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Oh man, we're doing this thing, aren't we? Good morning and welcome. It is time for the Cardboard Classic 2025. The Preston and Steve Show as we speak. Broadcasting live from the lodge at the base of Montage Mountain. We'll get into the details of what is happening a little later on. First, let's take a look at the weather forecast for today.

Pretty decent day today. We're looking at a high of about 51 degrees or so. Mostly sunny skies, so not too bad. Tomorrow, partly cloudy. A little breezy. Oh, this is Scranton weather I'm looking at. Oh, okay. At the bottom. Oh, at the bottom. Thank you, Casey. I appreciate it. So we're looking at 56 a high tomorrow. Cold on Sunday. Keep this in mind. This is where we take, excuse me, the big dip.

Our high on Sunday is going to top off at about 35. We'll have plenty of sunny skies. That'll lead into Monday with a high around 40 or so. Here in Scranton, we're looking at a high of about 42 degrees. So it's going to be a nice day. Hello. Hello.

Preston and Steve's News Update with Kathy Romano. All right, today is Friday. It is February 28th. Good morning, Kathy. Good morning. In the news this morning, it will be an explosive end for a record-setting roller coaster at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson Township, New Jersey. Kingda Ka, the world's tallest roller coaster, will be reduced to a pile of rubble by implosion this morning. Oh, boy.

Bummer. Yeah, it's happening today. Wow. The implosion will happen between 9 a.m. and 10 a.m., the Ocean County Prosecutor's Office said in a social media post. And I understand, Kathy, they're letting people actually gather at the base to watch that, right? No, but a series of rapid explosions will bring the roller coaster down. The statement read that the noises may be startling, but please don't be alarmed. That's actually pretty cool. I have never gotten to see...

quote unquote, in person, the demolition of something like that. I would like to see it. I was there for the vet. That was cool. I envy you for that. Where were you? We were at the Holiday Inn. Yeah. And we just watched it from our hotel room. Let me ask you, how, how, was it really loud, the explosions or anything? So hungover, I don't know.

Yeah, you mentioned. Yeah. Right. But I wonder, Preston, again, to that point, when something's that loud and on that grand a scale, do you perceive it differently because of the delay or the report? Yeah. That's what I'm wondering, too. Find an empty building and we'll blow it up. Let us blow it up. Please.

Officials recommend keeping pets indoors if they are sensitive to loud sounds. The ride propelled passengers up a 456-foot-tall tower at speeds of 128 miles per hour. Kingda Ka delivered more than 12 million rides since 2005, Six Flags said.

Kingda Ka and another roller coaster, Green Lantern, are being removed to make way for a pair of new high-profile attractions. The Flash Vertical Velocity will open this season. It's described as North America's first super boomerang roller coaster. Then in 2026, the park said it will open an all-new multi-record-breaking launch coaster. It has not yet been named. Six Flags Adventure will open on March 29th. Kathy, when does the Constant Gardener open up?

So Kingda Ka being imploded this morning at 9 a.m. My guess is you can probably watch it on their website or something. Yeah, if they're not, they're missing a huge opportunity. There have been more than 120 nationwide measles cases reported from eight states, including New Jersey. Measles claim the life of one child in Texas, the first United States measles death in a decade. Three people...

In Bergen County, New Jersey, have tested positive for the once eradicated disease. The classic symptoms are in the form of a fever and rash that spread throughout the body. It can lead to more serious complications. Measles can cause pneumonia and inflammation of the brain. The measles mumps rubella vaccine or MMR vaccine is recommended for young babies. The two-shot dosage is 97% effective in preventing measles. So I'm pretty old and a lot of the diseases had not been invented by the time. But I remember that, I think it was

the polio vaccine, Preston, that gave a big indentation on the arm that eventually faded over years. Was it the polio? I don't know. I thought it was polio as well. And it never faded because I remember my parents had it on their arm and I wanted one. It was pretty cool. It was like a circle. Yeah.

A Bucks County community is outraged and demanding answers after learning about a pipeline leaking jet fuel. Upper Marion township officials say even some of the drinking water has been contaminated. Township officials also stated that the leak was discovered a month ago but may have been happening in the future.

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resulted in contamination of residential walls and people reported the water had a gasoline-like smell. A lot of people want the pipeline shut down. No surprise, it was standing room only at a meeting as frustration mounted over the lack of answers and action. There was one guy there who owned a jet who was in favor of it. Energy transfer fixed the leak and the pipeline was back up and running in two days.

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The Flyers lost to the Penguins 5-4 in overtime last night at Pittsburgh. Evgeny Malkin scored his second goal with a minute three of overtime, and the Penguins rallied from being down 3-0 to come back for the win, ending the Flyers' three-game winning streak. Matt Vamichkov had two goals and an assist. Owen Tippett scored his fourth goal in three games.

And Noah Cates also scored in consecutive games. The Flyers are on the road tomorrow night with a game in Winnipeg against the Jets. The puck will drop at 7 o'clock. The Sixers have lost nine games in a row and are home tomorrow night.

They'll host the Golden State Warriors for a nationally televised game at 8.30. In Florida, the Phillies and the Yankees tied 7-7 yesterday afternoon in Clearwater. The Phillies play the Red Sox this afternoon. The first pitch is scheduled for 1.05. And the Eagles are still the Super Bowl champs. How about that? And that's what I have for you this morning. All right. Thank you very much, Kathy. So, yeah, we are set up in place. Our wonderful engineering staff have this great,

stage area that we are broadcasting live from inside the lodge. When it is time, we're done with our show at 10 a.m., we're going to walk right out the doors out to this deck at the base of Montage Mountain and get the Cardboard Classic started. We're shooting for around 10.30 a.m. to officially make that happen. We're going to nail it. Impressive. To the point of the engineers and Rodney and everybody setting everything up here. If you've ever run

wires for your home stereo. Multiply that by a million. That's what they do. It's astonishing. It's amazing that we have this set up every time. Chuck was telling me that when they used to do day off years and years ago, the engineer would show up with essentially, he showed me this case. He's like, this is it. It was like one suitcase.

With like three wires. Yeah. Now it's a fleet of vehicles that come out. We screw things up. We're excited for today, and I want to thank Montage Mountain for being great hosts. I had a semi-religious experience just a moment ago. I have been on a diet for the last two months, a very successful one, by the way. I've lost like 18 pounds, and I'm very happy about that.

But I have had bacon for the first time in months. And it was, dude, that is some good crispy bacon. Can I tell you something? You're looking a little puffy. No, no. I almost said the exact same thing to you. It's nice crispy bacon. Crispy bacon. And it's damn good. Yeah. I made a little sandwich on a muffin, Steve. All right. All right, you sons of bitches. You got to go get it, dude. I'm going to go get it. It's crispy. Just like in the Shire. Listen, on every level, on the humane level and everything, I'm sorry.

You taste good when fried. Bacon is just so goddamn good. Right.

That guy likes it. What just happened? I moved wires. Okay, don't do that anymore. Did you have any of the hash browns? Yeah, those are great. They're free range. Well, we'd have to consult Chuck on that. I don't know if they're actual hash browns. They might be semi-home fries. They are fried, but it's a tough call. Chuck's very specific on home fries versus... Go inspect, please, Chuck. To the hash browns, and we know we're doing connoisseur later on.

I consider hash browns more... Grated? Yes. Yeah, I agree. Shredded. Shredded, thank you. And Chuck just weighed in. He said they're not hash browns. Okay, that's what I thought. All right, home price of sort. We'll do a full breakdown of the breakfast spread later on this morning. With Neil deGrasse Tyson. 25 minutes on that, if possible.

Uh, but we're, we're ready, man. We're, we're set for this. We're just, uh, uh, waiting for people to arrive. Obviously we get here before anybody else. Uh, some, uh, local TV stations have been, uh, covering the event. We're very excited about that. We appreciate the, uh, uh, the, uh, contributions that they're bringing to promoting this event. And, uh,

There's going to be great music as soon as we are done. The M80s are going to get on stage, which is right next to where we are. And there's this full MTV tribute they're going to do from the 1980s. I love it. I hear nothing but great things about them. And if you're waking up and you're saying, you know, I'm...

Could I make it up there in time? Yeah, absolutely. You can make it. No problem. Now, I live off the Northeast Extension. It's only like an hour and 25-minute drive for me. This is a pretty easy little trip. And if you find out you have your morning open, come on out.

or afternoon. We're probably going to wrap this up around 1230. That's what we're hoping to do, 1230, 1 o'clock. So if you can make it, come on out. Experience this in person. We are excited to bring it to you via the radio as well. So we're going to go through our regular orders of business. Oh, our phones don't work again. Yes. So we don't have that. Just a heads up on that. So we're going to probably do a different way to do some winnings. So when we get back, we'll have a stupid question.

We'll tell you how you can enter to win that. So let's take our first break. We'll come back in a moment. This is Cardboard Classic, our 20th year doing this, by the way, at Montage Mountain. And we'll be right back on 93.3 WMMR. 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.

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I look across the room. I see Marissa talking to Jen Fred, Fox 29, our pocket-sized powerhouse of broadcasting who's covering it once again. She's going to be hitting the slopes a little bit later on, so we'll check in with Jen in a few. But in the meantime, we are going to carry on business as usual, so we have a stupid question. Now, Marissa, if you don't mind, how are we going to get a winner for this? I forgot to ask you about that during the break because our phone lines...

Ours is still not working. We have some serious technical problems. Rod, if we could get a guest mic on here for Marissa real quick. So how do you want to do this? How are we going to take a winner? All right. If you know the answer, you are going to text the answer to 39333.

And then Sam, back at the studio, is going to call one person randomly and get their name and pass it down to us. Okay, perfect. So we're not going to be able to talk to anybody. So I will pose the question, and we'll get a name, and I'll reveal what the answer is. So last question of Black History Month, courtesy of our buddy Craig Legans, who gave me the questions. Craig, thank you so much. They were great. I used every single one of them throughout the month of February. But here's the final one. Casey, do we have the bird bot?

jingle handy? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, so the question was, is what song did our buddy Kyle create the Bird Bot jingle from? It is a Parliament Funkadelic song, and Casey will play a little bit of it.

What's the name of that song? 215-263-WMMR. Let's see if you know the answer to that. No, don't call that number. Text. I'm sorry. I am in autopilot. Yeah, it's reflexive. Text the answer to 39333 and we will get a winner in just a little bit. And we'll mention some birthdays before we reveal who the winner is on that. By the way, the prize for the stupid question, four pack of tickets for the Atlantic City Boat Show, which is happening as we speak.

which is at the Atlantic City Convention Center. And it goes through tomorrow, I believe. Let me see here. March 2nd. So it goes through Sunday. So birthdays that we'll mention while we're waiting for the answers. We'll start with on the 28th of February, Rae Dawn Chong celebrating her birthday today. We were talking about Commando the other day. She was in Commando. That's right. She's 64 years old. She also has one of the great primitive man humping scenes in Quest for Fire. That's correct.

She was good in The Color Purple as well. And Steve, was it Tales from the Dark Side? She was in that too. That was a pretty good movie. There's some good stuff in there. Her sequence was really great. Yeah. It was an old story from a movie that was, they redid it, but I've always loved that story. Yeah, so happy 64th to Radon Chong. The very beautiful Allie Larter is 49. Yeah, you saw her recently, right? In something. She's in Landman. She's so freaking hot.

I love her character in it. She's constantly in a bathing suit, in short shorts, not wearing pants. Really? Yes. Okay. She looks so good. The one scene where she's at the country club and she takes her little sarong or whatever off and she's just in this bikini.

Like, she's 49 years old? Yeah. Holy crap. Really? Just, like, a perfect body. Gotta see it. Incredible. And, like, you know, the scene, well, that scene that he's talking about, her husband is giving her a hard time. Like, why are you walking around the country like that? I'm thinking, if I had a body like that at 49, I would...

never put a sarong on. Just be in a bathing suit all the time. So she turns 49 years old today, Allie Larder. We also have actor Robert Sean Leonard. He was in Dead Poets Society, also on the show House. I think he's the one in Dead Poets Society who takes off himself. That is such a great movie. And I remember when that movie came out, it was at the height of Robin Williams' comedy fame, and

And I'm like, oh, great, a Robin Williams movie. And I saw it and I'm like, oh, my God. A little deeper than I thought. And it was so intense that at the time when it came out, I couldn't see how brilliant Robin Williams' performance was because I was not looking for that from him. And it wasn't until subsequent viewings that I'm like, oh, my God, this guy is incredible. He never said nanu once. Not one time.

Not one time. That was filmed in Delaware, right? What was the school? The Milton School? St. Andrews. So happy 56 to Robert Sean Leonard.

Bernadette Peters has her birthday today. I just watched The Longest Yard, the original one. Oh, wow. And she plays the secretary in that with this huge B.I. Verdu. Yeah. She's great in The Jerk, obviously. That was one of the best that she's in. And I love how Deadpool in the first movie, Wade Wilson has a thing for Bernadette Peters. Yeah. I thought it was great that they brought her back in that way.

She's 77 years old today. Also turning 77 is actress Mercedes Ruhl. Yes. The only thing I really know her from is Fisher King, The Fisher King, which is a great movie. Another Robin Williams serious movie. You know what else she's in? She's in, I believe she's in, well. It says Slaves of New York and Lost in Yonkers are a couple of the titles, but I don't have her full. Did they list the Warriors there?

Oh, that's right. She plays the undercover cop. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's right. I forgot about that. It's a bit part, but yeah. So she is 77 today. No, she's Mrs. Baskin. She's Tom Hanks' mom. You're right. In big. Yeah, that's right. Yep. We also have John Turturro. Oh, wow. The great. He's awesome. Dude, in Severance, he is so freaking good. Really? Yeah, and he has this relationship with Christopher Walken. You don't quite know what's going on, and...

I don't want to give too much away or talk about Severance if you haven't watched it, but his performance in that show is great, and their dynamic in particular is worth watching. Okay. He's had so many great performances. Obviously, he's legendary for The Big Lebowski. I love him in Rounders. Do the Right Thing. And one of his best performances, I think, was Herbert Stemple in Quiz Show. Yeah. He was terrific. Yeah. He was also in The Batman. Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah. He plays Falcone. Yeah. So he turns 68 years old today. From the world of music, the great Cindy Wilson of the B-52. Speaking of beehive hairdos, Steve. She turns 68 years old today. Wilson! Cindy! Wilson! It works. It does work. Cindy! Wilson! Nice. One more time, please. Okay. Here we go. Cindy! Wilson!

I just want to note, so far, that is my favorite thing today. I know we're going to have other things that will surpass that, but as of right now, that's my... Well, the bacon. Bacon, all right. Nick, okay, I saw your face. You spoke too quickly. I'm sorry. The bacon's probably a smidge better than Cindy Wilson, but it's pretty close. Cindy!

All right. I got to add something. French breadsticks. I haven't had them yet. French toast sticks. French toast sticks. I'm going to go back for dessert in a moment. Yeah, you got to have dessert with your breakfast. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Got to have a little treat. So Sidney Wilson is 68 today. And then the last birthday is world champion racing driver Mario Andretti. He turns 84.

five years old today. So happy birthday. One of my dad's favorites. Oh, really? Yeah. That was like who we watched, who we knew. One more birthday for you. A friend of the show. It is Eric Lindros' birthday. No kidding. 52. Wow. Big E. Yeah. Dude, I went back and saw it

It was on my algorithm. Some hockey stuff has been coming up on Instagram. And there's some video of E. Back in the day, I forgot. Shout out to McKenna. I mean, just...

A guy that could score like that, that could also hit and fight like that, that was the anomaly. And the fact that he's repaired his relationship with the Flyers and that he's an ambassador for the team now is a great thing. He's in town fairly frequently, so love you, Eric. All right, let's see if we can get an answer. Now, I don't know how we're going to get the answer. Jason, are you able to tell me who our winner of the stupid question is? Marissa has it. Oh, she does? Where is she? All right, Marissa, I don't know if that microphone's on or not, but let's find out.

Can you hear me? Yes. All right, the winner is Tim Shaner from Philadelphia, PA. Tim Shaner knew that the song used in the Bird Bot jingle is Flashlight. Yes, from Parliament Funkadelic. Woo!

So congratulations, sir. We are 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 Boating Atlantic City Boat Show is a partnership with Progressive Insurance, and it's back at Atlantic City Convention Center. It's going on now through March 2nd.

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. And Chuck just brought me some French toast sticks. Oh, man. One last birthday. Craig will just let me know that it is Allison Dunlap's birthday. Oh.

I just was hanging with her. Photographer and model extraordinaire. She's wonderful. Yeah, so happy birthday, Allison. I'm not going to repeat the story, but we had some late nights with her. She was in our calendar, and then she shot our calendar, and she's great. But she has a story that she told me one time that...

Forever is like in my brain. Like I'll never get the picture out. Yeah, it was a story about her in bed with her husband. And again, I'm not going to reveal it because I don't can't remember. Did it scar you or did it encourage you? It.

It's just, Allison, it's so freaking funny. It's not like it scarred me. It's just like I can't get the picture out of my head. It has to do with her husband's unit and making it look like it was her unit. Okay. I can see that because you know what? For a while, she tried to talk me into trying in the bedroom with my wife, allowing my wife to...

Peg? Yeah, to penetrate me. And I said, you know, no. I'm in my 50s and I'm pretty sure I know what I like and don't. We just introduced Bacon to the bedroom. Yeah, exactly. She's so funny. Alright, well, happy birthday, Allison. Okay, so...

We're going to start with an update on the Gene Hackman and Betsy Arakawa story. Of course, they were found dead in their New Mexico home on Wednesday, along with their dog. In circumstances, officials deemed suspicious enough to warrant a thorough investigation. At first, they had said it looked like, you know, natural causes. They're still not sure what's going on, but there are more details. So even though the cause of death is not yet known, um,

They didn't have any external trauma. There were no immediate signs of foul play. According to the preliminary autopsies, authorities also note there was no immediate signs of carbon monoxide or natural gas leak, as we thought from the initial reports it sounded like that. Yeah, it seems to be the most obvious. The bodies were found...

in separate rooms in the house with scattered pills found next to Arakawa. Hackman's and Arakawa's bodies were discovered by maintenance workers at the home. In a 911 call, a caller said that they could not enter the home, but they could see two unconscious people through the window. In the audio, you can hear the caller say, no, dude, they're not moving. Just send somebody out here really quick.

Police responded to the call. They discovered our cow was body on the ground inside a bathroom next to an orange prescription pill bottle with scattered pills on the floor. The body showed obvious signs of death, body decompensation, bloating in her face and mummification in both hands and feet. So they've been there for a while there for a while. Um,

Wow. So this is the other thing is you have someone with such an amazing, accomplished career. And this is the note they go out on. Yeah. So Hackman's body was then found on the ground near the kitchen in a similar condition. A walking cane and sunglasses lay next to the body of the deputy suspected murder.

that he had suddenly fallen. A German Shepherd dog was found also dead in the bathroom. The affidavit initially said the dog was in a closet, but later clarified it was actually in a crate. So it was, you know, it was where you would keep your dog. You might have starved to death there. Starved. Yeah, that's what I'm thinking happened. Two other healthy dogs were found on the property, by the way. The couple had been deceased for quite a while. The maintenance workers told police that they had not been in touch with the homeowner's

For at least two weeks, so they know that it's at least that amount of time that they may have laid down. I mean, there could have been a chain of events. That's what I'm thinking. I mean, listen, I'm not a detective, but it sounds like maybe he had a fall and she found him and he was dead and maybe she took her own life. The pills, I don't know. Or it could be, who knows? Who knows? Or maybe the two living dogs.

set the crime scene to make it look like yeah like it was an accident Menendez brothers of canine right so you know they're going to have to get the toxicology reports and find out if they did have you know if there was a type of an overdose or anything that happened but it's incredibly perplexing it's a tragic story but you know

Either way, the man lived to 95, and he had an insanely successful career and one of the greatest. The way he wanted it to, again, when people talk about my dad passing at that age, the phrase I use is stuck the landing. So this was not awesome the way he went out. But up to the final...

and people had seen him recently, he was enjoying living out of the spotlight. However, she was only 63, so she had a ways to go. So that's tragic as well. So obviously, that's a story that we will keep our eye on and let you know what we find out.

Katy Perry and Gayle King will join Blue Origin's first all-female crew on a space flight this spring. And they'll be joined by four other women, including Bezos' fiancée, Lauren Sanchez, aerospace engineer Aisha Bowe, civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen, and film producer Carrie Ann Flynn.

Perry shared her excitement on Instagram saying, if you had told me that I would be part of the first ever all-female crew in space, I would have believed you, she said. Go ahead. She also shared how excited she was to, quote, show all of the youngest and most vulnerable among us.

to reach for the stars. At Command Central, Preston, they're going to have Kesha running everything, too. So Gail King spoke on CBS Mornings and admitted that she felt terrified and excited at the same time and consulted her children before accepting the opportunity. This mission will be the first all-inclusive

female space flight since Soviet cosmonaut Valentia Tereshkova's 1963 solo space flight. So what if they go up into space and something horrific happens globally on Earth, wipes out all humanity, and they return...

The entire population of the planet is that collection. It'll be only ladies. Yes, that's right. And the population is doomed. Nature finds a way. I mean, how long are they going to be up there? A couple minutes? Yeah, it's up and back, so we'll see.

So let's see what else we have here for you. How about this? BJ Novak had a heartbreaking moment with Mindy Kaling's daughter at a recent birthday party, which Kaling shared on Jimmy Kimmel Live. While celebrating baby and Kaling's first birthday, she had dressed as Elmo, Mindy did. Yes. But her seven-year-old daughter, Catherine...

saw through the disguise and asked BJ, wait, is mom Elmo? Novak, wanting to be honest, simply replied, yeah, yeah, kid, she's Elmo. He doesn't know how to handle kids, does he? Which he admitted. Aren't you supposed to lie to them? It was a bit of a tough moment. Yes, you're supposed to lie and continue the fantasy if possible. So what are we doing? Jen wants to see Steve's outfit live on our show. Oh, okay. For her show. Yes. And Kathy and Jen, oh, so we're live on...

Fox Good Day, or on Fox right now as Jen Fred is doing the coverage here of Montage. And they want to get a shot of Steve wearing his outfit. So we have matching snowsuits yet again this year. And we have this silver prism kind of outfit.

They look like a Jiffy Pop bag, essentially. But in the right light, they change colors, which is pretty cool. The amazing part is I never knew that I was built for these kind of outfits because I don't have any. Yeah. And apparently it works for me. You rocked a snowsuit last year and then walking into the broadcast area this year, I was like, yep. Looks like a robot. Rocking it again. He looks like a robot. Yep. Yep.

All right, other stories. Today's show host, Jenna Bush Hager, has raised some eyebrows by appearing on television without her wedding band. What? On Wednesday's Today Show with Jenna and friends, she said, I'm not wearing a wedding ring because...

I broke my finger, she said. Yeah, that's exactly what a liar would say. She said, but don't worry. I've seen some of the comments. Henry and I are still very happily married. Henry. They've been married since 2008. And parents of three kids, Mila, Poppy, and Hal. But she's not wearing a cast or a brace on the finger? I don't know. She has it in a sling. A finger sling. Uh.

So congratulations to Wilmer Valderrama and his fiancée, Amanda Pacheco, who have revealed that baby number two is on the way. Although it's not quite accurate. That honor goes to their four-year-old daughter, Nakano, who had been telling anyone that would listen that a baby girl was joining the family even before Pacheco knew that she was pregnant. So he's had both these kids with his fiancée?

Yep. So she said she's been manifesting this for months before I found out I was even pregnant, telling my family that she was going to be a big sister by going to the store and asking to buy the tiny balloons at the checkout stand that say it's a girl. Mind you, we still don't know the gender of the baby, but if it was up to her, she'd love to have a baby sister. So that's cute, the little four-year-old. Yeah, it's weird because, well, not weird, but the character we first became familiar with in playing Fez is the absolute...

180 degree opposite of what he really is. So, yeah, miraculous. Honestly, it makes you reappreciate the performance that was fast. Yeah. So earlier this month, there was a report that Marcus Jordan, by the way, I don't know who that is. Nick, if you wouldn't mind looking up who Marcus Jordan is. I was supposed to do that before we got into this.

Has been arrested for... Had been arrested for cocaine possession. Michael Jordan's son. Remember, he drove onto the train tracks. And he told the cops, I'm Michael Jordan's son, by the way. Yes, thank you. Okay, Michael Jordan's son, you're under arrest. Yeah, so he had been arrested for cocaine possession, driving under the influence of resisting arrest. Slight change in that.

The cocaine possession has been dropped and has been replaced instead by ketamine. Somebody called in some favors. Yeah. It's no longer ketamine. Further testing revealed the white powdery substance found on Jordan when he was arrested February 4th was not cocaine as first thought. And this is slightly better for Jordan because ketamine is a Schedule III substance under Florida law. And possession of it can result in lower penalties than possession of cocaine.

Isn't that convenient? A pre-trial conference for Jordan is now scheduled for March. You think it's made up? Yeah. I think he had cocaine and I think they bargained it down. Okay. Gabrielle Union has shared a health update about hubby and ex-NBA great Dwayne Wade. And the news is all good. Union says Wade is officially cancer-free now after a tumor had been discovered on his kidney.

On yesterday's The View, Union explained that he's had the surgery and he's cancer-free, but it was a challenge. Wade actually underwent the surgery in late 2023, but kept the news under wraps from not only the public, but much of his family as well. Nick, could you look something up? Because Rochelle was, we were talking last night, and she was on her phone, and I didn't get a chance to research this this morning, but she saw a story that said Michael Bollinger,

Bolton has a brain tumor. Yeah, you know, we were talking about him the other day because of that Eddie Vedder performance for the SNL 50 thing. And, yeah, he's sick. He has a... Rochelle's right, so I'll get you some of the details. Oh, man. This broke yesterday? Yeah. Yeah, so that's terrible news to hear. Oh, man. Is it snowing out, by the way? It is. We got flurries? We got flurries! Steve, that's fresh powder. Yeah.

So he shared a family photo yesterday for the first time since his cancer diagnosis, which was a brain tumor, and that was diagnosed back in 2023. Really? Yeah. I don't know how. I did not know that. I'm looking at the photo. He looks very gaunt. Does he? The reason we missed it is that news broke over the holidays two years ago, and it was when we were off. It was during our holiday break, so that's why we missed it. We were talking about...

Gene Hackman and Michelle Trachtenberg. So it's been a bad couple of days. It has been. All right, we need something that is a little bit more uplifting. How about the fact that it was announced yesterday that Shrek 5 has added a huge name to the cast. And on the official social media accounts, they posted that Zendaya is on board in the role of Shrek and Fiona's daughter. Daughter. Daughter.

It's my daughter. You're big and green. You look weird. Eddie Murphy also returns in the role of Donkey. This is my donkey? The movie is set for release on December 23rd. You're donkier than that!

You're better than that! The Garden State 20th Anniversary Benefit Concert in Los Angeles has sold out, and it sold out quickly. How's the Garden State taking place in Los Angeles? What's going on here? Still a chance for you to watch it. Yeah, right? Yeah. Exactly. So the concert with Giuseppe...

Uh,

Clips from the movie and a bunch of surprises that we need around six months to pull off. I never saw Garden State. I associate that movie and that soundtrack with Casey because the shins are on that soundtrack. And Casey loved that song. It was when I first started working on it. Yeah, and you listen to it a lot. And so I learned to like the shins because of you. And that soundtrack is a great soundtrack. It's known for its eclectic music choices. So that's why Zach Praff is...

I guess overseeing this. I remember that being the big thing. The shins and the strokes and stuff like that were part of that. Well, there was one scene in particular where she's listening to her headphones and she says, here, listen to this. It'll change your life. And that was the shins song, No Slang. And it really...

was a beautiful song and a beautiful moment in the movie. That movie, when you look back on it, it is of a time, though. Zach Braff wrote it. It takes itself a little too seriously. Yes, I thought the exact same thing. I liked it, but it was very self-involved. It was...

It was poised as so indie, kind of. Yes. I was like, I don't want to see that. It's like when they force a cult movie. Yeah. They were really all over that. But there are some movies like that soundtrack. And then what was the Infinite Playlist?

Oh, so-and-so's infinite playlist. Yeah, that had a great soundtrack. There were a few of them that really were... Nick and Nora? Yeah, yeah. Definitive with that. Where you'd buy the album because it was a curated collection of songs. Another one was a John Cusack movie at the record store. Oh, yeah, High Fidelity. High Fidelity. Grease 2. They were making all those lists in the movie. But, yeah, I should probably watch them. All right, anyhow, Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy are...

Finally making their way to streaming. Sony Pictures Entertainment announced Thursday that it's taking bids from major media and tech companies for the streaming rights to both iconic game shows. Does that mean they can drop the F-bomb? Keith Legoy, Sony's TV chairman, said the world is changing around us with audiences shifting to streaming. Other big broadcasts like WWE Raw and NFL Games have already made the jump. Starting in September, the winning bidder will be able to stream new episodes the day after they air with exclusive same-day rights up for grabs today.

in 2028. So, okay. I mean, I can already watch old shows on cable. Yes. You can also watch today's Jeopardy on YouTube. It's, I guess, like a bootlegged version of YouTube, but Jeopardy's production company, whatever, hasn't blocked it. But you can watch it like three or four hours in advance of it airing. So, like, this afternoon at three or four Philly time, you can watch tonight's Jeopardy because I don't know how they get access to it, but I've missed a few episodes of Jeopardy and watched

wanted to watch it because Ryan Long was on the other night. You know, our buddy Ryan Long from Philly. And it's weird that you can watch it earlier than you probably should be able to watch it. All right. A couple other quick things and then we'll move on to some clips and whatnot. The story of Nadia Suleman. Ah, Octomom. The Octomom is finally being told from her point of view. You mean a big gaping vagina? Lifetime. Hello.

...is reading the docuseries called Confessions of Octomom, in which not only does Suleman tell her story, but we hear from her kids and the sperm donor, who until now has been a hidden part of the story. Suleman became known worldwide in 2009 after she got pregnant with octuplets via IVF. She welcomed Noah, Malia, Isaiah, Neriah, Jonah, Makai, Josiah, and Jeremiah, that same year. Oh, my God.

She's also the mother of six. At that point, just put a turnstile. She also had six older children. I didn't remember that part. She had six kids before that? Yeah, Elijah, Amira, Joshua, Aiden, Kalissa, and Caleb. Holy crap. Yeah, so Confessions of Octomom premieres on Lifetime Monday, March 10th. The pictures of how she was enormous, and the big issue was that a fertility doctor was that they were conspiring to get that

going. Right, like it was a little irresponsible for him to implant however many things that he did. But Kathy, the word is, believe it or not, that she's a pretty good mom. Wow. Yeah. All right, last story I have for you.

Pantone is celebrating Drew Barrymore's 50th birthday with a special gift. They are giving her her very own color. Oh, wow. It's so special. Dude, who's the gal that does that impression of her? It's the best. From SNL. Chloe Finley. So the Color Institute has chosen a shade that represents the actress and talk show host's

sunny, outgoing optimism and is worthy of the name Drew Barrymore yellow. Yeah, I was just going to say it has to be a yellow. Before you said sunny. If you were a shade, what color would you be? I feel like I would be like a magenta. I love that color. Really? I think you are right. You both are insane. You guys should go out. You guys are like laughing about a color being named after Drew Barrymore. When you said that, I was like, I would love a color. A color. For me.

Dude, Romano Red. I mean, it's... You know what? Red's not my color. Okay. Really? Yeah, no. What about what you're wearing right now? Yeah, I like this. This is like an iridescent... Looks good on you. It's a Prism. How come mine isn't changing colors the way hers is? Because you're not a girl. It's a different suit. Oh, it is? Yeah, yeah, yeah. How does she get a different suit? That's who she picked. No, no. It's the same. You guys got the male version of it. The female version. Ours had penises. Just came in this color. Okay. All right.

So, anyhow, yeah, so it's Drew Barrymore Yellow. Pantone surprised her with the news of the buttery hue. Oh, I love this buttery hue. In honor of her birthday on her show this week and shared it on Instagram, posting it just like its namesake, Drew Barrymore Yellow is a softly radiant golden yellow whose welcoming warmth and joy glow creates a space where everyone can shop. Shut the f*** up.

I'm trying to assign you a color, and I want to give you an earth tone, like a blue or a green, but I'm going yellow. Yellow for Preston? I feel like Preston is a shade of yellow. No, I'm thinking of a mahogany color, a wood, something from the hewn from a mighty oak. Right.

Maybe even orange. Maybe like where yellow meets orange. That's just the vibe I'm getting from it right now. All right. That's what you're feeling. That's what I'm feeling. That's what I'm putting off. It's funny. You know who you would be?

Green. Green. Definitely green. I do this with my friends with Phish songs all the time because the lighting is such a big thing at Phish concerts. But I'll ask people, I go, what color is Harry Hood? And it's clearly green. And Rift is blue. But I do this all the time with music. Well, I'm getting my house painted. I endorse SertaPro Painters, and they're coming by next week and starting. And in my bedroom, I'm actually going with a deep green.

Really? Okay. And it's not Eagles. It's not going to be like Kelly Green or anything like that. What I'm going for is what? I know what you're going for. Just say it. It's a golf clubhouse. Yes. It's a locker room. It's a men's locker room at golf courses.

That is exactly what I'm going with. Dark browns and a deep green. It's very masculine. Where does it go? Like a specific room or the whole house? My bedroom. Your bedroom. Yeah, my bedroom. So, yeah, I've gotten it from the various...

I love that idea. Locker rooms and golf clubs. When I moved into our house, my room that I'm in right now, deep blue. Yeah? And I actually dig it. You guys saw it. Yeah, yeah. Excellent. Is that the color that you inherited and you never changed it? The color I inherited? Yeah. Yeah, this works. If it works for you, stick with it. Yeah. All right. We have movies that are opening this weekend, so we will touch on them. It's the flute one. Oh, yeah. That's it. Here we go. Change it. Change it.

Bye.

I'm glad we brought that one back. I like that one. It's a good one. All right, so opening today, Last Breath. It's a mystery thriller, and it stars Woody Harrelson, Sima Liu, Finn Cole, and it is a heart-pounding film that follows seasoned deep-sea divers as they battle the raging elements to rescue their crewmate trapped hundreds of feet below the ocean's surface. It's based on a true story. Last Breath is an electrifying story about

teamwork, resilience, and a race against time to do the impossible. It's an hour and 33 minutes long, rated PG-13. It's a wide theater release. Rotten Tomatoes score comes in at 74%. Also opening this weekend is My Dead Friend Zoe. It's a comedy drama, a dramedy if you will, and it stars Sonakwa Martin-Green, Natalie Morale, and Ed Harris.

It is a dark comedy, but a drama also that follows the journey of Merritt, a U.S. Army Afghanistan veteran who's at odds with her family thanks to the presence of Zoe, her dead best friend from the Army.

Despite the persistence of her VA group counselor, the tough love of her mother, and the level of an unexpected love interest, Merritt's cozy, dysfunctional friendship with Zoe keeps the duo insulated from the world. I like that name, Merritt, by the way. Yeah, it is kind of cool, yeah. Running times now are 38 minutes. Rated R. Limited theater release. Rotten Tomatoes score is 93%. That's pretty good. There you go. That is... Oh, now we have the clips. Yeah, let's get to those. So exciting. All right. All right.

In the series Fire Country, a young convict joins a firefighting program looking for redemption. And in this clip, Jared Padalecki talks about playing a captain who trains the cadets. Jason, play the clip, please. Camden Casey, my character, comes in, and we all know Bodie. He started out as a prisoner who was on a work release program trying to earn his way to being part of CAL FIRE. He has to go through three phases, and he's gone through two. Dude.

All right. The new episode of Fire Country is tonight on CBS. Here's our next clip.

Thriller film Cleaner is set in the Canada Square skyscraper in London, where an ex-soldier turned window cleaner works to rescue hostages. Here, Daisy Ridley talks about her fear of heights while filming. Hit it, please. I did get used to being at the height I was at, because for the most part, I was in a pretty set area. But the cradle did move up and down, and there were a few times going up and down that I looked down and thought, oh, no!

And I felt so alone. Looking down, seeing the whole crew on safe ground. And me up there. Shut up, Demi. Cleaner is now in theaters, by the way. They're saying it's terrible. Oh, really? Oh, my God. Yeah, they're saying it's one of the worst movies of the year. Oh, no. It's been panned by the critics. It is. They say the problem is...

She's outside the building. Yeah. Throughout, like, the whole thing. Yeah, it's just... And it gets boring after a while. Okay. John McClane went inside. Right, right, right. All right, that's the Entertainment Report. And if you're just tuning in, we are sitting at the base of Montage Mountain. We're looking at our mountain cam as we speak right now. There's a camera that is right on the hill of which we are going to execute the Cardboard Classic. It's groomed. They're putting up the fences as we speak.

We're awaiting the arrival of our participants in a little while. The vendors are getting in place, all set for the throngs of people that will arrive here in a little bit. So there's plenty to see and do. And we'll be seeing and doing all of it throughout the course of the morning and after our show. And then Pierre comes in and does his coverage as well. Yes, everyone's going to be here.

Brent Porsche will be here, Jackie Bam Bam. We got the full collective. So in the meantime, we're going to conduct our radio program. So we will take a break and we will come back with more of the Cardboard Classic on 93.3 WNMR. Stay partied.

Wouldn't it be great if there was a place to listen to MMR online nationwide where you could sign up for an MMR insider newsletter so you never miss the important stuff on All Things Rock. Maybe see Preston and Steve Daily Rush videos. Look for upcoming shows on a comprehensive concert calendar. See when and where we'll be out and about. Pick up some MMR gear and like a whole lot more. Well, it turns out there's a website that does all that.

WMMR.com. And it's always available, like right now, on your computer or phone or whatever. Wow. What a time to be alive. I...

Stew meat was almost my air name back when I started radio. She said stew meat, and I kind of chuckled, and I saw Nick chuckle, and then you chuckled. So there are two things like that, stew meat and bone-in. Yeah. Hi, name's Stew. Stew meat. Nice to meet you. I'm bone-in. Uh-huh.

By the way, right behind you, Steve, I saw one of the snow cats grooming. Do you think they'd let me drive one of those things? I think they would. You know, just take it out for a spin. I've ridden in one, but I've never actually driven one. And that seems like it would be awesome because you can go wherever the hell you want to in one of those things. Would you like to get up to the top of the hill, gun it? Yeah. Hell yeah. I think there's a bottle of bourbon sitting on the bar over there, President. I think what you need to do is...

Down that first. Yeah, and then go. And then hop in the water. Tragedy this morning. I think they'll let me do it. Philadelphia broadcaster Preston Elliott was removed from a tree. And just taking a look at a couple of things, and we don't know how this event goes until it gets going, but we asked them to make the hill a little more steep.

It looks more steep. I think they really did it, and I'm excited for this. And I'm also curious if the Tito's tent is prepared because they're right at the base of the... Yeah, they're putting the bales of hay up. I know, yeah, but it's in the line of fire right there. It might be like vodka for everyone! Woo!

They've had... Here's the equation. Steeper hill, greater velocity. Greater velocity and a run traveling faster. Not enough bales of hay? Goodbye, cheese. I was talking to Eric yesterday. I stopped by here yesterday when I got here and we were just talking about the operations of the mountains and stuff like that. I'm not sure if they were the owners or who they are, but they're on those things like grooming the hill and the snowmobiles. The owners. It's just like all

hands in. So the reason that we connected in the first place is this guy named Jeff Slavinsky. Jeff is great. He's wandering around somewhere. Jeff's a huge fan of the President Steve Show. Listen to MMR forever. And Kathy, I went out and saw he was setting up the fencing. He's a marketing manager at this place. That's what Eric was saying. They do all of the work. And Jeff invited us to this mountain to

Maybe in 2022, we made it happen. In 2023, this is our third year doing it. So thanks, Jeff, because you're a great guy. But yeah, he's working his ass off. They were lobbying hard, weren't they? What's that? They were lobbying hard. They absolutely were, yeah. And they've delivered all the times. And honestly, when you think of like a ski resort type of vibe, this is what you're going to get here. Yeah, I went skiing here after Cardboard Classic two years ago in 23. It was the best skiing I've had in the Poconos in a long, long time. So if you're just in it for skiing or snowboarding, check out Montage.

And last night, the manager at the restaurant that we ate at, she was telling us, I guess whoever owns it, maybe there was some sort of like changeover or whatever. She said what they're doing now, like obviously including this event, but she said throughout the year, they do all kinds of events up here. They have like a yoga retreat. They have like a wine and cheese event. She said that what they're doing here throughout the year, not just in the winter, is great. Yeah. And they also, you can tell they have a water attraction stuff in the summertime. They have a lazy river. Yeah.

It's fantastic. I think we're like on the lazy river right now. We are. I think it kind of like comes right through this area. Yeah, so when you're hearing where we are, if you ever come to see it, you're exactly right, Case. They can lift up, apparently, their boards, for lack of a better term, they lift that up and the course goes right

by where the stage is. Oh, that's cool. Yeah, and speaking of the stage, it's a big one, and that's where tomorrow night, it's right now, we can see it out the window where we are tomorrow is when Tonic and Better Than Ezra are playing for Mountain Fest, and from what I understand, your lift ticket is your ticket to the concerts.

And we have the M80s that are going to be performing when we are done with the Cardboard Classic today. And that's a tribute to early days of MTV. So it's going to be great. I just got a message from our friend Joe Preston from Camelot Productions. They are on their way up. So they're going to do awesome drone coverage for us. They were at Camp Out for Hunger. And they're on 476. They're working their way up. He said they're going to be here around 830 or so. And we love those guys. We're going to get great footage. The coverage is going to be...

Yeah.

And that's the way it is this year. So they're going to be roving around incognito and scoring. And then when we are done, when the last sled comes down, we're going to go over to the Montage Mountain stage and we are going to announce our winners right away. Because the crowd starts to kind of disperse after that and everybody kind of...

goes their separate ways. They don't necessarily leave, especially with the music going on, but we've got to grab everybody's attention right away and let them know who the winners are. So this seat right here, Preston, is pretty great because we have a monitor here where we've been watching them groom the hill, but then beyond that, you look through two different sets of windows and you can see the

The sled's starting to arrive. I just saw... Yeah, I just saw... I don't know what it was. I was like... It had like a gothic sort of vibe to it. Well, last night when we were on the way down here, we're in the car. I'm on the... We're on the northeast extension. I'm in the left lane. And there was kind of heavy traffic where we were. And all of a sudden, Rochelle goes, there's a pirate ship! And...

They had pulled over. They were on the shoulder, and we had already zipped past them. I would have pulled over and stopped and said hi to whoever it was. But I think they were, like, recovering it up. So sometimes there are mishaps on the way in the travel. It was so funny to hear her go, it's a pirate ship! We used to talk about it. It was almost like the ancient burial ground of...

Things that didn't make it all the way up because they would fly apart. A lot of these, you know, you'll see people just, they pull out all the stuff, so they'll get like a Penske truck. Yeah. It's the only way to move. I saw a couple of them coming up yesterday. I saw a few outside the hotel this morning, and yeah, you could tell they were getting prepped. By the way, people who... Oh, weren't they the ones outside my room?

all night? They were not. Well, I don't know. I had the press and I had the partiers last night. You had the partiers last night. I had the people banging in the room next to me last year. Yes. Yeah. Remember that? I didn't have that this year. At least I didn't hear that. Steve, people are tuning into the YouTube channel and they don't quite know what you're wearing. So Casey set this up last year, but I think it deserves an explanation.

Tipsy elves. Tipsy elves. Am I explaining? Oh, yeah. Okay. Sorry. Yeah. No, I just thought it would be fun if we all dressed up and matched and looked the same. And so we did this last year. Steve ended up rocking the snowsuit the entire show. And then we reached out to tipsy elves again this year. And I put Kathy in charge of actually picking out our...

fashion designs. I sort of went with the 80s theme here at the mountain and Steve's got a metallic snowsuit on. You look badass, dude. By the way, the goggles which he just put on are huge and you can wear your glasses underneath. I know. Which is awesome. I was thinking about that. Was I not meant to be a kill bot? I swear to God. Look at you. I'm like, no, I'm here for your mother. Yeah.

No, give us a little Arnold Schwarzenegger in there. The mountains and the Tito's. The kind of things. You see the people with the pirate ships. And there's the cat. The colors change. Mine don't. I don't know. The Tito's. I was getting death pump vibes.

Daft Punk. Yeah. I love that. So we will all be wearing that later on today. Yeah. I almost wore mine in here, but it is hot. It is toasty warm. I've never been a snowboarder or skier, so not having the apparel, I never... To me, it seems like my preference is to just put it on, keep it unzipped, and then when you go out...

It is surprisingly flexible. Yeah. Yeah. I was surprised. You're not a packed sausage right now. You're supposed to be able to move and ski and snowboard and those things. But I went outside a little bit earlier, and it's a little bit nippy out there. It is. Those suits are definitely going to come in handy. Well, you're talking about a high here today of, what, 40, 41? Yeah, somewhere around that range. Yeah. I mean, it's still...

going to be chilly. We're going to need them on. So last year, the ones that we wore last year, Jen Fred from Fox 29 just so happened to have the same one. So she does a girls ski and snowboard trip every year with her girlfriends and they get the Tipsy Elves snowsuits. So

She just so happened to have the same one we had last year. So we ordered these. She is genuinely upset that I didn't get her one to match us. Oh, no kidding. I was like, I just thought last year it matched. Coincidentally, she has another one because she went out again to, I think they went to Park City or something like that. And she has a pink one on, which is so cool. It's like hot pink. Yeah.

But she's upset she's not matching us. I was like, all right, we'll try to get you in next year. Do we need to do this now? Do we need to add her? Well, I already added Chuck and Rodney to the mix because I got a ration of crap from both of those guys last year. Rodney's like, what? What, am I not part of that group? I'm going to kill you. Tipsy, were they on Shark Tank? You know what they were, yeah. They were on Shark Tank. Yeah. And they took off, right? Did they pass on them on Shark Tank? No.

They did get picked? Okay. Okay. Yeah, and Jen was saying that she got one of the first iterations of the snowsuits, and we've had a couple of them, and how they've progressed, and they seem to be warmer, more flexible. You can wear them to actually ski and snowboard. No, but to actually ski and snowboard. So last year, our rainbow outfit, I have now...

have willed that to I haven't willed it bequeath that to my son Carter he's going to wear that today oh nice yeah so he'll be dressed let me ask you yeah

So he's taller, right? Yeah. Yeah. So Casey, it got me an extra large, so it'll fit him. It should fit him. Yeah, it might even be a 2X just for the height. This will be the first time my wife comes to this event, by the way. She's never been because the kids were always younger and it was difficult for her to get away. There was always a school event that took place usually on the same day of cardboard class. Does she ski or snowboard? No, no, not at all. She hates it.

I thought about getting my son up here because University of Scranton is not too far from here, and that's on his list of potential schools to go to next year. Yes, my niece and nephew went to it. Okay. Fantastic time. Yeah, and it just didn't work out. It looked like it was going to work out. I was going to bring him up here last night. He has a friend who's actually a freshman there now, and he was going to spend the night with him. And then I'm going to do this thing today, but it just ended up not working out.

Real quick, I do want to mention this. We were talking about our suits, and Marissa just texted me a picture of us all together wearing our suits. And it was a great photo that was taken by Bill Kane, photographer, who's going to be our official photog here today. So look for great pictures from him later on. Kath? Hey, can I give you my... Pierre update? Pierre update.

I was just going to throw that to you. Kathy off air is like, I have an update on Pierre. So we always wonder what time he's going to get here. You know, is he going to get here on time? Sometimes he drives up the morning of. Sometimes he drives the night before. Is he going to get the date right? Right. Is he going to get the date right? So his plan was to come up last night, right? Which according to him, he did come up last night.

I passed him when I was leaving work. He was getting out of his car, coming into the hotel. This morning? This morning, because the car beeped, right? And so I was like, oh, good, it's somebody else. I thought maybe it was Nick or Casey. And I look, and there he is carrying his glittery Uggs boots and everything else. Just checking in. And a bag. Yeah. Just checking in at 5 o'clock in the morning. That's exactly what I said. I said to him yesterday, he says, I'll be up there. I said, are you going to be up there?

Tonight or in the dark? Yeah. Because there's a delineation. Yeah, yeah. Once you cross midnight, it's the next day. I said to him, I go, are you just getting here? He goes, yeah. I go, are you going to go in and go to bed? He goes, yeah. I would have a mental breakdown if I... And Pierre can do it. I'm partially envious of...

I'm early. I've got everything in place. Kathy, was he all chipper like that? Yeah, of course. He wasn't no dear or anything? No, no, no. I went to the wrong mountain. He goes, it's a brand new day.

Okay, we'll see in a little bit. You know, Steve, you joke about him going to the wrong mountain. I could 100% see that happening. Getting off at the wrong exit, you know, and going someplace else. Yeah, I couldn't live like that, Steve. There's no way. But I saw him about 5 a.m., right? So that means he left his house probably about 3 a.m. So at 3 a.m., he was like, all right, seems like a good time to leave. I'll tell you this. From our destination of many years to here is...

You blink and you're here. Yeah. It's because it's a straight through. Yeah, yeah. And I love it. And I love the fact that when you get off the exit...

There's the mountain. Yeah, it's right there. You can see the trails and everything. And I didn't realize there's five guys in our hotel parking lot. Right in the parking lot. Yeah, last night driving down, we were still like six miles out. And I came up here with my family, and I'm like, there it is right up there. You can see it. You can still see it bright as day. I remember as a kid, Preston, driving to Disneyland at the time and seeing the Matterhorn in the distance.

See, when you're driving to something and you can see it, the horizon of the excitement level is close to the roof. Well, especially when you're driving up and there's no snow on the ground, right? Yes, and you see that. And then all of a sudden you just look up and you just see a mountaintop full of snow. You're like, okay, here we go. Nick, by the way, I met a guy in the hotel last night. He wanted specifically to let you and I know that he brought some of his homegrown weed for us. Oh, good. Aw.

He's like, come on, man. I'll go out and park a lot. I'll get it right now. I'm like, I'm going to dinner with my family right now. I'm like, find me tomorrow. Okay. But he was very insistent. He was very excited. Just made this crack. You've got to try. Speaking of weed...

I've been to one or two concerts here. I think just one. Casey, you ever been to a show up here? No, the Peach Festival is usually up here, right? Yeah. And it was, I think, like 25 years ago. It was early 2000s, like 2000, 2001, something like that. But I'd love to get to a concert back up here at some point because they do festival shows. The venue is right there. It's right there, yeah. So you take that side road to get to where the lodge is, where we're broadcasting from, and you can see it below the mountain. And then there's a ballpark.

Right into the hotel as well. There used to be the AAA team for the Phillies, the Red Barons, and now I think it's AAA team maybe for the Yankees. Okay, because I saw the lights. They had the lights on for some reason last night, but I didn't see the field. I was wondering what that was. I'm fairly certain now it's in the air. Turn them on.

Yeah. Pierre needed a beacon on the way up. I think it might be an independent team. But anyway, yeah, it was the AAA team for the Phils for a long, long time. Nice. I think when we were checking into the hotel yesterday, the guy who was checking us in didn't like me very much because he handed me my room key, and then Chuck checked in right after me, and he was going to hand Chuck his room keys. And then he's like, actually, why don't you guys switch? But at this point, I was already checked in. Right, right. Yeah. So...

So he gives, you know, so I'm like, okay, I don't really care. So we switch and we were just right across the hall from each other. Was there a dead possum in your room? No, but dude, Chuck's room was better than mine. Yeah, that's so cool. I went to the Q to

He didn't ask me. He told me. He's like, give him your key and then I'll give you this key. But like my room, first of all, his room like overlooked everything. You could see the mountain, you know, and the shopping center and all that. I could see a dumpster, you know, and then like the, what do you call it? The air conditioning system. I didn't have any coffee mugs in my room. I didn't have an alarm clock in my room. He had an alarm clock, coffee mugs. He had this extra table. I didn't have the extra table. Well, you made it the way you present yourself. Yeah.

Or was Chuck's, because Chuck has like the company credit card. Was it his car? Like, did the guy know that he booked the rooms or something? No, but when he did that, I was like, let's see whose room's better because I think this guy doesn't like it. No, no, it may not be that he didn't like you. It may be that he really liked Chuck. That could have been it. Maybe, yeah.

That was Justin. He's a very nice guy. Really nice guy. He was wearing a striped shirt. Yeah, and I thought we hit it off. I must have said something wrong to the guy. He asked me to visit their family during Thanksgiving. Super nice. Justin, you mentioned the...

Manatee-sized gyros. Oh, yes. I see the sign over there for the gyros. Oh, really? Okay. By the way, there's a whole little village here of vendors all around the place, and I love this aspect of it from Red Bull and everything. It's one of the things that was missing from former years before we got here was the fact that there's business to be had selling food and liquor and whatever.

have you out there. So montages capitalize on it, which is great because it's more conveniences for the people that come up and the spectators. And so we love that aspect of it. It's also really cool is that when this is done and they start breaking stuff down, two years ago when I went skiing here, Steve, you can see where the tubing hill is and where the studs are going to come down. I would ski right over that. Oh, really? And it was two days later. So the event was on Friday, is on Friday, and then we were skiing on Sunday. So we just came to the

base of the mountain. I was like, wait a minute. Two days ago, there were massive cardboard sleds going down this exact same spot. How do they do that? It's my understanding that right here is where they do the pond skimming. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Right. So they actually, they'll actually dig out a large rectangular

pool, basically. You come down the mountain and on skis. Yeah, see how far you can make it on the water. I love it. And looking over your shoulder, Steve, there's Smash Burgers and a Fry Hut. They got all kinds of stuff here, so it's wonderful. Real quick, I wanted to read this exchange

that Marissa had yesterday. We played a song, I think it was yesterday or maybe the day before, by the band Big Handsome. They had a song called Cardboard Classic. Right. And we played a portion of it and it wasn't really like a tribute to...

this event, but the song is called Cardboard Classic, and Adam from the band reached out to Marissa and thanked us for playing the song and explained what it was about. Oh, okay. So it's a pretty neat little story. He says, the song goes back to a personal experience at the 2020 Cardboard Classic.

He said, I was a newly permitted driver in 2020, and my dad made me drive him and his work buddies from Quakertown to the Cardboard Classic. So they got a designated driver at 16. He said, they all got loaded, and I had to witness their drunkenness. It was a lot for a 16-year-old kid to deal with. Some of the highlights from that day?

them yelling and throwing stuff at strangers out the window, them arguing with a bouncer at a strip club to let me in. Oh my God. This failed. And I waited outside listening to black Sabbath for a couple hours. Dad sounds like a peach. That's like a winner. Uh,

Them making me drive off-road in a minivan. I got it stuck in the mud thanks to their helpful suggestions. And them making me pull over at a diner so they could take a leak. My dad pissed on the side of the diner right at a window where people were eating. Oh, my God.

I could go on, but to put it short, a 16-year-old kid saw way too much that night. All's good now, and it was a true coming-of-age experience, but at least it inspired a cool song. But hey, the Cardboard Classic itself was a blast. He said, wish we could be there this year, but we're going to be playing at Philomoka on Friday, and that is from Adam at Big Handsome. So it was slightly traumatic for this young man. That could make you add into a horror movie. Yeah, yeah. Jesus Christ.

But he turned it into a song, so we appreciate it. All right, listen. Here's one of the things that we are going to aspire to do today, and that is to stay on time and see if we can wrap up our program by 10 so that we can then get outside and lay the groundwork and get the event started around 1030. So normally we would wait about 15 minutes before we take a commercial break. I want to go ahead and do that now, and then we'll come back and try to stay ahead as much as possible. But then again, you never know when Pierre is going to get here, so we may...

We may be on until noon. Sure, yeah. All right, so we will take a break. We'll come back, but we're setting the stage for the 2025 Cardboard Classic at Montage Mountain. We'll be back in just a minute on 93.3 WMMR. Stay with us. Preservation Equipment on 93.3 WMMR.

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Got a text message that says, good morning, gang. I am coming up and cannot wait for my pick with my tipsy elves. Because our outfits are carved from a group called Tipsy Elves. And it says, see you soon, Santa Rick. I'm not sure if Santa Rick is part of our group of Santas. We have, which we have officially now...

officially, because in the past they have kind of ceremoniously been a group of people dressed as Santa Claus at the top of the hill, helping to move the larger sleds, because sometimes the people that create these things can't push them. They're too big.

And so Santa and the other Santas get together, and they've helped out. And Marissa has officially recruited them in a, I keep using the word official, but in an official capacity to help us out this year, which is wonderful. They're all pretty buff and good and ready to go. Yep.

Absolutely. It makes a big difference. Look outside, Steve. It's snowing. Yes, it's a Christmas miracle. We got some beautiful flurries happening as we speak. And looking at our mountain cam in front of us here that is fixated on the actual run for Cardboard Classic, I see that the mountain officials have put down the rubber mats at the bottom. And the rubber mats are supposed to slow things down a bit. If you've ever...

in a restaurant, if you've worked in like a really big kitchen, some of them have these rubber mats on the ground. It's the exact same thing. And they throw a bunch of those down, then they put down hay bales, and that's used to cushion those sleds that go too fast. Ha ha!

We have seen some sleds pierce those bales of hay. The truth of the matter is they're prepared. Everything we've asked them to do, they've done this year, and we could not be more excited. Yep. So we're stoked to get it underway, but we have other things to do before then. It's Friday, so let's officially ring in the day, the weekend, with our favorite band, Froggy. Here we go. It's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it

It is Friday, isn't it? All right, let's get to the B-File. Jason, let's go. Now, WMMR presents Kristen and Steve's Bizarre Files.

Brought to you this morning by Newman University. You can join Newman University for New Night Day. That's coming up Saturday, March 22nd. You can cover all that awaits you. Tour the campus, meet students, and jumpstart your future as a Newman Knight. To register and learn more, visit newman.edu slash admission. So we'll start with a story out of Florida. A woman was arrested on Wednesday after mistakenly vandalizing a vehicle she thought was

to her ex-boyfriend. Oh, man. This reminds me... Oh, I'm sorry. This reminds me of the movie Road Trip. Yes, yeah, yeah. Where the guy goes to Boston instead of Austin or whatever the girl does and destroys the guy's car. Austin, Massachusetts. So...

Deputies said they responded to a vandalism call overnight about a young woman spray painting a vehicle. Upon arrival, deputies found a woman later identified as Evelyn Fabianeski. Something like that, anyhow.

Uh, Evelina is 18 and a 16 year old girl, uh, the latter of whom had yellow spray paint on her sweatpants. What did she spray on the car? Word or just F'd it up? Just a bunch of words. I don't remember exactly what it was. So when, uh, question the 18 year old admitted that she was upset with her ex-boyfriend and decided to spray paint and throw eggs at him.

And what she thought was his vehicle, unfortunately, the vehicle in question belonged to a neighbor, not her ex-boyfriend. This is like Big Lebowski, actually. It really is, yeah. Fabianski told deputies that her ex-boyfriend owed her around $700, which is what spurred the act of vengeance. However, it turned out that the car's actual owner had just parked across the street, leading to the misunderstanding. The damage to the car reportedly tallied up to an estimate of $5,000.

Deputies also explained that they had caught the woman driving with two open containers of Four Loko in plain view. The 18-year-old was arrested and now faces charges of criminal mischief contributing to the delinquency of a minor. I wonder who the next lucky guy is. Possession of alcohol under 21 and a DUI. The 16-year-old faces a charge of possession of marijuana. A casual conversation on a flight.

led California wildlife officers to uncover a major poaching operation involving the illegal possession of multiple protected species. California Department of Fish and Wildlife announced that their investigation resulted in multiple guilty pleas, fines, and probations for those involved. I couldn't help but notice that you're a condor.

Why would you do that?

you do that? So they also admitted to illegally killing a mountain lion, an act prohibited in California. As the conversation continued, they disclosed that a close family member in Napa County possessed multiple taxidermied mountain lions, a wolverine, and other protected species. That's about it, except for the children we're keeping in our basement. After landing, the officers conducted further questioning and confirmed the couple had a green sea turtle skull, a federally protected endangered species. This led to search warrants at two residents, and

Wildlife officers discovered illegally harvested deer, mountain lion parts, a ring-tailed cat, an owl mount, and an additional and additional protected species. And a Sasquatch pelvis. The investigation resulted in guilty pleas from three individuals, fines total over $4,000, and all offenders were placed on probation, prohibiting them from practicing in hunting activities. Doesn't Fort Grand seem to be a little bit low? It does. That's what I thought, too. But they were stupid enough to just...

talk about it and got him in trouble. That's why you never talk to people on a flight. A pilot on a flight got an unwelcome surprise in the middle of a flight when a tarantula bit him in mid-air. The flight was heading to Madrid from Dusseldorf, Germany when a spider that had wandered onto the plane in Casablanca attacked.

The tarantula somehow got on board during a stop in Morocco. The pilot, who was allergic to spider bites, started having a bad reaction. So luckily, the pilot was treated with anti-inflammatory medicine and he was okay. Once the plane landed safely in Madrid, it had to be fumigated to make sure that no other creepy crawlers were on board. And it caused a three-hour delay. Does anyone know how to treat spider bites? Yes.

So, is this the start of a robot uprising at a recent festival in China? A humanoid robot.

appeared to lunge aggressively at a spectator in the crowd. You knew it was going to happen. The incident was captured on video and shared widely on social media, sparking debates about the robot's behavior. Some viewers interpreted the robot's actions as eerily human-like aggression. However, others suggested that the robot may have simply tripped, leading to a misadventure of its movements. So, who knows?

In case you're having a bad day, remember that some people have a fear of ketchup, which is officially called mortescu-scus-phobia. Is that a fear of it because it looks like blood? So an English woman, Leigh Woodman, feels very scared and sick when she sees or smells ketchup. Ah!

She does not know why, but this fear, she has felt this fear for as long as she can remember. She is far from alone as well. Alexandria Govan from Scotland developed this fear. Me too. After her sister sprayed ketchup on her when she was 12. Yeah, bitch. Even though she works as a waitress, handling ketchup makes her feel very uncomfortable. I literally want to kill myself. And she works with the thing she is most afraid of every single day, fear of ketchup. Never heard of that.

I wonder where that comes from. I don't know.

That is what I have in the Bizarre File for you. We have a little sunshine breaking through the clouds. And that, with snow at the same time, makes for a very cool picture right now. Nick, you're looking up at the mountain. It's really nice. You see the sun sort of cresting up above where we are. I remember two years ago, three years ago, when we were figuring this out, we hadn't been. We didn't know what the situation was going to be as far as where the sun comes up. And it's cool because it's right behind...

the tubing hill right behind where all the sleds are going to be in just an hour or two. It's glorious. You can start to see the G light up on the Eurostein. By the way, we are at the Slocum Hollow Bar and Restaurant. That's where we're broadcasting from as we're doing this. We thank those guys for giving us the space. Also, some of our sponsors, Tito's Handmade Vodka, ProSport,

Pro Team Collision, the official cardboard sled debris cleanup crew, by the way. They're phenomenal. And they'll be helping clear the sleds that crash. Newman University, there's a lot of people. As Nick had said, drone coverage provided by Camelot Productions. This is going to be cool. Our photos are being done by Bill Kane. You can check out kaneimages.com.

Comcast with our connectivity today. Live Casino and Hotel Philadelphia is a sponsor. And also Dunkin'. They are on site with free samples in the parking lot, too. So I was talking to my friends. They said there's people that are tailgating out in the parking lot. I love it. Getting ready, and I assume some of the creations are arriving. We're kind of in this little bubble here where we broadcast from, but we'll do a little recon and see what's going on outside. Are we going to send Nick out with a pact?

Yeah, in a little bit. And we'll see if we can find some people to chat with and how they feel about Carver's Vice. I'll wander around the whole mountain. Yeah. See what I can see. But with that, we'll take a quick break. We'll come back in a moment. We are aiming to wrap up around 10 o'clock this morning and head out and get the festivities started close to 1030 or so. So we'll return with more from Montage Mountain on MMR.

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All right. Thank you very much, Kathy. So even though we're here at the mountain, we're still going to feel like we are back in our studio because we are doing a favorite Friday segment. It's time for the connoisseur. It's time for the connoisseur. Look, I have an effect on everything. It's a beautiful thing and a wonderful day to do this for Montage Mountain. So we got some stories to share.

And, oh, by the way, when we play the food clips, we still have no access to our telephone lines. There's a company-wide issue that's going on, so we're going to have to text answers today. Well, the company's made a bold decision to get rid of phones.

We're going to see how it works out. So you're going to be texting in the answer and then Sam back at the station is going to pick a random person who texted in to call you and let you know if you're a winner or not. And then he's going to tell us who the winner is. So we're going to do it

that way. So I have a treat for you today for the connoisseur. Almost every single story in the connoisseur is a local story, local to Philadelphia. So we'll start with this one. Philadelphia's dining scene is adding a brand new restaurant, which is offering a cuisine never before offered in Philadelphia. That seems almost possible. Well, it's a restaurant called

Da Vinci and You. Da Vinci and You. And you is spelled Y-U. And it is the first restaurant in Philly to offer Italian and Asian fusion cuisine. Okay. Sounds unique, right? Yeah.

A menu of adventurous and unique dishes. And I'll rattle off some of these. This is a press release that was sent out. More meatballs in my lo mein, please. No, listen. That's kind of like that. Is it? Yeah. So, orange chicken parm. All right. All right. Black cod dumplings. Iran sushi trio, which is... It says...

Arancini meets maki rolls, which is kind of a fusion. Then you have Italian-Asian wedding ramen, which might be ramen with meatballs. With meatballs, yeah. Ginger duck meatballs over udon noodles and black sesame tiramisu. So fusion is a popular concept. There are a number of restaurants that are in Philadelphia, and we've never done a fusion Asian, huh?

Yeah, Italian-Asian. Italian-Asian, excuse me, yeah. You know what fusion I've had and I love is Japanese-Mexican. And they take, like, Mexican flavors and apply it to fish that you would find, you know, like sushi-style stuff. So it's like tempura on a taco or things along those lines. Okay. But I've never tried, obviously, Italian-Asian fusion because in Philly it hasn't existed. So chef and owner Mark Griecoff, former Flannel, he's from Flannel, was his restaurant,

brings four decades of experience opening Philadelphia and America's most celebrated restaurants and years of experience working with Iron Chef Jose Garces, George Perrier, Stephen Starr, and many others. Grieco traveled abroad to Italy with his family last year and had a meal that changed his life, and he brought back ideas and inspiration and set out to open not only Philly's only restaurant of its kind, but one of the only of about a dozen or so Italian-Asian fusion restaurants in America. So this is kind of a new take on it.

I'm going to Italy in a week from today. Yes! Holy crap. Yeah. It's that soon. It's that soon. Are you flying to Venice? I'm flying into Milan. I just missed Fashion Week, by the way, guys. Oh. Yeah. But where were you wearing? Yeah, probably I would have worn what I'm wearing right now. But I'm curious as to which...

You know, because Italy's, you know, different in different regions and stuff. And, like, what should I go for? You should go to a place that's called the Lasta Standa. Yeah. Good hot dog joint? Good hot dog. No, but I will be in Milan and Venice. So I'm just wondering. And they're different than Tuscany and Rome. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So.

Look at you. So, uh, Grica, the chef had returned to Flannel in, uh, last summer, started work on a new menu and concept announced in December. Flannel would close and in just weeks transformed 1819 East Peshunk Avenue into one of the most unique and stunning new dining destinations. Would you consider yourself an adventurous eater?

Yeah. You'll try anything. Yeah, sure. It's funny because we went to Harvest last night for dinner and Preston and his family and friends came separate from us. So I was looking at the menu trying to guess what he would order. And because he's a little bit more adventurous, I went off a little. I was wrong. He ended up getting the risotto. Yeah, I got the scallops and shrimp risotto. What I thought you were going to say, Casey, the story I thought you were going to tell was that...

Actually, I'm a pretty picky eater, but a place like Harvest is perfect for me. There's a lot on the menu for me. Yeah, farm fresh, farm to table stuff. But I got to use a phrase that is often used on me on someone else at the table, and it was Chuck. And I said, Chuck, do they have the chicken fingers for you? Chuck was already worried about going to Harvest. He's like, is this going to be like grass and dirt and stuff? I'm like...

There'll be something for you to eat. Yeah, burgers and everything you'd want. If anyone's pickier than me, it's him. It's him. All right. They have a slice of pizza and 18 pills to choose from. Da Vinci & News is now open in time for East Pashunk Restaurant Week with a special three-course menu at only $40. So that's kind of an interesting... Yeah, I love to support local business. ...little take in a new cuisine. All right, let's start with the clips. And like I said, you're going to have to text

in your answer and then we're going to randomly pick a winner. That's how it's going to work today. So you'll have to identify what movie this clip is from. So Jason back at the studio. Jason Fayon is running our board back there today. Jason, if you could play our first clip, I'd appreciate it.

Okay, so he just whispered in our ear that the digital unit that we use to play the clips is not working. So we'll come back to that. As we were going through that, I'm looking out the window here, and I just see a giant bottle of you driving by. So this is a cardboard classic. It was a cardboard sled going by. All right, so I guess we'll do another story. Okay.

We're good? Oh, wait a minute. He says we're good. Okay. Jason, play the clip, please. Here we go. I can't tell you which one because that'll give away the answer. Cardboard. Okay, here we go. So I'll give you a little piece of advice. If this bunch is all you've got, don't tangle with Hera because they don't look tough enough to me to stomp a stringy jackrack.

Okay. 215-263-WMMR. Did that mention food at all? Jackrabbit? Oh, Jackrabbit. Okay. All right. 215-263-WMMR. No, don't call that. Text. Text it. It's a goddamn nightmare. Text if you know the answer to 39333. All right. And now we can get our order up. Okay. Boy, this is a shocker. After almost a 20-year run, Robin Gupta...

has sold Guppy's Good Times in Contra Hawkins. Oh! I didn't know that's what his last name was, Kath. Yeah, no, I did, but didn't we already do this? No, you sent it to me last... Maybe we talked about it off air? We talked off air. Oh, all right, okay, sorry. So Gupta bought Pat's Bar on September 5th, 2005 and officially changed it to Guppy's several months later.

You've heard guppies here on our radio program many times from Kathy. Kathy would starve to death without a guppy. There's a Kathy Romano wrap that is on the menu, has been for years. Gupta attributed the sale to his move to Florida and his desire to not have to travel as frequently and to be away from his wife and two young children.

He opened a Guppy's location in Longboat Key last year. Yeah, he did. And so they just had their second baby. She had a little boy. And my guess is, Robin told me before the news broke, but my guess is, you know, and I guess like he says in there, you know, having a second kid and now you're, you know, in full family mode. Yeah. He would have to travel to Conchahawken, I think he said like one week a month, just to, you know, I guess check on... Why don't you buy it from him? Why don't you manage it? You know what he...

He didn't offer it to me. I would have. Well, the new owners are Rick and Gail Mahoney who purchased Pizza Time Old Time Saloon in 2023. Do you know that one? Yeah, so that was like a, I believe it was like a pizza place bar that like you might have even still been able to smoke in there. It was like one of those.

And apparently this couple is buying up a lot of real estate in Kajoggan right now. Guppies is their third acquisition on Maple Street. Before purchasing Peachtime Old Time, they purchased the adjacent building that had been Don Lenn's longtime home to house their collection of muscle cars. The Mahoney's offered...

that the wildly successful Guppies will stay Guppies. So that's the thing. The name and the menu will be retained, and the biggest change they intend to make is installing a new bar top. Which is so funny because there's a lot of upgrades that could happen in there, but the bar top...

They need to replace it. That one, okay. Yeah. I know you don't eat sushi, but I had actually heard that Guppy's has really good sushi. Yeah, so I don't know if that's going to stay in there, if it's still in there. But yeah, I've heard that a number of times. People love the sushi. I mean, he got like a real, what are they called? Sushi chef? Sushi chef to come in. And yeah, people loved it. You know, it's one of those chefs that makes sushi. Sushi chef. So by the way, this article- Can you bring over a hot oven plate?

By the way, this article, which was in More Than the Curve, writes, the Preston and Steve shows Kathy Romano was a regular at Guppy's Good Times and even has a menu item, the Kathy Romano wrap named after her. She shared...

When I moved to Conshohocken in 2005, Robin quickly became one of my first friends. Those orange walls and guppies witnessed countless Corona-like nights, spontaneous dance parties, and our legendary all-day 80s dance bash.

She went on to say, we celebrated everything there, including a friend's bachelorette party and to most recently, my 20th anniversary with the Preston and Steve show. My favorite sandwich. I just love it. Imagine you're a girl just in town.

What am I going to eat? And they make a sandwich for me. Did we have a party there in honor of your 20th anniversary? My girlfriends did. Yeah, we met there. I thought we were meeting up for a drink and they had like a little surprise when I was with you guys for 20 years. They got a cake and

And, yeah, so, yeah, we celebrated it there. And none of us were invited to this thing? It was Girl Squad. Yeah, it was literally... It was just my girlfriends. Okay. Yeah. So, anyhow, Guppy's... Yeah, so Robin has moved on, sold it. It's going to remain the same, though. That's what they say. And, like, you know, this has been...

on the back burner for Robin for a long time. And like, he would constantly say, I think I'm going to sell it. I think I'm going to sell it. He'd better sell it to you now. A couple of, you know, different people who were interested, some buyers and, you know, he would never pull the trigger. So he did here. So it's a little surprising, you know, and hopefully they will keep it company. All right, Jason, play the clip again. And we're going to tell you who the winner is. Here we go.

If you could play that same clip, we usually play this twice. I should have run this through with Jason. It's tough. All right, you ready, Jason? Go ahead. So I'll give you a little piece of advice. If this bunch is all you've got, don't tangle with Hera, because they don't look tough enough to me to stomp a stringy jackrabbit.

All right, Case, who's our winner? Our winner is Jason Long of Levittown, Pennsylvania. He guessed the movie was El Dorado. Yep. I don't even know that. It's a John Wayne movie. John Wayne movie. Okay, and then he has won a pair of tickets for the Philadelphia Flyers versus the Calgary Flames. That's going to be on Tuesday, March 4th. And there are more single-game tickets on sale now, along with Flyers' new limited-edition retail collection with vintage and throwback designs.

On outerwear, sweatshirts, and headwear, you want to check out the new gear, you can shop or you can go to shop.wfcphilly.com right now. By the way, Marissa pulled together these clips and every single one of them will mention a type of item or material that is used in the Cardboard Classic. So he said stringy.

in that clip. Now listen here, I like fusion food. And so everything will mention something that has to do with the cardboard classic. That's a genius. Let's see what this and on top of food as well. So it's pretty cool that she was able to do that. Alright Jason, play another clip. Here we go. Oh my gosh.

Yeah, that was funny. Hey, why don't you give some of the leftovers to Jakey? He'll have his own leftovers. Oh, that pre-cooked stuff his old man gets, that takes the cardboard. All right, you need to text in what you think that movie is from. So do that right now. Text in what movie type that is, and we'll pick a random texture because our phones don't work. All right, order up. Another story, and like I said, we have a lot of local stories here for the connoisseur this morning. What the hell did I do with him? Ah, okay.

Let's go with this one. Bars in Northern Liberties are brewing up classic and modern takes on the Espresso Martini for a returning event next month. The neighborhood's second Espresso Martini crawl. I saw this. This is so cool. It's going to be on Saturday, March 15th, Kathy, between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. Do you crawl throughout the whole thing or begin standing and end up crawling? You start standing and you end up crawling.

The coffee cocktails at 14 participating bars, many repeat players from the inaugural run last year, will cost $12 or less. One Shot Cafe will also offer a non-alcoholic Nutella Mocatini for $6.25. Oh, I could be down with that.

Some spots will serve multiple versions of the drink at bar 1010, or is it 1010? I don't know. It's 1010. Customers can order a classic salted caramel or parmigiana espresso martini. El Camino Real will offer a standard sipper along with frozen and Mexican hot chocolate varieties. Bourbon and Branch has three options, too. Classic,

Shanky's Whip Chai or Tiramisu. And so does Jerry's Bar with classic cinnamon toast crunch or non-alcoholic salted caramel. You know, I've never had an espresso martini before. I love them. I'm not a big vodka fan. I mean, I like it from time to time, but I'm more of a dark liquor. Well, you're drinking in secret around the house. What do you usually drink? Bourbon. Okay. Yeah. So an espresso martini is also made with tequila.

Oh, okay. All right. Yeah. Yeah. Most times there's a tequila option. Okay. And it's, I know you think, does that actually go? If you don't like vodka, get it with the tequila. It's great. I also wonder why, because, well, I guess a martini doesn't necessarily have to be vodka because originally martinis are gin. Yeah. So that's a good question. There's vodka martinis. There can be a tequila martini. Okay.

All right, so the participating restaurants will be Bourbon & Branch, Catina dos Segundos, El Camino Real or Real? I'm not sure. It's Real. Is it Real? Okay. The only reason I know is that I've been present, but it's not too far from...

Oh, shoot. The Rivers Casino? Yeah. Yeah, and it's totally your vibe. All right. You dig it, yeah. I got to go. Figo, Jerry's Bar, North Bowl, North Third, One Shot Cafe, SET No Libs, or S-E-T No Libs, because it's all caps.

Silk City, Standard Tap, the 700, and Urban Village Brewing Company will all participate in the Espresso Martini Crawl, and that's going to be March 15th. Drink yourself into a complete coma. Yep. All right, let's play that clip again, Jason, and then we'll find out who our winner is.

Yeah, that was funny. Hey, why don't you give some of the leftovers to Jakey? He'll have his own leftovers. All that pre-cooked stuff his old man gets, that takes the cardboard. All right, Case, we got a winner. Yes, we do. Our winner this time is Shane Corley of Gilbertsville, Pennsylvania. He guessed...

Grumpy old men and Shane wins a four-packet tickets to Adventure Aquarium. Mermaids have returned to Adventure Aquarium Fridays to Sundays through March 16th. You can watch in awe as real-life mermaids glide alongside majestic sandbar and sand tiger and nurse sharks, turning an underwater fantasy into an unforgettable reality. All right, we will roll another clip and see if you can guess what movie it is from. It will not only have to do with food...

but also some of the materials used at the Cardboard Classic. Here's our next clip. Jason, if you go... Hi, toys. Hi, toys. What's for scrape? Like, tell me everything. Well, it was... I was presenting and explaining. You mean show and tell. You see any kids eat paste? Guys, listen. All right. Let's see if you know. As you mentioned, paste in there. Yes, I'm eating it. So glue, paste. All right. Let's see if you know what movie that is. And we are taking texts today. So text your answer to 39333. All right.

Order up. Music, please. All right. Let's go with, yeah, another local story that has to do with restaurants. There's a place called Wonder. It is a new kind of food hall, and it has announced plans to open 10 locations in Philadelphia.

throughout spring and summer, including in Ardmore, Fishtown, Northeast Philly this spring, followed by South Philly, Rittenhouse, and others later in the year. Locations will include delivery, pickup, and dine-in options. Other neighborhood locations will include Cairn Prussia, Westchester, Newtown Square, Mount Laurel, and Cherry Hill. So the radiuses will cover much of the city, including Northeast, the main line, and South Philly. So...

It's an interesting... They're partnering with Phil Abundance, which is part of the reason that I brought them up for the expansion. And Wonder is creating, it says here, per the release, a curated super-asset

for mealtime. Wonder operates a collection of restaurants by some of the best chefs, including Bobby Flay, Jose Andres, Nancy Silverton, and Marcus Samuelson, along with award-winning eateries from across the country. So customers, it says, can experience any combination of 25-plus different chefs and restaurants together in one order for the first time.

That's a lot of frigging food. Yeah, it sounds interesting. If you have a tapeworm, this is what you've been looking for. Well, I don't know how they're going to pull this off, but everything is made to order at a Wonder storefront and delivered in under 30 minutes.

It says with seamless order tracking. And it benefits Philabundance? It says they've partnered with, so I don't know exactly. So they're probably using food intended for the homeless. What that means. Wonder currently operates 37 locations throughout New York City, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, and...

And Connecticut as well. It says Wonder owns every step of the process from food sourcing and prep to menu creation, cooking and delivery, consistently bringing an elevated, personalized dining experience. So I tried to get a feel for what this was from reading this, and I don't know exactly how it works out, but these are food halls. Here comes Marissa. Here we go. The Hip City Food.

Food thing. Gadget, as Pierre would say. What is it? Delicious City. That's it. Yeah, President, it's like a big ghost kitchen. That's scary. Within this kitchen, they're making all of these dishes. So it's like the one group of chefs are cooking whatever you're ordering. Okay, so by ghost kitchen, you mean one facility that they're all...

They're all using for their various different restaurants. Instead of like six kitchens and one big kitchen, it's just one kitchen and they're making whatever dish. I got you. I would have gotten away with it. They're opening up ten. Darn kids. They're opening ten of those locations in Philly, by the way. Jason, can you play the clip again, please? And we'll see if we can get a winner. Hi, toys. Hi, toys.

What's first grade like? Tell me everything. Well, it was... I was presenting and explaining. You've been show and tell, MTK. You see any kids eat paste? Guys, listen. Chris. Okay, tell them the way. Okay, so...

Sorry. I'm trying to use hand signals to signal people to do things. Hey! And also get a winner. Casey, who's winning? All right. Our winner, they guessed Toy Story 4, which was correct, and that was Adam Hornback from Cherry Hill, New Jersey, got a four-packet tickets to the Adventure Aquarium. Mermaids have returned to Adventure Aquarium Fridays to Sundays through March 16th. You can watch in awe as real-life mermaids glide alongside majestic sandbars, sand tigers, and nurse sharks.

Turning an underwater fantasy into an unforgettable reality. All right, thank you. So what I was pointing out, it was somebody came walking into our broadcast area in a long white trench coat with a sign that says, Only fans, feety feet feet. P and S. I forgot. Yes.

There's the video. Yeah. We have to debut Kathy's foot video today. I completely forgot to mention that, too. So not only is this person carrying this particular sign, but they're also dressed from the Pirates of the Caribbean costume.

I don't know what character that is. Yeah, you know who that is, though? I'm fairly certain that under the mask, that's Bob Havens. Oh, no way. Is it Bob Havens? It's Bob Havens. That was the pirate ship that your wife saw last night. No, it wasn't. There's another pirate ship. Because Rochelle's already seen pictures of Bob Havens' creation. Okay.

And this was a different pirate ship, by the way. First of all, he's got a lobster claw. Yeah, he does. Yeah. And then second of all, in the OnlyFans Feety Feet Feet sign, there's a hole for Kathy's foot. That's right. And at what point is your foot going through that, Kathy? I don't know.

We'll do it later. Okay. And when are we debuting the video? Next? We completely forgot. Marissa and I both forgot. So, yeah, whatever. Do we delay till Monday? Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. Okay. No. It's just a matter of a post on Instagram. Yeah, exactly. I mean, I hit it hard yesterday, so we're doing it. Yeah, it's okay. We'll put it up. And, you know, also everything that's happening here, like all the sleds and everything, Instagram is a good place to go to follow us. Yep.

You'll be able to see a lot of updates there. Okay. Including the foot video. When it hits, let me know, Marissa, and we will make the official announcement. Because I haven't seen it yet. Neither have I. Yeah, I want to check this out. You have to listen, by the way. Yeah, and I want to hear what is said there. All right, so, Jason, let's tee up the next clip and play that when you are ready, sir. Tastes funny. Tastes funny.

It tastes like paint. That's so good. I love that movie. Text in if you know what movie that is from, 39333, and we will get a winner in a moment. Casey, I think we need to do this, if you would please. Okay.

Time for the fast food roundup on the connoisseur segment. I have a few fast food stories to pass along to you in bulk. And we'll start with this one. Big things are said to be coming in the world of the Frosty from Wendy's. You might have already seen the Girl Scouts Thin Mint variety. Yes. And they are now just beginning to change things up.

Sources say that in April, stores will be offering swirls of caramel, brownie batter, and strawberry to Frosties. So does Wendy's offer an actual shake, or is the Frosty... The Frosty, I think, is the only frozen dessert.

So, in addition, there's also reportedly a plan to incorporate mix-ins, which would mark a significant upping of the chain's dessert game. I think you were traumatized by the process. I was ripped in half. Because you've brought that up for 30 years. I mean, you don't understand the level of aneurysm I suffered because the woman behind the counter, when I sat as a young boy, not more than, what, 12, 13 years,

Can I have a shake, please, ma'am? Sure, young fella. Here's a shake. Suck on that. Not realizing that it was a concrete-level ice cream dessert, and I could literally feel my neurons firing all at once. I had a full-bore stroke. It was horrific. So, yes. Did it traumatize me? Absolutely. Do they even give you a straw with those things? They gave me a straw. I always get a spoon. Yeah, both of you.

Yeah, it's usually like a... Straw and a spoon? So you start with the spoon until it starts to melt a little bit, and then you can use the straw. I suck so hard on that, I could feel in the back of my tongue my scrotum. Sorry to interrupt you guys, but SpongeBob is standing right behind you if you look out the window. Our buddy Mr. Peanut is going to be SpongeBob this year. And he's got a back scratcher. No, that is a spatula. Oh, a spatula. A back scratcher.

Makes more sense. That's my back scratcher.

I got a problem with long plastic spoons. I feel like they're not great. Like Dairy Queen. Yeah. The long, skinny spoon. Engineering-wise, they're not very viable. Also for the Frosty. What do you want, though? How are you going to get to the bottom? Well, I understand that the length there is for you to get to the bottom of said Frosty or Dairy Queen or whatever. However, far too much of the product that you're consuming ends up on the sides of the spoon, thereby making it difficult to consume all of the dessert. Right.

Because you're like, you're scraping down. It ends up on the side of the spoon. What do you mean? You're scraping down low to get the bottom of the Frosty, right? And in that, in so doing, you're then putting a whole lot of the ice cream on. Are you trying to eat from the bottom up? I'm sticking the spoon in. Just eat, still eat from the top. Eat off the top. No, I would like to see that. I'd like to see you eat it from the bottom up. That's what he's doing. What are you, a freaking child who doesn't know how to use a spoon? I don't know.

It's not that hard to just surgically as you're going down the cup. As you are working your way through the frost. Where are the directions for this goddamn thing? When you get to the bottom and you only have a little bit of frosty left, there's still a whole bunch of frosty on this outside of the cup. And you're sticking your spoon way down into it. And a lot of that ice cream product is ending up on the side of the spoon. Nick, we're not with you. No, we're not. In fact, we're going to have to see.

I don't understand. We're going to have to see an example of this. We'll get some Frosties next week. I sense an inspiring movie in the works here. If I'm 20% of the opinion here, that's fine. That's enough. Another fast food story. Let's see. Taco Bell is cranking up the heat with its new Caliente Cantina chicken menu. Available now for rewards members and launching nationwide this week. The fiery lineup puts a

spicy twist on slow roasted chicken. Do you like chicken? Do you like it to have it for lunch? Or dinner? Is this the kind of meal you enjoy? Or dinner? An option for you. So, it'll be the centerpiece of the new Caliente Cantina Chicken Crispy Taco. God damn, that's good. It's good.

They take an entirely different commercial approach. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like a real, like a, God damn, that was good. Soft taco. It was bell covered in chicken. The burrito, quesadilla, and bowl. I felt that one in my sack. All drenched in the bold new caliente sauce.

And if that's not enough heat, get ready. Caliento Cantina Chicken Nacho Fries are hitting the menus as well. Yeah, I don't like it to be overly hot. Again, I think when things are overly hot or overly spicy, I think you're missing the taste. Maybe that's just me. I agree with Nick on a spoon thing. The nacho fries are going to be temporary, a limited time, so you've got to get them as soon as possible. Speaking of opinions on food products, Steve, what are your thoughts on chicken fries?

You hit a sensitive point here. I'd rather, I'm not mad at them, but I'd rather just go regular straight up chicken. I could not agree with you more. If I'm going to have a chicken product, it'd probably be some type of chicken. You're toying with me. As we say in the adult film industry, you're pegging me. So chicken fries are thinner, right?

Yeah. As opposed to chicken strips. Burger King's really the only place that has chicken fries. And they're not, it's a waste, I think. The spicy chicken fries are better, but yeah, but the consistency of the meat inside the chicken fry. Yeah. It's not all that. Have you ever had, now we don't have many White Castles in our area at all, but they have chicken rings. Yes. You ever had? Yeah. Yeah. It's a circular thing of chicken with a hole in the middle of it. What do you think?

I think it's a stupid idea. It's not appropriate for an engagement. Yeah, I don't agree. Will you pick me? I don't care for it. All right, here's another fast food story. The Egg McMuffin is turning 50, and Celebrate McDonald's is throwing a birthday bash. God, I remember when they introduced the Egg McMuffin. Yeah. For an old bastard I am. 1975, and it was by franchisee Herb Pettis.

And it was as a grab-and-go take on Eggs Benedict. You did a great job here, Fred. The breakfast icon is getting the golden treatment all March long. The party kicks off on March 2nd with Egg McMuffin Day.

where fans can snag an Egg McMuffin or Sausage McMuffin with egg for just a buck through the McDonald's app. That's a pretty cool deal. I wonder, over the course of the years, obviously, since they've kept it, it's been a seller, how many of those do they move? The breakfast menu is all centered around the Egg McMuffin. I know I referenced it earlier in the week, but when I worked there, Steve, that was by far the most popular. Most popular? Wow. You would make more of those every morning than any of the other products. I thought...

Steve, there's a guy looking very closely at you behind you. Oh, he just walked away. No, there you go. He had his hands up by his eyes and everything. So I thought that the sausage McMuffin with egg was a bit of a game changer. For you, yes? Yeah, yeah. I thought when they changed it up just a little bit and threw the sausage in there, it was more me. I can't stand the egg. I'll do a sausage McMuffin, no egg. I'm not.

I know people don't like that egg. I'm fine with that egg. I like it. When they changed and they started the McGriddle, the egg in that is different. Yeah, it's scrambled. Yeah. I believe. And I can do that. Yeah. It's the, I don't know. You don't like the yolk? Yeah. No, I like that. That's the part that I like. It's the sort of like marbly weird texture that the egg white has. Really? Not a big fan of, yeah. Interesting. Very interesting. All right. And then one last fast food story and then we'll move along.

Let me see what this says here. Researchers with the University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences wanted to understand the effects of time lost has on our food choices. So they turned to a place where people are always stuck in traffic, and that is Los Angeles. So over the course of more than two years, researchers used data tracking highway traffic patterns in Los Angeles and tracked cell phone data that followed users entering fast food restaurants.

And the team used that information to find a link between unexpected traffic and visits to fast food restaurants. It turns out when commutes are longer than usual because of traffic, commuters are more likely to get fast food and less likely to go to the grocery store or to buy food to make at home. Yeah, I could have guessed that. Your time is wasting and you figure, let me just go get this now. Yeah. Pre-made and ready to go. I don't care how long the spoon is. It is.

It happens more during the afternoon rush hour than the morning commute. Excuse me, but the delay doesn't need to be long to make a difference. You know what? I'll be less inclined, though, in a bumper-to-bumper traffic or if I'm stuck in a jam. Maybe it's like where you're aligned on both sides of the street with stores and fast food places. I think I'm less likely to duck out of traffic like that to go get food.

fast food or something because a lot of other people are doing likewise at that time. So it turns out, by the way, that just a 30 second per mile delay is enough to raise the odds of someone stopping for fast food on the way home.

So if you're getting in traffic and you start to feel that urge that you want to grab something to eat real quick, you are not alone. What is most inclined to pull you out of traffic? If you see a sign, what sign is going to get you every time? Oh, fast food? Yeah. Uh.

I would say Chick-fil-A, but that's not true because I'm usually not ready for the long wait. There's usually a long wait at Chick-fil-A or it's usually pretty busy. So, I don't know, man. Mickey D's is the one that will do it. It doesn't have to be anything in particular. But how about you? Honestly, McDonald's and then...

More often than not, I'm pulling in to get a coffee, Dunkin' Donuts. Okay. All right. By the way, speaking of fast food, one last story. Actually, I thought that was the last one. Burger King is on course to grab customers from McDonald's. This week, both announced... Isn't that kidnapping? Their sales figures for the busy October to December quarter, and their fortunes couldn't be more different. McDonald's...

posted a surprise 1.4% drop in U.S. sales, which analysts said was the company's biggest ever decline. Well, you know why they had that big span where they had the, was it tainted?

A beef or something? That may be part of it. It was in this year, the survey period, correct? Yes. In simple terms, it means customers ate millions fewer burgers. And in contrast, Burger King said its sales jumped up 1.5% in the quarter. So they benefited from it. I've always been a fan of both. They're not a lot of Burger Kings near me. I'm going to one today. You lucky son of a bitch. There's a Burger King right before you get on the highway. You're right. Oh, is there? Yeah.

And it's not Lent. Because before, it would be like Lent...

When we were at the other resort before, there wasn't Burger King there. It was an Arby's. And I'm like, I can't go to Arby's. When is Lent? Lent doesn't start for another week or two. Biblically, it always starts the weekend of the cardboard card. Okay. No, I mean, April. Though you shall take to the mountain. It is a late Easter this year, right? April 20th, I think, is Easter. It's 420. Yeah. Man.

Smokes and grass. Analysts said that the sales boost was thanks to active orders on the popular Whopper burgers and $5 value meal deals that drew in customers who also bought regular priced items as well. Jesus, what is this that you have built? It is a cardboard Yoo-Hoo box. Yes.

A bigger blow for the Golden Orchards, though, Steve, as you were saying, was customers staying away after an E. coli breakout or outbreak in late October. I will say this. Given both, and I think they're both neck and neck, I do like the flame-broiled Burger King burger. I agree. Damn it. And, Steve, you and I agree on the Whopper Junior. Absolutely. That's the way to go. All right. We need to see if we can find a winner for this.

the movie clip and Jason if you could play that again please tastes funny tastes like paint

All right, Casey, we have a winner. Yes, we do. That's the great Walter Matthau, by the way, from Dennis the Menace. And that was guest by Clint Orem from South Philadelphia. Clint, in your family, you're going to be able to go to the Adventure Aquarium. You've got a four-pack of tickets as mermaids have returned to the Adventure Aquarium Fridays. To Sundays through March 16th, you can watch it all as real-life mermaids glide alongside Majestic Sandbar.

Sand tiger and nurse sharks turning an underwater fantasy into an unforgettable reality. So far, the food clips have included cardboard, string, and paste and paint. Marissa did an amazing job getting these clips together, and we have one more to play. Let's see what we get now. Jason, go ahead.

Do you want anything else? Yeah, less of the cardboard crap and more regular people food. That cardboard crap is what we call whole wheat toast.

All right. You can now text in your answer. If you know what movie that is from, text it to 39333. Order up one more story, and then we will wrap up Connoisseur after we get our winner. Steve sent me this article, which is a cool one. It's at one of my favorite places. A new Texas roadhouse food hack.

is taking off on TikTok just as the restaurant's sales see a slight dip after years of historic sales. In a recent post with over 341,000 views, a user named Maddie revealed a clever way to get a hearty meal for just a few dollars by ordering from the kids' menu.

Maddie, who says she's a server at one of the restaurants, 784 restaurants, said that menu hackers are turning their attention to the kids' menu mini cheeseburgers. And she said they are so much better than they look. Have you had them? I've not had them in nothing off the kids' menu before.

She said, while panning the camera towards her plate, she said they look so much better. They are so much better than they look. The meal includes two sliders, one side, free peanuts, endless bread, and a small drink. And customers pay around $7.50 for the full meal. Can an adult order off the kids' menu? Adults are not supposed to purchase items on the kids' menu. But Maddie said takeout transactions don't require age verification to access the kids' menu. Dumb bitch. Yeah. They're...

There is a place that I will order off the kids' menu. It's a spot in Skipak, where I live, and it's called Basta Pasta. And so their kids' menu portions are huge. Yeah? And it's spaghetti and meatballs.

And I don't order it at the restaurant, but when we order to go... You order the kids' meat. I get the kids' spaghetti meatballs. Number one, it's really good. And two, it's huge. Why? It's a full meal size for an adult. Why do sliders taste so good when they're basically just pared down versions of...

I think it's the same principle as the fun-sized candy bar. For whatever reason, the whole thing, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I mean, White Castle built an entire company, corporation off the Slider concert. We make them at home, and we'll use those Hawaiian King...

That's probably part of it, right? That's part of it because they're a little sweet. They're so good. But I love them, yeah. This is a dumbass question, but you mentioned it earlier with White Castle Preston, and Stevie just brought it up again, but how come there are so few in our area? I don't know. Don't you think they do well? I think they would. Yeah. I don't know why that doesn't happen. White Castle's great if you want to bore out your digestive system. If you really... We...

I went to a wedding once, and that's what they gave late night was the burgers. Absolutely. Belly bombers is what they called them. Yep. First of all, I thought they were disgusting. I love them. Me too. And everyone at the wedding the next morning at brunch was like in the bathroom. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, totally. They're the perfect late night food. And White Castle's were open 24 hours.

So we would go all the time, 2, 3 o'clock in the morning. Isn't that footage? Loved it. They finally opened up that dam that hasn't been opened up in like 70 years. Yeah. Your first dump after a white castle. But that was one of the great things about driving across the country with Jackie was going to all these places that don't exist. Oh, really? Yeah. Well, I mean, he's not like a meat eater. So, you know, I was, you know, on my own with the white. But what was that other place I went to, Preston, where I had like the chili...

It was like tater tots and chili or... Oh, gosh. Oh, wait. Chili in St. Louis? Yeah. Or was it... Tasty Freeze. No, no, no. Because I went to a Tasty Freeze and had sucked on a chili dog outside of there. That was in New Mexico. You didn't have a slinger in St. Louis, did you? What's a slinger? A slinger is... It's two beef patties with cheese on a plate. Uh-huh. Uh...

Scrambled eggs and hash browns on either side, and the whole thing is smothered in chili and cheese. It's fantastic. I went to a fast food place that we don't have around here, and I went there, and you were like, you have to try the chili there. Oh, Steak and Shake. Steak and Shake. That's what I was... Yeah, there's no hash browns in that or tater tots. Chili Five-Way, I think is what I heard you say. Oh, yeah, we make our own version of that at home. No, yeah, it's...

It's on something. Pasta. Okay, yeah. Spaghetti. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's really good. So anyway, going back to Texas Roadhouse for a second. By the way, I'm going to tell you, my personal endorsement for Texas Roadhouse, best bang for the buck at any restaurant. You said this forever. Absolutely. Their steaks are excellent for what you pay for them. All the food is made perfectly.

Fresh. Nothing comes in canned or anything like that. They even make their salad dressings fresh, the whole thing. They've got their own butcher shop, essentially, on premises. Dude, it's totally worth it. The question. Yeah. Have they named a sandwich after you? They have not.

They're a big chain. It's not like a Guppy's. It's not like a privately owned thing. But anyhow, Texas Roadhouse content continues to thrive on TikTok with various viral posts showcasing the restaurant's large portions, endless biscuit baskets, which, by the way, the bread's great, and generous appetizers as well. But their growth has been down a little bit this year. Is the wait staff, are they dressed like cowboys and cowgirls? No.

No, but some restaurants, one I used to go to, that we go to, they would dance. They do like a line dance routine. Longhorn, right? No, at Texas Roadhouse. Oh, okay, because I think they did that at Longhorn Steakhouse. I don't know. They did that at my sushi place for some reason. I almost turned into Vincent from Puffy. I don't know. I didn't go to Burger King. P&A's on that? Yeah.

Ellie, you're talking about. Thank you, Casey. But they do the line dancing at Texas Roadhouse. They're not dressed as cowboys or anything like that, but the whole theme is that in the restaurant. So anyhow, all right, let's get a winner for our last clip. Jason, if you could play it, please. Do you want anything else? Yeah, less of the cardboard crap and more regular people food. Cardboard crap.

is what we call whole wheat toast. All right. And now, Marissa, or after we get a winner? All right, after we get a winner. Casey? All right. Our winner is Lisa Croce from Somerdale, New Jersey. Yeah! She guessed that movie was He's Just Not That Into You. And, Lisa, you've won a four-pack of tickets to Adventure Aquarium. Mermaids have returned to Adventure Aquarium Fridays to Sundays through March 16th. You can watch it all as real-life mermaids glide alongside majestic sandbars, sand tigers,

and nurse sharks turning an underwater fantasy into an unforgettable reality. And that is our mountain version of the connoisseur this morning as we are at Montage Mountain for Cardboard Classic. Thank you very much for those who participated. Sorry about the phone issue, but we're still getting winners anyhow. All right, Marissa Magnata has stepped up to our guest microphone. Marissa, what's going on?

I would like everybody in the Delaware Valley right now listening to the radio. You're listening. You're streaming. You're on a smart speaker. Maybe you're watching us on YouTube. You probably have your phone in your hand.

I would like you to open up the Instagram app. I would like you to pull up the Preston and Steve show account. Follow us if you don't because the Kathy Romano foot video is hilarious. Oh my God. And it is posted now. Turn your sound up. Okay. Listen to it. Watch it. Enjoy. Oh my God. I'm watching it right now. Oh my God. And it says sound off. Okay.

I'm going to put my earbuds in and listen. Case, the first line in it is for you. Okay. Thank you. Kathy. Oh, my God. Great job. Kathy. Kathy.

This is, oh my God, I can't wait to watch this. I cannot wait to watch this with audio. Oh my goodness, this is the best. Okay, why don't we take a break and we can all go watch the video. We're live at Montage Mountain in the Poconos and we are getting Cardboard Classic underway in about an hour and a half from now. We're excited for the event 2025. We'll take a break and we'll be right back. Stay with us.

Wouldn't it be great if there was a place to listen to MMR online nationwide where you could sign up for an MMR insider newsletter so you never miss the important stuff on All Things Rock. Maybe see Preston and Steve Daily Rush videos. Look for upcoming shows on a comprehensive concert calendar. See when and where we'll be out and about. Pick up some MMR gear and like a whole lot more. Well, it turns out there's a website that does all that.

And it's always available, like right now, on your computer or phone or whatever. And we even made a catchy little jingle so you remember it. All right, thank you very much, Kathy. By the way, her foot video has debuted on Instagram. And immediately, you know, we just debuted this. There's already 118 comments. Oh, my God.

Seriously? Those are the comments so far. Overwhelmingly positive, mind you. So I think if anything brings this world together, it's going to be your feet, Kathy. You've got to have an OnlyFans account. In fact, Nick had posted world peace is possible because of that. So if you have not seen it yet on Instagram, Kathy's

foot video has arrived. A thank you for 100,000 followers on our Instagram account. And Preston, speaking of OnlyFans, we did get a text from our person who farts on OnlyFans and makes some money doing that. She said to Kathy we could make a fartini. A

Bartini. Think of the money that could be made. Yes. Kathy's starting point was $1,000 for 15 minutes. So we'll see where it goes. All right. And by the way, there's a part in the video that involves a margarita. That is...

It's just brilliant. I had to. I had to put a margarita in there. It's just fantastic. All right. Casey has a shout out. Actually, he wants to. Yeah. So Eric Simon met a gentleman outside who, you know, this gentleman is going through some pretty severe health concerns right now. But he said he was the Eric said he's just the nicest guy. So I want to give a shout out to Steve from Blackwood, New Jersey. And more importantly, a shout out to his son, Jared Corsi, who.

just wants to let him know that dad made it to Cardboard Classic. That's excellent. Alright, so shout outs to all. We have a gentleman returning to our Cardboard Classic event. Last time we saw him was actually at the Camp Out for Hunger. Where he thundered. In our Mini Hoops Challenge. And we want to welcome Mr. Kyle.

Kyle Pagan from Crossing Broad this morning. What's up, Kyle? I have not stopped shooting on a hoop. Are you in preparation for a return trip to the Camp Out for Hunger? I'll call my shot right now. John Clark, enjoy the championship belt because it's not coming home. Wow. He did win that thing in a button-down shirt, bro.

Honestly, that was probably the worst part. The second worst part was just the dud that Matt O'Donnell put up in the second round. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It would be me. Hey, listen. We invited you down here last year because we follow you on Instagram. We love your man on the street stuff. Actually, over the last year, I think your stuff has skipped up

exponentially. So you were here last year. I thought you would get a big kick out of it. You had never been to a Cardboard Classic before. What did you think last year, and what are your anticipations and expectations for this year? Last year was awesome. I went down with Bob Haven. Yes. And Wally World, which was

This year, I'm hoping to see a lot of Eagles stuff. I haven't been out there yet. I'm assuming... I think I saw BirdBot was out there. Oh, BirdBot might very well be out there. Yeah. So when the Eagles won the Super Bowl back in 2018, the 2017 season, that cardboard classic...

There were Lombardi trophies. There were Bird Bots. And unfortunately, a Nor'easter came rolling through in the middle of the Cardboard Classic. We literally had whiteout. You could not see anything coming down the mountain. My cameraman, Craig, it took him eight hours to get home. Yes, likewise. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

That was the common theme. Some of us didn't get home. Yeah, Casey and I had to turn around and stay. We like quickly ran in. We're like, we just checked out of the hotel room. Can we not do that? Yeah, can we uncheck out? Uncheck out. Same thing. Yeah, I had to end up staying there as well. Steve, however, another story. Nah, usually a trip that take about an hour and 40 minutes ended up taking eight and a half hours. So Kyle, also what had happened,

What happened was there was a major, major pileup on, I believe it was the Northeast Extension on the way home. And there was a woman, I believe her name's Peyton, who was pregnant with twins at the time. And the accident caused her to go into labor. And so her twins are now seven years old. I think they might even be up here today. Name Preston and Steve? Yeah, they should have been. Or they should have been. Yeah.

So, Kyle, how was your time? Were you at the parade? I assume you had to have been, right? I wasn't at the parade. I went after the parade. I kind of did what you guys did. We streamed online and everything. I went to 18, so I was kind of like, I got what the parade's like. Yes. Let me sit at home, do a little bit of content, and then I enjoyed the festivities after, which there were enough...

I'll tell you what, we had enough of a difference between the first time we were down more towards the art museum. Being in the canyons of the city proper on Broad Street was a wholly other experience. I mean, it was. And I said, you really understand the thrill of being a dictator when you go out to a balcony and raise your hands in the crowd. Cheers. It was amazing. Yeah.

It looked like you were having fun leading up to the Super Bowl. You were down in New Orleans. You got home before the big game. But how did you end up getting access not only to Big Dom, but then to take Big Dom to, like, a voodoo ritual? Yeah, yeah. Me and Big Dom, we did an offering. I did one back in week three, I think, when they played. And they went on, like, a 16-2 run. Right. And...

We just did an offering at a voodoo joint. I said, hey, Big Dom. I got a buddy who works for the Eagles, and he was like, if you get back there, there's a rumor that Big Dom would like to go back. Because the first time I offered, like, a Big Dom shirt. Okay. Gave it to my boy Ogun, who's the spirit. And so I was like, you know what? We'll just do another one. We'll do another one. Big Dom, come by and everything. It was funny. He pulled up in the...

The Super Bowl 59 registered car. Really? Just a huge L-I-X on the end. This big dumb? Yeah. He goes, I dropped Nicky off. He's in a meeting. I told him, I'll be back in 30 minutes. I got to go handle something. Nice. Nice. I like the idea of a voodoo ritual. Yeah. So today you're obviously going to be taking video and getting some of the sights and sounds of a cardboard classic for Crossing Broad. Yeah.

Later on, have you gotten in touch with anybody? Are you planning on riding down on any of the sleds? Have you seen Bob Havens? I haven't been out there yet. I'm hoping to get Bob. I saw the Krusty Krab. Yeah. Usually I know that guy is usually reserved for you. Mr. Peanut. Yep. He's one of our head guys here. Well, since we almost killed him one year, we figured it was... Yeah.

So I saw a video of it last night. We ran into him last night. It looks incredible, the Krusty Krab does. You know what I'm really excited for? You guys had this vendor out there last year that had some of the best pizza I've ever had in my life. No kidding! So I'm hoping they're back this year. We love this whole thing, and we talked about this, the fact that there's this sort of

a collection of vendors and stuff for sale, it really makes it a really great experience. So, again, you came here. You'd heard about it for years. You saw it last year. Whatever people think it is, it's ten times more. Hey, just for, like, your social media content, this is just an idea. If the pizza guy's here, you should do a pizza review. You should be like, you know, one bite. Everybody knows the rules. You should say that first. You're a natural. Yeah, thank you. Thank you. Never been done before. I like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Decimal point scores? Yeah, you could do that whole thing. But actually, I kind of want this pizza now that you speak. Wait, did you do that? That's a barstool thing. Okay. Everybody knows the rules. I don't watch that stuff. I have no idea what you're talking about. Somehow that stuff ends up on my... I don't follow, but it ends up on my feed all the time.

Algorithm. All right, well, listen, we're excited you're here again, and we hope that you end up on some of these incredible creations and make your way down the hill, man. And survive. We'd like that, too. Yeah. Yeah. Heard it from the video, if you don't. Nice. All right, thank you, Kyle. Good to see you, bud. Have fun today. Kyle Pagan of Crossing Broad. All right, now I've been told that Jen Fred, our good friend from Fox 29, she's got a hit on the air in about 12 minutes, so we need to get her on with us. Yeah, come on up, Jen, and let's chat with you.

Let's get a microphone of appropriate height for you. Yeah, the one on the left there. That'll do. Hello. How are you? A superhero, Mike? Is that what you mean? Yeah, it's wonderful to see you again, as always. You guys look great. Thank you. I did send swear words to Kathy about the non-matching thing, but it doesn't mean I don't like her. It just means I swear on Kathy. She called me an a-hole. Would you like it if we could get you one next year? Yes, please. All right, yeah. I mean...

You're part of the crew. I mean, I am. Yeah. Yes. I mean, you've been, how many years have you been coming up to Cardboard Classic now? Before COVID. Yeah. Yeah. And it bears repeating, you know, I'd seen it on TV, on social media. You guys know this. The first time I came, I was like, holy crap. Like, you don't.

Again, you have to be here in person. Montage has kicked it up with the vendors and everything. Oh my God, yeah. And the fact that you can have a drink and see it. It's a very logistically sound thing. Yes. That being said, I did my superhuman trick. Oh, okay. So Kathy was going to do it. Yes. But she was busy with you guys. So this was my idea, by the way, for you guys to do this. I saw this. I saw some people pull this off and I'm like,

Jen is a snowboarder. Kathy's a skier. They could do this together. Kathy had to... She's having a back problem, so she wasn't going to do it today. So did you pull this off successfully? And we'll describe what it is here in a second. Yeah, so I totally did. Okay. And I have to say, I don't think we would have been able to do this. No? Because I have...

I had a ski instructor. Oh. Born is her name. Okay. Not born in the 1900s, you know? And so, I was like, I come from the 1900s. I come in peace. But no, she, because she's a ski instructor, like, not that I don't trust you. Right, right. But literally,

my head was, you know, under her crotch. Yeah. So let me, let me explain what this is. So it involves a skier and a snowboarder doing this in tandem. The skier stands up, the snowboarder lays on their stomach, slides forward in between the legs of the skier and then puts their elbows on the skis while they're on their stomach. Since they have their snowboard on, they bend,

bend their knees, and that brings the snowboard up flat in the air. And the skier can then sit on

on the snowboard like a butt bench like a butt bench and then the the snowboarder lies on their stomach and they go forward and they head down as as a couple so jen is holding up her phone right now and we're watching the video of this and right now looks like the skier is sitting you guys did it yeah you pulled it off first try that's awesome practice oh you did because i was a

Yes. Yes. Yes.

She used her poles to get going and went to a steeper pitch, and that worked. So now that I've done it, maybe Kathy and I could do it next year. Okay. Did you do it on this run, or where did you do it? On a baby run. Okay. I had like a safe word and everything, because I was afraid that you weren't going to let go, and I was going to snap my leg. No, I was afraid that you were going to break my legs just because you were going to try and go fast. Okay.

No, beat racer Kathy Romano. Right. She beat you last year, right? She did. Yeah. You guys had a race. Now, unlike Kyle, I've been out there to see the sleds. Yep. We are heavy in Super Bowl Eagles. Okay. And do you guys remember the Wawa one? Yeah, last year. And she could give you beer in the gas tank. It was the winner last year. Well, I told them I dream about that Wawa sled. But...

Now they have a live casino. Oh. They have like a, what do you call that in the wheel? Roulette. Roulette wheel. That's right. Yeah. And everyone's a winner and you get a shot. Oh, that's fantastic. It's amazing what they can pull off. I don't know these people. Forgive me. I know it's a big event for you guys. Can we get them to curate?

them to cure cancer? Like, they're really creative. They're smart. They know how to put duct tape into, like, making a car. Like, can't we get them to cure it? Or something. Something, yeah. Ebola. Ebola lab next year. I agree. I agree. They are incredibly talented and creative. They could come up with some kind of a cure. Well, I can't wait to see all of you guys in your matching suits. I will say I'm a little jealous because, again, during COVID, I bought one of those because we were doing everything outside. It was not a Tipsy Elves. It was a substandard brand.

Tom, the camera guy, remembers when I lifted up my arms to do something, it like split. And our executive producer, Vince, said that I looked like a baked potato. You don't want that. You don't want that look. So it was returned from where it came. All right. Well, next year we'll all be on the same page. We'll try to work that out for you. I just think I'm so glad the dudes are doing it because I, you know, I ski and snowboard out west and I ski and snowboard here. And I can't get a guy to put one on. Really? Nope.

Why? Because they're dumb. Yeah. I mean, I'm not a big fan, but I'll put them on. Look at how good they look. You should do like a, hi, I wasn't a big fan either. Right. Now I love my onesie. Yeah. And I can't wait to get it off. I mean, listen, it does bring, you know,

Huge stroke in G. Boys can pee pee better than girls can pee pee. Yeah, but again, and that's easy. That's where you're going, right? No, no, no, no. Like if you had to go make stinkies, that's a little bit harder, you know, because you got to take everything off. There's enough room in here. But the reality is, is like if you just want to protect yourself from the elements. Yeah.

A one-piece snowsuit is the way to go, man. Well, that's why, like, you know, when we go to snowstorms, like, the guys climbing the poles, they're in a Carhartt. They're in, like, a one-piece zippy-uppy thing. It's true. Zippy-uppy. Zippy-uppy. The guys climbing the poles, what are you talking about? Like, putting the electricity back on. They wear these things? They wear... Not tipsy elves. Oh, okay. They wear, like, Carhartts, like...

Okay. He can't hear anything beyond climbing the pole. All right. Well, you're about ready to go on Fox 29. About five minutes. Check it out. Okay. Anything good, I'll text you guys. Thank you. I think I've given the lay of the land. You certainly have. We love you. Jennifer Frederick, guys. You got headphones on? Headphones. Take those off. Yes. Don't walk away with that. By the way, our Santa crew has arrived. What's up, Santa?

Good to see you guys. They're going to be helping up top. They're going to be the official assistants. And they came rolling in an Eagles limousine. Really? Yes. And the dude told me he would sell it to me for $3,000 right now. Wow. Yeah. I'm like, done. You're seriously considering that? I borrowed $3,000. Yeah.

All right, Nick. Preston mentioned, I'm sorry, Kacen mentioned the twins that were born seven years ago in the snowstorm. So that lady's name is Sherry Meyer. It's okay. You were close. You got the daughter's name right. It's Peyton and Parker. They're on their way. The twins are now seven years old. They're going to be here in just a little bit. Sherry's husband's name is Joe. And Sherry, once again, is pregnant. Oh, wow. Wow. Be careful. Yes.

No Easter today. She's also not nine months pregnant this time around, but she should be safe. But yeah, the twins are going to be stopping by in a little bit. I just saw a very hairy individual walk by, and I'm like, oh, Brent Porsche has arrived. So Brent Porsche is going to be supplying our music out on the deck. I think I saw him...

in the hallway of the hotel. It was almost like a Sasquatch sighting. I saw a very hairy person from the back, and they were part of the way down the hallway, and I didn't know if it was Brent or not, so I didn't say anything. You're on the mountains. You don't know? I don't know. But I think he got down last night. I wasn't 100% sure of that. And we know Pierre got here about, what, 5 o'clock this morning. 5 o'clock in the morning.

Kathy, Pierre got here around 5? Yeah, when I was leaving to come here to the station, he was walking in, checking into the hotel to lay down and take a nappy. Nice. Speaking of the animal, Brent Porsche is here, and he's going to step up to our microphone, and I want to see if that was indeed him that I saw last night. What's up, buddy? Good morning. How you doing? Good. Where did you see me? Were you at the hotel last night? I was, yeah. Okay. What time did you get in? Like a little after 9?

That was probably you. I think I saw you in the hallway. Thanks for saying hi. I'm sorry. You were like, it was like way down the hallway and you were walking away from me. And if it wasn't you, I didn't want to come across the wrong person. Parking lot killer out there. Really? Yeah. The vibe's real. It's cool, man. We don't get to see that because it's up a couple of flights of steps. Yeah. So that's where they're tailgating. And then they stage everything over here on this side of the run. But

We have no idea. It's other than what people have told us. Right. How do things look? It looks great. I mean, there's a stack of massive U-Haul trucks out there, which means I guess there's going to be some really, really big sleds coming down the hill. Wow. Everybody's out there, you know, kind of pre-game and hanging out, you know, taking pictures, getting videos and-

They're ready to have a good time. Trust me. Love it, man. You're going to be supplying the sounds here. Hell yeah. You better believe it. And then your broadcast... Wait, are you here tomorrow for Mountain Fest? I will be here for Mountain Fest the rest of the weekend, yeah. Love it, man. And broadcasting live as well? Three to seven. Come up a little bit later. We're actually going to be out in the lodge, which they just...

renovated some. Pretty cool. The cafeteria and everything out there. Yeah, excellent. All right, well, thank you for being here, buddy. We'll see you out on the hill in a little bit. We're going to try to get this thing underway in about an hour and ten minutes from right now. We're looking pretty good time-wise. Yeah, yeah, we definitely are. All right, so where's No Shorts? No, he's right there. I watched him walk outside. He thought he disappeared, but no, he's standing right there. Oh, okay. And...

Set this up, Case. Well, this is a lot like we just had Kyle Pagan on from Crossing Broad. We have Santiago Ortiz from No Shorts Media who is an influencer, a social media celebrity here in the city of Philadelphia. I know that my son does follow you on Instagram as well. That's good to hear. Nice to see you, man. Thanks for being here. Yeah, this is

sick. I was here last year, got to see all the sleds. I was impressed by the event and then now I get to talk to you guys. Well, from what you heard, I got kind of nervous. From what you heard about the event and then seeing it, was it, you know, were we right on the money or is it more than you thought it was? Because I don't think people are prepared when they get up here. Oh no, it's like even better, like when Kyle told me about it, that's who I came with last year and then I saw it and I was like, oh, this is even better than I could have imagined.

So I'm impressed how hard people work to put these sleds together. It's been a hundred hours on these sleds. And then some because they get warehouses. They get room. They get, you know, there's love songs to collecting cardboard. Sammy Vial did one for us. And I mean, it's just a whole, it becomes an around the year culture that's spawned friendships. And it's an amazing thing for the...

The dumbest but best reasons. Yeah, it's tailgate culture. I mean, essentially, that's what it is. It gives people a reason to get together for a couple hours, a few hours on a Saturday or Sunday, you know, leading up to this event. So...

Yeah, no, I'm just impressed year after year. People are coming back and doing this. So, no shorts. Did you end up on a sled at all last year? Did you get to ride down the hill? Last year, I did not. I was filming all the sleds. Okay. You work at the camera a lot, but are you going to try this year? I don't know. Yes, the answer is yes. Here's the deal.

Here's the deal with this. I already took a ride on a swing thing that like spins while I was out there. All right. I got kind of dizzy. If you hang out at the top and you see the big slides coming up and you ask a couple people and if they got a beer in their hand, say, hey, can I ride? Chances are you'll be able to go down with them. All right. So that's pretty much the way. What type of content do you like to share?

Literally anything Pennsylvania. Okay. The goal is no shorts is always and only Pennsylvania. Just trying to come out to cool events like this, film, and then just show people. There's not enough people doing just only local content. I know. I love it, too. Your site and other sites, I go to.

just to get ideas of what to do. Now, I have to ask, and I'm sure you've answered the question a million times, the no-shorts moniker, how is, where does that come from? Yeah, it means no shortcuts. Winners don't take shortcuts. Okay. Oh. You're not morally opposed to shorts in the winter. Yeah, really, it actually has nothing to do with pants or shorts. All right. No shortcuts. Speaking of clothing, where'd you get this purple Flyers jersey, dude? That thing is cool. Yeah, I love this. I just got it on eBay. Really? Yeah, it was like 100 bucks. I think I haggled them, got it down to like 90. I think it's a Hockey Fights Cancer jersey. Yes. Oh.

It's like a throwback. I don't think they sell it anymore. I don't think so either. But players will wear them during warm-ups and stuff like that. And so sometimes they'll auction them off. But the Flyers are always having great gear. How much did you pay for it on eBay? I think I haggled it down to $90. That's not bad. That's damn good. It's a Sheen Gossespierre jersey, though. Oh, it is? Yeah. That's what I thought, right? Is it ghost? I honestly don't know. It's ghost. Yeah, it is. It is.

It's on my back. I don't look at it. Jersey looks sick. That's why I wear it. Well, listen, thanks for coming out here and covering the event. We appreciate it, and we hope you have a great time today. Thank you. Thank you for having me on. All right, no shorts. Yay!

Thank you, brother. I appreciate it. Nick, I think I saw the guy that offered me his homegrown weed outside right now. Yeah, I can see him actually. He just reacted. Yeah, there he is. Oh, the guy with the bandana? Yeah, the guy with the bandana and his hands up in the air. Go figure. So we're going to take a break and score some weed here in just a second. But we are at the Cardboard Classic. And actually, I do want to... What? Does your weed guy have a bandana? I do.

We do need to take a break because we want to try to stay on time. Yeah, we have to. Wrap up the program by 10 or so and hopefully get the event and the first sleds, which, by the way, the first portion of the fastest sleds started by 10.30. So we're working on it. We're running two at a time, too. Yep, so we'll take a break and we'll come back with an earlier than normal bizarre file. So stay with us. We'll be back in a second with Cardboard Classic at Montage Mountain on MMR.

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.

A lot of people helping out at the Cardboard Classic this year. In fact, we have a list of sponsors I want to thank real quick, and I'll be making sure that I mention them throughout the show.

Course of the whole event, obviously, Montage Mountain and the Slocum Hollow Bar and Restaurant, which is where we're broadcasting from right now. Tito's Handmade Vodka, the Pro Team Collision Crew, they're the official cardboard sled debris cleanup crew that's helping clear the sleds that crash. If you hear a little buzzing in the background, that's our friends from Camelot Productions who are doing drone coverage of the event. There's a little drone flying right by us as we speak. They're the best. And they are going to be covering the whole thing on the mountain all

morning long and we're going to get amazing footage so thank you very much for our friends here at Camelot Productions also Bill Kane is our official photographer Comcast helped out with the connectivity so we can broadcast from here today Newman University is doing the videography Live Casino and Hotel Philadelphia is a sponsor and by the way so I've been told just to give you a little peek we were talking earlier Jen Fred was uh

had mentioned the live casino sled that's out there. Yes. She was a little off on it. I spoke to one of our judges who said it's not a roulette table. It is actually a slot machine. Oh, wow. And when you pull the slot machine, the cardboard tumblers roll. No way. And then they end and end.

The machine gives out jello shots. How in the hell? You win. It's amazing. It's just brilliant. That's great. That's the type of creativity and ingenuity you experience at Cardboard Classic. And thank you to Duncan on-site free samples in the parking lot as well. They are one of our sponsors. So, yeah, he was giving me a rundown of a few of the sleds. There's a Preston's junk drawer. Oh. And he said it's all this giant sledge.

that you would find in a junk drawer. He said there's a Sharpie that's like eight feet tall, and it works. It actually has a felt tip on it, and he said he signed, he used the giant pen and signed the sled with it. Oh, my gosh. I can't wait to see this. This is incredible. Yeah, yeah. So we're going to see it all here in just a little bit live, and you're going to have to, and yet talking to more people,

Marissa was just telling us about a friend of her husband's that came, and he had said he had used the phrase, I've heard you guys say you have to be here to see it.

And he's like, that's exactly it. That's why he came by himself here today, because you have to see it in person. Well, if you get here by yourself, you won't be by yourself very long. You got a whole bunch of like-minded people and all good people. I was chatting with our friend Bill Lambing outside of the lodge where we are right now. He said there's a lady that saw some of this on YouTube or TikTok or something last year. She's from Indiana. She drove nine and a half hours by herself.

Wow. To be here today just to check it out. Yeah. That's fantastic. Isn't that amazing? Stephanie is her name. So they're setting up the drone right now, Press. They want to do a one-shot. So they're going to, I think, there it is. Okay. There it is. Hey. They wanted us to react to it. Oh. I didn't know that. Okay. All right. You want to try it again? We can do that. One more time. One more time. And we will react if you want to. Okay. Never mind. The drone's going to get a drink. It's at the bar. It just flew by the bar. Here it comes. Here it comes.

All right. There we go. React. Live on the air. Okay. Let's do the bizarre file. Yes. All right, Jason. Here we go. Now, WMMR presents Kristen and Steve's Bizarre File.

And the Bizarre File this morning is brought to you by Helium Comedy Club. Heat up your winter with some big-time laughs at Helium Comedy Club celebrating 20 years of bringing Philly the best comics up today and tomorrow live every week. Tickets and lineup at heliumcomedy.com. So a 15-year-old boy was accused of trying to take a subway train.

for a joyride in the Bronx last Tuesday morning. How do you do that? It happened around 4.45 a.m. The teenager allegedly tried to operate a number two train at the Prospect Avenue subway station. Like he was driving the train. He was going to drive the train. Yep.

He was charged with reckless endangerment, criminal impersonation, and criminal trespassing. He was previously arrested in connection with a train theft in Brooklyn in late January, according to authorities. Why not just become an engineer? Yeah, be a conductor. Yeah, come on. A group of six suspects were accused of driving the train a short distance and breaking the windows as well.

A Massachusetts state trooper who allegedly stole from Target over a dozen times was ordered to stay away from all Target locations. Could you put up with that, Kathy? Absolutely not. Zachariah Kent, who was suspended without parole

pay last year allegedly repeatedly shoplifted at target by skip scanning there you go meaning that he would big issue pay for some merchandise and self-checkout while passing others around the scanner uh following kent's suspension from the state police a spokesperson said the department does not tolerate theft or dishonesty and holds its members accountable to the highest professional standards imagine you go through the whole process the police academy and everything and you lose it because you're shoplifting from target um

The scanners at Target now, though, if you scan and it doesn't scan or whatever, or if you're doing something like this and you're stealing, it makes the most loud, obnoxious sound. Really? Yeah, to alert you that what you just brought by the register didn't scan. Okay. By the way, he's suspected in 23 shoplifting cases. Yeah. He allegedly skip scanned over $846,000 worth of merchandise. Wow.

In Florida, a 35-year-old man's behavior with a Chucky doll was disturbing enough that police officers recently arrested him. Was he banging a Chucky doll? No, no, no, no, no. According to a report, a guy named Ritt Arias was waving the doll of the fictional serial killer at people Thursday along Harding Avenue. Police officers arrested him after he allegedly scared patrons of the Grove Kosher Market.

And they had already given him a warning. It reminds me of the time you, was it Carter came to you and asked you about Chucky? It was Parker. Yeah, he's like, my friend was telling me about this doll that came to life and it had scars all over its face and everything. I go, oh, you mean Chucky? He's like...

You've heard of this thing. It's real. He was a little kid at the time. Deputies booked him. He has a long arrest record, by the way. He faced a misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct and breach of the peace. It made me actually think of that.

That John Lithgow movie that's going to be coming out. Yes, yes. Because he uses this freaky-ass doll. In the retirement home. Yeah, so it looks pretty wild. A Turkish man who lost his home to a massive earthquake in 2023 has been living alone in a small cave for two years. And I love it. Because he considers it safer than any man-made structure. He's probably right. In February 2023, southern Turkey was rocked by 7.8%.

earthquake that claimed the lives of tens of thousands of people and turned entire neighborhoods into rubble. Ali Bozoglan is a father of three, and even though he and his family survived unscathed, he became so terrified of earthquakes that he decided he didn't want to live in a man-made building anymore. Instead, he found a small and peaceful cave.

Does Zillow have a subsection for caves? He mentioned the wife.

Still enjoying that cave jerk-off? This cave has existed for thousands of years and has not collapsed. After hearing about the man's living arrangements, the governorship offered him a cozy container home somewhere closer to the city, but he's come to love being away from life of the bustling city, learning to appreciate the peace and quiet of his little cave. This just in, President, he was mauled to death by a bear. He said...

I wash dishes and laundry clean and prepare the food I will eat. I have a beautiful life in the cave. I am away from everyone and in touch with nature. Uneducated people speak badly about me living in the cave because they do not sit with me, talk to me, and do not know me. They make different comments, he said. By the way, he was telling this to a stick. Yeah. But...

By the way, living alone in the cave isn't perfect because it's a natural shelter and relatively warm during the winter and cool in the summer. It attracts snakes and rodents, but he's gotten used to it. Yeah, they're okay. He would also love to have access to a proper toilet and running water. Yeah. But that's virtually impossible. I mean, you can't have everything. And he now plans to install solar panels so he can power his washing machine. There is a method to his madness, though. And his refrigerator. But even if his plan doesn't work out...

He does not plan to trade the comfort of his cave for a man-made structure anytime soon. All right, we'll do one more story and then we will wrap things up. This is pretty wild. A woman recently turned heads. I saw the video of this. She's at a grocery store and walks in with a giant bag.

pet raven sitting on her arm. Oh, cool. The thing is huge. Yeah, they're enormous. The huge black bird calmly sits there while she shops like it's no big deal. Other shoppers couldn't help but stare at the videos, amazed at how chill the raven was. So they ask her, where'd you get that ugly thing? And the bird answers, the liquor store. They got tons of them. It didn't flap around or cause trouble. It just enjoyed the ride as she picked out her groceries.

The video of this unusual shopping trip has gone viral. People online are freaking out over the bird's size and wondering how she trained it so well. Some think it's cool and unique. Others are shocked to see a bird that big inside of a store. And that is where we will wrap up the bizarre file for now. I saw Ryan Shuttleworth around here. Hey, Ryan, come over here to the microphone if you don't mind. I just want to... Oh, Rodney's got to head over and turn on...

Bring up the volume on that. I want to give you just a second here because I have a question about... Because Ryan's here nice and early. Right. Ready to go. That was coming. Is there any status on Pierre Robert yet? He's on route. He's on route? He's on route. Okay. So he was at the hotel we were all at and Kathy said she saw him coming into the parking lot. He needed to pull over after the foot video. He needed to really go through it and make sure he saw everything correctly. Okay. So...

For that sake, he needed to stop a little bit. But to answer your question, he is on route. But you know, I saw him when I was leaving to come to work this morning. He was getting to the hotel. Well, of course, he needed to go save some rescue puppies and turtles. He needs to save the world. The man is 24-hour operation. It's unbelievable. When did you get here?

So I drove up this morning. I got here around 745. Okay. Did you hit any traffic on the way up the mountain? No. All right, good. It was a beautiful drive just watching the sunrise. Yeah. You guys, it was really nice. It's magnificent up here, yeah. All right, well, you guys are going to be taking over in about 15 minutes or so. That's what I heard. Excellent. All right, well, have a great show. Thanks for having us. We'll catch you in the land.

All right. We, uh, yes, case. Nothing. Okay. Uh, we are going to take a quick break. We'll come back in a second. Uh, we'll get less question, trash music news. Those things are on the way and we're getting closer and closer to kicking this off. We will be right back from montage mountain on MMR.

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And it's always available, like right now, on your computer or phone or whatever. Wow, what a time to be alive. Broadcasting live from Montage Mountain, it's Preston and Steve's Cardboard Classic on 93.3 WMMR. Now, here's Preston and Steve.

And we are broadcasting live from the lodge here at Montage Mountain. In fact, it's Slocum Hollow specifically. It's a really cool little bar and restaurant that they have within the lodge that they've set us up in, kind of in our little private area over here. So we can get some business done and get taken care of before we head outside onto the deck, which is right out of where we are located, and get this thing started. And we have...

Brent Porsche is going to be manning the wheels of steel and supplying the soundtrack as this event is taking place. Pierre Robert is going to be here in a moment. He's taking over the broadcast duties. After that, Brent Porsche is going to be broadcasting live, so it's all hands on deck. Jackie Bam Bam supposedly is going to be here at some point in time. Everything feels good, man. I've seen a lot of friends around, and everyone's stoked. I took a brief view of the event.

The pictures that are already up on PresidentSteve.com of what we can anticipate. Marissa's been putting them up. Pretty phenomenal. Yeah, the junk drawer is way better than I thought it was going to be. So that's what...

That's what this person, I don't want to say who one of our judges is, that said. Is this from the junk drawer? I'm not sure where that's from. So Casey just found a picture of somebody holding a giant version of my driver's license. Preston, I think that is part of the junk drawer. Okay. All right. Is that my personal? No, no, it's not. I was a little concerned for a moment. Okay.

Because it looks that good. It looks like, yes, a legit driver's license. But no, I'm looking at my driver's license number, which is 999999999. Yeah, that's about right. Which mine is 99999994. Okay.

A lot of people don't know that. They don't know that. I shouldn't have said anything. But anyway, I'm overly impressed already. This is fantastic. So, oh, we have a guest stepping up to the microphone. He is a regular practitioner of the Cardboard Classic, as is his brother as of the past few years. We'd like to welcome our friend Sammy Vile and his brother Paul the

Jello Man! What's up? How you guys doing? Sammy, how are you, my man? Great, I'm getting in the spirit. Oh, yeah. He's doing a Jello shot. He's doing a Jello shot to get started, absolutely. Sammy, get nice and close on the microphone. Yeah. There we go. Sammy created a wonderful ode to the cardboard classic. Gorgeous. What was the title of that again? Uh,

I keep mispronouncing it. Cardbrofair. Cardbrofair. There's this group of Scarborough Fair, obviously. It was wonderful. So I haven't seen your sled yet. Oh. So I haven't seen any of them yet. I'll show you. Oh, Casey, you're going to show me a picture of it? Yeah. What is the theme, Sammy? So here's a little hint, and these are for you. Okay. Reese's Pieces. Okay. It's got to be... Oh, my God. These are Curtis and Perry, by the way. So Casey is showing me...

a video of this. Uh, it's, it's ET. It's a giant ET and he moves. Is it, have you got him articulating? That's not good. Oh, that's the wind. Is that the way we're doing that? Is that when we were raising it? It might be. I guess so. Okay. Stressful part of the whole thing. Was that built on the frame of a Johnny five or no? That's, that's what we joke about. It looks like you put skin on it. Yeah.

It's a similar design. Similar design. Well, it's a good design. Obviously, he was able to withstand last year. This one's a little sturdier, I think. You mentioned Perry. Give him a shout out.

Perry Shaw. We love you, brother. He's such a talented artist. He's done a lot of T-shirts and album designs. It's fantastic to have him. How long has he been on your team? This is our third year doing it. It started off with me, Paul, my buddy Shane Richards, and Perry Shaw. Now we've got John Marcon, Brianna Giasula. Sam pretty much makes the whole thing. No, I don't. I design it. I designed the...

the structure and stuff. Right, right. The skeletal structure. Yeah, my brother-in-law, John Marcon, he really went in there with an airbrush and made it look sexy. By the way, exemplary jello shot board this year. Yes, quite nice. That's President Steve in jello shots. I love it. And I was telling Paul, when I got here this morning, before anybody was here, the first thing I saw is a big jello man sign. And I'm like,

Did he work with the mountain ahead of time for this? I was here last night. I'm going to Jell-O shot mafia here. I love it, man. He slept under the deck, probably. No doubt. And you're going to be launching Jell-O shots into the crowd. Launching Jell-O like I do. Listen, man, I'm impressed. I watched the Super Bowl parade, the parade, well, I don't want to call it a parade, but the collection of people after the Eagles won the NFC Championship game. Your ability to crowd surf

On that platform and with accuracy, fire jello shots with the bow and arrow that you have is really, really amazing. I'm agile, if you will. Yes, you're agile. With that contraption, is that a standard? Is that designed for the... This? Yeah. It's a kid's toy. It's Nerf. Or nothing. When they won the NFC Championship, I surfed on my normal jello man surfboard. But then when they won the Super Bowl, I surfed on my surfboard with a shopping cart on top of it.

No, yes. I filled the cart with jello shots. The headstand on the shopping cart. Oh, my. To me.

It's amazing. You guys are out of here. Instagram, Jelliman Philly, if you check it out. Wow. All right. Jelliman Philly on Instagram? Jelliman Philly, yeah. All right. Excellent. All right. Well, listen. I'm going to give you Reese's Pieces back because you need to share that with ET. We also have a flag that says, Ball Stacks are yummy. Is that it? I forgot that, I think. Oh, no. Oh, no. That was for the video. It's in the video. You can see it. I'll get it to you guys. Okay. Excellent. Sammy, Paul, thank you guys. Have fun today. We'll see you out there. Sammy Vile, the Vile Brothers. Ball Stacks are yummy. Raise me.

Shut the F up! That was Sammy singing that. All right, it's 10, and we haven't done question trash in Music News, so we need to do all that. Nick, do you have a lesson question? By the way, you're going to have to text in your answer today, and we'll get a random texter. So what is the question for today? Biblically, the Cardboard Classic was meant to coincide with which annual religious observation? Ah, okay.

All right. Text in the answer to that 39333, and we will try to get ourselves a winner in just a moment or so. In the meantime, oh, and by the way, the prize for that is a lesson question. Tickets for the Union home opener on Saturday, tomorrow, against FC Cincinnati. So good luck to you, and we'll do the trash. Let's fire that up. Here we go. The trash business is a goal.

93.3 WMMR with Preston and Steve's Hollywood Trash. All right, we'll get a few stories, then we'll get the winner. Steve, what's going on this morning? Well, Preston, Kanye West's estranged wife, Bianca Sensori, virtually naked at the Grammy Awards, she attended a movie premiere Monday night dressed in a head-to-toe burka. Exhausted Sensori explained to her fashion joys, saying it had become a, quote, massive time suck, always having to shave her bush. Wow. Whoa.

Freshly divorced Jessica Alba making a number of life-changing decisions, including getting a big tattoo on her back from Winterstone. He's a famous tattoo artist. Alba reportedly got a photo, realistic, back tattoo of Balky Bartokomus holding a sign reading America or Burst. Wow. Very bizarre. And finally, HBO confirming that Sharon Stone

Yes. Has joined the cast of the third season of Euphoria. Stone will play the only student at East Highland High School to achieve 52nd grade. And that's your Hollywood track. All right. We will wait to get an answer. I'm sure they're going to text Casey, our winner, and we'll get an answer to the lesson question in just a moment. Any texts yet, Case? Yes. Deborah Kiker from Philadelphia. She guessed Lent. That's right. And that is correct. Yay!

Oh, hey! All right, we're going to set her up with tickets to the home opener with the Union tomorrow against FC Cincinnati. 7.30 p.m. and football season ends. Football season starts. Tickets are on sale now, by the way. All right, music news time. Here it is. Preston and Steve's Music News on 93.3 WMMR. Yeah! Yeah!

Before we do music news, Kathy, there's a woman holding up a sign directed at you. You dumb bitch. Thank you. She's wearing a Wonder Woman shirt. I saw someone else with a Wonder Woman shirt. That's a theme, I guess, for you guys, right, today. Excellent. Thank you for being here. All right. I just have two things that I'm going to mention. The question is, at the beginning of the story, is Bob Dylan a fan of Machine Gun Kelly?

The iconic rocker shared an old video of a Machine Gun Kelly concert on his social media. And it's throwing Machine Gun Kelly for a loop. He said, this was not on my 2025 bingo card.

I'm in my conversation pit in my house having a whole discussion about it. Am I doing the right thing? Is this the right decision for this album? I'm questioning it, he shared on Instagram. And he said, and in the same breath that I'm questioning it, someone goes, hey, Bob Dylan just posted a video of you.

That was so cool, and I'm so grateful, so random. So I have no answer as to why or exactly what it is. Dylan went to school with the original Machine Gun Kelly. Right, he did. Back in the 20s. All right, and then just one other thing. I mentioned this earlier this morning, but the Garden State 20th Anniversary Benefit Concert in Los Angeles sold out very quickly, but there's still a chance for you to watch it. The concert, which is set for March 29th, will stream exclusively on Veep.

That's on April 6th. It celebrates the 2004 film, which had a stellar cast, including Zach Braff and Natalie Portman. The concert will be benefiting Midnight Mission, which is a homeless shelter in L.A. Braff said, we're planning all sorts of surprises for the audiences. Some behind-the-scenes clips, clips from the movie, and a bunch of surprises that we need around six months to pull off. So you can look for that coming up on March 29th. And that's

All that I have in music news for you this morning. All right, so it's already 5 after 10. We're a couple minutes behind schedule, but I think we're still going to stay within the parameters. So we will take a break. We'll come back in a second. We will wrap up our broadcast, and we'll get ready to hand it over to Pierre and start the Cardboard Classic. Back in a moment. Stay with us.

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Broadcasting live from Montage Mountain, it's Preston and Steve's Cardboard Classic on 93.3 WMMR. Now, here's Preston and Steve. 93.3 WMMR, it's the Cardboard Classic. We are getting ready to get started and head outside in mere moments.

The festivities are high. Marissa's actually pushing a drunk guy away from the broadcast area because he's dropping S-bombs all over the place. We'll get to that in a moment, bud. I promise you. But in the meantime, we got a little broadcast thing to wrap up. I think we are getting close to closing up. I have my handy little flask here. All right, good to go. That is going to be mother's milk as we head outside. I got to take these goggles off. Hang on a second. Well, I mean, it's kind of hard to talk.

Well, no, that's better. It's hard to talk with glasses on. No, I mean, dude, it's mushing down on my nose a little bit. So communicating while wearing these is kind of hard. I understand what you're saying because it really blocks your breathing ability. Just a little bit. But today has been a lot of fun as far as the broadcast goes. So we want to thank everybody involved. Thank you, of course, our engineering staff, Rodney and company have been amazing as always. Jason Fayon back on the board making things happen. We now present to the microphone Mr.

Mr. Pierre Robert has arrived. Good day, good day. Good to see you. You look bright and chipper today, man. Well, you get up early, you beat the birds to the flocks. That's what you do. Exactly. Yeah, we heard you actually ran into Kathy this morning. That's why you get up early. Yeah. So you can run into Kathy. I was running ever so slightly behind and I took a nap in one of the truck stops or whatever they call those things.

And then wound into the parking lot in the about quarter to five. Oh, hi. Quarter to five. And that was where, as I'm walking out of here, are you just kidding here? And it's the lovely Miss Ramona. I wonder how many Turnpike rest stops have folks.

photos of you or have you seen this man yeah i mean i sleep in my car every day yeah so the trick is to find a parking lot that's not so conspicuous right uh so you want to if you're a car sleeper what you want to look for is a parking lot that you have a square and you go to the end square so there's trees on the left and trees in front of you that blocks the driver's side

because if you do it right in the middle of like a shopping mall, then you see the mother walking by with the little kids, and she goes, see what drugs do to you kids? And so you don't want that. You don't want that. You don't want that. But you guys look amazing in your spaceman costumes. Kathy, yours is a little bluer than the rest. Yes, me and Marissa have these. I love it.

Thank you. Love your space costumes. Yeah, they've got the ladies' versions of them, and they're kind of prismatic in that they change colors. Prismatic. When the light hits them a certain way. Prismatic. Got a really cool glow to it. Today's been fun, man, but we're... Pierre, I doubt you've had a chance to go look at the creations yet. We have not had a chance to do that.

Pierre? Oh, yes. I mean, I do believe in all things good. Okay. You didn't hear the question. You didn't hear the question. I think you asked me if I'm going to exist beyond the consciousness. Yes. He asked if you'd seen any of the sleds yet. Yes! Of course I have not. Okay. I haven't seen them. Okay. So we'll move right along to the letter of the day. Yes. You ready? Ready. Jason, hit it.

Now, the Daily Letter.

And the Preston and Steve Show is brought to you today by the letter. Y as in yellow. All right. We now need a winner. And today we're doing this differently. You're going to text in your answer back to the studio, 39333, and we will grab a random winner that way. We need to know what the word of the week is, and we'll tell you what the prize is as soon as we do that. So phones are still inoperable, so text inoperable.

Your answer to 39333 and we will pick a winner in just a little bit. So, we obviously know we're going to see you out and about covering some of the sleds that make their way down the hill. What else are you going to do on the program today, Pierre? Well, we got a block of the B-52s. One of the lovely ladies, I think it's Cindy Wilson, has a birthday today. One of the backup singers in the band. And also, we'll just do kind of snow, ice,

Winter kind of songs in a giant thematic block and sort of follow along with you guys. Because what is the order of the day if someone's just joining us like me?

What is the order of the day? Yeah, I mean... So we're going to, around 10.30, no, 10, 15 minutes from now, we are going to start the fastest sleds. We have 25 of those, and those are usually toboggan style, one person trying to go as fast as they can down the mountain, and we have a prize for that, and once that's done, then we just open it up to whoever's in line in whatever order, and they start coming down, and usually the

big, big, biggie ones kind of wait till the end for the big show. So that's where we'll see those. But we've we heard we have a number of large ones and some very, very, very detailed sleds that are the creativity supposedly out of this world this year. It always is. By the way, I saw both of you on television this morning. Oh, wow. I tuned into the local TV station about 6 a.m. And there the top story wasn't fires or murders.

It was, in fact, President Stephen, the Cardboard Classic, with that very nice reporter and some nice footage from last year's.

Spreading some love on the hill. And speaking of, there's a favorite, there's a fail, right? Category S. Favorite fail. So here are the categories. There's a Tito's Vodka themed sled. Best sled wins a cash prize. Then we have best design. That's the big, big one. And we will announce that as soon as the last sled goes down the hill, we're going to go over to the Mountain Fest stage and we'll make the announcement of the winners for best design. But you're right.

There's a favorite fail as well. And we just kind of do that amongst ourselves. As the morning goes along, if something crumbles in a fantastic fashion on the hill, we may call that our favorite fail. But we have to agree upon what that is. Excellent. Yeah. I want to advise the listeners, if you want to go to my Twitter or WMMR's Pierre Robert Facebook or Instagram, we just posted my fail from a couple of years ago. Ha, ha, ha.

On the double-decker sled, which was supposed to be a duck boat, I think. It was very elaborate. You actually had a full balcony that you were on, and you were right at the front of it like Kate Winslet. And I was there. I mean, I think that's the last year we allowed double-deckers.

It was. And I was standing with a live microphone. And as it starts to go down, I say something to the effect of, I got a bad feeling about this. And we're live on the air presence. And Steve are at the bottom. And then it doesn't make it more than halfway. Then it starts tilting and disintegrating and stops. And I go flying off of it. And then it had fireworks built into it. And the fireworks are exploding while it's laying on its side on the ground.

And I have a minor concussion, but thanks to Preston's flask, I had medicine. I immediately went for the medicine. Yep, yep. Always on the case with that. There it is. All right. All right, so Case today texts you with a winner for the word of the week. Of course they did, Preston. All right. And that would be the word, Pierre. Is it snowy? Snowy! All right! Day in my morning. Congratulations to Michael Sachs.

Sachs from South Philadelphia. He is our winner. Michael Sachs gets a two-hour ice cream making studio session at Hangry Bear Creamery for 12 people. And if you're looking for a cool new experience, you've got to book an ice cream making studio session at Hangry Bear Creamery in Kennett Square for your next birthday or group gathering. HangryBearCreamery.com to book yours. Jackie, Jackie, get over here. Come here, man. He just popped in here a moment ago. Come on up. Go.

Yeah, around this way. I don't know how to do it. Yeah, he's making his way over in, of course, a fanciful headdress. Ladies and gentlemen, Jackie Bam Bam's here. When I say cardboard, you better say classic cardboard.

Shut up, Jackie. Can you say over modulation? Modulation. Back a little bit away from the mic so we don't static. Pierre, do you recognize this feathered hat I gave it to you when you went to the desert? Same plumes. Is it? Nice. Same plumes. You picked those in the Pine Barrens, I believe, in that favorite feather park.

plume. Wait, it's not fair. This is where you're going later this evening to pick feathers for next year. And you also got to be prepared for the 2075 Mummer's Parade. That's why I'm not sleeping over. I got to go watch some videos. No, I understand. Does he understand that? It is vital. You guys, you know what you guys should do? You guys should do a presentation of Frost Nixon together. Does the word wuss mean anything to you?

Never heard of it. Okay, I say that with love. Jackie, what is your role going to be today during the Cardboard Classic? My role is, since I'm wearing a mummer's hat, I'm going to recruit people because the details of these sleds are amazing. I tie it in with mummery. I'm like, oh my God. Like Casey Bush said a couple days ago, the interior, not just the outside, like inside the knobs, the tubes, inside the sleds, the amazing work.

And I could use some of them in the Mummer's Parade. Yes, actually, you could get some good talent.

And I really came up to get a Moon Man suit and be on MTV like you guys. Chucky D'Amico's got one, too. Me and Pierre don't have one. It's so not fair. Oh, my God. We got a big order next year. All right. Yeah, there's a lot of people that are upset that they didn't get part of the party plan that we have here. But we'll see about that. Arby, Jackie, we're glad you made it out again, man. Thanks for being here. Thanks so much for having me, man. All right. Jackie Bam Bam is here. Love you guys. Thank you. Let's rock!

Alright, so what do we need to do? I guess we just need to thank our sponsors and then wrap up the program and then head outside and get this thing started. We're going to do a little photo, I think, out on the slope before we begin the full Cardboard Classic, but

Uh, we'll take this moment to thank our sponsors. President C show has been brought to you today by Acme markets, fresh foods, local flavors, and also brought to you by Duncan and the president's teacher runs on Duncan. All right. So next week on the show, we will have a Derek Pitts, chief astronomer from the Franklin Institute in studio. Uh, I believe we have a bunch of other stuff. I'm so Vasil Rabirio. Uh,

and a whole lot of stuff. So tune in next week. It's going to be great. And we'll be recapping this event, too. And don't forget to see Kathy's foot video on Instagram. Please go look at this. You will love this video. All right. That is it. We are done. Rage on. We're headed outside to start the Cardboard Classic. It begins in about five minutes. We'll see you later, guys. Have a good one. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Bye-bye.

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