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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. All right, let's get this thing started. Friday morning, we had our special little song to begin the day. And weather forecast for today, still cold.

Today's the last day of the, you know, cold, cold days. Days where our highs only get into the 30s. It is breezy, too. You know, 20-some-odd degrees, gusts. We're going to have mainly sunny skies. Clear skies today, though. Sunshine tomorrow, high 40, and we start warming up Sunday, 46 and sun. Monday, 52 degrees. Tuesday, we might get near 60 degrees. Nice. Cloudy skies, but things are on the way to a warmer look. Hello, everybody.

Preston and Steve's News Update with Kathy Romano. And today is Friday, February 21st. Good morning, Kathy. Good morning in the news this morning. A disturbing trend is emerging nationwide, including in Philadelphia, as men and women sound the alarm that they've been drugged in bars.

social media has been abuzz with increasing incidents many women have come forward alleging that they were drugged at philadelphia bars in several incidents the women say that they only had a couple of drinks but lasted but lost hours of their lives afterwards from los angeles to boston to even london there have been extensive reporting of an uptick in people reporting spike drinks at bars and nightclubs now doctors believe that ghb could be what is being put in drinks both ghb

And Rohypnol, another drug used, are central nervous system depressant drugs commonly used to incapacitate people. I was talking with a friend a couple of months ago. I found out that she was drugged, roofied at a concert, right? And I was like, oh, my God, like, you know what ended up happening? Like, how'd you get home? She had lost consciousness.

That's what these women are saying, Keith. And she drove home. Wow. Doesn't remember it. Doesn't remember any of that. Not being able to remember driving is wild. Yeah. And so I asked another friend of mine who was a police officer. I said, what happens if you pull somebody over and they're drugged? That's a good point. And they didn't do this to themselves. Like, you know what I mean? Interesting scenario. Well, they'll test the blood for it.

And if they find that drug in there, then you may not end up getting a DUI for that. Still, it's an incredibly sticky situation. This has always been something that people deal with. We talk about the different things, but like, you know, the coaster that can detect...

chemicals or whatever. So this has been something that's been around for a while, but you're saying this is now gone stratospheric. Yeah, they said, I mean, there's all different cities, even overseas. In London, there's been reports. Yeah, there's just an uptick in this happening again. Because this just seems like part of, you know, bar...

culture like preparedness like you always watch your drink you always make sure that no one's messing with it i mean yeah then you also think is it just you know maybe more people reporting it right right time dr uh riviello of the chair of emergency medicine at ut health in san antonio and co-founder of the philadelphia sexual assault response center says drugs will

like this leave the system pretty quickly. So 12 hours later, they may be out of your system and not detectable. He said many ERs don't have the lab and testing equipment to test drugs like GHB. Captain Margo Parker of the Special Victims Unit at the Philadelphia Police Department said her department has not seen an uptick in reports, but that doesn't mean that there's not an increasing problem.

She said police don't track data on reports or incidents of bar drugging, even if there's a related crime like rape or robbery. Parker said investigating can be difficult, especially due to delays in reporting and testing. Experts said that people can take precautions while out. Drink covers are available online to help protect your drink. And there are also drug test strips and bracelets that you can buy to test drinks while at a bar.

In July, California became the first state to pass a new law requiring bars to offer drug test kits to its customers. What would you do if you were at a bar and you saw somebody do that to somebody else? Freak out. Yeah. I don't know if I'd be able to contain my rage and anger. What was that movie where the gal would go to a bar and pretend like she was really wasted and have...

A guy. Take advantage of her. Take her home. And then all of a sudden she would sober up and go, Hey, how you doing? Uh-huh. What did you think was going to happen here? It's a great movie. You got to see it. Because these guys are predatory. And then they're laying all the lines. They're getting everything said. And this person says...

She snaps on. Yeah. They weren't freaked the hell out. They weren't drugging them, but they were taking advantage of somebody who was really wasted. Yeah. Terrible. About 400 IRS employees who work in Philadelphia's University City neighborhood received termination notices on Thursday after they came to work. Employees said they were told not to do any work Thursday morning and were later sent an email that

that said they were terminated as of Thursday. One employee who spoke to the news said that the email cited the reason he was being fired was because of performance, but he says he never once received a performance review. The managers were blindsided by the move, especially in the middle of tax season. The layoffs are impacting six to seven percent of the agency's 100,000 person workforce and target new and newly promoted employees across the country. It's part of a campaign by the Trump administration to shrink the federal workforce and save money.

Employees who were escorted out of the building on Thursday were distraught. Some employees said losing so many people during tax season could impact services and even invite fraud, a sentiment echoed by the union. The IRS has not responded to comments. Sources said more layoffs could be coming for the IRS and other agencies.

If you're planning to travel this year, there's an important change you need to prepare for. Time is running out to get a Real ID, which will soon be required to travel domestically. Real ID was put into place by the Real ID Act after 9-11, but its enforcement had been postponed several times. But now the Real ID rules will go into effect less than three months away. It's on May 7th.

You'll need a real ID, compliant driver's license or photo ID card or another form of federally accepted identification like a valid passport or military ID to fly within the United States or enter a military building or military installation. They just announced an upper tier of this called the really truly real ID. You pay a premium for it.

I want that one. So like 50 bucks a year. I don't know why, but I just, I inherently and by default travel with my passport at all points now. And like just in case, I don't know, it just seems to me like it's a level up from the driver's license or whatever. So anytime I ever get on a plane, I just bring my passport with me. Like even domestically? Yeah, just, I don't know. It's my default. I'm going to get on a plane, so I'm going to bring my passport with me kind of a thing. Okay. Okay.

To prepare for the Real ID, you should get your documents together. In Pennsylvania, you must show one proof of identity and legal status in the United States, like your birth certificate or passport, one proof of your social security number, and two proofs of your current physical address. In New Jersey, you must show six proofs of identity. You must take your documents to a PennDOT driver's license center or New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission location for verification in person.

warns it will never ask nor accept any identity documents online for any reason. If there are websites claiming that they can get you a real ID, PennDOT said it could be using your information for fraudulent purposes. And if you don't get the real ID by May 7th, you can still use a valid passport instead. PennDOT will host Real ID Day on Monday, February 24th from 10 until 2 at many locations with some issuing same-day real IDs.

in sports this morning.

Team Canada beat Team USA 3-2 in overtime to win the Four Nations Hockey Tournament. Connor McDavid scored with 8-18 in overtime to lead Canada to the win in the championship game in Boston. Nathan McKinnon and Sam Bennett also scored for Canada. Jordan Binnington stopped 31 shots, including the last 20 in a row, on the same ice where he helped the St. Louis Blues win the Stanley Cup as a rookie five years ago. McKinnon was named the tournament MVP. The Sixers lost to the Boston Celtics 124-104 last night. What the f*** is that?

Peyton Pritchard made eight three-pointers and scored 28 points, and Jason Tatum finished with his fourth career triple-double to lead the Celtics to the win. Paul George scored 17 points to lead the Sixers, who lost six straight and eight of the last nine, falling a season-worth 15 games under .500. They're at home again tomorrow night and will host the Brooklyn Nets. Tip-off is set for 7.30.

The Phillies play their first Grapefruit League game tomorrow against the Tigers. The first pitch is scheduled for 105. LaSalle's friend, Dunphy, who has won more than 600 games and made 17 NCAA tournament appearances in 33 seasons as coach at three of the city's Big Five schools, said he would retire at the end of the season. The 76-year-old will become special assistant to the president at LaSalle and will be honored during the Explorers game against Duquesne on February 26th.

Dumpy played basketball at a high school in Philadelphia, was co-captain under Tom Gola at LaSalle and earned his master's degree at Villanova. He also was head coach at UPenn and Temple. And the Eagles are still the Super Bowl champs.

And that's what I have for you this morning. By the way, Fran Dunphy, just a sweetheart of a guy. Great guy. For years, we've had a relationship with him, and he's just the nicest guy, man. Self-deprecating. I love that. Well, we welcome you to Friday, Fran. You've survived this long. Let's go a little bit farther and make it into the weekend. We have some things...

to string you along throughout the course of the morning, maybe distract you from whatever is ahead. We have a lot of guests on our program today. We're very much looking forward to this. First, we'll check in with 6ABC this morning. Tam and Aliana are at the desk, and we'll see what's going on in their world. Then in the 8 o'clock hour, we will have Mr. Christopher Knight here in our studio. Yes, Peter Brady himself.

He is in town for the Home and Garden show, which Kathy's going to be at tonight, I think, right? I am, yeah. Casey, what time am I there? No, I'm going to be there from 5 to 7 tonight, and I'm going to be doing an interview on stage. There's a succulent bar. I'll be at the succulent bar. Succulent?

I know. It's like the second best to alcohol. I'll be there from 5 to 6. At 6 o'clock, I'll take the stage and we're going to do an interview with Craig Conover. He has a line that's going to be at the show all weekend long. By the way, we need to come up. We need a mixologist to come up with Kathy's own signature

cocktail. I think that you should have a, it should be something succulent and it could be garnished with a little piece of a succulent. Is it an agave plant? You know what, it very well may be. It might be. Do you like agave by the way? I do, yeah. Okay, we're rolling. Done deal. Agave is a type of succulent. Damn it. Look at that.

Look at that. What are we doing this show for? It writes itself. Come on. We should be in the lab. We'll get working on that. Christopher Knight's going to be here in the 8 o'clock hour. Then comedian Robert Kelly will be here, too. He's at Punchline. Robert's great. He's stopping in around 9 o'clock. And if that wasn't enough, David Draymond of Disturbed is going to be checking in with us today because they have their anniversary tours, their 25th anniversary tours called The Sickness.

And they're going to be performing April 2nd at the Wells Fargo Center. The president says he's announcing his new line of succulent liquors. No way. Succulents. Sick succulents. Succulent on this. So we have a lot happening. Today we'll do the connoisseur probably in the 7 o'clock hour as well. So let's go ahead, take a break, come back, start giving some things away with a stupid question and our entertainment report to follow. We'll be right back.

Hey, it's Kathy Romano. This month on Her Story, you'll hear from a Chilean-born adoptee who uncovered the truth about her illegal adoption and a postpartum health coach who breaks down exactly what postpartum means and how we should be supporting new moms. Tune into Her Story with me, Kathy Romano, every Sunday morning at 7 a.m. on 93.3 WMMR because every woman has a story worth sharing.

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Thanks, Kath. We had about 60 seconds before we do a little check-in on 6 ABC this morning, and that gives us time to at least pose our stupid question this morning. We are going to give away tickets to see Paul Simon, the Quiet Celebration Tour, which is going to be Saturday, June 28th at the Academy of Music. Tickets, by the way, go on sale today at 10 a.m. There are three shows that are going to be in town. Question will be a musical one this morning. For Black History Month, who was the first musical guest...

Saturday Night Live history. 215-263-WMMR. I did not see the 50th anniversary celebration and I did not see the musical special. I got to see both of those, man. I just watched the entire first episode. Yeah. Nice. All right. We got about 10 seconds and they're going to throw things to us at 6 ABC. I'll go ahead and bring this audio up and we'll lead into that. Excitement at the Super Bowl.

is dying down. Now we're turning our attention to baseball. Oh, and the Phillies are lucky because they are limited up in Clearwater to warm up for the season. Literally, they're keeping warm while we're freezing our tails off. Let's bring in WMMR's President Steve. They deserve it, right? Oh, yes. And Bryce Harper marking the start of spring training with a little ink for himself. It...

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, you're asking. Yes, he is. We thought you had more to say. But I do. OK, fine. Then I will. Guys, does this mean like he had always said he would love to end his career in Philadelphia? I think now he kind of has to. He can't go to the Dodgers or the Yankees or the Mets or somebody else with that tattoo.

No. So he's got the fanatic tattoo, which is perfect because he wore the headband. He was the first player to really step out and really show who the leader of that team is, which is, of course, the fanatic. But yeah, he's all in. I mean, you can tell his heart is just dead on Philadelphia. Now, mind you, you can cover it up. I think if you really want to show commitment, you get it right on your face. That shows that you're all in. Oh, no.

Or at least neck creeping up here. Fuck no. I was surprised that he did this in Utah. Why not do it in Philly? We have so many wonderful tattoo artists in this city. I was surprised that he went to Utah to do it. You sound like you speak with authority on this. Are you rocking some ink on your own body? Oh, this got personal. Real quick.

And now the shocker here is I do, too. Oh, really? That's one that people don't expect. I have heard people don't expect that on your lower back is a Deuces Rogers tattoo on your lower back. Is that correct? Mrs. Rogers would ask some questions about that. It's not quite that. Oh, that's funny. If anything, it'd be Matt O'Donnell. Oh, God. No, it would just say I'm the best. Do not boost that ego anymore. That's all he needs.

So, guys, how are you feeling about the season? You know, we're hoping this is a good luck charm. Listen, I thought that they were going to win it all last year. And I hold out hope that, you know, they're going to have a great run and take it all the way this year. I'm going to wait and see what happens rather as opposed to make any predictions right now. We will be broadcasting live from spring training. And it's interesting. You guys said at the top from sunny, warm Florida. We were there two years ago and we did our show in the morning. And I kid you not.

It was like 38 degrees. None of us were ready for that. Shorts and t-shirts. We froze to death while we were outside. But I can tell you this. I was the biggest naysayer on going down to spring training. If you have never been, even if you're a casual Phillies fan, you have to go. It's amazing. Yeah.

Well, I'll tell you guys what. If you bring me back one of those hats with the ice cream with the sprinkles, lunch is on me. Lunch is on me. You got it done. It's a deal. All right. We'll see you again. And while you're cold, you can say this is what it'll be like when we're in the World Series and the games are late in October. Yeah. Yeah. We'll take it. Yep.

All right. Have fun. Take care, guys. Have a good weekend. We will see you. All right. They say they're trying to keep those hats in stock, even at spring training. Really? With the jimmies on it? Yeah. All right. She said sprinkles. I'm like, oof, not in this city. Not sprinkles in Philly. No, no, no, Preston. Oh, no, no, no. You should have dropped an F-bomb. This is a jimmy town. Are you effing crazy?

They're sprinkles to me. All right, we're going to see if we can get an answer. Wait, no, we're going to mention birthdays. We didn't do that yet. Let me mention birthdays here real quick. Some people turning a year older today on the 21st include Christopher Atkins. You remember him way back when from the Blue Lagoon and the Pirate movie. He is 64 today. Billy Baldwin turns a year older. He is married to Chyna Phillips, who sings this song.

He turns 62 years old. Actress Tyne Daly. Cagney and Lacey. And she's in... She is in Spider-Man Homecoming. That's the one, right? She's one of the FBI or government agents who takes the business away from Michael Keaton. Yeah.

That's why he becomes a villain, because he's losing all those contracts. I completely forgot about her being in that role. Wow. I think it's her only role in the MCU, and it seemed like it was going to be prominent at the time, and then that was it. I think she was the original choice for Iron Man. Right, yeah. And they changed it up last minute, and I think they went in the proper direction. She's 79 today. Actress Sophie Turner is a year older. Sansa Stark. And also, Jean Grey in a couple of the X-Men movies. She turns 29 today. She was good. Yeah. She did. She did.

We also have Jennifer Love Hewitt turning a year older. She is 46. What's she on now? 9-1-1? Yeah. That's the one person that has everything from capsizing ships to... It's a little crazy. To volcanoes and whatnot. Meteors. So she is 46 today. Elliot Page turns a year older. Most recently thing, the Umbrella Academy, I think. Final season. And I didn't even watch it. We watched all of it.

all those other seasons, but... You know what? I think you'd be... I was disappointed. Yeah, and listen, my own kids watch it, same thing, and I'm like, okay, well, I'm bailing. Because I, on your, you know, I shotgunned it. I'd watched a bit of the first season, then shotgunned it for an interview, and really dug it.

But they multiverse like nobody's business. And so I had it fresh in my mind. And so the landing just didn't stick. Just didn't stick. Elliot Page is 38 today. Singer Mary Chapin Carpenter is 67. She's a country singer. Okay. I don't know, man. For all I know, she does driver's license. She is 67 today. And then...

Jerry Harrison of the Talking Heads, keyboardist and guitarist, and was in Tom Tom Club. Yes, in Tom Tom Club as well. That was his project, too. He's 76. I don't know what he looks like, but is any of Talking Heads featured in that Euphoria show? No. Okay. It's just David Byrd. Okay. But none of the band members were in that. They'd split years ago. They went their separate ways, and I never did find out all of the...

the drama behind that. But they even had a group called No Talking, Just Head. In 1996, I saw them at the TLA, and they were great. And it was all the members except for David Byrne. Jeanette Napolitano from Concrete Blonde was the singer for that event. As I remember, he was going off in movie direction and more...

And they were remaining more purely music. I thought that there was a chance for a reunion last year, whenever that documentary came out. And it would seem to me anyway that it would sell really well. Oh my God, it'd be huge. Yeah, I've never seen David Byrne. I've never seen The Talking Heads. I'd pay money to go see that for sure. There are a few bands of that era.

time era that I would love to go see now. And I think that there is going to be a resurgence. I know Soft Cell is coming back to town with another band. It is a two-band bill. I was listening to Jackie Bam Bam last night and he was talking about it. I was like, okay, hang on a second. That actually would be a really, really decent show if...

They just did this. Do you know what I mean? They really played Tainted Love again. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Simple Minds, Case. That's what it is. Simple Minds, yep. Oh, well, that's cool. Another good bill, yeah. I love Simple Minds. All right, two other quick birthdays. Jordan Peele has his birthday today. He is 46 years old. Okay. Damn.

Bitch. And then the final birthday, Blanket Jackson. Blanket. Yay. Remember we had, it was Prince's birthday. That's right. In case you were wondering if that was Blanket. Right. Different kid. Okay. This is Blanket. I don't know what Blanket's real first name is. I think, isn't he Michael Jackson?

I thought he was also Prince. That's Prince Michael Jackson. I think there were two princes. Oh, my God. Yeah. It's crazy. It makes your head spin, right? Was there two princes, Neil, before you? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Oh.

It is the head that wears the crown, Preston. Blanket is 23 today. Yeah, Blanket is also Prince Michael Jackson. Oh my God, I can't keep up with it. Let's see if you know the answer to our stupid question this morning. Who was the first ever musical guest in Saturday Night Live history? 215-263-WMMR. We will go to Jason to try and get the answer. Jason, good morning. Good morning, gang. All right, Jason, who was that first musical guest on SNL?

I'm going to go with Billy Preston. You are correct. Hang on a second. We're going to give you, sir.

A pair of tickets to see Mr. Paul Simon, quiet celebration tour, Saturday, June 28th at the Academy of Music. And tickets for all three Paul Simon shows go on sale today at 10 a.m. at EnsembleArtsPhilly.org. So we got a few stories to mention this morning. And of course, the lead as of lately and probably will be for a while is the Blake Lively show.

thing with Justin Baldani. It's amazing. So her publicist, Leslie Sloan, has filed a motion to be removed from Baldani's $400 million lawsuit. They argue there is no basis for claims against her. Sloan's team also called the allegations a smoke and mirrors exercise to distract

from Lively's accusations against Baldani. Her lawyers also dismissed the extortion claims, stating Baldani's legal team failed to show where or how the alleged extortion occurred. I think she is a distraction because I can't hear her name without thinking of Ferris Bueller.

Who? Oh, Sloan. Leslie Sloan. Sloan. Come along, darling. So Mayor Zizka Mora of Paredes, Spain. Mayor. Is heartbroken that her town cannot afford to sue Meghan Markle over the nearly identical logo of her rebranded lifestyle company as ever. So there's a Spanish town that wants to sue her. Yeah. Mora.

claims that the logo looks strikingly similar to the town's centuries-old coat of arms. My name is El Marti Singer. I will be representing the town in this legal battle. So Maura insists that Markle should change a design as their emblem featuring a palm tree and two swallows. Or we will kill you. Has been tied to the town's culture since 1580.

1370. I think they got there first then. Maura says we are still a bit shocked and she claims the residents are upset that Markle is using the symbol to sell products like jam around the world and wants the logo pulled. You think it's just a chance or a case of her having no idea that there was a similar small town? All right, here's the plan. We're going to rip off the logo of a small Spanish town.

Yeah, you remember that lawsuit between the Washington Nationals and Walgreens a few years ago? Oh, yeah, the W. Yeah, the W was pretty much the same. I think Walgreens ended up winning that, but I also don't think that the Nationals ever changed their logo. Okay. Maura seemingly offered up a kind of trade so that Markle would change up her logo. The mayor says that Markle would be a welcome guest in the town, and they could even invite her to the Patron Saints Festas and let her be the hostess. All right.

That'll do it. All right. Margo showed off her updated lifestyle brand earlier this week, rebranding from American Rivera Orchard. Yep.

So, OnlyFans model Bonnie Blue has been hinting that she's pregnant, with her claim to fame being her body count, meaning she slept with a thousand men in one day or however many hours it was. How'd she get pregnant? The jokes came fast and furious, and one name popping up in all the punchlines over social media was Maury Povich, whose program often featured DNA tests to determine a baby's father. And apparently the retired TV host learned right.

early that his name was being brought up because he chimed in on social media and he wrote, I'm sitting this one out. Dude, that would be great to have her and a thousand guys on stage as they get the test results. With a caption along wishing her the best of luck. Bonnie is not to be confused with Lily Phillips who achieved fame in a similar way and who was also claiming to be pregnant.

We'll see where this goes. There's a simultaneous disgust and fascination with how they pull off what they're saying is sex with a thousand people in 24 hours. What exactly are they using as the bar? Is it simple penetration? Yeah, I think it was penetration in X amount of seconds. No, it was more than that. It was like 15 seconds of in and out, if you will.

So we told you last spring that Nicolas Cage's son, Weston Cage, was arrested for allegedly assaulting his mother, Christina Fulton.

I need you to stop talking and listen to me. There's Weston. And now comes word that Fulton is suing both the father and the son over the incident. In legal box. So, dad, you're going to do another con air? Fulton alleges that the actor ignored their son's mental health concerns and instead enabled behavior from Weston ahead of his alleged physical attack.

Cage's legal team responded saying the allegations by Christina Fulton against Nicolas Cage are absurd and frivolous. Weston Coppola is a 34-year-old man. Mr. Cage does not control Weston's behavior in any manner and is not responsible for Weston's alleged assault of his mother. This is my lawyer, and her name is Annabelle. The amount Fulton is suing for is currently not known. So, yeah, they're saying the dude, he's 30.

I know, come on. Don't sue us, sue him. Bye, get off. He loves law. He does. He just loves it. Yeah, I love Chuck dearly, but he does not provide us with a soundbite. I know. I get off.

So here's a lawsuit. Kim Kardashian is the target of one over one of her social media posts. While she was trying to raise awareness about a Texas death row inmate named Ivan Cantu last year, she mistakenly posted a picture of a different, totally innocent man, also named Ivan Cantu. That's a problem. But identified him as the double murder-facing executioner.

Cantu, the prisoner, was put to death days later, but Cantu, the businessman, says that he was seriously damaged by the post and he is suing for defamation. You wonder how would that happen? Would you even notice? I guess if he says it impacts, but when you see something like that, is there an immediate...

She posted a picture of the guy. It's the wrong guy. Yeah. And you can't. But the problem is you can't do it. You can't do it. You can't take it back. I'm just saying what what exactly happened as far as business lost? You know, like like what is he claiming? I'd be curious to see and how they's claiming that she posted a picture of him as a double murderer. And he's saying there were ramifications to that. Possibly because I mean, how many followers does she have on? Sure.

On the ground. Millions and millions. And I'm saying, how do you quantify that? How do you prove that was the case? Well, it's up to a jury to decide. Lawyers have demanded a jury trial and seek compensatory damages.

A Kardashian's lawyer responded to the lawsuit saying it was a simple mistake of using the public photo of another man with the same name to promote Kim's longstanding commitment to the cause of criminal justice reform. I mean, golly, the image was taken down almost immediately once the error was discovered. We'd prefer to solve this without litigation, which, of course, but of course, we'll defend Kim as I am El Marcy Singer. I'm currently handling a town in Spain, but I'm in.

So, congratulations to Michaela Matthews, who is of the Secret Lives of Mormon Wives show and revealed that she is expecting baby number four with Jace Terry. The reality star is already mom to daughters Tommy and Haven. Uh,

and son Beckham. And four may not be enough for the couple. Matthews told People Magazine, when people ask me how many kids I want, I'm like, I've always wanted three or four, but I could see myself having six. So they are working on it. Haven's kind of a cool name. I do like that name, Steve. Yeah, that's a good one. Would you name me Haven?

Would I name what? Name me Haven. Sure. Haven and Steve. Preston. All right, Preston. Preston and Haven. Oh, you can't. Haven and Preston. That doesn't work. No, no. Haven and Preston. It rolls better with Preston and Steve. So Hallmark star and former Ugly Betty cast member Eric Mabeus was arrested for battery yesterday morning. Oh, man.

And according to arrest records, he was hauled off, hauled in by the Nassau County, Florida Sheriff's Office on two misdemeanor charges, a battery charge and resisting arrest without violence, both of which are misdemeanors. And this is sad because he just finished a Hallmark movie called A Beatdown Christmas.

He starred as Daniel Meade on Ugly Betty for all four of the show's seasons, most recently being known for his role in Hallmark's signed, sealed, delivered franchise. Not familiar. So, yeah, he was arrested.

So let's see. In a new twist for a long-running spy series, Amazon has taken creative control of the James Bond franchise. The Bercouli family had previously overseen Bond for over 60 years. Yeah. And Amazon acquired the rights to the franchise in 2021 but didn't have creative control. And there hasn't been a new James Bond since No Time to Die came out that year.

Apparently, the company is keen to change that. And Amazon MGM Studios is overseeing the franchise now. And the Bercouli family will be stepping back...

But they will still have an interest in the intellectual property rights. And Amazon founder Jeff Bezos... Jeffrey, Jeffrey Bezos. Meanwhile, took social media to ask who should play the next James Bond. And of course, commenters offered up everyone from James McAvoy to Henry Cavill. So we will see what he comes up with. So as the mega Bond fan in the studio right now, Will's...

Cautious. We'll see what happens. It depends. Apparently, Bezos is a huge Bond fan. So we'll see where they go. The problem, I think, is... I would say this, is that there are many...

movie franchises now that are all around James Bond territory. So you have to look at a pocket for Bond to exist that makes sense. What did you think of No Time to Die, Steve? I liked it. I didn't like their choice at the end. Yeah, same. And I think that the problem with... Bond is always an agent-acting...

acting sort of outside. He should never be the focus of. And a lot of the Craig movies, which were terrific, did that. Made him, I always called him Bond Man because he was more like Batman, you know, with the legend and stuff like that. But again, great movies, but I think a return to what Ian Fleming called him a blunt instrument used to, you know, used to affect change. So that's my TED Talk on Bond. Let's see where they go with that. All right.

Hollywood is buzzing over a new Martin Scorsese project featuring Dwayne Johnson, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Emily Blunt. The untitled film, written by Nick Bilton, tells the true story of a ruthless Hawaiian crime boss fighting to control organized crime while protecting his ancestral homeland from mainland corporations in 1960s Hawaii. I'm going to break your neck. The pitch says, imagine Robert Downey, Robert De Niro's Jimmy the Gent from Goodfellas,

but as a Hawaiian crime lord. That's interesting. Marks another major collaboration for DiCaprio and Scorsese. Jimmy! Killers of the Flower Moon. Goddamn hula skirt is killing me. And a reunion for Blunt and Johnson, who previously starred together. I am a no-f***er!

And Jungle Cruise. You know, it's an old bit, but I love it with him, with De Niro and DiCaprio and Scorsese. And DiCaprio's like, I need to talk to my director for a few minutes. And they start getting in a fight over who owns Scorsese. It's a great bit.

So, Charlie Cox is setting the record straight for Marvel fans. Rumors have been circulating that his Daredevil character would appear in the upcoming Avengers movie. And Cox knows how the rumors started. A few months back, the actor...

posed for a photo with the owners of a gym where he was training. And the owners captioned an Instagram post saying that Cox was there training, quote, training for his role in the upcoming Avengers movie. And that was enough to take the rumor mill from zero to 60. And he said, I had to say to them,

I'm getting ready to play Daredevil because I am. And I'm getting ready to play Daredevil in season two of Daredevil Born Again. And he explains that something apparently got lost in translation. And to make it perfectly clear, he says that other than Daredevil Born Again, there are currently no plans for the superhero. He said, I have no knowledge of any other commitments at all. So don't look for him in the Avengers. It is not on the table. That doesn't mean that it.

It won't happen. It won't be, yeah. But I am so excited that they revitalized the Netflix approach to Daredevil. Casey, I know you watched. I'm sure you saw a bit of it as well. And if they go down that road that Netflix was on, I'm going to be ecstatic. Yeah, yeah. So let's see. Just a couple more things. I'm ecstatic about this. Jury duty is being summoned again. The hit comedy series, which

which first premiered on Freeview in 2023, has been renewed for a second season on Amazon Prime Video and has already been filmed, sources say. The source said that the setting will shift from courtroom to a corporate retreat reportedly filmed in Agora Hills. And the showrunner Cody Heller said, obviously, it would have to be a whole different universe.

When he was asked about the potential new seasons, season one saw an unsuspecting guy, this guy named Ronald Gladden, who just happened to be like the nicest guy in the world, arriving for an odd jury duty experience, only to find out that everyone involved in the court case, including fellow juror James Marsden, the actor as himself, was.

were all paid actors. And the first season was a huge success. And Gladden even got a new gig after that with Amazon to produce, develop, and star in content for all of their platforms. That's pretty amazing. I absolutely loved Jury Duty. I thought it was so clever and fun and just...

They did it really well. So I was wondering, they're coming out with another Joe Schmo. Oh, really? Yeah, that was the same conceit. One member of a reality show is legit there thinking it's a reality show, a competition. Everyone else is paid actors. And originally I thought, okay, how are they going to do that? But we are so besieged with shows. The odds that someone has seen...

The original is, I think, less. So the odds are better that you're going to be able to fool someone the way they did in the original one. But you want to have some fun, go watch Jury Duty, the original one. I just loved it. I'm going to have to do that. Absolutely. I just thought it was a riot. It came out of nowhere. I'd seen one other person or talked to one other person who'd seen it.

And Preston, I don't know about you, but I buzzed all through it. Once it started, I couldn't stop. And you're right. The guy who's unsuspecting is the nicest, most likable guy on the planet. They couldn't have found a better Rube, I guess, for lack of a better term. I think it's 30-minute episodes, so it's real easy to get through. But just one thing after another, you're just cracking up. And James Marsden is like this hyper version of himself. And he plays kind of a douchey...

version of James Marsden, but it's hilarious. James Marsden is a funny dude. You don't want, because he's so impossibly good looking, you want him to not have that skill set, but he does. Alright, one last thing. The Michael Jackson documentary Leaving Neverland is getting a follow-up.

Oh, boy. Called Surviving Michael Jackson. The hour-long sequel is set to hit the UK's Channel 4 March 18th. And it will follow up with Wade Robson and James Safechuck, who had accused Michael of sexually abusing them when they were minors. Michael and his estate have denied the allegations. HBO is not involved. I don't think I'm going to see it. HBO is not involved.

involved in the sequel, though they were involved in the original 2019 documentary. Dan Reed, who directed the original, is directing the follow-up as well. I don't think I want to see it. I'm sure you don't. All right, movies are opening this weekend, so are we going to do the new intro? Or the old, old intro? Well, we said we would do the new intro one last time

and put it to rest forever and ever. The final? Okay. Yeah, because honestly, well... I think put it on vacation for a little bit. Put it on vacation because what we have found out is that this intro is quite problematic for a number of people.

because of how high pitched it is and it plays really loud. Like in a car or something. In a car or something. Right. So people who, one guy in particular had a severe concussion and so this is problematic for him, like health wise, like for him. So,

This is the last time we're going to play this for a little while. Is this serious? This is dead serious. Well, and also, if people are wearing headphones, the volume changes when they hear this. So they'll be listening to my voice right now at a relatively normal level. And then they'll hear this clip, and it blows their ears out. You can turn it down if you want to. But if you don't see it coming... Isn't this our whole show? Yeah. I'm screaming half the time. All right, hit it, Case. Turn it down. Turn it down.

I love it. I love it.

Opening this weekend and today, actually today is The Monkey, a horror film starring Theo James, Tatiana Maziani, and Elijah Wood. When Trim Brothers find a mysterious wind-up monkey, a series of outrageous deaths tear their family apart. 25 years later, the monkey begins a new killing spree, forcing the estranged siblings to confront the monster.

The Cursed Toy. It's an hour and 38 minutes long. It's rated R. Wide Theater releases. It's Stephen King, based on a Stephen King short story. Did you read it? I did. Years ago. Years ago. Rotten Tomatoes score is 84% on that. Not bad. Also opening this weekend is The Unbreakable Boy. It is a family drama. It stars Zachary Levi, Megan Fahey, and Patricia Heaton. When Scott and Teresa learn that their son Austin is autistic...

and has brittle bone disease. They initially worry about his future. However, with Scott's growing faith and Austin's incredible spirit, they become unbreakable as they find joy, gratitude, and courage in the most trying times. It is an hour and 49 minutes long. It's rated PG, wide theater release, and it only gets a 43% at Rotten Tomatoes. We're ready to play some clips.

Season two of Night Agent adds new dynamic characters, which means new faces for the cast. And in this clip, new cast member Ariane Mundy shares her admiration for lead actor Gabriel Basso. Gabriel is definitely a very intense, very passionate individual about what he's doing with the work. And just also all

around badass human. He does all his own stunts and he's very, what's the word, meticulous with all the stunt work, which is very cool. I don't give a f***. Watch The Night Agent on Netflix. Here's our next clip.

The sitcom Happy's Place interlaces themes of family and sisterhood within the main characters in here. Belisa Escobedo describes how her character feels about meeting her half-sister who is played by Reba McEntire. Suddenly it's like thrown in front of her on a plate. Like, no, you actually have family. So she comes right into that, and I think she's so open and honest about that from the get-go. But she's a lot more open about it.

She's like, I want you to love me. Let's be best friends. F*** God!

New episode of Happiest Place airs tonight. That's on NBC. And there you go. Our entertainment report for this Friday, February 21st. We have a lot happening on our program today. A number of guests joining us. We love having a full boat like this. So, first and foremost, a little over an hour from now, Christopher Knight. The man who played Peter Brady for all those years. Could you be more attached to one of the seminal pop culture events in television history? Yeah.

Friggin' Peter Brady. Nice guy, too. He's had one a few times throughout the years, so we're looking forward to an in-studio visit. He's going to be at the Philly Home and Garden Show this weekend. Also, another great guy, Robert Kelly, comedian, performing at Punchline. He'll be in the 9 o'clock hour. And David Draymond of Disturbed will be on the program, too. He's checking in to talk about the...

Sickness 25th Anniversary Tour, which is going to be Wednesday, April 2nd at the Wells Fargo Center. And Daughtry is going to be on that bill, too. So it's a busy, wonderful day. We got ample sunshine today. We're headed into the weekend. All things are good, friend. We're going to take a quick break. Come back in just a moment. Connoisseur will be up when we return. So hang out.

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All right, thank you, Kathy. So it's Friday morning and we got a full card of guests later on the program. So that means right about now, time for the connoisseur. Time for the early edition of the connoisseur.

It's early. It is early. But we like it that way. We do. And we've got lots of stuff to give away with the movie clips that we will be playing here momentarily. We'll have anything from tickets to see Sebastian Maniscalco to tickets to see Dropkick Murphys and Bad Religion or tickets to see Captain America Brave New World. Some good stuff. Got some goodies. And a special. Marissa had a theme.

And I'll explain it when we get to the first clip. From last week when we were at the parade, I did have the connoisseur all set to go in case we needed to fill the time with anything. But obviously, the parade had supplied plenty of material. Listen, we did get a chance to get to it. We didn't think it was going to be that big, but it turned out to be a hit with the parade. Yeah, yeah. Now, so we're going to start with this. We'll do a local story. Pod.

Stephen Starr's futuristic University City restaurant is closing just for its 25th anniversary. In fact, reservations will not be available after tomorrow. According to Resi. It was the first Stephen Starr restaurant I ever went to. I didn't know it was still open. Yeah. Well, it won't be. It changed a couple of times, Kath. It was PUD first. No, it was not PUD.

By the way, I got this story from a website called Eater Philadelphia. When POD opened in 2000, it was a sushi spot known for its space-age dining room designed by the esteemed Rockwell Group, with whom Star has worked on many ventures. And the room featured a sushi conveyor belt and...

And booths set inside pods with interactive lights that diners could change. And eventually it flipped to be a menu that was more broadly Pan-Asian. Star redesigned the restaurant on its 20th anniversary, flipping to K-Pod and served Korean food. Which I hear is awesome. However, it never quite found its footing. Yet it was done making flips at that point.

So, you know what? I never went to pod. I'd done, you know, Morimoto and a few of the other spots, but I never went there. I was there probably like right around when it opened or shortly after. It was a hot spot. Yeah, it was a hot spot. And, you know, I don't eat sushi, but like you would go and get martinis and hang in the pods. And yeah, it was, I mean, at the time it was, yeah, it was great.

Star said, when we reopened the space as K-Pod in 2022, our customers kept asking us, where's the sushi? So we listened to them and transitioned the space back to its original beloved concept, a Japanese restaurant and izakaya, but this time with a bit of a grown-up twist. When Pod first opened, it was Star's third Philly restaurant following the Continental and Old City, and that closed in 2020, which is too bad.

and Budokan. So I'd been to Budokan before. Was Fork AM? No, that's not a star right now. Oh, I forget her name. They just got a new chef. I was reading that the other day. Fork did, yeah. The Inquirer reports that Pod has acted...

As an incubator of sorts, it's a site where some of the city's top chefs have worked over their careers, including Michael Schultz, who went on to open at Budokan's New York location before returning back to Philly, by the way. Ellen Yin, by the way, is the owner of Fork. There we go. Yeah. Okay.

And the new chef's name is Sam Henze. Oh, there you go. Yeah. So, yeah, this is sad to see something like this come and go. But, you know, that's what happens. Some restaurants are a hot thing for a while, and then they eventually have their natural evolution. I wonder what's going to happen, or maybe Marissa knows what has happened with the original Continental. Because there's an interesting corner in Philadelphia, and you would think that something would move in there, but I have no idea. Front and market, right? Front or second and market? Second and market.

Yeah. The other one does still exist on 17th, 18th and Market. Near Rittenhouse. Yeah. Rittenhouse Square, right? Yeah. I don't know. Maybe it could be like a private space or something like that. Like it still has all the signage. Okay. There is some movement in there once in a while. It still has all the signage after five years? Yeah. Wow. Pretty wild. When he closed it, he definitely was trying to make a statement to the city about

Because it was during COVID. Was that statement suck it? No, it was like during COVID when the city was having trouble supporting restaurants. Yeah. You know, the indoor outdoor seating and figuring things out and all that kind of stuff. Right. And it just never reopened. Okay. All right. We have a first clip to play this morning. And if you can identify this movie, we will set you up with a prize. And I'll explain that everything.

Every piece of food that is mentioned in these clips is a favorite food from one of the Eagles. Oh. All right. So that's what we were going to play from the parade last week. Well, now it's a tribute. And Marissa had this all set aside. So we're definitely going to use them. So here's our first clip. What do you recommend? I recommend that you order some food. Okay. Let me have the fried chicken and steak. Okay.

And the chicken fries steak. All right, 215-263-WMMR. Let's see if you know what movie that's from. Order up.

I saw this article from thetakeout.com, and it's an interesting list of foods and drinks with misleading names. And how sometimes a name is not what the food or drink is at all. Like Baked Alaska. It is not Alaska. Here are some examples. Welsh Rabbit.

sometimes called Welsh rarebit, which I've always called it, is absolutely nothing to do with rabbit. With rabbit? Yeah. That's funny. Perfectly suitable for vegetarians. Welsh rabbit consists of toasted bread, and it's really good, by the way, toasted bread covered in a cheddar cheese sauce, mustard, Worcestershire sauce, cayenne, and paprika. How does rabbit come into it, then? Do they explain? They do. Yeah. Or they speculate. The dish also...

sometimes comes with a poached egg, in which case it is no longer a Welsh rabbit, but a golden buck. Meanwhile, if you throw a little bacon in the mix, the dish becomes a Yorkshire buck. Those both sound really tasty. While the origin of the name Welsh rabbit isn't clear, some believe that the dish was given its meaty name due to the fact that Welsh...

peasants used to substitute meat which they couldn't afford with cheese and therefore they called it welsh ah interesting sweetbreads are another thing no they are not you know danishes or pastries sweetbreads referred to organ meat specifically the thymus which is a gland in the throat or the pancreas oh which is awful near the stomach of

I used to listen to Thymus in the morning. Some believe that the dish may have gotten the other part of its moniker from the 16th century Old English word praetorium.

which is B-R-A, B-R, backwards A-E-D. Yes, I've seen that, yeah. So, which was used to describe meat. Others speculate the word bread could derive from breed, an old English term for roasted meat. To make sweetbreads, the thymus and pancreas are soaked in cold water, milk, or buttermilk to remove any impurities. They're then blanched in boiling water before being thrown into ice water to firm up, and then you have to clean off all the fat and gristle. Yeah.

Nothing but fat and gristle in that place. It sounds phenomenal. After sweetbreads are thoroughly cleaned, they can be prepared in a variety of ways, such as braising, grilling, searing, or frying. There's that line in Ferris Bueller where he says, we ate pancreas. And I think maybe that's what he's referring to when they go to a fancy restaurant in Chicago with a snooty, snotty guy. And I'm pretty sure that they eat sweetbread, and that's what Ferris is referring to.

referring to. And sweetbreads is an important phrase or term that's used in Silence of the Lambs. Oh, that's right. He talks about that's how Jack Crawford ended up catching Hannibal because he read a book about or he had heard about sweetbreads and then he read a book in his office.

Black pudding is another one. Nothing sweet, creamy, or chocolatey about black pudding. And it'll appear on a hearty breakfast plate, especially if you're dining in Great Britain, frequently paired with savory accompaniments like fried eggs, sautéed mushrooms. Black pudding is usually made from, and I've had it before when we were in Ireland. It was part of, it came with breakfast. It's usually made from pork blood mixed with various herbs and spices. Ew.

in either oatmeal or barley. I say that was some wonderful blood we just had, don't you agree? Depending on the region, blood from animals such as cows and sheep may also be used, giving the sausage a subtly different flavor. You've heard of, you know, not only blood pudding, but blood sausage and stuff like that. Wait, there's another round of sheep's anuses for the table. Similar, but black pudding has nothing to do with pudding. Then there's head cheese. Oh, oh. Nothing to do with cheese. Yeah, I've had. Uh,

Rather, it is a meat product, specifically a dish made primarily from the head of a pig, although the feet, tongue, and heart are also sometimes thrown into this meaty mix. To make this specialty, the head is normally simmered for hours after it becomes gelatinous in consistency thanks to its collagen. The meaty bits are stuffed into sausage casings and...

And the mixture also can be used to make spreads and sliceable loaves or be molded into small cubes. Where are the sausages? Head cheese can be served cold on sandwiches. Oh, my God. Or alongside more common cold cuts on charcuterie boards. So a lot of this food that you're talking about in these various descriptions, it arose from, say, people who didn't have a lot. Yeah, they wanted to use every bit. Use every bit of what they had. Yep. So.

So the name may derive from this. The minimalist recipe called for the mixture to be put in a cheese press. And some speculate that that's where it got its name. Meanwhile, others suggest that the dish has been named after the Dutch word hoofdkas, which translates to head cheese. So that's possible. You're talking a nightmare scenario. A number of these foods, I don't like...

Most things that are stuffed into a sock to eat, you know, but people love it. I know you're a fan of a lot of this stuff. Sausage, bratwurst, knockwurst, all that stuff. Yeah, I love it. Foods and drinks with misleading names are what we're talking about. A couple more to go here. Rocky Mountain Oysters. Yeah. So Rocky Mountain Oysters don't have anything to do with shellfish.

Cattle, sheep, or other animals supply the main ingredient, which are testicles. So Rocky Mountain oysters also go by a number of aliases, including prairie oysters, dusted nuts, calf fries. I've heard of things like lamb fries. That's what my dad had called them when he was a kid. Cowboy caviar and swinging beef. Oh, man. I have to dust my nuts occasionally. Dust them.

Rocky Mountain oysters are normally battered and fried, but they can also be grilled, poached, broiled, or even tossed into a stir fry. Have you ever had? No, never had testicles. There's that scene in Funny Farm. That's where he has the record, right? Yep. They're nuts. They're so chewy.

Are they really difficult to cut through? Listen, most of these things I have tried or will try. I don't really care. And I like trying new stuff. But that was a one time and done. I don't need to try them again. It was the texture that turned me on. That consistency. Does anybody like a chewy, tough consistency of meat? Perhaps it's consumed more by people who use it as gum. Maybe.

It's just like gristle. It's like you're eating as much gristle as you possibly can in one bite. Nick, if I... And I don't eat really meat a lot, the occasional burger, but if like a steak, when I would encounter a piece of gristle, I would be...

seconds away from vomiting. If it's just a little bit and it's on the plate, I don't know. It doesn't bother me that much. But if it's the main part of the dish, no thanks. No. All right. Two more quick things. I promised you I would throw a drink in here, but we'll start with refried beans first. They are not actually fried twice.

Refried beans, which usually made of pinto beans, sometimes black beans, are cooked in water until soft, then mashed and fried with flavorful ingredients such as onion, garlic, and spices. The water in which the beans were boiled is also sometimes added to the mix. So refried beans is an inaccurate... This is where the name comes from. An inaccurate translation of the Spanish words, freeholds...

refritos, which actually translates to well fried. This misunderstanding isn't surprising since the English speakers, the prefix R-E means again, where, excuse me, in Spanish it means very. So it's just simply, it's okay. It's an English mistranslation that we have since adopted. I used to hate them and now I love them.

Really? Yeah. Was it the consistency at first you didn't like? Yeah. You know, if you pop a sheep's nut in your mouth, that really helps. I won't do it. I will not do that. No. All right. Stick with the refried beans and some more ice.

And one last thing. These are names of food and drinks that are misleading. An egg cream, which I've personally never had before. Oh, that's a drink, right? Yeah. Contains three ingredients, none of which include eggs or cream. I've had them. They're delish. But

Is it a dessert? It's more like a shake dessert. So it contains dairy in the form of whole milk, and its other two components are chocolate syrup and seltzer. So it's like a fizzy chocolate drink. Almost like a float. It's almost kind of, honestly, I think, it's almost like Yoo-Hoo a little bit, but with some carbonation. All right. Thank you.

You know, there's a drink that I haven't had in a long, long time, but I thought that they used eggs in their drinks, but Orange Julius. Yes. Yeah. So there is egg in there. To get the frothy, they use egg whites. And if you ever make a proper whiskey sour, that's made with egg whites too. And that's why it has kind of a frothy top on it. Yeah, I make those all the time. Where is there an Orange Julius around here? Man, I've really got to go. I'm having a hankering for a Julius. Do they exist anymore?

I don't know. I believe they do. I think we talked about this before and there's one or two in the state. I always hated orange. Really? They were always in the bowls. I hate those. Yeah. Right? I have a question about cocktails where they use egg whites. Is it like, are they literally cracking an egg and taking the white out of it? I mean, like, I don't, I buy the little, I like the, I buy the little, you know, carton of egg whites that are already like that. So I think that's

probably what they use. It'd be too much work to sit there and actually get the egg white out of the, you know. Yeah, okay, I agree. Because if I see that on a menu and I'm sure it's all in my head, I can't order it. A good brand is Megawights Egg Whites. Megawights Egg Whites? Yeah, they're really good. No, I love it in the drink. Casey, going back to

Making your own orange Julius, simple. And it'll taste exactly the same. It's just simply orange juice, some sugar, and an egg. You can use just the whites if you want, or you can put the whole egg in there. And then you blend it, and that's it. And that's it. And you don't have to worry about... Just play around with the sugar a little bit, how much or how little you want. And that is an orange Julius. It's so simple. Okay. Marissa? Kathy, I'm sorry to tell you, but a good bartender is cracking an egg right there behind the bar. Doing the egg white right there. So you don't like that? You know what...

I've had...

cocktails with it in it. But then once I realized that's what it is, I get grossed out and I don't want to have it. So were you to not know, you would very well enjoy the drink? I'm sure it would be fine, yeah. So egg creams did live up to their name when they first appeared on the market in the 19th century. They contained both eggs and cream. In fact, in the 1860s when soda fountains were all the rage, the ingredients were incorporated into the mix to turn soda into a sort of liquid lunch that wasn't just delicious but also filling.

By the time the 20th century rolled around, the eggs and cream were gradually phased out as a cost-cutting measure.

And they invented a You Bet syrup in 1903. You bet. And those ingredients were eventually replaced by cheaper flavored syrups, which are still in use to this day. I wonder if you could conceivably use egg beaters or something that was of a similar consistency. Yeah, I'm sure you can. Yeah, that's what I use for the cocktail for a whiskey sour. Is that what an egg beater is? It's just simply an egg white?

Well, there's a brand called Egg Beaters. Okay. And a container is just egg whites. All right. So, yeah, there you go. All right, let's see if you know what movie this clip is from. What do you recommend? I recommend that you order some food. Okay. Let me have the fried chicken and steak and the chicken fried steak. All right, we'll go to Brian, see if we can get the answer. Hey, Brian, morning, bud. Good morning. How you doing? Awesome, buddy. Do you know what movie that's from?

Is that the pick of destiny? Yes, it is. Hang on just a second. We got something for you, bud. Brian, we got a pair of tickets to see Sebastian Maniscalco. It ain't right tour. It's going to be on Saturday, September 20th at Ocean Casino Resort. Tickets go on sale for that show today at 10 a.m. via TheOceanAC.com. By the way, Lane Johnson follows a high protein meat forward diet and chicken fried steak is one of his favorite foods.

cheat meals. I've enjoyed chicken fried steak throughout the years. When I'm in Texas, when I was in Texas visiting my dad, I would dabble. There was a time we used to go to a bonanza or something like that when I was a little kid. And

Without fail, I would get it and have it slathered in that white gravy. Oh, my God. It's so bad for you. So insanely bad for you. No professional athletes use it to train. This is true. Have you ever known Haas's ever, Preston? No. Okay, yeah. It's the same thing as a bonanza, but it's like a central PA staple and chicken fried steak. Slap that on the plate. Always on the menu. Texas toast. Here is our next clip. Let's see if we can identify what movie this is from. Clean up in place.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Kenny, did I tell you not to touch the grapefruit? All right. 215-263-WMMR. If you know the answer, call now. Order up. Yelp has come out with their list of top places to eat in 2025. It is the 100th.

to eat in the U.S. for 2025. So just give us the top 90. I'll do that. So to come up with a list, their data science team started by analyzing the ratings and volume of reviews for each restaurant. They narrowed it down and finalized it with the expertise of Yelp's community managers. The

The top 100 spots can serve any type of cuisine and have any vibe from fine dining to completely casual. So the list has a wide range of entries. How much stock do you put in and do you check Yelp reviews?

I do not check Yelp. I check OnlyFans. No, I use TripAdvisor. Oh, really? For restaurants? That too. But I don't really do Yelp reviews for restaurants. I do them on friend recommendations. Yeah. That's it. I don't spend a whole lot of time in the review section, but a lot of times, I use the map online.

I guess it's Google Maps on my iPhone. Right. And I'll pull up the whatever establishment I'm going to. So give me the name of... We were talking about Pod, right? Arch Julius. Yeah. All right. So I'll pull up Pod. It's got all the information. And then it gives you just a few ratings. Yeah, I do that too, Case. Yeah. It's super easy. And you're banging out a whole bunch of information with one search. Right. And they use Yelp ratings. Yes.

It'll even tell you how far above sea level it is, just in case that's important. I wanted to share with you guys, and we don't have to talk about it now, but I had, in the same day, a great restaurant experience and one of the worst restaurant experiences I've had in a long time. At the same place? No, at two different places, same day, breakfast. I don't normally go out for breakfast, but breakfast and then dinner and lunch.

I almost wrote a negative Yelp review and I just didn't because I didn't want to get the person in trouble. But man, was it terrible. Also, you entertain the notion that you might have gotten them on a bad night. Yeah. And I always think those things linger and can really do a lot of damage. But yeah, I know sometimes you're so infuriated, especially when your sheep's testicles aren't cooking the way you like them.

So, California dominates the list. Once again, four of the top ten restaurants and an impressive 37 on the total 100 gang. There was only one Philadelphia restaurant. Are you kidding? On the entire list of 100. Yeah. It's disgraceful. But in the top five, there's one in Lancaster. Oh, yeah.

Chella's Arepa Kitchen. You ever heard of that, Kathy? No, uh-uh. It's Chella, C-H-E-L-L-A-S, and Arepa, R-E-P-A. Is it like a Mennonite-style? I have no idea what this is, Steve. Chella's Arepa Kitchen.

kitchen in Lancaster, Pennsylvania is number five. And that's huge. Out of a hundred? Yeah. So, um, it kind of, yeah, we're looking at it, President. It kind of looks like a place I was at. Oh. Um, like a walk-up joint. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. That's cool. So this, like I said, this list is over all, uh, different cuisines.

There's one in Somerville, New Jersey. It's number 62. It's called Fresh Tiki Bar. And the only one in Philadelphia is at number 90. It's Fat Salmon Philly. Come on. So what area has the highest density? California. California.

Yeah, as far as states go, yeah, they've dominated. They have four in the top ten and 37 in the total 100. Jesus. The number one restaurant or number one place to eat in the U.S. is a place called Hallbox in Los Angeles. So this is from Yelp, and it was posted in Food and Wine. So I thought that was worth passing along to you. All right, let's see if you can identify what movie this clip is from. Here we go. All right, clean up.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Kenny, did I tell you not to touch the grapefruit? All right, we have Melissa who thinks she knows what movie that's from. Hi, Melissa. Good morning. Morning. All right, Melissa, what movie? Mr. Mom. Yes. That is correct.

And we have a prize for the correct answer. Go ahead, Case. Hey, you have a pair of tickets as MMR rocks, Dropkick Murphys, and Bad Religion. The Summer of Discontent Tour is going to be on Friday, August 15th at Ocean Casino Resort. And tickets are on sale right now via TheOceanAC.com. That is TheOceanAC.com. By the way, A.J. Brown loves fruit in his diet and mangoes and grapefruit.

are his favorite. She really did a deep dive on this. Here's the next clip. Let's see if you can identify what movie this is from. Marcus Hallerstrom for Two at Seven. No, I want to know. Okay, I came here for the cilantro crawfish gumbo. All right, which is, after all, the only excuse one can have for being in this restaurant, which is, by the way, almost completely empty. All right, 215-263-WMMR.

Order up. Another local story for you. Philly chef Kyle Timpson. I meant to get to this last week, so I'm a little late with it. But he emerged victorious from the season 23 finale of Hell's Kitchen, becoming the first openly gay man to win the reality competition. Timpson impressed Gordon Ramsay with his final dinner service, edging out Florida-based chef Hannah Flora.

With his win, he earned a head chef position at the Hell's Kitchen restaurant at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mantucket, Connecticut. He said, I'm speechless for the first time in my entire life. I'm just so proud of myself. I've had people in my life tell me that this isn't the business for me. And now I'm 29 and just won Hell's Kitchen. So happy as S, they said. So I watched a number of seasons of Hell's Kitchen and enjoyed it. It is fantastic.

in every aspect. There's, you know, the same scenarios are going to happen. The risotto is not going to be quite right and there's going to be all this stuff that goes on. But once you start watching, you get sucked up in it. And there have been actually a number of people from the area who have competed on the show and done well. The newest Hell's Kitchen winner is originally from Dennis Township, Cape May County.

But he moved to Philadelphia four years ago to further his culinary career. His work at Mushulu, The Four Seasons, and Sin Philadelphia, showcased on his Instagram, earned him an invitation onto the show. I wonder if he worked down in that area in Dennis Township. Maybe, maybe. The name again? Kyle Timpson. And in the final episode, which aired last Thursday on Fox,

Timpson created a menu of octopus, savory churros, lobster pepperadelle, and ribeye steak, among other dishes. His mother and aunt were in the dining room to sample it and later watch him walk through the door of Ramsey's office to Victor's.

I think it might be cool to refresh the show and actually have them compete in a set that recreates the biblical description of hell. And, you know, see if they could do that with streams of lava and things like that. The river Styx, all of that, the damn souls, all of that, I think, might make it more difficult for.

prepare a meal. Hell's Kitchen. Yeah. All right. Let's see if you know what movie this clip's from. Marcus Hallerstrand for Two at Seven. No, I want to know. Okay, I came here for the cilantro crawfish gumbo. All right. Which is, after all, the only excuse one can have for being in this restaurant, which is, by the way, almost completely empty. All right, we'll go to Devin to try to get the answer. Devin, good morning. Good

Good morning. How you doing? Good. Devin, name that movie. American Psycho. Yeah. Well done. Well done. Hang on, buddy. You win a prize. Yep. You have also won a pair of tickets to see Sebastian Maniscalco. It Ain't Right Tour, Saturday, September 20th at Ocean Casino Resort. Tickets go on sale for that show today at 10 a.m. via TheOceanAC.com. All right. Let's play another clip. Oh, and by the way, let's see. Jalen Hurts learned to cook crawfish.

From his father and grandfather and once considered cooking professionally as well. So he's got a history with that. Here's our next movie clip that has to do with food. Let's see if you can identify this. I saw the well. We know where it is and next time we'll be better prepared. And he was nearly killed. Look at this mother f***er. He's a leaking hamburger helper. All right, 215-263-WMMR. Let's see if you know what it is. Yes!

All right. Time for the fast food roundup. Taco Bell is teaming up with New York-based dessert company Milk Bar to bring birthday vibes to their latest dessert collab, the new Birthday Cake Churros. They're crispy on the outside, filled with sweet birthday cake frosting, and topped with festive pink confetti sprinkles. Oh, hang on a second. All right.

I'm going there right now. Really? Even though it's sprinkles and not jimmies? Well, I mean, I'll call for jimmies. Somebody had texted in and said, jimmies are chocolate, sprinkles are rainbow. That's exactly what they said on 6ABC yesterday when they were talking about that. So jimmies are solely chocolate. Rainbow jimmies. Rainbow jimmies, okay. Rainbow jimmies and rainbow are chocolate jimmies. All right. They're both jimmies. He's dying on this hill, folks. Jimmy! Jimmy!

The treats are rolling out at Taco Bell nationwide for a limited time, by the way. Also, to gear up for burrito season, the busiest time of the year, Chipotle is planning to bring on 20,000 new employees, and it's going to get some help from AI to pull off the massive hiring spree. The company's virtual hiring assistant, cleverly named Avocado...

Avocado. Chats with applicants, schedules interviews, and even helps send out job offers, cutting the hiring process in half from eight days to four. This will give people the experience of being able to not show up for work when they've been hired by an AI employer. So this happened to me two Fridays ago, and it happened to me once before. I was so mad at myself, but I ordered online Chipotle, I ordered through the app, and

And I was so excited. And I get to the Chipotle store and I'm just waiting. Did you order from the wrong place? I ordered to the wrong place. Oh, the worst. Oh, my God. Did you go to the place then and recorrect or were you so embarrassed? Because sometimes. Well, they were so far away from each other. And the worst part was. What was it, Des Moines? Yeah, no, no. So I went to the one here on City Line Avenue and I was having lunch with Chuck.

So it's not like I could have just hightailed it out of there, you know? And so I had to reorder that one and then hope that my order was still sitting in the mobile order section of the Chipotle in Newtown Square. Did you say anything?

I did, but there's nothing they can do. Yeah, but usually they'll just fill it. Like, it happens, and they'll just fill the order for you. I was hoping, but you know what, Kath? They were already, like, busy, and so I just didn't want to bother them. You know what I mean? Like, it was my mistake, and I didn't want to gum anybody else up because of my stupid error. But thankfully, the other one was waiting for me, and I was able to have Chipotle for lunch. Crisis of murder. Yeah.

I was able to eat all my meals. All right, one last fast food roundup story. Every so often you might hear stories about secret menu items available at your local fast food joints. And one such menu item has been revealed on Reddit where the person posing the story talks about the T-Rex burger. Where? Supposedly available at Wendy's. It is a nine patty, 3,000 calorie monstrosity. It was originally dreamed up as a prank in 2004 by Sports Illustrated. About a decade later, one restaurant started selling it for $1,000.

$21.99 and $24.99 if you felt the need to add fries and a drink. In 2013, Wendy's reportedly put the whole thing to bed and killed it from their menu completely. But that didn't stop people from asking for it. In 2021, TikToker Joe O Eats tried...

tracked down one and attempted to down it, covering it with raisin cane sauce halfway through for good measure. Then there's YouTuber Anthony Villegas, who claims to have been able to get one as recently as March of last year for $30. So go around and ask for the T-Rex burger, and maybe you'll get it at Wednesday. So if you break it down and you were to get your own rolls, I wonder if it'd be more cost-effective to get one of these than...

Probably. And, you know, instead of getting nine different burgers? Maybe so. All right, let's see if you know what movie this is from. I saw the wall. We know where it is, and next time we'll be better prepared. And he was nearly killed! Look at this mother****! He's a leaking hamburger helper! All right, we'll go to Kyle. Hey, Kyle, good morning, buddy.

Hello. All right, Kyle, what movie, please? It. It, yep. That's correct. Hang on. Got this for you, bud. Got a pair of tickets to Zim and Maroc's Dropkick Murphys and Bad Religion, the Summer of Discontent Tour. It's going to be on Friday, August 15th at Ocean Casino Resort, and tickets are on sale for that show right now. You can find them at theoceanac.com. And continuing with the theme, Jalen Carter says that his mom's hamburger helper is his favorite meal.

And here's our next clip. Final clip. Say, would you like a chocolate-covered pretzel? They're a little melty, but damn, are they exquisite. And if I remember correctly, you're a big pretzel fan. All right, 215-263-WMMR. Call if you know the answer. All right, one more story. And then we're done with it.

So egg prices are headed to an all-time high. So the next obvious thing for egg lovers to do is to get some temporary chickens. A company called Rent the Chicken is letting people rent chickens, feed and coop.

so that they can get their own eggs at home without the long-term commitment of buying their own chickens outright. That's kind of a smart idea. People who own chickens, like, can't give their eggs away. I know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know what you mean. Wait, what do you mean? They have so many eggs. So many. Like, I have friends that own chickens, and, like, anytime they come up, they're like, here, take it.

It's like somebody who grows tomatoes. Yeah. You know? Yeah. But right now it'd be a good time to have a friend that has a chicken or several chickens. And Kathy, that place beach plum farm in Cape May point, I saw that they have, you know, it's a farm as well, a functioning farm. And basically their ad campaign right now is, uh, uh,

You can't find eggs in the grocery store. You got to worry about bird flu and whatever the hell else. Buy local and support local economies and you're going to have access to fresh eggs. Nick, I'm picking up a couple dozen eggs from my friend who has chickens. I've been in the grocery store three times over the last two weeks with literally nothing.

zero eggs in the store. Wow. Zero eggs. I haven't had that happen yet. They're limiting what you can buy too. Some of them are putting a limit on it. Okay. One egg. So the interesting part is that the company was not put together to take advantage of the current egg crisis. The company was founded in 2013 called the Rent the Chicken. Yeah. Um,

And it might not take long for people to realize that keeping chickens is not all it's cracked up to be. As the company says on its website, children quickly realize that chicks are not as fun as the Xbox and parents find out that chickens cannot be housebroken. So packages run from a few hundred to over $1,000 for five to six months with the chickens laying between 16 and 28 eggs per week.

And that would work out to as much as $37.50 per dozen. So you might just want to stop complaining and go to the store. But it's called Rent the Chicken if you want to look into that. All right, let's see if you know where our final clip comes from. Say, would you like a chocolate-covered pretzel? They're a little melty, but damn, are they exquisite. And if I remember correctly, you're a big pretzel fan. All right, let's go to Vincent. Hi there, Vincent.

Good morning. Good morning, bud. Do you know the movie? Vincent. Vincent.

That's Mall Rack. That is correct. Yes. You win our final prize. And here's what we have for you. We have a pair of tickets to see Sebastian Maniscalco. It Ain't Right Tour, Saturday, September 20th at Ocean Casino Resort. Tickets will go on sale for that show today at 10 a.m. And you can find the tickets at theoceanac.com. Can you play the Vincent again real quick, Kay? Because I love the way that sounds. Vincent. All right. Thank you, Vincent.

By the way, Saquon Barkley has an affinity for chocolate-covered pretzels. Marissa, great theme. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. All right, and that's it for the connoisseur. Well done for this week's version of that. Hopefully you got something out of that, friends. We're going to break and come back. We have a lot of guests join us, so we've got to get to the Bizarre File. And then after that, Christopher Knight, Peter Brady himself, stopping by our studio. We'll be back in just a moment. We'll be right back.

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And before we play the Friday song and get into the bizarre file, I want to announce something. It's a good news, bad news situation. I got an email from a gentleman named Daniel Duffy to let us know about our friend John Dorenzi, who for a long time has been searching for a kidney for a transplant for him.

And it looks like it has happened. John had surgery yesterday for the kidney transplant. Have not heard from him yet, but his wife says he's doing well, right? Actually heard from him about 20 minutes ago. Oh, excellent. John says, hey, buddy, I'm out of bed. I took a five-foot walk.

this morning. A walk is a walk. Thanks for always being there for me. Say hi to the guys. It's been a rough two years, but I'm feeling great right now. Love you, John. It's miraculous. So I got this, like I said, from Daniel Duffy, an email. He said, I don't want to put John's business out there, but he has been in contact with my family all day and he was prepping to receive his kidney transplant. This was yesterday. I got this email, which is, so it took place yesterday. He said, unfortunately, his miracle comes at a great loss to my family. My nephew,

Oh, my God. I'm getting choked up when I read this. I'm so sorry. 33 years old, passed away very suddenly on Tuesday the 18th. Caleb leaves behind his husband, Todd, his father, Joe, Mother Maria, and so many family members who loved him dearly.

I really do not know why I'm writing you guys. Perhaps if you could share the GoFundMe account set up for Todd, then I've done something right for my brother Joe and his family. More importantly, I wanted to share Caleb's story and how being an organ donor can save so many lives. Not only did John Dorenzi receive Caleb's kidney today, but we found out that someone is getting a heart transplant because of Caleb's organ donation. I know. Wait, but I'm surprised that they...

because usually you don't know who your donor is how do they i don't know kath um but he said please spread the word on how important uh the organ donation program is and then he writes at the end of this so i sent the go fund me over to nick and we now have this up on presidentsteve.com nick yeah so it's called contribute to caleb's meaningful goodbye it's on the community page of presidentsteve.com you can click on that page and then click the link if you'd like to make a donation

And I sent an email to Dan just thanking him for sharing the story and how it's a conflict of emotions because we're so happy for John. John's been looking for this. It's saving his life right here. But unfortunately, it comes at the cost of Caleb who passed away. But I said...

What an amazing gift. What an incredible thing for a human being to do for another one. It's just, it's a beautiful thing. Caleb's desire was to, by signing that notification that he wanted his organs donated in case of death, is the ultimate tribute to him. So think of the now two lives that will go on because of his incredibly selfless life.

It's an amazing thing. And yes, you can't, you've got the yin and yang of, of tragedy and joy. Uh, but that's what he would have wanted. So we, we celebrate, um, you know, these two people going forward and, and I, I know they will honor, um, you know, his life with, with their actions or hopefully they will. I know John will. Yeah. So John, we're so happy for you. And, uh, and Dan, we're, you know, we're so sorry for, for your loss, but I wanted to share that. And if people can contribute, uh,

That'd be wonderful. You know, like I said, he leaves behind a husband and a family. And so we have that posted on PrestonSteve.com if you would like to help. That'd be great. So John is listening. He said one of the things that he's been able to do over the last amount of time while he's been in the hospital is at least I get to listen to the show.

But he says, Kathy, to answer your question, it was a friend of a friend. And so that's how they knew. That's how Dan, who emailed Preston, knew the relationship to John. And then John knew where he was getting the kidney from. Okay. Wow. Okay. And he says he'll come on when he's feeling a bit better, can explain the whole thing. But he also says, I am so grateful. Good. Excellent, John. We're so happy for you, man. All right. Let's ring in Friday officially with our song from the band Froggy. Dog, get your size down on the floor. Don't look for me, mama.

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is launching legal proceedings against an IVF clinic over the mix-up after being forced to give up custody. Wait a second, who are you? So Christina Murray from Georgia became pregnant after IVF treatment at Coastal Fertility Clinic in May 2023, but it became clear that the embryo she had been carrying, in fact, belonged to another couple after Ms. Murray gave birth to a boy who was a different ethnicity.

to both her and the sperm donor she had chosen. That's insane. Despite the error, Ms. Murray wanted to keep the child and raise the baby for several months until the biological parents were granted the custody. Man, this is a bear cub. In a statement released through her lawyer, Ms. Murray said to carry a baby, fall in love with him, deliver him, build a uniquely special bond between mother and baby, all to have him taken away. I'll never fully recover from this.

It's a nightmare.

It alerted the biological parents who sued for custody when the baby was three months old. Ms. Murray voluntarily gave up custody after being told by her legal team that she stood no chance of winning in family court. The baby now lives with his biological parents in another state under a different name. The complaint says, to this day, Ms. Murray does not know whether the clinic mistakenly transferred her embryo to a different couple or what might have happened to it afterwards.

Colson Fratelli acknowledged a mistake and apologized for the distress that was caused. Sorry about that. A disgruntled employee. I'll show him. A 10-year-old Australian boy had a lucky escape after being impaled in the back by a steak knife in a freak accident. Layden Sturman was making grilled cheese at home when he tripped backwards into an open dishwasher and fell on a steak knife that lodged itself in his spine. That's why they say the most

dangerous meal to make is a grilled cheese sandwich. Yeah, they do say that, but who in their right mind puts the knife... Some people do that, put them point up. Yeah, so doctors say Landon escaped paralysis by millimeters difference, but after several hours of delicate teamwork by Perth's Children's Hospital specialists in neurosurgery and orthopedic teams to remove the knife, Landon has no lasting nerve damage. And the...

You can see the x-ray of it. It's crazy, man. It goes right into his spine. He made a remarkable recovery and returned to school last week, proudly sporting the new battle wound. His mom, Emma, says she was incredibly grateful for the care that Landon received, but she urged other families to avoid stacking knives pointing up in the dishwasher.

An important reminder, learned the hard way. Do you notice the wild part is that he now possesses the strength of a grilled cheese sandwich. Wow. Yeah. All right, one last story and then we will wrap it up. In a scene straight out of Home Alone, Paul Howell tried to break into a house around 3 a.m. last week.

Sneaking around the back, he didn't notice a string tied to a bucket of water. Oh, man. When he tripped over the string, the bucket tipped and got his shoes wet, and that caused him to leave. So it didn't, like, hit him in the face or anything like that. Made his shoes wet. But it was a bit of a, you know, a booby trap. How committed a thief are you if you go away because your shoes are wet? Damn, my shoes are wet. Oh, this is uncomfortable.

The entire thing was captured on the homeowner's security camera. Police later found Howell at his home where he admitted to not just a robbery attempt, but multiple burglary charges. I'm not robbing this house. The door's locked. No word on whether a kid actually helped set the trap up or not. And that's a quickie. That's all we have in the Bizarre File for you for now because we're going to take a break and our guest...

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Thank you, Kathy. Our next guest is going to be appearing at the Philly Home and Garden Show. Kathy will be there tonight doing an appearance. But he's going to be on the main stage on Saturday and Sunday. And I'll give you the times and all that stuff.

And I'm not going to play the main Brady theme to welcome him on board. Sometimes we have people who are so associated with a show. It's just too, you know, they've heard it a gazillion times. Sometimes? I thought it was obligatory. I'm going to play something from that, but it's a little more contemplative. This is the sad theme. Or we could do that in the House of Cards. Wait, hang on. Where is it?

We've embraced our place in life.

and are going back or have gone back now to review the episodes to catch up with our audience. And it's been sort of a journey of discovery because you're finding out how...

This is such a bizarre phenomenon because even in pop culture, this is a level up because it's had so many rebirths, renaissance periods where people generationally move in and out of it. And you, it's been surprising for you guys. It's been a Benjamin Button experience kind of creatively. Right. Because the show, though it was successful, hasn't or didn't at the time reach the epic level of success that it has.

seems to have reached now only because it's been around forever matter of fact as i understand it we were we're as old as the station is yeah yeah go back to 68 doing the pilot right yeah yeah but so it just continues to live on and that's amazing to all of us and and uh but it's

It's an odd thing to keep looking back and seeing, okay, now I've got to pay more attention to this. Let's dive deeper into it. As you're going episode to episode and talking about these, I would imagine you find that you and Barry have completely different memories of these episodes and what happened. And we've discussed that. Yeah, right. Because we were in the same place, but we have, like anybody in a family, you might have brothers that...

see an occurrence differently. And we're different people. Very different people. And so, yeah, we are amazed at how differently sometimes we recognize the same event. So I was born and raised on Brady Bunch, Marsha, you know, fascination, adoration. I went through every aspect of Brady. That's called fascination? Yes. Amongst other things. But you, it seems...

and you were talking about this, about how acting and all of this seemed to be, it's what you did, it was a job. It was, you were never, even as a kid, you were not

I want to be a star. I want to take the stage. It was never a big part of you. At least that's my takeaway. You were never that impressed with celebrity. Or am I misreading you? No, no. I'm sort of swept away. Sort of like the rip current pulled me out into entertainment. My dad was interested in seeing us work.

for all old European, old school reasons. Right. You know, help support the family at eight. So it was a job. It was a job. Yeah. And then all of a sudden doing the Brady Bunch and then all of a sudden that's, you know, just exploding. Yeah. You know, changing my life.

But it was. It was a job. Now, that's different than Barry because Barry knew what he wanted to be at 10. And I don't know how anyone at 10 knows what they want to be. And then it's successful at approaching it like he did. So, yeah. So by the time it was over, it was like, I guess now I get to decide for myself what I want to do. And you were eager to get back to school. Yeah. Were you in fear because you were so...

You so much wanted to have that school life that, I mean, because I think sometimes kids can be, well, sometimes kids are always cruel, that you're going to be in school and you're on a TV show. And this is at a time when there aren't 15 million influencers and everyone is a YouTube personality and so on and so forth. If you're on a network show at that time, even if you're wherever you are, it's something big. Were you, A, being afraid of being thought of as being full of yourself, of being picked on, of all those things?

Yes, but not at the time the show was, I was leaving the show or the show was off the air. That happened when the show was first on and I had to deal with, we went to school, our normal school, the second half of the year, every year. So I, you know, I was between sixth grade and seventh grade. That's junior high, elementary school and junior high school.

I was going to a junior high school and all of a sudden I'm going to a junior high school as Peter Brady. And that was a whole new experience for me. Yeah. You know, like how did people, why did they think they knew me? They hadn't met me yet, you know? But even to this point, you're so humble about all of it. We were just chatting in the green room for a little bit and, and you referred to Barry and you said, you know, and we were talking about Los Angeles and you're like, Barry,

he played Greg on the show. I'm like, yeah, I know who Barry is. Well, I could have known another Barry. But how often do you have to explain, especially to maybe younger people, what the Brady Bunch is? Or is it ingrained in every generation at this point?

There's a bit of every generation that it has been ingrained on. But no, the younger generation is watching something else. I know parents have sat down with their kids at times and used the Brady Bunch DVD or some streaming as a babysitter for them because it is harmless.

It's only aspirational in that regard. In real life, are you an only child? No. Okay. I was one of four. Okay. Because you were middle and Brady. And I was kind of middle. I was two. Okay. I wasn't sure what you identified as. More of a middle child? Mike and I were the only ones who weren't.

opposite of our... Susan was the youngest in her family. Maureen is the oldest in hers. No, the youngest in hers. Eve is the youngest in hers. Barry's the youngest in his. Mike and I were both in the middle of ours. So, yeah, it's...

Mike and I are the only ones that don't have blue eyes. If Sherwood was looking a little bit harder, I wouldn't have been there. You're talking about Sherwood Schwartz who created the whole thing. He wasn't looking for talent.

and I'm glad he wasn't. He was just looking for somebody who could be Robert Reed's son. Okay. You've always been this way, which is self-deprecation is something that we all, because we're the same way. Listen, we're a radio show, and

Don't take yourself too seriously. You'll embarrass yourself. You don't take yourself too seriously. And that notion of you're somewhere and someone looks at you and goes, oh, you could look like their uncle. And that's what they're responding to. And you, which is a global Brady Bunch is known around the world to be that humble. And in other cultures and other places in the world, it's an example of what people think of

an American family. What do you, which country, which area of the world have you been to where the Brady Bunch fandom is at nuclear levels? Which country embraces it the most besides the United States? For capital, Australia. Australia. Oh, wow. Yeah. Yeah. Well, we, Australia and America are very similar. Very similar, yeah. And if anything, we were their older brother. Yeah. You know, sort of, you know.

20 years maybe behind us. So the Bradys is sort of an example of how maybe an Australian fan was supposed to be. And they're very similar to us. And the love is real. So it's a perfect fit for the home show. I thought when I went to Australia for the first time, I was in the high-tech space. I'm going to get away from being recognized. I didn't get through customs in Australia. But I was being recognized. And they said, are you here to see the real-life Brady Bunch? Which is the stage play. I'm going,

What are you talking about? That's in the United States. And when they invited me, I didn't go. Yeah. Oh, no, it's opening this weekend.

I'm there for a high-tech conference. Right. I go, are you kidding me? Then all of a sudden the phone is ringing. Not at a hotel, at a private residence that I'm staying at. How do they know where I'm staying? Oh, my God. And I'm being invited to the – and I finally go and it was where the coin really dropped for me about this Brady thing is really something I should –

Yeah. I mean, it's like trying to run from it. It's like trying to run from the wind. Yeah. It's everywhere. Yeah. It's a smart decision. You mentioned being at a high-tech conference. When you moved on from acting, you got into that world of technology. How long did that last? 20 years. Wow. 20-year career. You were well ahead of the curve on a lot. Computers... I was in the curve. I was in the curve. Curve adjacent. But... So, let me ask you, when...

You were doing the Brady Bunch for a long time and the show was canceled, what, you were in your junior year of high school? I was in my junior year, yeah. I was 17 years old. No, 16. But there's a lot of, like, if you're in the science realm, there's a lot of lab stuff and stuff. Perfect timing, exactly. I was 11th grade and didn't have any sciences yet because I was on studio school. Fun.

at 11th grade, I started taking my sciences in my labs. I had to take them all in my senior year. So, yeah. And then, you know, I didn't realize as well that because of the way that I was educated with that kind of support, there's five of us, Barry was emancipated early.

Two teachers, a lot of, you know, kind of individual book instruction. I had some learning disabilities and I didn't know it. ADD and dyslexia and stuff that made certain subjects impossible to get through. But I didn't know that until I was at, you know, college. And that was a struggle. I'm sure. Do you think it was a benefit that your mom apparently...

Was never like she's like kind of the whole Brady thing. She was glad you were out. Never, never looked at it like, oh, wow, she wasn't a stage mom. Like she would. She might have been a stage mom of a different sort. How so? It really needed me to work. Oh, oh, you know, working my mom's become your manager. Yeah. And get paid for it.

They pay themselves from your, you know, your earnings. There's, and that was helpful to the family because my dad was an unemployed actor, which was, which was one of the reasons I never really wanted to be an actor. Yeah. I kind of grew up with its influence and it's not accountable. It's, I mean, probably best lived as a, as a, as a hobby. Cause that way you don't have to make a living at it. And if you do, what a great, you know, benefit. But, um, yeah.

It taught me a lot, though. Speaking of making a living, do you still get residuals from the original work you did? No, because they paid out. We were under a contract that had a limited... But we did have some reuse. Contracts just a few years before we started had no reuse. Okay. So we got some, but the 10 runs apiece and it all reverted back. And what was...

Really kind of criminal is the whole cable thing started up as we were in syndication. But we didn't get paid for cable because they said they didn't understand the business model of that yet. And when they figure that out, they'll figure out how to pay that. So it went on for like 15, 20 years, not paying on cable and finally decide how they're going to pay on cable.

Oh, but we've already paid you out for syndication. We're going to consider cable that. So none of that is going to be something you're entitled to. I think in the history of reruns, the Brady Bunch has to be... It's right there with I Love Lucy. I Love Lucy. No kidding. I can't think of a show that at any point in time you could...

turn on the TV and catch it. For me, it's comfort food at this point. It's funny, though, how he says the new technology comes along, like cable television. You're seeing that with streaming now. When that first started to hit for our industry, we were like, okay.

this exists. How do we make money on this, by the way? And trying to figure out who gets paid for what. And on the other side, they're trying to not pay because they're not really sure what their business model is yet. And there's some honesty in that, but somewhere in between...

paying and not paying, they've learned. Yeah. And they haven't admit they've learned for a number of years. When they retroactively promise, we'll figure it out and we'll pay you for work done. Well, that's what we were thinking. People are getting paid that have nothing to do with the show. So like somebody is getting paid today that has nothing to do with the original production or, you know what I mean? Okay, but they owned it.

Yeah, yeah. I mean, Sherwood was the creator. Right. Used to be that a studio or network couldn't own the project, right? Now that's changed. So producers owned everything. But Sherwood did, as I understand it, he sold the rights back to Paramount, Paramount and CBS. So CBS owns those rights. All right. As far as...

Money, though, for example, the HGTV Brady renovation, Brady Bunch renovation, they took the home and renovated it so the interior now reflected what it looked like on the show, which is great. Which is, again, this Benjamin Button thing in reverse. Here we got a fictional house. Yeah.

that we made real. Yes. And for us, that was a real place, but we've made it realer than the place that we were really in. That is so trippy. And though our fans thought that we really lived there,

We really didn't, but now we could. Right, right. Wow. This is crazy. We spent time talking about just various sitcoms along the years and how the homes were laid out. Like, was the front door on the left of the stage? Was the front door on the back, on the right of the stage? Was it in the back? Was it in the front, you know? And it's just, it's really, really wild to think about, like,

You can visualize in your mind, you know, like, oh, family ties. Yeah, their front door was to the... All the way to the right into the back of the stage. You know, Brady punches all the way to the left. But there's always a wall you don't see. And when they realize the house... The fourth wall. When they realize that house and you finally see what turns out to be a very bland wall in the house. But it's like, oh, it's... For us, it is so ingrained in our memories that it's...

Even you walking through the door when you saw a fixed wall where the cameras and everything used to be, was that a bit of a melon twister? And a ceiling. Yeah. Yeah. And outside the glass is sky. You open the front door and there's a street. Yes. Melon twisting. Yeah. Yeah. It was surreal. There was never glass in those doors, were there? No, there was never any glass in them because that would just bounce back. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

outside that you know yeah so no uh there was no glass and sometimes you'd see the curtains fly through it you know you know pantomiming like looking through glass right the hands like in different places right it was uh yeah i mean the fact is is that that would if i had if we had cameras back then yes and as an actor could have just taken a view of what it was that we saw yeah

That would be worth a million bucks to show people what it was there, which was nothing other than 50 crew members and a camera. You mentioned not running away from it and embracing it, which I'm sure took time in your life and is part of the reason why you're doing appearances this weekend in Philly. But when you were a junior and then a senior in high school and then in college, were you running away from it?

I, well, I, I, it was something that, like I said, I got caught up in it, like coming back from being in a riptide, you know? Okay. Now, okay. Let me figure out what I was doing before I got taken out to sea. Um, yeah, I was wanting to then pursue things that were of interest to me. I was an introvert, you know, uh, I, I, uh,

was very interested at that point in the things that I started learning about self that acting was capable of teaching me and, and overcoming some limitations that I might not have for years or ever without having the experience of acting. So I,

Very much respected the fact that I had that experience, but also wanted to explore other things. I really didn't know what I wanted to do. I knew I had a proclivity for sciences and engineering, and that's what I really wanted to go after. It's got to be hard to be a recognizable introvert, though, like especially in college.

Well, it was easier there than in going from, you know, elementary school. I mean, kids are the cruelest. They are. They're just like little bastards. They're like little chickens. They're going to kill their nest mate if they're bigger than it, you know. Anything that's like slightly different is going to be ridiculed into, you know, into the corner. So I had to figure out that like in seventh and eighth grade. So by the time I was leaving...

I'd already figured out how to make friends with those who didn't know who I was and the reasons for why they might be, you know, teasing. Really, teasing is a way of reaching out without a better way of approaching the situation. And, you know, they're assuming that you're assuming yourself to be superior. So if you give them any reason to believe that you really are, you're setting yourself up. So I just learned, like, you know.

somebody puts you up on a mantle, you get down and you get down very publicly in front of everybody. And that's such a brutal time, seventh and eighth grade. That's what I'm saying. It's very brutal. But I had to learn it through that period of time so it was no problem, you know, after high school and going into the workforce. And then when you're in business,

It was an interesting anecdote and actually a beneficial one because also it was a character that's everyone's, well, you know something about this, being the city of brotherly love, everyone's brother. Yeah. And being that, I already started out as being trusted. And in fact, the outgrowth of Christopher Knight Home, which is a furniture brand now that has been a breakout success for the last 11 years, is because of that trust. The trust that is assumed because I'm a Brady.

people could have in me. So I recognize that that's something I can't, you know, I don't want to damage in any way. So...

I'll do my best to make certain that that trust is kept. Delivered, yeah. If you're just jumping in, Chris Knight is in our studio and is going to be the Philly Home and Garden Show tomorrow at 11 a.m. and then Sunday at 1245 on the main stage. So are you going to be covering your furniture line at the event? It's a little bit of everything, including question and answers from the audience. So it's a lot of this.

and some information on the furniture. Your furniture line, as people know it, is a pop culture point in and of itself that Harry and Meghan Markle sat on your furniture. I had no idea. And I'm thinking, wait, people are telling me that they sat on their furniture. I'm watching an interview. I'm not watching the chairs they're sitting in. Are you kidding me? People, not only are you watching the chairs...

But then attaching it to our brand, it was, you know, people out there are pretty sharp. At the Q&A, people asking questions and you do this type of thing regularly, what's the one you expect to get every single time?

Are you guys all friends? Are you guys all friends? No kidding. Okay. I mean, at this point, I think people recognize we are. I mean, we have the podcast now, Barry and I. Yeah. But we're just like a family, you know? You go through periods where you're closer and periods where you're, you know, there's something that's causing you to have, you know, some conflict or small or large that keeps you further apart. Just distance. I mean, right now, we're...

Six of us living in four different states. So Barry's in Missouri. Eve's in New York. He's in Branson. He's in Branson. He's got a theater there. He's got a theater, yeah. I thought he was crazy. He loves it. He loves it. So, yeah, and I'm still in California. Your furniture line, will there be pieces at the home show? We're actually giving away a set of the briquettes. Wow. Which is the outdoor club chairs that...

Pat, Megan, and Harry Sadden. Oh, that they saddle? Yeah. And we'll give away one set per weekend. And everybody that's there that comes up, I guess, scans a code and is entered to win. Do you design the furniture? I do not. Matter of fact, furniture is an interesting thing. Most of it is not a copyrighted or trademarked.

Well, trademark the label, but the copyright on, unless it's like a Barcelona chair or something like that. Most furniture is just a derivative of another design. So it's all been done before. And so it's not something that really, in the way that we're handling it, needs new design. It's taking stuff that has been done in the past and

That hasn't been popular today. Like mid-century modern forever wasn't being sold. And now it is. But it wasn't like it was a new development. Here's a new place to put your ass. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Chris, I have a question. How did it happen that the one guy in the cast of the Brady Bunch that couldn't sing was approached to be on The Masked Singer?

Good question. To teach me humility? It's just something I can't get away from. It's my damn curse. You know, I famously not profess my inabilities in the singing arts, the musical arts.

And Barry wants to be Tom Jones. Yeah. I don't think your audience even knows who Tom Jones is. Oh, yeah. I do. Yeah, sure they do. We play this clip. Do you have it, Casey? Every now and then when somebody wins something. Yeah.

That's Tom. He's alive and well on our show. Yeah, and if you hadn't seen him in person, you'd kind of know what I'm talking about. You know, so Barry wants to be a singer, and Mike has musical talent. As a matter of fact, everybody on the show had musical talent, interestingly enough. I had no music growing up in the house, you know, and all of a sudden now we're the... It was my mom's idea that somehow we could recreate this...

Brady asked. Really? Well, because it's commerce. Yeah. My mom was about the business part of it. And the tour was a year since us. Mom, were you thinking if you ever wanted me to be singing on albums, maybe we would have had some music going up? You know, some part of that. Was that the heat of the Partridge family as well? The fact that they were marketing them, obviously, and doing well? Just think about who was on the cover of 16 Magazine. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was Donny Osmond. It was Michael Jackson. Yeah, yeah. Bobby Sherman. And everybody, you know.

David Cassidy, they were all singing. There was this other thing that you could do to make money.

So I'm thinking, you know, at some point you probably don't. I mean, I'm very sensitive to wanting to sell something deserving of being sold. Yeah. Right. I still on my on one of my playlists, I play golf regularly and I have a golf playlist and Sunshine Day is one of the songs on there. And when it comes up, it comes up. It has to come up randomly. You can't play it. But I swear to God, every time the song comes on, somebody hits a great shot.

in the group that I'm with every single time. So all of a sudden, I hear a ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, and I'm like, here we go, guys! Somebody's going to hit a good shot right now. So it lives on. It brings a smile. It does. It pretty much epitomizes the whole concept of the show, which is that, you know,

He can aspire to better things. We have a good attitude. And there's a real cool kind of 60s badass part where Mike ends up singing this. Don't you feel the sunshine? Yeah, he should be singing. He should be on Masked Singer. He does sound good. Barry even has earned that right.

And I'm dragged along again because I'm part of this group. Not only that, you're sort of mocked in an episode for going through puberty. That's what I thought. You know, I'm thinking, they know I can't sing, right? I'm told to stand away from the mic when we're doing the albums and stuff. And now they're writing an episode.

And they're pointing it out. You're having me have a voice change. I go, no, you're making the whole world. You're making fun of me. It was the worst week of my life doing that show because that as a kid, I owned all that internally. And I never really explained that until maybe the podcast where it was that, you know, as I'm remembering these shows, it's like that was a black week.

Because I really thought that that's what that was. That was them not knowing that they were doing it. But that's how sensitive I was to my lack of talent. Wow. I mean, having...

Michael Lookinland. He's like four feet shorter than I was. And I was only two feet tall. I mean, he's looking up at me with his cans, like with this squinty look as we're singing. Like what, what, you know, I can't, what note is that? You know, and I'm just sitting there going, I don't know what I'm doing. I remember once doing a commercial. This is right around the time of the Brady Bunch. I had to do it. It was a Tide commercial. And it was, it was the principals, me and another kid,

principals in a choir and we were the principal getting dirty, right? But we were in a church choir and at one point the choir singing and they had like a real choir director listening. Something's off here. The real choir and us two in there and she takes us into a room and has us sing and

And luckily, in this particular case, I wasn't even the worst. The other principle was, she says, you're nearly tone deaf. And to the other, and you are. So don't sing. Just mouth it. So I go, okay. I know my place. And when you have solos in a song, though, you can't fake that. Let me ask you something. Is it enjoyable to go to karaoke and let somebody sing badly? No. Who wants to do that? Who wants to go there for a... You just want to just...

Make fun of people? Is that what you do? So that was a tough week for you on the show. And I'm going to guess that maybe the best week when you guys filmed, or however long it took, was the Hawaii trip. That had to have been a blast.

For you as a kid who was, you know, probably never been there before, I assume. No, hadn't been. Yeah. Heard about it. Yeah. Matter of fact, we were given the, later on, I think 2005 or so, the keys to Honolulu and Hawaii. Because we helped open up Hawaii. Yeah. Absolutely. Because if you think about it, getting to Hawaii was not an easy. Yeah. No. And not inexpensive. And when the 747 came.

came in to, first with the, you know, 707 came in, they could get to Hawaii at least on one, you know, you didn't have to land somewhere. Some island. Yeah, that didn't exist between LA and Hawaii. You could fly there directly. And when the 747 came about, it was affordable to fly an entire family. And with the Brady's going, it made that approachable. It showed Hawaii not as, as,

solely an exotic location. Right. Or for the elites. For elites. I mean, it showed it as affordable for a family. Right.

There you go. So to that point... Now this was the best part of it. You're there for what? I know that thing. But that storyline involved you guys primarily. Did you get any time off? No. No? No. We worked the whole damn time. The whole time. Yeah, so no. The girls had all the time off and us guys had to work in the caves and slave away. But I did get that cool moment because that was probably the...

The whipped cream on my Hawaii Sunday was the spider. Oh, yes. Because I got to act like big, brave man who was scared to death, in fact. But I was told that the spider had bald bearings in its fangs. Ah. I would learn later by an arachnid.

A spider expert in Chicago at a spider exhibit, that would be impossible. There were no ball bearings. Just tell Chris there's ball bearings in the face. I was brave because I thought there's no way the spider could hurt me. It's creepy. Another rumor I'm going to throw out there. One of my other favorite episodes is when you visit the park in Ohio. And so you go and there is a rumor

that there was on the roller coaster, and this is, you guys, you know, this, you couldn't fake any of that. You had to rig up the roller coaster to see the family on the coaster, that that original rig that the camera was,

was ripped off and had you been on the ride, if they had not have done a test, somebody would have been decapitated. That's what I am told. So let the, somebody thought, well, before we put people behind that camera, let's, let's send it through. Let's see if it makes, you know, you think that we're going to damage the roller coaster. You careen the camera off and it's a wooden roller coaster.

But the story is that, you know, the cameras back in the day, those big Mitchell cameras, the reels on top. You're not remote controlling that. No, there's a person standing behind that with his eye in the lens. There's no remote control of anything back in the day.

big camera, you know, on a big dolly rig that is set in one of the cars. They sent it through and the magazine for the film was ripped off. His head would have been right behind it. So, um...

You know, I don't know. You don't know. I don't know. I don't know myself because I probably wasn't there at the moment and they were keeping a lot of any stuff like that would have been kept for us. Like tarantulas? So we hear it only after the fact. Yeah. Ten years later, you hear about what really happened now that you're an adult. And it's like, really? There's something suspicious about the story. You know, I mean, it's like maybe what they did is they realized that they had put it on there and they pushed it through and they realized that wasn't going to work.

So we're going to have to lower this. And then somebody told, that wasn't a really good story. Let's make a bigger story. Let's jazz it up. And in retrospect, these stories become...

The reality, because no one else has, you know, a countering story that's... It's almost like Big Fish, that the story becomes... It's exactly what it is. But I don't know. Maybe, you know, nobody died. Yeah. I don't know if the camera got ruined. That's the story. I mean, to Preston's point about you, you haven't had a more dissected show, I think, in pop culture history than the Brady Bunch. Is there a question that you have yet to be asked that you're amazed has not been asked about the Brady Bunch?

You know, it's funny. We're joining in on that dissection now, right? Yeah, yeah. Because it is kind of fun. Although, I guess I irritate Barry in dissecting it to the level that I do. I guess it's forgivable that the show has so little consistency from season to season, from episode to episode. But I, you know...

I know our audience is aware of it because they bring up the inconsistencies as well. Yeah. But that they know now from doing the HGTV program that we don't live or he didn't live in that house. I mean, I know that they knew we were actors and that we worked on a set. But these same people then would drive by the house thinking that over time they begun to believe that.

the big fish story yeah they live there it's all in there the thing is though you is all about the joy that you've given and that the show has given and and we're thrilled that you um participate in it people can come see you now actively the home show which is a terrific thing yeah and and this means a lot you know as i'm sure you're getting you get the love back it means a lot to so many people and have you be so uh funny and embracing of it means the world to us so

Well, let's laugh together. Yes. And it's funny that I took history all through grade school and high school, and it wasn't until the Brady Bunch that I knew or even cared who Benedict Arnold was. We did learn. Yeah, we did learn. We did learn. Not everyone can be George Washington. And guess what? You cannot pull balls.

Bowl bearings on a tarantula. No, we still are learning. We learned that today. Chris is going to be at the Philly Home and Garden show on the main stage tomorrow at 11 a.m. It's at the center of the Expo Center at Oaks.

And then Sunday at 1245. So come with your questions and come to learn a little bit as well. PhillyHomeAndGardenShow.com to get your tickets. Certainly is great to talk to you. Thanks for coming by this morning. We appreciate it. My pleasure. Absolutely. Christopher Knight, thanks for being here. We're going to take a break. We'll come back in a moment. Our friend Robert Kelly is going to be a punchline and he'll be in our studio. Stay with us.

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Punchline. Tonight and tomorrow, please welcome our friend Robert Kelly. I want to congratulate the town of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania. I want to congratulate you guys. Congratulations. Thank you. For the Super Bowl victory? No, I'm back. Oh!

I'm back at Punchline. Congratulations. You got me again. I mean, it's your win-win year. Do you know what occurs to me? Preston, see if you agree with this. So years ago, there was a Maxim event, and you were the host. I'm going to say you look younger now than you did then. I'm saying I looked like crap back then.

well, you look great, man. You look better now. Thank you very much. Well, thank you very much. I was out front and I come in and some guy, hey, Robert. I'm like, okay, I thought it was somebody who worked for you guys. So I walk in. I have low self-esteem. I think I'm garbage. And...

The guy has photos. He's like, will you sign these? I immediately go in my brain, you don't want me to do that. But I'm like, sure. And I pretend because I have to act like you're famous, dumb, dumb. Act like you've done this for 30 years. And I literally, I start signing. But he had two photos. This is what stinks about me.

He had fat Bob from Hall H when I did Sex and Drugs. Yeah. Somebody took a photo from underneath when I turned my head on the side. Oh, even more the fat on the side of the neck. Yeah, there was...

It looked like a ham hock. And he had skinny me. And I was like, he had to have two versions of me, which made me sad. You don't need two. Casey showed me a great video this morning. It's a comedy bit on TikTok of a guy who he made up a song for this. And it's for people of age and 50s and so on. And he's sitting there considering whether

to shave his gray beard or not? Do I go with, do I look younger and fatter? Or do I look older and better? What are the two things to go with? Well, you need, I need the beard now because there is a little jowl. Yeah, and it hides it. It hides the little jowl. The change purse under here. Yeah, that little thing which I hate. I know. I got Ellen neck and I don't like it.

I want to start wearing scarves like an aristocrat. Right. Good word. Good word. Yeah. I'd love to see you rocking scarves on stage. I'm that guy? Yeah. I start smoking a pipe.

Charles Nelson Reilly on stage. It's a bourbon, but it's really apple juice, but nobody knows, and so I'm dead. You know, it was really apple juice. He never was drunk. He was sober 38 years. He convinced us. It's like Dean Martin. He was actually drinking milk. Well, here's the thing. We were talking before. He was like, you know, about like, you know, the crew of guys that I hang out with are just mean. Yes, they are. You've told us before. Brutally. But here's what happens when you have a kid...

your heart opens up and you get empathy. In order to be around comedians, young ones, whatever, these ruthless people, you can't have empathy for anything. Everything has to be funny. But when you have a kid, all of a sudden you get empathy. I'm crying at Yellowstone. Why did they kill him? And Beth, when he gave him the house and he walked up and Rip was like, here's my house. And she was like, it's your house, baby.

I'm like, I don't... Why are you getting mad? She's the son. He's the son that he always wanted.

morning. He's right in front of them. I mean, I can't help. I can't. I used to be a very tough kid from Boston. I had no empathy. I could sit next to Keith Robinson, Jim Norton, Patrice O'Neal and take hits. You know what I mean? I got made fun of so bad in Amsterdam. I almost cried, but I didn't. I didn't. Because I had bell-bottom...

I had bell-bottom slacks on, and Patrice said I looked like I was wearing an evening gown. And I still had this show to do. But I didn't. But now it's like a nightmare because I love my son so much. I just watched again the Rich Voss roast. He's garbage.

You were on fire, though. You just were incredible. And yes, it's got to... We talk about this with the Jackass crew, who we were friends over the years, that you have to develop this protective blister because you know they're always coming at you. But was there a point where you just go...

I can't. I can't roll as often with these guys because it's energy sucking. Well, here's the thing is that I was with my son and at night, sometimes my wife puts him to bed and sometimes I'll go to bed with him at night. He's 11, right? But first of all, he's my size. He's a foot 11. His hands are bigger than mine. Wow, my God. He's my height, bigger than my wife already at 11. And it's going nuts because the other day I actually said to him, I go, hey, you know

Put this down or else. And he went, or what? And I went, I'm going to hit your mother. I'm going to punch her right in the gut.

Is that what you want? You want your mother to catch you beating? Because I'll always be able to beat the hell out of her. But I was in bed with him and I'm lying there. And it always happens. He'll grab me and put his arm around me, right? And I have... It was like... I'm sitting there and I'm like, I've never felt that love. No high, no drug, no alcohol, no sex, no...

in this business has ever given me the feeling of, I just couldn't explain how grateful and humble I was. And I realized it's because I never had it. In my life, not one time was I ever to put my arm over a man and hold him and love him and feel love. And I rolled over, the last time I rolled over to him and I was like,

I put my forehead on his forehead and I went, Maximus, I'm so proud of being your dad. And I'm so proud of you. And I love you so much. Wow. And he looked at me in the face and he was like...

Dad, this is gay. It never ends. I'm never getting out of this. But is he made in your own image? We talk about Kathy's son. She's built him. She's getting her back. What? What's he doing? Is he kicking you? No, no, no. Things have to be like...

you know, organized and clean. But that's how I was. Like, it was always, well, your shoes don't go there. Put them away. Like, oh, you made a mess on the counter? Clean it up. And now he's like, we'll go out to eat. And he's like, I'm not sitting there until they wipe the table off. I'm like, oh my God. No, my son is a slob. I mean, he's a slob.

He's me, and I feel bad. Because I... I mean, you go down there, there's just pee-pee all over the toilet. Uh-huh. And it's nuts. I mean, it makes me laugh, because I don't have to clean it up. I actually was going to send a text message to my family today, giving them all permission to flush the toilet when they're done. Because I had to use their bathroom last night. The kids have their own bathroom at the end of the hall. And it was like...

I don't know the last time it was flushed. It was like straight up. Yeah. Like it looked like it was just bile in there. It was just... I actually had to get toilets put in. Like power... They're called power flush. Yeah. Because my kid was pooping boots. Like... I don't know if I told you. I mean, it was... I had to create... I created... I would collect metal coat hangers. Oh, no.

Oh, no. Because I invented a poop stick. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's a thing. A poop knife. Yeah. It's called the poop knife. I had to like, he'd be like, Dad, I'd be down there like, and I can't. Yeah. But here's the thing with the kid.

I love him to death, but I can't wait until he's gone. I can't wait to have that time back with my wife because I think she's getting on. I'm getting on testosterone. She's going to get on whatever they take. What is that thing? Hormones? Estrogen? She's going to get that thing juiced up and ready to go. We're getting our cars fixed.

We're starting this therapy because we're getting it back together. We started working out with rubber bands like three times a week. You're getting ready. I'm planning. I think in the next four or five years, we get a condo down in some weird Florida town where everybody just jumps in a room together and we just start doing weird stuff. Wow. Because I'm a psycho. Like I left the house yesterday early. I was coming there early and then I'm driving. I'm like, I'm not supposed to be there till tomorrow.

So I'm driving back, but when I left her, I left the contractor, Fabian. Oh, boy. Exactly. That's exotic. Well, he's 4'2". He's from Guatemala. He's not exotic. He's cute. Adorable. But I'm driving back, and I'm like...

What if she doesn't know I'm coming back? What if she's thinking in my head? And then I start feeling it. I'm like, my Spidey, she's doing it. I'm like, she's right now.

She's on her knees right now. They're in there in the bathroom that he just did for me on my heated floors. Ah, nice. Good job. Yeah, they're great. And I am 100 percent convinced that this is happening as I'm driving back. So I'm such a psycho that I've already dealt with it.

I'm going to go in. You've made peace with it. I went, hey, man, you got to go. This is what I'm saying to Fabian. You got to go. As he's zipping up. He's cleaning up. Whatever that thing. I got to use dual lingo to say it. I go, you got to go.

Hasta mañana, whatever it is, right? And I go to her, I go, listen, what are we doing? And she's going to go, you never. She's going to immediately make, I know that. You're never around. You don't. And I'm like, all right, cool. I get it. Listen, here's the deal. I ain't divorcing you.

You ain't getting any of it. You ain't getting a Rolex. You ain't getting a house. You ain't getting a tiny house. I'm staying with you. You can do whatever you want. But I'm doing whatever I want. I'm going on T. I'm going to all the neighbors. I'm going to try to have sex with every...

Female in this town. And whatever age, too. I'm talking 70, 80. I'm going to do the gamut. Wow. And I dealt with this in my head. I was walking in. And then I walked in, of course. I looked at my wife. She's got roots growing in. Her hair's in a scrunch. She hasn't showered in three days. She's wearing my dirty sweatshirt. One boob is huge. One boob is sagging down. What am I worried about? At this point, Robert, are you...

disappointed at all the sex you're going to miss out on with your neighbors? I'm at it. Because there's one lady that walks the dog. I don't know what she is. She's exotic. She's Filipino. There you go. She's something. But we always wave. Can you help me with it? Sure, I can. I want an affair so bad. I just love my wife. I don't want to cheat on her. I want her to just go, go ahead.

Just go ahead. What's your wife's temper like? My wife, she's from Boston. Yeah, so she can give as good as she gets? Yeah, she's a Polack from Boston. Yeah, yeah. I'm afraid of her. I mean, like I say, I would hit her, but if I hit her, she would probably... I hit her one time. I threw chicken at her face by accident.

Listen to me, by accident, I tried to throw it off the balcony and it slipped and slapped her right in the face. Oh no. And then she went, kid, this is what she did. Boston people and Philly people would say that, she went, kid, you're dead. I just called you kid.

She told me, kid, I'm going to murder you, kid. I'm like, baby, stop calling me kid. She's like, kid. I remember she snapped all her fingernails. She balled up her fists and her little fingernails started snapping out. She goes, kid, you're dead. She came at me. I had to put all my... Thank God I was fat at that point. I wasn't thin. I was one of my heavies and I just laid on top of her. She's going, kid, get off me, kid. I'm going to murder you, kid. So, yeah.

Who knows? That's great. Yeah. Wow. That's hilarious. But she's more like a...

I heard you describe her once as kind of like a traditional, like she loves being a traditional wife, right? Like standard. Yeah, she does. She doesn't have dinner on the table. I get to, you know, make her flinch. No, no, I don't know. I'm kidding. I would never do that. My wife is the best. I lucked out so bad because she, I don't know how to say this without, as a girl, she was okay. Yeah. As a woman, I'm going to say this. Okay. Okay.

There's pretty hot girls. Like the hot girl. A lot of times, those pretty hot girls become old women. Right? Yeah, that's true. But then there's these pretty girls. As they become women, become, oh my God. Beautiful. My wife...

is one of those. When I first met her, I don't know, five and a half. Bottom of the pyramid on the cheerleader team. You know what I mean? Oh my gosh. That's just true. How you can bite her elbows and not hurt her. You know what I'm saying? But listen, as she got, as she got, listen though, it's coming. The compliment,

Give them a minute. Yeah, they better be good. As she got a little mola had I get that removed. Bunch of comments over years. Are you going to keep that? Every time I ate. Is that cancer? I think you should get that off. But as she got older, she's like this. She came out the other day, man.

And she has these beautiful lion's mane hair. I mean, she looks like a lion. She comes out with these little Japanese jeans. And she's got her old lady boobs and her little cancer freckled chest, which I love. And I was just like, God, I'm so lucky. I'm so excited. That's great, man. That's why I want to do tea. I want to get it back. I have a question because my wife has...

A lot of hair, too. She's got this beautiful, gorgeous mane of hair. It winds up everywhere. Yeah. The hair does. I don't know if you've noticed that, too. I literally will be eating something, and I go, oh, and I pull it out, and there's like, you know, an eight-inch long hair strand that comes out. It's disgusting, especially when you're in the shower, and that little spider comes out of the drain. It looks so great on her head, but it's everywhere in my house. Wet now. It's like a little...

It's everywhere. Yeah, it's long. It's everywhere. We don't clean the drain either. No, no. See, but you're in the same boat with me. You can't blame me. I'm bald. I'm bald, man. Yeah, I got nothing anywhere. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It all fell out. I don't know what happened down there. Are you a hardwood down there? I'm sorry, what'd you say? Are you hardwood? Are you talking hardwood? Hardwood. Oh.

Are you a hard one? I love you guys, but I don't know what I got to do to sell a show. Are you currently a wreck? I'm no Peter Brady. I don't got stories. When it's time to change. I'm not. No, it's not. But as you get old, like back in the day, it was full and nice. Now, as you get older, you know, it gets a little...

It gets a little, you know... Patrick. Mangy. A little managy. Mangy is the word. Like, I used to have to take care of it down there. Now it's kind of taking care of itself. It's like a lawn that burns out. Right? Yes, it does. It looks like the L.A. fires down there. Looks like Malibu. No, it's...

Here's the thing, though. Your wife, it's like I look at her now and I just... She is my... I just love her. I really do. But... Yes, sir. Well, I was going to ask about being insanely attracted to your wife because I saw this thing where Bert Kreisch was talking about how much he is in love with his wife and how hot he thinks she is. And he described something that I had not heard of yet, which is...

He will Google AI images or create AI images of his wife in order to have new material to enjoy. So he'll put pictures of his wife on the internet and then create these AI images of her that he finds to be hot and sexy. And I'm curious as to A, Robert, would you ever do that? And B, have you even heard of that? I would never in a million years enhance my wife. You know what I mean? It's almost like... Like if you have...

your wife's meatballs and sauce for years, right? Yeah. That's what you're used to. Yeah. But then you're going to go to this other restaurant that has better meatballs and sauce. It's going to ruin your wife's meatballs and sauce. Yeah. So I just kind of keep my meatballs and sauce. That's a good analogy. Well, because you're living in a virtual world. Yeah. Yeah. And that is a problematic thing. Yeah. And I've done... Look, one time we were like, I want to try to watch porn when we're having sex. Yeah.

And I was just holding an iPad over her face. And she was like, I don't think I like this. I was like, I get it. I get it. This is just terrible. You're a Filipino trans woman from the neck up. No, it's, you know, I think, what was this book I read? The Kosa Sutra.

Kama Sutra? No, Kosher Sutra. Oh, okay. And a rabbi wrote it. Okay. And one of the things that really interests me, he said, stop keeping the bathroom door open. Yeah. Stop it. Stop walking around naked. Yes. Stop walking in each other's showers. Huh.

Stop it. I love this. Because you desensitize yourself to your wife. If you see her sitting down peeing and with her boobs out and all this stuff, you desensitize. And this is the kosher? I'm nervous around you with words. Kosher. Because you're sitting there and I feel like it's not desensitized. No, it's fine. It's desensitized.

Kosher Sutra? Yes, I think. Now I'm questioning that. No, it's the Kosher Sutra. I want to check into it. I've always said that the notion of, I don't want my wife to see me taking a dump. I don't want to see. And yet I know couples are like, oh, it's fine. It's like, no, for the exact reason you said, you're robbing the mystery. Right. Yeah. So when you see them again, it's like, oh, my God. Yeah. My wife.

has great fake boobs that I paid for. That she might be getting out because they've been in too long. What's going on? What do I do? Yeah, right? Really? Yeah, she's like, I think I'm getting them out. I'm not going to redo them. I'm like, you should rethink that. You know what I mean? How do you broker that conversation? I don't know. I give her $15,000 and go, I got it. It's on me.

I don't know. I'll take you to Italy after you get them done. I don't know what to do. Because when she got them a long time ago, she's like, I'm thinking of getting them.

And I was like, you know, I had to, why would you do that? Yeah. Yours are great. Yeah, yeah. But inside I was like, yeah, yeah. Yeah, get rid of these little weird B-cups. Can they fix the size of the nipples too? Can they make those even? How big did she go on the first run through? She went 45E.

Shut up.

He said, I'll give you free breast implants, only charge you for anesthesia. I'm going on vacation, laser surgery.

My back. Oh. Which is a big job. Yeah. The whole, because he's a hairy old dude. So my wife is like, he wants me to do this. I go, I don't care. Take him in the back room, do what you got to do. Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah. I don't care what you do. Save 15 grand, yeah. Don't tell me. Yeah. You know what I mean? And just get us a new kitchen, a new bathroom. You can use your butt muscles to rip that hair out. I don't care.

So he gets the thing and he kept trying to get her to go bigger and bigger. And I was like, honey, you do not go over a C. I do not want weird porn. I don't like them. I just don't want... Get regular. She's like, yeah, of course, of course. So she got regular.

This guy wound up getting arrested because the women that he was making these boobs too big, the nipples were falling off. What? No! Yeah, so they were just too big. So they would try to put the... Cut off circulation or something. All this stuff. He went to jail and all this stuff. She was like one of the last people to get a boob job from this guy. Wow. And he did a fantastic job.

But he was one of the city's top guys? Was. Wow, man. I've heard that about the upsell, you know, for size-wise. I don't know why you would do that. Well, I wonder statistically how many women who get them eventually, if they really are passionate about it, want to go bigger after they've had a first run. She doesn't want to go bigger. She wants to go back to OG. Yeah.

Which, well, regular, regular, regular. She had some. Yeah. She had like, you know, I would say like a little American Indian girl boobies. But what I mean is not the one on the butter. She wants no implants at all in there or smaller implants. No, she doesn't want any implants. She wants regular. Right. I mean, I immediately think of like, you know.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or whatever. I'm not going to throw up. Sorry. Well, because you figure the skin has been stretched out. That's what I'm thinking. Well, I would think that they would fix that. They can, yeah. Right? That's what they do in reduction. They remove excess. Her theory is I don't want to get them removed 16 years from now when I'm 60 or whatever, 70. I don't want to have to go back there when I'm 70. I go, don't. Just leave them in until you're dead. I'll take them out when you're dead and I'll put them on a shelf. Right.

You know what I mean? We're looking at the Land O'Lakes chick. She's, you know, unfortunately, you can't see how big her boobs are because she's holding them. Yeah, you got to fold the knees. You got to fold the knees up and there you go. You got perfect C-cups, by the way, by that. But there is a shelf life on them. They do have to come out. Oh, no. She's past the shelf life.

She's 100%, Pat, and I don't want her to get sick. What's the average shelf life? I was unaware. I think it's 20, 25 years. No, no, no. I think it's like 10 or 12 years. 10 or 12 years and they keep enhancing them where they make them better. What, are they making it out of Kevlar?

I'm 49 and I have several peers who got implants when we were in our early 20s and all of them are either getting reconstructive surgery at this point or just removal. Huh. Yeah. I don't know what I want. Maybe I like the... I don't like scars. Yeah. I don't want a scar. Right. I love my wife, but not enough to be around Frankenstein booty scars. Well, I don't think she would have...

have one though because she's not getting a true reduction but if she got them if she got the big ones out then they would have to because i don't want like you said i don't want i don't want little sandwich bag things right yeah but don't perk them up you know what i mean they're not just gonna take the bags of pudding out and just leave it i just said i'm going i lost a lot of weight yeah i feel fantastic you're getting ready yeah i

Yeah? I mean, don't go backwards. I mean, let's go forwards. You know what I mean? It's a modern age. Yeah. I mean, put something in there. Yeah. I mean, I don't know how to get her to do it, though. I mean, you know? Well, listen, ultimately it's worse. Beg her? Beg her. That's a good, that's a standard husband tactic. Beg.

I don't know. I gotta get her to do something. But I mean, look, if she doesn't get him... Does she appreciate how you've been taking care of yourself and all the things you're doing to make yourself... Oh, no. No? No, she wants nothing. She's menopause right now. I live with a full-fledged...

human being. We'll be sitting there talking and then her neck will get red and she'll just look at me and she'll go, I'm hot. And I go, okay. And I slowly back away because I asked her one time, I go, what does that feel when you have it? She goes, it goes into my spine, red hot heat. It goes up into my chest and my head.

And then I want to grab you by the neck and rip your spine out and watch you die in front of me. I was like, okay. I love you too. Menopause is, it's the, I mean, it's just. It can last a long time too. I know. It's like, it's like the, can I say vagina? Yeah. It's like the vagina going into the, you know, the, the, the moth stage. The, the, the, yeah. The chrysalis? The chrysalis. Yeah. The chrysalis.

Another word for you. The fact that you know that bugs me more than anything. And the way you, did you hear the way he said it? He went, and the chrysalis? Is that the word you're looking for? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Right at the end. The chrysalis. I have heard that word before, but I never knew what it was. There's a Casey Musgraves song, and she sings the word chrysalis, and now I know what that means.

I'm going to tell you right now, 99% of the people listening to you went, what the hell does that mean? Nobody's heard that word except for the guy who wrote Silence of the Lambs. He had to know. He does. Because it's a Christmas stage. Yeah, absolutely. Wow, that was a great, what a pull. Yes. Because it's dying.

Hopefully to live again. Hopefully to live again. Right? Rebirth the new. Yeah. It's a weird thing that that happens. It's like we cross each other at the wrong times. It's like we are prime in our young age, right? Yep. I think in women, I don't know, like it's certain. Now her, she's dying. That's dying, right? She wants to get the boob. This is drying up. It's dead. She gets hot.

She wants nothing to do with me. And I want her more than ever right now. Wow, man. You know what I mean? Like, I really want her. What you're saying is fact, because there are, a woman's sexual peak is decades off of a man's sexual peak. I'm very insecure. Did you say what you're saying is fat? No. Okay. I thought that's just being. Yeah, but she should come back. Like, I think once they get through it, then she'll be back. My wife said to me, this is three weeks ago, and I said, are we ever going to have sex again? She goes,

We will. Okay. And then we left it at that. And she walked away. And then she got me no-grain chips. There you go, fatso. Keep it off. Maybe we will. I don't know. This stage of life. And it's weird, too, because I've been called fat for so long. Now that I'm not fat, they've gone to old. Oh.

Oh, which is we started earlier. We told you, I mean, when both press and I had the same epiphany here, you're looking you're looking younger, man. You're looking good. Thank you very much. But it is a weird I think old is worse than fat. Yeah. Can't fix old.

Yeah. Yeah. Unless we had a time machine. Right. Or they invent something that we have to take and maybe grow something on our back or forehead. Right. But it's, you're old. It's like, and the boomer thing. Yeah. Because here's why it sucks. Because you want to go, you're going to be old now. Yeah.

Yes. But they don't believe it. They don't believe it. I don't believe it? Yeah. But the truth is, if social media is correct, there are a load of very attractive Instagram models that love older guys with dad bods. And I don't think they're doing that for just people that click like on their site. I think they legitimately like out of shape older men. Yeah. And those people, if a hot young girl comes up to me after the show and says, look, I really want to have sex with you. Yeah.

She's mentally ill. And she's into this. She's into, you know, mushy stomach, dead toenails, and a belly button hernia. That's her thing, which is gross to me. You're right. You don't even like it. I look in the mirror and I say, who wants that? I can't get flip-flops. We're going to have to wrap in just a minute, but I want to get your take on, since that subject is brought up, Bill Belichick.

Oh, my God. And the girlfriend. Hudson, is that her name? No, she's stunning. Here's the thing. Okay. The guy went to nine Super Bowls. Won six. Should have won seven. I mean, that one with the Giants with the helmet. I know. What a piece of... And then he wrote a book. What garbage. 18 and 0. I mean, what garbage. Garbage. He won six, seven. Went to nine Super Bowls.

Was one of the greatest coaches ever. And he dedicated 20 years of his life, if not more than that. 20 years to the past, but dedicated his life to the game all year round. Right? And then probably was with a woman who went through menopause and, you know, right? And all the stuff I'm going through right now. And then that walked up to him, right? Yeah.

Yeah, go ahead, buddy. Okay. Listen, go ahead, buddy. Enjoy yourself. Let me not ask you about him. Let me ask you about her. Yeah, she's mentally ill. She's a psychopath. She will someday stab him in his sleep and take all six of those rings off.

and sell them in Las Vegas. She will murder him someday. She is a mentally ill human being. And you should run from her. Any girl that looks at Bill...

Look at Bill Belichick. Look at his hair. Look at his hair. Doesn't fit into his coat. He's wearing a blue tie. And then look at this hooker he's standing next to. I mean, he she is a psychopath. She should be literally in an institution. Thank you. Thank you.

Robert Kelly is at Punchline. Two shows tonight and two on Saturday. You do not want to miss these shows. If you have laughed, which I'm sure you have now, you will howl if you head to Punchline and spend the evening with this gentleman. It is always wonderful to see you, man. You too, man. You do look great. Thank you. You guys look great too. Thanks, man. We all look great. Don't we all look great? I mean, most of us. It's a beautiful thing. We all look great.

Enjoy your time in Philly, buddy. We know you will. Love you guys so much. Thanks for having me on. Robert Kelly, guys. Can we do a favor? Can we do a favor real quick? Yeah, sure. Big Jay Oakerson's special came out on YouTube today. Oh, we love Big Jay. Philly boy. Yeah, of course. YouTube.com slash Big Jay Oakerson. You got to go check it out. Netflix told him to beat it. He put it on his own. Love it. Philly boy. Check it out. Our pleasure. You guys are the best. Love Big Jay, too. All right, Robert Kelly. We'll be back in just a moment. Stay with us.

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All right, let's begin with this. Seven Chilean nationals are alleged to have participated as part of a South American theft group.

under a series of burglaries that were targeting, and you know these stories, homes of NFL and NBA athletes. Yeah. So they got these guys, including Kansas City Chiefs star Patrick Mahomes. He wasn't one of the guys. He was one of the criminals? Yeah, he was one of the criminals. Him and Travis Kelsey. He could be more lucrative to be a quarterback. On February 18th, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced charges against a group for theft of over $2 million in values. You're not going to believe it. Mahomes was one of them.

The criminal complaint further states that often high-profile athletes' homes were targeted on account that the victims would be away playing in professional games.

And the division of labor became very sophisticated in that members assisted in vehicle rentals for these criminals, rented short stay accommodations, made arrangements to obtain false identification, and then contacted partners for the sale of stolen goods. So this is a very sophisticated operation. You would imagine it would have to be because these athletes are not living in – I mean, they're living in more –

exclusive areas where you assume there's some sort of security or at least something. It's not like you're, you know, putting a ladder up to a second story window. So we know about, um, homes and Kelsey, uh, but there were also, uh, several other ones. So in, uh, an out of home game in October, 2024 is considered a time when a player from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers had his house, uh, in his home city burglarized. They took a jewelry designer watches, expensive suitcase, uh,

and a firearm. The Wisconsin home of a Milwaukee Bucks player was burglarized in November 2024. Again, over a million and a half dollars worth of merchandise. In December 2024, Cincinnati Bengals player was targeted along with the Memphis Grizzlies players and more. Like there's a whole list of them I have here. Do you know it might work if you, when you leave...

Put the radio on. The FBI exposed activities of the group utilizing search warrants, subpoenas, information, and other methods. Allegedly, the suspects will stand trial in a matter of months. If convicted, they'll incur lengthy terms of imprisonment for their conduct associated with the well over $2 million in robbery. That's insane. Yep.

A theme park in Indonesia had a crocodile staying there after it was saved from a flood the week prior. People were visiting the park to make offerings to the lucky crocodile, which most visitors assumed was tame. Well, it wasn't. An elderly man reached out to offer the reptile some food, and it grabbed his arm and pulled him into the water. Ah!

After being thrashed around in the water by the croc, the 70-year-old was rescued and left with a damaged arm. That was fun. As you would expect. And the park, which includes many windmills, dairy animals, and farming exhibitions, no longer includes a crocodile. After the attack, they surrendered it to authorities to be released back into the wild.

An Android phone user accidentally sent a naked photo of himself to his friends and family with his phone's emergency SOS feature. You're going to want to see this. So the man explained that while trying to turn off his alarm, he inadvertently activated the emergency function by pressing the power button five times.

Doing that, triggered his phone to send an alert, including a photo to his emergency contacts. The photo it sent was explicit, meaning his friends and family got an emergency alert about his genitalia. The emergency SOS feature has settings that you can customize if you'd like to avoid the same conversation that he happens to be having right now. So what were the recipients thinking the message was? I do not know. All right. And also...

A sexy mugshot of a woman whose name has yet to be released has gone viral. The wildly attractive woman with a devious smirk was arrested after the poor decision she made allegedly after not taking a breakup too well. So reportedly the woman snuck onto the property of her ex at night. And this is the interesting part. She stuffed his car's gas tank inside.

with Skittles that had already been sucked on. Three sucked Skittles. Followed by a generous pour of Coke Zero. So I don't know why she decided to suck on the Skittles first. That makes nitroglycerin, Preston.

By morning, the damage to the car was done. The car wouldn't start. And mechanic estimates say that the repair cost to the fuel system of the vehicle will easily run into the thousands as well. But I guess maybe it makes it a little more potent if you're sucking on them ahead of time. I don't really know. All right. One more story and then we'll wrap it up. And Lake...

City, Arizona. A fraud investigation led the FBI to uncover a weapons ring involving a pastor and a convicted felon named Fred Blakely. The two were allegedly preparing for a civil war. And the felon was working with the pastor to manufacture firearms on the pastor's property to distribute statewide.

Authorities discovered a significant cache of weapons during the investigation. And both the felon and the pastor are facing multiple charges involving illegal possession and distribution of firearms. Good news, pastor. I'm almost done with the tank. The investigation is ongoing. And so far, the pastor hasn't been named in the court documents. And that is what we will end the bizarre file with.

this morning. I just saw David Draymond was calling in on our Xfinity mobile guest line. We told him to call back in just a second because I believe we have New Disturbed to play. So we're going to do that first and then we'll talk to him. So we'll take a quick break. We'll come back in a second. New Disturbed music on the other side and David Draymond as well. We'll be back in just a moment. Music

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93.3 WMMR. It's everything that rocks. A little toe-tapper from Disturbed. And the song is called I Will Not Break. That is brand new music.

You're hearing the first here on MMR. And this is the perfect opportunity to talk to the man behind the vocals in that very song right now. And there is the 25th anniversary tour of The Sickness that the band is celebrating. Wednesday, April 2nd. They will be at the Wells Fargo Center. I am talking about Disturbed. And we have, ladies and gentlemen, on our Xfinity mobile guest line, Mr. David

Who's joining us this morning. David, good morning to you. Hello, hello. Good morning to everyone. Hey, congratulations on, yet again, more new music from the band. The song, you know, that's our first listen just now as you were on hold. It was our first time hearing that. And you're definitely getting all of disturbed in that song for sure. And while just quickly listening to it, David, and not having a chance to absorb it yet, it seems...

that it's yet again another kind of overcoming adversity theme that you went with in this song. Would that be a correct assumption? Kind of a common recurring theme with our songs, for sure. Yeah, I mean, it's a good thing. I mean, you seem to, that seems to be where your head is at, you know, trying to make the best of this life, you know?

Yeah, not always an easy thing to do. No. It's definitely a, it was meant to be a contrast to some of the darkness that I was going through in the last turn cycle that I spoke about quite a bit when performing live. It's so appropriate and so poignant right now. It's so necessary and needed on so many levels. I personally,

needed to revisit it and use its healing powers for yours truly as well. It's

It's definitely a source of strength for me, and I hope that it is a source of strength and empowerment for everyone that gets to do it. Yeah, music can do that. Music is particularly well-equipped to do that. But it's, David, over the years, we talk about, you know, we're primarily a pop culture-based show, and we try to be the antidote to stuff that people are going through. But we also address issues of depression and dealing with things and so on and so forth. And a lot of times...

People are afraid that they expose themselves and they're going to get laughed at or castigated or whatever. Did you have to work to get to the point where you could express yourself the way you do through music or was that an immediate spigot, an outlet for you?

Well, it's been the best means of therapy for me since we started writing music together more than 25 years ago. So it's...

Will we know that you've reached your absolute goal when we hear a Disturbed song in a Hallmark Christmas movie? Mm-hmm.

I'm all about it. I'm all about any of our songs being in anything. I think that there's a lot more

Tracks that we have in the vault are part of, this is the beginning of the collection of songs that will eventually be an album of whatever people want to call it these days. That'll probably end up being released in 2026. We're going to take our time releasing song by song, single by single. You know, one of the biggest things

One of the biggest rubs that any musician has to deal with is that they pour our hearts out and our souls into the music and

You end up making an album's worth of material. There's 10 or 12 tracks. About three or four end up seeing the actual light of day by getting to be singles on radio and so on and so forth. And the rest of them just end up sitting on a shelf. So this time, we wanted to approach things a little differently because this particular body of work is so compelling and so strong. There are so many single contenders among this grouping of songs that get

It's a big problem to have, but we wanted to be able to space them out and give them each their individual love. And there was no better way to start it, this whole process, than with I Will Not Break. There's a reason why we chose this as a lead track. It definitely comes from our humble beginnings. It is definitely adhering to the things that we love most.

Polyrhythm and syncopation and melody and empowerment. So...

The train keeps going. A quarter century, the Sickness 25th anniversary tour. When you're playing this and you look back, obviously as an artist you evolve and you can revisit and look at something through a different perspective. Is this like for you going through a photo album and getting a snapshot of where you were at the time when this music is performed? What is...

going through your mind when, you know, you're in that zone performing, you know, this tour, this album?

It definitely is much like the photo album. And unfortunately, sometimes there are pictures in the photo album that look like your parent dressing you in that lovely outfit you were wearing in the 70s. Yeah. You know, don't get me wrong. I have a tremendous love and admiration for the first record, as so many people do. There was something very special about the wrongness and the...

are a relative inexperience at the time. But after, you know, 25 years of doing it, and you think along the course of time you get better at your craft,

you kind of look back at your first body of work and you're like, oh boy, I would have done this differently, that differently. I look at it the way I found in this section, I could have sang that better. You know, you end up being hypercritical as anyone, I guess, would be on prior works. But it definitely is...

Wow. Can you do us a personal favor? We love Chris Daughtry, but they're going to be touring with you.

Can you make sure he gets fat? Hell no. In fact, I'm going to hope that he can help me show that even further. That guy is like, it's unbelievable. And, you know, he's so dedicated to it. He's so religious about it. And it's crazy. It's crazy.

God bless the guy. I hope I get to be half as shredded as he is. It's impressive. He's got power to him.

David, I want to ask you something you mentioned about the song, I Will Not Break. I'm the musician on the crew here. So when you said polyrhythms and syncopation, I did notice some of that at the end of the song. And for those who aren't familiar, it's something that rhythmically can trip you up and it throws you off. It takes you off the beat. It's very strange. But it's a tension that's really coolly used in music. And you guys do. Do you ever get to... Are there any songs... Here's what I'm getting to. Are there any songs when you're playing live...

that you feel just a little bit nervous about because you don't want to mess it up because it's so complex? Oh, God. There's a bunch of them. Yeah. Um...

You know, our cover of The Sound of Silence is one of them. Really? You know, yeah, yeah. It's incredibly challenging still. Wow. There's a song on The Sickness called Violence Fetish. That's one of those, again, one of those tracks we rarely, if ever, play.

there's like B-sides that we've left off that go on all kinds of weird time signatures. And, you know, there's tracks from the first record as well. Like, for instance, you

Oops. Sure.

Definitely, from a rhythmic perspective, melodic perspective, from a range perspective, challenging. But the biggest challenge stylistically with what we do is always associated with breath control. It's always associated with the staccato type of nature, the rapid-fire type of delivery of the vocal. But sometimes, or rather I should say that a lot of the time, we end up making our home base. And

I don't know if people realize just how challenging that delivery is and what's required in order to execute it properly without completely shredding your vocals at the same time. Yeah. Absolutely. Uh,

It's a constant work in progress. Well, it's one of the things that... The older you get, the harder it gets. Well, listen, it's one of the things that's always impressed me about you is your ability to do that as someone who speaks for a living and will try to pull off... Essentially, what you're doing are tongue twisters throughout the night. No kidding. And it's hard, so I'm very impressed.

Thank you. Excuse me if you've answered this, and maybe you didn't. I forgot that you had been asked this before. But concerning Sound of Silence, was there any feedback from Paul Simon? Oh, yeah. Yeah. He called me, or rather he actually sent me an email a couple days after our Conan performance. It was the first time he contacted me.

And said how blown away he was by it. And it just was very, very complimentary. And I was overwhelmed. That has to be impressive because, you know, he's meticulous. And to have that come, I mean, were you, like I say, you're walking on eggshells, but were you nervous as to his reaction?

Yeah. Oh, yeah. As nervous as you could possibly be. You know, one of the most prolific songwriters of all time to have the seal of approval from him and the blessing. We actually ended up meeting face to face a couple of years later. I used to do this benefit for the Maui Food Bank that Alice Cooper's manager, Chef Gordon, would put on in Maui every year. And it was always a crazy collection of a cast of characters. And, you know, I'd be like,

Singing with, you know, Steven Tyler and Nick Fleetwood on drums. And I mean, it was always a crazy, you know, kind of thing going on. But one of the parties that he had one year, Paul was there and he introduced me and we sat down and we talked for about 20 minutes. It was amazing. Very, very surreal. At the very least.

He would at least owe you dinner or something. I mean, because, you know, I think I helped him buy the new house. Yeah, right. You certainly contributed. Yeah.

Yeah, oh, well, that was actually one of the things he said to me. It's like, you know, not only has your version, you know, introduced a whole new generation of fans to the song, but they've introduced them to the whole rest of the Simon and Garfunkel catalog. So I'm like, well, you're welcome, sir. No, no. If you want to go ahead and, you know, pay back a little bit of what we've done to help, you let me know. Listen, it... Honestly, I'm just so overwhelmed that he, you know, enjoys the song and has given us his blessing and...

And I can't get...

It never gets old. The different reincarnations and how many people it still continues to reach and affect is an amazing thing. Yeah, it is wonderful. Well, listen, David, we know that there's excitement about your guy's show. You're playing the Wells Fargo Center. This is going to be on Wednesday, April 2nd. So you're going to be playing The Sickness beginning to end. Is there like an intermission or a switch where you go back to a different playlist? You know how the format lays out? There'll be an intermission, and then there'll be a Greatest Hits show.

set as well. Excellent. That sounds terrific, yeah.

That's great. Yeah. And, you know, we're huge fans of Chris Daughtry as well. I think that you guys together on this bill is a perfect symmetry. So we're very much looking forward to that. So we actually have... I've thought him and nothing more. And then on the first one, you've got the Shevin Dust guys and you guys are Three Days Grace. It's going to be crazy. Great. I love the whole run. Nice. David, thanks for checking in. Continued success. We're happy that you've got new music out and we will see you in April when you make your way into Philadelphia.

Appreciate you guys. Looking forward. You got it. David Draymond, guys. He's a great guy. Yeah. Really positive guy. I mean, even though he's kind of got this dark air about him, he's a really, really cool dude. And we actually have...

I can't do it now because we're going to do Lesson Question. We'll do it during Music News. I'll give away some tickets to that show in a little while. Yeah, pretty cool thing. You'll get down with the tickets. Yeah, down with the tickets. All right, Lesson Question time, though. We're going to give away something else. I have a chance for you to win a pair of tickets for...

the Home and Garden Show, which is today through Sunday at the Expo San Art Oaks. We just had our buddy Christopher Knight here, Peter Brady, who's going to be appearing. Casey. No, it's Kathy. We'll be there tonight, but use the promo code Casey. Right.

I've been talking about Kathy's appearance for the whole week. A couple weeks now. Five to seven tonight. They should email me and then I'll talk to Casey about it and he can find out from Kathy when she's going to be there. So the lesson question is what does Steve want me to do?

to be renamed as? It was a name that he heard this morning that he thought was a nice name from a celebrity who had a baby. And what should the new show be called? What should my name change to? That was from like 6.55 this morning. 215-263-WMMR. If you remember, if you heard it, call now. We're going to do the Trash Right calling in. The trash business is a gold mine.

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To register and learn more, visit newman.edu slash admission. What's going on this morning, Steve? Well, Bianca Sensori starting to release statements over why she filed for divorce from Kanye West. Sensori says she'd begun to see signs that West was goose-stepping outside their marriage. Oh, my God. The poorly performing and incredibly expensive, in fact, the most expensive show on TV, Lord of the Rings,

The Rings of Power has been renewed for a third season on Amazon Prime. Prime execs explained the surprising decision saying they did not want to disappoint the fan. Oh my God.

And finally, Shakira having to miss a few concert dates because of intestinal, quote, intestinal issues. Shakira says the last thing any audience wants is her rapid fire hip shaking during a crap geyser. And that's your Hollywood trip. We will go to the phone, see if somebody knows the answer to this. What does Steve want me to rename me? Let's go to Eddie. Hey, Eddie, good morning. Good morning, Ed. Good morning to see you, Eddie. All right, what should my name be?

Haven. Haven. Yes.

Hang on a second, Andy. We're going to give you a four-pack of tickets for the Philadelphia Home and Garden Show. And it is tonight, or today, through Sunday, I should say, at the Expo Center in Oaks. Tickets at phillyhomeandgarden.com. And for discount tickets, you can use the promo code Casey. Now, Preston and Steve's Music News on 93.3 WMMR. Yeah! Oh, my ball. All right, um...

It's got a couple of quick stories to go with. We'll start with this one. No band has more number one singles on Billboard's American Alternative Song Chart or spent more time at number one. But now the Red Hot Chili Peppers are looking to cash in. After selling over 120 million records since 1982, the band has put a price tag on their entire music catalog. And it is $350 million dollars.

The band reportedly owns the rights to all 13 of the studio albums that they've put out, which brings in around $26 million every year. Sources say the Peppers are close to reaching a deal with Warner Music Group for the catalog. $350 million. Springsteen was half a billion, right? $500 million? So, Sony paid for Pink Floyd $400 million. And for Queen, it was $1.27 billion. So, Queen was the big one. Yeah, and you hear them...

More than any other band, you hear Queen, I think, in commercials. So I'm wondering, you know, if they bring in $26 million a year. Yeah.

They could get a swim spa. No, no. I mean, if they already bring in $26 million a year, I wonder why now is the point where they want to sell their catalog for $350 million. Because you could still cash in year after year for a while. Yeah. But maybe there's more to it than I'm thinking about. Maybe with the management of it all comes other expenses. William Devane advised them to invest in gold. I think they're transferring. Okay, maybe that's what it is.

Springsteen sold his music rights for more than $500 million to Sony Music Entertainment Center. So, yeah, they're eyeballing $350 million. So we'll see if they get it.

Phil Collins has struggled with severe back and nerve issues for a long time now, which led him to retire from touring and stop playing drums. And he hasn't released new music since his 2010 covers album, Going Back. And in a recent interview, he admitted that fans should not expect anything new. He said, I keep thinking I should go downstairs to the studio and see what happens. But then he says, but I'm not hungry for it anymore.

His last live performance was in March of 2022 at the final show of the Genesis The Last Domino Farewell Tour where he sang while seated as his son played drums. His last album of originals

was in 2002 with Testify. So it's unfortunate, but he's just done with it. You turn me on to Drumeo, which is that website, and then they have a YouTube channel, and I watched the Phil Collins special, which was great and a little sad, but also he's...

And his son, though, is great. His son has really picked up the mantle. And that's a great channel. Even if you're not a drummer, as I am not, but you appreciate a lot of these musicians, they'll deconstruct classic music.

Yeah, drum pieces. Songs and stuff that you... The drums from it. Probably air drum too. It's great. Yeah, and they'll tell some stories. And then sometimes they have drummers play songs that aren't from their repertoire. They'll say, all right, here's a jazz song you've never heard before. Let's see you play to it. You know, they have some fun stuff like that. The one I love personally is Kenny Arnoff, who's a legendary drummer. They had him play a song from Yes that he was unfamiliar with. And so he imagines...

what he thinks the drums would be like or what he would do. And they play the original version for him. And he's like, oh, that was a good choice. And it's interesting to see that. They had one with Mike Portnoy. And he didn't know, but he was playing to a Taylor Swift song. Until they got done with it. He's like, who is this? It's Taylor Swift. No, it's Taylor Swift. And to hear Mike put his chops on top of Taylor Swift is pretty cool what they do. So...

Then the last thing we are going to do involves the gentleman we just spoke to, David Draymond from Disturbed. We have tickets to see the show that he was referring to, the Sickness 25th Anniversary Tour, Wednesday, April 2nd at the Wells Fargo Center.

and it's the sickness in its entirety, and then in greatest hits and special guest daughtry. Tickets are on sale now at Ticketmaster. Go to WMMR.com for another chance to win tickets, but right now we'll take callers 15 and 16.

And we'll give you tickets to go see that show. Do you think we can pull some strings and get Matt Cowper to introduce the Sickness Thickness? Are you ready to get thick? 215-263-WMMR. We will take those callers now and we will give you those tickets. We're going to take a break. And when we come back, we will wrap up our show and give away our Word of the Week prize. Stay with us.

Hey, it's Kathy Romano. This month on Her Story, you'll hear from a Chilean-born adoptee who uncovered the truth about her illegal adoption and a postpartum health coach who breaks down exactly what postpartum means and how we should be supporting new moms. Tune into Her Story with me, Kathy Romano, every Sunday morning at 7 a.m. on 93.3 WMMR because every woman has a story worth sharing. Let's go. Let's go.

Yes, and of course, um...

The day before, that's going to be on Saturday. We have a party that's happening right after the Cardboard Classic is over. And it's called the M80s. It's the world's largest 80s party. A tribute to MTV. And it's free to attend. So timing-wise, hopefully, it's going to be M Cardboard Classic right into party. That's what we're looking to do. In fact, the idea is to do any presentation from the stage of the concert.

We will see if that ends up happening. So let me see here. And that's one week from today, folks.

I want to thank our guests. Today was a fun day. We had Mr. Christopher Knight on the show, who you know as Peter Brady from the Brady Bunch. He's going to be appearing at the Philly Home and Garden Show on the main stage tomorrow at 11 a.m. and Sunday at 1245. You can get tickets to Philly Home and Garden.com. It's at the Oaks Convention Center.

He's a great guy. He was. And he's at a point in his life where he does not shy away from talking about anything about that show. People who grow up as a kid actor and they become associated with a main role sometimes shun that after a while and he has re-embraced it and he talks about

All the stuff you want to hear about. For the Bradys. He makes fun of himself like crazy, which is hilarious. And then we had a blast with our buddy Robert Kelly. Yeah. Robert was on fire today. He is at Punchline tonight and tomorrow. Two shows each night. You can get tickets at punchlinephilly.com. And then we had David Draymond. Yeah.

From Disturbed On. And David was a great guest, man. He had a lot to talk about. Played brand new music from the band just a little while ago. So their show, and they're doing the Cygnus 25th Anniversary Show Wednesday, April 2nd at Wells Fargo Center. Tickets are on sale.

Right now at Ticketmaster, you can go to WMMR.com. We have another shot at winning tickets there. Pierre is here. How are you doing? Great conversations. I didn't hear the Brady Bunch guy, but I heard the comedian fellow and David. And David, he has that very distinct voice. He does, yeah. And, you know, he sounds kind of like a college professor. And he's a very bright guy. I've interviewed him twice, once at the MMRBQ when they played. I think they played there a couple of times.

And once here in the studio when he had a side band called, began with a D. But I'm spacing out on the name, not disturbed, but I don't know. Disdain, deranged. Deranged, yeah, whatever. Dispatch. Some kind of a D. But yeah, very, very bright guy. Yeah. When we had him at the end of Marbecue, Sound of Silence had just come out.

And I had also asked him about that, but he had just gotten the email he referred to you, referred to about. But when I talked to him, he had not gotten to sit down with Paul Simon. Pretty amazing. Because my question to him was, can you, I would have liked to have been a fly on the wall when Paul Simon heard that. Just wherever Paul Simon was when he heard that version of that song.

And to their credit, Disturbed does a lot of great covers. I mean, at the MMRBQ, they went into Bob O'Reilly. They covered Genesis, all kinds of cool numbers. Yeah, yeah. And super nice guy, so it was great having him on. Device is the name of the other band. Device. Thank you. I knew it began with a D. Very good, sir. I like deranged, though. We can work on that for our project. That's going to be your and my band, boy. We'll write nothing but toe tappers. Toe tappers!

I love how you said toe-tapping coming out of the song. All right, let's get the letter. You ready, man? Two-two. All right. Preston and Steve on 93.3 WMMR. Now, the Daily Letter. The Preston and Steve show is brought to you today by the letter. N as in neurotic. And we'll need a caller. Let's take caller number four at 215-263-WMMR to give us the...

word of the week and therefore win the prize so while we're waiting for that to come in we'll see what you have in store today pierre uh another pair of tickets for david shaw from the revivalist wednesday night this coming wednesday the foundry upstairs at the fillmore also um elvis costello is at the grand opera house in wilmington tomorrow uh with steve naive his um keyboard player i think it's kind of an acoustic show i'm not quite sure but

We'll do a block of Elvis. We have a birthday in the camp, so we're going to do Rio Speedwagon. That's right. REO Speedwagon. Yes, we'll be on the Rio. Now, REO Speedwagon is what we shall do and...

One of the great lyrical talents and deep minds, he was talking about David Draymond and some of the other great thinkers, kind of the Shakespeare of rock and roll, is, as Kevin described him, the bard of the bar room. He's playing the Keswick Theater tonight, and so George Thurgood is also on the menu. Wonderful. All right, let's find out if somebody knows our word of the week. And our fourth caller is David.

Kurt, so we will check in with Kurt. Hi, Kurt. Morning, bud.

Good morning. All right, so we're looking for a word of the week. Do you know what it is? Yes, it is Zen. Great day in the morning. Zen it is, sir. All right, Kurt, it's a solid setup, man. We're going to give you a prize pack from our friends at Live Casino and Hotel Philadelphia. We'll give you an overnight stay at the hotel and a pair of tickets to see Jay Pharoah at the Live Events Center on Friday, March 14th, my friend.

Thank you so much. You're the best. No, no, no, no. I accidentally put him on hold. So hang on a second. Kurt, now we can hear you. That's what you want. Yes. I thought I'd lost you, man. That was my fault, bud. Now, we hope you have a great time, buddy. All right.

All right, that's great. Thank you very much. You got it. Hang on. We'll get your information and we will take care of you. We'll also take care of our sponsors for the day. I would like to thank Dunkin' Donuts. The President's Deep Show runs on Dunkin'. Also, Acme Markets, fresh foods, local flavors. And we are also brought to you by Trinity Rehab. Locations all over trinity-rehab.com. Next week on our program, a couple of guests to highlight. Actor Reese Darby, you may know from Flight of the Conchords and Our Flag Means Death.

He'll be joining us. Actress Melissa Rock will join. There's Big Bang Theory and the new Night Court show. And we'll add a few more names to that list, I'm sure, next week. But we have our eyes on one week from today for the Preston and Steve Cardboard Classic. Unbelievable. One Mr. Pierre Robert will be broadcasting one or two. Kazumba! Yeah, baby. So that's it. We're done. Rage on. Have yourself a great weekend. And we'll see you later, gang. Bye-bye. Bye-bye.

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