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Nick McElwain. I'm just not the hero type. And Marissa Magnata. Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain. And now, Preston and Steve on 93.3 WMMR. What?

All right, it starts right now. Welcome. Wednesday has arrived. And weather forecast for today calling for a cooler day than we've had in the last few. We do this dip down. We're going to do this kind of up and down roller coaster motion this week. Today's high. Only 37 degrees. We're going to have clouds as well tomorrow. Maybe some morning ice on your commute in.

A high of 41 degrees Friday, the warmer day of this week. High of 45 and partly cloudy. And then Saturday, we're only going to top out about 36 degrees. And we might even get some snow showers in the afternoon. Just a heads up on that one.

Preston and Steve's News Update with Kathy Romano. And today is Tuesday, Wednesday, sorry, February 5th. Good morning, Kathy. Good morning. In the news this morning, the National Transportation Safety Board concluded its work at the site of the deadly medical jet crash in northeast Philadelphia, officials announced Tuesday.

The crash claimed the lives of seven people and injured 24 others, but managing director Adam Thiel noted the forensics investigation is still ongoing. We still will not have a definitive answer about the number of victims, he said, or casualties until we are done with the entire forensic investigation and process all of the samples that were collected from the site.

Federal investigators will examine the black box recovered on Sunday along with other evidence to determine what may have caused the crash. On Tuesday, the NTSB released images of the cockpit flight recorder, which was discovered eight feet deep in the crater left in the aftermath of the crash on Cotman Avenue. U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the plane did not have a data recorder, but investigators are hoping to retrieve flight data from the jet's ground proximity warning system.

Crews from several city agencies will be working overnight Tuesday to make sure streets are clean of debris in hopes of having most businesses in the area reopen as of this morning and allow most area residents to return to their homes. There's got to be a weird vibe coming back to the business and just in general. We talked about yesterday the possibility of, you know, the long-term sort of post-traumatic stress that'll be in that general area. You can't witness stuff like that and just...

shirk it off. Yeah, they are having that meeting tonight and I think there is still a crater in the roadway on Cotman and Busselton and they are keeping it closed and I think that's part of the reason. That's pretty traumatic to even see that.

Four homes were destroyed. Six received major damage and 11 received other damages and all 366 properties were impacted in some way. Officials revealed Tuesday. Licenses and inspection have been helping people whose homes are too dangerous to re-enter and police have been escorting people to and from damaged property. The Red Cross also continues to help those displaced. A shelter that was open at Samuel Fells High School closed Tuesday night and some residents were

in temporary housing. A town hall meeting will be held tonight at 7 o'clock at Salas Cohen Elementary School on Horrocks Street.

The family of a 10-year-old boy injured when that jet crashed down near their car is sharing their experience. Trey Howard is one of the survivors. Despite being seriously injured by flying debris, Trey's dad, Andre Howard Jr., said it felt like a horror movie. Andre says he was picking up donuts with his three kids, ages 4, 7, and 10, when the jet came crashing down. He said, "...it sounded like a missile was firing bullets, metal, at my car, at everyone else's car. You could see a car on fire, a man walking on fire. It was crazy."

Andre immediately backed up his car while his son Trey covered the little sister protecting her. I turned around, the father said, and he had metal outside of his head. He said that he used socks and another man's shirt to try to stop the bleeding on his son. A police officer then rushed them to the hospital where Trey had emergency brain surgery. That night, Andre says the family was told it was a strong chance that he would not survive. Miraculously, he's now awake and recovering and even talking.

They did an A-plus job on My Son. Andre said, praise God, they did a great job. Andre told ABC News that his son's first real words when he woke up were about the Super Bowl. Did I miss the game? He asked, he said, Daddy, what's today? Andre responded by saying it was Monday. And Trey said, okay, wait, we didn't play yesterday, did we? His dad told him, no, you didn't miss the Super Bowl, describing his son as a diehard Eagles fan. Now that's a fan, yeah. Right? Oh, my gosh.

He was also concerned for his little sister. He said, Daddy, did I save my sister? I guess when they were in the car, the dad told him to kind of hover over the sister. Yeah, it's amazing. Amazing. And he said, you know, thankfully he did hover over her and she was saved. To lift his spirits, one of Trey's favorite NBA players, 76ers Tyrese Maxey, visited him in the hospital. Trey's family says they're grateful for everyone's support and, of course, to still have their boy. The young superhero is continuing to recover at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

Two teenagers were shot Tuesday during an attempted car theft incident in southwest Philadelphia. It happened at 613 in the 5900 block of Windsor Street. When officers arrived, they found two 13-year-old shooting victims. One had been shot in the leg. The other had been shot in the lower back.

Both teens were taken to Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in stable condition. The man who fired the shots was allegedly trying to thwart a car theft. According to Philadelphia Police Chief Inspector Scott Small, the man got a call from his neighbor stating that four juveniles appeared to be breaking into his Honda. When the man confronted the kids, police say one of them pulled out a gun. Two fled on foot but were later picked up by police nearby, positively identified by the vehicle owner as those involved. Police say the juveniles could face attempted murder.

auto theft, robbery weapons, and attempted carjacking charges. The investigation will ultimately be turned over to the DA's office. As for the vehicle owner, police say he is cooperating and is licensed to carry. The kids that were shot, were they the ones trying to steal the car? Yes, so there was a couple of them. A couple got away. There were two that were shot. You said they were 13? 13 years old. That's...

It's insane. It's insane. Police are still searching for the gun allegedly in possession by the teen. Anyone with information in the case is asked to call police at 215-686-TIPS. In sports this morning. Balls back for the young. Balls back for the young. Balls back for the young.

The flyer is lost to the Utah Hockey Club. 3-2 on a shot with one second left in overtime last night in Salt Lake City. Dylan Gunther scored his second goal of the game as the clock expired.

In the extra frame to lead Utah to the win. Tyson Forrester scored and Rodrigo Gould scored his first NHL goal for the Flyers, who lost their fourth straight. They are back at home tomorrow night. We'll host the Washington Capitals. The puck will drop at 7 o'clock. The Sixers beat the Dallas Mavericks 118-116 last night in South Philly. Wait. They did it!

Joel Embiid, you were expecting me to say they lost. Absolutely. Joel Embiid had 29 points, 11 rebounds, and 10 assists in the first game in a month to lead the Sixers to the win. Embiid recorded his first triple-double of an injury-plagued season in which he played only 14 games. Tyrese Maxey added 33 and 13 assists.

The Sixers are at home again tonight. We'll play the Miami Heat tip-off is at 7.30. And the Eagles are in New Orleans preparing for Sunday's big game. The head of the union representing NFL officials called allegations that officiating crews are biased in favor of the Kansas City Chiefs or any other team insulting and preposterous. NFL Referee Association Executive Director Scott Green released a statement on Tuesday thanking Commissioner Roger Goodell for dismissing the allegations.

and responding to conspiracy theories on social media about favoritism to the Chiefs. Officiating crews do not work with the same team more than twice each regular season. Green said it is insulting and preposterous to hear conspiracy theories that somehow 17 officiating crews consisting of 138 officials are colluding to assist one team. And that's what I have for you this morning. Thank you very much, Kathy. We're going to do this.

Bird Bot update on the way to New Orleans. It's Broad Street to Bourbon Street and Bird Bot still bopping around town. A little quick update. He went skateboarding yesterday. He was at the Navy Yard. He went to Jewelers Row. Was hanging out at Angelo's. Also, Sammy Bile had a late night lullaby with him as well and

And the Legacy Youth and Tennis Education Center in Manioc, Nemours Children's Hospital. He was all over the place yesterday. He really was. And we have someone who currently is hanging with BirdBot. I'm going to go to listener Brian, who's on the line. Hey, Brian, good morning, bud. Good morning! Go, Brian! Go, Brian!

How's BirdBot doing, man? Oh, man, BirdBot's loving life right now. He's actually a little spoon to my dog right now. We're getting ready to gear up to get him back down the jeweler's row to meet up with this great

food truck that's going to bring him on his great journey to have him in hands with Helen by mid-afternoon. Oh, really? Excellent. Good man. It's up to the masses to do this. Casey went, we'll recap some of this later on, but met up with a listener, Helen, who is driving to New Orleans actually at about 4 a.m.,

And she is going to, apparently, Kate is going to give us a story later on. She's an incredible character and sounds like the perfect person to be our steward for BirdBot on the way down to New Orleans. That's perfect, Brian. We appreciate it, man. Where are you from, by the way? Absolutely, Delco!

You can hear it. You got it. I can hear it. And you're very fired up for early in the morning. We appreciate that, brother. I've been on cloud nine because I have to thank you guys for what you've done for the city of Philadelphia, making this piece. Because of me having this, the little time that I had...

The people that would gravitate towards me and the love and the feel that it almost felt like, oh, I'm already on Broad Street on Thursday. I really feel that way. It was so great and honored to have it. And I want to thank you guys for doing that for the city of Philadelphia and doing it for this team that deserves it so much.

So much. That's very kind for you, Brian. Maybe that's behind it, man. Yeah, but it wouldn't work without people like you with your enthusiasm. And we've had a steady conga line of really wonderful people who have been overseeing BirdBot's journey. So you're just another one of the exemplary people that are helping to get him to Bourbon Street. So thank you so much.

Well, his journey is not done. His journey will start again at Cooler's Row. And then it will get on that food truck. And I will not stop. I will not stop until it is in Helen's hands. There we go. All right. I love it. Yes. Excellent. All right, Brian, you are the best. Can't wait to see your pictures. We'll check those out on the BirdBot social pages. All right, my man? Go Birds! Go Birds!

Yeah! That is energy. And by the way, our good friend BirdBot is sponsored. He's got a badass sponsor, Philly Sports Trips. You can get to the big game with phillysportstrips.com and they take care of every last detail. We got more sponsors that are coming on board for BirdBot, I understand too, which is pretty awesome. So...

We've got him circulating and you can follow him on Instagram at BirdBotPhilly. The Facebook group, you want to get in touch with people who have BirdBot, that's a great way to do it. Or DMing through the Instagram account too. But yeah, that's good to know that there's a mission to get BirdBot to Helen. And Casey will get that story from her because he stopped by Pizzeria Vetri.

in Devon and had a great encounter over there. So I feel really good about this. Absolutely. I agree 100%. Speaking of New Orleans, we're going to check in with our friends Mike and Alex as they broadcast live. And we'll see how they're feeling at this point and their expectations of getting Burr Bot on their program Friday morning, I would think. I've been following along with their trip and they're just... He's nuts. He is...

some of the stuff that they're doing out there is so funny. Love it. Love it.

Love it. So we'll check in with them this morning. We also have more of our pep rally concerts here. The Academy of Vocal Arts will be here this morning. An ensemble singing group. Some of the best in the land are going to be here to sing the Eagles Fight Song. Maybe we'll get some culture, a little opera out. You can't have a group of that caliber walk out without giving us something extra. We did that last time they were here. And we'll continue the pep rally concert series tomorrow.

This morning, Lizzie Hale will be joining us via Zoom at about 10 a.m. And she is going to sing the fight song like only Lizzie can with that incredibly powerful voice. So we have these things taking place throughout the course of the morning. I've got a contest set up and we'll do more. So let's take a break. There's a lot of really good entertainment stories to pass along. So come back with that and a stupid question courtesy of Nick McElwain this morning for Black History Month. We will be right back. Stay with us.

It's finally time, Philadelphia. Like a phoenix rising from the ashes. Or an eagle. Preston and Steve bring you the return of BirdBot. Listen to the gang weekday mornings for updates on BirdBot 2.0's journey all the way from Broad Street to Bourbon Street, Anglican.

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All right. Thanks, Cass. So stupid question. We're going to give away four packet tickets for the Philadelphia Home and Garden Show. It's coming up the 21st to the 23rd at the Expo Center in Oaks. Nick got me this really cool question. We're celebrating Black History Month. So this has a Philadelphia connection. Who was the first African-American to play for the New York Giants and also the first to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame? 215-263-6000.

WMMR call if you know the answer. First, African-American to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Call now if you know. I will mention...

A couple of birthdays today. We will start on the fifth day of February with Mr. Christopher Guest. Oh. Turning a year older. And he's brought us so many great, I mean, for, you know, an SNL member. He was great on there. He's a, you can call it a style of filmmaking. Yeah. I mean, the Christopher Guest approach. The verite. The mockumentary. The mockumentary. He and Carl Reiner were at the beginning of all that. Yep.

Smack him. Spinal tap, obviously, and best in show. I tried to show my youngest best in show not that long ago. How was it received? I...

They were kind of bored. Yeah. And I was like, while watching, I'm like, this is kind of of a time. It had lost a little bit of its luster for me personally. For you as well. I still love it. I still love those moments like, you know, we both love soup and all the great lines from the movie. Do you know what I find though? Even throughout, you talk of a time, it can also be of a time in your life that you move in and out of. Yes. Where you will re-

you'll rediscover it. That happened for me years ago with Dr. Strangelove. I remember loving it, and then I'm like, I watched it again, and then I watched it another time, and I was laughing my ass off. It's the context of where your life is at that time, I think. So happy 77th birthday to Christopher Guest. Actress Barbara Hershey has her birthday today. Always thought she was a sexy, attractive woman. Was she the voice of E.T.?

No. Who was that? I don't know. Okay. So, but she was in Hoosiers and The Natural and The Right Stuff, a whole bunch of stuff. She's in a very good movie called The Stuntman, which is a peek behind the curtains of movie making. Peter O'Toole's in it. Really good movie. So, Nick just pulled this up. The actress's name who voiced E.T. Casey is Pat Welsh. Okay. And underneath it, it says did do.

Deborah Winger voice E.T. So people thought that she did, and I guess apparently that was not the case. Jennifer Jason Leigh, the actress, is 63 today. Great in Single White Female. Yes. The Hateful Eight as well. Yeah, you don't even recognize her in that. I think that's the only Tarantino movie, sorry Steve, that I've never seen is Hateful Eight. You know what? I think it's a...

I like it. I think it's all part of it. Yeah, I think it's decent. I think it suffers from Tarantino doesn't know when to stop typing-itis. Yeah, it's basically eight people in one room for a couple of hours. I mean, there's just a couple of set-up scenes and stuff like that. It's like The Breakfast Club. Yeah. Kind of like that, except everybody does. Same thing. All the cowboys do the same dance.

She's 63 today. Actress Laura Linney, wonderful. The Truman Show, Ozark. She had a really nice run on that. And this. That's her in an interview. In the Truman Show, when she has to do the product placement stuff and it's awkward, those scenes crack me the F up. She's so good at like...

She's like going through these traumatic situations and trying to advertise whatever the hell the product is. It's hilarious. She's also good in one of, I think, one of the best horror movies in the past, you know, 20 years, The Exorcism of Emily Rose. I forgot she was in that. Yeah. She's 61 today. Tim Meadows had him on the program many, many times. He's great. Yeah, he is. Mean Girls and Saturday Night Live. Walk hard. Yeah. Yes. You don't want to track cocaine. Yeah.

You don't want any part of this. You don't want any part of this. So he is 64 today. Great actor Michael Sheen. Yes. Turns a year older. The Queen, Frost Nixon. Prodigal Son, the show that we liked, Steve. Again, one of those where the rug gets pulled out from underneath you, and that's a lot of times why you're reticent to get caught up in these shows because it was on...

Basically, everything was in place and then done. Yeah, I liked it. Bye-bye. He's 56 today. All right. Singer Bobby Brown turns a year older. He and Whitney Houston were married for a number of years. And I liked Bobby Brown. He was a member of New Edition and then, you know, My Prerogative and Every Little Step, this song. He had some cool hits. They don't make him look good in the movie about her. No kidding. Oh, really? Yeah, I mean, he was a total, like...

He basically said he enabled her. Yeah, that's always been the word. He was the one that facilitated her drug addiction. Wow. So he is 56 years old today. It's also, there's the last birthday, Duff McKagan. Hey! From Guns N' Roses. Duff, not only Guns N' Roses, but Velvet Revolver. She's also played with Jane's Addiction.

At times here and there throughout the years. A financial whiz. That is exactly it, Steve. Yeah, he really delves into the world of investing. Yeah, Steve, I read in 1995 that he, because he's from Seattle, he wanted to invest in two local companies, Microsoft and Starbucks. There you go. Yeah. Follow that guy's lead. Happy 61st birthday to Mr. Duff McKagan.

All right, let's see if somebody knows the answer to this question. Who was the first African-American to play for the New York Giants and also the first to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame? We will go to our first caller in, and that's Holly. So, good morning, Holly. Good morning. All right, Holly, do you know who the first African-American was to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame? Oh.

Um, M.L.S. Lewis Tunnel. That is correct, yes. M.L.N. Tunnel is his name. Hang on the line, Holly. We're going to give you four packet tickets for the Home and Garden Show. And it is 21st through 23rd Expo Center in Oaks. Tickets at PhillyHomeandGardenshow.com for discount tickets. And you knew it was the promo code Casey, by the way. Yeah, he was born in Bryn Mawr. Oh, wow. And I grew up.

in the Garrett Hill neighborhood of Radnor Township and went to Radnor High School. There is a street named Ephraim right after the Rosemont

train station on Route 30. If you're headed towards Villanova, there's Emlyn Tunnel Way. And Casey, the Delco Sports Hall of Fame is in the Radnor Police Department and they have a statue of Emlyn Tunnel there. Yeah. Went to Radnor High School. He was elected into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1967. Wow. It's pretty amazing. Yeah. All right. So

I know you guys are excited. The 2025 Met Gala's dress code has been announced. Oh, wow. Okay. It is called Tailored For You. Ooh.

And correct me if I'm wrong, but the dress or the style that they're most looking forward to is bib overalls, correct? Well, I don't know. It's in line with this year's theme of super fine. Super fine. Tailoring black style. Oh, yeah. You kind of indicated there was a story you had about this. They were going this way. So co-chairs for the event, A$AP Rocky, Pharrell Williams, Coleman Dunn.

Vogue describes the dress code as having, quote, a menswear focus that is purposefully designed to provide guidance and invite creative interpretation.

You just described what I'm wearing today. It is set for May 5th and it will be at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His tan t-shirt and black Adidas pants. He's wearing his Papa Joe's salt t-shirt. Yes, and a winter one. Who

Who's Papa Joe? This year's event will accompany the Superfine Tailoring Black Style Exhibit. That exhibit will focus on the role of sartorial style in forming black identities, focusing on the emergence, significance, and proliferation of the black dandy.

The co-chairs also announced the host committee featuring stars like Usher, Janelle Monae, Simone Biles, and more. So I don't know what all that means. It's a bunch of gobbledygook, but it's a black dandy and the sartorial style. I think one of them is like the, you know, remember, I forget who it was who wore the black skirt, the man that wore the skirt. Oh, the, yeah. I think maybe we'll see that in like, you know, super tailored shows.

and maybe even women in suits. Yeah, yeah. It seems like it's going to focus on a masculine style for women, I believe. Now, hasn't the word that they met Gallows been sort of a death spiral for the past couple of years? Well, no. I think because Anna Wintour said she didn't want to do it anymore. That was my next question. Is she still doing it? Because she said years ago, like, she was done. Apparently, she is getting back into bare-knuckle boxing. Oh.

Let's see. By the way, Nick pulled this up traditionally. It's defined as a man unduly devoted to style. A dandy, yes. A dapper dandy. So some other stories. Speaking of fashion, it seems being nude or nearly nude in public is not a crime, at least in the case of Bianca Sensori. The sheer dress that she and her husband Kanye West unveiled at the red carpet at the Grammys will not be...

be getting her in any legal trouble. Damn it. The LAPD said that no one at the Grammys contacted the authorities with any complaints, and since it's considered a private event, there's no need for the law to get involved. Oh, it's a private event. Okay. Not sexy. She has this sort of dead doll look on her face all the time. He's a complete jerk-off, you know, standing there like the puppet master. Totally. I can't think of anything less erotic.

I don't know. I thought it was pretty. I thought it was too hot. I don't not not once until I think because it's been done so much. And so obviously, well, I just honestly, it's so stupid. Listen, her body is incredible. But that is stupid. And you look ridiculous. Sorry. Yeah.

So, this is interesting. Marcus Jordan, former boyfriend of reality star Larsa Pippen and son of basketball legend Michael Jordan, is in a heap of trouble. Jordan was arrested yesterday on multiple charges. DUI crash with property damage, possession of cocaine, and resisting an officer without violence.

According to police in Maitland, Florida, Jordan got his Lamborghini SUV stuck on the train tracks. I hate when that happens. At the scene, police noticed Jordan smelled of alcohol, ultimately didn't do well on three field sobriety tests, and things got worse during a search of his pants. Officers reported what they found, and it was a white powdery substance in his pocket that

tested positive for cocaine. That's not good. When you're crossing a railroad track or you're at a railroad crossing and you're in your SUV, your Lambo SUV, don't you hit that switch that raises it up a little bit? Did you guys see the body cam footage of the police officers? He didn't get stuck on train tracks crossing over. He basically turned onto the train tracks and drove down and then there's usually embankments on each side.

Fell down the embankment. Oh, wow. I mean, he was he might have been coked up. Yeah. Nick pulled up the Lamborghini Urus 2025 SUV and the MSRP on that is somewhere starting around $275,000. Can you imagine? Yeah.

No. No. I cannot imagine. What do you want? A house or this vehicle? Yeah. Well, there's another story. I've actually I've saved it for the connoisseur, but I'll touch on a little bit. It has to do with the catering at Taylor Swift's suite. OK. For the for the Super Bowl. But I'll get to what's in it later on. The bottom line is, is the suite.

is two and a half million dollars. The sweet itself. Two and a half to have it for the game. But it comes with the food. Of course. Oh, I'm sorry, Kathy. I left that part out. And chicken fingers. Steve and I heard they have that honey mustard. Yeah. I'll make it work. You said a house or a car. How about a life? A life or a sweet? You're entitled.

life. A good life. Paid for. A good life with travel. Jesus, it's insane. Okay, anyway, I digress. No. The Goonies, let's talk about them. They may never say. They're rich. They may never say die, but they did say yes to coming together as one of their own was being honored. We have a clip of this, Casey. Yeah, here we go. Kei He Kwan, uh, who played Data, of course, and we've had on our program, is wonderful, uh,

He received the honor of getting his hand and footprints in cement at the TCL Chinese Theater on Monday. On hand for the ceremony were Goonies screenwriter Chris Columbus and co-stars Corey Feldman, Jeff Cohen, Cary Green, and Josh Bolin. So cool that they all got together for this. I think it is. So Kwan is an Academy Award winner. He won for Everything Everywhere all at once. But he says that he'd be thrilled.

to be a Goonie once again. He said, I love that movie so much. This is one of the greatest adventures of my life and I'd be so happy to revisit that character and of course go on another Goonies adventure with my fellow Goonies. Here is, I hope I didn't steal his clip, but this is what he had to say. I could not be happier for you. Oh, this is Josh Brolin. Josh Brolin speaking on behalf. We all are, all us Goonies here, for an honor that is not only totally deserved,

but celebrates all that is right in this industry. Love you, pal. Isn't that awesome? Yeah, and he's getting emotional. And I love that he proudly refers to him and the collective as the Goonies. As the Goonies. That's awesome. So they're working on making that happen. We will see if we ever get the official green light. By the way, look at the drastic...

style change for Corey Feldman. Is that Corey Feldman there? It is, with the blonde hair. So he's got blonde, spiked up hair. Looks like Heatmiser. I'm okay with that. As am I. Stay away from that dark, drippy, weird style around his face. This is a better look for him. The glasses are stupid, but this is a good look for him. He's making progress. He's working on it.

And Kerry Green looks good. I thought I had heard that she had a lot to go for a little bit. She does look good. Good for her. All right. Well, listen, this is a scary story, man. Ewan McGregor has an obsessed stalker, and he's taken some steps. The actor has filed a restraining order against a woman named Angelica Grentz. And according to court documents...

Gerentz sees herself as Ewan's spurned lover and believes his wife, actress Mary Elizabeth Winstead, stole him from her. Things ramped up when Gerentz drove from Minnesota to California and showed up Christmas Eve at the home of his ex-wife where Ewan, Mary, and their children were all celebrating the holidays.

And Simpson McGregor alleges that Grintz has made deadly threats while referencing the TV show Dexter and a sniper rifle she was researching. I also heard that there were references to the movie The Da Vinci Code in her threats. Did you read that as well? Not in this story, but I wouldn't doubt it, man. She sounds loony. Yeah. A judge granted the TRO, which requires Grintz to stay 100 yards away from Ewan's family and his ex-wife.

and must have no contact with them whatsoever. Do you notice that it is so often the case with these people

stalkers who are in love and are just absolute adoration it eventually turns to anger and I have to kill you it's like John Hinkley John Hinkley adored Jodie Foster and was driving to kill her when he took that detour if I can't have you no one can so it's that bizarre syndrome

Sandra Bullock is speaking out against social media scams that have been using her name to deceive fans. She said, my family's safety as well as the innocent people being taken advantage of is my deep concern. Oh, boy. Emphasizing that she has no official accounts. She said, please be aware that I do not participate in any forms of social media. I feel like an idiot pressing because I just bought a Sandra Bullock backhoe. Oh, man. Yeah.

Well, it still could be a good piece of equipment. It hasn't come yet. Any accounts pretending to be me or anyone associated with me are fake accounts and have been created for financial gain or to exploit people around me. Her sister, a woman named Jazine...

Never heard that before. Jasine Bullock-Predo has also been battling fake profiles, sharing in a post to social media. I spent multiple times a day reporting fakes, dealing with weird and scary emails to my business and home. She noted these scammers often convince victims to send large sums of money, falsely believing that they are speaking to Bullock or her associates. So to this point, I've seen literal... And listen, let your radar go up. Always be suspicious. Literal videos...

of Kevin Costner. You know he's been AI altered talking about the benefits of some medication. At some award show, they redid his mouth and the audio. He's talking about some, I don't know, whether it be...

memory or a thing or whatever. I need it now. Or hair restore or whatever. But I mean, there's no way Kevin Costner's doing a commercial like that. Yeah. It's going to get worse until they find out a way to safeguard this stuff. So we shall see. Like Judi Dench's commercial for Flex Seal. It's exquisite.

I turned the door to my water closet into a canoe. Wee doggy. Wee doggy. Dame Judi Dench, man. Yes. That's royalty there. Well...

Uh, speaking of royalty, perfect segue. Megan Markle is using her platform to help wildlife victims and even made a teens day with a special gift from Billy Eilish. Uh, she wrote on Instagram, let's keep supporting those affected by the California wildlife, wildfires. Sorry. Uh,

in the heartfelt post, the Duchess of Sussex recalled meeting a 15 year old girl in California, whose home burned down and learning that she wanted, all she wanted back was her t-shirt, uh, from Eilish's recent concert. And she said, I don't know, Billie Eilish, but I am going to figure out how to get you this shirt. Uh,

And then she promised exhausting all of her celeb connections until a package arrived with clothes, a signed album, and a lunchbox from the singer. And she wrote, huge thank you, Billie Eilish. This is going to mean so much to her. And she also gave a shout out to Adam Levine and Bahati Prinsloo, who helped get this over the line, she said. So just helping out with...

A couple of people here and there. Travis Kelsey remained coy about proposing to Taylor Swift at a recent press conference ahead of the Super Bowl. A reporter asked him if he was going to ask for her hand at the game, and he was ready with a line. He said, wouldn't you like to know? With a smile. So what...

Let me ask you, in that scenario, if you're Travis Kelsey and you're dating Taylor Swift and everything's going well, would the Super Bowl victory, would that be the place to propose? Absolutely not. I don't think so, right? No. No.

That's his moment. Yeah. That's not about her. That's not about her. Right. Yeah. Yeah. No, that's stupid. But here's the deal. Betting companies, you know, obviously you can bet on pretty much anything. And it's a bet as to whether he will propose to her. I would bet against that.

You know what? It's also a problem. What if they lose, obviously? Right. He's got the ring in the back pocket. Let's get this started the wrong way. He's got it in his jock. Speaking of Travis and Taylor, did you guys see the clip of Miles Teller on Colbert last night? We have. Okay. We're going to play a clip of that right after this. Gotcha. Yeah, so fans are going to have to tune in to find out if it happens or not, but you can bet on it if you want to. So yeah, Miles Teller was on Colbert last night.

And was asked about hobnobbing in the suites with the Swifties and everybody. And this is what he had to say about that. So now it's Chiefs Eagles. Are you going to go say hi? Absolutely not. I'll see Jason. I'll see Jason at some point. Yeah? Yeah. You can't.

I mean, for Philadelphia sports fans, you just bleed it. There's no... I've never been one of those people who have like, oh, this is my East Coast team and this is my West Coast team. BS, man. You got one for life and your uncle has it tattooed on his leg. Which he may have gotten here on our show.

Wow, so that's cool. I'm happy hearing that from him. Let's see. Lily Collins is embracing motherhood and sharing sweet moments with fans just days after announcing the birth of her daughter, Tove Jane McDowell. She reposted a photo of herself pushing a stroller, calling the moment utter bliss. And they welcomed the baby via surrogate and expressed deep appreciation, writing in a post,

Words will never express our endless gratitude for our incredible surrogate and everyone who helped us along the way. However, excuse me, their surrogacy journey sparked online debate, prompting Charlie McDowell to call out unkind messages that they've been receiving. The director reminded people in the comments that...

And I quote, it's okay to not be an expert on surrogacy. It's okay not to know why someone might need a surrogate to have a child. And it's okay to spend less time spewing hateful words into the world, especially in regards to a beautiful baby girl who has breastfed.

brought a lot of love into people's lives. It's just, it's not invited. It's, you know, it's a special thing. It obviously means the world to them. I have no doubt this child's going to be loved. We let it go. Yeah, exactly. And there may be a reason you have no idea why they wanted to choose surrogacy or they, or maybe it was their only choice. Or maybe they wanted to make sure they could attend the Met Gala. Maybe that's fine.

So they're doing all right. This is kind of funny. Adrian Brody's social media went crazy after Kim Kardashian accidentally tagged him in an Instagram story thinking he was Adam Brody. That's great. The reality star was praising Adam's Golden Globe nomination for the Netflix show Nobody Wants This, but got the names confused. He said so. So Adrian Brody said she blew up my Internet on

on the Tonight Show. Fallon asked if Adrian gets mistaken for the OC star, often to which he admitted a few people have mixed them up more than since this incident. And he recalled a funny moment at dinner when a fan hesitated before asking, are you Adam Brody? And then awkwardly apologized before walking into the women's restroom. He said, I said, that's the women's restroom. And he said, yeah, uh,

I'm sorry. Yeah, I know. Yeah, I know. This is what I do. I'm doing some upskirts. So I was happy to see this this morning. SpongeBob SquarePants, tiniest villain, is facing his biggest challenge yet, winning back his wife in Netflix movie,

Plankton, the movie. Plankton's computer wife, Karen, is fed up with decades of failed schemes, declaring, I'm going to do what you could never do before setting off on her own world domination plan. Realizing that he's lost both his partner in crime and his love of his life, Plankton begrudgingly agrees to help SpongeBob and his friends save Bikini Bottom.

The movie premiering on Netflix March 7th marks the second SpongeBob spinoff film following Saving Bikini Bottom, the Sandy Cheeks movie. So Plankton gets his own movie. I've always been a massive Plankton fan. Yes, yes. You know, some of the biggest, heartiest laughs come from Plankton and SpongeBob. Yeah. And if you play any of the video games, he's always a blast. Yep.

So, Ethan Hawke is bringing one of his favorite classic films back to life with a fresh retelling of The Gunfighter. The four-time Oscar nominee is set to co-write the script with Shelby Gaines. And while there's apparently hope that he'll direct, insiders say that he's only signed on to write and produce, noting the project is still in early development. The 1950 Gregory Peck Western follows a notorious outlaw trying to escape his past, Hawke Reckless.

revealed that he first discovered the film after hearing Bob Dylan's song Brownsville Girl and wondering about the western referenced in the lyrics. And it became one of his favorite movies. It's a really good movie. Are you a fan of westerns? Some of them, yeah. I'll go through phases where I like them for a little while and then I get tired of them. When you have a good one, they're terrific. Alright, we're ready. You roll the clips, gang.

All-American continues the story of the Beverly High School football team by developing staple characters. And in this clip, Kareem Grimes talks about the growth of his former gang member turned English teacher character. Be able to look after these young men and women that, you know, may be on a path of destruction to say, hey, listen, this is where you need to go. I've been there before. You don't want this for your life. So but more importantly, you'll see a lot of just the reality.

the relationship that he builds with his daughter. You sound insane. Season seven of All American airs on CW. Next clip.

Love Me is a sci-fi film that questions human consciousness through the lens of AI using social media to imitate life. Here, Kristen Stewart talks about being completely opposite from her influencer character. I already kind of had like a well-rounded relationship with how I bounced off of it. And I didn't want to deepen that relationship. It felt pretty deep. And so I have more fun on a private Instagram. I don't know that I need to have like a direct line to the public.

I don't give a f***. Love Me is in theaters right now, by the way. Have you thought about, I mean, there's a lot of quality stuff entertainment-wise that's out there. Yeah. And the audience has been split, you know, down to little micro groups that are aware of these different things. Things used to carry a lot more sort of a wave of, oh, have you heard? And these things sort of come and go. Yep.

to a hyper audience, if that makes any sense. I know exactly what you mean. Yeah, it's interesting. It's, yeah, there's a little less communal conversation about shows and things like that. There'll be times you'll be reporting on a series none of us have heard of and we're sure you're going to announce the debut day and it's the series finale. Yeah, yeah. I mean,

I said it with All American. He's like, season seven. I'm like, what? Okay. But the weird thing is that so much of it is really great. Yeah. There's so much good content out there, but there's no way anyone can consume all of it. You just simply can't do it. Yep. That's why we'll tell you what to watch. That's what we do. Obey. It's our job. All right. So-

We have a busy day today. We love it that way. We're going to go live on Fox Good Day. Those guys are in New Orleans. They're broadcasting live, Mike and Alex. So we'll say hi to them at about 7.55 this morning. Our Pep Rally concert series continues. The Academy of Vocal Arts. They've been here before. They're incredible. They're going to sing the Eagles fight song. They've done that here before. Yes, they have. We'll see if we can get some more out of them as well. And speaking of singing and the Pep Rally concert series...

Lizzy Hale of Hailstorm is checking in with us this morning around 10 o'clock. Love her. And she is going to be singing the fight song, and we're stoked to get her rendition of that as well. And we've got a contest we're going to play at some point this morning. It might be next. I don't know. We need to have a little conference here while we take a commercial break and figure out how the day is going to roll out. So we'll come back in just a moment. We hope that you will stay with us because we'll be back shortly. We'll be right back.

Preston and Steve's Cardboard Classic, the sporting event of the winter that's unlike any other. Trust us, we've checked. Join us Friday, February 28th at Montage Mountain for all the cardboard shenanigans you've been come to known as.

Register your sled by February 21st. The best design scores a grand, plus 500 bucks for the fastest, and another 500 from Pro Team Collision for Preston and Steve's favorite fail. When the classic ends, Mountain Fest at Montage begins with the M80s at the world's largest 80s party. Then on Saturday, catch a double bill with Tonic and Better Than Ezra.

For sled specs, ticket info, and all things Cardboard Classic, just head to WMMR.com. 93.3 WMMR. Everything that rocks. Nick just pulled up this little info stat on Bob Marley. It would have been his birthday tomorrow. It would have been his 80th birthday.

Wow. Birthday tomorrow. He died at 36 years old. I just watched completely through in one intact movie that biopic that came out. We talked to the actor who played him. It's very good. Is it good? It's very good. And yeah, I mean, it's an extraordinary story. It blows your mind. And then he died of basically skin cancer. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. All right.

Let me see. What are we doing? Marissa, are we going to talk to somebody right now? You're calling her? Okay. All right. So we're going to do a little BirdBot update. I have to thank Kyle Mack for creating this little jingle. I love it.

Bird Bot is heading out on a wing and a prayer from Broad Street to Bourbon Street. Will he get there? Only time will find out. And whether or not he survives his time in the Big Easy and then makes his way back, I don't know. It's all up to the public. And we got an update earlier. Bird Bot was with listener Brian. He was ecstatic, had a hell of a day yesterday. And he said, I don't know.

And he also indicated that he might end up in the hands of someone who we have on the line now. So we're going to welcome a gal who we've gotten to know very well over the last few days. Her name is Helen. Good morning, Helen. Good morning, everyone. Good morning. Good morning to you. All right, Helen, I understand at Pizzeria Vetri you had a special visitor yesterday. Easy boy blew my mind, guys. Yeah.

I was blown away. I'm like, what's up, dude? Yeah, so yesterday, Casey had some business in the area where you guys are located in Devon, and you decided to just swing by unannounced, right, Casey? Yeah, so I found out yesterday from a little birdie named Nick that Helen worked at

pizzeria vetri and i was in the area i was i had to go pick up a computer in radnor which is about two miles down the road from from pizzeria vetri can i get just a quick backstory so uh we've had helen you on the show three or four days i think this week and and uh so my friend jong was in pizzeria vetri the other day and jong was wearing her eagles collars and and helen could not stop talking to jong my friend shared the entire story so i was sharing this with yesterday

And then Casey made his way out to Pizzeria Vetri yesterday. And it was a really funny exchange because I get there, I walk in the door, and Helen is sitting at this little bar area. And I'm walking in, and there's this guy named Wyatt who is making pizzas. And Wyatt and I kind of lock eyes, and he looks at me, and he goes...

wait, are you? And I go, yeah, yeah. And then Helen looks at me. She's like, can I help you? And I'm like, yeah. I go, are you Helen? And she looks at me like sideways, like, yeah. She's like, how do you know me? How do you know my name? Right?

And we just had this really funny exchange for about 10 seconds where she was like, who is this guy? What's his angle? What's he going for? And then I was like, I'm Casey Boyce. She's like, oh! And then from that point on, I couldn't really even speak. It was like, it was, you know, she was just like, just decided. I mean, she took over. But then there's a guy around the corner.

whose name is Carl. And he's like, dude! And he starts taking his shirt off. And Carl got a tattoo from RC for Tattoos Day. He's literally got a Preston Steve tattoo at the base of his neck in between his shoulder blades. And so these three people are huge Uber fans.

Preston and Steven, WMMR fans. And then they got Rick, who's the manager of the place. And then Rob, who didn't really care. But oh, my God. And I ended up hanging out there for probably a good half hour, just getting a little bit of Helen's life story. And wow, you have lived a life, Helen.

I'm ready for you guys. I'm telling you, I'm going to make you so proud. I'm so on top of this. No, we believe you 100%. Casey was blown away. He sent us the video that he took right after your encounter, and everyone responded and was thrilled, and we're thinking...

You know, again, as President said, since the get go, we really can only sort of try to try to suggest that it ends up in your hands. Yeah. Right now, that looks like that's what's in play. Yeah. And so we posted we posted the video. I apologize, Helen. And there were some comments in the comment section about us controlling or me trying to control. Listen, I can't control anything. And I told her. And at one point she thought I brought BirdBot with me. And I'm like, Helen, I don't have BirdBot with me.

And I can't promise that BirdBot is going to end up in your hands. I can't. We can try and finesse it along. Our goal all along was to get BirdBot in a car on its way to New Orleans. That's it. And Helen is the only person who's called in thus far. In the time frame we want it to happen in. Yes. Let's do it.

it. Let's do it. So we would love for it to get into Helen's hands. If it doesn't, that's not our call. Helen, you mentioned the other day that there's a TV station that's following you. Are you on Instagram? I can't find your Instagram account. I am on Instagram. I'm Helen.Arney, A-R-N-E-Y. We are being followed by WFMZ Television, Channel 69 in the Lehigh Valley. Yeah.

As well as Tommy Cookies, Tasty Cakes. I mean, everybody's reached out to me saying, hey, can we follow you too? And I'm like, you can all follow me because I'm going to have the time of my life and I'm bringing back a Super Bowl. Nice.

This is crazy. So she's got all these sponsors, right? The TV station, Insomnia. You said... Wawa. Wawa. Yeah, Wawa's another one. No, listen. Absolutely. Listen, the collective and Helen, just looking at the people you work with, and I know you're bringing down a whole bunch of people as well. You guys are the epitome of Eagles fans, and you're going to roll in style. Yeah.

In style. So I actually upgraded my car to an Escalade so BirdBot gets a comfortable seat and he's about ready to have a time of his life.

Well, so by the way, Helen, we got we got a call from listener Brian earlier this morning who had Burbot in his possession this morning, and he's going to pass along to apparently another group who is going to make it to you at some point today. That's what we've been told. Whether it happens or not, we don't know. But that is the word. So you will be at work today, right?

Yes, I am. So can I tell you? So I've already talked to Amanda who owns the Popsicle truck. Okay. She is taking the BirdBot to the Liberty Bell today. Yep. To the Children's Hospital and then she's coming to me. Okay. I love it. That's wonderful. Here's another reason why I would love for BirdBot to get into Helen's hands. Now, she threw out the name Jelly Roll the other day. Yeah.

And I was like, yeah, yeah, of course. She'll go to a Jelly Roll concert, blah, blah. No, so her son is a world-class musician, guitarist, and actually plays and have played with Bob Weir. Like, he actually has connections. Who is your son again? What is his name?

Oh, my God. He's going to kill me. My son is Ken Mogul. He's actually done all of Bob Weir's closing shows after every concert. You guys probably have seen him. Does all the fish closing shows. So he's worked with a lot of people, you know, after the concerts and goes and has fun in the bar or whatever. But my son always does the closing shows for Bob Weir.

Well, that's pretty awesome. So listen, we can then be fairly certain that BirdBot's going to get an amazing tour with you because you guys have a whole itinerary set up in New Orleans, correct? Everybody knows the Jelly Roll concert is free. You had to sign up to be able to go to the Jelly Roll concert. It is all free. Mm-hmm.

All right. All right. Cool. So everything sounds like it's in play. And then hopefully and Marissa is keeping track of everything. Hopefully it gets into your hands. I think it's going to two good locations, including the Children's Hospital. That's awesome. So cool. And you're right. Right now on the clock, on the schedule, your time of departure is tomorrow morning at 4 a.m. Is that correct?

That is correct. We actually think we're going to leave an hour earlier because the ice storm's coming and we want to get out of here before it starts. Smart. Good idea. It's going to be warm, by the way, down south. It's going to be nice in New Orleans. It's going to be like 79, 80 degrees. We're all bringing our big Eagles gear and we're like, yeah, maybe we should bring our Eagles t-shirts. Yes, yes. Yeah. Hell yes. All right, Helen, we love, we feel good about this. And when you get possession of BirdBot, let us know about it, okay? I will definitely be talking to you, Casey. Boy, thank you for being my guest, you guys.

Oh, yes. All right. Thank you, Helen. Look, we got him in capable hands. That should be a colorful few days. And so it should be in New Orleans. By the way, Helen does not really look like her voice. No. I expected something entirely different. No doubt. I...

The same thing. And by the way, Nick, that little complex where the pizzeria Vetri is awesome. Like Waterloo Gardens? Or now it's called like Terrain or something like that? It used to be Waterloo Gardens. And then, yeah, now it's Terrain. And I think there's an Urban Outfitters there. Yeah, it's a really nice spot. And yeah, I had no idea that Ellen worked there either.

All right, so we got a little time to play with, right? Yeah, man. Like 15 minutes or so. We're going to go live on Fox Good Day and check in with Mike and Alex from New Orleans. So there's something that dawned on me, and I'm like, I need to turn this into a way for us to play around with this on air. So any time that you hear the Eagles chant occur, the majority of us...

Don't join in until the letter G is said. Right, right. Okay? So there's usually one and then maybe one or two other people will pick up on the E and get in the A. And then everybody else comes in on G-L-E-S. So you hear some dude...

We'll just go E-A. And then you're like, oh, I've noticed. G-L-E-S-E-O. So I want to play a game in case you give me a little bit of dialing music here. I want to play a game called the EA game. Yes. Yes.

And we will give an example. And we have different prizes to give away for this. If you want to play, you can call in. But you'll need to hear the example of how this will play. I am going to give you a clue as to a word that I want you to shout out like the Eagles chant. But here's the deal. I will give you a clue as to what the word is, a semi-definition of sorts. And then I will go E-A-L.

And then you shout out the rest of the word by spelling it. And I'll give you an example of this with Casey. All right. Okay. Which one is it so I can spell it right? I'm not. No. You're going to play it like anybody else. Okay. So I will give you the clue. Okay. This is a yellow gooey substance that collects in your audio canal.

Okay, this is a yellow, gooey substance that collects in your audio canal. Can you do it? All right, I'll do it with Kathy then. E-A-R-W-A-N.

Earwax. Okay. Yes. All right. All right. I got that. And that's how you play the game. I love it. 215-263-WMMR. I have it. Now, after exhausting that one, I have 13 of them. All right. That we can go through. And these are all words that start with EA. And you have to fill it in the rest of the way. Some of them are more difficult than others. Some of them are just...

dead on gimme's. Okay. Very, very simple. Uh, but some, uh, take a little bit of thought to them. Uh, two one five, two six three WMMR is our number and we've got a variety of different prizes, uh, that we will have your opportunity, uh, to win. So, uh, yeah, our,

Are you usually the one who, do you ever start at the Eagles champ? Yes. I mean, yeah, I do. In fact, the last game I started it, I think once or twice, I started it definitely at our tailgate. The best is because I'm on the upper level when you're going up the escalator because it's just this tunnel of people. Of people, yeah, chanting. And it's so easy. It's so easy to start a chant, especially when you're like in a playoff scenario or they just won. One of my favorites is Jose's.

Our former janitors. I think he did it better than the mayor, personally. He misspelled it. How long ago was that? 20 years ago? Maybe more than 20 years ago? Yeah.

Casey's going to try and find out, but it was Jose, our old maintenance worker. It was when the Eagles were in the Super Bowl in Jacksonville. Oh, that's right. So we were still at Y100, obviously, because Jose was still working with us. Yeah. Do you have it, Casey? I don't know where it is. Hang on. Okay. It's all right. We're going to try out the game and see if you can play along. And there might be a little confusion as we get started, but as we go along, I think people will figure it out. We'll start off easy. So I'm going to go to listener Paul. Hey, Paul. Good morning, bud.

Rantlers. Rantlers to you, sir. All right, Casey, did you find it? All right. Hold on. Casey's going to play the Jose Eagles. E-A-G-E-S. Eagles!

All right. So, Paul, I'll explain this one more time. I'm going to give you a definition of a word that starts with E-A. I will then, after you have a moment to think about the definition, I will begin the chant. I will say E-A, and then you have to spell the rest of the word like the Eagles chant. Do you get it? I get it. All right. Let's start with an easy one, Paul. Here we go. It's the opposite of late. Late.

It is the opposite of late. Here we go, Paul. E-A-R-L-Y. Yay!

That's how you do it. That's how you play the game. All right, Case, what are we going to get from Paul? Hey, Paul, you just won yourself a pair of tickets for an advanced screening of Becoming Led Zeppelins. It's going to be on February 10th. This is a day after the Eagles win the Super Bowl. And the February 10th to the 12th at the U.A. King of Prussia IMAX Theater. This is a unique opportunity to immerse yourself in the fascinating journey of one of rock's most iconic bands. The film offers an in-depth look.

into the rise of Led Zeppelin featuring rare interviews, behind-the-scenes footage, and classic performances that highlight their legendary status in music history. You can see it in theaters beginning February 14th from Sony Picture Class. By the way, I got a text here that says, wow, Kathy loves a contest idea. What is this world coming to? I told Preston I liked this idea. All right, so we all shout, by the way, the word together.

Just like we yell Eagles. We'll go next to Justin. Justin, are you there, bud? Yeah, I'm here. We're playing the EA game. I got one for you. Ready? It is the jewelry that dangles from your lobes in hoops, studs, and teardrops. I'll read this twice for everybody. It is the jewelry that dangles from your lobes in hoops, studs, and teardrops. Here we go, Justin.

E-A-R-I-N-G. Eerie! Eerie!

Missing an R, but that's okay. He got it. He knows the word. This is not a spelling test, right? I mean, if it's way wrong, it will be, but Justin's a winner. All right, Justin, you also won yourself a pair of tickets for an advanced screening of Becoming Led Zeppelin, February 10th through the 12th at UA King of Prussia IMAX Theater, and this is a unique opportunity to immerse yourself in the

fascinating journey of one of rock's most iconic bands. You can see it in theaters beginning February 14th from Sony Pictures Classics. Alright, we'll go next to another Paul on the line. Hey, Paul! Morning, bud!

Good welcome. Good welcome to see you, Paul. All right. So I'm going to give you another easy one. All right. Then we'll start making them a little bit more. None of these are hard per se, but this one is stupid easy. Paul, you better get this. Here we go. It's the planet you live on. You know, it's the planet you live on. Paul, here we go. E-A-R-T-H-I.

That is correct. Hang on. Paul, you won a pair of tickets as MMR rocks an evening with Dream Theater 40th Anniversary Tour this Friday at the Met Philadelphia. Tickets are on sale now via Ticketmaster. Nice. All right. We'll go on to our next caller, who is Thomas. Yo, Thomas, morning. Good morning. All right, Thomas. This one's a little more challenging than the other ones, but I have faith in you, my friend. You ready? Ready?

All right, yeah. All right, this is another name for any kind of a restaurant. Cafe, bistro, diner, drive-thru are all known as one of these. Okay, I'll give it to you again. This is a nickname for any kind of a restaurant. Cafe, bistro, diner, drive-thru are known as one of these. Here we go, Thomas. EA! EA!

T-E-R-Y. Italy! Yes! All right.

Nice job. Hang on, Thomas. Thomas, you won a pair of tickets as MMR rocks an evening with Dream Theater. 40th anniversary tour this Friday at the Met in Philadelphia. Tickets are on sale now and still remain at Ticketmaster.com. By the way, a couple of texts are coming in. We're not doing EA Sports, by the way. No, no, no. It's in the game. It's in the game. All right, we're going to go next to Colleen. Hi there, Colleen.

Good morning. You guys rock. We love you, Colleen. All right, we're playing the EA game. Are you ready? I'm ready. All right, Colleen, here is the definition of this next word. This was a tough day for Jesus. All right, we're going to see if you know what this is. This is a tough day for Jesus. Here we go. E-A-S-T-E-R. Easter. That is correct. E.

And what are we going to give her, Case? All right, we also have a pair of tickets as MMR rocks an evening with Dream Theater. 40th anniversary tour this Friday at the Met in Philadelphia. Tickets are on sale right now via Ticketmaster. Got a text from somebody who says it's a great game. We're going to play it at our Super Bowl party. Go Birds. Yes, you could do that. Problem is, EA is not a popular start for words. It's not like TH. I had to dig, and there are some that are like...

you know 10 letter words and i wasn't going to include those in here mine are mine are fairly uh compact uh to make it easier for the game but you can play this at home all right we'll go to katie next hi there katie good morning good morning katie all right the ea game you're ready to play born ready all right this is ready this is where the wicked witch of the west's sister is from

It's her sister, dog. Her sister. All right. Where's your shirt? You're getting on a bubble, bro. Yes. Katie, you already win, in my opinion, personally. All right, so it's a crown and a bubble. All right, so it is where the Wicked Witch of the West's sister is from. Here we go, Katie. E-A-S-T-E.

Yes! Couldn't be easier. Simple one for you. All right, here's Katie's prize. Katie, this is our last pair of tickets as MMR rocks an evening with Dream Theater 40th Anniversary Tour. And that show is going to be this Friday at the Met in Philadelphia. But tickets are on sale right now via Ticketmaster. All right, up next is Marianne. Hi there, Marianne. Good morning.

Go birds! Go birds! All right, Marianne, you've called in at a time where I think I'm going to throw the most difficult one at you. Oh, awesome. I know, I know. You'll get it. But I have faith. I have faith. These are fairly simple words. The spelling may be an issue. Can I interrupt you just for one second? Please. What do you have? I just wanted to let you know that I know Helen...

And she is the definition of Philly and an Eagles fan. Oh, that's awesome to hear that. That's great. Yeah, I know her personally. She gathered a bunch of people for the parade last time. Like, she's amazing. I love it. I think we've got the perfect person to take BirdBot to New Orleans. So thank you for the verification, Miriam. All right, here we go with the game. This is your clue for the EA word.

If you're a painter, you need one of these to put your canvas on while you're working. If you are a painter, you need one of these to put your canvas on while you're working. Marianne, here we go. E-A-S-L-E. E-A-S-L-E.

Give it to her. I will give it to her. It's E-A-S-E-L, but clearly. Yes, she knew. Listen, you didn't stop the mayor from misspelling Eagles, so we're good on that. Yeah, the passion is there. All right, here's what we have for you, Marianne. Marianne, we do have a pair of tickets for an advanced screening of Becoming Led Zeppelin. This is going to be February 10th to the 12th at the UA King of Prussia IMAX Theater. This is a unique opportunity to immerse yourself in the fascinating journey of one of rock's most iconic bands,

You can see it in theaters beginning February 14th from Stoney Picture Classics. And by the way, Kathy, your cousin, Victoria, who did the balloon thing, she has E-L-G-S-E-S eagles in one of the balloons. It's great. And in fact, was it her son or daughter who saw it and goes, Mom, that's spelled wrong. Yeah, her son. It's excellent.

And you can see it on our wall here in the studio. By the way, her info is balloonsbyvictoriadz on Instagram if you want to check out her accounts. Amazing stuff. All right. Up next, we have listener Noelle. Hi there, Noelle. Hey, good morning. Good morning, Noelle. All right. So while this is not the most difficult of our words, it is the lengthiest of our words to spell. So I just want to give you that. And are you ready to play?

Yeah, as ready as I'm going to be. Here is your clue, Noelle. It's what the Richter scale measures. It's what the Richter scale measures. Noelle, here we go. E-A-R-T-H-Q-U-A-K-E. Earthquake!

Yes! Nailed it. She nailed it. Hang on, Noelle. We have a pair of tickets for an advanced screening of Becoming Led Zeppelin February 10th through the 12th at the UA King of Prussia IMAX Theater. And it's a unique opportunity to immerse yourself in the fascinating journey of one of rock's most iconic fans. You can see it in theaters beginning February 14th from Sony Picture Classics. Look at that sound system for an IMAX theater. By the way, we're hip.

We're batting 1,000, folks. Yes. Every single one of these, everyone has gotten. I've got a few more. Casey, keep me on time because we have to check in with those guys in New Orleans on Fox 29. We want to make sure we don't miss it. All right, we'll go next to Mike. Yo, Mike. Hey, sorry to bother you guys at work. It's all right, Mike. Playing a game, the EA game. I'm going to give you your clue. Let's see if you can spell out the word we have for you. All right. And these, like I said, I've kept them simple.

The dangly, fleshy things under your ear canal. All right, I'll say that again. The dangly, fleshy things hanging under your ear canal. Here we go. E-A-R-L-O-V-E. Earlobe. Absolutely correct. Hang on a second, Mike.

Mike, you won yourself a pair of tickets to see Sam Morrill, the Errors Tour. And it's going to be this Thursday. That is tomorrow at the Miller Theater. Tickets are on sale right now via Ticketmaster. All right. Next up, we have... I think you can do like two more. Two more? Two more. All right. We'll go to Paul next. Hey there, Paul. Hey. Hey. Hey. All right, Paul. You ready, buddy? Yes. All right. This one's a little bit tricky, but I think you can get this. All right.

When you want to do something really, really bad, you are very what? When you want to do something really, really bad, you are very what? Here we go. E-A. Do not know. Oh!

Oh, I thought that was a gimme. Sorry about that, Paul. All right. That was E-A-G-E-R. Eager. Yeah. All right. We'll go to Heather. This is the last one. Hi, Heather. Good morning. Go birds. Go birds. Go birds. All right. Heather, let's do this one. Here we go.

These keep your ears warm in the winter, and it's also a game you play with kids when you want to drop an F-bomb. All right? These keep your ears warm in the winter, and it's also a game you play with kids when you want to drop an F-bomb around them. Here we go. E-A-R-N-U-S-S-S. Ear Boss! Heather, you win! You got it. Hang on.

Heather, you won yourself a pair of tickets for an advanced screening of Becoming Led Zeppelin February 10th through the 12th at the UA King of Prussia IMAX Theater. This is a unique opportunity to immerse yourself in the fascinating journey of one of rock's most iconic bands. And the film offers an in-depth look at the rise of Led Zeppelin featuring rare interviews, behind-the-scenes footage, and more.

and classic performances that highlight their legendary status in music history. And you can see it in theaters beginning February 14th from Sony Picture Classics. All right. Thank you, guys. That's the EA game. Here we go. Gave away some prizes, made some people happy, and yeah. Except for one, man. Everyone got it. Pretty damn solid. All right. We have to take a break because we are going to go live to New Orleans. We're going to check in with Fox 29, Mike and Alex when we return. Bizarre File Stories on the way, too. Make sure you stay put.

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Very much, Kat. So about 10 seconds or so, we will hear a little bit of music start to surge. And that will mean that we are headed to New Orleans, the Big Easy, where Mike and Alex are broadcasting from. There it is, right on time. Let's see what's up with these guys. I got you first, now.

Beautiful shot. I think that's New Orleans, isn't it? I think so. Hey, Steve O'Willie, thank you. Thank you. Oh, my God. It sounded so good this morning. Let's get to President Steve because here's the subject matter, President Steve. Travel is maybe the ultimate in a relationship test.

You're constantly together on the road and you learn things about people that you've never known. That's true. And, you know, the stakes are really high when you're trying to travel to the Super Bowl to witness the Eagles win. But it makes sense, doesn't it, guys?

Good morning. Absolutely, yeah. Preston, right? Yeah. The process of traveling together? That's when you never know what can happen when you're taking a trip with someone. There can be a moment of crisis, and how do you react to that? Or moments of boredom where you have to fill time that you normally don't with your significant other or co-worker or whoever it may be. Well, you guys are sharing a room. What's it like? Yeah.

We're in completely different hotels. Yeah, probably we would be in the same room because there is no budget at Good Day Philadelphia. So when your group travels all over the place, which member of your crew there at MMR surprises you the most on the road? For me, my guess would be Kathy. Wow. I'm a planner, Mike. I think, at least for me, it doesn't

surprise me, but like Marissa and I could never be travel buddies. She is last minute with everything. I mean, runs home an hour before her flight to pack. I've been packed for two weeks. Yeah, and then if we try to make plans about, hey, we're all going to meet for dinner tonight or something like that, like half of the people fizzle out and go off and do something else and it's never a good coordinated effort. We're

I don't think we travel that well. We don't. And I'll tell you what, nine times out of ten, wherever we're going, Kathy somehow gets the presidential suite. I do. Yes. I do. I can see that. The presidential suite. Oh, yeah. But I think you just have to accept it's going to be different if somebody wants to go off and do something else. Yeah. Just let it go. Yes. Absolutely. You have to look for the hides.

And some people like to keep all their stuff packed in a suitcase. Some throw it all over the place. You know, you throw your towel on the floor. Do you have to sink all wet or do you wipe it up after you? I will try to take a picture of my hotel room right now. It's horrifying. Horrifying.

In fact, I just tell housekeeping, don't come in here until I'm gone. That's a good idea. That's probably for the better. Do you tip heavily to make sure they can take care of the damage? I actually do. I suggest hazmat comes in. But I will leave a good tip. Now, I've been told by housekeeping people, if you're going to leave a tip,

Leave it on the pillow so that they don't think you forgot cash. I usually, I write a note. They usually have a little notepad there and I'll write a note and say, you know, thanks for everything. The pillow is for your escort. I leave it by the TV, the remote by the TV. I'll put it there. Hey, to sidestep this conversation for just a second, guys, we have good authority that

BirdBot is going to make it to you guys on Friday. Hopefully, do you know where you're going to be for the Friday broadcast so we can send them in the right direction?

Yes, we do. The cat's meow. The cat's meow. It'll be central time here, so 5 to 9 a.m. Okay. As long as they make it to the cat's meow, and we would love that, of course. So tell all of anybody who's coming down to New Orleans, we will be here. We'll take any and everybody. Come in and meet with us, and we'll put you on TV, and of course, we'll let you know about BirdBot.

You know where Bot is now. Bird Bot is somewhere in the city. He's going to be on a food truck today. We've been given good word. And he's going to be hitting some of the major places. Like, I don't think there's been a picture with Bird Bot with the Liberty Bell. And so he's going to circulate around and eventually make it to this listener, Helen, who's going to drive down to New Orleans. And he's also stopping at Chop. We understand. Drive him down. Oh, I love that.

Oh, yeah, we wanted to make sure that he was driving. It sounds like a strip club. It's a road trip. Yes, yes.

Karaoke bar. Oh, it's a karaoke bar. And you can follow along. Bye-bye. BirdBot travels at BirdBotPhilly on Instagram. Thank you, guys. All right, we'll see you later. Was there a bit of delay? There's a slight delay. I didn't hear one, no. It's TV gang. By the way, the Cat's Meow is right on Bourbon Street, so right in the French Quarter, and it's just around the corner from Preservation Hall. So if you are in the French Quarter, you know, going down for the Super Bowl or whatever,

It's right at the corner of St. Peter Street and Bourbon Street, right in the heart of the French Quarter. I've never been to the Cat's Meow. There's some weird little bars in New Orleans, man. You know, there's one that I've been to more than once. Excuse me. It's called Napoleon House. It's a really cool spot. It's in the French Quarter. It's got, like, this garden district and really... And just an awesome, like...

authentic new orleans vibe to it so i would love to see bird bot make it to napoleon house at some point excellent all right uh real quick before we get i want to make sure i have any short outs or anything i need to get no but you know what i did want to mention this i got an email from this guy who's a big listener of the show his name is robert parto and he says hey guys i'm the general manager of red lobster in king of prussia and he let me know they had an electrical fire

And so they're trying to get the restaurant back opened up this Saturday. And he reached out and he offered up some Cheddar Bay biscuits for us. But I said, we're good. We got food coming and everything. So I just want to wish them luck. Anytime there's like a fire in the restaurant. I mean, that's a major problem. They lose business. People lose tips. Yes. It's not good. So thanks for checking in, Robert. We appreciate it. We wish you good luck with everything. All right. Oh, and also Nick wanted me to mention this.

on our YouTube stream today. A contributor for a little while now has been Fit Dad CEO. Fit Dad. Yeah, who's got 1.6 million followers on Instagram. We had him here in the studio. He's great and apparently he's

watching along and he is posting dad jokes left and right. He has an unlimited supply of dad jokes and for every one of your EA quotes or clues Preston he had like one for earmuffs and earthquake and eagles and now he's doing a whole bunch of Star Wars dad jokes. So if you're a fan of dad jokes or just a fan of Fit Dad CEO make sure you tune into the YouTube stream. Nice. Alright we have B-File stories. We're going to get them now. Exactly.

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A 7-Eleven customer used a banana to batter a store clerk, according to Florida police. A banana? Yeah. So it was Katavia Turner, 22 years old, got into a verbal altercation with a 30-year-old female worker, and the women exchanged derogatory comments towards each other. At one point, Turner became irate, picked up a banana from the cashier counter, and threw the banana at the victim's face. Wow!

The airborne fruit struck the employee on the cheekbone and left a minor abrasion. According to investigators, the banana was not seized as evidence. Turner was arrested for battery and booked into the county jail on a misdemeanor count. And police records list Turner's employer as Baby Dolls, a Clearwater Gentleman's Club. About four miles from the 7-Eleven. Turner's being held without bond.

by the way. Doesn't Baby Dolls offer complimentary bananas? And the reason she's being held without bond is for violating probation in connection with a grand theft conviction in a neighboring counter. She stole about $800 of merchandise from a Walmart store

You would think if you had that looming over you, that you would not engage in this kind of activity. Regarding that felony case, Turner has previously been cited for failing to pre-trial intervention program as well as not performing 75 hours of community service or paying court fines. I bet you it's a hell of a dancer, though. Yeah. A swimmer who was caught pleasuring, it says here, pleasuring his chicken at a leisure center sauna. What? Pleasuring his chicken? Has denied that it was a sexual act. Yeah, just like that. Ah.

He could be my regular Saturday night king. They have a chicken in quotation marks. And he claimed he was cold and, quote, warming it up. His chicken is his penis. Oh. I don't know why they referred to it as his chicken in this story. It's ridiculous. It's out of the UK. I know, right, Gene? This is my penis and this is my chicken. And never the two shall meet.

It's like Full Metal Jacket. This is my penis, this is my chicken. One's for stroking, one's for licking. Good. This is my penis, this is my chicken. One is for stroking, one is for licking.

That's my favorite thing so far today. All right, so staff at the Tom Husband Leisure Center. Tom Husband Leisure Center. It sounds like the most boring place on earth. At Salford University, confronted...

His name is Ji Zhang. He was spotted through the sauna windows by a woman who said he was staring at her while he had his shorts down below his knees. Oh, boy. And the prosecutor said the jets in the swimming pool had aroused him.

They can do that. They can. Yeah. So he was later charged and pleaded guilty to outraging public decency. In his basis of plea, he claimed that he was, quote, cold for having been swimming and put his hands into his shorts to warm his penis. Mm-hmm.

He denied engaging in any sexual act. Zhang appeared before both the magistrate's court. The bench ruled against him, stating that there were inconsistencies in his story and that the act was for sexual gratification. Stoned out by the chicken thing in the beginning. In Australia, a woman charged over the death of her husband will no longer face a murder trial after prosecutors dropped the case against her following a sleep study.

Her name is Ilkner Kalsken, was accused of stabbing her husband to death in September 2023 after the 50-year-old was found dead inside a car north of Melbourne. So a key issue of the case for prosecutors was whether she was suffering from a deep sleep disorder and therefore not acting in a conscious and voluntary state.

So she was due to face trial, but they decided to drop the case. And there was no reason given for the charges being dropped. Her lawyers previously flagged that they were considering...

parasomnia as a defense. Parasomnia. It's another term for a sleep disorder which can include sleepwalking and sleep terrors. Kelsikan was released on bail so she could undergo a sleep study in Sydney. Prosecutors received the expert report in November so she got on. Kelsikan, have you ever heard of the sleep number bed? Yeah.

All right, and then finally, boy, this is a messed up story. Out of Philadelphia 14 years ago on a snowy evening, Ellen Greenberg was found dead on the kitchen floor of her apartment. She had 20 knife wounds, numerous bruises, and authorities ruled her death as a suicide.

Greenberg was a 27-year-old school teacher. Her parents insisted she'd been murdered. They fought to have the ruling amended. And now, after years of investigation, multiple lawsuits, and an online petition that has drawn more than 166,000 signatures, the pathologist who performed her autopsy says that he has changed his mind. It was actually initially ruled a murder.

and then changed to a suicide, and then back, right? I'll get into the details. So he said on Friday, after considering new information in the case, he no longer believes that she killed herself. Greenberg's parents resolved their claims against Osborne over the weekend. One of their attorneys said on a Monday, just before a jury could be...

in a separate suit by the Greenbergs against various city officials. The remaining parties reached a settlement in both lawsuits. They're seeking damages for what they called conspiracy to cover up Ellen's murder. City spokesperson Ava Schwemmler said that while city officials did not admit liability, the Greenbergs will receive a monetary payment, the amount of which will be disclosed at a later date.

And the city's medical examiner office will examine the Greenberg case. So, yeah, all the developments could clear the way for them to have what they wanted, which is a criminal investigation into the death. It began January 2011. Greenberg's fiance, Sam Goldberg, called 911 and said, I just walked into my apartment. My fiance's on the floor with blood everywhere. More than two minutes passed before Goldberg first mentioned a detail. A knife was sticking out of her chest. And he said she stabbed herself.

The 911 operator says, where? And he said she fell on a knife. The next day, Dr. Osborne conducted an autopsy. He noted the many stab wounds as well as bruises in various stages of healing, writing that she was stabbed by another person. So he ruled the case a homicide. But the Philadelphia police treated the death as a suicide from the beginning. Investigators were so convinced that Ellen had killed herself that they released the scene without calling it in the crime scene unit. By the time investigators returned, the apartment had been professionally cleaned, potential outcasts.

evidence had been washed away. It's wild. It's pretty wild, yeah. So it goes on and on about this and supposedly the latch on the door was closed and they said there was nobody able to get in. I was glad to see this, Rescinded, because this has been, as you said, for a long time. This has been like, you've got to be

insane to think that was a suicide. Yeah, the apartment building manager said that she had seen before where the door would close and the latch would swing up on its own and lock itself so it's possible there. And there are a bunch of other inconsistencies in this. This is unbelievable. So they finally have gotten what they wanted or at least

part of what they want. At least a shot. Let's see if there's a criminal investigation that comes up and they can find out who actually committed this murder. I thought it was a wild true story in our area that was worthy of putting in the Bazaar. From the files of Preston PD. There you go, man. Alright, we are

going to take a quick break. Our continuing support of the game and the team happens with the Pep Rally concert series. When we return, we are going to have the Academy of Vocal Arts in our studio to perform. So cool. And then a little bit later on at 10 a.m., Lizzy Hale is going to sing the Eagles fight song as well. It doesn't get better. Take a break and we'll come back in a moment. Stay with us.

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Thank you, Kathy. Just because to the rest of the country, we here in Philadelphia and diehard Eagles fans are known to be a bit outrageous, ridiculous, maybe even barbaric is a word to use. Yep. But that doesn't mean that we can't have a little bit of culture. And that's why we are happy to welcome our guests into the studio this morning. Please welcome the Academy of Vocal Arts. Yes.

To our program and representing the AVA is Mr. Richard Troxell. Richard. So glad to see you guys have brought some culture to the world. That's right. And we have you to thank for that. You've been here in our studio before. I have. It's been the highlight of my career. There you go.

Honestly, we had no doubt. Yeah, right? Exactly. We're doing what we call the Pep Rally concert series and we're having musical friends come by and give us their version of the Eagles fight song and we're going to do that in a little bit. We'll talk a little bit first and maybe you guys, can you do something besides the Eagles fight song as well this morning? Do we have something prepared? Well, you know,

We don't have anything prepared, but we can wing it. Okay. Does that happen a lot in the opera world? Oh, yeah. Most of us, we just walk on stage. Can you sing this tonight? And that's what we do. I assume that a lot of times during an opera, someone's like, hey, hey, hey. Yeah. We're doing regal essence. Hey, you got something from Butterfly? That would be so much better. Do you know offhand, by the way, what the definition of an opera is?

opera is? I mean, there are musicals, but what's the difference between an opera and a musical? It's a question that's asked all the time. So typically in opera, everything is sung. So there's no spoken word in it, right? All dialogue is sung. All dialogue, traditionally. But then you can get into all these phases. There's operetta, and then in some of Mozart's opera, there is spoken dialogue. But it's usually, it's sort of the form of the music in which the, it's a classical kind of music. And

Because you could say that Les Mis and Phantom are operas. Right, or like Joseph and the Amazing Technical Extreme Co. The style is called the American musical style. So that style is, you know, it usually has, it's more of a rock sound, a more popular sound. Right, right. Whereas opera tends to usually have a full orchestra that's accompanying it, not a pit band.

Okay. Something like that. But we do, like in a traditional opera, we sing the whole thing. Okay. How about languages? Does an opera singer need to know Italian? Need to know German? Need to know these? So when you say need to know, yes, we all study French, German, and Italian. She was shaking her head no behind you. But do they know it really well? Like I sing in eight languages. I'm sure LaTanya has signed them in. Singing in those languages and knowing them are two different things.

Yes. So we sing in those languages. We learn it phonetically, like I sing in Russian, but I don't speak Russian. Okay. But we do study enough of it. If you're doing an opera, an Italian opera, French opera, you study that score so you know what you're saying. Okay. So you do need to know that. Of course. To emotionally share. Yeah, how would you perform if you didn't know what you were saying? Exactly. And also, I think the revelation, I think the last time you were here, the inclusion of subtitles. Yes, which has changed the opera world considerably. Absolutely.

What took so long, eh? Exactly. What were you thinking? Everybody wants to come in here with a bunch of syllables up there for three hours? Yeah, but you want to be dialed in because the stories are classic stories. It's fantastic. The super titles, subtitles at the Met, the right on the chair in front of you, it's really cool. And you can change that to Spanish, German. I think that's it. Big Latin. Yeah, big Latin because it's me. That's fun. He knows it.

Yes, of course they do. No, I think that's great because it makes it more accessible. I think that's always been, for many, it's a roadblock. You know, my dad listened to a few operas growing up and I did enjoy them. But again, knowing what's going on sure helps. Well, they're great stories. And, uh,

What's fun about supertitles is sometimes if it's a funny opera, somebody puts out the punchline way before the supertitle. You're like, you just screwed up my whole bit. You killed the joke. You killed my bit. Richard, do you think with social media, with its pros and cons, is helping what you guys do and expanding the knowledge of operatic music? A lot of opinions on that. I think...

I think yes. I think that more people know the word opera. They know what a tenor is because of the three tenors from 1990. So that's been around a long time. There's a lot of controversy sometimes about whether Bocelli has helped or not. But people know who Andre Bocelli is. He sings a lot of opera stuff.

the opera world feels that he would not necessarily be an opera singer on a live stage but Andrea has done that so that he could the perception is he wouldn't be able to kite so the big difference between opera and everything else you talked about Phantom of the we do not use microphones

Okay. So opera is the last naturally acoustic vocal experience you're going to have in a huge theater. Hence why you need a facility that's acoustically correct. Correct. Right. So when you go see Les Mis or Phantom or Joseph, they're all being miked. And so they can sing like this. Losers. But we have to fill the Met is 4,000 seats. What's the argument against somebody like Andrea Bocelli?

You mean compared to an opera singer? Yeah. Well, here's my analogy. No. He's a wonderful person. I think it's the difference between softball and Major League Baseball. Oh, all right. Okay. So if you go see professional softball game, it's amazing.

Right? Right. But it's different than trying to hit a major league fastball. Well, here's the other thing. Like if I'm an eight-year-old sitting on the couch on a Saturday morning when I'm a kid and I see Bugs Bunny singing an opera, it might turn me on to it a little bit, right? That's right. And so I'm of the belief anyway that any exposure is probably good for the art. And that's what I agree with you on that. So it's really – I think it's great that more people go see it and they see it. It's tough when someone says, you know –

I'm a really good running back and I play flag football or I'm playing on Sunday. I'm Saquon. Right. If you're Saquon, he's like, yeah, you play football, but I play football. So when we hear that, sometimes you're like, yeah, you sing opera with a microphone and all that stuff.

Well, we sing opera tomorrow. I'm just saying. And there's a little bit of that. As well there should be. But do you get, because Nick mentioned the cartoon crossover, do people expect during like the Barber of Seville for someone to have a lawn grown on their head live? I know I love it. Like people think we all have spears and we're huge and a helmet and we're doing that. We're not. Yeah, yeah.

I will tell you this. To be, and having seen one or two performances in an actually acoustically correct opera theater, it is something to behold. Oh. Yeah. There's nothing like it. And when we, every time I've done, even like some of some, I'm sure I've done like a flash thing where you're doing it in a public space. I just did it. Yeah. I was up at Fox Chase Cancer Center this past week.

and helping volunteer for something. And all these people were eating dinner, and so he said, I hear you're a singer. I'm like, are you any good? And then I sang O Solomio, and their eyes just...

pop out of their heads because they're like, I had no idea it was that. Oh, he's good. Where's my sponge cake? It's an acoustic experience that they're like, wow. No, it is. Again, like in sports. When I've sung national anthems, I'm like, oh, I'll go see these guys.

They're huge. They're so different. Richard, are you warmed up right now? No, just you. I want to see if you can give us just a little bit of that Osolo Mio that you mentioned if you wouldn't mind. Absolutely. All right. But I need to sing it to someone. Sing it to Kathy. Kathy, you ready?

I'm going to take this. I always wanted to be a singer. You ready? Yeah. Yeah.

Beautiful. Beautiful.

People, that's 8.30 in the rigging morning. And that's so appropriate because in that particular piece, he's admiring his lover's forehead. Oh, sorry. Kathy's very proud of her forehead. What is that from? That is a Neapolitan song.

So it's not from an opera. It's not from an opera. So these songs, they came out of Naples and they're really popular Italian songs. I just know these bits and pieces about opera. We do. And that is it. So like Pagliacci. Pagliacci is an opera. And there's a really famous song from that. Oh, wait. You sing it? Oh,

Okay, they were looking like, I do it. Ridi Pagliacci. What are the words? Ridi Pagliacci. Everybody knows him from Seinfeld. Heart-wrenching. Ridi Pagliacci. I love that. There's a moment in that where he's just, I mean, just pouring his heart out. Vestila Juba is the aria. And he's just been spurned by his wife. And he's...

You know, he's the clown, but he puts on the face and he's so... The tears are coming down because he has to be the clown. Yeah. And he's crying. Yeah. Vesti la juba. Put on the clothes. But... Wait. Maybe if I took off the clown makeup, they would respect me.

We're all old enough to remember No More Rice Krispies. Yes. What are some of the more challenging pieces to tackle, whether it be male, female, whatever your range is, it doesn't matter. What are some of the legendary ones? What's your most challenging piece? So this is LaTanya. LaTanya Moore. Hi, LaTanya. She sings all over the world. She's one of the premier sopranos in America. Wow. In your studio, people.

Wow, we're on. And she's at the Met singing all the time. And what would you say is one of your most challenging roles you've done? The most challenging roles might be the ones that I've had to do in English. Yeah. Because I'm trained as a Bel Canto Italian opera singer. So having to sing in your native tongue is not nearly as easy as it is to speak it. So some languages do lend themselves because they're lyrical by nature? Absolutely. Okay. In English, the structure of the language is built on diphthongs.

And that's not something that happens so much in Italian. Those little ice creams you can buy in the mall? Oh, yeah. Totally. My kids love that. Diphthong is what they use in the South. It's called a triff-thong because dip means two vowels. When you say the letter O, you're saying O and OO. Right. O. But...

In the South, they go, oh. I want to ask you something about that. For you personally, are there certain vowels that are easier for you to sing than others? That's a great question. Now, tenors, I love an E vowel. Okay. Same. Me too. And I notice it. I sing in my car. But I've noticed that the E for me is way easier and sounds better coming out of my mouth.

mouth. How do your passengers feel? Do they like it? I usually sing better when I'm alone. The reason why it feels better and easier is because the vowel is more forward. If you're singing E, it's a very concentrated sound. If you sing ah, then your sound is dissipated, right? No matter what. Although ah, a lot of people prefer it, especially if you're a soprano, because the higher you go, the more space you want.

you know, in your mouth as you're singing it. But for me, I love closed vowels. That's fascinating. And some of them are physically easier to do than others. Yeah, certainly. The vowel signs, depending on the shape of your own... Yeah, and depending on how high or low you're singing. Exactly. So, yeah, the higher you get, for tenors, we like, when she says forward, it's like straight, we call this the mask. It's like...

Right up there. You said you're a belacanto, is that what you said? Belacanto singer, yes. Belacanto. What does that mean exactly? It means beautiful singing. Basically, very lyric. Always singing almost like on a violin bow of sound. Smooth, connected legato. Beautiful.

beautiful, lush singing. That's what I like about you. I love her so much. I do too. When this woman sings, you're like, I'm on the floor. Imagine if, like, yeah, that approach will work throughout life, just talking like that. She's very expressive in the way she speaks as well. Could we get just a little sample of your voice, of anything you feel like singing real quick? Oh my, it is. I know. Let's

How about the Dukes of Hazzard? You know, Caruso said, I don't spit before noon. But you don't have to get into your upper register or anything like that. Whatever you like. ... ... ... ... ... ...

Mike! Our mics couldn't even handle it. It's amazing. I know, I had to bring the levels down a little bit. Three grand is for a reason, baby. Yeah, baby. I think what happens is you have a little collateral damage from the fact that opera's a go-to for comedy a lot.

Yeah. So then sometimes it makes it hard for people to just say, you can just enjoy this for what it really is because our minds go to every, as Nick was pointing out, every Bugs Bunny cartoon and every Seinfeld episode where it figured into the comedy. But it can really move you. Oh, my gosh. It's such a trope to make fun of it. It's funny, but I have friends who I've been seeing for 30 years. These are my college friends. They still mock me every time. How are you doing? And they go, no, no.

You sing things like no. That's what friends are for. I love them so much. Yeah, you know, it's funny because before I was an opera singer in high school, I did classical music and jazz. But my friends would also make me do things like sing operatically or classically. So I used to just sing anything. Phone book. It is the phone book. It is the grocery store. You know what I mean? Oh, man, they got a kick out of that kind of stuff. Yeah.

Richard, can I ask a dumbass pop culture question? No, there's no such thing. I think it's Batman Begins. They go and they see an opera and it scares the crap out of little Bruce Wayne because there's all these bats that are flying around. Do you know what that opera is? Because I never understood what the joke is. So, Flatermouse is...

Flater mouse. Flater mouse, which means flying mouse. Okay. It's a bat. Right. And it's a German opera. It's a comic opera about infidelity and being a cuckold and all that kind of stuff. Yes. But it's not really a scary opera. But it scares the little kid. The only opera that's going to have a bat in it. So for Batman. Totally. What about Bat Lake? The other one. Bat Lake. Yeah, that's a good one. They dance it.

Trying to think of other pop culture opera moments. Moonstruck. Moonstruck. Moonstruck. It's one of the best. Pretty Woman. Pretty Woman. They get to see Traviata because Pretty Woman really is sort of the story of La Traviata. A woman who is a woman of the evening. Yes. And a very wealthy man. Who are? Yeah. And

I did not know that. Moulin Rouge is also like La Traviata. Okay. And right. Everything you see. Every ringtone. Not every, but so many ringtones are opera. So many of them. Carmen. Yeah, the toreador. Da-da-da-da-da-da. Yeah. And da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. The can-can. Yeah. That's the can from Orpheus and the Underworld. Also a ShopRite commercial. That's right. Yes. If you like canned food. Here comes the line. I love canned food.

There you go. Yes. Latonya, you've won some Grammys? Oh, yeah. Three. Three Grammys? Yeah, I have. Wow.

What did you drag her in here for? What were the categories that you went for? Best Opera Recording, Metropolitan Opera. And coincidentally, they were all operas and jazz. Because like I said, I started as a jazz singer. And these Grammys are all for Porgy and Bess, Fire Shut Up in My Bones, Champion. All written by jazz composers. Porgy and Bess is excellent. Oh, it sure is. Jazz singer, how's your scat game?

It used to be real good. I mean, I haven't sung scat for like 27 years. Okay. Do you guys, you know, obviously you mentioned a couple of different formats, jazz and opera. Do you pay attention to contemporary singers, popular music, things like that? Absolutely. Who are some that are impressive to you? I love Bruno Mars. Yeah. I think Bruno Mars is one of the most talented people. I agree. And I think Lady Gaga is amazing.

You know, it's a funny thing. Well, I think that we get this idea that, oh, they are just these pop people who didn't have to work really hard. Anybody who makes it to that level has worked their ass off. I mean, really hard in their art form. Yeah. Whatever they've done. They have a different life than we do, but they've worked really hard. And I have to say these two specifically that he mentioned, Gaga and Bruno Mars.

are the type of singers, when they started, they were good, but they became great because they worked on their technique. They wanted to grow as artists, and they did just that. They're a beautiful example. I used to brush off pop singers until I started. You know who actually kind of changed my mind? It was from years and years ago. It was George Michael.

And I sat and listened to some of the stuff that he did. I'm like, my God, this guy is a phenomenal singer, right? He can sing, baby. He can sing. He can sing. And they have a different measuring stick of what's great for them. Right. Like we vocally, you can't fake being an opera singer. Right.

and make a career of it. You can be a pop singer who's not very good and have a career. It may not last, but you can't do that. You have to appreciate it. And it's the same with jazz musicians. You can't fake being a jazz musician or a classical musician. You can fake being a pop.

I can grab a bass guitar and learn three notes and stand up in front of them. Sure. That's right. Yeah. Yeah. Same with rock. Like a punk person can kind of get away with not being a great musician per se. And they can still have success. They are the greats. Well, the people who commit to their craft, like Milli Vanilli, for example. Those guys. Wow. Amazing. Amazing.

I'd like to point out everyone else who is here. So we have Lydia, Juliana, Katie, Luke, Jeffrey, Kumar. Is that how you pronounce it? Kumar. Kumar. Kumar. Kumar.

And Raul, where is everybody from? So we don't have all Philly natives here, right? Like far from it. I'm from Istanbul, Turkey. Istanbul, Turkey. Wow. Excellent. How about you? You back here. Albuquerque, New Mexico. Albuquerque. Skokie, Illinois. All right. Tacoma, Washington. No one's from Philly. Okay, you? Wisconsin. All right, and? Veracruz, Mexico.

Of course they're going to know the Eagles fight. That's right. It's a very international career. That's the other great thing about it. We sing all over the world and we know so much of the world and everybody around us. That's great. And LaTanya, I didn't get where you're from. I'm from Houston, Texas. I've been in Philadelphia since 99, so go birds! And she's wearing green too. I am wearing Eagles green today. What's your name from Skokie? I'm Jeffrey. And Jeffrey, do they have any barbershop quartets back there in Skokie, Illinois? No.

Do you know what I'm talking about? The music man. That's a usual suspect. Oh, is it what that's from? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I didn't even know that. They're all from Gary, Indiana. Gary, Indiana. Oh, my God. So, Richard, how many people all together in the Academy of Vocal Arts? At the Academy of Vocal Arts...

23. Okay. Yeah, 23 artists. They're called resident artists. And they come from all over the world. Clearly. And the school was founded in 1939. Right. And we are having a big celebration. That's what I hear. 90th anniversary. 90th anniversary on March 21st. Okay. At the Kimmel Center. Our 90th anniversary. So the big concert, the gala concert, which features a lot of great AVA singers, people who have had big careers, and people who are still at the school, is

These are two of the singers who will be there. LaTanya, myself, and... How cool to be an aspiring singer and to be able to be along the likes of these Grammy winners. That's something about ABA that I've always found that it's a family, it's a home that we all come back to and support. And so if you can come...

March 21st. Anybody's invited, just look at avaopera.org and give them a call ring. And then there's a huge gala dinner starts at 5 o'clock that you could come to, which is if you want to really show off, it's a good time. How does one become a part of this group? A part of AVA? So you have an audition process. It's kind of

It's kind of like a tryout for the... Again, I always go back to sports because I like sports. You walk on that field, you walk into AVA, you sing two arias and they go... And then you run through tires. And then you run through tires. Sometimes. You do your sprints. Would you call it obviously to have a pedigree, to have a quality, you have to keep it high?

Yeah. How would you rank it compared to other audition processes for other... It is the same as a professional opera company, in my opinion. The same, okay. Or if you're doing a professional opera competition. All right. Because the Academy of Vocal Arts is not just a school. It's also a young opera company. So the idea is that when you come into the school, you are an artist yourself.

That's very cool. And as we all are naturally students throughout all of our life, I mean, I still have lessons. Just had a lesson days ago. You know what I mean? You're a student forever, but when you come into the Academy of Vocal Arts, you're treated like an artist. It's a grooming school to prepare you for an actual career. As opposed to other schools that are more run like a regular educational institution, we run it just like an opera company. That way you get out into the real world. By the time you get there, the real world is ready for you.

Yeah. You're prepared. A lot of times they don't throw in those. Here's the real world. Here's this. When you're looking for employment, here's what you're going to encounter. Right. Exactly. Yeah. I would imagine it's difficult to have as your sole income as an opera singer. I mean, if you're great, you're great and you're going to make your living out of that. You know,

again, I go back to sports. It's like, are you in double A, triple A, or are you in the major leagues? Right. Everybody's shooting to be in major leagues, but we, most of the people coming out of the AVA, a lot of them are major league singers. Okay. And so, yeah, we have careers and we've, I mean, I've only been doing this for 30 years. Right. So I do.

I love when people go, so what else do you do? Did you ask Saquon? Hey, so what else do you do? You still doing that singing thing? If you go into church, you're like, you should do something with that. Oh, thanks. I'll think about that. I know. You still doing that radio thing? It is my most hated thing.

And when they add thing at the end, I don't want to punch them in their teeth. Oh, you don't get a troop. So what's your little troop? What's your troop? Your little troop. Little. Oh.

Oh, come on. How insulting. Yeah. Oh, my goodness. You still got that hobby. What's that thing you do? Yeah, what's that thing you do? Oh, God. Yeah, we understand. Well, listen, we're ready to get the performance that we requested upon you guys. This is our pep rally concert series. We're having a variety of our musical friends be a part of the program, be a part of the excitement of the week as we're headed to the, you know, Bourbon Street and the

And the full Super Bowl, we are having various people come and perform the Eagles fight song. A little later on this morning, Lizzy Hale is going to be joining us from Hailstorm. So we're very much looking forward to it. But right now, the Academy of Vocal Arts is giving us their rendition of the Eagles fight song. We are ready, man. It's going to be big. All right. Ready? Fly, Eagles, fly. On the road to victory. Fight, fight, fight.

Eagles fight! Score a touchdown, one, two, three! Hit them low, hit them high! And watch our Eagles fight! Fly, Eagles, fly! On the road to victory! E-A-G-L-E-S-T! Yeah!

Yes! That's me! That's me! Woo! Woo!

No more of a grand fashion could we come up with than that. What the hell else can you do? Good luck, everybody. So, tickets, if people would like to go to this 90th celebration gala, it's going to be Friday, March 21st, and it will be at the Kimmel Center. What's the best way to get tickets, Richard? AVAopera.org. Okay. Or you can call 215-735-1685.

And a question, I know you guys are students and work really hard and you have professional shows to put on, but are you available for hire, so to speak, if people want to bring you on board? Always. Are you kidding? Call me 555-566-7000 for some radio work. And will you also sing?

Maybe. Oh, my God. Well, you guys are wonderful. Thank you for coming by here this morning. It's a great pleasure always to be here. Tonya, a pleasure to meet you as well. Oh, man, same here. And every single one of you, thank you guys for being here. And good luck with that singing thing. Yeah. Let's hear it for the Academy Awards, everybody. We're going to take a break. We'll come back in just a moment, so stay with us.

The Preston and Steve Show. Like the podcast? You'll also love it live. When you can call in. Weekdays from 6 a.m. to about 10.30 a.m. on the radio at 93.3 WMMR. Or stream the show live via MMR's mobile app. Birdbots. All right, we got a quick Birdbots update. Marissa sent this over to me. Birdbots.

We had heard earlier this morning that BirdBot was going to be getting on board with a food truck. And it's actually more specifically a Popsicle truck. In the winter. I didn't know they operated this time of year. Sure, why not? And it's called the Frio's Gourmet Pops Truck. And so they have actually posted on their social media, on Instagram...

where they're going to be with BirdBot today. They're going to hang on to BirdBot for a couple of hours. And at 10.30, they're going to swing by the Liberty Bell. And I guess they're selling popsicles while they're doing this too. I don't know. Sure, why not? And then at 11.30, they're headed to the Comcast Center Pep Rally. So if you're going to that, you'll be able to see BirdBot while you're there. Oh, awesome.

And then they're going to go to Federal Donuts in Radnor at 1 o'clock, hang out there for a bit, and eventually making it to Pizzeria Vetri in Devon and handing it off to Helen, who is then tasked with taking BirdBot...

All the way to New Orleans. And Helen's got all kinds of stuff planned. Like she knows people. She sure does. Bird to Fox 29. Maybe even a hangout in person with Jelly Roll. It actually seems really good, the odds of that. I would love to see if we could make happen, Preston, the promise of a helicopter flight. Remember? And then the Coast Guard said there might be something that they could do as well. We have connections there as well. We, again, can't.

make this certain we can only hope. Yeah, so hopefully you'll follow along BirdBot's travels and it's BirdBotPhilly on Instagram at BirdBotPhilly and we keep gaining more followers every day, which is great. So we want you to see the whole thing. And then when it gets down to New Orleans and it's like we are completely, it's

It is on. Game on. Whatever happens, happens. It is an honor system. Like we said, he's on a wing and a prayer from Broad Street to Bourbon Street. We'll be tracking him because we have the trackers on there. But we'll just kind of be keeping an eye and see what pops up on the photos. So far, more than thrilled with the journey locally. And I can only imagine big things in New Orleans. Yeah. While all this is going on, I still have had time, and I know it's hard to believe, to

To notice. How? Yes. The noticer blows our minds with the news he never stops noticing. Across an empty field. A vacant alleyway. There's one. In a medium-sized wedding venue. He's there noticing. I'm everywhere. You guys are going to hate this. Wallet Hub's annual list of the best cities for football fans has come out. Okay.

They rated 250 cities across the U.S. with at least one college or pro football team on 21 key metrics in both pro and college football related categories. They were ranked on everything from the number of NFL and college football teams per city to average ticket price to stadium capacity and fan engagement. And they do this every year.

So this year, the top 10 cities for football fans. You want me to work down from 10 to 1? Start at 10 and move down to number 1. Number 10 is Miami. Number 9 is New Orleans. Number 8 is San Francisco. Number 7, that's fun to say, isn't it? San Francisco, that's fun to say. Number 7 is Los Angeles.

We hear routinely that it's not a great fan city. But it is the city of angels. Wait, wait. Did you say for football? For football fans. For other teams. They're fans of the Eagles and the other teams. All right. I guess it doesn't necessarily mean home team. They don't have to be Rams fans. But you also didn't say professional alone, right? So they do have USC and UCLA and...

Yeah, for football fans, yes. But these are all NFL cities, Casey. Okay. But they also might have, some of these might have college teams in the town as well. So New York is number six, followed by number five, Kansas City, Missouri. Number four, Boston. Number three is Green Bay. Number two is Dallas. And number one...

Pittsburgh. How in the mother effing hell? Philadelphia is number 11. No, no. Number 11, just out of the top 10. By the way, Pittsburgh, number one on the pro football rank and 12th for college football. Overall, number 28 is Tuscaloosa, Alabama, but that is number one for college football. I think also when they have all these metrics that they're using, it's sort of...

convolutes the issue. Yeah. Like they're throwing too much in there. I don't. They should ask us. I don't need a ranking. You know what I mean? I know where my heart is. That is man. Well, I, you know what? Here's the thing. I don't know how you measure fandom anyway, because every city believes, every city believes that they have the best fans in the world. It's true. In the country. Yeah. Maybe not in the world, but it's kind of the way it is. And that's fine. And so you should have,

Absolutely. But once you start to try to measure it and use these different metrics, I mean, that's really just kind of... I think an EKG would be the more accurate way. Who has the best heart rate? Exactly. And I think we're going to lose on that as well. Actually, would that be brain? Yeah. EEG is the brain. Listen, I think... That's the way Jose spells Eagles. I didn't make it to any of the regular season games this season for the Eagles. I just only made it to the playoffs.

And so, you know, I'm like a year or so removed from the whole tailgate scene. And then also, you know, I kind of like hang back at FDR where it's, you know... Chillin'. It's pretty chill back there. But, you know, this past...

going through what I call the gauntlet of H-Lot and everything like that. Like, holy crap, has this... I'm like, where the hell have I been? Well, you're talking about the thing that I found insane, which is the level of tailgating, the level of fandom, the level of commitment, the expenditure. If you talk about ticket prices, Preston, and parking, the expenditure of the rigs and the barbecue setups and all of these things...

The amount of money that moves is astonishing. Yeah, and then also you have like Jethro Lott as well. So that's just a little bit removed from where the Wells Fargo Center is. But that is a whole other zoo and circus in and of its own. And then I just saw, I don't know who these guys are, but they were like, we just decided to bring down a bench press machine, you know, and just to see like what happens in Lake Suriname.

Like they have people like they have a record, right? The most amount of bench presses in one sitting, which I think the the record for the season is 70. Bo Allen actually went and did the bench press. I think he got up like 60 or 60. How much weight are they putting on it? I think there's 45 on either side. Now, the bar itself is it a regular? Yeah, it looks like it's a 45 pound bar. Wow. You know, so people are benching 135. So is that 135 pounds?

It'd be two 45s and then the bar. 90 plus 45 is 135. 135, yeah. I saw the Zubaz brothers doing it a couple weeks ago, 2Ks. Preston, can you do that list again real quick? Top 10, please. Yes. So we'll start at 10 and work our way up? Yeah. All right. 10 is Miami. 9 is New Orleans. 8 is San Francisco. 7 is LA. 6, New York. 5, Kansas City.

Four, Boston. Three, Green Bay. Two, Dallas. And one, Pittsburgh. Four of those five, five of those five, all five, were the worst stadiums you listed yesterday. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's right. Oh, my gosh. Maybe they're, I don't know. Maybe they're like a gritty...

crappy stadium. I don't think you're a great fan. It sucks. Commanders weren't on the list. Commanders were number one yesterday. Four of the worst stadiums were on that list. I don't know how Miami makes it. I'm sure if you're a Dolphins fan that you're into the sport or whatever. If you're in a warm weather city,

New Orleans may be the exception, but most people in those cities, they're casual sports fans. It's just the nature of the beast. You're at the beach more than you're at a sporting event. Part of the reason why Philadelphia fans are so diehard is that this time of year especially, you're sitting at home watching Eagles games. By the way, the last city on the entire list of all football fans, worst city football fans, is Lincoln, Nebraska. Lincoln. Yeah.

All right, I noticed other things. I just thought that would... Notice or notice more things. And now he's going to tell us about it. So the Blue Man Group, the beloved 34-year-old off-Broadway show featuring three head-to-toe blue-painted drummers

took its final bow at the theater where its production began. The show shuttered its New York City production this past Saturday, February 2nd. Yeah, I saw that. The show had been a mainstay at the Astor Place Theater since 1991 when George H.W. Bush was president and Magic Johnson played his final season for the Lakers.

For nearly, listen to this, 18,000 performances. The iconic 200-seat theater audiences laughed at bald, speechless men who banged on PVC pipes and Captain Crunch cereal boxes for an hour and a half with no intermission. I wonder how many of those dudes had their skin irrevocably damaged by that stuff on all the time. There's no way somebody was part of that troupe the entire time. I doubt it. Old Blue. Old Blue.

Spectators often excited the theater or exited, I'm sorry, the theater with flecks of blue paint splattered on their faces while cast members left strands of toilet paper scattered throughout the theater seating. The ticket prices rose to $118 a seat.

Have you ever seen the Blue Man Group? Not in person, no. Didn't they came out to a camp out? Didn't they? A touring group? Stomp came out. I don't remember a Blue Man Group coming out. I don't remember the Blue Guys. It was the Stew Man Group. Stomp and Blue. The Stew Man Group.

So, no, I never did see it, and I've always been impressed by them. Not only their rhythmic capabilities, but the really unique devices that they use to create these sounds. I thought it was pretty clever. But they're, you know...

Who knew that it would last for 34 years? I mean, so what technically is it still the Fantastics? Still the longest running show in Broadway history? Not familiar with that. The Fantastics? What is that? Yeah, it was an off-Broadway show and then became a Broadway show. It's like a musical review. I've always heard about it. I never really knew exactly what it was about, Preston. We're watching video of the Blue Man Group right now. I guess they use Cap'n Crunch at some point and they do a rhythmic crunching thing where they're actually...

Eating it with their mouths in rhythm. By the way. And that's part of it. Oh, I could have done that. Sure. It looks as if one of the dudes is not actually bald and is wearing a bald cap for the show. All right. I'll let it go. So the production also benefited from star-studded features and awards recognition. Performers from the show first appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno in 1992. So you guys heard of Yaro Blue, right? And made 16 other appearances on the TV show.

They won a Grammy Award for their artistic endeavors in 2001. And even Arrested Development included major plot lines starring the troupe. Remember, Homer wouldn't stop talking about it. I love the fact that he would always take the opportunity to complain that they were just a ripoff of the Smurfs. Meanwhile, other Blue Man Group performances continue in Boston, Las Vegas, and Berlin. But this is just the last for the original. For the original. The New York run.

This, to me, falls in the realm of Stomp and Cirque du Soleil and those sort of event, for lack of a better term, oddity performances, you know, shows, reviews. Well, it says in this article, dozens of shows used similar styles received major funding sources from theatrical producers in the success of the Blue Man Group shows like Stomp and...

sleep no more and cirque de soleil's broadway debut paramore uh deployed similar audience engagement strategies in their performances so they all kind of learned from the blue man you don't tell on their faces the mothman group the mothman the mothman group i'm sorry people i'm prepared to see the mothman group too that too you know what i for the eagle season next year you know maybe they agree man group yeah why not

I'm just an idea guy. The best ideas are stolen. That's a brilliant idea. Yeah. You know what? Yeah. I may have to do that. The Green Man Group? The Green Man Group. Yeah. I may have to get some other drummers together. Yeah. And we make the Green Man Group. Do the Captain Crunch thing. Except do it with malt-o-meal. Yeah, we have to put our own twist on that. Slightly different. Right? That's not a bad idea. Okay. I noticed something else. How about that noticer?

How about him? Noticing like a fool. Sotheby's announced that it would auction a Stradivarius violin on Friday known as the Yoakum Ma Stradivarius.

The Yoko Ono? Yokom Ma Stradivarius, dated 1714. Wow. The value of this exceptional instrument is estimated at $12 to $18 million. What? If the price reaches the upper limit, the violin could break the record set in 2011 by another Stradivarius, the Lady Blunt.

From 1721. That's a hell of a violin, man. Yeah, call it Lady Blunt. For $15.9 million. We're rousing up that bow. Let's get started. Lady Blunt. Michael Hunt. Yeah, it's the Michael Hunt. It's the Mike Hunt. Yeah. Stradivarius.

What are those strings made out of? The president of Sotheby's stressed that the violin is from Stradivarius' golden period, which began around 1700. It's usually red, isn't it?

What? Oh, the period. I'm sorry. So the instrument has been preserved excellently and its ownership history adds to its prestige. Joachim Ma Stradivarius derives from two outstanding violinists, Hungarian virtuoso Joseph Joachim and Si Hon Ma. Joe Joachim? A Chinese musician. That was our old intern.

who settled in America in 1948. Some believe that Johann Brahms composed his violin concerto in D major with this particular instrument in mind, captivated by its deep sound. Joachim had premiered this piece in 1879, playing on this particular violin. It's an original recording, right? Is it Joachim? Is that how you pronounce that name? Joachim.

I don't think it's Joachim, but I could be wrong. Like Dwight Joachim? I have no idea. It's J-O-A-C-H-I-M. I think that's Joachim, but it's a Jewish Hebrew name. Let me ask you, this is a violin that will never be played again, I assume. At that value? I doubt that. I think these instruments get played on because of their... On Sotheby's post for this actual violin, there's a dude playing it.

Wow. Wow. I'd be so terrified. You imagine it just like crumbles into ash. But in the eyes and ears of music fans and classical fans, it would be a crime to not hear music from this instrument. And in the video, Preston, he's got a cigarette in the frets.

You just don't do that. So, Sihon Ma acquired the violin in 1969 after his death. It was entrusted to the New England Conservatory in Boston where Ma obtained his master's degree in 1959.

The entire process from the auction will be allocated to a scholarship fund for students of the institution. So there is a fascination and a connection. You as a drummer, if you were to see being in proximity to Ringo's drum kit. Oh, yeah. Or Neil Peart's. There'd be some energy, right? It's just an unspoken thing that you have because you have such an appreciation of the instrument. I would feel a lot like Ma from this. Ma! Ma!

Hit that again, Case. Me, no! Oh, Ma's cut off. Yeah, it is cut off. I don't like it, that. Some bitch.

It's estimated between 450 and 512 Stradivarius violins may have survived to this day. However, it is impossible to determine their exact number, partly due to the appearance of forgeries, which are mistakenly regarded as originals. Yeah, I bought a Stradivarius. It turned out to be fake. $18 million. Does that make it then the most, if it does yield that amount, will that make that the most...

expensive musical instrument on earth, as opposed to an original Steinway? It's a good question. I don't know about musical instruments overall, but for violins, for sure. For Stradivarius, definitely. So the record is $15.9 million so far. But yeah, as far as most expensive musical instrument ever purchased, I'm not really sure. That would obviously have to have...

you know, a connection to a famous musician as well, I would think. Apparently, the... Oh. It was the Lady Blunt. It was another violin. Oh. Yeah. Yep. So that is the most expensive musical instrument ever sold. Wow. The kazoo that Beethoven conducted or at least composed on a lot is in a museum in Germany. That's amazing. So it should be. All right. So if you got the money, go get your violin. Go get the beer.

So the most dangerous, the world's most dangerous activities among them is selfie taking. The number of people who have lost their lives while trying to get that perfect shot has spiked sharply in recent years. For a time, Wikipedia kept a running total estimating 379 people have died in selfie related accidents.

Between 2008 and 2021, with hundreds more sustaining serious injuries. I bet you there's a lot that go unreported, too, because you don't know exactly if someone's at the bottom of a ravine.

You may not know that they were holding their phone while they were, whatever led to the accident. Since then, other sources suggest the toll had risen to as many as 480 fatalities by the end of this past year. By way of comparison, far more people die from taking selfies than from shark attacks. Wow. Which on average count for five to six deaths per year globally.

Naturally, many of those incidents occur in the world's most picturesque spots or those made famous by popular movies and TV shows. So then could it by default be true that the absolute most dangerous activity is taking a selfie with a shark? Well, I can't imagine that that's safe at all. Have you... So you've reported over the...

how many years in the bizarre file, deaths from, like in Yellowstone, or there are places that are notorious. In fact, there's one, I think it's in Brazil, Nick, where they literally, literally, people will slide out on this boulder. I think it, I don't know exactly where it is. Do you know what I'm talking about, Nick? No, it doesn't come to mind. Okay, but it ends up in social media all the time, and I

regardless of the fact that many people have died attempting to get that picture, people still do it. I've been to Yosemite and there are just sheer cliffs there. And I've watched people go right to the edge, especially in the Central Valley of Yosemite. And it terrifies me because they just want to get right up to the edge and take that shot. But who cares? Yes. Do it from at least...

10 feet away or whatever? I don't know. So the authorities in some of these picturesque spots or spots that are made famous by movies and TV shows, authorities in these places are starting to take action. The small Japanese city of Otaru has announced that it is hiring security guards to manage these swarms of selfie-taking tourists who are so intent on getting the best shot that they don't see danger coming. Visitors...

are drawn not just by idyllic view of the nearby port and ocean, but by their devotion to the 2015 movie Cities in Love. And it's the city's sloping street, Funamiza, that's showcased in the movie. However, that single-minded quest can have dire consequences. Earlier this month, a Chinese woman died after she walked onto the railroad tracks and was struck by the train. Her husband told police that she was so intent on photographing the location, she didn't see the train coming.

The problem is not confined to Japan, however. Wikipedia's page listing the worldwide selfie-related deaths and injuries is startling. Everything from accidental shootings to drownings and even death by hand grenade... Yeah. ...have happened because people are taking selfies. Well, there's that famous hand grenade factory that people go to to get their selfies. I don't know. I mean...

I'm not I'm not calm if I'm on a precarious area or hiking. The notion of whipping out the camera and grabbing a shot never occurs to me. And but you see people doing it. And as you said, Nick, you'll see them taking big risks and eventually it's going to catch up with them. Now, when you get to the pinnacle or to a spot, then, yeah, like snap a shot. We had a picture here of a guy who was at the top of some sort of a cliff around the Grand Canyon. And he was laying on his back.

On the rock, totally safe, taking a picture, you know, pointing downwards. I did a similar picture when I was at the top of Angels Landing in Zion, right? It's not dangerous. It looks treacherous or whatever. It looks really dangerous to me. So, wait, actually taking that shot?

I mean, going that close to the edge and laying down? Yeah. Yeah, no. See, I wouldn't lay down that close. I would lay down a little bit further and then scooch my way towards the edge. I have a similar shot, and it's a great shot, but I would never put myself in peril. No, you would never walk up to that edge. I see what you're saying. If you were to lay down and just slide. Yeah. Yeah, I can see that, but a lot of people do. Here's the edge. All right. This is the edge right here. I'm not going to go like this and then go down.

I'll go here. You're not watching. I'll go here and then lay down. Slide, yeah. I'm not going to fall. So you wouldn't Charleston on the edge of that? No, I wouldn't. I don't have a fear of heights, but I have a respect of it. It's the landing you should have the fear of. Yeah, no doubt.

So, similar pleas have come from the U.S. Coast Guard, which issued a warning in 2017 against selfie-taking on the eroding cliffs at Seaford Head in East Sussex. Because those can crumble. Yes, they can. They can just fall. And that's what happened. So, apparently, the numbers are continuing to rise in selfie deaths. So, I thought that was interesting and worth passing along. All right. Let's see. We'll go back to the...

Noticer. The Noticer's back. I almost said junk tour. The Junk Noticer. I thought this was fun. This is a story about Oasis, the band, and the other band, Spinal Tap.

And this is a story that Liam Gallagher, or no, that I'm sorry, Noel Gallagher has passed along about Liam. So on June 4th, 2001, Spinal Tap performed a special show, New York's Carnegie Hall. And it was the first tour since 1992's The Break Like the Wind Trek. And among the excited audience members were the members of Oasis on downtime from promoting their then current album, Standing on the Shoulder of Giants.

For one of their number, though, the night would not go as planned. So Liam Gallagher had seen Rob Reiner's classic 1984 mockumentary. This is Spinal Tap, and he loved it, according to his older brother, Noel, who was talking about this in an interview.

However, Liam wasn't actually aware that they weren't actually a real band. Oh, really? Noel said he thought they were real people. He revealed this in an interview. Gallagher, the younger's excited anticipation of seeing the men responsible for the timeless rock anthems of Sex Farm, Big Bottom, and Stonehenge began to unravel when Christopher Guest, Michael McKeon, and Harry Shearer

who of course are the geniuses behind Spinal Tap, came on stage as their own support act in the act of the Folksman. Right. Who we know from A Mighty Wind. And they began strumming through the gentle Old Joe's place. Well, the Oasis frontman loudly declared to his bandmates that he hadn't come to see this folk crap ever.

And just wanted to see Spinal Tap. And Noel said they came out as these three folk singers and we were laughing. And he said, this is S. And we said, no, those three are actually Spinal Tap. You do know they are American actors, right? That they're not a real band. They're not even English. One of them is married to Jamie Lee Curtis. And clearly this is all news to young Liam. And presumably, as embarrassed as he was annoyed, he decided that he had seen enough. And he said, I'm not effing having that.

And then he walked off in the middle of Carnegie Hall. Noel said he's never watched Spinal Tap since then. So to still enjoy it and enjoy the movie but not realize it's a parody, that's a difficult feat to pull off. That is. Yeah, absolutely. I like the folksmen too. I do too. That version of those guys. All three of those guys are such talented musicians. And just in my Instagram feed the other day,

Speaking of Michael McKeon, ended up Lenny and the Squigtones doing Night After Night. Yes! It's a great... I know it's a joke. It's a really good song. It is. And he's playing guitar and they just...

I don't know. They're just talented. You can't be a funny musician if you're not a good musician on top of it. And in Spinal Tap, as you go through the evolution of the band itself, when they're going through their 60s flower child period and all that stuff, that music is brilliantly written and performed. It's really good. Because they're just, they're the music, but just a notch off. Oh my God. I'm scrolling through the Lenny and the Squig tones. I forgot if the song Starcrossed. I

I remember all of these. Oh, that's too funny. I got to go back and watch it. It got me to thinking, and I can't think of any examples, but did you ever have a moment where you're like, I didn't know that wasn't real? Oh, man. You know what I mean? I know that I have. I just can't think of it. It was like, I thought that was real. But apparently...

I'm sure we all do. I think what happens is we try to block it out of our memories. Absolutely. So embarrassing. It's incredibly embarrassing. Hang on, Marissa. I think I told this to you guys before. My family and I went on a hike to find in a league of their own the magazine where the catcher is doing a split on the front of a Life magazine.

Like we would go antiquing and thrifting and like look at life magazines and try to find the years that it was real. And then suddenly someone was like, do you think that maybe they just recreated that for the movie? Or they didn't even recreate it. They just created it. Just created it for the movie. And I'm sure my 12-year-old face was like, oh. I want to meet Godzilla.

When I was in the Boy Scouts, they took us snipe hunting one night at a camping trip. Did they really? Yeah. And I didn't know that snipes weren't real. You fell for it? I fell for it. Not only that, but I was like, oh, I have one.

Oh, no! And that's the money shot. That's what they're waiting for. Somebody said, I saw it, I saw it. Yeah, I fell right for it. I really did. I fell right for it. There was a Cheers episode where they took Frazier out. Yeah. But he was in on the joke. Yeah, yeah. He knew. Wow. All right. I did notice a thing or two.

Besides the things I've already noticed. What else has the noticer noticed? Do tell, noticer. I saw this article. It was a Reddit thread that initially was titled, What screams we are not going to last long for couples.

And so the title is, What Screams, and then in quotations, we are not going to last long for couples. Glaring signs that a couple is not long for this world. I thought they were just like talking about particular types of screams. Oh, they're not going to last. Honestly. Oh, they're over. That's where my brain went. Dude, right? That's exactly what I was like. Marissa fell for the, you know, the...

Do we have Kathy's scream? Oh, for the roller coaster? Is that just exciting? Do you happen to have that? We used to have that at the Reddy. Terrifying. That's horror. That is an absolute scream right there. What screams? We are not...

That's actually the progression of a relationship. Yeah, right? Right.

So in the Reddit thread, users discussed the point in a relationship where there's no going back and one person shared an insight that they received from a marriage counselor. Okay. So this person wrote, I was at a party one time. There was a marriage counselor there that had been working for 20-something years in couples counseling. This tip is great. And I asked her what the number one sign was that a couple wasn't going to make it. And without hesitation, she said, and this is what she had noted, she said,

If one person shows contempt for the other's feelings, it's over. If one person shows contempt for the other party's feelings. So, and by contempt, sex and relationship researcher Kristen Mark exemplified mocking your partner, speaking to them with condescension, or using sarcasm for cruelty are all examples of contempt. Well, yeah, that sounds like you're just being a jerk. Yeah, right?

You're mocking someone. You're speaking to them with... You're condescending them. You're using sarcasm and being cruel about it. Well, yeah, that's just... You're being mean at that point. I understand the level, though, what they're talking about is that you... The person now considers the other person less than worthy of... Even in a fight, you can respect...

That, you know, you can have an altercation or verbal, you know, kerfuffle. Yeah. And what happens is, is that in this case, you've lost the respect or you believe them less than. Yeah. Yeah, that makes sense. Yep. Other Reddit users had shared their ideas. OJ used to say that. Their ideas about when a relationship is or should be over. One person said, I think when you just don't care anymore. You don't care to fight with them. You don't care to be intimate. You don't care to make an effort.

No, I don't want to see the Blue Man Group. Another one says, asking friends if they think you should break up. Well, there you go. At least for me, this means you've made the decision and you just want it backed up by somebody. If you're fishing for that and looking for reasons, I'll tell you what, over the course of years, I've had a number of people tell me that divorce can be contagious.

that they've had friend groups that one party gets divorced and then others within that group, if they had any even remote inclination, start to move more towards it. I tell you what, man, the opposite for me because not that long ago we got news of some friends that were getting a divorce and had no clue that this was going to happen. And like the next day I came to Rochelle and I'm like,

we can never let this happen. I'm like, we can never ever grow apart. I want to stay on top of this. I'm just going to have to kill you. But I'm just like, the moment either one of us starts to feel a lick of boredom or anything along those lines, please,

Let's articulate that to each other. Just watch like feet videos or something like that. Yeah, right. Whatever turns you guys on. I don't think it's contagious, but I do think that if somebody does go ahead with the divorce, and like you said, it probably is in the other people's... A seed of it. Yeah, if you saw somebody pull the trigger. Yeah, it's almost like they're making it okay. Right. Yeah, I could see that. So Jeff Gunther is...

A therapist has shared five major problems that couples may find impossible to work through. He said, first, if you start neglecting the little things like flirting or giving each other compliments, he said, this creates a significant gap between you and that can be difficult to mend. Constantly finding yourself arguing over the same things also indicates that you may be headed towards a breakup.

He cites growing apart and craving independence as more signs your relationship could be coming to an end. And lastly, if one person starts to develop feelings for someone else, obviously, that's usually... I've been having sex with your mother. Well, that's a bad sign. Let's talk about it. Thank you for keeping it in the family. Yeah. Thank you for bringing this to me.

He said the redirection of affection for someone else renders the task of mending the original relationship extremely difficult, if not impossible. How do they give suggestions on how to reverse the course of repair? No. Not easy. There you go. Is this the sign of what screaming, what type of screaming means it's the end of the relationship?

She's always screaming. All right, let's see. Okay, Kath, you'll find this one fun. I thought of you. I have had this for a few days. I didn't get a chance to get to it. I've been thinking about you. People have been asking their female followers on social media to describe your ex as a clothing brand. Your ex as a clothing brand. And the results are pretty good.

Oh, okay. So I'll give you an example. It says there are clever women, especially those who follow... Her name is Heather, creator goes by SavageMomLife1, and she asked women to take part in the trend that has shared the responses. The clothing brands that describe these women's exes include, like this one said, Tommy Hilfiger, because he'll figure out a way to lie about anything. Got it? Okay, so not one that like...

Yeah, all right, okay. No, these are more play on words. Yeah, okay. I got the gap because he has a huge butthole. No. Next is Ross because I settled for less. Oh, I see where we're going here. Damn, girl. H&M because he was trying to be hers and mine. Damn, huh?

Gerber, because he's still a mama's boy. That's funny. His old navy in there. I like this one. Timu, the product is not as pictured. Forever 21, because he refuses to grow up.

Is there one called Shein? S-H-E-I-N. That ends up on my... What is Shein? I think it's a collection of different brands. It's fast fashion that comes from China. Okay, this says Shein, cute but runs small. Oh, okay. Yeah, the sizes never fit.

Another one describing their ex as a clothing or product brand. Ikea, complicated instructions, a lot of work, and missing pieces. Not bad. Another one says TJ Maxx, paid the max, got the minimum. That's not cool, man. I know, you're a Maxxinista. Do not be fronting on Maxx. Nike, constantly just doing it with someone else. Yeah.

Another one says they should be described as the brand Wet Seal. He just laid there. Wet Seal. Wet Seal doesn't even exist anymore. I like this one. Amazon Prime arrived quickly, but I should have read the reviews first. That's good. Steve, here's the one that you said earlier. Gap. She said there was a gap in all his stories. See, I went with butthole. Kmart.

No longer around. We talked about this. Are there they completely gone? Yeah. Yeah. All right. How about this one? Dollar General because he never had a dollar in general.

Diesel because of all the gas lighting. And finally, Goodwill because he's been handed down a lot. Did you guys ever have Shane's Circus World of Values? I did not. Not familiar. Think of the worst place you ever purchased tube socks and dropped nine levels more. But there were a few of them on Long Island. And they were this kind of...

You know, but they you could tell instantly if someone had purchased their clothes from Shane's because they had these brands. You were talking about stuff straight from China. You knew only came from there. It was readily apparent. Well, that's all I have time to notice right now because I got to go at the clock. I noticed the clock and it's 943 and we have Lizzie Hale scheduled at 10.

Want to make sure we make enough time for a right noticer? Damn right, Mr. Announcer. So we'll take a break. We'll come back in a second. Bizarre Foul stories are on the way if we can fit those in. But Lizzie Hale singing the Eagles fight song as we continue our pep rally concert series. We'll be right back. R.com.

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Thank you, Kathy. We are scheduled in the next five minutes or so to be joined by Lizzie Hale of Hailstorm for our continued pep rally concert series. This is great. So I'll get word from Marissa when she's on and ready to go. But in the meantime, we can go through some Bizarre File stories. Now, WMMR presents Kristen and Steve's Bizarre File. Bizarre.

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23-year-old Ashton Jonathan Mann has been arrested on charges of second-degree felony manslaughter and an additional firearms charge after allegedly shooting his friend in the chest. Reportedly, the victim of the shooting had been boasting about his ability to dodge bullets. Go!

Come on! And Mann allegedly decided to put his skills to the test. Turns out the bullets could not, in fact, be dodged, and the victim was later pronounced dead at the hospital. Was as good as I thought. Mann, however, can at least take cover in knowing that he was right to be suspicious of his claims of being able to dodge bullets. Told you! Wow.

The Scottish Animal Welfare Commission may have almost started a war of sorts. The commission handed in a report to the Scottish government recommending that the country should ban cats in some areas because they have a significant impact on wildlife populations.

While the commission was concerned about endangering birds, endangered birds and wildlife being killed by the felines, they wound up getting a different predator group ready to fight, and that's cat owners. The government put out a statement saying they would fully consider the recommendations.

And then later yesterday, as a spokesperson said, banning cats is not a recommendation of the report. And we will, under no circumstances, be banning cats in Scotland. The group Nature Scott. Here comes this great news for us, the cats. Now knows better than to get in the middle of the fight. They issued a statement saying any decisions on the report's recommendations are a matter of Scottish ministry. Why would you randomly pick cats? Cat owners. I don't know.

And let's see here. Yeah, this story as scams go. This one's on another level. A woman in India is accused of tricking her husband into selling a kidney on the black market. And then she stole the money.

The woman allegedly spent months convincing him to sell the organ to fund their daughter's higher education. You really need both those. And help arrange her marriage. After finding a buyer around three months ago, his kidney was removed and he was paid $11,500. At that point, the wife allegedly took the money and ran off to elope with another man.

What a slap in the face. Police were contacted, but she refused to unlock the door for them and the man. It's not clear what, if anything, can be done legally at this point. Wow. All right. And then we'll do. We got a couple of time for a couple more. I know that Lizzie's getting rigged up. All right. Here's a terrible story. Why not?

Yeah, I mean, after the kidney one. In California, law enforcement officials investigating severe animal neglect arrested a woman after 27 horses were found dead and several others were discovered to be malnourished. The sheriff's office said animal services executed a search warrant at multiple properties where they discovered the deceased and malnourished animals.

In total, the sheriff's office said in addition to the deceased animals, 74 were rescued and 13 others were euthanized due to their extreme conditions due to neglect. One bull was also euthanized due to being in a similar condition while five donkeys and three alpacas were also rescued. I mean, she had like

all these animals this is the whole purpose to torture them uh the woman arrested was identified as jan johnson she owned the farm and she made a plea deal related to a financial elder abuse case more than a decade ago investigators are still looking into whether or not that money was used by johnson to purchase horses the sheriff's office also said that johnson had a warrant out for arrest for allegedly making threats to a school employees and officers so she's truly has her life together she's just a riot you're still uh torturing those animals

The department followed up on several calls of animal neglect related to her horses and then the alleged threats to law enforcement officials were made. She has since posted bail, so she's a bit

out of her mind. All right, we'll do a lighter story and then we'll wrap up. Customers and stylists at a barbershop in China were left scrambling for the exit when a cow pushed its way in through the door and ran through the shop. Oh my God, you know, that could have been an utter catastrophe. Oh dear God.

Sweet mother of God. It had been a long time since we had one of those. Footage recorded at the barbershop shows the cow pushing the door open and running into the shop, bumping into multiple pieces of furniture and sending customers in their salon keeps rushing for the door. My God, prices have never been lower. The cow eventually calms down and stands placidly at the counter awaiting capture. And then it was reported to have become agitated while being loaded into a truck.

and fled from its owner, ending up inside of the barbershop. By the way, you know, when a cow gets agitated, you've had stories of people being killed by cows.

Especially ones brandishing firearms. In the farming industry, they are, yeah. People get killed on occasion because those things are so big. All right, and there you go. That's all we have in the Bizarre File. We are so excited to have our next guest on the show. Last time we saw her was at the M&M BBQ. Phenomenal. That show was incredible. We were all insanely impressed with the whole band and her in particular. But we are getting her on this morning because...

We are doing our pep rally concert series and getting a variety of musical friends to sing the Eagles fight song. Ladies and gentlemen, Lizzie Hayes. Hey everybody, how you doing? We're great, Lizzie. How you doing?

Oh, I'm fantastic. It's just it's so wonderful to see your faces and to and to hear your voices again. It's it's been it's been a hot minute. I know it's it's I guess it hasn't been that long since the barbecue, but I've been making an album. So like time is elastic. It feels like years. Yeah, I'm sure it is. And listen, touching on that. I mean, this is your last album was Back from the Dead in 2022. Are we going to expect this by the end of the year? Maybe this new album?

Um, we're, we're absolutely hoping to, it's all done. It's, uh, we're getting mixes back. So, uh, it's looking bright. Yeah. And we're very excited. I have to ask when you're doing this, because you know, you, I, I, obviously you guys are great musicians and so on and so forth. Do you, is it hard to kind of let something go when you're listening to a song? Is this the end version? Is this the final version or do you keep tinkering?

Well, you know, the amazing thing about working with – we worked with Dave Cobb on this album, and he's very much – he's very ADD, just like us. But there was always a definitive, like, okay, that's – we don't need to squeeze the baby anymore, you know? Okay, okay.

We don't need to go any further. So we all kind of collectively knew when it was done. But we could have gone on forever writing more songs because we did this very differently this time. We didn't do any demos for this album. Once we started recording, everything was brand new. We started recording. Here's a new idea. Here's a new song. Wow.

And so what you're going to be hearing on this album is literally us discovering the song for the first time as well. So there's a lot of energy and we're really, really proud of it. Really? So writing in the studio, had you guys operated like that before? Yeah.

Not at all. In fact, it kind of terrified me because the first day we went in the studio, you know, we always go in with like, I always have like songs we finished and like our bag of tricks and riffs for days. And so we roll in with our bag of tricks and Dave is like, oh no, we're not doing any of that. I'm like, what are you talking about? Don't you even want to listen to it? Like, no, I don't do demos. Like, we're just going to start from scratch. I'm like, oh no, now I'm not prepared.

But it was really beautiful. And he just captured everybody. Half of the songs aren't even on a click track because we totally forgot. Good. Wow. Yeah, it's really amazing. So we're very excited for everyone to hear it. I feel like collectively as the four of us, this is one of the albums that we're most proud of, actually. That's really cool. I think last time we talked to you on Zoom, you were in your closet. So I'm glad to see you're back in your closet. Yes, we're back in the closet. Are these your...

Are these your stage uniforms, stage outfits? It's funny because it's actually one of my, I ended up utilizing this room as one of my studios in my house. We have three separate kind of studio recording things in my house. And this is more like Chronicles of Narnia. You have to go through all of my favorite things. Right.

my leather jackets and my stage clothes to get to the microphone. But it's actually amazing because the leather jackets are actually awesome for sound baffling, even more than the stuff you can buy on Amazon. It is very C.S. Lewis-like. Thank you very much.

Lizzie, I wanted to pay two compliments to you because I'd seen you guys before, but when you performed at the MMRBQ this past year, I was transfixed. There were so many moments that were incredible, but especially the drum solo sessions when you guys came out on stage and it just was unbelievably awesome. But even more than that, I just was amazingly impressed by your kindness.

You go out of your way to be so kind to so many people. And I want to know, is that because that's how you were raised? Or did somebody slight you at some point? And you were like, you know what? I am never going to be that person. I'm just going to be nice to everybody that I interact with.

Well, I think it's a little of both. When we were growing up, my brother and I, we started the band when I was 13 and he was 10. Not because we really wanted to have a career or make money or anything or be famous, but it was something that we could call ours. We were teased mercilessly. We had interventions that would happen after class with our teachers, like, why are you into this rock music? It's the devil's music, that kind of thing. We grew up Christian. But what we...

So we would come home and our parents were so incredibly sympathetic, empathetic to what we wanted to do. And so our parents raised us to be kind and they knew our hearts were in the right place and we just wanted to make music together.

So it was a little of both. We were raised to be kind and to think about everything that we do, you know, treat other people the way that you want to be treated. And to be honest, now that I have this army behind me and all these people that care so much about what I say and what I do, it's actually a selfish act for me because when I get to make somebody's day, it makes my day. So you get addicted to it almost. You're like, oh, here's a picture. I would just want to give everything away and like take every picture because I'm

I know what that feels like to be noticed and to be like to finally, you know, to find your place or see yourself reflected with someone. So it's it's it's kind of a full circle event for me. Lizzie, you mentioned playing with your brother, RJ. You guys started, you know, the 10. He was 10 years old. He is an exceptional drummer. Was he always really good or at some point did you turn around and go, damn, dude, when did that happen?

I want to say my epiphany with RJ was probably around the time he was nine, right before we started, because he started drums at like eight, you know, and he would, all of my parents and my parents' friends would give him these VHS tapes of John Bond and Gene Krupa and, you know, Keith Moon, and he would just be a sponge and absorb it. And so like, we literally stuck him in a walk-in closet when it was still noise. And then all of a sudden, I remember being like, what?

Wow. And then my epiphany was, well, all I have to do is write my silly little songs and he can play drums to it and we're a band, you know. But he was always very good. And he was always ready for the camera. Like I was I call myself a reformed introvert. I was I was a painfully shy kid, like never volunteered.

for anything in class. RJ was always like, where's the event? What's happening? In fact, on our way to our very first show as Hailstorm, we didn't have a band name yet. So we're in the family van and RJ's being annoying and he's like, what do we name the band? I'm like, RJ, we're not a band. We're just two people. A band is four people. And I'm so nervous because I've never played anywhere outside of my parents' living room. So finally he was like, well, what about Hailstorm? I'm like, fine. That works for today. Just shut up and let me like...

You know, and so it was crazy. And he has taught me so much about, you know, I always tell him, I said, I taught you how to tie your shoes and you taught me how to fly. Because he has given me so much inspiration. And now that we are adults, it's so wild. He has become my like big little brother. He dropped so much knowledge. And, you know, everybody looks at drummers and they think, oh, they're just crazy and goofy. RJ is really not. And he's actually a very prolific drummer.

as well. He helped me finish this album. He has like 60% ownership of this album because he's always been really good at lyrics too, but nobody ever notices. So it's been really beautiful to grow up together and still like each other and still do this thing.

together. What a wonderful dynamic. He makes me think of like Billie Eilish and Phineas and they have that kind of relationship as well. There's a certain beauty in the fact that you have somebody who is going to get you more than anybody else in the band. I wanted to bring up Lizzie that the comments that got back after the MMRBQ people were

mightily impressed by your work on heels to do on stage. And so the question has to be, when will you graduate to stilts on stage? That'll be the next album. I don't know. I'm going to have to do something. You know,

You know, it's funny. I started wearing heels, I think, when I was around 16 because it was one more thing that the boys in our local area in Pennsylvania wouldn't do. I'm like, well, the guys aren't going to do heels, so I'm going to play guitar, I'm going to sing, and I'm going to do it all in heels. But I used to be very stupid. Now, the boys in the band had to have kind of an intervention with me because I used to get up on the half stacks sometimes.

uh, on our, uh, on our amplifiers with the heels and jump off of them. Like, like do one of those. And they were like, dude, you're going to break your ankle. So, so I don't do that anymore, you know, but, um, but yeah, it's, uh, it just takes practice. Lizzie, the, uh,

I'll have to get some MMR stilts. Next time at MMRBQ. The Grammys were this past weekend. You guys have won two Grammys. And I know I would never ask you to...

I think you guys won when rock was really represented in the Grammy rock categories. It's one of the things that disappoints us regularly. I know you're not here to disparage or talk about other bands or anything like that. But it just seems like the Academy has taken its eye off the ball a little bit as far as what constitutes what I interpret as rock music. I don't know how you feel about that. Absolutely.

Oh, no, I mean, I agree. We actually kind of grew into that category because we won for best hard rock and metal performance, and they do not have that category anymore. You know, we were the last bastion of that. But, you know, I'll kind of take it. Alice Cooper dropped some knowledge about that to me when we were out on tour together. And he says, you know, I'm not worried about rock and roll because rock and roll has never been at the cool kids table. Rock is exactly where it needs to be, in the gutter and fighting rock.

for the people on the ground, you know, right at the front lines. We, you know, we're not the shiny, you know, white Knights on the horse in the back of the battlefield. We're right up front getting all the debris. So, um, and the, the great thing about music and the great thing about rock music is that no matter what is going on in the world and that the craziness that's going on right now with everybody, um,

you know, rock, you know, people in rock music are going to be, you know, the heroes and that, you know, through our art, we are going to save a couple lives. We're going to give hope to people. We're going to give them a place to put their rage and

And, um, and so, you know, regardless of the accolades, you know, none of us in rock music ever got into this for that. So, um, I love that. Yeah. Yeah. That's, that's a great, great, great. I never thought of it that way. Uh, you guys did, uh, Lizzie, I think you and, uh, Joe guitarist in the band, uh, did you guys go out and do some, I don't want to say acoustic shows, but you did like some, some just a two person shows, uh, last year, correct? Yeah.

Correct. We did that a few weeks ago. We went out, we called it the living room sessions and we had like a couch on stage and lamps and candles and everything. And what we wanted to do is say, well, if we were to invite all of our fans into our living room, this is what it would sound like. And this is what it would look like, because this is something that we do. I live in Nashville right now.

And what we do with all of our friends is that we invite them over. And then, of course, somebody breaks out an acoustic guitar. I get on the piano like, hey, do you know this song? Let's go. And so we really wanted to show that intimacy. And the beautiful thing about this tour is that it wasn't the big rock show. We still got rowdy, but...

And Joe and I would tell stories about the songs or about our relationship with, you know, with each other or with the band. And we would take, you know, requests from the audience. We would have banters with everybody. So it really was this wonderful, almost vulnerable spot to be in. And man, I could do that for the rest of my life. I was going to ask how that felt in the diametrically opposed big hailstorm show that you guys put on, you know?

Well, I think what I realized, and it's something I always knew, but what I realized for certain on this tour is that our fans are so much more than just, you know, oh, they're here for entertainment or they're here to be wowed by something.

They're here because they feel a connection to us and they feel like family. They really do feel like, you know, I'm their aunt or their sister. And so it's just, it's really, it was really beautiful to see that in real time. And there were so many people that ended up coming.

writing me letters afterwards saying that was a once in a lifetime experience. So I think we pulled it off, but it was, I would definitely do that again. The poor guys, Josh and RJ, our rhythm section, were like, why can't we come? So you get another couch. That's all you do, right? Yeah, we get another couch. Maybe just a love seat for those two. We get the couch.

What we said is, to piggyback on what Nick had said earlier, we described the way you are with your fan base as a clinic and how to do it. And so this sort of format that you're talking about speaks well to that because that's clearly important to you. So will we see, is there a plan to repeat that in this year or no? No.

Probably not this year because we're going to end up releasing an album and kind of like be focusing on that. But I would love to do it again because what I think I miss in rock music right now, you know, is that there's so many kids that are trying so hard to be perfect and trying so hard to be hard and trying so hard to like put on this mask for everyone. Like, look, I'm cool. Yeah.

And what I miss is, you know, like who's piercing through the veil? Who's piercing through the radio and saying, no, this is me and this is my heart and I'm broken or I'm joyous. You know, we got to stop, you know, pretending to be things that we're not. So the great thing about bearing it all basically is,

And also, it was a really great experiment because there were some people, there are still some people that think that we run tracks or we run a click on stage, which we really don't. We do it very old school. We plug in, we play. The mistakes that we're making, whether you can hear them or not, are real, you know. And so the great thing about opening it up like this was that there was no doubt that

everything was live. I think that that is something that I'm missing in rock. I want that human element. That's awesome. Makes total sense. Listen, we've had you on, obviously, to catch up and talk and see what's going on with the band, but we've got a game this weekend. We've got a game this weekend.

Congratulations to the Eagles. We were delighted when you said that, yes, you'd be down for doing your version of the Eagles fight song. Absolutely. I'm hoping I don't mess it up in front of everybody over Zoom because of all the connections. No, don't worry about it. Well,

What did you say, honey? G-Love had... Oh, G-Love. Come on. He gave a good shot. And Zoom is not the best format for the relaying of vocal talent such as yourself. But he got it. He got it. Yeah. Well, like I said, man, it's just great to be with good friends. And I'm so happy for the Eagles. You know, I'm a Pennsylvania girl. And, you know, just been watching them since I was a kid. And as much as I've been getting little bits and pieces of sports ball while we're in our

making a record. It was so great to come out on the other side and be like, yeah, this is awesome. Yeah, that's great. And you're going to be singing along to a track that we have here in the studio. Fantastic. Do you want to hear how it starts out and then we can start all over again? Sure. Okay. All right. I'll play. Sure. Why not? Is this the pep band? We'll make sure it's playing. Okay. So I'll play a little bit of this. Okay.

Okay, I'm not actually able to hear that, but as long as we... She can't hear it. She can't hear it. No, but it's okay. There is a setting, and we're checking into it. Did you already reset? Yeah, I ended up setting it on my end. We were talking about this before. Now... We can get acapella.

I could do acapella too if you want to. I want to try one more setting. Sometimes it's just a button. While you're getting that set up, do me a favor. We're doing it live, people. Do it live. While we have a moment and we're canorking these things over here, do me a favor and give some love to Josh, your bass player. I have the greatest...

with him when we were waiting for you guys to go on stage. He was nervous to meet us. What? He really was. He told me that too. The nicest guy. He's just the nicest guy in the world, man. So please tell him we're huge fans and we love him. I definitely will. Well, you guys are kind of a big deal. So don't sell yourself short. Should I play this again, Casey? Yeah, see if she can hear it. All right, tell me.

I'm so sorry. It's fine. It's not my first rodeo singing acapella. Whenever you're ready, Lizzie, we're ready. Congratulations to the Eagles. Thank you, guys. Fly, Eagles, fly on the road to victory.

Eagles fly on the road to victory. E-A-G-L-E-S, Eagles! Yay!

That was awesome. That was better that way. There didn't need no friggin' music. Way better without music. There didn't need no stinkin' track. That was fantastic. Oh, my God. One more question, Lizzie, before we let you go. With the new album coming out, do you guys plan to drop the whole thing, all tracks in one shot? Are you going to release them one at a time? Do you know how that's going to roll out yet? You know, we're not quite there.

quite sure yet because we're we just got our first uh mixes back for what we think is going to be our first single so it depends on how impatient we get really um you know if the mixers are getting like uh you know too lazy about it like you know what screw it let's just put it out it's it's a weird thing to have to ponder because it is the nature of the beast now and in in in the days of rock that you know i'm sure we all fondly remember and obviously this is part of what what

mmr has been about the concept of the album out as as sort of a thematic statement where if you want to hear the songs even if they don't are aren't completely correlating to the other songs it's part of a vibe it's part of a feel but then also you got something that's ready to roll and your fan base is like we'll take it now and it's you know it's it's something that is uh i wouldn't want to have to make that decision uh

Absolutely. Well, you know, the great thing about the way that we were raised, because we were raised on real rock and roll. And my ABCs in rock and roll, Alice Cooper, Black Sabbath, Cinderella and Dio. And we've always, you know, part of our art form is creating an album, a cohesive album with a storyline. And this album is our opus. You know, I mean, I don't think I've ever been more personal about

It is our story. It is my story. There's a lot of darkness. There's a lot of truth. And there's a lot of, you know, questions left unanswered. And so I'm looking forward to everyone actually getting the album. And I invite everyone to please, you know, immerse themselves in that. But at the same time, man, every track is amazing. And it's going to be really hard to pick.

The songs that we put out because I want all of them to be singles. So yeah, you're right. It is the nature of the beast. But you know what? However you slice it. And I don't even care if anybody likes it at this point. It's like we are so proud of this. And it is the most hailstorm record that we've ever done. You can hear everybody's personality. Nothing is squished.

I'm not tuned to anything. It's really going to be amazing to see the reaction to everything. Now we're excited. I love it. Excellent. Lizzie, we love you so much. Thank you. We'll talk to you soon. Thank you so much, darling. You guys are wonderful. That's Lizzie Hale. The absolutely amazing

Front person and hardcore chick that she is from Hailstorm. Man, oh man, oh man. She exceeded, I mean, you knew she was going to be great. Yeah, but I mean, again, over the audio and restrictions of Zoom, she sounded fantastic. Yep. And talk about a great show at the MMRBQ. If you've never seen that band, you can't help but have a good time. Yeah. They're just amazing. All right, well, let's take a quick break. We'll come back in a second. Less in question, trash music news. Those things are up next. Stay with us.

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93.3 WMMR. It's everything that rocks. I love the end of that song as they keep going deeper into Niedermeyer's comments from Animal House. Because eventually you can hear Dee Snider calling you. Is that a pledge pin? Love it. 10.35 on this Wednesday morning. Keep on saying it. Damn it, Preston. Don't you dare. I'm smacking myself. Stop it.

It's Wednesday, people, and we'll get a winner shortly for our secret text word. We haven't done that yet. That's right. We normally did that like 10 minutes ago. We'll do it in a little while, but we have something else to give away. Before we do that, though, I want to mention BirdBot out and about today. You can check the socials and find out he's making appearances at some of the landmarks in Philadelphia. And you can go to at BirdBotPhilly on Instagram to see all that information. But I want to thank our friends from Acme is jumping on board a sponsorship for Bird

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Oh, yeah. $50 gift card to Sweet Lucy's Smokehouse in Northeast Philly. The question I absolutely have to go with is this. Finish this line similar to the chant from Full Metal Jacket. This is my penis. This is my chicken. This is for stroking.

And then you finish it. All right? This is my penis. This is my chicken. This is for stroking. And then you finish. 215-263-WMMR. That was around 8 o'clock this morning that we talked about that. If you know the answer, you win the prize. We'll do the trash right. Call us. The trash business is a gold mine. 93.3 WMMR.

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Brown. What's going on this morning, Steve? Well, as you reported earlier, Preston, Ewan McGregor is dealing with a crazed fan who is threatening him with both firearms and the movie The Da Vinci Code. McGregor is making it clear that he's inclined to choose The Da Vinci Code.

Lily Allen ending her marriage to David Harbour after he was caught with an account on the dating app Raya. Raya bills itself as a discreet dating site for celebrities where the only parties involved are you, your date, and TMZ. Oh, Mike.

And finally, Olivia Rodrigo and Louis Patridge were engaging in some purportedly vigorous PDA during lunch at a Los Angeles diner. Patrons say hands were everywhere with Patridge eventually bringing Rodrigo to orgasm with a mozzarella stick.

That's your Hollywood track. All right, let's see if you know the answer. Finish this line. Seminar of the Jam, Full Metal Jagat. This is my penis. This is my chicken. This is for stroking. And then we need to get the rest from you. So we will go to Denise and see if she knows. Hi, Denise. Good morning. Good morning. All right, Denise. You sound too pleasant to know this. All right. All right.

Finish the line. This is my peen, this is my chick, and this is for stroking. This is for licking. Yes! Oh, you nailed it, Denise. Hang on. And we're going to give you a $50 gift card from Sweet Lucy's Smokehouse, Northeast Philly. You can order catering for the big game from Sweet Lucy's Smokehouse. Treat your friends. Philadelphia's best authentic hickory smoked barbecue. And you can score big on game day with delicious smoked meats.

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I'm going to leave with this story because there's a chance that our buddy BirdBot might hang out with Jelly Roll at the Super Bowl. It looks that way. Listener Helen says that she can get BirdBot to hang out with Jelly Roll, which would be great.

But I bring this up because last year, Katy Perry suggested that Jelly Roll would make a great replacement for her at the judges' table once she left American Idol. Somebody in the network was listening. Jelly didn't get the judging gig that went to Carrie Underwood, but he got something almost as good. According to ABC, Jelly will join this upcoming season of American Idol as the show's first ever host.

artist in residence. Ah. Which means that he will join the show during its Hollywood Week episodes and then continue to appear throughout the season. Did you ever hear Jelly Roll cover Katy Perry? No. Oh. Can we go, you girl, we're on the level. Crazy. B-D-D-B-K-A-N-E-T-O-P-T-O-P. He completely changed the style. Yeah. Don't kiss him so hard.

Elton John has reportedly sent out a letter to some of his most dedicated fans laying out details of his next project. The music icon has apparently been working with Brandi Carlile.

She asked him to play piano on a song that she had been working on, and that inspired him to make a new album. And he says that his time with Brandy became, quote, one of the greatest friendships of my life. And led him to work with her, as well as Bernie Taupin and Andrew Watt, on a truly collaborative album. People love working with her. Joni Mitchell and a lot of other people have just loved their...

Dying with her. It's funny because I listen to her audio book, which is really great because it's her reading her own book. But then also she'll break out into song, you know, in between passages and stuff. And she talks quite a bit about Elton John and how much she loves him and how their relationship and friendship has grown over the years. And also she was resistant.

be associated with Joni Mitchell. And that had changed over time as well. They created 14 songs over 20 days, with 10 of those songs making the new album. And John and Carlisle released a new song, Never Too Late, November last year as well. Written for the documentary about Elton's career, Elton John, Never Too Late.

Devo, band that I love, has announced an extension of their farewell tour celebrating 50 years of de-evolution. And the new dates kick off May 1st in Philadelphia. They're going to be playing at the Met and tickets will go on sale this Friday. Do you think you might see them? 10 a.m.

Maybe. I haven't checked to see what day of the week May 1st is. May 10th, this is Saturday. So we can go back. That would make May 3rd a Saturday, which would make that like a Thursday, I guess. Maybe. Maybe. We'll see. It's just tough, man. I don't do weeknights anymore. I get up pretty damn early.

All right, and then Carrie King of Slayer playing a show tonight at the TLA. There are some tickets available, and our own Sarah Parker had a sit-down conversation with him. She said they talked about the new solo album from Hell I Rise, the likelihood of seeing Slayer live in Philly again. Excuse me, his puzzled reaction when fans scream Slayer to his face.

And why he never wrote a memoir. So you can check that out at WMMR.com. There are excerpts on the Instagram accounts, I believe, of the radio station and Sarah's too, if you want to see that. And then last but not least, to get ready for the big game this weekend, MMR has a super block party. And it's taking place Saturday. Super-sized blocks of everything that rocks Saturday.

sponsored by our friends at Trinity Rehab. And you will catch that, like I said, again on Saturday. And that's what I have in music news for you. We need a secret text word winner. Kathy, what will our number caller be? Nine. Ninth caller, 215-263-WMMR. You need to know the secret text word in order to win. And we'll get a random texter and give away that prize too. And we'll also get the letter day for the Word of the Week prize and wrap things up. Stay with us.

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But it doesn't matter. It does not matter. Everybody feels good right now. You want to know why? Why? Because it's beautiful inside. That's what it is. Yeah. We've had a beautiful day today on the program. It's been a lot of fun. Oh, one note.

We lost our caller for the text word. So we need the first person that can call in and identify the number one text word. 215-263-WMMR. We have those six sixers tickets for tonight's game. So we'll get that winner in just a second. Anybody who calls right now, first caller, we'll set you up with that. I would like to thank, first of all, Mike and Alex in New Orleans. We checked in with them on Fox Good Day today. And they're having a ball.

ball. They are. If you follow their social media accounts, you can see that they're taking in every bit of New Orleans while they're there. It was great because the very first day, Mike comes rolling up with these ladies from Brooklyn. He's got a grenade in hand and he's got beignet powder all over his face. And somebody who was viewing it, who's not from the area,

Thought that Mike was just a drunk guy showing up on the scene and wrote an article about it. Oh, that's great. Oh my God, seriously? Wrote an article? Yeah. I love it. I also want to thank our friends from the Academy of Vocal Arts. Yes. Man, man.

They were excellent. They were so wonderful. And I'm telling you, it's such fun people that sing opera music for a living. And they educated us and they had some fun and they sang the Eagles fight song. It was excellent. They have their big 90th anniversary celebration. They've been in Philadelphia for 90 years and they have an event coming up on Friday, March 21st at the Kimmel Center. You can get tickets at avaopera.org. And then we had Lizzie Hale on. Come on! Yeah!

Lizzie was wonderful. She's a sweetheart. I love that woman. She's just a good person in and out and an exceptional musician. The entire band is filled with exceptional musicians. So it was really great. And she's got a lot of love for MMR in Philadelphia as well. So that was wonderful. And we got the Eagles fight song from her. Nice acapella. Yeah. All right. So I got to call her. We are going to go to Don, see if we can get a winner. Hey, Don. Good morning, bud.

Good morning. All right, so what is the secret text word, please? It is bucket. Bucket!

That's correct. Hang on. And by the way, he was our original caller that we lost. Oh, nice. So I got right back in. So congratulations giving you tickets to the Sixers game tonight. They are playing the Heat at the Wells Fargo Center. Game time, 730. Single game tickets on sale now. And our random texter was Jerry Vorbeck from North Wales, Pennsylvania. And so you get to go to the game tonight, too. So congratulations to you, Jerry. Get those tickets. Pierre Robert.

There is here. I love that Lizzy sang it a cappella as opposed to try to match up with the track, which never would have worked anyway. I agree. I agree. It wouldn't have worked. But she said, I love when she said, you know, I do have some experience singing a cappella. And man, she's just so effusive and positive. It's just like everybody wants to wrap her in a blanket. Yeah. She's so lovely. So that was cool. Nice. Nice.

All right. We need to get the letter from you, sir. All right. Here we go. 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. E as in electric. All right. And we will give away on Friday a $500 big game package from our friends at

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Workforce blocks today of Aerosmith and Coldplay. And we're going to do today and tomorrow and the next day a couple of bands that have been in Super Bowl games.

Super Bowl halftime things passed. Okay. Aerosmith being one of them, Coldplay being another, Bruce being another. But today is also, we're going to do Springsteen. It's also the anniversary of his 50th anniversary of the famous MMR Main Point show. Wow. Where he did the early version of Thunder Road.

with entirely different lyrics and it was still kind of under construction. He called it Wings for Wheels. And when you hear those songs in their earliest form and you know what they grow into, but they're not there yet. I just love that. Yeah, it's a really cool piece of music. I love that.

All right, thank you, Pierre, and thank you to our sponsors. President Steve's Show brought to you today by Dunkin'. President Steve's Show runs on Dunkin'. Also brought to you by Acme Markets Fresh Foods. Local flavors. Tomorrow, the Pep Rally concert series continues. The Hooters! What time? Rob, Eric, Dave, all three will be here in our studio to perform the Eagles fight song. And maybe we'll get another tune from them. I don't know. It's kind of been the running thing here. We've got to demand it.

And our buddy Adam Ferrara, one of our favorite guests, will be in studio too. So we'll get into that and other things. That is it. We are done. So rage on and have a great day. And we'll see you tomorrow. Bye-bye. Preston and Steve on 93.3 WMMR. Hey, everybody. It's good to have you on the map.