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Good morning, friends.

and welcome today being a Thursday morning. Let's check the weather. No. Yeah, Thursday. Let's check the weather forecast for that. Trying to remember myself what's coming up tomorrow and then I just remembered it's the debut of Kathy's foot video. Oh, yeah.

That's the big thing tomorrow. I got a little confused. All right, weather-wise for today, we're going to go up to about 58 degrees. We're going to have clouds, so yet again, comfortable. Tomorrow for Cardboard Classic here in our area, partly cloudy skies, high of about 50. Looking for a high tomorrow at Montage, around 38 degrees or so, some clouds. That's right. Saturday high of about 61 degrees, and then Sunday, a little cold breeze comes in high, 37, but sunshine. Hello. Hello.

Preston and Steve's News Update with Kathy Romano. Today is Thursday, February 27th. Good morning, Kathy. Good morning. In the news this morning, community members have raised thousands of dollars for a New Jersey couple that was detained by ICE agents after a raid on their restaurant. M&A and Khalil Emanet, the owners of Jersey Kebab in Haddon Township, were taken into custody Tuesday morning.

Khalil says,

The couple moved to the United States from Turkey in 2008 and raised their children in New Jersey. Khalil said that he had been granted an R1 visa, which allows religious workers to temporarily work in the United States. Before the visa expired, he said he applied for a green card. He was denied several times but continued to appeal. The case, after a certain amount of appeals, is put on hold. Because of this, the family's immigration status has been pending since 2016.

The couple has owned their restaurant for five years and were known for helping the community. They have a sign on the door of the restaurant that reads, free to anybody with a disability or homeless or simply cannot afford it. We're meant to share everything, they said. We have plenty of food, so we want to try to share that.

But now there is a closed sign on the door leaving customers outraged. What happened today doesn't make me feel safer, said one community member. It doesn't make me feel like justice is being served. It makes me feel confused and honestly pretty upset. Now the community is trying to help. A GoFundMe page was set up late Tuesday night and it raised more than $170,000 by Wednesday night. The organizer said it's because the couple deserves it. ICE officials have not yet commented on the arrests.

Dave Frankel, one of the most recognizable members of the Action News family from the mid-80s to the late 90s, has died. He was 67 years old. Dave died Wednesday morning after a long battle with a neurodegenerative disease. He started as an investigative reporter at 6 ABC and told great stories with a unique style and creativity. In 1989, Dave moved from the investigative unit to the AccuWeather map.

Frankel was not a meteorologist, but he happened to be available when the station's lead weatherman was injured and the backup was out of town. It's wild. Wild, right? Yeah. For the next eight years, he shared his smarts, his sense of humor, and his warm personality reporting the weather in the morning and news broadcast.

He was named Best Weather Person by Philadelphia Magazine in 1990 and 1991, according to the Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia website. In 1996, Dave also became 6ABC's first tech reporter, which back then meant explaining new and complex concepts like email.

Franco left WPVI and in 1998 worked as an anchor for KYW3. After leaving television, Dave launched a second career in law focusing on children with special needs and their families. Franco is survived by his three children, Bailey, Scott, and Charlie, and six grandchildren, as well as his wife, Margie. His wife said funeral services are being planned twice.

for Sunday. I got a really nice note from Bailey yesterday. Uh, Dave was, uh, just a decent person and a really kind guy. And, um, Bailey was taught by my mom. And so my mom and Dave had developed a friendship over the years. And, uh, it was so sad because he's only 67. But Bailey's just said the nicest things about, um, my mom and also about this show. And I really appreciate that. Yeah. They would listen to the show, right? And, um,

I guess on the way into school or whatever. And Bailey says he remembers listening with his dad to the show. So sad. It just seems like a wonderful guy, too. The piece they did on him was great. I wasn't very familiar, but man, clearly the guy was beloved. SEPTA addressed the service disruption on regional rail during the height of the Tuesday evening commute. The transit agency said Wednesday that equipment on top of the train coming out of the rail yard near Philadelphia's 30th Street station became tangled with an overhead wire causing a power outage.

At the same time, two other trains were disabled between 30th Street and Suburban Station, leaving only one track available. SEPTA said our response teams worked as quickly as possible to restore service, clearing multiple trains that were out of service, assisting passengers who were on stranded trains and making required...

required repairs to reopen tracks. Unfortunately, SEPTA could not fully restore service until almost 7.30 in the evening. Many passengers experienced delays of two hours or more. The interim general manager, Scott Sauer, said SEPTA is committed to making improvements to address these problems and clearly communicating with its customers. In sports this morning...

Balls back for Yomi. Balls back for Yomi. What the f*** is that? The Sixers gave it a good effort last night, but lost to the Knicks. 110-105 at Madison Square Garden. What the f*** is this? Jalen Brunson had 34 points and 7 assists. Michael Bridges added 28 for the Knicks. Tyrese Maxey. By the way, this isn't Kathy. Ticket's now going for $1.00.

Tyrese Maxey scored 30 points. Paul George had 25 points, 8 rebounds, and 7 assists. And Kelly Obrey Jr. added 27 points for the Sixers who lost their ninth straight game. They're back at home on Saturday night. They'll host the Golden State Warriors for a nationally televised game. Tip-off is set for 8.30.

The Flyers, who have won three games in a row, are on the road tonight with a game in Pittsburgh against the Penguins. The puck will drop at 7.30. At spring training, the Phillies beat the Blue Jays 9-6 yesterday afternoon. Bryce Harper left the game after getting hit by a 92-mile-per-hour sinker from Blue Jays left-hander Richard Lovelady in the top of the sixth inning. Harper was visibly angry, and Lovelady didn't seem too happy with his performance either.

But Phil's manager, Rob Thompson, said the team is not overly concerned. Harper went 0-2 with a strikeout and the hit-by pitch. The Phil's are back in Clearwater this afternoon and will host the Yankees. The first pitch is scheduled for 1-0-5. And the Eagles are still the 2-0-1. Yay! And that's what I have for you this morning. All right, thank you very much, Kathy. We welcome all to this Thursday morning. A couple things. What's this mug here? Oh, um...

That was the mug that was sitting over there. I just looked down. I'm like, I was drinking out of this coffee mug. I'm like, this is not my coffee mug. But it's a nice mug. Did you put coffee in it? Or is it someone else's coffee? No, Casey always fills it up for me. He heads down to the kitchen. Is that your mug, though? No, I've never seen this mug before in my life. Hang on a second. That's 100% Chuck D'Amico's mug. Where was it? He must have left it in here.

Yeah. During our meeting yesterday. Oh. So you have another mug that I ordered a while ago. I gave you a cup recently. That was the original one I was sent, and it's the size of a shot glass. It's tiny. The mom? Yeah. I have it. I ordered him a dark... That's what came initially. Well.

That's an espresso mug right there. Actually, I'll take it. You will be getting a Dark Tower mug that a human might want to drink out of. Oh, really? Okay. All right, well, so where is your connoisseur mug then? Because I would have grabbed it, but there was no connoisseur mug that was there at all. I don't take it anywhere with me. Maybe Chuck grabbed that by accident. Oh, God, I hope Chuck's germs are not on that anymore. Oh, God. Oh.

Oh, yeah. That's right. He puked all over his car. By the way, he passed me in his car the other day, and it was sort of warm, and I'm like, don't have the windows rolled up. I don't want to smell that. All right. Well, we'll figure out the mystery of the mug later on. Hey, by the way, don't try to call us today. Our phones don't work. Isn't that fun? Yeah.

Remember that little message we got last night? Phones cost the entire company. Do not work. I don't know why they did this. At all. To make it not seem so bad that our internet didn't work a while ago. Oh, is that what it is? We had no internet last week. They're desensitizing us from communication, which is oddly enough what we do for a living. Well, how are we going to get a winner for this stupid question?

I will have to do, we'll figure something out. Marissa had texted something late last night that we'll do something via text or we'll use YouTube or carrier pigeons or I don't know. Postcard, self-addressed stamped envelope, a sazy.

Yes, send a Sazey. You guys remember Sazey? Self-addressed stamped envelope. I think we should do fax. I think if anybody still has a fax machine, if they fax in... That's actually a pretty good idea. Do you remember when the studio would be full of fax requests? Dude, if we tried to re-fire up a fax machine and...

And we tell everybody to do it because there are people who still have, you know, your printers a lot of times at home so you can send fax. Our fax machine would probably explode because of lack of use. It would catch on fire from being overloaded. Marissa? I just realized that the fax industry is like the radio industry and we forgot to tell people that your phone is a fax machine. It is. It's just like your phone's a radio. Yeah. So, well, anyhow, we'll figure things out. But nonetheless...

We have a guest on the show. Now, is Derek going to join us today? Yeah, he's on Zoom. Okay, because I saw I had a remove from calendar alert sent to me. Really? Yeah, it was really weird. There's a lot of weird things happening already this morning. And there's a ghost in here. Zoom will work?

Oh, I don't know. Yeah, it's not a phone. It's the internet. Yeah, okay. Let's just take Zooms from people. Right, yeah, yeah. Zoom us. Zoom us. You figure it out. Yeah. Whatever. Zoom us, Zoom. Yeah. All right, so anyhow, Derek Gaines is going to be stopping by here this morning. He's performing at Helium Comedy Club tonight. Tomorrow. Or no, just tonight. Just tonight. Hot damn tonight. Yep. So we will spend some time with him in the 9 o'clock hour, but we're getting ready, obviously, for Cardboard Classic tomorrow. Kathy's foot video. Two big things. Oh, my God.

And we hope you'll join us. It's, you know, last minute, but make that decision. Come on out and be a part of the whole event at Montage Mountain. Ain't that far. We'll take a break. We'll come back in a second. We'll see if we can figure out all these little mysteries and have a radio program to share with you today. So fun's coming up. We'll be back in just a moment with it. Stay there. Preston and Steve's Cardboard Classic is finally here this Friday at Montage Mountain.

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One of those, I was this year's old when I learned something, I always thought it was cold-hearted bitch. Oh, no, it's cold-hard bitch. Some things elude us, don't they? There we go, that's what happened. Cold-hard bitch. Alright, well, listen, something we're learning this morning is that we don't have phones that work. Our entire phone system, the entire company is down, so you cannot call us. But...

We're going to try something with a stupid question right now. I bring in our tech consultant, Marissa Magnata, who's going to explain what we're going to do for the stupid question at this particular time. How are we doing this, Marissa? I'm stalling so hard right now. All right, so we're going to try to do a Zoom interview.

I like this. Answer your stupid question. But Marissa has to get something set up first, right? Yes, I'm just literally getting a link. Okay. Guys, we don't do this. All of you people who like have normal Zoom meetings, you guys were talking about Teams yesterday. This is not our world. No, no. We know it exists. Yeah. But we don't use it much. Okay, so what's going to happen is I'm literally doing this as we're talking. So I have a slight delay. So people are going to text.

What should the text word be? Zoom. Zoom, sure. Okay. People are going to text Zoom. Not yet. Just wait. We're getting it ready. You're going to text Zoom. Yeah, I haven't even asked the question yet. So wait until I ask the stupid question and see if you know the answer to it. Yep. And then you are going to get a link to our...

zoom meeting you're going to click it you're going to sign in and we are randomly going to choose one of those people to go on the radio about that even if you get through you might not be the zoomer that we go to but you can at least try so you will text the word zoom if you know the answer to this question you ready yet or you need another second i think guys that we are ready all right i think it just happened okay so here we go black history month question

In 1979, NBC tried to capitalize on the popularity of the miniseries Roots with their own series called Freedom Road. It starred Chris Christopherson and what famous athlete? 215263WMMR. This is in 1979, NBC.

tried to capitalize on the popularity of Roots with their own miniseries called Freedom Road starring Chris Christopherson and what athlete? So don't send the answer. If you know the answer, just text the word ZOOM to 39333. We will send you a Zoom link. Click on that. You will go in the waiting room, and then we will randomly choose one. Marissa?

This guy didn't hear the question, but it's working, guys. Okay, it works. All right. Clearly, he doesn't know yet, but he clicked it anyway. Well, this is how they did it in the Wild West. So we'll see if you know the answer in a moment. While we're waiting for all of that to come together, I'll mention some birthdays. Today being the 27th day of February, we will start with actor Adam Baldwin. Oh.

Yeah, he's been in a bunch of stuff, most notably in Full Metal Jacket. He played Animal Mother, the really big guy. Go back to the movie The Bodyguard. I love that movie. I thought it was a good movie, too. That is such a heartfelt, that's with Ruth Gordon and Martin Mull and the kid was really good. Yeah, really, really solid coming-of-age movie. And a guilty pleasure of mine.

that he is in, is the Patrick Swayze movie, Next of Kin. Oh, yes. I love that movie. He plays the main nemesis. I need to go back and watch that. I wonder if that holds up. It's not great. It's stupid. But it is, there's something about it

It's the first time I saw Liam Neeson. No, no, Excalibur and then that. Yeah, but you're right. Liam Neeson plays a role. He's a bumpkin. He's a country bumpkin. And there's actually some Helen Hunters in it. Yes. Ben Stiller's in it. Absolutely. He plays like a little prick. Well, yeah.

Yeah, he's like Rick adjacent. He's the kid who's going to take over the company and or the mob. Right. But Adam Baldwin has been the right hand man of that head mob boss. And he doesn't want to see the kid take over. He was also great in the series Chuck.

Oh, yeah. Zachary Levi. He was the agent. He's 63 today, Adam Baldwin. The very beautiful Kate Mara has her birthday today. A lovely young lady. She is. It's possible she's done a little something to her face. Oh, yeah? I'm not quite sure. Okay. Last time I saw her, it was a little uncanny valley going on. Oh, she's only 42. I don't get it. She shouldn't be messing around. Is she...

technically in this little thing here? She was in Fantastic Four, so I don't know if that's... Oh, she's Marvel. That's not MCU, but it's Marvel. Sometimes it kind of blurs the lines for me. Ever since they opened the whole multiverse, anybody who's in anyone. True. She was in Shooter, We Are Marshall, The Martian. She's great in that. She's 42 today.

Actress Joanne Woodward is 95 years old. That's pretty amazing, man. And she was in Three Faces of Eve, legendary for that. She won Best Actress Oscar for that. Philadelphia. In Philadelphia, she played the mom to Tom Hanks' character and married to Paul Newman. They got married in 1958 and stayed that way until he passed away in 2008. My favorite quote about her ever is, why would you go out for steak or why would you go out for hamburgers when you have steak at home? All right.

So happy birthday. But he did. 95th birthday. It's Josh Groban's birthday today. Oh, really? It is. You raised me up. How old is he now? He's 44. I don't even know where this started. Do you guys? I don't know. Maybe it was on his birthday. Maybe I did a Josh Groban slip and then we... I feel like it was. Like it was something... You raised me up.

Poor guy. You know, we've said it. I think, Nick, you were the first to say it. He loved coming on the show. He seems to get everything. Super likable dude. Yeah, very likable. Happy 44th to him. The great guitarist, Neil Sean of Journey celebrates. Shut the f*** up.

Celebrates his 71st birthday. He is up there in the pantheon of my all-time favorite guitarist. He's phenomenal, and he does come with an equally sized ego. He's got an ego. He's great, and he knows he's great, but he was in the band Santana when he was...

15 years old. That's how good he is. And he bridges the gap of being able to shred and being able to play melodically and also write great songs. Have you seen the revamped version of Journey, Preston? No, I've not. I mean, just other than not live, I've seen lots of videos of them. I would recommend that you don't go because I think that you'll maintain your fandom if you don't see him live. It's distracting.

How cheesy he is up on stage. Neil Sean? Yeah. Really? Wow. I just... I was...

Whatever. It was not a... Does he do a lot of gurning? It's... A lot of what happens up there is pay attention to me stuff. Oh. Well, you know what? I guess when you have a replacement Steve Perry... Yeah. I guess he thinks the onus is on him to be the focal point. Neil is 71 years old today. From the group TLC, Rosanda Chili Thomas.

Turns a year older at 54. She's the one that I had a big crush on. Yeah. I liked them all. Beautiful. But she turns 54 years old today. Also celebrating birthday, another singer, Johnny Van Zandt of Leonard Skinner. 64 years old today. And man...

He sounds a lot like Ronnie, man. Oh, absolutely. I mean, when you see them live, he sounds, he's really carried that torch wonderfully. Thank you.

So happy 65th birthday to Johnny Manzant of Leonard Skinner. It's Chelsea Clinton's birthday today. Chelsea turns 45 years old. Oh my God. Yep, I know. Oh my, yeah. And she was just a little kid. Yeah, yeah. 45 years old. Jennifer J. Wow Farley from Jersey Shore. In the barbecue, yeah. Is 39, yep. We were hanging out with J. Wow and she really wanted to meet...

Oh, God, from Fozzie. I'm drawing a blank. Chris Fozzie. Not Chris Fozzie. Chris Jericho. Chris Jericho. Chris Fozzie Jericho. And so I introduced the two of them. Yeah. You said she was sweet, right? She was really nice. She was nice. And she was excited to meet Chris Jericho, and he was excited to meet her. It was really neat. So happy 39th birthday to her. And consumer advocate and sometimes presidential candidate Ralph Nader said,

Wow. Turns 91 years old today. All right. We're going to try this Zoom thing. All right. Marissa, are you just going to bring somebody randomly up and we'll see if we can chat with them? Yes. Sorry. I'm hearing so many things because I'm hearing all of these people's Zooms. Oh, no. Our Zoom. Okay. I am going to...

Oh, now I'm hearing myself. I'm just going to send somebody. Yeah, send somebody over. I need a video of it up here on our monitor, if you don't mind. Somebody in the room just got an invitation to join the next room. As soon as they accept it, we should see them pop up on our screen. We're looking at this here in the monitors in the studio. And I believe we have someone named Sam.

Brandon, who's going to be joining us, is Brandon C. So as soon as we accept him in and we pull him up. Brandon, can you hear me? Yes. Where's your video? I don't know how to use Zoom. He's doing it.

He got halfway, man. That's pretty good. Just fine. All right, Brandon, the question is as follows. In 1979, NBC tried to capitalize on the popularity of Roots with their own miniseries called Freedom Road starring Chris Christopherson. And which athlete? Muhammad Ali. Muhammad Ali. Yeah, Muhammad, yeah. You are correct.

Brandon, Marissa is going to chat with you about all we need to know. And thank you for being the first ever Zoom contest winner. I know. Zoom contest winner on WMMR. And we can now see you, Brandon. Thank you for working that out, buddy. I was excited. Where are you headed to this morning? I'm headed to Downingtown Country Club. What do you do there? I help out.

In the shop at all of the Ron Jorski golf courses. Nice. Excellent. Yeah, we're getting ready. Yeah, you are. We're getting ready for the season. Season's coming in, brother. Hang in there. We're going to set you up, by the way. I didn't even say what the prize was, but hang on the line. We'll get your information. We're going to set you up with a four-pack of tickets for the Atlantic City Boat Show. Boaters, anglers, and water lovers, get ready. The discovery of the Discover Boating Show.

Atlantic City Boat Show in partnership with Progressive Insurance. It's back at the Atlantic City Convention Center February 26th through March 2nd. It is the Mid-Atlantic's biggest boat sale with hundreds of boats and exhibitors all under one roof and you can grab your tickets at acboatshow.com. So congratulations and hang on, Brandon. They got a ton of stuff out there besides the boats. They have the wakeboards and all these other cool... They got some pretty cool personal watercrafts. Yeah, that's a

Big part of the convention, I guess. All the water sports. Yep. All right, so we're going to start with this sad news. Legendary actor Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, were found dead in their home in New Mexico. He was 95 years old.

She was 63 years old. The cause of death has not been confirmed, but it's not believed to be foul play. Deputies responded to a welfare check request at the home around 1.45 in the afternoon yesterday, and they found Hackman, Arakawa, and one of their dog was dead as well. So, yeah, there's no word on what, I mean, on the surface, it sounds like it could have been carbon monoxide poisoning. Or, you never know, I

listen, this is just me. Yeah. Everybody's guessing at this point, but you never know. He was 95 and, you know, obviously elderly. She could have passed away and he could have just not been able to move or something and, or be able to communicate. And maybe he, maybe it was over the course of a few days. I don't know. This is, they don't know yet. Yeah. The inclusion of the pet makes me think the carbon monoxide thing. And like what, at,

What'd you say, 95? 95. Like at 95, that's what's going to kill you? In 63. Or you never know. They may have chosen to do this. Who knows? It's possible. So at this point, it's all speculation, but we'll have to wait and see. But obviously, we have to highlight his incredible career as an actor. Just one of the greatest. Just one of the greatest. Yes. In fact, who was I...

It was Kevin Costner was asked, who is the greatest actor you have ever worked with and ever seen in action? And he said, in a second, he said Gene Hackman. Oh, my gosh. Just to give you a few titles here to reminisce about, The French Connection, Hoosiers, Unforgiven, The Firm, Young Frankenstein, Superman, No Way Out, The Replacements, Crimson Tide, Birdcage.

Behind Enemy Lines, Get Shorty, The Poseidon Adventure. The young priest who was questioning his faith. What's the one movie? It's kind of like a, I think it's like a rom-com. Jennifer Love Hewitt? He plays like a disgusting, he's always smoking cigarettes. Yeah, yeah, that's it. The Heartbreakers? I don't, it grossed me out. That character grossed me out so much. Yeah, they had him all yellowed up and liver spotted. Yeah, he had like things on his face.

Right. He was in Welcome to Mooseport. That was his last title, by the way. He had retired several years ago, like 20 years ago. And stuck with it. Yeah. Yeah, did not want to return to acting. But there's a smattering eclipse over there, Preston, if you want to start with the first time I ever saw him, it was an Oscar-winning role for him, The French Connection. All right, here we go. All right, Popeye's here.

Get your hands on your heads! Get off the bar and get on the wall! Come on, move! Move! Come on, sweetheart, move. Come on, move out! All right, come on. Face the window! Move! Face the wall! Turn around now! Turn around! Move! Come on, move! Hands out of your pockets! Turn around! Turn around! Come on, your heart! Come on! Turn around, big man! Come on, turn around! Get on the wall! Get on! Turn around! Hey, you dropped that! Pick it up! Pull those hands up! Pick it up! Come on, move! What are you looking at? All right, bring it here. Get your hands out of your pockets. What's my name?

Doyle. What? Mr. Doyle. Come here. You pick your feet. Get over there. Get your hands on your head. There you go. That was his big thing throughout the movie when he would have perps. He would say, do you pick your feet in Poughkeepsie?

Oh, I never knew what that was from. That's something my parents say all the time. Picking your feet in Poughkeepsie. I love Gene Hackman. This really bummed me out. Steve told me when we got in this morning, and I wrote this a few years ago, but just in the 90s and early 2000s, Unforgiven, The Firm, Geronimo, White Earp, Crimson Tide, Get Shorty is one of my favorite movies of all time. Birdcage, his performance in Birdcage is so freaking good. He's great.

Preston, we talk about Crimson Tide. His dynamic with Denzel Washington in that movie is just top notch. And if you want to talk about the epitome of imposing, I mean, to get dressed down in Mississippi burning, I couldn't use a clip from it because it's filled with stuff we can't air. It would have been a sliced cheese job, but it was an amazing performance. And Hoosiers could be the

the greatest sports movie ever made. Yeah, yeah. It's just incredible. Just tugs at the heartstrings. Yeah. If you want to take a dabble with how good he was at comedic characters as the blind, as the blind hermit in Young Frankenstein. A visitor is all I ask. A temporary companion to help me pass a few short hours in my lonely life. Thank you, Lord. Thank you.

Don't speak. Don't speak. Don't say a word. Oh, my joy. And my prize from heaven. Oh, you must have been the tallest one in your class. My name is Harold. And I live here all alone. What is your name? I didn't get that. Nope. Forgive me. I didn't realize you were mute.

You see how heaven plans? Me, a poor blind man, and you, you, a mute. An incredibly big mute. He was amazing in Unforgiven as Little Bill. Yeah, again, another just unnerving character. Duck of death. Here's the duck of death. Duke. All right, here we go. All right, gentlemen. He's got one barrel left.

When he fires that, take out your pistols and shoot him down like a mangy scoundrel he is. This fire, kill us, bitch. That's a great movie. Wow. Wow, wow, wow. His best roles were often conflicted authority figures or surprisingly clever white-collar villains. Many held a hint, sometimes more than a hint, of menace.

He won an Oscar for the portrayal of New York cop Popeye Doyle in 1971's French Connection. Detective who gets his man but at a high cost to surveillance. Expert in 1974's The Conversation as a single-minded, to-the-point obsession losing all perspective. Another masterpiece directed by Francis Ford Coburg. He was 36 before he broke through 1967 in Bonnie and Clyde, a role that he got after losing the part of Mr. Robinson in The Graduate, by the way. Uh,

He retired at 74 and then lived in Santa Fe in recent decades with his wife, Arakawa, a former classical pianist, and largely stayed out of the public eye. He was on his own. There's a picture I saw of him this morning from San Francisco.

just last year and you wouldn't even recognize him. No, I agree. He was a man in his mid-90s and just, you know. That switch flipped. That does happen when you hit a certain age and it's like, oh boy. But yeah, he was still moving around. Candice Bergen told a story about working with him on a movie called Bite the Bullet.

And she was bringing sort of Hollywood entitled ways to the set. And he dressed her down and she like thanked him later for that. She goes, if that had not happened, she would have been a complete nightmare going forward. But yeah. And he was a former Marine and just a...

A long life. He had three children who he shared with his late ex-wife, Faye Maltese. So as we go through the next few days, hopefully we'll find out more about the nature of the death and everything. Sad news and just an absolute legend. And more sad news, even more tragic because she was so young. Michelle Trachtenberg, the actress.

Rose, a famous child star in the 1990s and 2000s, she passed away. She was only 39. She was best known for playing Buffy the Vampire Slayer's younger sister, Dawn Summers, and later took on the role of manipulative socialite Georgina Sparks in Gossip Girl. That ran from 2007 to 2012 as an adult.

Her death is not being treated as suspicious. She made her debut in a film in Harriet the Spy, 1996. She appeared in several Nickelodeon productions. She got her start in acting at three years old on the Nickelodeon television series The Adventures of Pete and Pete.

in the early 2000s, was nominated for several acting awards, including a Daytime Emmy Award for her role in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I love that show, and I loved her in it. She also starred in films including Eurotrip, Ice Princess, Killing Kennedy, and Sister Cities.

She first appeared on Gossip Girl in 2008 and returned to the role for two episodes in the second season of the reboot in 2023. Her last major acting role was in 2021 as the host of a true crime docuseries called

meet Mary murder. Rosie O'Donnell claimed that her former co-star was struggling before her death. The 62-year-old issued a statement hours after the 39-year-old was found dead. O'Donnell acknowledged how heartbreaking it was to hear about the passing of her. She said, I loved her so much. She struggled the last few years and I wish I could have helped. Now they had worked together on the 1996 Nickelodeon movie, Harriet the Spy, in that film, which was one of Trachtenberg's

first acting roles. Uh, she played a sixth grader who aspired to be a writer and a spy. And O'Donnell played her characters. Nanny, uh, the New York post was first to report the death on Wednesday, noting that police responded to a nine one one call just after 8. AM. Um,

at One Columbus Place, which is a 51-story luxury apartment complex on Central Park South. The NYPD confirmed that they found her unconscious, unresponsive. She was pronounced dead by emergency medical workers. Her cause of death has not yet been determined, but they are not investigating as suspicious. According to the Post, she recently underwent a liver transplant. There were concerns about her health and well-being.

that have been raised by fans previously. A series of photos on her Instagram page last year prompted some to speculate about her apparent weight loss and somewhat gaunt appearance.

However, in January of last year, she responded to fans concerned, saying she was happy and healthy and had never had plastic surgery. I guess people were maybe thinking that she did that. But she said, explain, explain to me how I look sick. She wrote, did you lose a calendar and not realize I'm not 14? I'm 38. How sad for you to leave such a comment. There were some rumors floating around. I think Kathy, even you mentioned when we were texting, when I sent that the alert out about her passing, that the woman,

body might have started rejecting the liver. That's what the article that I read thought that that's what they were indicating, that she had recently had a liver transplant and that that may have been the reason and that her mom found her. Terrible, terrible news. And then I'm going to reiterate this. You had this in the news because it's another passing and then we'll move on to a couple other things. But locally, Dave Frankel.

One of the most recognizable members of the Action News family from 6 ABC. From the mid-80s to late 90s, passed away. He was 67 years old. He started as an investigative reporter, told great stories in a unique style with creativity. And in 1989, he went from the investigative unit to the AccuWeather map.

And for the next eight years, he shared his smarts, his sense of humor, and his warm personality. In 1996, Dave also became ABC's first tech reporter. And as Kathy was saying earlier, back then that meant explaining new and complex concepts like email to viewers. After leaving television, he started another career in law, and he focused on children with special needs and their families.

He passed away Wednesday morning after a long battle with a form of dementia, possibly primary progressive aphasia. But his son Bailey had texted Nick and said... I'm sorry? Daughter Bailey. Oh, I'm sorry. Daughter Bailey had said it was frontal temporal dementia. Yeah, my mom taught Bailey and my mom, Betsy, became friends with Bailey and Dave and the family. And Bailey sent me a really nice note and she said, Preston, that you read...

a birthday message to her daughter, Bailey's daughter, from the incredible woman who was their gestational carrier, giving my dad the incredible gift of becoming a grandfather in recent years. So Bailey and everybody in the Frankel family, we send our condolences because Dave liked us and our show, and he and my mom had a really nice relationship.

Yeah, that's sad news. So, all right, we'll move on to some lighter stuff. We need some happy stuff. For a little bit. How about this? It's not every day that you look over during your train ride to work and see the heir to the throne riding with you. Prince William and Kate, Princess Kate visited Puntiprid in Wales. Puntiprid.

Yesterday, ahead of the country's national holiday, St. David's Day. Welcome to Ponte Preto. Instead of taking a helicopter or Royal Motorcade, though the royal couple arrived by train, shocking Brits on their everyday commute.

It's not totally unheard of for the prince and princess to ride the rails in May of 2023. Princess Kate, we're going to require you to put your beer in a brown bag. In May of 2023, they met TikToker and train aficionado Francis Bourgeois on...

on the Elizabeth Line in London as they got off the train at Tottenham Court Road Station. If you have a three-hour trip, I'm going to tell you all about locomotives. In London. So, they were... They were wonderful. They were riding the rails the other day. He's leaving. Leaving. Leaving. On that midnight train. Leaving on the midnight train.

So, let's see what else I got here for you. Karen Huger, one of the swords of the Real Housewives of Potomac. Is that your one? You watch one, though. That's me. I'm a Potomac guy. Yeah. Is this like all governmental-wise? Yes, I assume it is. So, she learned her fate yesterday after being arrested on charges of DUI last year. Oh.

Oh. Huger has been sentenced to two years in jail following that conviction. She is a real housewife. With one of those years suspended, Huger was found guilty...

On five out of six charges following March 2024 incident in Potomac, Maryland, that involved a car crash. I guess you pronounce her name Hooger. It might be Hugger. I don't know. I'm a Hooger. I'm a Hugger. I'm a Hooger. Hooger. I'm a Hooger. She was convicted of DUI, negligent driving, failure to control speed, avoid collision, blah, blah, blah. And she is going to jail. You know the judge does not like you when he says blah, blah, blah. Yep.

So this was fun. Millie Bobby Brown was attending the Electric State premiere in Los Angeles Monday night with Jake Bongiovi when a photographer asked her, can we get your boyfriend out here? Right.

Brown, who wed Bongiovi last May, firmly corrected the photographer saying, that's not my boyfriend. After the photographer apologized, Millie laughed it off, assuring that it's okay. So I watched video footage of this exchange and it was pleasant and everything. She looked stunning. But when he comes in to be next to her and is smiling...

Man, you can see Jon Bon Jovi's face. Oh, in him? Yeah, yeah, yeah. He is a good-looking guy. Of course, yeah. He is a super good-looking guy. He looks a lot like his dad. There was a shot of her. I don't know where it was, but I mean, she...

In some of the pictures, she almost looked like Brigitte Bardot. She was done up. I mean, what blows my mind is that that's Eleven. She's firmly burned into my mind as that little kid from Stranger Things. And here she is. I go back to when I see that first season of Stranger Things. I mean, she just looks like a little kid. And I'm like, how did the producers know that she was going to turn out to be a goddess? What?

Because she is just stunning. That's the strangest thing of Stranger Things. So anyhow, they're doing well. And I am interested in this movie to see what it's all about.

So, let me see here. What do I have here for you? Oh, the trailer for Another Simple Favor is out. It's the sequel to 2018's A Simple Favor with Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick returning together. Did you guys see that? I did not. Okay. I mean, you know, they made a sequel, so I guess it's halfway decent. I'm interested. So, Blake is Emily Nelson and Anna is...

And they will head to the beautiful island of Capri, Italy for Emily's extravagant wedding to a rich Italian businessman. And along with the beautiful scenery, expect murder, betrayal, and plot twists.

uh, they all returned to, so everybody who was in the first movie pretty much is going to be in the second movie. So this is a Paul Fague, uh, is that his name? Fague, um, uh, movie. So, and I, what I don't know, Nick, is if it's more, um, comedy based or more glass onion kind of mystery based. Yeah, I didn't see it either, but yeah, uh, Steve, yeah, he's in charge of this one too. Uh, he's a producer. I don't know if he's directing it, uh, but I love Paul Fague. Uh,

So the movie debuts on Prime Video May 1st, if you are curious. And he is directing it. Oh, there you go.

And then one last story, Leaving Neverland, surviving Michael Jackson, the sequel to Leaving Neverland. Yeah. Will be available on premium YouTube documentary channel Real Stories in the U.S. and Canada after its U.K. premiere on March 18th. That's poopy talk. That's poopy work. Poopy work. I don't think I want to see it. That's poopy work. I don't think I want to see it.

The documentary revisits Wade Robson and James Safechuck's sexual assault allegations against Michael. I don't think I want to see it. That's poopy work. And the toll making their claims public took on them. Premiering this film, this is according to director Dan Reed, premiering this film on YouTube is about breaking down barriers to access...

And HBO, which produced the original film, is not involved in the sequel. So it will be a YouTube release. That's poopy work. That's not even Michael. No, it's South Park. That's poopy work. Let's do the clips. All right, so comedy series The Running Point follows Isla Gordon.

Who is appointed last minute as president of the LA Waves basketball team, played by Kate Hudson. And here she describes her character. A woman being thrust into this position of something that she really loves and then constantly feeling like she has to prove herself. And using that as sort of a comedic launching pad and was, you know, is a blast. I don't want to see it. The Running Point streams today and you'll find that on Netflix. Here's our next clip.

This is Anthony Mackie's eighth appearance as Sam Wilson in Captain America Brave New World. And here he explains how his cap inspires new generations. The fact that he doesn't have the serum is very important because he's every man's cap. You know, every man, woman and child can relate to this Captain America in some way as their own. It's just it's fun to see someone who's the best version of all of us. Everything that's that's good in us. That's what Sam Wilson is. That's poopy wood.

Captain America Brave New World is in theaters. There you go. That's our entertainment report for this morning. We will have joining us today Derek Gaines, who's going to be at Helium Comedy Club tonight.

Sorry, I'm stretching. Derek is stopping in around 9 o'clock this morning. We're getting ourselves set for Cardboard Classic. This time tomorrow morning, we will be sitting at the lodge at the base of Montage Mountain as we will start to see crowds start to form. As the sun comes up, we can start to see the creations as they slowly appear and everybody brings them out into a little presentation area. And we get ready for the events. And we're shooting for a 10.30 a.m. start

of the sleds coming down the hill. And we're going to gauge it's going to be about two hours total. Something in that range is what we're shooting for. We had a nice meeting yesterday. We put a lot of things in place, as you said, that will all collapse in on itself. But the methodology is to get everyone their moment on the mountain. And listen, as

As you've pointed out many times before, there's a point at which we are there as spectators as well. Like, oh my God, it's an amazing thing to see. And it's free. And what's great too is always the question factor is weather. We don't have to worry about that. No, done. 38 degrees and partly cloudy to cloudy skies. No precipitation. They're getting a little bit of rain this morning. No poopy talk. No poopy words. That's poopy work. And hopefully...

The temperature's going to drop tonight, and that'll freeze things over a little bit. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see what you get. You don't get upset. It'll be fine. So we're excited about that tomorrow morning. All right, we're going to take a break. We'll come back in just a minute. We got more on the way. 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.

Thank you, Kathy. By the way, I texted and somebody says, how do we get to say hi to you guys tomorrow? We are busy. We are definitely working. So if you see us with a microphone in hand and we're in the middle of talking, something like that, hold off if you can. If we have a few moments here and there, we definitely want to meet with everybody, say hello. Don't make eye contact with us. Whatever you do, don't look directly at Kathy.

Stun gun you. No. But it is a work day for us. We do the show, and then after that, we go straight into trying to handle and organize everything that's happening. But it won't be just us. No. Like, Jackie Bam Bam's going to be there. Brent Porsche is going to be DJing. A lot of the other staff members, Pierre Robert is broadcasting live, so there's plenty from the MMR staff if you'd like to say hello to them. And some people will be working, some people won't. So, you know, just...

Whatever you do, hopefully we'll have a chance to interact with you. We almost always get a shot at that. And where we are is kind of right out there in the general area. You'll easily be able to see us. So we don't have phones, okay? Our phone system is down for the entire company. This is not going to work. We're not going to be able to take phone calls today. But a little while ago, we did the stupid question. And for the first time ever, we got a winner via Zoom. It was chaotic. It was difficult. But Marissa Rangel, that made it happen.

So now we'd like to take this out and play with it a little bit. Because we like to play with things. So we spoke to Brandon who had Zoomed in and he was great. We saw him in his car saying hi to him. He's on his way into the country club that he works. So we are just going to do a completely...

random segment right now called Who Are You and Where Are You Going? All right. All right. So Marissa, how do people zoom in for this right now? They want to text the word Zoom? Yep. So text Zoom, Z-O-O-M 239-333. You'll get a link.

Click the link and you will go in and please have your camera on. Yes, please have your camera on. And if there's anything unique or interesting about you that you want to share, we'd like to hear about that too. But this is full on. This is almost like open phone Adelphia. Absolutely. If you've ever wanted to be interviewed by the show and you don't have to be in transit, if you're at home, wherever you are. Yeah, exactly. Who are you? What are you doing? What?

crime are you trying to cover over? And so what will happen is we will just randomly send you into our on-air room. So when you click that, you're going to be in a waiting room. You won't be on-air. You will get an invitation and it says, join the room. Join that room and that's how you'll be on-air. There we go. So we'll try this. We're not going to get, we probably won't get to everybody because when we were doing the stupid question, like immediately people started texting in to try to get on and Look at boat show tickets. Yeah, come on. So we will see

how this ends up going. I think this is going to be awesome. I'm actually really excited about this. We really had a blast when we did the chat roulette. We struck up a conversation with some guy who was a little creepy. No, the one guy was great, but there were, I think, some creeps getting to that one guy. Yeah.

While we're waiting for some Zooms to come in, I do want to mention this because we made this announcement late in the day, and you can sign up for this. We're teaming up with Dunkin' to bring you meal deal workforce visits. So starting soon, this is going to happen every month, the MM Army is going to stop by offices, job sites, wherever you work, to drop off Dunkin' meal deal refreshments. And you just go to WMMR.com and you can enter your business on the contest page.

and we may end up coming by to visit and feeding you and the gang. And by the way, the biggest deal on breakfast is waiting for your Dunkin'. You can get one medium or hot iced coffee and any two delicious wake-up wrap sandwiches for just five bucks. Stop by any Dunkin' location and order one on the Dunkin' app. So that's going to start before you know it. All right, I think we're ready to go. Yes. How do I see? I guess it doesn't matter. So we're going to go to this first random person. Hi, good morning. What is your name, by the way?

I believe it's Katie Santiago. Hi. Hi. How you doing, Katie? I'm good. Preston, you don't recognize me, but you were at my wedding. Oh. Wait a minute. Wow. That sounds about right. Yeah. Yeah. I could have been a groomsman and not known. Why was that at your wedding?

I was a frontline hero and you pulled up at my house to put down a sign. In Phoenixville. Yes. Oh my God. Yeah. It was so great when we were, when, when it was COVID and we were in the height of it, we had these great signs of people who worked as first responders and so on. And I went and I showed up at this house. We, they were nominated by other people and I'm there putting the sign in the front, front yard. And,

And she and her freshly husband pull up in their wedding clothes. Wow. Get out of their car. They're like, that's our house. Whoa. And she said, we just got married. Tell that story. Why did what it was a COVID wedding, right? It was. So, uh, my now husband and I were not married at the time. We actually were thinking about getting married for a while and then putting it off. Cause for whatever reasons. And, uh,

And then he is a physical therapist and I'm a respiratory therapist. And we were both working on COVID units. And we were like, what happens to our kids if something happens to one of us?

Do we have rights? And everything was closed so we couldn't go to court for legal reasons. So we were like, let's just get married. So we went downtown, stood by this lovely bridge on a path. And our neighbor just happened to be an officiant and he came down with us. And we all stood very far apart.

And we streamed it on Facebook for our friends and family. And we got married. That is cool. Did you follow through? Did you do a full regular one? Or is this the one that has been standing the test of time? It is the one that stood the test of time. We bought a house together.

I was losing the signal. Either that or she got drunk all of a sudden. I'm drinking and driving. Sorry, Katie. She's adorable. Things came up that...

money was jarred that day. Okay. We lost a little bit of the conversation, Katie, but that's terrific. How wild is that? Isn't that a great story? It's the best. They were so happy when I saw them. They had just kissed and said, I do, and all this stuff. It was so fun, man. I love it. That's great. Do you guys still live in Phoenixville? We've lost you all together, Katie. Fun fact is... Go ahead. We got you. Go ahead.

I'm sorry. Can you? Yep. So fun fact is the very next day I was on my way to work and I heard you guys talking about us on the radio. Excellent. Listen, we're glad you guys are doing well. Thanks for playing along with our little experiment here and trying to zoom for calls. And what's your husband's name again, by the way? Ruben. Ruben. Give Ruben our best. Okay. Thank you for checking in this morning, Katie.

All right. We'll see you later. She's delightful, man. So cute. Yeah. Yeah, it was so fun. They came pulling up and I thought like I was in trouble. I thought they were like, hey, you. I was like, ah. Get off.

property and she goes she goes preston oh that's so great we just got married i thought it was excellent all right marissa whenever you want uh pop another one up we're just randomly picking people if you're just tuning in our phones don't work and we're trying this we're trying this soup who is this guy what's your name man oh you were yelling i didn't hear you oh it says nicholas nicholas amato hey nick how you doing bud

I'm living the dream, Preston. How are you doing? Good, buddy. Your background is great. The background photo is a piece of artwork that looks like a butthole, but it's an eye. Is this an original piece of work that you've done? Funny thing is, I have no control over that. That's awesome. How do you randomly end up with that? My life is a Greek tragedy, Steve, so this is what we get. All right. Where are you from, Nick?

Uh, I'm, I live in Oakland, New Jersey. Oakland, New Jersey. All right. And, uh, we were just, uh, taking calls of, uh, tell us who you are and what you're doing right now. What are you up to? I am a, I'm a longshoreman. I just pulled up to work. A longshoreman. Okay. Can you describe what exactly a longshoreman does? We load and unload freight ships. So, uh, building materials and, uh, um,

Shipping containers. Yeah. When I hear longshoremen, I think of a guy like in a peacoat with a giant hook that he uses to move large bales of hay or whatever cargo around. Do you guys have the giant hooks to move things around anymore? No.

No, that's more of like a symbol. Okay. Yeah, that's so the symbol of men that were much better than me. Everything's done with machines now. If you ever see the movie on the waterfront, Terry Malloy, Marlon Brando plays a longshoreman and that president, they have those hooks and they would grab boxes with them. But it was also, I was just hearing a story about this. It's considered one of the most dangerous jobs in the world being a longshoreman. Would you agree that there's a big risk factor there?

Yeah, it can be. There's the occasional fatality. People always losing tips of their fingers and stuff when the rigging goes up, the chain goes tight, and if your hands aren't where they're supposed to be, they lose digits. Wow. It can all be avoided, though. It doesn't have to be dangerous. It's always when people are rushing. It's like driving. Driving's dangerous. Have you yourself ever had an injury, Nick, on the job? Um...

I've like fallen off of stuff. No, I got all my digits, though. And you probably can't wear like jewelry and stuff like that. They always say in industrial conditions that that can be. Yeah. No rings or anything like that. Yeah. De-gloving. Not a good thing. De-gloving. Oh, yeah. It takes the skin right off. So where technically do you pull in? Where do you work at one specific location or do you move around to different docks?

So the Philadelphia Longshoremen have access to five different ports. I'm lucky enough that my, we're called, we get separated into labor gangs. Okay. My team works out of Port Richmond. So I basically go to Port Richmond Monday to Friday. You guys were actually here at Tioga Marine Terminal. You guys brought us coffee. Oh, one of the Dunkin' Runs? That's awesome. Yeah, that was really great.

Do you work outside all the time in any kind of weather? Yeah, but we're spoiled, man. It's really not as bad as people make it sound. Most of us are in nice machines. It's a good job. He's got a good long, charming look. I'm more curious about how he can get a print of your background. Yeah.

Send me a text, brother. Hey, thanks for checking in, Nick. We appreciate it. Have a good day at work. Be safe, brother. Love you guys. Thank you so much. We'll see you later. Oh my God, I've never... A longshoreman. We got a longshoreman. That was always kind of a romantic job, a longshoreman. I know they're not the same thing, but when I think longshoreman, I think merchant marine. That's what I was

So the Merchant Marine Academy was right by Shea Stadium for years growing up, and we'd pass it, and a number of my friends became Merchant Marines because it had that sort of appeal to it. One of my son's rugby coaches is a Merchant Marine or maybe a retired Merchant Marine, but I had no idea what that was. I thought like...

Honestly, I was like, okay, maybe he's an assassin. You know? Yes, an assassin. Do you have any openings for an assassin? He goes in and just, you know, he travels on cargo ships. Shoot him. I had no idea. All right, we need to go to another. We need a little transition sound effect, Casey. Like even our hair change. Anything like that. Something to kind of... Oh, there you go.

It's so dramatic. We'll go to another one. This is Kelly Black on our Zoom. Hey, Kelly, how you doing? Hey, Gadzooks, everyone. Gadzooks. So, Kelly, we're just taking random Zooms because our phones don't work, and we're asking people, who are you and what are you doing? So, I actually live in Pittsburgh. Wow. I used to live in Philly for like 20 years, and today's my birthday. Happy birthday! By the way, are you in an elevator right now?

I'm getting ready to go in the elevator. If I go in the elevator, I'll leave the seat. Yes, I assumed as much. Where are you? Are you at work right now?

I'm at work. I'm a teacher. I teach kindergarten and first and second grade science at a charter school in Pittsburgh. So you teach first and second, but you're exclusively a science teacher for kids in grade school? So I always thought of grade school not having specified subject teachers. That's interesting. Is that common now? Yes.

For our school, it is. So we're a charter school. So, you know, we kind of run on a different, you know, a different drum, different beat.

So we actually have a rotate through five. So I teach the younger kiddos and then my co-teacher or partner teacher teaches three through five. All right. So can you do me because I was thinking about this yesterday that I and I even looked it up a few months ago as to like what condensation is. And then I was thinking yesterday, I'm like, I completely forget condensation.

condensation. Can you please explain to me on a kindergarten level how water ends up on the outside of a cup?

She froze. Oh, no. Oh, no, really? No, she doesn't want to answer your question. Oh, man. It's a secret. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Amongst the science teachers. So herein lies the issue when we're doing this is that the data that's used for zooming for video. Right, yeah. Sometimes there's a little bit more in the bit rate is, I think I'm using a proper word. All right, now you're back on, Kelly. So can you explain condensation in a kindergarten sort of way to Casey? Sure.

It's through the water cycle. So you have your collection, which is your bottom of your water. And then when the heat hits it, it's evaporation. So it goes up and then it condenses into like clouds or on your cup will condense water.

like in the sky, basically, and then it falls back down into precipitation. So you're saying that even in a moderate temperature at home, there has to be enough of a temperature difference, correct, for condensation to occur? Yes. Right. Yeah, so like in a cup, for example, your ice is usually at the top. Yes. And then the space between the ice

and the top of the cup is going to be warmer, so it kind of acts like that cloud. All right, that makes sense. Okay, all right. Casey, you got it? I don't think he got it. Can you give him a cookie? Yeah, dude, I would love that. I can give him some time in the calm down corner. Kelly, ask us a science question. Let's see if we can answer it correctly. Yeah. Um...

What is the difference between weathering and erosion? Wow, weathering and erosion? Does erosion, well, no, weathering. Erosion takes the, like, the earth away? No. Part of the earth? No, you're right. So weathering takes the broken pieces away. Or not weathering. Erosion takes the broken pieces away, and weathering breaks the pieces. Oh.

and breaks them. See, I'm in seventh grade science. Oh, that's right. You get a star. Ask her to speak Spanish. Nice. How long have you been a teacher, Kelly? So I've been teaching for seven years. Okay, good for you. So I taught three years, no, two years in Philly and five years out here in Pittsburgh. What took you to Pittsburgh?

My family is from here originally. But we lived in Philadelphia. I lived in Port Richmond for like 20 plus years. You'll always be Philadelphia, but now we have to ask the question. Always. Go Eagles. Go Birds. Do you have a toilet in the middle of your basement? I do not. But you know what we're talking about? I do. Thank you, Kelly. It's great to talk to you. We appreciate you checking in on this little Zoom project that we're doing this morning. Thank you.

Thanks, guys. Have a great day. You too. We'll see you later. All right, there's another one. If you're just tuning in, trying to figure out what the hell is going on, our phones do not work. Inoperable completely. You can't call us. By the way, did you see, there was a picture of Rodney here at like 1.30 in the morning sitting on the floor with like a wall open and wires. Wow, jeez.

They're trying. It's not like it's already a busy week for Rodney either. Yeah. So we can't use the phones. Therefore, if you text the word Zoom to 39333, we'll send you a link. You can click on that and you can go into essentially our Zoom waiting room. And then Marissa is randomly bringing people up to talk to us and we're playing. Who are you and what are you doing? We have Bill Nolan who is checking in now. Hey, Bill, how you doing?

Good morning, bitches. Good morning, bitch. I see a couple of travelers behind you there. Who's in the car with you? I have my son. That is my son, Liam, and my son, Colin, and I have the dog with me. What's your dog's name? Kira. Kira, Black Lab. Nice. I'm looking at your jacket. It says it's got your name on it. What do you do that you need that jacket?

I work for a chemical storage facility and I am a first responder for our terminal. Okay, yeah, because it says fire at least on one of the patch on your, so you're also a firefighter technically? Yeah, so we are certified firefighters. Okay, all right. And you're taking the kids to school or are you abandoning them? Yes, I am. I'm dropping them off at Mass Charter right now. What grade are they in?

Fifth and third. Fifth and third grade. Okay, nice. You got your hands full. Any other kids or is it just two for now? That and the dog. We're good for that. His name is Midnight. His name is Midnight. Guinea pig named Midnight. A guinea pig name. Oh, okay. The dog's name is Midnight. So is the President's Steve show regular listening as you're taking these kids to school? Every day. Really? Do you ever have to hit the buy button? Yes.

I'm sorry, what was that? Give after the volume if we're talking about something that may not be school appropriate. Oh, listen, I hear it at home, so why not hear it from you guys too? Hey, let's ask them, what's your favorite part of the show, guys? What do you like? Like... Pay attention? Like you guys. I mean, kind of all of it's my favorite. Well, tell them what you liked about BardBot. Oh, I liked that...

Like, at first I thought that BirdBot was like an actual robot. But then I figured out that people like traveled with it to New Orleans. Right, right. And previously Minnesota. You found out it was basically a garbage pail. Yeah, sort of. Yeah. Do you guys like the bizarre files or the shart outs and stuff like that?

Oh, we love all of it. All right. Well, here, let me see what you can do here. All right. There you go. That's for you, fellas. As you're heading into it. Thank you guys so much. No problem. All right. Well, we appreciate you checking in, Bill. And thanks for listening and turning a new generation of listeners on to the Preston and Steve show.

Thank you guys so much. Love you guys. Be good at school, boys. We'll see you later. All right. Nice. Okay. Fine young men in the back. See, I like how the dog gets the actual passenger seat. Oh, and by the way, when you're done with the call, close the Zoom out. Thank you, Bill. If you don't mind, close it out. And that way we can go to another call. So we have to wait.

Our longshoreman that called in earlier, he left it on for a long time. Oh, really? Yeah. That's cool. If you close out the Zoom when we're done talking to you, we can then move on to the next caller. So, Bill, hang up. He's trying. A lot of these people are driving. He's driving. Yeah, I know. I need to... One second, guys. That's all good, buddy. No, we appreciate it. So, yes, if you are driving, if you're moving, just don't look at the screen while you're doing it. Or pull over. Pull over would be even better. Thank you, Steve, definitely.

So we're taking random Zooms and we're just finding out who's listening and what you're doing because why not? Well, you know, it's funny. When we are on vacation, I describe this to people and I'll drive around sometimes in the morning during rush hour or, you know, if I'm running errands or whatever. And I'm like, this is the way...

Because everyone who's listening is part of our family, and this is the way that they're experiencing it. But being able to reach out this way and interact with people on their morning ritual, it's kind of cool. Somebody said, hey, guys, awesome idea would be to create a segment called Zoomers versus Tubers, meaning YouTubers. Or it says YouTubers, but I like Tubers. Zoomers versus Tubers. Make it happen. I don't know what we would do. Yeah, don't look at us. Fight to the death movie? Yeah, that's what I was thinking. I like that. All right, our next Zoomer is...

Trucker Matt. Hey, Matt. How you doing, bud? Good morning, Preston. What's going on, bud? Yeah, man. Just checking in with you. What kind of truck you in right now? We're driving a T-800 Kenworth Lowboy. I'm heading to Del Mar, Delaware, pick up a John Deere piece of equipment and haul it out to the shore of Maryland.

Is this an 18-wheeler that you're in? Yes, sir. You got a big... 22. I got a third axle on the back. Okay. You got a big horn on that thing? Oh, yeah. Can we hear that? Sure. Yeah, go for it.

It overpowered. Do they still pull the handle or the cord? Do you pull a cord when you do that? We couldn't see. Yeah, he's got it. He's got it up in the middle where your rearview mirror would be. That's cool. How long have you been driving trucks, man? I've been doing this about seven years now. And did you... Is this...

I assume you have to get a CDL to drive this type of vehicle? Yeah, I've worked with a small towing company and kind of worked my way up. I worked for Jesco, the John Deere dealer up in Jersey and Delaware and like in Maryland, like towards Baltimore and out that way.

I can only see one word on your hat that says Dewey. I can't read what it says underneath it. Dewey, Delaware. One of my many Dewey beer hats, yeah. I thought so. Yeah, I bumped into Marissa years ago down in Dewey and, uh,

We kind of like, I fell in love with Dewey at that time. And it's like, I got a picture with her and my wife at the house. Just the three of us. Isn't Dewey a great town? I love Dewey. So I haven't been in a long time, but it's so much fun to visit. I'm really, and it's really cool that you're supporting Marissa and her husband. Oh yeah. It's, it's, it's so awesome. We, we were doing, we're going to be flying a Dewey flag at the tailgate. We're coming up tonight.

It's a classic. It's going to be a blast. Have you been to the event before, Matt? We've been coming since high school. We've been coming pretty much every year except for when we got shut down for COVID. Have you ever tried building a sled for the event or do you just come out to watch? I did build a course like sled.com.

Way back. That was, I don't know, 15 years ago, probably. And then we did the fastest sled for a couple of years. I'm sitting this one out. I got a bummed left arm. So I'm like, we're going to sit this one out. But my buddy Tommy, he won two years ago.

You guys always hear him on the mountain doing the old ca-caw. He's awesome, man, and he's going to be racing again this year. So I'll be out there supporting him and cheering him on.

That's awesome, man. With the trucks you have access to, you can certainly transport something large to the Classic if you were so inclined. I have to ask you, you said you were at the mall, so you were at the Blizzard Cardboard Classic. It took us eight, nine hours to get back to Delaware. Oh.

I was wondering. Steve, you know what that's like. It took me eight hours to get back to Mount Airy, which is much closer. That was insane. That was crazy. Was that COVID year? Was that 2020? No, it was 2018. The twins are coming up. It was just days before all that, right? No, no, no. It was 2018. The Carmel Classic itself was before COVID, just a couple of days before. Yeah.

Yeah, we ended up driving over down the power lines to get home. Oh, my God. Yep. Wow. Hey, you guys, are you going out to dinner tonight or anything? Did you rent a house? What are you doing? We're at the hotel right there at the base of the mountain. Awesome. We'll be up there about 7, 38 o'clock. We're not sure what we're going to get into yet. So if you have any suggestions, let us know. All right. We'll see you tomorrow morning, Matt. Thanks for checking in, brother.

Oh, man. Thanks for having us. The classic is a blast. It is. Love it. We love it. All right. We'll see you there, bud. Thank you. All right. There's another Zoomer. Close out your Zoom, by the way. So, yeah, check in if you want to try this. We got time for maybe one or two more. Yeah. Just text the word Zoom to 39333 and you'll go into kind of a waiting room. And then Marissa is just randomly pulling people up to talk because we're trying this out. We've never done callbacks.

calls from people via zoom that aren't planned are you liking this guest yeah this is fun um and especially the random nature of this because we have no idea what we're diving into okay we got another one up uh it is aaron smith good morning aaron are uh your your audio is not working i see your lips moving and i can i can see there we go are you at the studium

I am at the Stoogeum. I work here. Now, question, because we've talked about the Stoogearium and the Stoogeum. I think there's like a couple of different places, because I remember there was one kind of down near Brandywine. Another Stooge Museum? I thought, where are you located?

So we are an ambler. We are the only Three Stooges museum in the country. Okay, then I'm way off. Okay, excellent. I was going to come there about two weeks ago with some friends of mine, and my friend got sick, and we couldn't make it. She's a big Three Stooges fan, and we had these plans, and we had to cancel it. So I'm going to be coming there very soon, Erin, within the next couple weeks, hopefully. You guys are open only certain days of the week, right? Yeah.

Yes, so we're only open by appointment only on certain days of the week throughout the month. Okay, so you have to make your appointment, but you are, in fact, you said the only Three Stooges Museum in the country? Yes, and we have the world's largest collection. The only other museum that exists is in Argentina. Argentina? Okay. All right. That's pretty wild. And by the way, I think I mispronounced it. I said Stoogium. Is it the Stoogium Museum?

It's Stooge-ium. So it's a portmanteau of Stooge and museum. Oh, my God. Okay, what is, if you could narrow it down to one item, what is the most prized possession of the Stooge-ium that you guys have? It's really hard to decide because everybody here on staff has their own personal favorite. But I know the one thing that the boss always says is, steps, army discharge. Oh.

From World War I, and he was discharged for nocturnal enuresis, which is bedwetting. Oh!

So Shemp was discharged from the Army for bedwetting? He was. Wow. He was a very phobic personality, so he was scared of everything. I learned more about Shemp just now than I think I ever knew about that guy. And it makes him even more special. You're actually standing under a big picture of Curly. You have Larry Fine next to you and then Moe. And so besides that, how many pieces are in the Stoogium?

So our museum is three floors. We have over 10,000 square feet of exhibit space and well over 10,000 items on display. What's on display is the best and brightest, but it's only about 10% of our total collection.

So the room I'm in right now that you can see is our art gallery. And this mural behind me was actually done by David McShane, who did the mural Third and South at one of John's Bar. Oh, wow. Yeah. Yes. I love that of Larry, right? Yes. That's awesome. So are you, I have to ask this, and for political reasons, I assume you're going to give one particular answer. Were you a Three Stooges fan prior to getting this job?

I will admit that I was not. All I knew before I got the job was that the one named Curly was not the one with curly hair. But my background is in museums, libraries, and archives. So that's why I got the job. And Erin, how long have you been with the Studium?

I have been here, this is going to be my 14th year. Oh my goodness! I'm a massive Three Stooges fan. I just watched a collection of their use of dummies in their films for pretending Mo is getting thrown off a building or whatever. And nobody did it better. So do you see mostly a particular age group or do younger people cycle through getting turned on to the Three Stooges? We really see all ages. You know, the

Right.

Cool. Because they institute that love of the Stooges and their grandkids. What is the name of the song that is this Three Stooges theme? They used to. It was Three Blind Mice and then Listen to the Mockingbird. Okay. I don't know about the Listen to the Mockingbird. I was thinking of the ending theme. Well, okay. This is Three Blind Mice. But I always liked that. Okay.

That's Listen to the Mockingbird. That's Listen to the Mockingbird. I never knew the title of that. Wow. So, question, Erin, if people want to set up an appointment, they want to come by and check out the museum, does it cost anything? So, it's $10 for adults, $8 for students, seniors, and military, and then children 12 and under are free. And you can find our opening schedule and sign up for an appointment through our website, StuGM.com.

And also on our Facebook page. Preston, it would be worth enlisting just to get the discount. Yes. Yeah, definitely. I will be there. I'm going to come very, very soon, Erin. I'm intrigued by this. We'll keep an eye out for you. All right. Thank you for Zooming with us this morning. We appreciate it. Thank you. Nice. Well, that was great.

cool. I didn't realize it was the only one in the country. No, I thought there were two in this area. I'm thinking of a completely different museum then. You know what I'm thinking of? I think there's a train museum. You know, train and Three Stooges. I mean, come on. Basically the same thing. Quick question. So there is one on South Street that is Larry Fine specific? It's not a museum. That was John's. It was a restaurant, I believe. And Steve, so they had that big

mural of Larry Fine because he's from Philadelphia. Okay. And so that's why they put his picture up because he's a Philly native. There was a great story and I remember asking

Oh my God. Uh, from full house passed away. One of our friends, Bob Saget. When he was a kid, he would go visit Larry Fine in the nursing home where he lived. And he had some great stories of, of interacting with Larry Fine. And he was apparently a sweet and still a funny, goofy old man and would play around his stuff. But, uh, I love the cities. You know what? Chimp was my favorite. Uh,

Oh, really? Yeah. You're a Shemp fan. I was a Shemp fan for whatever reason. I respect Curly's genius, but for some reason, there's something about Shemp that I love. Shemp was pot-marked, had that wisp of hair that always fell down in his face. I loved that. And when he ate something that was horrible, the face. I had no idea he was in the Army. All right. He was a general. We have time for one more question.

mystery zoom and that's what we're doing this morning because our phone lines don't work can I get the transition again Casey if you don't mind let's go to our next mystery zoom and we have Yogi who is joining us this morning hey Yogi hey what's up fellas yo bud how you doing man not too bad I'm just working up at U-Haul putting trucks away alright U-Haul where's your location that you work

I'm all the way up in Colmar. And actually, before I did this, I was responsible for selling Steve Power Tools. Oh, at True Value? Yep. Yeah, dude. So that's why I got him on my path. How's it going up there? That's not bad. Yeah. Place is still rocking, rolling. Yeah. All right. So U-Haul, what specifically is your job, Yogi?

I take care of everything you see on the parking lot. I'm basically cleaning everything, making sure it's all pretty for the next person. I used to use U-Haul quite frequently because we had an off-site storage facility. So for all the holidays, I would have to rent a U-Haul truck to go get everything out of storage, to bring it back to my house, and always had a good experience with them. What's the largest vehicle you guys rent? How big?

26 feet. 26 footer. That's a good size. And they trust grandma driving it. Do they still have governors on U-Haul vehicles? Oh, yeah. Yeah, for the most part. You can't go over 55, but if you're going downhill fast enough. Yeah. There are a few places, guys, I remember driving them out west, and there were a few places out west where the speed limit was 65 or even 70, and you couldn't even get up to the speed limit.

No, mostly because you're slowly loading. You can't go more than four to five anyway. Wow. Years ago, I don't know if this is currently the case, but my friend Scott was very handy with engines, and he disconnected the governor on a rent. It might have been a U-Haul, and we were flying. Well, that's a good question, Yogi. If someone knows their way around the engine, could they get in there and tinker with it a little bit? I know you wouldn't encourage it. We would.

We wouldn't know until we go in to drive it. When you got in to drive it, yeah. But is it something people do periodically? No, most of the time they just leave their trash in there. Yeah, I don't get that. All right, all right. Clean it the hell out. Weirdest thing you've come across left in the cab of a truck?

Probably some ammunition. Ammunition? Damn. Behind the seat, fell out of their bugan. Okay. All right. Nice, man. So right now, is this a difficult time of year when it's as cold as it was a couple of weeks ago for you?

No, it's getting ready to slow up pretty good. Okay. All right. Well, listen, we appreciate you checking in, Yogi. Steve misses you. I do, man. I'm going to say hi to the radio people. Oh, who are we saying hi to? Hey, I got a customer in here. Hey! How are you, man? How are you guys doing? Good, man. How are you? All right, man. Well, I'm going to let you guys

Let's go then. All right, Yoki, get back to work. We'll see you later, man. All right. Well, there you go. Our mystery Zooms this morning. Our phones don't work. Our Zoom does. That's fun. So why not? We were just checking in with people randomly. Marissa had the idea. It's wonderful. Thank you so much. That was fun. The beginning of a reoccurring, I have to say. I think it might have to be a regular segment or at least from time to time that we'll get to that. And you know what? Listen, everybody's got an interesting story.

If you spend some time with any random person, you're eventually going to hear some pretty interesting things about their life and what they do and so on. It's the truth. Think about it. Think about all your years and all the different places you worked at and all the dramas and patent places and kind of all the stuff that goes on. That's the crux to reality TV. Yep. So thanks for checking in, guys. We appreciate that. We will take a break. We'll come back. We'll do a regular segment called The Bizarre File when we return. So stay with us.

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The canteen caters to the funeral home's customers, but as word began to spread about its noodles, hordes of diners, some posing as mourners, began showing up to try the food. Hey, guys, where are you getting this endless supply of meat? Erlong has since announced that it will always, I'm sorry, that it will allow some members of the public to eat at its premises as long as they do not disturb the genuine mourners.

The funeral home offers various types of noodle dishes during breakfast and dinner hours. The most popular type is reportedly the noodles topped with minced pork and peanuts. Sounds pretty goddamn good. I've never... The closest I've been to like a funeral home is maybe an assortment of fruit or something like that. Never like this. One worker said that they only served customers who come to the funeral home to handle matters, but other people have been sneaking in to get a bowl of noodles.

adding that sometimes queues at Erlang are so long that diners sometimes have to wait a couple of hours to get their food. So you're saying that people are dying to get in? Yes, he said that there have been people pretending to be relatives of the deceased. It's hard to tell them apart when it gets crowded and it's hard to manage. To meet the demand, the funeral home has since decided to offer 50 bowls of noodles...

to members of the public every day for free. For free? As long as they do not affect people mourning. So I guess it's easy to judge by the people who are showing up wearing bibs. While the noodle dish was already popular among locals, the craze appears to have ramped up earlier this month when a social media user posted about the dish while visiting a friend. Do you think you could work up an appetite at a funeral home? No, definitely not.

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Intense thirst and in children, persisting crying were also reported. When I have bat, I always have it well done. I like the wings extra crispy. Right. About half of the patients have tested positive for malaria. It's not clear what is behind the outbreak with patients testing negative for hemorrhagic fevers like Ebola and Marburg virus.

But some have tested positive for malaria, similar to a separate outbreak in the country reported last year. Many patients are also reported to be suffering from malnutrition. Wow. It's not clear on how the disease is spreading. Some say previous cases have spread via contact from fluids in hemorrhaging illnesses. So that's messed up.

So, I don't always report on truck spills and fires because there's so many of them that come up, but I thought this one was interesting, so I'll pass this along. No one was injured, but many potatoes were lost when a tractor trailer hauling a load of curly fries caught on fire on a main highway. Nyak, nyak.

The New York Fire Department responded alongside Kittery Fire crews with more than 30 calls came in a 911 reported a truck on fire on Southbound 95. The fire department said it was quickly determined the cargo was frozen curly french fries and not a hazardous material. I'm not a big curly fry guy. No? I love them. You love them? Yeah. I don't necessarily prefer them, but when I have them, I like them. The firefighters used about

6,000 gallons of water to extinguish the flames. The tractor trailer and its spud cargo were, quote, a total loss. There were no injuries resulting from the fire. It probably smelled amazing. I'm thinking so, right?

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And that is all we have time for this morning in the Bizarre File. I got a bunch of other really good ones. We'll get to those a little bit later on this morning. We're going to take a break. We're going to have Derek Gaines stopping in the 9 o'clock hour, performing at Helium Comedy Club. It is one show tonight. And he's going to be Zooming us. Okay, so we'll be back in a moment. Stay with us. Our Doc.

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Thanks, Kath. Real quick, a couple of shout-outs if you guys don't mind. No problem. Got this. Says, hey, Presbo, love to get a shout-out from my husband, Keith. Between the two of us, we've been listening since at least 2003. I moved home from college, and he moved to Philadelphia after college. Keith grew up in Scranton, where he has skied at Montage Mountain since he was in grade school. His dad was part of the electrician team that wired the mountain when it was built.

And we now have two daughters, Charlotte and Caroline, who have also become listeners since birth. They spend every weekend of the winter going to Montage Mountain as members of the ski team.

When our worlds collided and the cardboard classic moved to montage, we were so excited. Jack Frost's loss was definitely our gain. And we've been attending with the girls ever since. And this is a big year that Keith is entering a fastest sled. As podcasters, we'll be listening together on the ride to Scranton after work on Thursday. So it'd be so amazing if you could give Keith a big, juicy, big, lucky shout out for his first cardboard classic sled experience.

And a little side short for Charlotte and Caroline sometime on Thursday during the show. Can't wait for the mayhem. And that is Suzanne Kearney from Lansdale. So here's a short for Keith and for Charlotte and Caroline. Thank you, guys. We will see you there tomorrow. I got this one as well. It's from Billy Richardson. Oh. And he is from Wofat.

And he said, I wanted to share a big shout out to my great friend, Justin, the bass drummer for Woe Fat. Justin thought that he had a severe cold, possibly pneumonia. Friends talked him into going to the ER and it ended up being a pulmonary embolism. Justin is an amazing husband, father, musician. His friends from the South Philadelphia string band says, I was the drummer. I was the bass drummer for the string band that escorted you through the Big Dill, by the way. The Big Dill. Yes. The event that I was at.

And Brian Boru Pipes and Drums, good friend with Bam Bam and Brent. And we are standing alongside him in support and wishing him a speedy recovery. So thank you, Billy Richardson. Oh, Billy. Good luck to you, Justin. And then one last thing. This is from Jim Koch, I believe is how you say his name. And he sends me, you know...

says how much he loves the show and what he loves about the show and then he goes into this and says I've been a little down lately as I'm 53 and I've just been diagnosed with a high risk prostate cancer and I've completed all my testing and almost finished with my doctor consultation so I'll be choosing my course of treatment shortly and I could use a big shout out please

More importantly, this is a public service announcement to all of your older male listeners to please, please have regular visits with their doctors and have their PSA numbers checked as part of their routine blood work. One in eight men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime. Average risk males should be tested annually at 50, high risk males at 45.

PC is very treatable. Prostate cancer is very treatable. Thank you to the entire team for all that you guys do every day behind the scenes and on the air to put on an excellent show. So here's a big shout out to Jim.

And, yeah, you would echo those sentiments. I would absolutely echo those sentiments. PSA test is a simple blood test, and it can save your life. Absolutely. All right, speaking of medical stuff, Just Sayin' Institute. Yes! Let's go to the campus, please. The Just Sayin' Institute, home of the new Kathy Romano This Little Piggy Podiatry Center. Ooh! And we'll see Kathy's foot video tomorrow. It's debuting same day as Cardboard Classic. All right, so I'm going to start with this story. Scientists don't know...

Exactly how wolves were domesticated into early dogs. But it's possible that they domesticated themselves by choosing to coexist with humans so that, a new study finds, they could be fed consistently. Uh-oh.

I've heard this. Yeah, there's a Netflix special about dogs. It's fantastic. And they say primitive men, basically, that's how they did it. They worked their way into their good graces to get fed. So then they likely selected mates that would do the same and therefore cause a breed to essentially...

So while the theory is nothing new, the research shows that it's statistically possible for the wolves to have driven their own domestication into dogs through natural selection. Archaeological and genetic evidence suggests that dogs are descended from gray wolves.

and became domesticated over two historical periods, between about 30,000 and 15,000 years ago, when wild wolves were domesticated into early dogs. And then from around 15,000 years ago to the modern era, when these dogs became differentiated into breeds. So the show Wolf, Baltar, is domesticated. Our show Wolf, yes, yes.

The periods of domestication were driven by different evolutionary forces. The second domestication period is thought to have been mostly driven by artificial selection. Humans chose more tame wolves to accompany them for hunting and companionship and purposely bred the least wild animals together, which ultimately produced the tame species we know today as the domestic dogs.

but the selective forces that drove the first domestication period are a little less clear. According to one hypothesis, wolves underwent self-domestication. After prehistoric animals started coming to human settlements to scavenge for food scraps, they grew more accustomed to living near people. And these more tolerant wolves

preferred a steady food supply over inconsistent sources in the wild after their descendants gave rise to the first domestic dog. It makes a lot of sense to me. Yeah, right?

And a similar process is believed to have occurred with cat domestication. As research found that the ancestors of house cats spent time near farming communities around 10,000 years ago before settling into a mutually beneficial relationship in which they hunted and ate rodents in exchange for food. It's all about the food, isn't it? It's always about the food. My dogs are just...

I love them beyond belief. But there are times when I'm sitting there and I'm like, it's just the food, isn't it? It's the food. You do what I tell you to do because I feed you. Absolutely. That's why. And then your wife is looking at you and saying, it's about the sex. Yeah. It's about the sex. But dogs are amazing. So, but it's an interesting look at their evolution. All right. Here's another study.

Completely different story. Scientists at the University of Exeter have identified an unexpected potential contributor to human health and longevity. And that is hydrogen sulfide gas, which is known for its foul smell. But...

This gas may play a crucial role in supporting cellular function and slowing the effects of aging. So you're saying that a Dutch oven could elongate your life. Steve, do you remember when T.O. used to be in that hyperbaric chamber? Yes, I clearly remember that. If you filled it full of farts, you may live longer.

So, a study funded by the U.S. Army and the United... Get in there, private! The United Mitochondrial... The United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation explored the effects of H2S, which is known as, by targeting specific cellular regions in adult worms. Now...

You may say, what do worms have to do with human beings? But apparently they have connections to our, that translate to humans. Our systems? Okay. Yeah, so published, the study suggests that concentrating the H2S

on mitochondria, which are the energy-producing structures within cells, could potentially promote healthier aging in humans. Interesting. If these findings translate to humans, they could pave the way for novel treatments aimed at preserving cellular function over time. Although worms and humans may seem vastly different, they share key biological mechanisms related to aging. So they could, sometime down the road, figure out how to stretch out human life expectancy. Far your way to youth. The trouble with that, though, is...

What is your brain? Is that going to be able to... Because we deteriorate mentally as well. So I don't really know. A primo fart-treat-up body and your brain is nothing. It doesn't matter. When I was pledging fraternity, we always had a gas mask on us. I think this...

shortest guy in the line had to have the gas mask, but it was there specifically for the fraternity brothers to fart into. Oh, really? My God. They would fart into the canister? Yeah. It had a little hose on it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's great. I wish I could remember because it was like response something. That's great.

You had to respond? There was like a code word, right? Let's just say it was fart, you know? So if a frat brother said fart, you know, the dude had to go put the mask on and got to go. Do you know that's how county judges are selected as well? I didn't know that. I think your fraternity and my fraternity would have gotten along really well. No doubt. We would have had some fun together. When you are on the receiving end of that, is the only...

thing you're holding on to is that someday I'll get to do this to other people? I think so. Okay. Listen, I knew a few people who tapped out of, uh, pledging, uh, you know, a night or two in and it's not for everybody. It's semi-torture. I mean, it's not pain torture, but it's, uh, I mean, the paddling does not tickle. Um,

We also had eggs pelted at us. Listen, I didn't pledge until I was a junior. I knew full well what I was getting myself into. And I remember the last night of pledging, once I got my bid or whatever, they were like, we couldn't believe you actually took any of this seriously. I was like, I wanted to do it all.

at all. I loved it. Were you revered because of your zeal? I don't know. I think, yeah, possibly. Were you allowed to as a freshman at Orsinus? Yeah, but I didn't have the grades. So I could have gotten a quote-unquote underground bid, and I can talk about this because my fraternity doesn't exist anymore. But my brother was not allowing that to happen because my older brother was a junior at the time, and my grades were so piss poor that I wasn't...

legally allowed to pledge. Marissa brought in a gas mask. We actually have one. Oh, yeah. Is there a tube for it? I never had to wear it. Why don't you try this one on? Did you fart into it? I did not fart into it. Look at you farting. You're spitting this. You're spitting this.

You fart in my gas mask. We bought those. Didn't we buy that for the BB, no, the M&M contest we were doing at Kenan's? I think we bought a couple gas masks. What was the M&M contest? You'd have like a tube and I forget what it was. I don't remember either. I don't remember.

A little like Bane. This actually looks like a Darth Vader mask. The gas mask we have is like fully, totally, like, it was old. And you would have been completely airtight except for the hose. Yeah. That one's a little, I think this one's more for play. By the way, so the things that this NH2 or NH2S,

Could potentially help out with, listen to the list of things they have here. Cardio protection could help protect the heart from ischemic injury, anti-inflammatory effects, protection against neurodegenerative disease. Interesting. Maybe that is, you know, I was wondering about the mental aspects of this, but apparently studies suggest that H2S may offer protective effects.

protective effects against neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. So the question would be is how is this treatment administered? How is this... Not yet. They don't know. Is it in fact a Dutch oven sort of situation? They don't know yet. They're doing it on worms right now. Cognitive function... Fart on that worm. Antioxidant properties...

wound healing, anti-cancer potentials. This could all be coming from your ass. It's amazing. Isn't that wild? It is amazing when you stop and think about it. So many doctors and the common thinking now is that your stomach, your excretory system, your gut health is such a major part of your overall health. Yeah, the biomes. They say that there's a lot going on and having a child that has Crohn's disease

We're kind of tapped into a little bit of this and some of the research that's going on. And that is a huge field right now. So don't discount your fart and your poopy work. Your poopy work.

That's poopy work. So, anyhow. Hang on, you got it. Thank you. Oh, son of a bitch. Okay. Don't wait for me. I'm not going to wait for you. Don't wait for me. No, no, no. All right, well, anyhow. They're working on that, and it may help in longevity down the road. All right, I have several scientific studies and discoveries to share with you here at the Just St. Institute. The 20,000-year-old fossilized bones of...

Of Ushikawa Man. Okay, so this is a well-known archaeological find. Yes. Ushikawa Man. Thought to be some of Japan's most ancient human fossils are not what scientists believe they were. Oh. New research finds instead. Are they gravy boats? They are the bones of an ancient bear.

Oh, wow. So we've been confusing the bones of an ancient bear with an early form of man. That is right. The fossils were found in the late 1950s in just southwest of Tokyo, Japan.

But General Suwa, or Gen Suwa is his name, not General, an anthropologist at the University of Tokyo who led the new project, doubts that the Ushikawa fossils were first raised in the late 1980s and had continued since then. His sister, Haksua, had come to the same conclusion. The new research shows behind a doubt that the bones are from an ancient brown bear that

He added that the bones of bears were rarely found in archaeological sites in Japan from this time. And so Japanese scientists, including the paleontologist who found the fossil in the late 1950s, had a limited understanding of what bear bones could look like. Your bear bones. Your bear bones. Those are bear bones, dickhead. Even so, these scientists had made detailed and very accurate descriptions and also collected large numbers of fossilized skeletal remains over several decades.

Sua said Japanese scientists at that time thought a different bone fragment known as Akashi Man was the earliest human fossil from mainland Japan, perhaps more than 780,000 years old. But the fossil was destroyed in an Allied air raid on Tokyo during World War II. So for one, okay, we assume that a prehistoric bear or a bear of this time period...

not prehistoric, would be a large bear, and they were assuming these were human bones. Couldn't they determine? Steve, I don't know. It would maybe depend on what age it was when it died. So I'm not really sure. So it looked close enough to the size of a human being. In the 1980s... I was wearing a shirt that said, hug me, I'm a bear. An anatomical analysis of the 1980s plaster cast...

of the lost Akashi fossil indicated it was probably a fragment of a recent human arm bone that had been washed into a different archaeological layer and then mineralized. So what was the arm bone connected to? The elbow bone.

And they found that the greater attention on the Ushakawa fossil after that, but they were found that it was actually a bare bone. It's amazing when you stop and think about the things that they have uncovered over the course of time. You come across a random...

piece of a bone and you assemble it's all conjecture but a lot of it is pretty amazing sure because then they'll find other bones that reinforce what they originally uh speculated i i couldn't do that i can barely build a model we should have uh that um anthropologist dr locovera on the show again he's so much fun and he's such an interesting dude you discovered like the largest dinosaur in the history of the planet genoticus right uh no

It had a different name. Dreadnoughticus. Maybe you're right. Anyway, they have that active dig in like a Lowe's parking lot. Yes, in New Jersey. I think it's in Haddonfield maybe or Sewell, New Jersey. And I would really like to go try it sometime. I mean, it's like an ongoing active dig and it's right behind a Lowe's.

Yeah, it's fascinating stuff. Yeah. When they come across something and then excavating it and all of that. Dude. Then analysis and assembly, and it's incredible. If I ran a hardware store like Lowe's, I would absolutely bury a whole bunch of bones behind it. Because your cell shovels for Christ's sake. Right? It's true. Oh, look what I discovered. So this one was not legit, unfortunately. All right, let's move on. And I do want to point out that sometimes...

A big part of science is dispelling things. And finding out that what we thought was the case is not indeed the case. And then you start a new line of questioning and all that. You're exactly right. Science is always about asking questions. Yep. Steve, you were right. Sorry to impress him, but it was the Dreadnoughtus. Dreadnoughticus? The one he discovered, yeah. Dreadnoughtus. Dreadnoughtus, yeah. All right. So there are certain foods that if you smell them, they will help you wake up in the morning.

Dr. Supriya Rao explains that certain scents can stimulate the brain and enhance alertness. And some of them even help us focus and boost our energy. Is coffee one? Coffee is one of them. A recent study from Reviva Coffee links five scents to increased energy levels. Smelling these things in the morning could help kickstart your day. So the first one on the list is lemongrass. What?

This scent stimulates both dopamine and serotonin, which can improve your mood as well. Don't talk to me until I've had my lemongrass. As focus and alertness. And according to another recent study, just inhaling lemongrass oil improved reaction times. Lemongrass can also decrease brain fog and promote mental clarity. So we are talking about, I wondered if this was chicken before the egg sort of thing where we've just grown accustomed to associating...

certain smells with morning, but lemongrass would not be something. No. It's clearly that this is, aromatically speaking, this just happens to wake us up. Yeah, the only one on this list that you would associate with regularly in the morning is coffee beans. So even if you don't drink it, just smelling roasted coffee beans can make your brain more alert without ever taking a sip. Functional nutrition specialist Jennifer Nicole Bianchi said,

explains the simple act of inhaling a scent of coffee activates the central nervous system and increases alertness by triggering dopamine pathways, our feel-good neurotransmitters in the brain. What about a fart, owing to our last topic?

Not in this study, but I have to believe. A good... Yes. A good sulfur egg salad fart. Your fart. Yes. It would be disgusting from someone else, but if you Dutch oven yourself in the morning... Although, if you want to get up and run out of the room and really get moving, maybe one of Casey's will get you moving, so...

Also, peppermint is another scent. Peppermint? Menthol, the active ingredient in peppermint, activates parts of the brain that improves attention span, alertness, and learning capacity. That's one of the smells that I can tolerate. A lot of floral scents and perfumes and colognes and all of that give me a headache, a massive headache. But anything peppermint,

I can usually tolerate. I was with Kathy the other day and somebody we were standing near, um, was, had taken a shower in Cologne earlier that morning. And I just felt so terrible for it. Cause it gets to her pretty bad. Right. And, uh, it was not actually Craig, but Craig was here the other day and, uh, he had also taken a shower in Cologne. Yeah. It was somebody else. But, um, yeah, it, it,

I mean, it will. And you know what? This is really bizarre. But when I first started in, like out of college, I first started in TV over at NBC 10. I worked with somebody who the same thing happened to, right? And I'm like, we used to get so annoyed. We're like, shut up. Like, it can't be that bad that somebody walks in with perfume and it ruined your whole day. Right.

that's literally what happens to me. Like, it will give me a headache that will last throughout the day. That's why. Last Flyers game I went to, there was a guy sitting a row in front of me and like two seats over and he had bathes in cologne. And Kathy, it made me feel. Yeah. It made me feel. Like, it wasn't just like, oh, that's too much. It's like, I don't feel good now. What would you say, what is worse? Ripe body odor or cologne?

A shower of cologne. So the body odor, you can walk away from it. It goes away. The scent doesn't follow you. With cologne, it almost feels like it gets into my nasal passages and stays there. Does my cologne bother you?

No, I don't smell it. Because I don't bathe myself. No, I don't even pick up on it. I sit right next to you. So you've got to be nice and tight. Can I smell you? Yeah, I think me and Steve are the only ones who wear. Yes, I wear cologne.

Casey's hugging Preston. That was so sweet. You're like a prehistoric bear. I prefer my cologne sense to be more unassuming. Muted. Suggestive of the machismo.

We have, Jace just started wearing cologne. Oh, yeah? I let my mom get a cologne for Christmas. What did it go with? What flavor? Case, I don't even know. It's like a blue. Oh, it's probably Versace Eros. I don't know. I don't know what it is. But anyway, there's rules. And the rules are he wants to keep it in his bedroom for whatever reason on his dresser. And I moved it into the bathroom under the sink. And he's like, why do you keep hiding my cologne? I'm like, okay, fine. You can keep it.

in the bedroom but he can't spray it in there because there's bedding there's curtains there's carpet right everything that it will live in so he has to go into his bathroom and he's not the bathroom has a separate uh room for the the toilet and the shower and a door and then you know like when you walk into the bathroom you walk into uh where the sinks are and so could you imagine he's he's up in age where he gets a woman back to his

Excuse me. My mommy says I got to go spray this in the bathroom. See, wait. So he can't go in where the sinks are. He has to go into where the shower and the toilet. Wow, man. It's farther into the bathroom and he has to spray there. And that's also where the fan is. So here's the fan on. And I still smell it in the house. I still smell it. So...

Dennis doesn't wear cologne, does he? No, he doesn't wear cologne. It's the... The teen boy. I remember when I first got my... When I first started wearing cologne, it was like, alright, lady. Yeah, totally. That was what it was all about. That's what it was about. A little Jovan Musk for you, baby. Bought this at the pharmacy. I'm just hoping it fades a little. By the way, Craig Legans posted on our YouTube page, I did not...

Take a shower and clone Nick. I just naturally smell good. It actually smells like your car noir. I didn't call him out. Preston did. I did. All right. So two other quick things. A scent that will give you a little bit more energy in the morning. Orange. The scent of the citrus is known to instantly boost our mood and improve attention. So orange juice in the morning, but it's just by happenstance is what you're saying. That smell gets us going. Yeah.

Yeah, and there are also orange sprays that you can use. Yes, I'm not a big fan. I love them. Like that bathroom, super duper intense orange spray. I love that stuff.

And then, last but not least, is chocolate. The scent of chocolate simulates the reward center in the brain, which causes the release of dopamine, giving us a big boost of happiness. And the researchers say that the smell of chocolate can even improve cognitive function as well. Interesting. Casey brought some of that orange stuff. I'm not going to spray it because I don't want Kathy to...

Would you vomit if he did? Yeah, but that'll live in the air. That'll drift over here. Yeah, I love that smell. I'm just sniffing them. I was thinking about this conversation. How did you survive the durian fruit segment and the stroman? It made me sick. I was like angry for the rest of the day because we had the doors open. We had the

We had an industrial air skimmer here. It was awful. Wait, what were the two things? Dorian fruit and... And Sir Strumming. Sir Strumming. The Viking... The Dorian lingered, actually. I was going to say, I think it was the... Yeah, I thought it was the Dorian that really got to me. Lingered, lingered. Sir Strumming killed me. Here's the thing. It wasn't just that day. We came in days after that, and it smelled in here.

Yep. And watching the video, which is available on YouTube, obviously, of us. We're all wearing lab coats, hard hats, and goggles. You're wearing Dr. Mike's lab coat. It says Michael Sirigliano on it. That's the best. All right, we got one more study to share before we wrap it up. Just saying it's due.

I'm going to go with this one. A new study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology suggests that the longstanding stereotype of women being significantly more talkative than men is largely overstated. By analyzing the daily word use of thousands of participants across a diverse range of contexts,

Researchers found that while women spoke slightly more words per day than men, the difference was relatively small and highly variable across individuals. Slightly by a factor of 10? Nope. A study published in 2007 which examined data from 396 participants who wore a voice recorder challenged this notion, finding that men and women spoke roughly the same number of words per day. If you were to guess how many words per day the average human speaks,

speaks, what ballpark would you put it in? And this is a weird thing to consider. That is a good question. Don't even worry about trying to get it right. But if you were to just guess about how many words each of us say a day. Like us? Anybody. Just people. Just an average.

Anybody want to guess? 10,000. Yeah, I was going to say 10,000. 14,000. Kath? 12. 16,000. Damn. While the 2007 study attracted significant attention, critics argued the sample was too small, lacked diversity. Additionally, new research since then has suggested that talkativeness might vary by age and social context. Giving these concerns and the persistence of the stereotype in public discourse, research agencies

aimed to conduct a large-scale replication to provide a more robust and generalizable estimate of gender differences in daily word use, blah, blah, blah. Blah, blah, blah. So to improve upon the past research, the study used data from 22 different samples collected over 14 years. So it was a long one. It was a bunch of countries. United States, Switzerland, Serbia, and Australia. And the data set included a total of 2,197 individuals. So it was more...

Wide ranging. And the study also range in age from 10 to 94 years old. So at the level of descriptive statistics, the study found that women tend to talk about sex.

13,349 words per day compared to 11,950 for men. But the difference is pretty small and varies a lot from person to person. Those are like 2,000 of the most excruciating words ever. So 16,000 was the original old study. The more current one is saying that women are...

are about 11,950. I'm sorry, 13,349 in men are 11,950. Preston, you talk for a living. Do you think you use more words in a day than your wife does? Because she's a talkative person. She's a talkative person too. She will get on the phone and talk for a long time. That is a good question. I don't know, when her friend was in town visiting recently and she came by the show and watched this. And later on the day, she's like, you talk

a lot. Who said that? Beatrice, the gal from press. Oh, the friend. Yeah, she's like, you talk a lot. I'm like, well, yeah, it's what I do. But when I'm not, I don't talk a whole time. I wonder how this would break down to countries and to cultures and which countries and cultures tend to talk more, communicate more. Yeah. Some people spoke fewer than in the post. They said some people...

spoke fewer than 100 words a day. Holy hell. While others talked over 120,000 words a day. Are these people who talk less than 100 words a day also working on their manifesto? Yeah, I don't know. I wish I knew where I was in that lineup. Where you fall. Can't you talk a lot at home?

Yeah, like on the phone. I actually spoke to Rochelle yesterday. How long did that conversation go? I think it wasn't terrible. It just wrapped up. No, no, no. It wasn't terrible. Maybe like, I don't know, 30 minutes or something like that. You said that's not terrible? Talking on the phone for 30 minutes? For Rochelle? That sounds like a nightmare to me.

Dude, I was the same way. I was actually, I was talking to my therapist the other day and I was saying that I don't last long on the phone. And when there's people, even people that want to catch up or family members, I'm like, my conversation's done 10 minutes at the most. I'm just, I don't like sitting there in that position.

phone exchange. Yeah, just don't do it. So there's only specific people that I can last on the phone with very long. Rockstar Rob.

One is someone that's going to talk and, you know, like Rochelle. But I have another friend that, I mean, we could be on the phone sometimes for like an hour. And it doesn't happen that often, but it happens often enough. I had three testicles. I'll look when we're finished the conversation to see how long. And like sometimes she'll say, it's my best friend. She'll say to me, she'll go, oh, where, you have to hang up now? And I'm like,

we've been on the phone for 47 minutes. Like I have to get some things done, but, but it's when I talk to her, it's like, I'm watching a show. Like it's so entertaining. The things that we talk about and the stories that she has to tell that like, I'm like, all right, well let me, if I have nothing to do, I'm like, let me call her and see what's going on. So my, uh, my oldest friend, Mike, uh,

he will call me from time to time just to talk on the phone and it's always at like nine o'clock at night and I'm like why are you but I know it's happening he's he's taking his dog for a walk and he's just kind of you know killing kill time with one with one stone and like sometimes I you know I like I won't answer and I'll just text him and I'll just a bit I'll say like I'm

I'm sorry I've used all my words for the day. And we really do experience that post-show. There is a period of time where we just kind of break off and go do our quiet time. We're done talking. It's enough. Done saying words. So that's a peek into how much people speak each day. Hey, just another side note of differences between men and women. Penis and vagina? Yes. Men have boys that have penises, girls that have vaginas. No, um...

The way you get into your vehicle, men and women get into their vehicles differently. I've never noticed this. It's pretty wild. And Sam, if you want to pull up a video, I'm sure you can find it on YouTube or whatever. But men get into the vehicle feet first. Okay. So when you're getting in, you usually go like that. And then women, women sit first. They go in like shoulder first.

first. I have to see this. But I'll sit first and then my feet go in last. Wow. I've never picked up on that. Oh, yeah. Interesting. Whore. You whore. I didn't say that. Steve said that. I would say, I'm trying to think now. I think I do legs first.

I definitely go feet first. Feet first. Yeah, foot, my right foot. I put my right foot in and then I shake it all about. Right. Yeah. You do this, Kathy? I sit first and then my feet follow. And swing in. Ah. Like, like a, okay. Wow. I might put, I might do, we just watched a video. I might do like one leg sit at the same time and then the other leg, but like,

No, I definitely sit. Do you ever keep one leg out while you're driving? The thing I notice about me personally and how I exit a car is that when I pull up and I put the car in park, I open the door and I get out. Like immediately. Do you use anything to prop the door open like your foot? Yes, I will do that. But here's the thing. I notice when I have passengers sometimes...

I have to sit there and wait. I'm ready to go. I pulled up and I park and I get out. But other people will sit there and fudge around with their stuff. It's like you got out of the car, you walk around the back, you walk around to the side passenger window. Oh, hon, did you pick now to do your ship in the bottle? Yeah.

And I'm like, are we? Yes. Is here? We're here, right? Are we staying here? Is this where we're staying?

Because we have a house yards away. Yeah. Not very far. And whatever you're doing right now can be done in there. If you pull into your driveway and you're having a phone conversation, do you get off the phone to go into the house? Do you end the conversation? Oh, I use getting home to end the conversation. As the excuse. Yeah, me too. I'm home. Gotta go. Yeah, we're done. Do you have a mobile phone? Then just carry it with you. In fact, Nick, two miles away from my house is pulling into my driveway. Yeah.

I'm almost home. I'm going to have some lunch and go to the bathroom. I will wrap it up outside. I don't want to walk in. I will say though, Chuck just came in. You left your coffee mug here yesterday, by the way. At least with my car,

Like, if somebody's dilly-dallying in the passenger seat, I will say, can you at least open your door? Because I can at least lock the door. That's the thing I'm usually waiting on. Yeah. Yeah, I have to wait for you to open your door so I can hit the lock. Yeah. You can do whatever you want. Just open the door so I can lock it and then be on my way. You should lock them in and teach them a lesson, like in the summertime. No, because then it would teach me a lesson. Like, I'm sure at some point it would come back on me. But I mean, whatever you got to...

put in your purse or get out of your purse or whatever you got to do, you can see well in advance what we are pulling up to where we're going. Do it now. Do you, so do you have the remote to unlock your home door and turn off the security system from your car? I mean, I can, yes, I can do it from my phone. Do you do that or do you just do it at a point of entry? Point of entry. Yeah, so. All right, let me.

Anyhow, glad we got to the bottom of this. Why did we keep this going? Oh, to help women get in cars. Okay, interesting. I would take phone calls on that, but we don't have phones today. They're not working. We did Zoom earlier. All right, well, we are going to take a break. We'll come back in a moment. Derek Gaines, since we do have Zoom, is going to be joining us. He's going to be at Helium Comedy Club. So we'll be back in a moment. 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.

Thank you very much, Kath. Our next guest is on Zoom and here to talk about his gig tonight, Helium Comedy Club. And he returns to his home area of Philadelphia. Please welcome Derek Gaines. Yes.

Good morning, Derek. How you doing, man? How's it going? What's going on? Good morning. And are you back in town yet? I know you live in New York now, right? But you grew up in Philly. Yeah. I'm still in Brooklyn right now, but I'll be in Philly by 7 tonight. Right, right. Nice. You know, it's something coming from New York and I was born in Manhattan. And what I love about this area here is

is that you could say from where we are, say the equivalent of Queens to Manhattan, it's going to be about 14 hours. But you know what I'm saying? But you could, you can go, I'm going to go into the city quickly and you can do that here. It's not going to be pleasant, but you can do it.

You can run to Philly. We used to do it all the time. We used to drive from New York, I mean, Philly to New York, like, every day. We was doing that transition from being open micers and little features in Philly to try to be, you know, dream chasers in New York. So, yeah, it's only two hours and 15 minutes. If you take Route 109, it's free all the way up to the Lincoln Tunnel. That's true. Are you an Outer Bridge Crossing guy, or do you... Um, I, uh...

I'm close off the Williamsburg Bridge. Okay, all right. Yeah, yeah. Regardless, Staten Island, and I know you're friends with Pete Davidson, and in fact, you used to room with him. Staten Island has some wonderful things.

But goddamn, the traffic is horrendous all the time. All the time. The traffic is horrendous everywhere. But I love how I love the Philly traffic because it sounds like it's like nostalgic. Like I used to hear when I used to drive me to school in the morning, like the B Route and Gladwin and all that. And the 295 and the City Line Avenue. Like I'm like, oh, yeah, this is very, very nice. So it's very nice to come back to Philly.

And, you know, try to show off maybe the little skills that I learned here in New York and share with the green city. And Derek, you talked about, you know, chasing after the comedy career and, you know, all the hustling around you had to do. Didn't you go after a music career for a little while as well? Is that part of your bones? I was a jazz. I am a jazz college dropout. Yeah, I dropped out of University of Arts right in South Brown. Oh, wow. Oh, man. What'd you think about when they shut the school down?

I didn't even know about it. Yeah. Yeah.

How about that? But yeah, I remember I was taking my little lessons in the Miriam Theater and I was taking lessons from Marlon Simon. And there was all kinds of people, bass players that I met that are famous now, like Adam Blackstone. He came to the school and Derek Hodge. He actually got me the scholarship. Wow. To to get to the school. I was like I had a partial scholarship to a university arts. Yeah. And then dropped out to do comedy. Very, very funny. You find people to jam with these days?

Not these days. I kind of gave it up. I can hear it really well. Like, I can hear it. Matter of fact, I was listening to some...

I was listening to some jazz and I was doing laundry this morning, killing time for this radio interview because I haven't been to sleep yet. That's why I got the shades on. Oh, man. Yeah, but I can hear a lot of great combinations. I can hear a lot of Afro-Cuban rhythms. I was telling Preston that that was your specialty, sort of more obscure percussion, correct? It was. I was more of a...

I was a Kunga Timbali bells guy. Like auxiliary. Yeah. Like they called it auxiliary. But when I start winning awards in high school, yeah, they didn't stop calling it auxiliary. Like I was my, that's how I think I got to the whole college thing anyway, because I started winning little jazz awards here and there for something that was just supposed to be behind the drummer.

But I gave it some personality. It was very nice. So if you're listening to some jazz and you're doing your laundry, are you banging on the side of the washing machine while you're doing it? Because, I mean, once a drummer, always a drummer. Well, more of a psycho in New York. I kind of just sing the music so people leave me alone. Right in front of the washing machine. Yeah, if you do that...

They leave you alone. Dude's tripping over there, man. They'll leave you alone if you start scatting to yourself like a crazy person. Do you find your music sensibilities are predominantly jazz? Well, I'm a big hip-hop guy. I've been listening to all the hip-hop and the underground hip-hop and all the stuff. Comedy is

kind of the rhythm of language. So it may not be music that you're listening to, but when you tell a solid premise, bridge, punchline joke, it's a beat. It's a rhythm. So that makes people, I guess, laugh or emote or whatever. So yeah.

Music only helped me see how to speak rhythmically, if that makes any sense. It absolutely does. There's a number of musicians or comedians who are musicians as well. And we've talked about this many times. What works, what doesn't work. Becoming sensitive to the pacing and the timing. I actually think for comedy, jazz is a good base for

Yeah, maybe. I mean, I really like seeing how you can wow a crowd and control them and take them on a little journey and know where the punchline is going to hit, know where they're going to laugh at, know where you're going to tag at, know when you're going to call it back. It's all real fun.

yeah kind of stuff so yeah i uh yeah man so maybe the jazz the one year the year and a half that i was in jazz college i dropped out helped me become the guy now i guess it can only help i mean like you know you talk about comedy having a rhythm there are a lot of different things that have a language rhythm i was watching a video of neil degrasse tyson speaking yesterday and he has got

a rhythm. And not only rhythm, he uses dynamics as well. He'll get down low and he'll bring you in this way. And then he'll hit you with it. Boom! You know, I mean, so there's a whole... He does that cool whisper. Science, science, science. Science. Science.

Have you ever thought of science over science? It's like he's a magician. Yeah. He's like one of them black dudes. He's like one of them smarty art black dudes we used to tease because he was always doing experiments in school. But good on Neil deGrasse. Good on

Neil, that boy know about some space. Yeah, he does. Yeah, he does. Hey, Derek, your friends are one of our favorite people, Ture. He stops by a couple times a year, and we love having him here in our studio. Yeah, Ture was the one that kind of pointed the path out. He showed me

The breastplate of a joke. And he said, I can't teach you to be funny, but I can teach you how to write the format in order for you to find if you're funny or not. And that was a beautiful thing. So, yeah, Toure, I consider my sensei. He's like my teacher. Did you come to that? Did you come to that laugh house? I did. Yeah. So, Kevin Hart. I started in 2003.

I started in 03, right when Kev was about to blow up. So I saw the last days of Kev in Philly right before he had Meteor fame. Wow. But he was already having lines around the corner back in 03, 04 with the Paper Soldiers and Soul Plane was all that. So he was like a hood legend already in Philly on South Street. And then he left. But I was doing open mics at 03, 04.

to 09 and then I moved to New York so because basically what happened was I kind of matriculated up really fast I was hosting for two years and then after that I started featuring for two years and then on my fifth year there I headlined the club and then it closed down that May so no I closed down that summer and I had moved to New York so it was like a whole story so you got you got a scholarship to jazz you know school school performing arts how did the parents like the notion of you ditching all that for comedy

My mom was with it immediately. My dad took a minute to come around. And, yeah, he had to see me a few times in L.A. And it wasn't even the first time in L.A. It was the second time in L.A. he saw me. And I did really well. And he said, OK, I did it now. But that was like I was already I was years into the game because my pop, you know, my pop was Air Force. So he's like, you know, he's you know, he's suited and booted, you know, straight laced.

Make your bed in the morning, get up, eat breakfast, go to work. And, you know, to be an artist, to pick the artist route. Like, first of all, he was actually into my jazz career. And then he bought me drums and everything. And then when I dissed the drums and tell jokes, he was pissed off at first. But then he saw the progress. And then I think the funniest part was when I got in a movie. I got like one or two movies or whatever. And then he was on a plane headed home. And then he hit me up. Matter of fact.

It was Tracy Morgan's last OG when that show was out. Yes. He was watching it on the plane and called me from the airplane. He was like, how the hell am I seeing your face on the back of this plane seat right now? So it was like, yeah, Dad, thanks for trusting me later. No, that's cool, though, because a lot of parents might not even give you the inch on that. And from what I understand, his desire was to become an astronaut, right? Yeah.

Yeah, Pop's willing to be an astronaut, and he used to tell me stories about that. And I got jokes about that, too. Yeah, yeah. Him willing to be an astronaut. And, yeah, but he flew Air Force One. You know, now he flew for Japanese Airlines. Now he gasses jets in the sky for, like, the government, so F-15s and all that. Yeah, my mom's, like, an audio engineer, so I had very, like— Wow. So which presidents did your dad fly for? Bush and Clinton. Wow. No kidding. Yeah.

Yeah, all through the 90s, he was a flight engineer. I've been on that plane plenty of times. I was on Air Force One a few times. And then, you know, what made it cool was back when I was like young. Yeah. I remember like my class would take school trips to D.C.,

And my dad would meet me at the last spot and say, we was like, maybe at one of the museums. And he'd pull up with the presidential M&Ms, like in the presidential box with the Bill Clinton signet on it. And we'd pass them out to the kids. They looked at me like I was Jesus Christ. Dude, that is cool. Oh, he's the one. Yeah. He's the one. That's super cool. Yeah. It was a cool comeuppance. Yeah. Wow.

Wow. I have to run this by you because I thought this was pretty wild. And we were talking about jobs and nightmare jobs and job titles and so on and so forth. So while you're working comedy, you were cleaning rest stops on the Garden State Parkway in Jersey. And in Jersey. What the hell was that like? Yeah. It was rough, man. I guess...

It was a means to an end because when I moved out, when I moved from South Jersey and tried to pursue comedy, I was living in North Jersey. I was living in Jersey City. But I needed a job to pay the rent because it was so expensive. So I got a hookup. I got a lookout and I got the pastor of my church got me a gig on a turnpike. Right.

And I never forget working on Turnpike, Salton and all this. And then they tried to put me on night shift. And I remember I transferred to the Garden State Parkway. But I guess the supervisor at the Turnpike put a battery in my back because he said some real like shady stuff before right before I left. He was like, I remember when I transferred to night shift for the Garden State Parkway, he asked me, he was like, so.

This comedy thing you're doing, is it like a hobby? It's something you just, you know, you're missing out on a pension you can get when you're 55. And all I want to know, Derek, is this is what he said. I'll never forget. He said, so who's going to help you now? Eddie Murphy? And I was like, everybody's funny, I guess. He said that.

And I transferred to the parkway, so I got nights to do comedy. So, yeah, I was cleaning up toilets. I mean, I got to figure you pull into the rest stop so many times, it's an emergency situation. You must have seen a lot of heavy-duty stuff. No. So, put it to you like this. Maybe not rest stops, but I cleaned, like, the toll plazas, the toll booths, and the police station. So, the police station was the craziest one because...

When they got like big stings, they bring all the drugs to the place I had to like sweep up.

So imagine me sweeping up around $2 million worth of cocaine. That would be crazy. Or like I have to clean past the cell and they have like two assailants in the cell and I had to clean around that. And then, of course, just toilets in general. Cops are disgusting. And yeah. And then the toll booth workers, they were equally disgusting. So I had to clean those plazas, too. So.

In all of that, I was just writing jokes and going over myself. Yeah, but it's kind of a perfect job where you can just... So you have to answer a question for me. Are there tunnels? They're doing away with the toll booths now. They're doing those gantries. But a tunnel system under those? Absolutely. There are. And is it just a standard hallway or is there other stuff down there we didn't know about? Well, all I saw or I cared to see is...

I was like, I guess it's a cool secret to know, but no, there's a lot of lockers down there. Oh, all right. Okay. Because you see a guy pop up out of the ground like, what in the hell? Yeah, because there's no way you can cross them streets sometimes. I remember, like, I had an epiphany. Like, I remember I almost got hit by Missy Elliott. Whoa! There? I got it. See, I'm getting too comfortable. Yeah.

I was cleaning the toll booth and she came blazing through in a white Ferrari. I'll never forget it. And I jumped out the way. And then when I noticed who it was, I was like, Missy, oh my God. And she didn't hear me, I guess. The highway's very loud. And then as she sped off, I was like, yeah, I got to get out of here too. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Dude, those moments. That was the epiphany. Yeah, those moments. It was like, yeah, I gotta go. All right, and now in the world of entertainment, have you crossed paths with Missy Elliott since then? I have not. You gotta share that story with her if you do. Oh, yeah, if I get the chance. Oh, if I get the chance, it'll be something great to tell her. You were describing the moment, like coming up and working with Cat Williams and other celebrities, and there is a pecking order, and you described the way

Cat Williams, who, you know, is great. There's no toys about it. The guy, you know, it's a juggernaut, but the kind of way he acknowledged you. Oh, yeah. I remember when Cat, this was before Cat even blew up. This was when Cat could only get the floor and not the balcony. But even still, he was still Cat. So I remember...

This one makes him a wizard because it's like, yeah, he was, he still had the attitude. He had the confidence. So then, and then when people found out he popped off, but I remember when I'm the first time I met him, he was sitting on the throne. That was the crazy part.

He was sitting on the throne and Ture introduced me to him. And I put my hand out and shake your hand. He shook my hand and didn't even look at me. Like put his fingers. He's like, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like that. But he didn't look at me. It's like I felt like I met royalty, but royalty didn't really feel like meeting me in the room. Like, who are you? You're a new jack. Beat it. And I was like, yeah.

And that's only one cat story. I remember the second cat story was even more humbling. I remember we all got the chance to open for him in Millersville, PA, at a college. I think one in Millersville University, as a matter of fact. Yeah. And I'll never forget, five comics went up. I was a part of that five comics and we had a hell of a show. Right. But Cat is running two hours and 45 minutes late.

Right? Like two hours, 45 minutes late. So there's a show, then a long intermission, and then finally they pull up. But here comes the funny part. These kids have been reckless, rowdy, waiting for them for an hour and a half. So the crowd is pretty much uncontrollable. So Kat starts the show all over again with a whole new cast of comics. So now...

Cat's going to basically have to follow eight people, right? Yeah. So the crowd is going like, what? So they're restless. It's crazy. It's nuts. Melanie Camacho, she got a hand up on him. She's the one that digged him the most. Ray Grant did his thing as he re-hosted. Lunell opted out from doing the show. Really? She opted out from doing the show. This is how wild this gets. Listen, so...

Cat finally goes up, right? Kids is restless. They're good to see him. But Cat starts doing stuff from the special that was already out. So the kids start calling him. Yo, we heard that already. Yo, we heard that already. Yo, you got to do something new, Cat. We heard that already. So Cat goes, I'll never forget this. He goes, Cat goes, what you say, boo-boo? That's what he said. What you say, boo-boo? And then they said, do something new. All of a sudden, Cat Williams goes, well,

I was rich before I got here. And let me go back in the story. He actually hired a guy, a grown man to be his cloaker. A guy that takes his coat off his shoulders and throws it back on. Right. So fast forward back to the part when he says, I was rich before I got here. He snaps his fingers. And from the side of the stage, the cloaker comes out with a stack of money this tall. He pulls the rubber band off and he says, you kids have fun. And he proceeded to throw 10 to 20 grand into a

a room full of broke, hungry college kids. It was pandemonium. And I'm standing on the side with a $250 check that I got to cash on Monday because it was Friday night. So I'm like, the crowd making more money than I did. And we didn't even do stand-up. And my girlfriend was there, came up on $200. And my two homies was there. One of them came up on $100. And another one came up on $900. Like a chunk, right? Yeah.

And I asked him for $20 worth of gas. He said, no, we almost fought. That is wild. That's an Elvis level move. Yeah, he threw it into a crowd, baby. And I was like, even though whatever you could call him, I called him a legend. I saw that. That's the coolest thing. You see how rabid people get when you throw T-shirts into a crowd. No, he threw...

It was raining, $100 bills. These kids, like, eyes bright, stomachs empty. It was wild. It was a good watch. Never heard of Star Wars. I've never heard anything like that. Yeah. Yeah, man.

And I like that term, cloaker, by the way. James Brown started that. He had a cloaker. He had a guy to take his fur off and put it back on. He hired a grown man to do that. I was standing backstage like, this dude's job is to take this dude's coat off and he's taller than him. So he's taking this little guy's coat off and putting it back on. You got to admire that on a level. It's pretty wild. There's a lot of balls. Cat is a wizard. I always respect Cat. Cat was always the coolest dude.

I've ever seen in like, oh, that's that's wild. You know, sit on the throne and then that's why. So can people expect at your show to have you peel off a 20 grand roll? No, no, no. I got some material. I hope the crowd is. I hope they are receptive. Oh, they're great. They're great. Yeah. Hey, Derek, I have a question. Did you did you make it down here for the Super Bowl parade?

I actually didn't make it for the parade, but I was down in Philly for the game. And man, oh, man, when we when Devontae Smith caught that dagger, I was doing my best not to go too crazy. You know, you don't want because my home is in that last two minutes. You don't know what he could do. Right. But I felt like we had it. And in that last two minutes.

Man, oh man, we was in some warehouse where my homie had set up like a big LED screen, right? So it's just a bunch of Eagles fans. Me and my mom, I finally was able to celebrate the Eagles winning with my mom. It was last time I was in LA trying to get TV shows or whatever when they won in 2018. So it was cool to see my mom. She's 63. She's been waiting. She's been an Eagles fan her whole life.

So just to finally be able to celebrate with my mom about the Eagles. My mom's from North Philly. So, yeah. So cool. So cool. Yeah. Pete Davidson was here for the parade. Yeah. And we actually did a thing called Bird Bot, which is kind of an Eagles-based, you know, like a full little, it's a little thing that we were passing around. Traveling. Yeah. And he was taking pictures with it. And he was, I mean, he clearly is a big Eagles fan because he was down here hanging around with the guys for days. Yeah.

Yeah, all news to me. News to me. Well, the love is still huge right now. Everybody's still on a high from this. So people are in the mood to party and they can go to Helium Comedy Club tonight. You're just doing the one show tonight and that's it, right? Just one night only. I got to get back on some stuff. I'm working on some other things. But I did. I was happy I could get a night in Philly.

They come down and talk for a little while and just see what's going on. All right, 7.30 tonight, Helium Comedy Club. Derek, it's great to talk to you, man. Hope you have a great show this evening, all right? Thank you, guys. Good, good talk. Top of the morning to you. Take care, sir. All right, Derek Gaines, everybody. Helium Comedy Club. You can go to heliumcomedy.com and get your tickets. That's a crazy story about Cat Williams. That's unbelievable. I mean, you know, it's like when Steve Harvey...

came by. We were at Y100. Oh, yeah. And he, for a brief period, he had a syndicated show. And obviously, he's already established as a comedian. But Preston, you remember the entourage he rolled in. He had a guy that just held an umbrella for him. Yeah. That was literally his job. Yeah. Wasn't that? That was an umbrella guy, right? Yeah. And I was like, okay.

But, yeah, that was it. He came up in radio and eventually took it beyond that. But, yeah, there are some people that can bring an entourage. Right, yeah. Wow. Anyhow, it was nice catching up with him. We should probably take a break, come back in a second, and get you some bizarre file stories. We will do that. A reminder, Cardboard Classic and Kathy's feet video tomorrow morning. Just want to keep everybody in the loop. We'll be back in a moment. Stay with us. R.com.

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By the way, real quick, I was taking a glance at some of the sleds that are signed up tomorrow. This should be a fun one. Somebody's doing a Herbie the Love Bug. I love Herbie. If we've had Herbie before. I don't think so. And this is from Philly Craft Brewery from Kensington. Nice. They said, we make great beer. That's what they said. No doubt. No doubt.

There's one called Turtasaurus Rex. Oh, my. Oh. There you go. We've seen just a tiny little preview. I expect big things from this. Turtasaurus Rex? Yeah. From the tiny bit that they showed us, it looks like a lot of ingenuity went into this one.

So let's see what else we have here. What does this one says? ServPro is doing one, said, like it never even happened. It's a house that goes from being burnt to restored like it's never even happened. So there's a transformation that takes place? I guess so. Wow. We've seen that a couple of times where one sled, it starts off as one thing at the top of the mountain. Yes. And then it sometimes falls apart and creates something else.

Was the Blues Brothers one of those? Well, no. They had the cop cars chasing them. Oh, the Batmobile. The Batmobile. The Tumbler. He had the smaller Batcycle shoot out of the front. That was pretty amazing. And then I think we may have had the Eat Me Cake from Animal House turn into the Deathmobile. Yes. Which is pretty wild when they try to pull stuff like that off. And then...

Years and years ago, we had Liberty One, and somebody was on the upper level, and there were no windows or anything like that. And so the dude just ended up kicking it out and then jumping out. Yeah, because there were people inside of it, and he ended up breaking through the wall to get out of it. He was up like two blocks.

It was a pie. You never know what you're going to see and what will happen. And we're hoping to have it covered by our friends at Camelot Productions, the drone crew that came out and did some amazing videos at Camp Out for Hunger. We're waiting on some approvals for this. And if it comes together, we will have unprecedented...

of the Cardboard Classic to play back. Yeah, some people were texting earlier this morning, Preston, asking if we will be streaming it live on YouTube. And we don't stream the event itself because we want people to come up and see it in person. But we'll be streaming our show on YouTube tomorrow morning. Yep, we are reliving right now, video-wise, one of the most traumatic moments ever at Cardboard Classic. It's not when Mr. Peanut nearly got killed. No, it's when Pierre Ribeiro almost got killed.

riding down a double-decker bus at the very top in the front and the whole thing crunched and Pierre got launched to the ground and hit hard. And we have close-up video of that. And that's when we...

I don't know if it was that year, but we decided to stop the double-deckers. Yeah, I believe it was that year. You can build something tall. You just can't ride on the tall parts of it. He had a concussion, right? He might have. I know that I think you administered to him quickly. I think you had a flask. Yes, with medicine. Yeah, with medicine. There was a medicine flask. He definitely had a concussion, Kathy. Yeah, right? Okay, I thought so.

Yeah, he hit his head. Of course, I went over and did a medical exam and said, how many fingers am I holding up? No, I'm sorry. That's what I did with Peanut. Peanut, yeah. As blood was coming out of his mouth. How many fingers am I holding up? Two. He's okay, yeah!

And then everyone on the mound, yay! That was before he had to get his jaw wired shut. Wired shut. His face was shattered. Yeah, that was part of it, but he was okay. He said, too, he's okay. Yeah, yeah. RG2. That's, I can't, that's one of the, I can't watch that. Really? The peanut mobile? No, it's,

He got severely injured. I cannot watch it. I was in the driver's seat with that thing. And we're watching video of it right now. And I'm like, boom. I was just like, I couldn't believe it. We were all screaming. Yeah, we were barreling towards him. He was stoned.

Thank God he didn't go any further underneath it because that thing weighed like a thousand pounds or more. If you were to hear... There were like 30 people inside of it too. Back to that, you were yelling and I was yelling because he got out in front of it. No, no, no. We were all like...

We were just hoping that he would hear. He didn't turn around to look to see that it was coming and barreling over him. A large peanut crushed in front of a larger peanut. I'm watching the video just now. Casey, do you see me getting out of the window? Yeah. And you know what? Do you see what I have in my hand? I've got a beer in my hand. That's awesome. At first I thought it was a microphone. No.

You were drinking and driving? I was drinking and driving. Well, you were able to hold up fingers. He saved his life. We're past the statute of limitations, so I'm not going to get in any trouble over it. We're not even at that mountain anymore. No, we're not there anymore. So join us at Montage tomorrow for Cardboard Classic. All right, let's do the beat file. Now, WMMR presents Kristen and Steve's Bizarre Files.

Brought to you by Helium Comedy Club. You can heat up your winter with some big-time laughs at Helium Comedy Club, celebrating 20 years of bringing Philly the best comics of today and tomorrow, live every week. Tickets and lineup at heliumcomedy.com. All right, how messed up is this story? It's not uncommon...

for people to test their partners in various ways to see if they are right for each other, but some people take it a bit far. Case in point, one young woman from China who reportedly subjected her fiance to three hours of electric shocks to the stomach

What? As a twisted way of simulating the pain of childbirth. You guys have seen these things before. Yeah, uh-huh. It's unclear why the man accepted the test or if he had any idea what he was getting into, but he clearly didn't expect to develop intestine necrosis. So part of his intestine died? And have to get emergency surgery because of it. Oh, my God. Jesus. The experiment convinced him to not only break out the engagement, but also sue the woman he was going to marry for damages. No, no, no, no, no.

The woman wrote on Chinese social media that her mother and sister suggested that she make her fiance experience the pain of childbirth before getting married to ensure that he would be more considerate to his wife. This is insane.

First, the man opposed the idea vehemently, but she insisted and he reluctantly agreed in the end. So the grueling test took place in a maternity care facility run by the woman's sister. Using an electrical stimulation device designed to specifically simulate the pain of childbirth, the woman subjected her fiancé to increasingly stronger electrical shocks to the stomach for three hours. In her online confession, the woman wrote that she slowly increased intensity of the electrical current for the first 90 minutes

and then cranked up the power to maximum for another 90 minutes. She wrote, my boyfriend started to feel miserable from level 8 and couldn't help cursing by level 10. At level 12, he was sweating and breathing rapidly due to the severe pain. By the end of the experience, he was completely exhausted and his stomach was as hard as a board. At any point did he scream Kelly Clarkson? No, so that night, the man experienced...

abdominal pain and vomited several times. He appeared to feel better the next day, but then his condition worsened to the point where he needed medical attention. After being rushed to the hospital, the man was diagnosed with intestine necrosis and scheduled for emergency resection surgery. Did you eat anything or did you have your stomach electrocuted for three hours? After learning about the torture that he had been subjected to, the man's family was furious and warned his fiance that she was not welcome at the hospital.

adding that the engagement was off and that she should get ready for a lawsuit. I mean, that the people around her would say that was a viable plan to check his, you know, that validity as a mate. It's insane. Yep.

A South Carolina man has been sentenced to more than two years in federal prison after he stripped naked during a checkpoint search at the Indianapolis International Airport in clear view of families and children. You could have kept your clothes on. 38-year-old George Stevens pleaded guilty to interference with security screening personnel and assault of a federal officer. He was sentenced to 33 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervisor's release.

Wow. Wow.

When the supervisor instructed Stevens to remove his belt and hold his pants up, the release said that Stevens dropped into a squat and shook his buttocks at the supervisor and those assisting. And that caused screening to be halted in multiple lines at the checkpoint. After an officer with the police was dispatched, Stevens repeated the action, squatting and shaking his buttocks at the others. He reportedly told officers...

I don't have nothing. What do you want to see? Stevenson pulled his jeans and underwear to his ankles, exposing his buttocks and genitalia to the TSO and the pastors behind the vicinity. After the officers arrived, he removed his jeans and placed them over the supervisor's shoulder.

Removed his underwear and threw that at the supervisor. Well, it's a thorough check. You can't, you know, argue against that. While he was completely naked, he began to advance towards the supervisor. The document said that he was then placed under arrest. I want to kiss you. Has prior convictions for domestic violence and firearms offenses. I want to kiss you.

A curious shark became an accidental filmmaker when it swallowed a diver's underwater camera near a shipwreck. Instead of losing the gear forever, the divers got treated to a jaw-dropping inside view of the shark's mouth. It's pretty wild. The camera kept rolling from inside and it captured rows of teeth and filming the frantic divers from the shark's perspective.

This impromptu shark selfie session ended when the fish director decided that cameras weren't on its menu after all, and then it spat the camera out. The lucky divers not only recovered their equipment, but also scored some truly one-of-a-kind footage that is making the rounds online as we speak. So yeah, the thing grabs it, it goes inside its mouth, and then it swims around for a while.

So I know this is a stupid question because I'm not that wildly familiar, but you look at certain like a whale shark or whatever and you see this big sort of gaping, you know... Maw. Yeah. At what point do you hit digestive organs? Good question. I don't know because...

I guess they can swallow things pretty damn big. Yeah. They don't have anything really to chew stuff up. It's just cutting teeth. Right. So where is all that equipment? Yeah, it's got to be further down. There's got to be a place where that esophagus closes up. I don't know. Like a sphincter of sorts. Yeah, it's crazy to think about.

Being swallowed by an animal. Yeah, the guy, the humpback whale. Yeah. All right, here's another interesting story. There are over two dozen pissed off brides in New Jersey thanks to a photographer that has allegedly scammed them. Sarah Venezio is one of 30 brides who claims to have been scammed by a wedding photographer who they say took their cash.

but no showed the weddings and took no pictures. I swear to God, I'm going to kill you. Excuses that the brides say that they've been given from the absentee photographer are that she was either closing her business or her car was stolen or that she couldn't get an Uber. 2,000 separate cases?

No, there were 30 brides. Oh, okay. Two dozen. So the over two dozen. The New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs said that they haven't received any complaints against Christina Garcia of wandering Stardust Collective. But its Pennsylvania counterpart says they've received four. So she's scamming people in Pennsylvania as well. Thus far, the brides claim that they've lost more than $100,000 in what they say is a scam. So we'll see if they end up busting her. And that is what I have here.

in this morning's bizarre file. All right, as we take a break, I'll remind you to stick around because we're going to have a lesson question when we return. We're going to have to get an answer via Zoom. Yes. We don't have phones this morning. We ran a Zoom segment earlier. We did a Zoom stupid question, so we know it can work. We'll have to try the lesson question out via Zoom, and we'll tell you how to access that when we come back. Stay with us.

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Lincoln Park on MMR. 14 minutes after 10, the President's Day show. Warm today. Going up near 60 degrees. Cloudy sky. Not like yesterday. A little bit of rain here and there. That's supposed to be wrapping up the light bit of showers you may experience by tomorrow.

Noon, 1 o'clock, something like that. And then just cloudy skies. Tomorrow's high, about 50 and partly cloudy. Saturday, not bad. 61, windy. And then Sunday, we cool off. Our high temperature, 37 degrees. 25 plus degree shift.

But there's a joy that comes at a certain part of the year where you step out and it's not horrific. Yeah. And it has been not horrific for the past couple of days, which is wonderful. Yep. And once we get past tomorrow, the Cardboard Classic, then I start feeling like spring needs to hurry the hell up. Well, we're going to accelerate that by going down to Florida. Yeah, we will be doing that for spring training very, very soon. A couple of weeks.

Let's do the lesson question. Here's what we're going to need to do. If you know the answer to this, we have to do this via Zoom. Text the word Zoom. We'll send you a link to our Zoom account. And then you will go to that and then Marissa is going to grab a random person. Just come up randomly and we'll let you take a stab at answering the question. So,

Steve, I want to kill a little bit of time. This is going to take a little bit of time because you do the trash very quickly. And we do a quick turnaround. So let me ask a question first and then I'll do something else for a moment. So here we go. What's the name of the Kathy Romano Podiatry Center? 215-

WMMR is mentioned during the Just Saying Institute today. All right. What is the name of the Kathy Romano Podiatry Center? 215-263-WMMR. By the way, for the answer, for the correct answer...

Wait, did I say? I told them to call. Don't call. Don't call. Text 39333. We'll send you the Zoom link and then you follow that link and then you can possibly get on. And we're going to give away tickets to Philadelphia Union home opener, which is Saturday, March 1st. Wow. Against FC Cincinnati. 730 is when the game will be. I was wondering, by the way, with this, Preston, when the football.

film is going to be debuted tomorrow. Do we at some point look to get it into an IMAX theater? Yeah. I would think so. Stop it. Do you want to see those things big? Size of a five-story building right in front of you. Wow. There will be a special Kathy's Foot Sled tribute tomorrow morning in conjunction with this video release. Yeah. It's cool from like the ankle to the tip of the toes and then they have black hair growing out of the toes.

Beautiful. All right, let's do the trash and we'll see if we can get a little... The trash business is a gold mine. 93.3 WMMR.

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Wow. Wow.

That's just too much. And finally, speaking of sociopaths, California Governor Gavin Newsom ordering an investigation into whether Eric and Lyle Menendez are fit to return to public life. Newsom says he's very encouraged that both brothers have pinky-sweared not to kill anyone else. All right. Thank you, Steve. And we, via Zoom, are going to go find us a winner. And I believe that we have Carrie, who is here. Hi, Carrie. Good morning. Good morning.

Good morning, Ed. Good morning to see you. I see you're wearing a Thompson Healthcare and Sports Medicine shirt. Is that who you work for? No, I work for Lacey Schools. I'm getting the warning track ready. I'm raking the warning track. Oh, it's a nice little area you got behind you, a nice open field. And so you get everything ready for all the competition and track and field stuff.

I'm trying. All right. All right. Well, let's see if you can get the answer correctly. What is the name of the Kathy Romano Podiatry Center? Oh, God, I hope I'm right. I think it's Piggly Wiggly Podiatry. No, it's not.

Sorry, but that sounds cute anyway. It is a cute one. We thank you. We're going to have to have you log out of, close out your Zoom, but thanks anyway. We'll try another one. Take care of yourself. So she was close, but I can't let her have it. All right, so we're going to go to another caller, another Zoomer. It'll take a moment to get somebody up. Our phone lines are out if you're just tuning in, and so we're doing this via Zoom. Oh, we need another one.

We need somebody else. So if anybody knows, we'll start music news. Okay. You can zoom in. What is the name of the Kathy Romano Podiatry Center? And text ZOOM to 39333 if you know the answer. Preston and Steve's Music News on 93.3 WMMR.

All right, before we go to music news, do we have him up? All right, we have listener Dan. All right. Who's on via Zoom. Hey, Dan, how you doing, bud? Dan, can you hear me? Hang on a second there. It actually takes a second. Like, you have to...

He's muted. All right, Dan is muted right now. Dan, unmute your Zoom. And as soon as you do that, we'll be able to hear you and see if you have the answer correct or not. Speak when you are unmuted. While we wait, I'll dive into one of our music news stories. So Apple Original Films has announced a new documentary titled Bono Stories of Surrender. Set to premiere globally on May 30th.

on Apple TV+. And it was directed by award-winning filmmaker Andrew Dominick. And the film offers a vivid reimagining of Bono's critically acclaimed one-man stage show called Stories of the Surrender and Evening of Words and Music.

It's about a lovely holiday story about my parents leaving me alone in a house and local bandits try to break in and I foil them at every turn. I'm sure you're going to love it. It also delves into Bono's personal journey. I do this thing with a blowtorch. It's going to crack you up. And he never sees it coming. Stories about his life as a son, father, husband, activist and rock star and features performances of iconic U2 songs that have shaped his legacy.

Dan, are you there? Hey, Dan, can you hear me? Oh, wait, now we got Drew. Oh, Drew. Hey, Drew, how you doing, man? Hey. Hey, you're on. I'm good. How are you? Good, buddy. All right, so quickly here. Where are you Zooming from, by the way? I'm in my house. I got my baby here. I sell bars all the time, so I'm hanging out today. Awesome, buddy. All right, so we need to know what was the name of the Catherine Mount of Podiatry Center? It's this little piggy podiatry center. There it is.

Yes. Hang on. Hey, Derek's jumping. He's jumping around the house. All right, Derek, hang on. I'm going to put you on hold, buddy. I don't even know if he can put it on. But they're going to talk to you in the other room. And they're going to set you up with your prides. And we've got tickets for the Philadelphia Union home opener Saturday, March 1st.

Against FC Cincinnati, 7.30 p.m. Football season ends and football season starts. And tickets are on sale now, by the way. And Saturday looks good weather-wise, so we should enjoy that outdoor experience. There's the idea. I'm trapped in my house. Oh, yeah. All right. Other music news. Paul McCartney has announced that his new book, Wings...

The story of a band on the run will be out. And it explores the history of his post-Beatle band, Wings. I love this. I was a fan of Wings. As was I. Love that group. The book credited to McCartney. It's not about the band. It's about feminine hygiene products.

The book... Oh, wings. I got you. The book, credited to McCartney, but drawn from interviews with tons of contributors, was edited by historian Ted Widmer, and it includes over 100 photos. In the statement, Paul reflected on the challenges of starting over back in the day, saying, starting from scratch after the Beatles felt crazy at times, but as we got better, I thought, okay, this is really good. Chronologically speaking...

And band-wise, member speaking. So he had a solo album after the Beatles broke up with Uncle Albert, right? Yeah, it was just called McCartney. McCartney. Yep. Were members of Wings...

What would become Wings participating in that album? I am not sure, Steve, because on a lot of that stuff, I think that Paul played drums and keyboards and guitar. I think he covered a lot of the instruments, but that is a very good question. The main three members of Wings were him, Linda, and Denny Lane. Yes. Who was from...

Knights in white satin. Come on, help me here. Moody blues. Moody blues. And there were people that came in and out of the band. I don't know if anybody was ever officially named. You know, like a wings band member. I don't really know the history, Steve, which is why I think this book will be pretty cool.

So he had said that we proved Wings could be a really good band to play the huge audiences in the same way that the Beatles had and have an impact in a different way. The new book is set to drop on November 4th. Tell me what, Winging? Yes, Nick. What's the 71 album? I don't know this one. It's called Ram. I guess Paul and Linda. Oh, Ram. Great album. They put that out together, Paul and Linda? Yeah.

You know what? I guess so. I guess that wasn't a Wings album. Yeah. Okay. So I guess I'm just going through some of the chronology here. And I guess that came out before the band's first two albums, which were Wildlife and Red Rose Speedway. Yep. Okay. Yep. And that's about a year and a half after Beatles broke up. Okay. I always put the Wings and Paul McCartney just as Paul McCartney. You know what I mean? Yeah.

Because it was, obviously, he is the creative focus. He was one of the more famous members of that band. Yes, he was. So he said, oh, I'm sorry, by the way, the new book is set to drop on November 4th. The Louder Than Life Festival is set to return for its 11th edition from...

from September 18th to 21st at the Highland Festival Grounds in Louisville, Kentucky. And this year's event boasts its largest lineup ever featuring over 160 bands across six stages. That's a huge event. Yeah, it's sprawling. Notable headliners include Slayer making a comeback after weather-related cancellations last year. Rob Zombie performing Astro Creep 2000 in its full version.

in full for the 25th anniversary. Marilyn Manson, Avenged Sevenfold, Deptones, Perfect Circle, Bring Me the Horizon, and Evanescence. And Sheena Easton. Tickets are already on sale now. And Sheena Easton.

How did I get on this show? Corey Taylor of Slipknot has teamed up with the band Bad Omens to create a new version of the classic song Dust in the Wind by Kansas. The song will be part of the upcoming movie Queen of the Ring, which tells the story of Mildred Burke, a famous female wrestler from the past. Here's a clip of that. I haven't heard this yet. Dust in the Wind

Everything is dust.

So the movie is set to come out on March 7th, which is also when the song will be available. You know what? For me, you need the violin. Yeah, yeah. You need the violin to make it work. That's a big part of that. And then one last thing. Tobias Forge, mastermind behind the band Ghost, recorded a solo album in 2008 titled Passive Flora. Are you a scab? That was never released. In March of last year, a copy of Passive Flora was released.

Burned onto a CD-R was sold on Discogs for $5,434. Ranging as the third most expensive item sold on the platform that month. Now the entire album has reportedly leaked online with a 41-minute audio version uploaded to YouTube. Do you have some? The order for this mountain looking right behind me.

He sounds great. Is he? The word is our friend is in the United States right now, is he? Yeah, he's going to be in New York, I think, next week. No, he's third now. He's in the third through the something, 15th or something like that. So that's not now. We wanted to try to get him out to the Cardboard Classic where he would be at home in the mountains or our version of the mountains. We got to get him here at least. We need to get him here if possible. He's got to come by here. He's the best. Oh.

That laugh. It's infectious. The guy is great. Go on and show yourself, baby. Kathy sent me a video of him the other day. He starts a video. He jumps into the screen and just falls flat on his ass. Of course, he gets up and laughs it off.

And his, by the way, his name is Peter Merhofer. And he's approaching like 600,000 followers on Instagram. Peter underscore my, M-A-I underscore is how you find him. He's great. So anyhow, back to this Tobias Forge album. It's a 41-minute audio version that's been uploaded to YouTube. The track list includes songs called House of Affection,

In Enigma Shiffer, The Breeze and Mary Says. And the Hogan family. While there's no official confirmation from Forge about the leak, the song titles match those listed on Discogs, and the vocals resemble his distinctive style. I wonder what his shows now are. I mean, he is the one who is known. He's...

Everyone else is masked up and he kind of replaces the performers behind him. They're called the nameless ghouls. Yeah, the keep you paid less ghouls. Yeah. All right. That is the last item in Music News. That means that we can take a quick break. We'll come back in a moment. Get our letter of the day for the Word of the Week prize and we'll wrap up our show. Be right where you are. We'll be right back.

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in a little bit of Nirvana for you as we are wrapping up our program today at 93.3 WNMR 10.38 a.m. Thursday. It's no sad bro officially for us. Oh my god, that is right. It's anti-sad. It's the actual opposite of sad as we head to cart. It's DAS if you will.

As we head into Cardboard Classic tomorrow morning. That's it. Amazing. It's always, you know, for as many times again, we're calling this basically the 20th anniversary of the Cardboard Classic. Every time it is just as exciting and exhilarating. And it's an awesome thing. The majority of the air staff up there, too. Yes. With all of us and Pierre and Brent and Porsche and Jackie Bam Bam. In fact, the whole air staff, except for our weekenders, our weekend warriors will be there. Yeah.

That's crazy. I wonder if it'll descend into... I mean, Jackie is going to be there, right? Yes. He's going to be there. Okay. I don't think Jackie is. No, yes, he is. I spoke to him this morning. He said he's just not sleeping over. Oh. Yeah. I always try to get him to sleep over, but he goes, no, I can't. I have to be in my own bed. First, he'll make up excuses. Well, I have to host a mummer's tire changing contest. And because I went back and forth with him. I said, come up, hang out, spend the night.

We'll have fun. I have to review a video of the 2003 Mummers Parade.

and view it in its entirety and do a review of it and then post it. And he just doesn't seem to understand that you just want to hang out with him. That's all. He likes to sleep in his own bed. He does. Yeah, get the F over it. Come up and have some fun with us. By the way, I did not know you were coming up tonight.

Because in the past, at Jack Frost... I got a hotel. It's reserved for... Oh, yeah, for next month. For next month. Yeah, you usually come up the morning of. You stay over tomorrow night, right? The last few years, I have come up the night of. However, that doesn't mean...

And mine might get there at four in the morning. So it doesn't mean necessarily that I'm going to get there at like at nine o'clock. The dark of instead of the night of. See, the thing is, I like I like getting up there. I look forward to today and tomorrow is its own thing. But, you know, we're going to get together for dinner tonight and, you know, and like, you know.

You know, like the thing is we actually like each other, you know, despite what you might hear on our ways. Like we actually do like hanging out with each other and, you know, sitting down, breaking bread with one another. I love that. Well, that's kind of why I like after the whole thing's over, you know, to get together with the engineers and whatever staff is around. Nick, you've joined us occasionally before. Yeah, two years ago we partied, man. It was you, me and Brent and you were eating limes or something at one point. Yeah.

Well, Brent was serving all forms of tequila, and I looked over, and I go, oh, look, Brent has sliced us green apples, and Nick said, you moron, those are limes. Of course, I was several sheets to the wind at that point. I was chatting with a friend yesterday who's coming up for the first time. She's never experienced it before, and she asked me if there's a version of shenanigans where we are in a way.

There's plenty of places to go and hang out. And I really love where we are now. I think it's better for a lot of different reasons. There's part of me that misses shenanigans a little bit. Like that after party and shenanigans is a thing unto itself. But it was a lot of karaoke, a lot of alcohol. It was a good time. Well, the guy that used to run it, Nick...

And he was quite a character. And occasionally he would sing with a piano player. That's where I first met him. But as I grew to build his fake legend, he became the chief mobster of the Poconos. Oh. And so I'd join him and he'd always have a young lady a quarter of his age on his arm, which I fully support as long as it's legal. But I would say, what should I have?

For dinner, Godfather, your veggie, right? Yeah. You'll have pasta. Thank you, Godfather. What should I drink? Martini. Yes, Godfather. And I'd kiss his ring. But he's no longer with us. And Shenanigans is down the road, so we won't be going there. Not this time.

There are plenty of places to go. You were talking about, Nick, where we will be tonight. There's an old shopping center with a lot of places. But if you go into the town of Scranton, there's loads there. It's a full town. That's what we did last year. We went into town and found this cute little place. I can't remember the name of it. But a whole bunch of us went there. Marissa remembers the name of it because she was trying to...

Bar Nozo or something? Close. Bar Pazo. Pazo. And then right next to up here, Matt and I found a fun little brewery that has like video games and such in it and some good beers. So yeah, that little strip has some spots. There's some, sorry, Philly Mag did a,

Poconos edition and they went through all of the seasons in the Poconos and there's actually a decent amount listed in the Scranton area like the best of to go visit that's cool we Dave McGrogan has a place in the complex not far from Harvest Harvest yeah I've been there yeah one of the years we went there afterwards so yeah there's plenty of places to go and

Blissfully, there's a Starbucks in that same little complex. Although, yeah, so it'll be fun. Yep. All right. Letter of the Day. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Cheers.

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