammer. Woo! Woo!

And nail. Nine-inch nail. You got it. Hang on a second, Frank. We are going to give you tickets as MMR rocks. Nine-inch nails. The Peel It Back Tour, Wednesday, August 27th at the Wells Fargo Center. Tickets go on sale today at noon. By the way, Ticketmaster.com. Our random texter who checked in is Eric Risch.

who is from Phoenixville. So same thing. Get tickets to see Nine Inch Nails, Appeal It Back Tour, Wednesday, August 27th at the Wells Fargo Center. Let's give something else away. And now, tickets to the MMRBQ. We're going ticket crazy here. And if you can answer this question, you can win the tickets. And the question we have for you is...

What is Steven Singer's instrument that he performs on 215263 WMMR? He performed here. He did. Amazing. If you were listening during the Steven and Singer segment, Steve had mentioned that Steven plays an instrument. What instrument specifically is that? 215263 WMMR. If you know the answer, give us a call. The trash business is a gold mine. 93.3 WMMR.

With Preston and Steve's Hollywood Trash. All right, we'll get some stories and then we'll get the winner. Steve, what's going on this morning? Yes, rapper Trey The Truth telling TMZ that his ex Heather Cuevas tried to convince their daughter, named Truth, that he wants nothing to do with her. Truth says that truth will prevail if truth hears the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Oh, my God.

Deadline reporting that Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock have hired a writer and director for the sequel to their movie Practical Magic. Kidman says she and Bullock wanted to strike while the iron was hot 27 years ago. Oh, my God. And finally, Mississippi Senator Bradford Blackmun proposing a bill to effectively ban self-pleasuring for men. As for women, Blackmun says they are free to, quote, flick that bean like Charlie Sheen. What?

All right. Let's see if you know the answer to this question. What instrument does Steven Singer play? 215-263-WMMR. We'll go to Heath and see if we can get a winner. Hey, Heath, what's going on, bud?

Hey, bitches. Hey, what? All right, Heath, what instrument does Steven Singer play? The unplugged electric keyboard. Yes. That's correct. Hang on, Heath. Got yourself tickets to go to the MMRBQ Saturday, May 10th, Freedom Mortgage Pavilion. Lawn tickets start at just $25.

First half of the show is general admission, so you can get up and close. Any of the tickets for the first four bands, you can get up there. And eight great bands, including Alice in Chains, Three Days Grace, The Preston and Steve Side Stage. Tickets are on sale now, and all the information is available at WMMR.com. Now, Preston and Steve's Music News on 93.3 WMMR. Yeah! Oh, yeah!

All right, we'll begin with Dave Matthews Band. They've announced the dates for their 2025 Spring and Summer Tour. And they will kick things off in a big way. April 27th with a show that's going to be at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. Then they're going to make stops in around 20 different cities, plus a show in Sao Paulo, Brazil at the Best of Blues and Rock Festival in June.

They will be coming to Philadelphia at the Freedom Mortgage Pavilion on July 25th and 26th. And the band has pledged, by the way, $500,000 to support California wildlife relief efforts. And Dave will do a joint set with John Mayer at the Fire Aid Benefit Concert in

tomorrow at the Kia Forum. By the way, general sale tickets go on sale February 21st. You got a little bit of time. That'll be 10 a.m. And that will be for the shows at Freedom Mortgage Pavilion July 25th and 26th. So Dave and company back in town. Always a great time. So Nick. Yep.

Yes, sir. Do you think we're... I think we're systematically, and I know you're spearheading efforts to chip away at getting eventually somebody...

or even Dave himself. I want to get Dave. Yeah, both. I mean, yeah. I want to get Carter for Preston and I want to get Dave for me so I can hold him and look into his eyes. You're beautiful. It's kind of cool because they're ending that leg of the tour in Camden. So it's a Friday show and a Saturday show and then they're going back out to the Gorge in Washington. I'd like to try to get back to that. That's Labor Day weekend. But yeah, man. Jeff Coffin was in here last year. He had a great time and we've chatted with him a couple times since. The answer to your question is yes.

We did something similar with Eddie Vedder. And it just took a long time of kind of like circling. And you start with Stone Gossard and get to McCready and Jeff Amen. And then eventually you whittle it down. The challenge is... Give you a good reference if you want. The challenge is the show being on Friday, Saturday. Yes. They won't get in town until Friday. Well, I don't know.

Well, they might get in Thursday. I don't know. Or Friday. If they get in, it might not be early enough in the morning. The crew probably gets in, but the band might not get in until later. So maybe a Zoom or something like that would be great. Absolutely. We'll see about that. The band...

He likes the idea. The band Train has announced a new 2025 North American tour, and they're going to be playing Atlantic City, the Hard Rock Live. Tickets go on sale to the general public for that show this Friday, 10 a.m. So you can get those this week.

And then the last story, and I thought this was kind of a fun one to add to music news. Anita Dobson has revealed that her husband and Queen guitarist Brian May is a huge collector of Star Wars memorabilia. How about that? The actor has been married to the guitarist for over 24 years and made the revelation in a new interview and shared that...

May has a collection of figures and ships inspired by the iconic franchise. By the way, May the 4th be with you. Yes. Dobson, who played Angie Watts in EastEnders in the UK, said that

Her partner frequently buys two of the same items related to sci-fi series. One for himself and then one for his grandchildren. I read that he has millions of oysters for some reason. Yes. Just in keeping with the original. Millions of oysters. That's all he eats. Uh,

Brian is a collector of Star Wars toys, she said, and astronomical stuff, queen stuff. He's a big collector. He buys a packaged one and one that he can have for the grandkids. Yeah, that's the way to do it. And she said he's bought quite a lot. It eased off a bit as he's gone through life. His favorite is the little green guy. He loves Yoda. And she added that he also loves to collect things relating to prehistoric creatures. And she said, I've always thought

Uh, that I've got to have a clear out and a lot of my clothes can go to the local hospice, but there's so much stuff. And the way that I look at it, my husband is a hoarder and I'm a semi hoarder. Uh, Dobson said that, uh, he has a collection of queen memorabilia too, including past costumes that he wore on stage. Uh,

And it photo shoots records, one-off releases, and more. But he's a big Star Wars collector guy. So I thought that was pretty cool. That's the last story I have in music news for you. We will take one more break. And when we get back, we'll get our letter of the day for the Word of the Week prize. And we'll wrap up the program and see what Pierre's got going on. Stay with us.

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WMMR.com. And it's always available, like right now, on your computer or phone or whatever. And we even made a catchy little jingle so you remember it. ♪

Our good friends in Dirty Hunting 93.3 WMMR. They've done the MMRQ a couple times. Great band live. Amazing. Don't put out the fire. It's 1035 and the Preston and Steve show on a Wednesday morning coming to a close.

Temperature-wise, mild today. About 50 degrees, our high temp. And we'll see mainly a mix of sun and clouds. Tomorrow, sunshine 43. And then Friday, 51 again. But we do have some rain coming in. Supposedly, we need it. So that'll be good for us. And then back down to 38 as our high on Saturday. So a little bit of a chilly weekend. Today was fun. I would like to thank...

Steven Singer for coming by this morning. And he brought loads of stuff to give away. He always brings way more than they initially say he's going to bring. He doubled our expectations of what he was going to give to the, the winners and, uh, knocked it out of the park, man. Yep. And speaking of knocking out of the park, Kyle Mack and Michael Ian, uh,

came in and performed songs, love songs, that they didn't use any of the original lyrics. The only thing that Kyle sang was the name Stephen Singer over and over and over, and it was wonderful. You know how you know it was difficult when he asked us to sing along? Yeah. I was thinking, what's the phrasing going to be on Stephen Singer for this lyric? Yep, you just got to try it out. And they're in a really cool tribute act called Minute by Minute and celebrating the music of Michael McDonald's.

You can check out their website, which is minutebyminutelive.com and rave reviews for that band and their performances. But I think that's all the thank yous to do. So I guess we need to do the letter of the day. You got it? I got you. All right. Preston and Steve on 93.3 WMMR.

Now, the Daily Letter. And the Preston and Steve Show is brought to you today by the letter... S, as in scrumptious. And we have two more letters to get, then we give away a four-pack of tickets to see the Tasties Soiree on Sunday. The ceremony is sold out, but tickets are available for the party. And that features food and drinks from over 30 affiliates at Best Restaurants.

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I would like to thank our sponsors. President Steve's Show is brought to you today by Dunkin'. And the President Steve's Show runs on Dunkin'. Also brought to you by Acme Markets Fresh Foods. Local flavors. Tomorrow on our program, we will talk to Rob McElhenney. Yeah. Rob is checking in to talk about Mythic Quest, but...

I mean, we're talking birds for sure. He's out of his mind. Comedian Justin Silva will be joining us as well. And we'll see what else we can get into on a Thursday morning. That's it. We are done. Rage on. Have a great day. We'll see you tomorrow, Fred. Bye-bye.

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