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You're listening to Preston and Steve on 93.3 WMMR with Preston Elliott. You will listen to every damn word I have to say! And Steve Morrison. Words are like bullets. Lost. Casey Boy. Lay off me, I'm starving. Kathy Romano. I wanted to

Nick McElwain. I'm just not the hero type. And Marissa Magnata. Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain. And now, Preston and Steve on 93.3 WMMR. And we're all back at work again. Good morning. Welcome. Today is a Monday morning. And the weather forecast, we're going to get you up on YouTube. Got

Got cold yesterday, didn't it? Got really cold. We are going to head in the other direction. Then after that, we kind of go up and down for a little bit. Today's high, around 39 degrees. We'll have plenty of sunny skies tomorrow, partly cloudy. Warming up high about 57, not too bad. Wednesday gets even better, but it's going to come with some rain and wind. High 61 degrees. And then Thursday and Friday, we will be in the low 50s. But warming, and then after that, next week's going to cool off again. So, hello, Florida.

Now, Preston and Steve's News Update with Kathy Romano. Today is Monday, March 3rd. Good morning, Kathy. Good morning. In the news this morning, health officials in Montgomery County have confirmed a case of measles in a child and say it's possible members of the public were exposed.

The Office of Public Health said Sunday that the case involved an unvaccinated child who lives in the country. The child's hometown was not released. Officials said contact tracing is now underway and people who may have been exposed are being contacted. Members of the public in Montgomery County may have been exposed on February 26th at True North Pediatric Associates of Plymouth in Plymouth meeting between 1145 and 215 and then at CHOP King of Prussia Emergency Department between 1250 and 3 o'clock.

Health officials ask that if you suspect that you or your child have measles and wish to seek care, call your health care provider, urgent care, or hospital emergency room before leaving the home. You can also contact the Office of Public Health to facilitate a safe visit and reduce exposure for staff and other patients.

health care providers should report suspected cases of measles to the office of public health immediately measles virus can remain in the air and on surfaces for up to two hours after an infected person leaves the area if someone breathes it breathes in the contaminated air or touches an infected surface and then touches their eye nose or mouth they can become infected health officials continue to encourage everyone to get the measles vaccine if they haven't done so already when uh this story started seeing the uh the light of

day, I now hear on different newscasts, on occasion, my ears peak up because I hear MMR. And I'm like, right? Oh! Measles, mumps, and rubella. Quick question jumping in there on your comment, Preston.

So we got our measles vaccinations years ago. Yeah. And then I believe there was a booster that occurred years ago. How long? Okay, here I have it. Here we go. The source. Let me have this information. We got out of Kathy Romano with a follow-up. Well, it's a lot of information, so I didn't include all of that. Okay, let's see. For individuals who are properly immunized against measles, the risk of... Okay. Okay.

Sorry. Individuals are considered to be immune to measles if any of the following applies. They were born in 1957 or earlier. They have two doses of the MMR vaccine. They have had the measles disease and then following groups of blood. So, yeah, because I always thought this long after, it can't still be active. But according to this, they're saying if you add two doses...

I remember as a kid going for booster shots. Yep. I remember that specifically. And I'm assuming, now I couldn't tell you what they were boosters for, I assume that's what they were for. I was in the boosters, which is a lovely organization. No, but yeah, I thought that was it and that was good for boosters.

Life. So the following groups of people are potentially susceptible to measles. Persons who were vaccinated with an inactive or unknown type of vaccine, which was used between 1963 and 1967 and have not been revaccinated. It's the bum batch. That's

Marsha Brady was accepted into the book just for just a moment. Things went awry, though, when she took it home. Ask Peter about that. Marsha, Marsha, Marsha. So this news comes after the cases of measles were reported in New Jersey and Texas is dealing with an outbreak with dozens of cases reported. Measles is an extremely contagious virus that lives in the mucous membranes of the nose and throat of infected people.

Measles can be transmitted from person to person through coughing and sneezing. Measles typically begins with a fever of 100.4 or higher and lasts for several days, followed by a cough, runny nose, and watery eyes. Two to three days after symptoms begin, tiny white spots may appear in the mouth. Three to five days after symptoms begin, the flat red rash appears, beginning on the face, at the hairline, and spreads downward to the neck, trunk, arms, legs, and feet.

The flat red spots may also be joined by small raised bumps. Symptoms appear about 7 to 14 days on average after exposure, but can also be as long as 21 days. Police are looking for several suspects who broke into a home early Sunday morning in Philadelphia and held a family inside at gunpoint. Police say the thieves sold $19,000 in cash and $25,000 worth of jewelry, along with five iPhones from the home in the 3200 block of Cotman Avenue in Mayfair.

Philadelphia police say four men entered the house just after 5 a.m. on Sunday. The men, thought to be in their 20s or 30s, were wearing ski masks. One wore a green coat and the other three wore black coats. The intruders held five people in the house at gunpoint. A 15-year-old boy, 25-year-old woman, 29-year-old man, 55-year-old woman and a 61-year-old man. Police are reviewing surveillance video. If anyone has information, they're being asked to call police as this investigation continues.

An investigation is underway after an act of vandalism was carried out on a historic building in Philadelphia. The walls of the Union League of Philadelphia at 140 South Broad Street were vandalized on February 22nd. Damage to the building was estimated at $7,500. Four suspects are being sought in connection with the crime. The identities of the suspects are still unknown and police are asking anyone with information to contact them. They've been, they've been,

They've been vandalized a few times, right? Yeah. I remember that. Remember, wasn't it the banister? Yeah, the brass banister. Which always looks so cool when you go by. Yeah. All right, in sports this morning. Ball sacks are yummy. Ball sacks are yummy. Ball sacks are yummy.

What the fuck is that? The Sixers, who ended their nine-game losing streak with a win over the Golden State Warriors on Saturday night, aren't home against night with a game against the Portland Trailblazers. Tip-off is set for 7 o'clock. The Flyers beat the best team in the NHL, the Winnipeg Jets, 2-1 on Saturday night and now have points in five straight games. The Flyers are back home tomorrow night. They'll host the Calgary Flames at 7 o'clock.

And at spring training, the Phillies lost to the Blue Jays 5-4 yesterday and have an off day today. They're back in Clearwater tomorrow afternoon for a game against the Yankees. The first pitch will be at 105. And the Eagles are still the Super Bowl champs. And that's what I have for you this morning. Thank you so much, Kathy. And here we are returning from a busy weekend for the President Steve Show. We're at the start of the weekend with Cardboard Classic. We'll have to do a little recap of that.

later on this morning. And we have a new word of the week prize. So we got 500 bucks we're going to give away. It's courtesy of Marvel Television's Daredevil Born Again. So you'll need the letter of the day each day this week. And we do that at the end of the program. Then we will give that away on Friday. We have a...

A concert announcement to make today. We'll do that in conjunction with Music News. So close to 10 a.m. So listen up for all of the details. We think you're going to enjoy this one. It's a show that's going to be, let me see what time of year. Because now they announce them a year and a half in advance. This will be in September. So a fall show. So we'll get to that a little bit later on this morning.

And business as usual, friends. We had the Oscars, obviously, last night, so we got to run down a little recap of that and see who all won what and all that good stuff. But it's good to be back in the studio. It is. It's fun to venture out of the studio, but it's nice to come back home. We'll have to recap some of that. Oh, man, we had a great time, man.

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Thank you, Kathy. Before we do the stupid question, by the way, I don't have one yet. Nick, if you wouldn't mind finding a quick trivia question. I appreciate it. I got totally sidetracked and forgot. I wanted to do an early morning shout out and I'm going to send this out to a mother and son team.

that I met, Rochelle and I met yesterday. We were having lunch at this place called the So Much to Give Inclusive Cafe in Skipback. And this is a really cool special place because all of the employees there are either kids or adults with special needs. Oh, that's awesome. And yeah, and they were great. And Chrissy and Jack listened to us

every single morning. Diehard fans. They are in the car at this time of day. So I wanted to make sure I send that out to them. But it was a great spot. Really good food. My mom goes there. Does she go there? Yeah. Okay, yeah. And they accept donations to help pay these kids. I love that idea. It's really, really great. It's a super special place. And also, let's send a shout out to Christy and Jack. And also to Abby as well, who helped us out there. And we knew from

when my youngest was in grade school, they, or actually they went to, uh, to, uh, middle school and high school together too. Um,

So it's just a really neat place and really worth checking out if you get a chance. It's called the So Much to Give Inclusive Cafe in Skipback. But they're big, big fans. Excellent. Love to hear that. All right. So stupid question. Nick, you got one? I do. It's Women's History Month. Last month was Black History Month, and this is Women's History Month. This is something I didn't know until just now. Which place in the United States, which territory was the first to give women the right to vote?

I had no idea, but I'll show you the answer in a second, Preston. But you might have to do a little research. Which territory in the United States was the first to grant women the right to vote? All right, and we are going to give away for the correct answer a pair of movie tickets to see Mickey 17.

Oh, and by the way, you can't call. No. You need to text the answer to us. All right, to 39333. If you know the answer, we're going to grab one randomly, and we'll give a prize away. The phones don't work still, so we're... Should we fire up the Morse code? We're working. We do have Morse code capabilities. I think this message is coming in as we speak. Uh-huh. Yeah.

There it is. There you go. Is that right, Nick? Yes. That's correct, yes. Oh, and you can use a walkie-talkie, too, by the way. So anyhow, text the word or just text the 39333 your answer, and we'll see if we get an answer here in a little bit. All right, so let's go through some birthdays while we await your answer today. On the third day of March, we will begin with Jessica Biel celebrating her birthday.

She and Justin Timberlake have been together since 2007, married since 2012. Steadfast. Over the past couple of years, she's had a couple of really breakout acting roles in which she played pretty dowdy-looking women but did a phenomenal job. Candy was the one. Candy, yes. And then also, I want to recommend you take a look at this show called, it's either The Sinner or Sinner.

I know. Bill Pullman's in it, but she's in the first season of that. Her character, something happens in the very, very beginning of the series and you're like, what the hell just happened? It's a really, really compelling series. She's 43 today. The very lovely Julie Bowen. Love her.

Modern Family, obviously a huge hit for her. She's great and happy Gilmore. She's going to be in the next movie. I'm so glad. Yep. She turns 55 years old today. David Faustino, Kathy. By the way, I just saw a picture. I was going to send it to you. I forgot to do it. But it's one of those things where the European tabloids, all tabloids do it, catch a star in an unflattering moment. Yeah. And Faustino looks like he's 88. Oh, my gosh. Yeah.

Well, he's actually 51 today. So happy birthday to David Faustino. Miranda Richardson, who Nick in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, she played Rita Skeeter. Oh, she's great. Yeah, she is. She's really good in that role. They've been...

Marathoning. The Harry Potter movies on, I think, E? For like weeks now. Yeah. I love it. Me too. I figure you can jump in any time and you're like whisked away. She turns 67 years old today. Also turning a year older is Patrick Renna in The Sandlot. He played Ham. Yeah, I follow him on Instagram. Oh, yeah? Yeah. Okay. Yeah, he's funny, man. You know what? Like...

Still kind of looks the same. He does. Those people who never change. He was also in Son-in-Law, too, if you remember that. He turns 45 today. It's Tone Loke's birthday. Tone Loke? Yep, Tone Loke. His real name is Anthony Terrell Smith.

He turns 59, and I remember the first time I saw that video for Wild Thing and knew it was just going to be a hit immediately. Let's do it. But some acting as well. He's in Ace Ventura. Ace Ventura. He was nominated. No, he was not nominated, but anyhow. He turns... He got to watch Jim Carrey make his ass talk. He turns 59 years old today. Also...

With a birthday today is Jackie Dorner-Kersee, the athlete. Yeah, she turns 63 years old today. Ranked among the all-time greatest athletes in the heptathlon as well as long jump. She won three gold, one silver, and two bronze Olympic medals in the women's heptathlon and the women's long jump.

Four different Olympic Games. How insane is that? You're talking a big time span to keep at that level of performance. And then the last birthday, Buddy, the cake boss, Valastro, is 48 years old today. Remember that accident he had where his hand got stuck in his own home?

No. Bowling alley? What? Wait, his hand got stuck in his own bowling alley? What? The ball return? The ball return. No, the pin reset. He was setting it up. Do you remember this? I'm thinking about Kingpin and Woody Harrelson. Yeah, yeah. In fact, we joked about it. But yeah, I remember he had a fairly significant injury from a bowling machine. Oh.

All right. Well, let's see if we can get an answer to the stupid question. So what was the first territory in the United States to grant women the right to vote? Marissa, do we have a winner potentially? So I was getting the Zoom ready.

That whole time. And then Sam just leaned over and said, no, he said text him later. Yeah, I said text it like we did. So I'm stalling while Sam gets a winner. Okay, all good. So maybe we could do the first story and then come back. Well, or in case he has something. He's got somebody on the line right now. I'm going to try and buy you a couple of more seconds here. But speaking of Woody Harrelson and the pin reset and kingpin.

But apparently, that whole thing, there is a tie-in in Kingpin to something that actually happened on the show Cheers with Woody Boyd's character. All right. Nick, I thought maybe I told you about that. I wish I remembered. Okay, all right. So there was apparently some guy who, back in, what was the name of the town that he was from in Indiana? Oh, jeez. Come on. It's not French Lake, is it? No, it's Indiana. It's, um...

Come on, Casey. But apparently there was, you know, I guess the, you know, the brothers who created Kingpin were fans of the Farrelly brothers. Yeah, the Farrelly brothers were fans of that and somehow wrote in on

A storyline from Cheers. Hanover, Indiana. Hanover, Indiana. There was a storyline in Cheers. Okay. And you might be able to find it somewhere on the interwebs. All right. I have verification of the Buddy Valastro. Oh. Cake Boss impaled his right hand in a bowling accident in September 2020. The accident occurred at his home in Montville, New Jersey. Wow. Yeah. His own bowling alley. Yeah. I always wanted a home bowling alley. Yeah, me too. It would be. Now I see this and I'm questioning.

All right, Marissa is handing something to Nick. She's asking the answer to the question, which is this. Yeah, we probably should share the answer to the people in the other room. We're so used to 21st century technology. We are all over the place. But yeah, Woody's from Hanover, huh? Yeah, there we go. Yeah, you know. Yeah, it was a good show. What's that, Marissa? To the listeners who are calling in, it's not New Jersey.

It's not New Jersey. Oh, people are calling in? Well, I'm sorry. We're calling and texting. Okay. And we didn't know the answer. Okay. So we just had to randomly choose somebody. Okay. And there was a 50-50 split. And it's not New Jersey. Of the actual answer in New Jersey? Yes. Okay. Wow. What the hell's going on? I don't know. Well, it's very difficult to do these things without the extravagance of having a telephone. Yeah. Yeah.

I feel like Harry Doyle out of Major League. How the hell would it? Jesus Christ. Nobody's listening. I mean, we're not asking for much. Just phones. So while we wait for that answer, Captain America Brave New World won the North American box office once again. The movie managed to haul in $15 million in its third weekend out. Last Breath.

about deep sea divers rescuing a crewmate starring Woody Harrison. There you go. Managed to debut in second place with $7.8 million. Horror film The Monkey took place with a haul of 6.4 mil. Rounding out the top five, Paddington in Peru in fourth place and Dog Man was fifth with $4.2 million. Looks like Marissa might have a winner here. Marissa?

All right. Congratulations to Joe Chiarella from Pennsylvania. He knew that the answer, Preston, is Wyoming. That is correct. And it's just that easy. All right. And since you got it right, we are going to give him a pair of movie tickets to see. Mickey 17 from Academy Award winning writing director of Parasite, Bong Joon-ho, comes his next groundbreaking cinematic experience. Mickey 17, Robert Pattinson plays unlikely hero Mickey Barnes, who has found himself

Working for an employee who demands the ultimate commitment to the job, to die for a living. Mickey 17 in theaters and IMAX nationwide this Friday. I'm going to trim up that copy. All right, so, yeah, the Oscars were last night. Conan O'Brien hosted for the first time. I didn't watch one second of it. How was it? Anybody who saw that last night? I will tell you this.

One of the absolute best monologues I've seen in forever. I believe it. Conan did a fantastic job. It started with Ariana Grande singing Somewhere Over the Rainbow. And I'm sorry, her castmate from Wicked was fantastic. Cynthia Erivo, yeah. She came in and then they sang Defying Gravity. A lot of incredible effects behind them on stage. But Conan Man Preston, he really delivered. And they started...

When they go and knock on the door and you see they're clipping scenes from Substance. And Demi Moore's back breaks open and Conan comes out of her back. That's great.

All right, so we have a couple of clips to play, and let's start with Conan talking about Carla Sofia Gascon. He had a joke about her, Carla Sofia Gascon. Yeah, he pointed out that in Nora there were a certain amount of F-words, and this is his joke. All right. I loved Nora. I really did, yeah. I loved Nora. Yeah. Yeah, true story. Little fact for you, Nora uses the F-word 479 times. Woo!

That's three more than the record set by Carla Sofia Gascon's publicist. And also he had a comment about, let's see what was the other one, Kendrick Lamar and the Drake beef. Yes. So him joking about that. Here we go. Well, we're halfway through the show, which means it's time for Kendrick Lamar to come out and call Drake a pedophile. I mean, that is a poke joke.

That is a ballsy joke. Don't worry, I'm lawyered up. Anyway. I mean, he was so confident and comfortable. And I was, again, make him for the next couple of years. He did a terrific job. He should be. I knew he'd do great. I knew he would do wonderful. He's got a taste for real comedy that a lot of people don't.

And they did a hilarious thing right up at the beginning. Instead of having the orchestra play you off if your speech is going too long, they would cut to John Lithgow sitting in the audience who would look slightly disappointed. Oh.

And so he would, they literally would cut to him and he would just turn to the camera, Preston, and just frown. And it was a great joke they kept going to over and over again. By the way, I saw the bit with Adam Sandler who was wearing like a bluish hoodie. He was not dressed for the occasion at all. Classic Sandler. And they were having a back and forth about that, which was kind of fun. And yeah, he also, I want to play a little bit of the Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo. We have...

Some of that. This is Somewhere Over the Rainbow, Katie? Yeah, she started with this. Here we go. Somewhere over the rainbow. Way up. I've never heard.

She's such a small person. She has got a powerhouse voice. That was good. Big time. And this is Cynthia Erivo. Yeah. And this is the Defying Gravity song. You know the boss. No wizard that there is or was. Is there on a great day. You are. You are. You are.

I had some power right there, man. There was a lot to look at on her, but I kept going to her IFB that had purple rhinestones. Oh, in her ear? In her ear, yeah. Not only that, her nails had jewelry hanging off her nails. I know. Her ears, like just earrings all the way up the lobes. Imagine if any of that sets off the metal detectors at an airport.

A couple of other nodals before we get into the awards. Doja Cat, Lisa, and Ray teamed up to perform a medley of songs as a tribute to the long-running James Bond franchise. This caught me off guard. And Preston, you were commenting when you'd seen The Substance how Margaret Qualley caught you off guard like, holy crap, I didn't know she was that hot. She starts off the segment when they cut to the dancers and she is...

Who? Margaret Qualley. Oh, okay. Yeah, and so she's in like a red gown looking very sexy. And I'm like, because, you know, she was in obviously Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and one of the Manson family. And she was, you know, the maid. But she is definitely. She's gorgeous. Yeah. So let's see. Lisa sang Live and Let Die. Doja Cat performed Shirley Bassey's Diamonds Are Forever. And Ray performed Adele's Skyline.

I was surprised that Adele didn't do Adele's Skyfall. Me too. A number of people mentioned, why didn't you invite Adele to do the song she performed professionally? I didn't know two of the three singers, but I thought they all nailed it. I thought it all sounded fantastic. I really enjoyed the performance. Steve, did you... I mean, it was like a musical tribute to them, but what were your overall impressions? I thought it was great. I mean, listen, so this is... It coincides with the fact that the whole franchise is now kind of being handed over to Amazon. Right. And a lot of people are wondering about that. But for years...

Barbara Broccoli and the other people involved in her collective there have kept it going through thick and through thin. So some people are optimistic. Some people are not. I'm taking a wait-and-see attitude because I'm a massive Bond fan. And they were sitting in the audience? Yes, they were. They were there, yeah. That's cool.

So, also, the M-Memoriam, they had Gene Hackman got a standalone M-Memoriam. Yes, with Morgan Freeman. And Morgan Freeman came on stage on his film. We don't have any clips of that? I didn't see it. Okay. The M-Memoriam segment for the regular one where they show...

Most people. David Lynch, Maggie Smith, James Earl Jones, Donald Sutherland among those. However, there's always, they always point out the snubs. Yeah. Michelle Trachtenberg, who we'd mentioned the other day. Sure. They also left out Linda Lavin and documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock. I had forgotten that he had passed away. They left him out? Yeah. I would say this. Yeah. I mean, it almost, at this point, it's...

being overly picky i get it and these people have merit and should be there but some there's they have a limited amount of time a and b it's someone's always going to fall through the cracks so at least they you know they got a lot of the big ones right but i don't i don't even think that they fall through the cracks like at some point you know who's dead they have to make a decision on who they're including my name is morgan freeman and you all know who's dead let's move on

I saw a little bit of this. Queen Latifah performed Ease On Down the Road to honor the late Quincy Jones as well. Did I send that over? No, I don't see it. Oh, I'm sorry. That was my bad. It's cool to hear. I

I always dug that. I dug The Wiz. I thought it was fun. It wasn't great, but it was fun. Yeah, there was some good music. Yeah, and the fact that, you know, the big thing was that Diana Ross was a good, you know, they had to make her a teacher instead of Dorothy, younger Dorothy. But it was fun. Yeah. So on to the winners. Best Picture went to Anora. That was out of left field. Won a few awards as well. So, yeah, I was not...

even aware of... Dude, this year, I was just not invested. I didn't really see any of the movies. Which was a big issue leading into this because a lot of people were talking about that it was just not a big year for involvement. You know, you have some skin in the game where you've seen a couple of the movies and you're more excited about the results. And for a good amount of people, this is probably one of the lowest box office years for the movies in the Academy Awards ever. I believe Anor is the lowest grossing

picture, a movie to ever win Best Picture. I didn't see it either. I would like to. It looks really good. I saw Complete Unknown and Dune 2. Those are the only ones in the Best Picture. It really would have been cool to see that portion of the Oscars last night. However, I was streaming on Hulu. Me too. I couldn't watch it. Well, anyone that was streaming on Hulu last night, it cut out at 10.30. They had just done Best Director and I believe Best

or best actor, but we did not get to see. That's weird. I saw the whole thing and I watched it on Hulu. Nick, I couldn't even log on to see. I had to watch. I watched the opening monologue on my phone because it wouldn't log in through the TV. Were you having trouble logging on to Hulu? Yeah. I was too.

Yeah. And I thought that my account was compromised. No, I think it was because we went on our Disney account and there were some profiles there that didn't exist beforehand. Oh. I think there's some wonky stuff going on all around last night. I had to enter the passcode like over and over and over again. It just kept saying, sorry, we're having issues. Yeah.

That was part of my issue, yeah. And you believe your account was... I think so, yeah. So we changed the passwords and all that stuff. I was mentioning to Nick, as I was watching, I was watching on broadcast, and as I was watching on broadcast, there were digital artifacts popping up and stuttering. So I think overall, there had to be something going on. Maybe, Casey, you had some kind of backup system or whatever, but this was a nationwide problem. So a lot of people that were streaming on Hulu weren't able to watch the final two awards, including Best Picture.

By the way, it was three hours and 45 minutes long. But you know what? It still ended at 1045, which was, to me, was amazing. Yeah. I mean...

Yeah, and they made a joke early on. Conan said, in fact, did a song and dance about not wasting time, which wasted time. But they were pretty efficient, I have to say, with processing through. It was like the length of our cardboard closet. But you know what, Steve? I felt bad for some of the award winners who got...

Yeah, the music came on really soon and they didn't get to say what they wanted to say. And now some other people went on and on and on and on. There's a pecking order. I know that there's a pecking order, but I'm wondering, like, do we really need Queen Latifah to sing Ease On Down the Road? I know. Can we cut that out and maybe give, you know, art direction or cinematography or some of these other things, you know, like...

visual effects. They got like 30 seconds and that was that. I don't need to see Queen Latifah singing somebody else's song. But there's a balance they have to make between honoring the people who deserve these awards and keeping the audience watching. And part of keeping the audience watching, though, Case, even though not for you, is bringing out

is putting on a show as opposed to this guy who did sound editing who certainly deserves an Oscar but he's not that sexy to us as the moviegoer. But that is sexy to me. I know. You're exactly right. And I get it, but you're walking that fine line because while we're fascinated, someone can give a rat's ass and is going, oh, Queen Latifah.

All right. So some of the other awards, obviously, I said Nora won for Best Picture and also won for Best Director. Sean Baker took that award. And Best Director, yeah, we have a clip from him. All right. For which one? Do you want the Director one or the Best Picture one? Best Director. Well, do we have Best Picture? We have the two different ones? All right. Let's do Best Picture since I mentioned that first, if that's okay.

Here we go. I'd like to thank my mom, my dad, and my sister Jojo to our small but mighty crew and our ridiculously talented cast led by the amazing Mikey Madison. We made this with very little money but all of our hearts to all of the dreamers and the young filmmakers out there. Tell the stories you want to tell. Tell the stories that move you. I promise you, you will never regret it.

So, they talk about Mikey Madison. Mikey Madison and Margot Qualley were both Manson family girls in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which they did a tribute to Quentin Tarantino and the anniversary of Kill Bill 2. Who was that that we just played? So, that was one of the producers of Anora. Okay, and who's Mikey Madison? Mikey Madison plays Anora, I guess the title character. Okay, all right. Yeah, and she won, as you will say, the best... Best actress. Yeah, yeah. All right, well, let me play the clip, though, from...

um winning best director this is sean baker correct okay here we go so we're all here tonight and watching this broadcast because we love movies where did we fall in love with the movies the movie theater watching a film watching a film in the theater with an audience is an experience we can laugh together cry together scream and fight together perhaps sit in devastated silence together and in a time in which the world can feel very divided

This is more important than ever. It's a communal experience you simply don't get at home. And they did a funny, Conan did a bit about the technology of movie theaters, Preston. And he has people in who are used to watching movies on their phones and they didn't know, what is this room? And it was like...

What you're seeing there is 5,000 phones next to each other. It was very funny. They were trying to figure out how to use the movie theater. Casey, let's play the clip of best actress, Mikey Madison, who won for Nora. And this was her acceptance speech. I grew up in Los Angeles, but Hollywood always felt so far away from me. So to be here standing in this room today is amazing.

Really incredible. There was an interesting thing. We're looking at it. Look at the screen, Preston. On her chest, she has... When she gets nervous...

A birthmark. Yeah, that becomes more apparent. Like a stark or something? Yeah, so it looks like a heart. It does look like a heart. That's the second. There was another guy, as they were announcing an award, had a birthmark on his face that was a heart. Really? Yeah, on the side of his face. I wish I had a heart birthmark. Yeah, right? All right, we also had the actor in a leading role. That went to Adrian Brody for The Brutalist, and we have a portion of his acceptance speech. Okay.

I'm here once again to represent the lingering traumas and the repercussions of war and systematic oppression and of anti-Semitism and racism and of othering. And I believe that I pray for a healthier and a happier and a more inclusive world. And I believe if the past can teach us anything, it's a reminder to not let hate go unchecked.

And apparently at some point they started playing the wrap-up music. They did. And he stopped them. That was the last award I got to watch before Hulu cut out. And so they dragged on. And Casey, to your point, I mean, like, they were playing him off. And I like Adrian Brody. I think that he deserves to speak. And by the way...

But he said, nope, I'm still going. He didn't leave the stage at all. And so, you know, like, why does he get the right to keep doing that? I know his best actor and it's one of the big awards or whatever. It cuts into other people's time. Yeah. And so he gets to keep going, but other people don't. I don't know. That kind of got under my skin a little bit. It got under a lot of people's skin. A lot of Academy members were talking about it afterwards. Yeah. So he did one moon over Preston, though, when he was going up, though, he had gum in his mouth. He turned around.

and threw the gum to his girlfriend. Oh, no kidding. Yeah. That's funny. Yeah.

All right, so actor in a supporting role went to Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain. And he had a moment to step up to the mic. Here we go. He's won a few awards. Here we go. About a year ago, I was on a stage like this, and I very stupidly publicly said that I won a third kid from her because she said if I won the award, she would give me the kid. It turns out she said that because she didn't think I was going to win. Yep. And people came up to her and were like, you know,

Really annoying her. I think it got to her. But anyway, after the show, we're walking through a parking lot. She's holding the M. We were trying to find our car. Emily, you were there, so you're a witness. And she goes, oh, God, I did say that. I guess I owe you a third kid. And I turned to her and I said, really, I want four.

And she turned to me, I swear to God this happened, it was just over a year ago. She said, I will give you four when you win an Oscar. Oh my God. And she's in the audience nodding like, I did say that. It was great. That's awesome. He was, this is one of the few movies that I saw that were up for awards. He was excellent in that movie. I just thought the movie was kind of okay. I thought. But he is a great actor.

great actor. He's tremendous. And I thought that the directing Jesse Eisenberg, I thought the script was sharp. I made the mistake of listening to the accolades of

a lot before watching it. And so I would say it was a good movie, but I wasn't as blown away as many people were. What I was blown away with, I'm so sorry, was that the milfy older woman on that tour is Jennifer Grey from Dirty Dancing. I was like, holy crap. All right, we have one last clip to play. And that was actress in a supporting role won by Zoe Saldana. Yes. And she was...

Hang on a second here. She was in the movie Amelia Perez. Here we go. I am a proud child of immigrant parents with dreams and dignity and hardworking hands. And I am the first American of Dominican origin to accept an Academy Award. And I know I will not be the last. I hope the fact...

getting an award for a role where I got to sing and speak in Spanish. My grandmother, if she were here, she would be so delighted. This is for my grandmother, Argentina Cese. Thank you so much. Muchas gracias.

Did you know what she said there? In Spanish, she says, I am Groot. I am Groot. I didn't know that. By the way, real quick, somebody texted in. Going back to the in memoriam section, Kathy, they had a QR code for the more extensive list. There you go. If you want to follow the people who didn't make it. For the people that really didn't matter, I encourage you to use the QR code.

If you want to waste your time, you're more than welcome. I was unimpressed with the list that made the QR code. If they mattered, I'm saying them here. Uh, two other quick, uh, notable awards. Uh, animated feature film went to flow. Yes. Uh,

I've been touting this movie. Yeah, I think it's the first, I thought I read first, Latvian film to ever win. Yes, it is. They make mention of that during the speech, but it is a, yeah, again, I found it, enchanting is the word that comes to mind. Conan had a great line, I have plenty of his balls in your court, Estonia. Ha, ha, ha.

He had a number. One of his best lines was he was talking about Wicked and he was saying it answers the... He goes, yeah, you loved God Almighty. Cynthia Erivo? No, no. God Almighty. Is it a movie or a person? Prison of Oz. Okay. But this answers the question we were all asking. Where did the secondary characters go to college? Yeah.

All right, the last one I'll mention was best documentary feature film was No Other Land.

I don't know that one. So that's a movie about settlements being destroyed in the West Bank and in Gaza. And one of the interesting things about that is that one of the producers and creators of it is from Gaza and another one is Israeli. And they were both up on stage. So they were sort of balancing one another and talking about how, look, we can get along. We made this movie. The world can get along. They were both really well-delivered speeches. But if you saw at the end of the evening, Nick, they were arguing over the check. Yeah. Who had the roast beef? Yeah.

All right, well, there are your Academy Awards for 2025, friend. We do have a couple of clips to play. That's all we're going to touch on entertainment-wise. But we will roll these clips. So we're going to play this one, My Dead Friend Zoe's Dark Comedy, which highlights the PTSD that veterans from all generations face in the years after combat. And here, Natalie Morales.

shares the takeaway point from the film. I think just to not assume that the strong people in your life are okay, and also to talk about what's going on with you. This is not a movie for veterans. It's a movie for everybody, and I think everybody can relate to different forms of trauma, and that's what I would like people to take away from this. Yeah! My dead friend Zoe is in theaters now. Here's our next clip. ♪

Rescue High Surf follows lifeguards of the North Shore of Oahu as they save people's lives in Hawaii's Seven Mile Miracle. And in this clip, Kekoa Kekomano discusses the writing of the intense rescues. A lot of the rescues are based off of real-life events, events that have happened in Hawaii.

I don't give a f***.

Watch Rescue High Surf tonight on Fox. So that's Baywatch, basically. Serious, more traumatic Baywatch. Okay. Yeah. In Hawaii. And possibly good-looking people. Okay. Yeah. I don't hate that. Nope.

All right, so we have ourselves a full Monday to spend together, friends. We had a pretty wild weekend at Cardboard Classic, so we've got to recap some of that at some point. Our phone lines are still on the fritz. We're actually working on a whole new phone system. That's part of what's happening here and actually might be worth chatting about. So we'll take a quick break. We'll come back in a second. We'll dive into all things Monday, and we'll kind of help ease your commute in if you've got one. We'll be right back.

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WMMR.com. And it's always available like right now on your computer or phone or whatever. Wow. What a time to be alive. Thank you so much, Kathy. All right. So we did it. It happened. The, uh, cardboard classic 2025 took place on Friday, a montage mountain. And, uh, another one is in the books and videos galore, by the way. Uh,

on PrestonAndSteve.com and our social media accounts. We had such great coverage of this event. It was phenomenal. Like, movie quality level. Cinematic in ways that I had not anticipated. And to see, again, just the masterful drone work. Unbelievable. Yeah, Camelot Productions handled all of that. And it was just... It was a sight to be seen and to take in

in person to get a feel for what this whole thing was like. I was talking to some of my closest friends were there and it was the first time they'd been to Cardboard Classic. Mind you, this is 20 years we've been doing this and they finally made it out and they were like,

Oh, you have to be here. Oh, they got it. Yeah. Okay. Like you have to see this in person in order to really understand the gravity of it all. The funny thing was is that, you know, it is, it's stuff that we try to work on and modify as far as making it, you know, the, the, the best of making the run succeed and,

there was certainly a design that was not going to work on that day, which was the large box going down, unless you'd gone to great lengths to make the bottom a little bit more slick or more, uh, you know, boat-like. So we had a lot of things collapsing, but that was offset by the ones that succeeded in glorious ways that came down that just, I mean, when they, when it did, it was almost like you had a couple that didn't work. And then when the thing that did work, I'm thinking like the Moana, uh,

boat that came down. Everyone went bat-ass crazy. So, thank you, by the way, to Bill Kane, Kane Images, for providing the photos, and like I said, Camelot Productions, the drone coverage in Newman University, video coverage as well for the whole day, because they did an exemplary job, and you'll see if you

check some of that out. And by the way, if you want to comment, if you were there, um, we, our phones don't work today, so don't call us, but if you do want to contribute, we can try the zoom thing again, like we did last week. And so if you want to chime in, uh, text the word zoom to three, nine, three, three, three, we will send a link to you and you can jump in the waiting room and, uh, we'll see if anybody wants to come on board and say anything about their week.

We're looking at a picture of E.T. And we can go through so many of them that came down. E.T. was just beautiful.

beautifully rendered. I mean, the head, the eyes, the wrinkles, everything was just fantastic. And the fact that he became an amputee halfway down the mountain. But again, we were figuring, what, 15, 16 feet tall? Easily. That was Sammy Vile and his crew put that together. Yeah, that was one of the highlights. There was a hidden compartment underneath. I don't know if you guys knew about it for booze. In E.T.'s butthole? No! No!

I did not know that. Sammy sent me a video of the assembly of it. And Steve, I'm kind of like you. I'm going through all the pictures and seeing all the videos and everything like that. And I'm like, oh, that one's my favorite. Wait, no, no, that one's my favorite. Oh, my God. No, no, no. That one's my favorite. And it's one after another. I am always, every year, year after year, blown away at the creativity of the listeners.

But earlier on, maybe halfway through, the Jurassic Park one, which made it 12 feet down the hill, I was so impressed by all of it. They had the flare going with Jeff Goldblum when the T-Rex comes out of the paddock. I loved that sled so much.

The giant ones are great and they're amazing, but there are a couple of smaller ones that blew me away this year. And I think the number one, Steve, you had already mentioned was Moana 2. It was a smaller, it was a medium-sized sled, but number one, its integrity, it holds.

Hulled ass down the hill. Flew down. Made it across, and everybody was dressed the part. It looked fantastic. The little flourishes of the waves on the front of it. Obviously, it was the raft that Moana travels on that they had reaccompanied. But the guy playing Maui was wearing a full tattooed suit. It was excellent. I saw that, and I was like, all right, that's got to be my next Halloween costume. I need to know where he got that. Yeah, the giant fish hook. They even had the chick.

Chicken fell off. It was so cute and well done. That was really my personal favorite. Two other ones that I fell in love with. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The integrity of that sled and the detail on it was amazing.

Absolutely pristine. It held together perfectly. I was so nervous about that because seeing as lead up, I'm like, wow, they really sunk a lot of time in this. Both you and I are fans of the movie and of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang itself, the car, and it did not disappoint. And the live casino hotel Philadelphia sled was amazing.

One of the most fun, my friend Lori went over and she sent me a video of it, of her going over and playing the slot machine. You pull the handle on the slot machine, the tumblers roll, and then it lands on, if you win, you get a jello shot that came out of the machine. And apparently...

The inner workings, and I think this is our buddy Bill Lambig, he sent me an email. He said that the inner workings of that were all made out of cardboard, like the rolling tumblers and everything. I don't know how the hell they did that, but they had a full craps table. Yeah. It was, and it made it down intact too. I meant to check in with you over the weekend to see how Lori was doing because I think I saw Lori after she took a jello shot or two. Oh.

And I was like, did you start drinking? She was like, oh, yeah. So those were three of my favorites. Moana, Live Casino, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, E.T. was on that list. Our buddy Clutch, who always does something big and outrageous and a lot of times with moving parts.

did this, he did a ride. It was, you know what it reminds me of actually is if you ever go to the Renaissance Fair, they have these big manual rides of spinning apparatus and so on that just use ropes and things like that. And he had this ride that four people sat in and they would wind it up and let it go and it would spin around. It's unbelievable. It was unreal.

And it worked. And actually, the spinning of it helped create momentum because it was obviously very heavy, but it pretty much made the run. So many people worked on things, and we were having fun with the ones that collapsed because obviously they were in the running for biggest fail. But the Voltron, which did win best fail, was masterfully done. So even if we were making fun of the actual run...

So virtually every one of them, there was a ton of time and love put into these things, and it wasn't lost on the crowd. Yep. The Family Feud one was great, too. It was terrific, yeah. It had the contestants' row, essentially, and the actual board with the categories on it, and they were playing games with people.

Before the event took place or while the sled was sitting still and people could come over and play family football. It was terrific. Yeah. Krusty Krab was great. That's our buddy Peanut, Mike Javorka. It's a lot of work. It was. The interior, which you could not see unless you actually went up to it. We saw it down at the bottom of the run. It was a replica of the interior of the Krusty Krab. Yeah. It's pretty amazing.

All right. I see we have via Zoom. Sammy Vile is joining us as we speak with his young one on his lap. Hey, Sammy. How you doing, man?

Yo, what's up, guys? Yo, bud. So, success. E.T. made it all the way down. Yeah, man. It took three years, and we finally did it. It was one of the best feelings of my life. Dude, the craftsmanship, the artistry, they were talking about the eyes, the painting, the little subtleties on E.T.'s face, and the fact that...

He lost an arm halfway down and yet kept going. My dad told me what you guys said. He was dying when you called him amputee. Amputee instead of VT. Yeah, that thing. How tall was that? Any idea, Sammy, when you were done with it? I think it was like 13 feet tall. We measured it without the neck. It was like 10'7 or something. Who did all that airbrush work on it?

My brother-in-law, John Marcon. Damn good. Damn good. I mean, if you were to see, you could see that at Universal and have no problem believing that was part of the... Yeah. Yeah, and Sammy, I love the microphone said E.T. on it like he was a reporter for Entertainment Tonight. It was fantastic. And then tell the guys about the secret compartment you texted me about over the weekend. Yeah, we made a little butt plug. Shout out to Mike Shields who I forgot to shout on the radio the other day. He...

Right on, like, basically right between E.T.'s butt cheeks, there's a hole that we, like, we put a little, we carved a little hole and put a 30-pack of PBRs in there that we shotgun every, you know, half hour or something. So we were feeling good by the end of the thing. Sure. Yeah, no, it all came down. Again, the goal is if you can pull off the two things, you have this amazing work of art and to make the run, and you achieve both. Does it tear you up to have to tear that up at the end of the run?

I mean, it did, but I also want to thank whoever made Kathy's foot sled because I used that to drag E.T.'s head back to ours. Oh, okay. That guy was awesome. He was so nice. I ended up taking it because he was the first sled down, and I ended up taking a picture with him and chatting with him. Yeah, he was great. Well, now I got your foot at my house. Oh, nice. Wait, where's the head?

The head is at H.L. Bowman's still. Okay. Where we did the sled. Yeah. That's going to hang there for a bit until... I don't know if I want to... I would love that thing in my house, but I can't fit it. I might...

cut it off like the face and just like mount it on my wall or something between my guitars. If you could seal it, like polyurethane it or something and make it an outdoor decoration on a pole or something, I mean, again, if you're not familiar with what we're talking about, check out the picture of the video. It's a damn near work of art. It's unbelievable. And Kathy's foot sled was a guy named John Hartman. So kudos to John Hartman for having a great sled. And again, kudos to you, Kathy, for your foot video because that was...

It was unbelievably great. I watched it three times over the weekend. By the way, Sammy and company with the ET sled came in second place. Yes, they did. That was sick. That was awesome. Yeah. Yeah. Weren't expecting that. Yeah. I can kind of sort of pay off all the materials we bought. What'd you do with the rest of the day?

I hung out for a little bit and then we just went back to our Airbnb and I mean, I was beat. Yes. Kind of slept a little bit and then got up and drank a little more and you know. It's a full day. It was a good day to relax. It was a lot of work.

I was saying to these guys, I've said it a number of times, we do obviously the Camp Out for Hunger, we do all these events that are pretty elaborate. This is the one event that I find is the biggest energy drain. It just really wipes you the hell out.

Oh, yeah, but it's a beautiful sigh of relief when it's done. Not relief, but you know what I mean. Yeah, no, absolutely. Accomplishment. Yeah. All right, you did great, Sammy. It was a wonderful scene. Congratulations, man. Thank you so much. Can I just shout out my team real quick? Yes. Yeah, please. Let me go down the list. Shane Richards, John Marcon, Mike Shields, Perry Schall, Lewin Barringer, Tom Curtis Jr., Brad Gress, Brian Giasullo, Paul Vile, Christy Graybill, Chris Nagon, the Philosopher of Evil, and the Skull Sealer. And my wife, Cheryl Ann.

Love it. All right. Thanks, Sammy. We'll talk to you, bud. All right. They did. Wonderful. Like I said, came in second place, third place. By the way, he won $500. A $250 cash prize went to What's in Your Drawers, Preston's Junk Drawer. Yeah. Which was fantastic. Thank you very much. The issue, I think, with that is that, you know, you...

Unless you were aware, there was stuff actually in the drawer that was so meticulously done, like your driver's license, which was astonishing. A giant working Sharpie, glasses. There was just all kinds of stuff they had in there. I want to see some detailed pictures of that because we only saw it as it was coming down the hill. But that was Lisa Ebersole who was behind that. Great job.

And our winner, our first place, went to Mr. Bob Havens for the Mutiny on the Flying Dutchman. And Bob is joining us right now via Zoom. Hey, Bob. Hey, guys. Sorry to bother you at work. Yeah. Good day off today. Hey, congratulations. So that's win number two for you now, right?

Yeah. Actually, we placed four years in a row now. Nice. The first year at Montage, we came in first with Gene Simmons riding the chicken. Yep. And last year, we were the Wally World sled.

And this year was actually our 10th year, so we really wanted to bang one out with this ship. Wow. This dude, you did. I mean... Meticulous. Yeah, that was the most detailed thing I've seen you and your crew create with the skulls. Yes! And all that were around this ship. It was a big... For those who haven't seen it yet, it was a big...

black pirate ship with all the trimmings of evil on it, you know, and the skulls surrounding the whole thing. And those were all, as I pointed out to everybody, those were all made out of cardboard, right? Yeah, it's absolutely crazy, man, what we do. So every year I do a ton of detail work by myself. And this year it was probably the less work I've done on the sled that

with the most detail because of all the help I got this year. And who, who's that help? How many people on your crew that put that together? Well, there's probably about eight to 10 of us. Um,

Every weekend, like I said, Preston mentioned, I gave a shout out to my friends from Baltimore last year. They've been at my house every weekend, Danny and Michelle, doing the detail work, the girls, my sister Tina, all doing the detail work inside the house while the guys are outside, you know, doing the construction of the sled. So, like I said, it was the least I've ever done. Oh.

And it was the most work that we ever needed to do. It was amazing. Just the paint scheme itself, it's four layers of paint. You go with a base color and then a white, and then you comb it with this big brush, and then it has a roller that will put the wood grain in it. So if you paint your...

You were sled one time. We painted it four times. Wow. It's no wider than a regular roller brush. And that whole shit was all painted by hand. You're such a veteran, by the way, that I love that you were like, hey, you need to clear everybody out at the bottom there because we're definitely going to make it all the way down because that's that's the big thing.

You know, you put in all this work and you're like, is it going to, A, stay together? And B, is it going to make it all the way down? But you've done this so many times. You're like, oh, yeah, yeah. We're going to make it all the way down. You want to make sure nobody's standing in the background.

background. Listen, we had a team of engineers who put together a great, the design looked terrific and everything, but it collapsed at the top of the run. Here you are, you're a veteran and you made, again, we're looking at the picture of it now. It does blow my mind what looks like wood grain and you have what appears to be the ropes and rigging in place and it was an amazing accomplishment. How did you get that up there? Did you have an 18-wheeler? What did you do to get that there?

Well, we rented a 26-foot truck, and then we used dolly rollers to get it out of a canopy in my backyard. And then two by fours underneath it, eight guys, and we just muscled it up, put it on the dollies in the truck, rolled it out, and Montage did a good job this year. So when we backed our trucks up, it was right there at the snow. Oh, great. So, yeah.

And Peanut and his crew, they helped us get us off the truck because we were right next to them. And once we got it down on the snow in the tarp, it was smooth sailing. Hey, Bob, how much do you think that monstrosity weighs? Yeah.

I would say probably about 800 pounds. 800 pounds. This one was pretty heavy because on the inside, I had a second level where I was probably about four foot off the ground. And that's all, you know, carpet poles all build up. So, you know, we can stand up there. Let me ask you as a veteran this, and we were talking about this, and people...

review footage and so they put together these sleds for this this event what would you say are the the two or three main things you really need to adhere to to get a successful run down the hill with something that has a little bit of panache to it what are the things you need to make sure are incorporated into your design glue glue all right because when we go in layers and we try to build up

If you've got five pieces of cardboard together and you just tie some rope around it, it's still going to shift. So we glue in between each layer and it makes it really solid. Okay. Yeah. That makes sense because structural integrity is everything.

Yeah, for us from the ground up. And this was a different build for us. So in the past years, we've always rode on our sleds. This year, everyone was in the sled. So it was kind of new territory for me also. Yeah.

uh yeah so those people they can't see yeah it's a blind ride i've been in one of those where you've been inside and you're like i don't know what's gonna happen man um bob do you guys have a like a a you know for a lack of better terms uh clubhouse that you guys do all your building and and gathering uh it's it's my little house in glen olden in delco pa and uh

We're in the basement. We're in the dining room. And we got a 30, a 20 foot by 13 foot wide canopy enclosure in my backyard. So we were outside every weekend working around the Eagles games, working in the cold. Nice. But, you know, we got the radio on. We got, you know, WMMR playing and the girls make sure we have refreshments outside. It's amazing. Pretty good. So you have a championship banner now. So where is the championship banner going to be hung?

I don't know. If you look behind me, I got a whole wall of stuff that I'm going to have to try and incorporate it in there somewhere. It's possibly going to go in our man cave down. We got a little place down in Maryland where we have a man cave. It's a big shed that we got a lot of stuff from the cardboard classic hanging in there. The big Wally World sleds hanging in there. Wow. That's awesome. Awesome. Awesome. I'll tell you, this year, man, it really banged out because...

There were so many families up there this year with kids. And the highlight of my day, again, is, you know, we had 300 bandanas, pirate bandanas we gave out. We had little pirate flags. And we were giving them to everybody. And we had a little dinghy that was about six foot. And my buddy Danny was dressed as Captain Jack Sparrow. And people were sitting in the dinghy with him getting pictures. And whenever the families came by with kids, I was up at the helm in the big ship.

And I said, you want to get on the sled to get a picture? And they're like, up there? And I'm like, yeah, up here. And just to see the smile on their face, letting them climb on board and get the picture. Yeah, that's awesome. And of course, our miracle twins that were born at the cardboard class, they'd be coming to see us every year. I got a picture of them every year on our sled. And this year they turned seven years old. And when they climbed up on the sled this year,

I said, do you want to see the rest of it? And they were climbing through it and they wanted to see how it was built. And they really enjoyed themselves. Yeah, we didn't get it. We didn't get a chance to get them on the air, but they were there. And it's amazing to think they're seven year olds. Now it's mind blowing. Their names are Peyton and Parker. And Parker was telling me off air, Bob, that next year when he comes up and this is if his parents, Sherry and Joe, allow it.

his number one goal is to go down on a sled. He really wants to be a participant next year. So look out for Parker next year, Bob. Yeah, Sherry told me they can't wait. And I'm like, you know, we got a seat for them, of course. Excellent. Well, Bob, you're a champion, man. Thank you so much for making the Cardboard Classic what it is. It's people like you that make this thing happen. We love you, buddy.

Thanks, man. And again, a shout out to everybody to help me, my sister, my brother, my brother-in-law, my wife who puts up with everything and feeds this and she tries to help out working the sled too. I love them all and I love you guys too. Thank you, buddy. Bob Havens, our champion. Champion and his team of Cardboard Classic. It was amazing. I want to personally thank the mystery people I was leaving.

And it went longer, way longer than we thought it might. There were a couple of pauses. We had to re-groom. There were a couple of accidents and things had to drag out a little bit longer than we'd anticipated. So what we thought was going to be two hours ended up being like three and a half hours. And I was...

I was absolutely starving by the time we were leaving. We had to get out of there because our dogs were being kept by a border. We had to get back by a certain time. And I'm like, man, we're not going to be able to stop and get something to eat. And fortunately, there were tons of people that were cooking food in the parking

Oh, really? And there was a group out there and they, Casey had like a Blackstone out there and they were making smash burgers. No. And they gave me one. Really? Saved my life. Wow. Thank you very much, gang. You were wonderful. Also, shout out to the, uh, the, just the crew up there at Montage, the ski patrol and everybody and, and everyone who's jumping in and assisting. Uh,

And it was amazing how well coordinated they were. I mean, listen, that's what they do. But it was amazing to watch them work. And who is that stunningly beautiful blonde gal at the bottom of the hill? Kathy, you had to have seen her too. Yeah, I was working on the fastest sled. She was timing all the sleds that came down. She was in like a black, like all black outfit. And Steve and I were like, who's that? Is it just me or is she gorgeous? Yes.

Casey and Chuck and I were at the top of the hill and the guys working on the top of the hill for Montage were Rob, Robbie, and Bob. And so one of the Robs said, just say, Ob, and one of us will respond at some point. But those guys were helping us keep things moving as smoothly as possible.

as we possibly could. And also thanks to a guy named Chad who sent me a photo over the weekend and he said, Casey, you and Casey look great at the top of the hill. And so I shared that photo and I tagged Casey and Casey pointed out to me, it was not in fact Casey, it was Chuck. That was Chuck. I'm like, that's not me. That's not me at all.

So congratulations to the best Tito handmade vodka sled. A thousand dollar cash prize went to Bob Houston and his crew. They had the giant bottle of Tito's, which we couldn't believe stayed upright. It was amazing. All the way down. And the fastest sled. And I think it was his third win. Tori Rose just

Just destroyed everyone with a time of 13 point, excuse me, two seven seconds. And our favorite fail went to pro or I'm sorry, went to the Voltron crew. It was Jeffrey Van Gordon. He was Voltron defender of the universe. It was a blast.

beautiful sled creation and it just absolutely crumbled and fell apart the moment that it hit the slope. I would describe that as a complete disintegration and it was spectacular and he was pumping his fist when he won. We're going to go to another Zoomer this morning and she was the crew behind the hot

tub time machine. Was that the very last one? Oh, yeah. Oh, my God. So I believe that was a montage theme sled and that was to transition into the concert. And we have Meg who is joining us this morning. Hey there, Meg. How you doing? Hi.

Hello, good morning. How are you guys? Wonderful. I have no voice after this weekend. I believe it. Hey, congratulations on a successful run because you guys were the very last sled to go down and we always want the last one to have a successful run all the way down because some of these don't make it down. They either fall apart or they stall. They just don't have the right construction to where it'll lead to a success. You guys hauled ass. How fun was that?

That was the most incredible experience. This was our first year doing it, but we have gone for 11 years straight to go and watch the cardboard classic. So it was our goal was to make it down. That's all we cared about. And then second to that was the absolute design. We knew that needed to be incredible.

And when we got in line, we asked about being able to be the last because we had a whole skit that we wanted to do to bring it back. So we were we were pumped that we were able to make it work and be the last one. And you guys had the full hot tub time machine on there. But everybody was dressed in this outrageous 80s gear. And that was leading to the band, the M80s, who were going to play right after that. So it was perfect timing.

What was the skit? Because I missed that part of it. What were you guys doing?

So in the hot tub time machine movie, there's a whole vortex that takes place that brings them back to the 80s. So that's what we had. We had the crew that were sitting in the hot tub. As soon as we went down, they waited a hot second before they popped up so that the vortex could go through. And then when they came up, they were in their 80s gear. We had the guy with the shirt off. We had the guy dressed as a bear. We had the little Chernobyl squirrel was on there too. Yeah.

Yeah, you had it all covered. The guy who's playing Rob Corddry did a great job. Yeah. With the shirt off, which always blows my mind that anybody would do that. Meg, where's your crew from? That was my husband. He got real warm with some drinks first. Where are you guys all from?

We are from South Jersey, so we're around the Cherry Hill, Deptford area, most of us. A lot in Voorhees as well. Well, amazing work. You made the run. It was a perfect capper to the event, as Preston said, leading right into the band. Did you stay for the band? Did you stay for the weekend?

We did. We stayed for the band. They came out. They were dancing with us. They actually came out before we went down and gave us some of their stickers to pop on the side of our sled. And we got some photos with the band. And then we did. We stayed for the whole weekend. Some of us went on the slopes right after that. Some of us got some food and had some more drinks. And we get a house up there for the weekend. And we actually have huge games that we put on inside our house and a huge competition in our house. We had a Super Mario Party.

theme this year to go towards the 80s too so wow you guys really do i was thrilled just to have five guys but that's awesome 24 people in our house this year oh my god yeah wow that's how to do it you guys roll in style uh anybody you want to mention meg uh that helped you out with this

Yes, please. Oh, my gosh. A huge list. So on the sled that helped build it was Kyle and Kai, Jamie, Emily, Bobby, Brandon, Allie, Meg, Dave, Kevin, Christina, Mila and Adi. So without them, you know, we all brought tape and glue and hours upon hours of friendship tested and made stronger through this whole experience. It sounds like it. It sounds like it. So plans for next year?

Yeah, we're in. Done and done. Excellent. Well, nice job for your first run. I can't believe you guys did so well your first run. That's fantastic, Meg. We're really happy. Thank you. Thanks for checking in. We love you. All right. Wow, man. That one was impressive. It really had momentum behind it.

All these guys. And looking back at the videos afterwards, because we all have different perspectives. Casey and Nick were at the top. Me and Marissa and Kathy and...

Steve are all at the bottom. Oh, and by the way, shout out to Brent Porsche. Oh my God. Brent supplied the perfect soundtrack for this event. Every single sled that came, almost every single one had a tailor-made song that he would play as they were coming down. Last second special request, he was able to rise to the challenge. There was one, it didn't do well at all.

but it was a nod to the Godfather. It was the horse's head in the bed. And he plays the Godfather theme as it was coming down the hill. The bed and the whole design was really great. I just wish it didn't make it far at all, but it was really a great idea. It was funny because we were at the top of the hill and there was a guy who was in an eagle sled. I don't know if you guys know this, but the Eagles won the Super Bowl, so there were a couple of the Eagles sleds. And he's like, I need to fight somewhere. I was like, don't you worry about it.

Even when there was a break in the sleds coming down, Preston, I think you said to him, play a sing-along or something like that. And he did. Well, I worked that out with him ahead of time. I'm like, Brent, in the condition where we have to stop for a little while, I need sing-along music. I need stuff that

People are going to enjoy it. And he had a great playlist ready to go for that. He had Holiday Road for the truck truckster from National Lampoon's Vacation. There was a Star Wars theme sled, the speeder that went down the hill. That one got a Star Wars theme. That was terrific. Multiple SpongeBob. Yes. So he used that a few times. The Chitty Chitty Bang Bang theme. He played that. Yeah. I mean, he was just just well, well equipped. Hey, I also need to thank the Santas.

Marissa got in contact with the Santas last week, and they were there at the top of the hill pushing all of the sleds over. What a team. They were great. Yeah, I met them before everything got underway. They were pumped. And speaking of theme songs, Brent also played the Family Feud theme when this sled went down the hill.

It was a Family Feud themed sled. It was amazing. And we want to welcome Dave to our show this morning via Zoom this morning. Dave, you guys killed it, man. Oh, thank you. Good morning. Nice to see you once again, bud. You're there at work right now where you guys put all this in. Where is this?

This is a lakeside collision in Mount Laurel, New Jersey. All right. And this year you went with a family feud theme. I remember a friend of mine went over and looked at it and he goes, oh, there's no way in hell that thing's going to make it downhill. You guys did. You made it successfully all the way down. I did.

I've made it down the hill every time we've played, every time we've come there, only because I'm a little bit of an engineer. So my stuff's not going to fall apart. It's going to make it down. And as Bob Havens about this as well, would you agree with his assertion that really the key is structural integrity? Definitely the structural part of it. One of the things I've dealt with this, there's a Facebook page.

with Preston C's cardboard class, you know, the photos and all the stuff like that. And last year, maybe the year before, she had asked us to put on there people that built sleds to, you know, help other people, you know, come up with good ideas for the construction of them, what's going to structurally make these things go down the hill. Glue, yeah, definitely with that. One of the things I put on there is tubes.

And Bob will agree with me on this thing. He goes and gets these carpet tubes. We use tubes that we use every day. They're just a couple inches around, but they're solid. And the base of it to use them to make everything work, it just works out perfectly. Okay. By the way, Dave, did you guys have a variety of categories for people to play Family Feud? Or was it just one? We actually went through 18 categories.

like rounds of play. When I first got there, we were like, okay, let's see if we can get everybody to play. And we grabbed a couple of other people that made sleds. The first ones were the bears and the lobsters, so we had those versus each other. And what happens when we go through it, and I made it so we could reset the game pretty quickly. And every time I reset the game, there was people out there ready to play. It was great. And one of the other funny things was, of course, on the final few, we put name tags on everybody. So...

Everybody put their names down. They made whatever up names. Don't use your real name, guys. But later on in the day, if you saw them, even towards the 80s party and all that stuff, there were still people walking around with the name tags on. Oh, that's great. That is fantastic. I love it. Excellent. So you're also providing entertainment by letting people play the game. See, there's all this stuff that we're unaware of that's happening as you're processing up the hill and just hanging out prior as we're broadcasting. It almost...

Preston, we miss out on a lot because we're doing the show. It sounds like the real party's out with these guys. Yeah, yeah. And that's why we have people like Jackie Bam Bam out roaming around and getting a feel for what's going on. So it was, yeah, it was definitely one for the ages. It was a great time. Now, Dave, do you guys stay there overnight after it's done?

No, actually, we get up at 3 o'clock in the morning, drive all the way up, do the whole thing, hang out for a while, and then drive all the way back. So we're back home by like 7 or 8 o'clock at night. It's a three-hour drive there and back with a truck that we haven't used. Real fun drive. Don't drive a truck every day. It's fun to get up there and back. It wears you out a lot. Like you said, it's a long day. Dave, anybody you want to mention from your team?

Well, I had Biscuit. He was really helping me out. My son, Greg, really did a great job. I had Elvin, Logan, Anthony, everybody. And this was the first year my wife actually went up to it.

Oh, cool. It's basically the drunken fest that he thought it was. By the way, I loved your suit that you were wearing. Where the hell did you get that? Oh, that was actually one of the things when I was researching it, I went through and I'm like, all right, you know, you watch the game on TV. But now the host, Steve Harvey, has got the outrageous suits on. So I'm like, OK. And I was like, my wife's favorite color is purple. I just put it in purple suit and I started scrolling through. And then the suit that I got, you guys have to go look at pictures of it. You guys have seen it.

It popped up and I was like, that's it. That's great. It certainly was. It was a perfect pairing with the construction itself. Great job, Dave. Thanks for making that event what it is. You guys are just incredible and we appreciate your continued support, bud. Alright, thank you. I appreciate it. Nice job, family. Speaking of suits, Kathy,

The suits, the snowsuits that you picked out for us were great. I love them. People love them. But like you had mentioned, even during the the event itself, she's like, we can see you. You're glistening in the sun. I felt the same way when I looked down. I was like, there they are. I can see them. And you know what? Looking back at the pictures and stuff, I didn't know how stupid I looked with those goggles on. And I left them on.

all morning long. Oh, my God. They're huge. Yeah. They're ski goggles. Yeah, they're ski goggles. I know, but they're bigger than your normal ski goggles. I thought you looked fine. Oh, well, thank you. Yeah. I mean, you didn't look good, but you looked okay. Yeah, I thought they were great. I thought everybody looked so good in them. You know what? Actually, his goggles do look the best on Nick. Thank you. Yeah.

It's proportional. They look normal. They're normal sized on my head. Oh, and I wanted to mention this too because he got a nice plug from Pierre when he was on the air. But I had gotten this email from Krista Shevlin before the Cardboard Classic. And she had said, our dear friend Philadelphia police officer Michael Rooney received accolades for saving a toddler who wandered away from her family and into Pennypack Creek.

She said Officer Rooney, along with a group of friends, were going to be at the Cardboard Classic. And they had VIP passes. There was a whole big group of them. And Pierre pointed him out and got him up on the mic and everything. Yeah, it was a great story. He saved this kid from drowning. And he was...

He was celebrating. He was. Well deserved. Dude was in a great mood. His friends were very emphatic and we wanted to make sure that something happened and what I was trying to do is redirect to Pierre so that he could put it out on air because Pierre was doing his show and it worked out very well. And it was funny because normally when you see a police officer talking about something like this, they're very matter of fact and he was feeling no pain. He's like, I have

boots on, man. I didn't know if I could swim with boots on or not. I just jumped in. It was great. They were having so much fun. So thank you to all of our sponsors, by the way. Obviously, Montage Mountain is a wonderful host. So thank you guys. Tito's Handmade Vodka for stepping up for best Tito sled. Pro Team Collision. They were the ones who did the cleanup.

And that's important to keep that event moving when they come out and remove all the debris. Duncan had a bunch of samples in the parking lot, live casino and hotel Philadelphia. Also a sponsor, Comcast, got us going with our connectivity. Newman University for the video coverage, as we said, the drone coverage was phenomenal.

Phenomenal from Camelot Productions. And by the way, Montage Mountain's coverage was incredible as well. Their people are great. Marissa showed us a video that No Shorts did. Yeah. And it's excellent as well. And we also had Bill Kane with Kane Images.

supplying our official photographs and just so much great stuff and great people. We had an awesome time throughout the day, and we're sorry about the length of it. It went a little bit longer than we wanted, but nobody seemed to be complaining about how long it went. I think because it was probably shorter than it was the year before. Maybe. I don't know. But we're working on it. This one was a blast. So thank you to everybody who... And honestly, Steve, when we do this event...

Up until I see all the people on the mountain, I'm always like,

we're going to get anybody that comes out for this thing or not. I'm right with you, man. I'm right with you. The morning is progressing and I'm like, eh, there's not that many people here. I don't know. And by the time we went out, when we took that picture with us in our Reynolds wrap on the hill, it was packed. Well, it's different every year too. I mean, the conditions are slightly different. The number of sleds are slightly different. Like there are all these variables that we can't really control. And so we don't know what it's going to be like until we get out there, until it starts running. And yeah, I mean like...

I am always constantly blown away at the creativity of the listeners. And every year I'm like, oh my God, I can't believe they topped last year, but somehow they do. And by the way, not knowing how many people will come out is because there's no ticket sales. Right. Like you just, it's free. Come on out. Yeah. So next year. Don't cost nothing. Don't cost nothing. Come out, make your plans. And like Meg was saying earlier. Yeah.

Rent an Airbnb. Bring your friends. With 22 of your closest friends. Make a whole weekend out of it. I ended up hanging out with some friends on Friday. I stayed Friday night as well. And so I was going back to my room on Friday relatively early because I was done. And I'm going through the lobby of one of the hotels. And it was packed with Preston and Steve listeners. And they had been partying all day. And they're like, it's Nick!

Oh, my God. His neck is giving Monika a hug. But it was like people were there to celebrate. People were there to have a good time. And they were having a damn good time. Yep. All right. Well, it's almost 8 o'clock and we haven't even done the Bizarre File yet. So we are going to take a break and come back in a moment. Thank you to everybody for another epic cardboard classic. We'll be back in just a moment. Stay with us.

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who was locked in a storage unit by his girlfriend over the course of a few days. Holy hell. What prompted that? On Monday, police received a 911 call from a man whose identity has not been publicly revealed, stating that he had been locked in a storage unit since last week. He said, I've been locked in the storage unit for about a week now, and I've just now found my phone.

He said, yes, my girlfriend locked me in here. She doubled up my lock, and I don't know how she put me in here, but she put me in here, and I just now found my phone inside the storage unit. I've been here since last week. Quick question. Have you been going to the bathroom in there? Police Lieutenant Morgan Malone said that the man and his girlfriend, Robin Deaton, had gotten into an argument before he was locked inside. Deaton allegedly closed the door to the unit behind her boyfriend and locked it from the outside.

The 911 operator asked, all right, I'm going to get them headed your way. Do you need EMS to come and check you out as well? He said, I just need out of here. I just can't breathe. I haven't had anything to drink or anything. God almighty. And I know there's two locks on this unit. She put two locks on it for some reason. So the man actually had been in there. He was found on Monday. He had been in there since Thursday. He wasn't there for a whole week. So he was there for a course of days. A couple days, yeah. Four days.

He was reportedly unable to find his cell phone until sometime on Monday. So was it pitch black dark in there? Yeah, because the unit was so dark and full. Police had to force their way into the storage unit. The man locked inside was dehydrated and reportedly taken to the hospital to get checked out. He has since been released. She was issued an arrest warrant and she's being charged with attempted murder and first degree kidnapping as well. Wow.

All I could do was sleep on these boxes of water and sandwiches. A Washington man was arrested earlier this month after he allegedly stole an 80-foot commercial fishing boat with the crew still on board and tried heading out to sea. Wow. The 42-year-old suspect, Joshua Stedman, had gotten onto the $8 million boat by pretending that he was the captain...

He was able to convince the crew to leave the dock, at least for a short while. I'm the captain. Stedman, who remains in jail, reportedly boarded the 80-foot vessel with Jamie Marie, or it's called Jamie Marie, around 9 a.m. Now, the boat was docked in Westport, a popular commercial fishing port.

He immediately woke the crew and told them they needed to get underway. Police said the newer crew did not know the captain, but didn't argue, thinking he was an alternate operator or someone sent by the captain. Why would they think otherwise? They said he surely acted the part.

as he knew how to start and operate the large vessel. Did he say things like, shiver me timbers? Stedman's charade didn't last long, however, as he started saying some questionable things that made the crew suspicious. He was apparently, according to the police, talking about meeting the Chinese mothership...

and was not making sense. I've got some concerns about the captain. He certainly was not describing fishing activity. Authorities say the boat was on its way out of the harbor and about to head into the open ocean when one of the crew members finally called the real captain, realizing they had been tricked.

The imposter skipper then turned the ship around and brought it back to port. All right. Sergeants were waiting for him. Sorry. Back in the dock. He just always wanted to be a captain. Where he was arrested, he was found in possession of $4,000 in cash along with a large amount of marijuana that was already weighed and packaged individually for sale. Authorities also learned that Stedman...

had boarded another commercial boat earlier that morning but had been run off by the crew. What the hell's going on? They didn't report the incident until later when they heard about what happened aboard the Jamie Marie's, currently being held on a $250,000 bond.

In Indiana, a driver stuck on a set of railroad trucks made it out safely from his car before it was struck by a Norfolk Southern train. The crash and his arrest may not have happened had he not been highly impaired before a woman had showed him her breasts.

while they were FaceTiming each other. Yeah. And that's the picture drawn from police investigating this that led to the charges against 27-year-old Zachariah Vigil. So he's facing misdemeanor counts of operating while intoxicated, leading to the scene of a crash. It was about 2 a.m. Monday when Vigil was driving to his girlfriend's house. He told investigators he became distracted by the sight of her breasts.

that she was showing him on FaceTime, which caused him to drive up onto the rails of the train next to the crossing. And...

Police said vigil tried pushing the car off the tracks before the vehicle was struck by the freight train. According to court documents, a woman picked up vigil and was leaving the scene of the crash when stopped by one of the responding officers. Vigil, who was in the front passenger seat, had an alleged blood alcohol level of .273. He described them as major league yabos. And then we'll do one more story and then we will wrap it up. This is a story out of our area. Ah.

Delaware County. Multiple customers have fallen victim to one man's disturbing proposition and officials believe there still may be more. Brian Steiner has been charged with multiple counts of sexual assault, threat of rape, indecent assault, false imprisonment, and related charges. So the Delaware County man...

is accused of soliciting sexual acts from customers while working at two optical shops in Fulcroft and Collingdale. Optical shops? Yeah, that he would lure customers to the back of the stores by offering free glasses in exchange for sexual acts. Wow.

So he's dangling free glasses and hoping to get, you know, a Hummer or whatever. Throwing a pair of bifocals for a Hummer. Further details have yet to be released, including the number of victims. However, officials said that there may still be more, and they're asking them to come forward. So if you or you know someone who was approached by this guy, make sure you reach out to police. That's bizarre. Yeah, that'll come.

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podcast all right uh thank you very much kathy so our phone lines aren't working again we've had a company-wide issue uh we have found a way around if we do want to talk to people who are tuning into the show this morning and that's via zoom so if you hear something you want to contribute in uh just text the word zoom to 39333 and we'll send you this link and then we'll pop you up and then you'll go into like a queue and then uh we'll randomly pull some people up but

What I was interested in talking about for a moment does have to do with our phone lines. Yes. I was talking to Chuck, our program director, Chuck D'Amico, while we were at the Cardboard Classic, and we were talking about the phone issue. And he said that, and this has apparently been in the works for a while now,

about getting a new phone system overall, which would mean a new phone number for us to use here at MMR. And we've used 215-263-WMMR for a long, long time. And one of the questions about changing the phone number was the fact that we say 215-263-WMMR.

As a phone line, I can't even tell you what those numbers are because I never call the phone line. I could look on my phone and figure it out. But the days of using letters to spell out numbers have been gone for a while. I stopped using WMMR.

when describing her phone number a long time ago because of that. It's 9667, and so many people had no idea what I was talking about when I would say call 263-WMMR that they just didn't know. So, yeah, people just don't use that ever. I mean, you can see why it was used in the first place. Yeah. Because you can co-brand something, and then people can figure it out eventually. But...

It's an antiquated system. So we're going to go to another number. That's the case. That's what I've been told. Now, here's a question because Chuck was having a discussion with me. I don't know the exact number, what it is, but he had given me a placeholder number. And it's going to have the 610 area code. So we're going from a 215 to 610.

And part of being a program director of a radio station is how you present certain things and how you want them to sound on the air. And Chuck was kind of wrestling with, does he want it to be 610 or 610? And he's kind of siding with 610. So I have a 610 phone number for my cell phone. And I say 610 all the time. And I brought this up here in the studio while we were off air. And Kathy was like...

Never say 610. Well, no, I said, I go, well, why would we say 610? Nobody ever says that. And you were like, yes, I do. I do. And lots of people I know do say 610. I'm wondering if, because I grew up with a 215 number, I grew up in a 215 area code, we would never say 215. So I wonder if that, you know, I've never heard, I've never heard anybody say 215. Do you ever say 610? No. No.

So I would say 610 and then also the Jersey Shore numbers were always 609. Right.

I've heard, so on that 610, 610, I've heard probably a 50-50 split. When someone has that kind of number, they'll relay it, you know, half one way and half the other way. So your preference is 610? I go either. But so like when I'm at our local grocery store and they ask for your reward number or whatever, it's our phone number. So I always say 610, you know, I lead it with that because it's just a smidge quicker than saying 610. Right.

And so, because it's one less syllable. And so it's kind of a shortcut. But I'm curious if there are some people that it really bothers. Right. When somebody says 610 or not. I guarantee you there are. I know it doesn't bother you, but you were like, no, you shouldn't. Nobody says that. But I'm curious if there are people that it gets under their skin or not. It's

What, if you say one or the other? If you say 610. You're exchanged the wrong way. Or you refuse to give in and say 610 like you've heard other people do. Right, like, Kath, when people say Route 3, I'm like, nobody... Westchester Pikes. It's Westchester Pikes. Nobody says Route 3. Right. You know, and you sound like an outsider when you say that. So, like...

If you do say 610, do you sound like an outsider? Like who, are there certain people that use 610 or 610? Like who are those, who are you? Because I feel like I'm a 610-er. Yeah, I'm 610. Yeah. I am as well, yeah. And I had to say it in my head. I guarantee you there will be people who are angry if our new phone number starts with 610 instead of 215.

People will look at 215 and they will say, that's a Philly number. 610 is the suburbs. 610 is the suburbs. So people are going to be angry. But we are technically the suburbs. I know, but people are going to be upset about it because we are a Philadelphia radio station. The point you just raised, that is a very valid point. 215 is considered the Philadelphia exchange. So 610 is going to be a little bit of a departure. But you get what you get.

Yeah, I could see that battle. So, Nick, if you were to have 610 and your number was 400, would you say 610-400 or would you say 610-400? That's a great question, Steve. I probably would say 610-400, not 400. Well, I would say 400. Okay. 610 and then 400.

4-0-0. I bet you some people would think that you were saying the letter, even though that's an antiquated thing. My mom used to say my Aunt Mary's phone number was 0-L-9. She lived in Willow Grove area, so it was 2-1-5, 0-L-9, whatever. But that's how she identified my Aunt Mary's phone number. Yeah, so people are texting in, you know, why say O? O is a letter. Yeah, right. I get it. 6-1-0-

as opposed to or 609. Nobody says 609, do they? Or did you just mention that? No, 609, I would say. Yeah, 609. And so how come people don't say 2,152,639,667? WMMR. That's our good point.

That's our new number. Two billion, 152 million. All right. We do have some Zoomers that are that are checking in. This is Mason, who we're going to go to. Hey, Mason. Morning, bud. Hey, good morning. Can you hear me all right? Yeah, we can hear you just fine. All right. 610-610. What do you think? My family and I have always had 610 numbers and say 610.

But it's weird in certain applications. Like if I'm at like a doctor or something or I'm saying it over the phone, sometimes I catch myself saying 610. But in person, I'm always saying 610. Why do you think that is? Why do you think you delineate? I don't know. Maybe if I'm on the phone saying 610.

You know, I have no idea. Maybe you have less of a personal connection to that person because you're not in front of them personally and you can kind of shortchange them a little bit. Yeah, for sure. That could be it. Or maybe it's like you kind of like side handing out a 610. Between you and me, now that I can see you. It is though, I can see that there are certain ways you react, especially if you're giving out the information. If someone, if you're filling out a form or you're giving information to an, you're applying to something on the phone. Yeah.

you're going to want to make sure they understand exactly what you're talking about. So I think you're going to go 6-1-0 because, you know, O is going to be – to me that seems a little more vague. It really isn't. But 6-1-0, you want to be as precise as you can be. Does that make sense? Yeah, definitely. And I think it also goes to the fact that, like –

Some of my family's numbers has 310 as the second one, so it's 610310. Oh. Whereas mine's not, and I always say 610, but I think it just clicked. When I say the 610, it's when I'm saying 310 after. Do you know what the consideration here is, is that when you're doing something, you're giving out...

when you're doing something for advertising, for marketing, you want it to be instinctive to the person who's saying it. You want it to roll off the tongue. You want to think about how it's going to sound in promos and positioning statements and things like that. And so there's an aesthetic now that you have to consider. And that's part of the deal, right? Yep. All right, Mason. Thank you, bud. Appreciate it, bud. Yeah, have a good one. I'll say bud one more time. Hey, bud. Hey, bud. So what I would never say is...

If there are zeros back to back, I wouldn't say O-O. You know what I mean? Right. O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-

That's true. WIP and not 6-1. And so therefore you say it that way. So I don't know. Well, that is actually a valid point. Do you ever say 93.3 WMMR? Because I never do. I always say 93.3, but I've heard IDs and artists and other people, even people like tuning in saying 93.3 WMMR. But in my lexicon, it never comes out.

that way 93.3 yeah i'll tell you i do say 93.3 when someone asks me what radio station i work for because i've had people say so many times oh like point what like like what are what are the exact so i give it to them so they know 93.3 interesting first off that 610 they haven't been on that frequency for years yeah right yeah yeah no you're right i mean they were still on the free

But it wasn't their main one. Anyway, what I didn't realize was it's also generational. So I guess towards the end of my high school is when 484 was introduced. So that was like the new cool number. Just a few years ago, my friend met a guy in a bar and he was a little bit younger and they were exchanging numbers. And she started to give her number and she's like, oh, it's 484. And he kind of flinched and he's like.

Like, how old? Yeah. How old are you? He knew how old she was because she was a 484 number. Because now younger people are getting 215 numbers. So it circled around. So he presumed she was older? Yeah. It was a tell for how old she was because she had a 484 number. Is there a tell for 267 numbers? Probably like the generation after 484 is 267.

Where's your mommy? I haven't called a 267 in a while. Yeah. Those kind of faded off. Remember, would people of the current generation understand if you said, what's a 411? Yeah. No. They wouldn't have any idea. I get it. Yeah. Because for those who are younger and listening right now, 411 was a number for information. Generally, if you wanted to find out a phone number, someone's phone number, you would call...

411. Casey used an antiquated term the other day. I forgot who it was. Oh, it was one of the reporters from local TV station, WYOU, up in Scranton. We were out that way. And she's really short. She mentioned being very short.

And Casey goes, oh, we'll just have you stand on a couple of phone books. Oh, yeah. And I go, what if she turned to you and said, what's a phone book? What's a book about phones? By the way, I saw her on a TV commercial for that TV station that night. I think her name was Sydney. I remember. She was selling phone books. No, she was cool. It was really cool to see their reporting up in Scranton. Well,

Well, we're looking to change the number to get a new number in here. And I wasn't sure if there were, you know, pet peeves or...

concerns about how you say the actual prefix, the 610. I remember my first phone number being a combination of numbers and letters. You know, it used to be quite common, an AN6. You know, this is well before you'd have to have one and then the number. All right, we're going to go back via Zoom to another comment, and we have Colin and a young person. Hi, Colin, good morning. Yo, it's me and Maeve. We're watching.

Maeve! That's a great name. I love that. He's wearing Maeve on a baby Bjorn right in front of him right now. Oh my God, she is so... Look at the smile on this baby! We're doing laps. Oh my God, how cute. All right, anyway, you wanted to chime in on the phone number thing. So I think Preston, you'd appreciate this.

There's a specific way you have to tell somebody a number. Yes. It's ba-ba-ba, ba-ba-ba, ba-ba, ba-ba. Correct. Yeah. So there's a King of Queens episode, and they're ordering from Domino's, a local pizza place. And they give out the number completely wrong.

And it really sets off the old man. It's hilarious. But people that don't do that specific beat, you throw off everyone. It is a cadence that is... I would be thrown off by it. And I've had people...

Say, if I'm doing tech support from another country where that cadence isn't as ingrained in people as it is here, and it throws you the hell off. Yeah, there's a whole comedy bit based on that, right? Yes, Kevin James does it. Is it Kevin James? Okay, yeah. He's talking about that off the air. Yeah. Nice. Good point, Colin. You are absolutely correct. Thank you, sir. And give Maeve our best. We'll see you, bud. Adorable.

Do you know when that's similar? When you're giving a credit card number in the four number clusters. Yeah. But people will string them together. No. They're separated in clusters for a reason. So this is a wholly different topic, but since he had mentioned the rhythm of that, I'm going to bring this up because I saw an Instagram video, and we'll go back to these calls in a second, but maybe Nick can look this up. And a guy had posted a video.

where he's explaining how adjectives are used and how there's an unwritten English rule that we all understand. And the example that he used was a rubber ball. Right. Okay, so it was a red rubber ball. And he pointed out that if someone were to show you a picture of this, how would you describe that? Well, you would say a red rubber ball. You wouldn't say a rubber red ball. Yeah.

And if it happened to be like a small rubber red ball, you wouldn't say a red small rubber ball. You would say a small red rubber ball. Yeah. And apparently there is a series of which you are supposed to use adjectives. Whoa. And I don't have the list here, but it has to do something with adjectives.

Size, color, like there's an unwritten rule that we all follow. And if people don't follow it, it sounds like gibberish. And I found it so intriguing and I need to do a little bit more. It is ingrained. So to that point, I would say a big red rubber ball. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah, a big rubber ball.

Red rubber ball. Yeah. Yeah. So color went in there. So if you did, you know, the material before the color, it would sound strange. A red big rubber ball would sound awkward. So here we go. Here's the list. And thank you for pulling that up, by the way, Sam. Okay. So it's determiner as in A and B, both, either, some, many. So a description of that.

opinion, meaning good, bad, great, terrible, pretty silly, then size, shape, age, color, origin, material, and purpose. In that order...

That's how we describe things. Now, that doesn't mean that for every time you mention something, you're using nine descriptors. In other words, in the pecking order, if you have information, you would go... Yeah, so purpose would not come before age. It doesn't have to be all those things. But that is the order. If you did have all those things, that is the order that they would fall in. It's a really interesting look at how we...

Was the point that in other, because we know in other countries, they're switching around of, say, where a verb would fall in a sentence or so on and so forth. Did they make a point about how other countries approach? No, it was only about English. Yeah, yeah. Because English has so many odd words.

rules or unwritten rules or indicators that we use to communicate. But I had never heard of that before. And once he started describing it, I'm like, that makes perfect sense. And we don't even have to think about it. We're just used to it. We just follow those rules. We spend so much of our lives being indoctrinated into that progression that it becomes second nature. Steve, to your point, in French, there are some French adjectives that come before the noun. Most French

French adjectives come after the noun. Isn't that wild? So you would say la belle époque, which, you know, the beautiful era, but it would be, if you were saying the beautiful yellow era, it'd be la belle époque jaune. You would put the color after, the beautiful comes first, then the noun, then the color. And who knows why. It's wild, yeah. Yeah, I was kind of, I found that quite intriguing. It is, and it's interesting, it's the way we are used to hearing things, and what doesn't sound right to our ears, as with the phone number, the way you read the phone number, and the cadence that you...

Exactly. And Colin was right. It's ba-ba-ba, ba-ba-ba, ba-ba-ba-ba. Right. That's the rhythm. Uh-huh. Three, three, two, two. Do you know what the most annoying thing is when you are reading your number to someone on the phone and they jump in? It's like, I'm going to give it to you all in one shot. With that cadence. Dun-da-da. Dun-da-da. And they jump in and repeat. And repeat. I'm going to start again. Yeah.

Let me finish and we can check our work together. You know, it's funny when you're doing that or a credit card number there. There needs to be an affirmation on the other end. Right. So, OK, can you give me your credit card number? Oh, yeah. That number is one one two two. Mm hmm.

2233. Yeah, it's four numbers. Yeah. But you gotta get that mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. 3344. Mm-hmm. 4455. Actually, I'm gonna say this now. I don't want that. Stop saying mm-hmm. Oh, I need the mm-hmm. Oh, God. It's so annoying because then I go to like speak and she's saying mm-hmm and I'm like, oh, okay. Then I gotta start the four set of numbers over again. Would you prefer yes, queen? Yes.

In between each number. That's funny. I need the affirmation. You know what? Because some people don't and they'll just stay quiet and then some people do the... Oh my God, Debbie's dead. Oh my God, Debbie died on the phone. All right, we have another Zoomer. We're going to go to Todd and check in with him. Hey, Todd. Morning, bud.

Morning to actually see you. Yes, actually see us. Nice, Todd. All right. You work in retail, right? Yes. All right. And so you are constantly talking to people and swapping numbers, credit card numbers, phone numbers, all that stuff, right? Right. Social security numbers, all of it. I'll share a couple of social security numbers on the line if you want me to. Sure, please, if you don't mind. So what's your observation on all this?

So I have absolutely heard 610 and 610. I've never heard any of the others. 215, 267, whatever the case may be. But 610 and 610 are definitely interchangeable. It just depends on how big of a jerk somebody wants to be. Yeah. Yeah.

But one thing that does tend to irk me more than anything is like area code is one thing. But when you tell me my number is 610-361-4072. Yeah.

Oh, because 40 might be 47 when you first hear it. Right. Okay. You're throwing in a different pattern. Yes, I can see where that would be a pain in the ass. So for the last four digits, rather than breaking them up into two-digit numbers, you would prefer just rattling off all four numbers?

Exactly. Is that the point at which you go, oh, now we're playing that game, huh? Because you've gone in with your pattern and you've changed it. I can agree with that. And to your point, Preston, yes, you don't know whether the number clusters are one number or it's... Yes, I couldn't do that. My mind has not evolved enough to perceive those numbers in that way. So do you ask for Social Security information a fair amount or no?

We do because we do financing. Yeah. So we're regularly asking for Social Security numbers when we're doing the finance application. Okay. And it'll be the same thing where they'll say, you know, I'll just throw there, you know, 610-4272-20. Right. And that throws in, we just, yeah. And it's just the same level of frustration because it's...

Well, all right. Now I have to figure out what numbers did they say? Yes, exactly. Okay. Makes sense. Appreciate it, Todd. Valid point there, bud. What are you leaning towards for the number? 610. 610? Even though I generally say 610 for my own number, I think that saying it on the air, 610 just doesn't sound right. So I think we're going to go with 610. Okay.

Although, I think the last four digits are going to be 9333.

So you try to have numbers that make it easy for people to remember. So obviously 93, 3, 3, 3, 3. What was that? That was the, oh my God, not your average listener. Not your average listener. 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3. So I think that's probably what we'll end up doing. But whether or not we get this new number in the next couple of days, I have no idea. Which is apparently it's going to allow...

for a more seamless back and forth experience. It'll open up more opportunities if you've ever had issues. For all the years that I've worked in this business, people always ask if there is a secret to calling in to win. And we always tell them no because each jock is different when they start answering the phones. And it's just, who knows? But one thing...

I think we've made note is that because sometimes, or it hasn't happened in a while, but you

You get people who win a lot. We would call them contest pigs was kind of the industry behind-the-scenes term for people who win contests all the time. But there are some phone lines that get through easier than others. It's a bona fide fact. We've had certain exchanges, certain areas, certain subsections just come through quicker. And in addition to that, Preston, this might have an effect on that, also the actual quality of the phone calls themselves. Rodney was saying that...

The equipment, the phone equipment was so old here that there were no upgrades, software upgrades at all available and hardware upgrades at all. So the replacement parts were antiquated as well. So we're resetting the whole system. By the way, speaking of antiquated tech, the other day, I think it might have been on the way. No, it wasn't on the way to Carbocost. Anyway, my youngest asked me, and I'm a pseudo quote here, hey, dad, dad.

were you afraid when people thought Y2K was going to happen? Oh, wow. And I said, no, I wasn't afraid. And then they also asked if I believed that everything was going to crash. And I said...

I was 95% sure everything was going to be fine. But there was a little 5% of me that was like, well... You're waiting. Listen, system-wide, things do occur. I actually, at that time, knew two people who were hired by massive companies to go in and...

The word was well in advance. So for companies to correct if you weren't familiar was the inability for the calendars within software to roll over to the new century. And so, but yeah, they modified it and nothing happened. I hosted a party that night and there were like 200 people. It was a black tie party. It was at the Sheraton in King of Prussia. Oh, I thought you were about to make fun of me because that's the night we went to Cecily Tynan's and didn't know that it was a black tie party. No.

Okay. No, I'm not making fun of you at all. Okay, thank you. But I remember... How's that taco dip? It was a lot of fun. It was a great party. But there were people at that party that night who were thinking, is this the last party we're ever going to go to? Is everything going to hit the fan at midnight on 99 into 2000? And my friend Brian Vendig, when the clock turns... People were rolling video and whatever with video cameras, by the way, not with phones. The clock hits midnight and everybody's celebrating and kissing and having a good time on New Year's Eve. And Brian Vendig just goes...

The world is still here! Listen, the semi-fear was like planes are going to fall out of the sky and ships were going to just continue and slam into bridges and things like that. There was a movie that was made last year that was sort of a comedy movie about the Y2K. Kyle Mooney. Yes, Kyle Mooney, yeah. You know, I missed the perfect opportunity to shut the circuit breaker box off right at the start of midnight. That would have been... At home? Mm-hmm.

Yeah. But I hadn't thought about that in a while. And you mentioning the antiquated tech made me think of that. So, all right. Well, anyhow, as of now, no phones, but we do obviously have our Zoom to communicate with. And by the way, did you guys see Skype is dead? Like they're getting rid of that altogether? Yeah. We were talking about it last week. It was used and...

Apparently it had been used and was being used sporadically, but they finally figured what the hell. Zoom has such a dominance over it. And besides, there are other software like the Microsoft Teams, I guess. Well, Microsoft bought Skype. So Microsoft is basically using its own technology in Teams, and there's no more reason for one company to own two Zooming type of technologies. Okay.

Yeah. And there's FaceTime, obviously, which is great. Absolutely. All right. On the fancy thinking box. Hang on. Another call, Marissa? Another Zoom real quick here. All right. Let me go. Oh, here we go. It says Lee was a prize whore. What's up, guys?

How you doing, Lee? Good morning. Good morning. I'm calling from North Carolina. Oh, wow. Looks like, are you, is this your home that you're behind? Yeah, this is my backyard. We're surrounded by tobacco fields. I got chickens, a turkey, five dogs. We moved down here six and a half years ago from Philly area. And yeah, I was a prize whore for quite a bit. What?

What were some of the great prizes you won, if you recall? Back in the early 2000s, I won round-trip tickets to Vegas for the Killers for the Hot Fuzz Tour. You guys set me up in the Mandalay Bay. It was awesome. Dude. Hershey Park tickets, six pounds of bacon. All right.

$500 in lottery ticket scratch-offs. My kids had a great time with that. Did you know you were a prize whore? Oh, absolutely. All my buddies said that I had something silver up my butt. But as Preston was pointing out, do you believe that it had a lot to do with

the exchange or the area you were calling in for? Well, I listened to the radio. I worked in a factory, so I had the radio on all the time, and I had a system that I knew when you guys were going on a break, and for some reason, certain cell phones going through that system would just allow me to

get right in and get, you know, if I was a certain color and didn't get in at the right time, I could call right back and it would go through. So yeah, there was definitely a system that I had for a little while. Wow. That's pretty wild. All right, now, the most important thing to us as the people on this side of the microphone-

Were you excited when you called in and you won? Oh, absolutely. There you go. Every year when I won those Hershey Park tickets and you guys gave them to me, my kids were all excited. We had so many memories for all those years. And, you know, unfortunately, we don't have anything like that down here. But... Hey, you have chickens. Oh, well, there's a big turkey. That's Martha behind me. Oh, my gosh. Look at Martha. Can you go over closer to Martha? Will she let you? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Absolutely.

All right. Let's take a look at it. We rescued her from an auction. She was about to be food weeks ago. So how are turkeys as a, as pets? Uh, she's very smart. They're, they're, uh, supposed to be smarter than some dogs. Um, you know, you could tell that there's something behind those eyes when you take a look at her, but yeah, we got, uh, we got a few chickens over here. We got, uh, you know, got a little piece of property. Um, we moved down here, like I said, six and a half years ago from the Philly area. And, uh,

Hey, North Carolina is awesome. Lee, had you ever lived in a rural area before? Yeah, I actually grew up outside of Allentown and, you know, a neutral poly area which was surrounded by that. But we basically just threw a dart on the map and it landed down here in Richlands, North Carolina. It looks it looks like really rustic area. It looks really, really beautiful.

Yeah, yeah. We got a Starbucks here over the summer, so everybody is complaining about that. Everybody's complaining about that. They don't like their $45 coffees? Absolutely. Yeah, yeah. Oh, that's great. Oh, my goodness. Yeah, yeah. We go way back, you know, the lost viewing parties. Me and my wife attended actually one of the earliest cardboard classics. My wife was pregnant with our second son when we came out, so...

A lot of memories with you guys. And, you know, the prize is definitely the six pounds of turkey bacon definitely goes down in history. Don't tell your turkey about that. Yeah. Yeah.

Well, listen, Lee, thanks for continuing to listen to us in the Carolinas. We appreciate that. Hey, we love you. We love you. All right, take care of yourself, bud. We'll see you later. All right, excellent. Oh, that's great, man. Nice little spread of land. Threw a dart and moved. That's a ballsy maneuver. That's extremely ballsy. I mean, I guess we're going to Death Valley.

By the way, all right, so is this, did we start this? Okay, we have a poll. What format is this on, Marissa? It's on YouTube? Okay. So far in a poll of 610ers or 610ers, how do you say the area code? 610 versus 610. 72% say 610 and 610 say 27%. So, yeah, it's definitely in the majority there. So-

More than likely, we'll probably go with 610 when we get the new number. Or 610, just to mess with you. I don't really know. Well, thank you for the Zooms. We appreciate that. We are going to take a quick break. We'll come back in just a moment. Don't forget, we have a concert announcement that is on the way around 10 o'clock this morning. And also, don't forget, spring training is our next big event. We're just a couple weeks away from that. We are one week away. We are one week away. We're going to take a break. We'll be right back. Stay with us.

Preston and Steve's Cardboard Classic is in the books. And what a day it was at Montage Mountain. When I say cardboard, you better say classic. Cardboard! Classic! Cardboard! Classic! Shut up, Jackie. You built the sled, right? Absolutely not, my big brother. Absolutely not.

Built my sleigh. Does anybody here want to see Pierre Robert drive a snowcat? Everyone but the management of Montage Mountain. So we've got sled number 80. They might make it all the way down the hill. There's an oar in the air. Yes! They did it! Oh my god! It's the Star Wars theme sled. It's pinching a little bit. Oh!

I really thought it was going to make it. A massive fail. But there is a Jedi on the scene to protect all. Jack off, John. Don't forget to check out this year's photos and videos at WMMR.com slash Cardboard Classic. Sponsored by Camelot Productions. Official drone coverage of this year's Cardboard Classic.

All right, thank you, Kathy. Real quick, a short out. I got this from our director of sales, Mr. Jim Antezi. I want to make sure I mention someone who actually, Steve and I, you have met her before, but she's a huge fan and probably has one of the longest professional titles I've ever seen. Okay. She is the Senior Intellectual Property Paralegal and Government Affairs Specialist.

for campbell's oh yes brie staley and she's a huge fan and jim wanted to send a shout out to brie she's wonderful we saw her when we were getting ready for uh camp out for hunger and we swung by uh the campbell's headquarters in uh camden i hope we do that every year and spent some time there that visit is awesome yeah and while chuck was there he brought me back some um uh

Goldfish that are dill flavored. Oh, man. Dill pickle flavored. That is awesome. So, again, that title is Senior Intellectual Property Paralegal and Government Affairs Specialist at Campbell's. And she's the one who signs off every year where we get to officially use the Campbell's soup can for the Camp Out for Hunger. So, Bree, we love you. And thank you for being such a huge fan. We do appreciate that. The Campbell's love is appreciated. I can't believe that we're a week away from spring training. Yeah.

This is insane. I haven't even... I've not looked at my calendar. I've been waiting for Cardboard Classic and mainly just getting ready for that. And I have not even looked ahead to see when things are falling. Even though I know I've been saying on air when...

when these events are coming up, but I haven't actually looked at the calendar until Nick said it's a week away. I was describing why February has been a bear, as they say. But if you stop and think about it, we had a huge came out for hunger into the Christmas miracle. Then we were into... Then, guess what? The Eagles did extraordinarily well. Turned on a dime, did a week-long thing, BirdBot 2.0, and guess what? There was a parade.

Finish that off into Cardboard Classic, which we really set about making sure we were going to implement things to kind of make that bigger and better. So it has been sort of a nonstop in the best possible way. But yeah,

Yes, Preston, I was the same way. I thought there was going to be two weeks to spring training, but over the weekend, I checked the calendar, and there we go. Yeah, we're on a plane a week from Wednesday, so we fly from Philly to Tampa on Wednesday afternoon and then broadcast from the ballpark on Thursday morning, the 13th, and then we're back at Coco's in Clearwater Beach,

On Friday, we always get this question. I'm going to say it on air, and if you email me, I'll give you the same answer. But the ballpark itself does not open until after our show ends. So we'd love to have everybody come and watch the show. We just can't. That's not us. That's the Phils. So the ballpark opens right around 11 a.m. We do hang out for a while after the ballpark ends. And our friends at Philly Sports Trips, I was chatting with Vince and Julia last week.

There's going to be a lot of fun at the ballpark during the game itself. We usually stick around and watch most or all of the game on Thursday. And then on Friday, Philly Sports Chips is actually taking Phil's fans to the Yankees game in Tampa. It's a Friday evening game. So I'm going to go to that as well. I've never been to see a Yankees game in Tampa. Oh, it's an evening. It's an evening game. I didn't realize that until last week, Case. Yeah, it's a 6 o'clock start, I think.

So the Phils game on Thursday at home is a 1 o'clock start, and then a bunch of people on the same trip as us next week are all going to go from Clearwater Beach to go see the Phillies-Yankees game that evening in Tampa. That's Friday night. But we'll be on Friday morning at Coco's in Clearwater Beach. To your point about Thursday... I'm sorry, Preston. We hang out. So if you're...

Don't worry about getting there for the show. We're going to hang out in the park. Preston, how many people were you encountering after the show ended last time? Are you walking around? Countless amounts of people. It's like being in Philly. Yeah. I mean, it's a Philly's game. So everybody's coming in from home. How great would it be if we kicked off the season in spring training and ended the season with a parade broadcast on Broad Street? Nice.

I mean, well, I thought that was going to happen last year. I did too. I thought for sure. But so, you know, so surprise me. Yeah. By the way, I didn't know that. I think I might be able to go to that game on Friday now. Oh, well, you're invited. Okay. And I was going to bring it up in our meeting after the show today. But yeah, I am.

I'm really excited. I saw the Phil's play the Blue Jays in Dunedin back in 2008 or 2009. I went to spring training. That's where the Blue Jays play. It's right up the road from Clearwater. But I've never seen the Yankees play in Tampa, and it's not too far from the airport, Preston. So where you fly in, you can see the Buccaneers Stadium. The Tampa Bay spring training facility for the Yankees is not too far from there. All right, then. Keep your fingers crossed.

Keep your fingers crossed and keep your head down. And wouldn't that be great to have another parade? Another championship? Would you do a back-to-back championship? It would be frigging awesome. Yeah, it would be something else.

So I got to go to Italy on Friday. You got to. Yeah. There's a papal conclave. Yeah. So, but I'm not going to be anywhere near there. No, but my main concern is, and now that you're saying that that game is not until a little bit later on Friday, I don't know how my body clock is going to adjust. It's going to be so messed up. Because I'm going to Italy on Friday and then I will be back in clear order on Wednesday. And so...

um yeah i fly in basically same time as you guys just from a different airport um so i'm wondering like how my body's going to adjust wait a minute what is your schedule my schedule is i fly to italy on friday wait this coming friday yeah okay so this friday and then uh and then i come back i fly from venice to tampa on wednesday morning i'll get there like wednesday night at some point um but

I don't know what I'm supposed to do. You'll be tired. Right. But it's usually better coming back than it is going there. They recommend you stay awake the entire time you're in Italy. Well, you know what's funny, Steve? I bought the Brutalist movie to watch on the way home because I feel like I'm not supposed to. That'll keep you awake. I'm not supposed to stay. Well, I bought that and another movie, Complete Unknown. And I was like, oh, this is what I will do to keep me awake on the plane on the way back.

Right? Because I don't want to sleep, right? I want to stay awake the whole time on the way back so that I can fall asleep when I get back here. When you get back here and get back on the schedule. I don't know. That's my only concern. More practiced travelers would probably have a better piece of advice. I'm not...

It's been a while. But I would think what I've heard of The Brutalist, while it is good, I hear it is not probably your I'm going to stay awake movie. No. I'd probably watch Kathy's foot video on repeat while you're on the flight back. On repeat. I just want to watch her toes stir. Over and over again.

or the margarita. That's the one that got me. This is the absolute best. By the way, last thing real quick about Florida is that Philly Sports Trips is actually keeping some people in Florida for an extra day because the Flyers play the Lightning on Monday night. So some people are signing up for the Phillies spring training game on Friday

and then they're staying the whole weekend, and then they're going to see a St. Patrick's Day Flyers game in Tampa Bay against the Lightning on Monday night as well. Oh, that's cool. Yeah, so Philly sports trips, man. Those guys, they're just so good at what they do, and people are sticking around in Florida. Why the hell not? Why the hell not? Yep, and so yeah, like Nick was saying at the top of the conversation, that we will be in the ballpark before anybody gets there. We show up when it's still dark, and then we end up doing our show, and

We're going to plan on hopefully having a couple of players stop by and saying hi. And then by the time we're at the last 30 minutes of the show, they open up the gates and people start coming in, get ready for the game. And then it's just a great time hanging out, watching baseball. So we're very much looking forward to that. And then the following day, yeah, obviously at Coco's in Clearwater with they have like 15 different kinds of crushes. Yes. People try to get the passport and drink every crush. I don't know how the body can withstand that. Yeah.

So that's coming up. It's only a few days away, so we'll be excited to bring that to you. Speaking of spring and spring break, I saw this article this morning about surprisingly affordable spring break destinations.

And this could actually go for almost any time you want to travel to these locations. So this was, according to NerdWallet's Sally French, she said, by selecting destinations with affordable flights and low-cost accommodations, travelers can enjoy a memorable getaway for a fraction of what they might otherwise pay. She's right. According to Expedia, timing is key when planning your trip, and they advise booking three weeks to a month ahead.

before your departure and you can save as much as 25%. Is spring break, are we currently in the beginnings of spring break now? It really depends on the school because some of them are still associated with Easter and Easter is so late this year. So for high school anyway, Steve, my son's isn't until the week before Easter. Huh.

Huh. So the booking sites experts recommend avoiding holidays like Easter and Mother's Day as well as the last two Saturdays in March, which are expected to be extremely busy as well. They suggest significant savings can be found for the week of April 28th.

And note that the week of May 19th, just ahead of Memorial Day, will be one of the quietest of the season. Really? Memorial Day, huh? The week of May 19th, just ahead of Memorial Day. Yeah, it's because everybody is getting ready to travel for Memorial Day. Yeah, and of course, we'll be back at Kenan's. Yeah. Broadcasting live for you. So, okay, real quick. Before I go into this story, hang on. So I have no surprises here. Yeah. So we have...

We have spring training a little over a week from now. What's next after that? I think it's Keenan's. MMRBQ? Oh, yeah, you're right. MMRBQ. May 10th. May 10th. Keenan's. And Keenan's right after that. And then we get a little break, right? Not much. We have the blood drive. Blood drive. Blood drive. I have the bend to the shore. And then we're working on something else.

Yes. We are? Yeah, we are. We talked about it in the last meeting. A space trip. A space trip? Yeah. Coming together? Yeah. Wow. Let's do something else. Something in a movie theater. Oh, that, right. Yeah, so maybe we'll work on that. A certain anniversary of a certain show. It never ends. I mean, and this is just the professional stuff, and then we all have our own personal stuff. Yeah. Failing marriages. Well, no, no, no. My daughter's play just finished up. My son's rugby game.

is now underway. Preston and Nick, we all have kids that are graduating high school this year, so there's a whole bunch of stuff that comes along with that. Yes, oh wow.

Congratulations. Nick, it's going to be cold and dark and it's going to last you the rest of your life. You know what? I was thinking, just to bring it back to spring training real quick, Preston, it really seems like 12 seconds ago that you and Andrea and I were just sitting outside at that bar in Clearwater Beach talking about Dune. These moments come around.

much more quickly, at least in my head, than they ever did in my life. The return that took a year to get back to it, I just feel like I blinked and it's there again. Blink of an eye. It's insane. That's why you have to French kiss the present. How was freaking January so long and then February we just sneezed and it was over? Yeah, man. February has less days. No point. But it was super cold in January. I mean...

So who knows? All right. So anyhow, spring break trips. Here are some affordable destinations. This is through NerdWallet for spring of 2025. So ones that you may not consider. Punta Cana. Punta Cana. In the Dominican Republic. My wife just went there for a little...

It's supposed to be a little gem. One of her best friends. 24 non-stop routes from the U.S. and accommodations that can cost, listen to this, as little as $21 a night. What? You just have to make sneakers in a warehouse. Seriously? Yeah. It's a lot of all-inclusives in Putakana, right? Yes. Okay. Very much so, but not for $21 a night. Mm-mm. Orlando. I love these things. Orlando. Orlando. Hang on. Orlando. Orlando.

I'm sorry. When they release this information, tell us where that is. Yeah, where exactly? That place. That place is charged us $20. For $21 a night. Come on. All right. This is where you sleep. I got a great place in Clearwater for you guys to stay if you want. That's what I mean. This is your toilet. You piss and poop in here. Yep. Yep. Yeah, I can find a hotel for $21 a night. No one wants to stay there. Exactly. If you're asleep and you feel that someone is touching your ass, let them do it. Okay.

In Orlando, the travel experts point out that while Orlando will be busy this spring, there's no shortage of affordable hotels. That is true. When our family, when the kids were of theme park age and we went to Disney and Universal and all that, rather than staying on a Disney property, I found a decent resort not far away that was wonderful.

way more affordable and really nice as well. So Orlando's got gazillions of places for you to stay. Yeah. I mean, that's the entire industry is predicated on the theme park. And you know what? I actually have friends that will go to Orlando and they will go and sit through a five-hour session. Time share session. Not me. Well, but you know, they are... Five hours?

Yeah, but they get a weekend for free down there or like a long weekend for free. I'd rather pay than listen to someone for five hours. Well, sometimes people don't. Some people are good at that. Like apparently they use a lot of high pressure sales. Yeah. And I would not care for that. I'd find it annoying as F. Also, and this is the main reason I brought this up because this is an interesting concept. It says Paris, France. What? Is a good...

More inexpensive getaway than you might think it'd be for spring break. It says...

I looked at summer flights and they weren't cheap. Well, it says in this article, you don't often see France and cheap in the same sentence, but because of low-cost airlines such as French B, you ever heard of that? Uh-uh. Well, French A is in the lead, but... Thank you for flying French B where we say, you be in a world of hurt. It's spelled B-E-E. Oh. French B. Flights as low as $350 round trip during spring break. Oh.

They had hotels tend to be more expensive, but you can find some for less than $100 per night. Good luck. It's a new airline.

French B. Yeah, I've never heard of it before. Okay, so they're probably doing rollout prices that are really, really good. Farts. Farts. Farts. Rollout farts. Rollout the farts. They have flights from New York to Paris starting at $164. What? So how new is this French B airline? Steve, it just says it's a new way of flying on their site and they don't have a ton of destinations yet. But that's probably a good thing. We leave the door open. Yeah, I was like, what is

this new way of flying. Are you enjoying the fly? It's probably like a bellow. Is everyone enjoying the fly? It's a new way to fly. Some coffee, please. It's a new way to be denied coffee.

Yeah, Nick, I think you're right. Because it looks like it's flying to smaller airports. Oh, okay. It only started nine years ago. Okay. So it's kind of like a Velo that flies in and out of Wilmington, Delaware. Like they go in and out of smaller airports. They don't have doors. Okay. So smaller airports, you got to figure out how to get to your destination from there, obviously. Yeah, but I mean, like you can find a place close enough to New York or close enough to...

to San Francisco. They'll fly out of San Jose rather than San Francisco, that type of thing. I think I'm so paranoid. And it's Newark. Yeah, it's Newark. That's a major airport. In fact, they fly to places that Philly does not fly to. Most of the time when I take an international flight, it's out of Newark. Vegas is another one to consider. Vegas to me is always...

been expensive flying to Vegas. So direct flights to 172 airports across the country make Sin City convenient and budget-friendly, according to this article. It doesn't give examples. Yeah, I'd like to hear the examples, and they don't have them. I wouldn't mind trying out Vegas now. I went when I was too young to enjoy it. I was only 18. My family went, so I did, you know, sneak in and play some slot machines in there and stuff like that. But gambling is like nothing that I would even...

going to Las Vegas. It would be shows and food and maybe golf if I had time or something like that. But I would like to explore that again sometime, Marissa. I can't recommend it enough. The Arts District in Vegas. In fact, there is a... If you're a Marriott person, there is a Todd English Marriott that is right in the middle of just the Arts District. It's beautiful. It has...

He's flowers and this great sushi restaurant. The Punk Rock Museum is nearby there. Pauly Shore opened up. What is his club? His mom's club? Oh, the comedy store. He opened up another club right there in the Arts District. So you don't have to go anywhere near the casinos. And I saw him talking to some other comedians saying this is great because when you're doing a show and you're doing it at a casino, there's a lot of like comps.

So people who are just in there just because it's a free show for whatever. But these are people who are going to the show because they want to see the comedian. Speaking of the Punk Rock Museum, are you... Is there a picture of you hanging up in the museum? There should be. That is a really great question. Yeah. When we got married, we tried to, like, let the people know, like, hey, you know, we're...

I speak to a pretty big audience and my husband has a pretty long career. We talk to a lot of people. Some of his friends have done tours there. And they were just kind of like, cool, thanks. But I mean, the fact that you were the first wedding that ever took place there, that should warrant a photo. It should be a mortal

somewhere there. I thought about going back and just hanging one up. And just kind of like putting a nail and putting it in there. Yeah, let's do that. I think we should do that. Let's make that happen. You got to work them a little bit, but I think eventually they need to acquiesce because it was a momentous occasion on two levels. It was the first there and your wedding. Maybe we make a donation and it'll happen.

Do you know if there have been more weddings since you guys had it? Since you opened the floodgates? Oh, yeah, very much. There's been a lot. But when we rushed to be the first ones, because they wouldn't quote-unquote hold it for us to be the first ones, there wasn't another one for two or three weeks. Okay.

Yeah, there should be. I mean, the pictures are so good. Yeah, we got to get that done. Jamie Y is the photographer. And they just used them the other day in like one of those like 20 best places in the world to get married. This was up there and they used her photos. So real quick, a follow up to the French Bee Airline. There's a text from someone. It says flew French Bee two summers ago.

Out of Newark. And other than the seats being a bit smaller, it was really a great way to go to Paris cheap. Did they mention the doors? No. Okay. So they had doors. Yeah, I guess they assume they do have doors. So that's okay. That's something to consider. And then the last thing it mentions in this article are discounted cruises. It says the cheapest ones typically depart from Florida. I wonder what the cruise prices are out of the Philadelphia area.

It's a good question. Terminal that they have. Yeah, and I wonder. I've never looked into that because I hate cruises. Where they go most frequently. Again, to me, the cruise has to benefit from you being like Alaska or the Greek islands where you're going to see things you can see best from your ship. Simply using it as a, hey, I'm going to take this cruise to get to a tropical location. No, fly. Get there as quickly as you can. Hmm.

You know, that I never understood. Some people are terrified of flying. But some people also love those amenities. They love being able to be... Norovirus! I know. But they love the buffets and the shows that are available and things like that. And then just being able to sit outside on the open water, I guess, is appealing to some people. It's not to me.

But, yeah, so, yeah, I'm curious what they run out of the Philly area. So, anyhow, spring break is coming up, but it's something to consider. Some more affordable prices, maybe in Punta Cana, Orlando. If you fly on this French B airline, Paris,

and maybe a cruise. I don't really know, but that's a suggestion. I like it. All right. We are going to take a quick break and come back in a second. We had a short Bizarre File earlier because we went so long in that segment before talking about the Cardboard Classic, but we'll come back in a moment. We'll get some B-Files stories on the way with music news. We do have a concert announcement that you will be interested in more than likely, so stay with us. We won't be gone long. We'll be right back.

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Or stream the show live via MMR's mobile app. Thank you very much, Kathy. Real quick, I want to reiterate this because we have a couple of extra minutes. But we had a nice recap of the Cardboard Classic. And one of the things that did not make it onto the air, at least while we were there, and hopefully our friends at, you know, Pierre and the rest of the gang that broadcast because Brendan ended up doing his show, but it was to mention that

The winners, and I just want to reiterate that again, we had our fastest sled was led by Tori Rose. I think she's a three-time winner. She's the goat right now. The best Tito's sled went to the giant bottle of Tito's handmade vodka, and that was Bob Houston and company. No one could believe that it was a full bottle upright and made it down intact. And our favorite fail, which did not make it down intact, was Voltron Defender of the Universe. It was such a wonderfully...

constructed sled in its design. Yeah. You know, in the artistry. Yeah, in the artistry, thank you, as opposed to the engineering. That's where it fell short. We're like, this is so cool. All right, here we go. Three, two, one.

And it just disintegrated. That was Jeffrey Van Gordon. And third place for best design, which are our biggest categories. Third place went to What's in Your Drawers? The Preston Junk Drawer by Lisa Abersold and Company. Second place was E.T. The Extraterrestrial, Sammy Vile and his crew.

And then winning first place, yet again, another champion, our friend Bob Havens with Mutiny on the Flying Dutchman. It was this huge pirate ship. And we spoke to Bob earlier this morning talking about the amount of work that went into that whole thing. And a special shout out, I think both you and I agree, the Moana 2. Oh, man. Was amazing. That and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and the live casino and the T-Rex. Christy Christ.

Sorry if we mentioned this already. I don't remember that we did. The one Tito's sled that was spinning. That was Clutch's sled. Yeah, that was the swing.

That's the one that was torn apart? Yeah. You got to realize how big this thing was. Wait, we saw it come down. Yeah, but he cut it into four different pieces, five different pieces actually. So that main piece that was spinning? That was just one little part of it. Yeah, that wasn't the whole thing, Kathy. The reason he cut it down was we had had some accidents. A few of the sleds actually went off into the spectators. And so we had an issue with maybe weight and we had to do a last minute.

to change things up a little bit. And instead of being allowed, we were only allowing like four or five people to be on each sled. And Clutch had, I think, did you say 60 people that he was going to have ride on it with him? So what was it that was cut off? Like what it was just like a base? It was just flat. These platforms that trailed behind it. Okay. And so they would cut, so they cut those apart and then they would cut those in half as well. Okay, okay.

That's how big they were. That's why it seemed like there were four, five, six entries from Clutch. It was just one entry in that installment package. They kept coming down. I was like, there's more? This is also sled number 53. I didn't realize it came off of that

sled. I didn't realize that was the one. Okay. Yeah, the announcement came down that we needed to limit people and apparently Clutch just whipped out a knife and goes, okay, let's do it. And he just cut it off. And he was next in line. So there was a little bit of a gap in time that we had sent sleds down. And that's because...

clutch was the very next lead to go and he was trying to figure out okay well how am I going to make this work so once he was able to sort of diagnose the issue the problem and come up with a solution then we were able to make things move a little bit thanks again I failed to mention this earlier Jen Frederick from Fox 29 for being there she's been covering this for years and

And we'll get you a suit next year, Jen. We'll try to. Actually, we got one for everybody because everybody was getting pissed that they weren't a part of our little suit crew. Our suit crew. And thank you to Tipsy L's for giving us those incredible suits. Oh, hang on just a moment. I've not seen this yet. There's a video that we had Jen and one of the ski instructors from...

Try this out where the snowboarder, which is Jen, lays on their stomach and puts their feet, bends their knees so their board is flat in the air and the skier can actually sit on it while she rides down on her stomach. That worked out very nicely. So great job from Jen and company. All right. It's time now for Bizarre File Stories. Here we go. Now, WMMR presents Kristen and Steve's Bizarre Files.

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So, a blind Canadian man could soon see again, thanks to a surprising source, and that is his teeth. His teeth. I've never heard of this before. Is that what you mean by eye teeth? This is why I put it in the bizarre file. Earlier this week, Brent Chapman underwent one of Canada's first ever tooth tests.

in eye surgeries. Wow. Now, sounds like it's out of science fiction, but this jaw-dropping procedure has actually been restoring sight in other parts of the world for decades. It's amazing. Dr. Greg Maloney, an ophthalmologist and surgeon at Mount Sinai Joseph Hospital in Vancouver, said it's a rare operation that most people have not heard of, even if you are in eye surgery. I've never heard of it. The procedure, called osteodontokeratoprothesis,

...uses a patient's own tooth to craft a support structure for an artificial cornea. The operation is broken down into two parts. First, Maloney and his team removed one of Chapman's teeth, shaved it down into a rectangle, drilled a hole, and popped a plastic optical lens inside. The tooth then gets a temporary home in his cheek...

where it will stay for about three months. Maloney said the tooth doesn't have any connective tissue that I can actually pass a suture through to connect it to the eyeball. So the point of implanting it for three months is for it to gain the layer of supporting tissue.

During the same procedure, Maloney prepared the eye by removing a top layer of the eye's surface and replacing it with a soft tissue graft from inside Chapman's cheek. This graft needs a few months to heal so that it can support the implant. Maloney said the initial procedure went smoothly and Chapman will be monitored closely for the next few months. And then when it's time for the second surgery, Chapman's tooth will be removed from his cheek and placed into his eyeballs.

Isn't that wild? With the desired result of him being able to see through that. Yep. Maloney said that. Now he's going to have to brush his eyes before he goes to bed. Maloney and his team will pull back the graft, remove the damaged iris and lens, and sew the tooth with this new optical lens into the eye. The graft will then be re-sewn over the eye, leaving a small hole for the lens to peek through. That's wild. The end result is a pink iris.

It's amazing. And so it's explained that teeth contain dentin, which is the ideal tissue to house a plastic lens without the body rejecting it. Plus, the tissue from the cheek recognizes the tooth, making the whole process smoother. It's not meant for everyone, but the surgery is often a last-ditch option for those who have a dental problem.

People with corneal blindness in the front eyes caused by conjunctival scarring from autoimmune disease, chemical burns, and other traumas who still have healthy retina and optic nerves. How would you even think of that? Exactly. And then try it out. What if I don't stick a tooth in my eye? Wow. Yeah. That's amazing. Okay.

An Auckland, Australia woman who started a large fire in the toilet paper aisle at a Woolworths supermarket says the blaze was intended to cause a distraction so she could shoplift a cart full of groceries. The brazen scheme, which was filmed by bystanders and posted on TikTok, at first worked perhaps a little too well. Hey, guys, I'm going to start a fire and then rob the place. So the judge said you placed multiple people in the building at risk, including customers and...

And staff, and she was sentenced for a reduced charge of arson. And was there, in fact, a TikTok video of this or everything? That I don't know. The damage was extensive. The 29-year-old was arrested eight months after the incident. The fire damaged two aisles of the grocery store, which were...

evacuated as firefighters fought the blaze. The store remained closed for a day due to fire, smoke, and water damage. Now, according to documents, the woman first showed up loaded with a small cart full of goods. She entered a storeroom restricted to staff only. While in the storeroom, she placed a gift bag in the cart containing cardboard boxes and used a lighter to light the gift bag on fire. The gift bag, along with the cardboard boxes, caught alight but self-extinguished a short time later. She then went to the toilet paper aisle and lit the fire there.

While the fire was still burning, she went through a self-checkout area with her cart full of groceries without an attempt to pay. Yeah, this is a full-blown beginning of an inferno that she set in the, we're looking at the video. You're right. She could have killed a lot of people. I guess this was a TikTok video of someone else on the scene? I think so. So the grocery items were never recovered and she's going to jail for a while after that. Good. They kill people. That's full-on arson, yes.

A petting zoo in Japan has banned men from entering unaccompanied after reporting multiple cases of harassment of its woman owner and guests. Healing Pavilion, which opened in March 2024, allows visitors to feed and play with the animals like rabbits, sheep, otters, and cats.

In case you can play with otters. Oh, my God. They're adorable. It also has a dog park where visitors are permitted to come with their own pets. Now, the zoo director, who goes by Misa Mama on social media, made a post on 26th of January saying that the facility would no longer allow male visitors to come in alone. She said, it's not that I'm conceited or that I'm mistaken. Too many have come with harmful intentions, causing me significant stress. I feel as if my heart is in pain. We are not a cabaret club.

So if you really want to come and interact with the animals, please invite your friends and family to come with you. She also posted on her Instagram an image of what appears to be a sign of the zoo stating the new policy that men must be accompanied by family friends.

Mizumama attempted to explain the reason behind the discriminatory policy, saying that she had received complaints about women guests being harassed by men. And she said that unaccompanied men guests tried to strike up conversations with women patrons, engage in flirtatious behavior, and even made inappropriate comments.

In a follow-up, she said that she was aware her policy could be considered gender discrimination, but she had no bias towards men. She requested those criticizing her policy to consider that she was a single woman and worried about how men making trouble might react. Interesting. Yeah.

So let's see what else we have here for you. Yeah, we'll wrap with one more. Skydive Arizona, a facility known for having the largest drop zone in the world, has come under scrutiny after three divers died from skydiving-related incidents in just under two months. A 47-year-old man whose identity has yet to be released.

is the most recent death of string of fatal accidents. Authorities responded to reports of an injured skydiver and found the victim dead at the scene on February 16th. Police said there was no foul play. And Skydive Arizona confirmed the press release that he was an experienced diver having completed more than 25,000 jumps. Wow. See, that's always the odds, eventually. Eyewitnesses reported the skydiver experienced a normal free fall and safely deployed his parachute. The parachute and gear were all in working order. No equipment malfunctions.

Skydive Arizona said that he attempted an advanced landing maneuver at a low altitude, which did not allow sufficient time for a safe landing. Yeah, the hell with that. Yep. So the incident occurred just two weeks after Sean Bowen died from injuries sustained from skydiving in the same facility. He even brought along his lucky anvil.

On February 1st, authorities responded to reports of another experienced skydiver experiencing a hard landing after his parachute failed to deploy. Could you imagine? Bowen's cause of death was listed as multiple blunt force trauma. Yeah, and so it lists all these people that have died in this particular place. So, gots to be careful. My youngest wants me to take her skydiving on her 18th birthday. Wow. And I was like, well, if we're going to do this, we're going to go do it over the Grand Canyon or something in Arizona. Yeah.

So it looks like it's safe to go there now, you know? Yeah, since several people have died recently. We've had many people die, so we've really checked our systems. All right, and that is what I have in the bizarre file for you for now. All right, let's take a break. When we return, we'll have some music news. We'll have a lesson question. We have a concert announcement. We have a couple unfortunate deaths to pass along as well in music news. So we got that info on the way. Stay with us. We'll be back in just a moment. 4.com.

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. And we even made a catchy little jingle so you remember it. Alright.

Disturbed 93.3 WMMR. We had David Draymond on right when that song came out. Had a nice little conversation, but this actually is as intense as that guy is. He's a super nice guy. He's really great. He's actually really, believe it or not, a pretty sensitive dude and really kind of fun. Cool guy. Yeah. So it was nice to have him on.

and chat about all of that. So we have coming up the lesson question. We're going to try this via Zoom. Oh, boy. So our phones, you know, they're restructuring our entire phone system. We'll have a new phone number sometime in the very near future, most likely.

But for the last thing question, if you know the answer of it, text the word ZOOM to 39333. We'll send you a link. If you already have the link, I guess you could go ahead and use that. Click on that, and then Marissa's going to put somebody up on ZOOM, and we'll see if you know the answer.

The question that we'll go with this morning, and let me drag it out a moment because the trash is very quick and turnaround time is pretty fast. So what airline part is often missing on French B Airlines? It's crazy. Not really. 215. No. I'm so used to saying that. I know. Don't do that. Text the word Zoom. What airline part is often missing on French B Airlines, a newer airline that we just found out about this morning?

What makes them unique is they're missing something on the plane. And what part is that? So if you know the answer to that, just text the word ZOOM to 39333. And we're going to send you a link. You then click on that link. And then people pop up. And then Marissa is going to grab somebody randomly, pop you up on ZOOM, see if you know the answer to that. Again, the airline part that's often missing on Frenchby Airlines is what?

Text the word Zune. Now we'll do the trash while you're getting to that. The trash business is a gold mine. 93.3 WMMR.

With Preston and Steve's Hollywood Trash. We'll get stories and then hopefully an answer. Steve, what's going on this morning? Well, Preston Channing Tatum making an Insta-official with his new girlfriend Inka Williams. Tatum posted a picture of the two at a pre-Oscar party with the caption, Two in the Inka, one in the stinker. American Idol fan favorite 20-year-old Colin Tufts.

was arrested for DUI after colliding with a parked car just outside of Nashville. Tuff was apparently so drunk that the breathalyzer he used has entered AA. So that's bad. EDM DJ Marshmello had a safe stolen from his LA home while he was away for a few days. Marshmello released a statement mocking the thieves, writing, Unless you were born on my birthday, good luck cracking the combination. That's how it is.

All right. We will see if we can get a winner. And we got a Zoomer up here. Let me go to you. Hi, what is your name? Jennifer. Hi, Jennifer. How you doing? Hi. Hey, where are you Zooming in from today? Philly at work. All right. Excellent. Okay. So the question we asked is what airline part is often missing on French B Airlines? Do you know?

I do. It's the door. The door is correct. You got it. I'm going to put you on hold, by the way. And I didn't even mention what we were giving away. We are giving away a pair of tickets as MMR presents the Summer of Loud. Yeah. Wednesday, July 23rd, Freedom Mortgage Pavilion. And it features Killswitch Engage, I Prevail, Beartooth, and many more. Tickets are on sale via Ticketmaster. You can go to WMMR.com for more information.

And another chance to win tickets. So hang on. We'll get your info and we'll set you up. And while you're doing that, we'll get to music news. Preston and Steve's Music News on 93.3 WMMR.

Music News brought to you by Rita's. Wow, we're talking about Rita's game. I know, unbelievable. Rita's Water Ice. Rita's is now open for the season. Treat yourself to an ice custard gelati or frozen coffee. Pick me up today. You want to do the concert announcement first, kids? All right, here we go. What? I said Braby.

Okay, Bravy. All right, Bravy. Bravy. So this show is in September, which we know is a wonderful time to see concerts, especially if you are headed outdoors. This show...

It's indoors. It's indoors. Thank you, Casey. It's like, but you have to start outside. Walking and parking is part of the concert experience. Yeah. And this show is going to be Saturday, September 13th at the Wells Fargo Center. Under the ceiling. And tickets will go on sale this Friday at 10 a.m. via Ticketmaster. Ladies and gentlemen, MMR is excited to rock Eric Clapton. Yeah!

Eric Clapton performing Saturday, September 13th. What is that? At the Wells Fargo Center. It's a Zoom. Oh, our Zoom is still on. I never heard that part of the song. It's the remix on Layla. By the way, special guest, and this is pretty cool, the Wallflowers. Yeah! That will be a great show. They will pair nicely.

Tickets go on sale this Friday at 10 a.m. via Ticketmaster, and we are going to have your chance to win tickets all week long, so make sure you're listening up for that. First rock concert I ever saw was Eric Clapton at the Spectrum. Right across the street from the Wells Fargo Center, and Casey, I waited out for tickets at the West Coast Video on Baltimore Pike, and we ended up with seats way near the top, but I've seen Clapton a couple times since. Man, what a fantastic freaking show, and it's

Like all eras. You know, it's green stuff. It's Layla, you know, Derek and the Dominoes, a lot of solo stuff as well. So I would love to go to this show. It's a Saturday night. Yes. We have the information available at WMMR.com. So you can go there and find out and listen up for your chance. They've given us some tickets to give away this week. So we will let you know when that will happen. Bye. Bye.

Yeah, talk about an endless string of songs. Whatever he wants to choose for that particular show. I mean, there's just so much material. So that's a big deal. Eric Clapton, Covington Town, Saturday, September 13th. Wells Fargo Center, along with the Wallflowers. And tickets go on sale this Friday at 10 a.m. via Ticketmaster. So we'll let you know when we are going to be giving away tickets. All right, a couple other things, and this was certainly sad news to see over the weekend. David Blaine.

Johansson, lead singer of the New York Dolls, also known as Buster Poindexter, passed away. He was 75 years old. And we kind of had a feeling something unfortunate was coming. He's been sick for a while. His daughter, Leah Hennessey, confirmed that he died at home in New York. She had revealed just last month that he had been diagnosed with stage four cancer and they had a brain tumor. And he also had really bad back problems, too. He was in misery and it was a

picture that was released of him in his hospital bed. And in a way, knowing that he's passed, I think he's free of that stuff because he was just... It's a horrible place to be at. She had said in February, David had been in intensive treatment for stage four cancer for most of the past decade. She said there had been complications ever since. He never made his diagnosis public. And he and my mother, Mara, are generally very private people. But we felt compared to share that. So that was at the time.

She and her mother are also raising funds to pay for his care or raise funds for his care after he suffered his fall and broke his back. He's already going through all that and then had breaks back. Just horrible, man. He first found success as the lead singer of the New York Dolls.

And they were one of the earliest punk bands. Yes. He began a solo career in the 1970s and the late 1980s and then began performing Cabaret under the name Buster Poindexter. And, of course, famously released that song Hot, Hot, Hot. And it remains a wedding staple to this day. He had joined the Dolls in 1972. They released their self-titled album in 1973. The second album, Too Much Too Soon, followed a year later. Though neither album was a commercial success,

The band ultimately influenced future generations as punk found mainstream appeal. So that's why when you hear, ah, the New York Dolls, blah, blah, blah, and you're like, I couldn't tell you a single New York Dolls song. No, they were the influence. They were one of those bands that people look to. The androgynous sort of thing. Yeah, they did cross-dressing and all kinds of stuff, but they were outrageous on stage, and they were a big part of that movement.

So though the band was never inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Johansson didn't mind. He said in an interview in 2021, to me, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame appears to be a racket.

He embarked on a solo career, releasing four albums between 1978 and 1984. And I remember Steve in that part of his career in the early days of MTV, seeing solo David Johansson videos of him singing. He was doing cover songs. He was doing like, you know, It's My Life and I'll Do What I Want and...

Some other stuff that I thought was pretty cool. He got a in memoriam mention last night during the Oscars. He was an actor as well. Yeah. So in 1987, that's when he introduced his alter ego, Buster Poindexter. And I never knew this. He said the name came from childhood teasing. Huh.

He said, on the street, they called me Buster. It was just kind of a nickname. And they'd catch me with books, and they'd call me Poindexter. So it's kind of an intellectual punk or something. So he just put the two together. Put his two nicknames together, and he became Buster Poindexter.

Rolling Stone named Johansson's debut release the party album of the year. It reached number 40 on the Billboard 200. During his shows, he'd tell stories from his rock and roll life in between songs. That song, by the way, at some point is being played at a resort around the world all the time. Right now. As we speak, somewhere right now, Hot, Hot, Hot is being played.

He said, I know some people think, oh, Joe Hanson puts on a tuxedo and thinks he's somebody else. This was in 1988, talking about his character. But he said, it's me, really. You know, sometimes I found that by getting into a certain drag or a certain feeling, you can cast off your mortal coil and do something. I don't know if it's important, but it's something. It's entertainment. That's how he looked at it.

In the late 1980s, he launched an acting career. He had cameos in 1987's Candy Mountain, 1988's Married to the Mob. He played the ghost of Christmas Pass in 1988's Scrooge and later appeared in The Adventures of Pete and Pete,

Oz and A Very Merry Christmas. Stevie was also in, I think it was Tales from the Dark Side. So, you know, he had his hands in a lot of creative things. And I always liked that guy. So did I. Yeah. I mean, you know, again, you talk about the MTV years. He was fairly prominent. And then as Buster Poindexter as well. Yeah. And he was just fun. Yeah. As Buster Poindexter. So, yeah.

That is just sad news. Sad news. 75 years old. And then another passing. A guy by the name of Joey Mullen, guitarist, and he was the final surviving member of the band Badfinger. And he died. He was 77 years old. He had a long period of declining health. Mullen kept the band's legacy alive by touring for decades, performing hits like No Matter What and, of course, Day After Day. Yes. It's a great song. So he was performing...

Without the other band members Was it a solo? I don't know He probably had fill-ins And they were carrying on the bad finger names They performed under the name Not a Finger News of his passing came in a statement From his social media manager Though no cause of death was mentioned Sad Day After Day is one of our wedding songs Really? Love that tune It's a great tune Listen, I said fart for flight I said bravy It's all good, it's a Monday

Swedish rock band Ghost is teasing fans with the introduction of their new frontman, Papa V Perpetua. I assume it's V, not five. Whoever you are. Right.

Roman numeral. A billboard in Las Vegas displays the message V is coming, hinting at the upcoming character for their 2025 tour. The band also launched a Fumata cast YouTube live stream featuring the billboard. Papa V Perpetua is listed among performers for Black Sabbath's final concert on July 5th in Birmingham.

Ghost confirmed this appearance on social media stating, wish to inform you that V is coming to Birmingham on July 5th. What's his full name? Papa V. Papa V. Hang on a second here. Perpetua. Oh, okay. Yeah. So Tobias Forge historically has introduced new personas with each album. So this is the new one. And this one is Papa Smurf. Papa V. Yeah. Yeah.

So, rocker and top-tier musician, possibly a tech leader as well. Next Tuesday, March 11th, Metallica's drummer and co-founder Lars Ulrich will join Apple Music's Zane Lowe at the South by Southwest conference in Austin for a session that's titled Breaking the Fourth Wall.

They'll discuss how Metallica uses technology to connect with fans, enhancing live performances and storytelling. This talk coincides with the next leg of Metallica's M72 world tour and hints at upcoming projects with Apple. And he will share insights into the band's innovative approaches and to fan engagement throughout their career. I didn't know he's a tech dude. No, I didn't know either. So look for that. And then one last music news item.

Daryl Hall is happy to remain out of touch with John Oates. So sad. The musician has said that he will never mend his differences with his former bandmate. So he's thinking of it. The Hall & Oates stars have been embroiled in rivalry ever since November 2023 when Oates attempted to sell his shares of their jointly owned company, Whole Oates Enterprise. Hall responded by suing Oates.

for what he called the ultimate partnership betrayal and called time on their music partnership for good.

Now, more than a year on, Hall has revealed whether they would ever reunite and perform together again. And he said, that ship has gone to the bottom of the ocean. Man. He said, I've had a lot of surprises in my life, disappointments, betrayals. And he said, I'm kind of used to it. Hall also hit out on Oates when discussing his musical partnership with Eurythmics' Dave Stewart, with whom he worked with on his most recent album called D.

And he described the partnership as more meaningful one than he ever had with Oates, stating it's a real collaborative relationship and it's based on maturity. So, yes, I've heard the story. So his contention and this contention that's been around since this began is that Oates was looking to sell off the percentage of the business. Mm-hmm.

He does own that part of the business. Yeah, right. I don't know how it would be a betrayal, but it's sad because they are, I've seen them many times in concert. They're wonderful. Obviously, some of the great, great music. And they both contributed to it.

Let me ask you this. Do you think we will ever see Daryl Hall without his sunglasses on from here on out? Probably not. Yeah. All the frigging time. I think the guy does not like the way his eyes look. He does not like it at all. Yeah. Oates had added that when they, that they hadn't worked together creatively in more than 20 years. He said, the only thing we did together was play concerts where we just went out there and trolled, trotted out the hits.

We never really talked to each other very much. He said over the past 20 years, we'd show up at a show individually, walk on stage, play, and then we'd go our separate ways. He said it really wasn't as tight as people might, you know. I thought it was. He said, well, like to imagine in their kind of fantasy imagination of our relationship.

When asked if the pair would ever perform together again, Oates responded, not from my point of view, but you need to ask Daryl how he feels about it. And Daryl feels it ain't ever going to happen again. It just sucks. And there you go. That's what I have for you this morning. We're going to take a quick break. We'll come back in a second. We will be ready to wrap up our program when we return a new Word of the Week prize that we'll tell you about when we get back. Stay there.

Preston and Steve's Cardboard Classic is in the books. And what a day it was at Montage Mountain. Marissa's actually pushing a drunk guy away from the broadcast area because he's dropping S-bombs all over the place. And here they go! It's a pirate ship. It's the Black Pearl. I think it's going to make it all the way to the finish line. Come on! That's unbelievable. They're going over without even waiting for me to introduce them. Here

Oh, yeah. With great speed, it's coming down and... It's falling apart. And falling apart. Yes! You crazy people. Check out photos and videos at WMMR.com slash Cardboard Classic. Such a fun time. Be here next year. Sponsored by Camelot Productions. Official drone coverage of this year's Cardboard Classic. Oh!

Holly, haven't heard that tune in a little while. It's Nirvana, 93.3 WNMR. Every day it rocks, of course. 10.35 on a Monday morning with the Preston and Steve show. Weather-wise, going up to maybe 40 degrees if we're lucky. It's probably going to stay in the 30s with the high. But lots of sunshine. Looks really nice out.

Um, yesterday was cold. It was that wind. We've been down the boardwalk. Yeah, no, it was, uh, it got pretty in him. What was the crazy windy day? Was that Saturday? Yeah. I mean, like we were driving around getting blown all over the road. I'm not talking about Rochelle with me. Right. Yeah. That would have been cool. He's getting blown all over the road. What's happening here, sir? Uh, my wife. But, uh, yeah, we're looking at a nice day tomorrow. High 57 and partly cloudy skies. Wednesday will be in the sixties again, but we get a little bit of rain and wind. Uh,

And then Thursday and Friday, going to be topping out about 50 or so. Thank you to all those who reached out to us again today. We do work via Zoom. Our phones are still not operable and doing a full overhaul. So I don't know how long it's going to be before we'll have those back up and running. But thank you to those who got in touch via Zoom. And, yeah, we'll jump right over to Pierre Robert, who made his way into the studio now. We last saw him on the side of a mountain.

On Friday, Montage in Moosic, Pennsylvania. I know. I just discovered that this year. Was this our third year at Montage? Third, yeah. I never knew the town. I thought we were in Scranton. Yeah. I mean, like,

to Scranton, but I guess technically that's called Moosic. Moosic. It's a very romantic name. Yeah. I'll meet you in Moosic. Meet me in Moosic. We'll always have Moosic. But yeah, it was such a fun day. I did not realize...

until you guys had said that somebody cut their sled off, cut it in half. In pieces. In multiples. Yeah. Did all the pieces come down? Yeah. One at a time. Successfully, in fact. Every one of them. All of them made it all the way down. Did it affect the theme of the sled? Well, yeah. I mean, we had...

We had to announce, by the way, this is a piece of one of the sleds coming down. I mean, but were you able to say what it was? I don't recall what that sled even was. I mean, was it a... It was not really. I mean, we just knew it was clutches and that he had made this... It wasn't a swing. That's not the right term. Like a whirlybird? Yeah, it was an interesting... I don't know what you used to call them. It was like a carnival ride? Yeah, exactly. Okay. Wow.

Very cool. Yeah, it was great. One year, somebody had a turntable that actually spun and with a needle on it. I remember taking a picture with those folks and that was really cool. I mean, the creativity, as we say every year, is over the top. And it was E.T. and the pirate ship that they're one in, no, pirate ship was one, E.T. was two, is that right? That's correct. Yeah. And three was, uh, hang on, I got the list here. So, we have our own personal faves. Yeah. Uh,

But coming in third place was the... Junk drawer. Yes, all admirable. We don't... People ask, we are not the judges. We abstain from that for security purposes. So we don't get our asses kicked. Right.

And the favorite fail, what was that? It was Voltron, Defender of the Universe. Okay. And it just crumbled, just absolutely crumbled. I'm so sorry, Voltron. But we had mentioned the ones that we liked outside of the winners because there was a small one that was a nod to Moana, the movie, which was just terrible.

Delightful. Loved it. Execution was top notch. The live casino sled was insane. It had a working slot machine on it with tumblers and everything. And if you spun it, all mechanized by cardboard, if you won, you would win a... Jell-O shots would come out of it. And they also had a craps table on there and everything. And I thought Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was fantastic. So...

Yeah, so many good ones. What was the one, and in theory, it would have been great, it just collapsed too quickly, which was the House...

being fixed up and it opened up and it went through a transformation. Yeah. It was just that what was not working on Friday was the large box going down the hill. Anything that was designed that way did not work. But it was an amazing, they did an amazing job doing it. There was people on the interior. I forget what it was, but it was, you know, they really tried, it just didn't make it. We have such great

and photographic coverage, Bill Kane and Camelot Productions with the drone video and Newman University shooting tons of video, that it has all come together in these fantastic...

vids and carousels of photos that you'll find on our social media pages and on PresidentSteve.com. Montage Mountain did their own video, which is spectacular. So it's just great, man. You couldn't have asked for more. Thank you, everyone who participated. Absolutely. Are you ready for the letter? Yes. Here we go.

Preston and Steve on 93.3 WMMR. Now, the Daily Letter. The Preston and Steve Show is brought to you today by the letter. D as in donut. All right, and we're going to give away on Friday 500 bucks. That's courtesy of Marvel Television's

Daredevil Born Again. Vigilante lawyer Matt Murdock and former mob boss Mayor Wilson Fisk are back in an all-new TVMA series, Daredevil Born Again, only on Disney Plus tomorrow, by the way.

So, what you doing today, man? Well, Women's History Month is the month of March. So, Chuck had this idea, and I thought it was great, that we do a block of women's songs every day throughout the entire block of March. Excellent. I mean, not necessarily a complete band block. Sometimes it would be. Sometimes it won't be. Sometimes it'll be individual artists. Sometimes it'll be a block of a band of women.

You know. That have female members? Yeah, like a Go-Go's block or something like that. Right, right. Or a heart block. Sometimes just individual songs and we'll construct it as we go. Could you even do bands that aren't all female? Like say maybe the Talking Heads because you've got Tina Weymouth who plays bass. Yeah. All right, cool. I don't see why not, yeah. Love it. So we will be flexible. If I'm the judge, everything is loose. That's the way you like it.

I could be on my gravestone. And so we'll do that. We'll start that up and we'll do that every day throughout the month of March. We also have a block of The Who. Daltrey's birthday was over the weekend. A block of Bon Jovi. John's birthday was yesterday. And you had a concert announcement and I...

Have a concert announcement at 11 a.m. All right. Coming up. A lot to hang out for. All right. I want to thank our sponsors. The Preston and Steve Show has been brought to you today by Dunkin'. The Preston and Steve Show runs on Dunkin'. Also brought to you by Acme Markets. Fresh foods, local flavors. And finally, by Live Casino and Hotel Philadelphia. Voted Best Casino by the Philadelphia Inquirer. Tomorrow being a...

Tuesday, we will be giving away a Presidency Show tattoo with Floating World tattoo and piercing. And one of our favorite guests is stopping by tomorrow from the Franklin Institute. Chief Astronomer Derek Pitts will be in our studio. Always a wonderful chat with him. So that is it. We are done. Rage on. Have yourself a great day, and we will see you tomorrow, friend. Bye-bye.

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