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And we're getting started once again. We welcome you, friend, to a Tuesday morning Press and Steve Show. Let's dive into the weather forecast today. Call for a pretty solid day. We're looking at partly cloudy skies. High temperature around 57, 58 degrees. Even a tiny bit warmer tomorrow, but some rain and wind are coming in the afternoon. Tomorrow's high 61. Clouds on Thursday, high 51.

Friday, sunshine, high 52, and we're going to park in the 50s for a few days. And now, Preston and Steve's news update with Kathy Romano. It is Tuesday, March 4th. Good morning, Kathy. Good morning. In the news this morning, Philadelphia police are searching for the gunman who shot and killed a teen at a playground on Monday night. It happened just before 9 o'clock in the evening on the 5600 block of

Graves Avenue at the Russell Doritas Playground in southwest Philadelphia. Police say the victim was sitting near a play area when video reportedly shows the gunman walk up and fire at least nine shots. The victim, who police only identified as a male, was shot in the head.

face back and torso he was rushed to an area hospital where he later died police believe the victim was in his mid to late teens the suspect was seen wearing all dark clothing before fleeing the scene officers are checking nearby surveillance video in hopes of learning more about a motive and they're asking anyone with information to please call police at 215-686-TIPS

Pope Francis suffered a new breathing issue on Monday and was put back on a non-invasive mechanical ventilation. The Vatican and Pope Francis suffered, said Pope Francis suffered two new episodes of acute respiratory crisis, explaining to the Associated Press that they were caused by a significant accumulation of mucus in his lungs and bronchial spasms. Two bronchoscopes were performed with the need for aspiration of copious secretions.

The 88-year-old is still in the hospital in Rome in stable condition, with the Vatican noting that he was up, had breakfast, and was receiving therapies after sleeping well all night long. Pope Francis was taken to the hospital on February 14th with a complex lung infection, marking the longest absence of his 12-year papacy. The Associated Press noted that the Vatican has not yet released any photos or video of Francis since before he entered the hospital.

The Vatican has already made alternative plans for Ash Wednesday. Cardinal Angelo De Donatis, a Vatican official, will preside over the March 5th ceremony and procession that inaugurates the church's solemn Lenten season leading up to Easter in April.

If you're a Philadelphia 76ers fan, you're probably feeling a bit deflated as the season appears to be going from bad to worse. With the team struggling and star Joel Embiid out for the season, fans say ticket prices have fallen as low as $2. A portion of the 76ers' struggles this season is due to Embiid's availability. The 2022-23 MVP played in just 19 games because of a knee injury. The trio of Embiid, Tyrese Maxey, and Paul George have played 15 games together going 7 of 8.

prices on vivid tickets uh vivid seats sorry start at four dollars before monday's game with some going over a hundred dollars like even the hundred dollar tickets you're probably like almost courtside it's unbelievable uh it's a great opportunity to get your kids out to see a first game and a lot of people are saying it's a fun experience either way so if you you know you have a big family a lot of times this is you know it costs a lot of money to get tickets and then you go and you

eat and all of that sure yeah uh chuck went was courtside the other night he was and i don't know what happened i don't know if there was an upgrade or whatever i knew he was going or that they were planning on going and i think the only reason they did go was because they were playing against you know the warriors and so it's a real game they're actually winning that game i understand they're actually considering putting uh seats out on the court which would be an amazing that would be cool yeah

Watch them play as close as you can get. So, I mean, with ticket prices that low, if you've got a big family and they've never been to a Sixers game, now is the time to buy tickets and go. It's cool. It's a great experience. They still have the dancers come out. They'll do all the steam and fire. Sure, it's a show, man. The fire alone is cool. All right, in sports this morning. Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!

The ball sacks are yelping. The ball sacks are yelping. What the f*** is that? Just don't expect to see them win. The Sixers lost to the Portland Trailblazers 119-102. What the f*** is this? Last night in South Philly. Trailblazers and Pernice Simon scored 21 of his 34 points in the second half. Andre Drummond finished with 25 points, 18 rebounds, and two steals for the Sixers. They're on the road tonight with game in Minnesota against the Timberwolves. Tip-off.

We'll be at 8 o'clock. The Flyers, who have points in five straight games, are back home this week as they open up a seven-game homestand. They'll host the Calgary Flames tonight at 7 o'clock. In Florida, the Phillies had an off day yesterday but are back in clear water this afternoon for a game against the Yankees. First pitch will be at 105.

The Eagles are releasing six-time Pro Bowl cornerback Darius Slay. Slay's release will save the Eagles $4.3 million against the salary cap. The team currently has a little over $20 million in cap space. Several key players will hit free agency next week, including linebacker Zach Vaughn, defensive lineman Josh Sweat, and Milton Williams, and guard Makai Bekele.

34-year-old Slade played the past five seasons in Philadelphia as one of the better quarterbacks in franchise history. He served as a captain multiple times, and last season he appeared in 14 games, had 13 passes defended, a forced fumble, a fumble recovery, and 49 tackles.

And the Eagles are still the Super Bowl champs. And that's what I have for you this morning. Thank you, Kathy. We are set for a Tuesday morning. Today is Tattoos Day. So if you'd like to win a free tattoo, a $350 gift certificate from Floating World Tattoo and Piercing, well, by all means,

Text the word tattoo to 39333 and we will have your chance to win. We know that our texting works, so it's one of our last forms of communication. Let's use that today. Your chance to win. You know, it's a little bit of nostalgia if you stop and think about it. Yeah, it is. How did they do it in the olden days? Why not? This is how they did radio back before phones were a thing. That's right. Yeah, yeah.

So go ahead and get started on that. Should we set up a ham radio? We do have a guest stopping by this morning, and that would be Mr. Derek Pitts of the Franklin Institute. He is the chief astronomer and a multiple-time guest here on the program. We love talking to him. They have actually body worlds returning to the Franklin Institute. And while that's not his area of expertise, he is a representative of the Franklin Institute. You can tell us all about that, but we're going to ask him all kinds of questions.

cool astronomy questions. I suck up. And I've been to Body Worlds. It was really cool. Yeah, I've seen it live too. It's pretty amazing. So he will be in in the 8 o'clock hour. And then outside of that, we've got some stuff to talk about and some things to give away. So let's take a quick break. Come back in a second. We'll fire up the stupid question and the entertainment report. Get your Zooms ready. We'll be back in just a moment, Fred.

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. No.

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 pitching 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.

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All right, thanks, Kat. So stupid question this morning. Prize for giving away a pair of movie tickets to see Mickey 17.

And we're going to have to do this via Zoom. Yes. Again, this morning. So text the word Zoom if you know the answer to this. We're still working on this phone problem here at MMR. All right. So text the word Zoom if you know this answer and we'll send you a link and then you can jump in there and possibly come on and give us an answer. So it's an easy one this morning. I wanted to give you a softball. What did the Wicked Witch of the West spell out with her broomstick in the sky in the

in the Wizard of Oz. 215-263-WMMR. Don't call that number. I know I just said that. It's a habit for me. I've been saying it for 20 years. So text the word ZOOM to 39333. That would be for me the most difficult thing in your predicament because it's a reflex. Yeah, you got to break those. I mean, it's literally, I've been saying that after the question for 20 years now.

Let's see if you know the answer. I just like that was great. Do not call that number. I just gave it to you in case you didn't know. All right. So we'll go through some birthdays today. Today being the fourth day of March. It's Josh Bowman's birthday. He was on the show Revenge.

I don't know who he is. I didn't watch Revenge. I saw his picture and he looked vaguely familiar to me. Let me see what he looks like. Yeah, there you go. He does, doesn't he? Yeah, that's what I thought. Do he? He do. Was that the one with the actress from the...

Winter Soldier, who is the lead and she's seeking revenge on a family that had, a rich family that had done her wrong. Revenge? Yes. Okay. Steve, Emily VanCamp. That's it. Yes. Yeah, so she was the star of that and Travis Kelsey was a co-star. Yeah, Travis Kelsey slash Josh Bowman is 37 years old today. Currently working on the Travis Kelsey story. He should. Yeah. He looks a lot like him. Nick, pull up those birthdays again because I recognized a friend. A buddy's on there. Yeah, Daniel Roba. Hey! Hey!

Daniel Robach. Love him. Yeah, he's been on our program a lot. We first met him when the show Lost was out because he played Dr. Arzt, who only was in like three episodes before he was exploded by a piece of dynamite. But we had him out when that show was hot, and he was a super nice guy, and he's from the general area, and he's been in lots of stuff. River's Edge, he was great in that. The Fugitive? The Fugitive, yeah. He is in... By the way...

Blowing up with dynamite, nitroglycerin-soaked dynamite, is a much better end than what he experiences in Terrifier 3, where he is brutally tortured. Wow.

By the way, I'm re-watching Lost with Jace. Really? Yeah, we just started. We're like two episodes in. Okay. Yeah. I'm about six episodes in. Oh, really? Yeah. How does it feel? You know what? I look at Kate. What is her real name? Evangeline Lilly? Yeah. She looks like a baby. Yeah. They all look so young. Yeah.

I remember that first episode. That's what grabbed us, man. That movie or that show, we were like, whoa. It's like movie quality television. When the tree line starts shaking and you hear the smoke monster and oh, this is something different. Yeah, very cool. But watching it as like things happen, like the polar bear was in, I think, the second episode and like,

they never explained. So like I saw that and I'm like, yeah, well, you're never going to get it. She turned to Jason and go, don't worry, none of this will make any difference. Well, he was like, why is there a polar bear? And I was like, and I wanted to be like, well, you're never going to know. But,

Just wait until you're disappointed. Josh Bowman, 37. Patricia Heaton from Everybody Loves Raymond and The Middle is 67 years old today. The incredibly talented Catherine O'Hara is 71. Home Alone, obviously, was big for her where that came from. But the Christopher Guest film, she's amazing. Ben?

Best in Show and Waiting for Grumpman and all those movies. SCTV. Yeah. She was, everyone, and John Candy and Eugene Levy and Harold Ramis all talked about how they had massive crushes on her. But just an explosively talented comedic actress. I've watched Ship's Creek twice now, and she and Eugene Levy on that show are incredible. I actually, I really liked her pickleball commercial in the Super Bowl. Yeah. That was pretty good. That was cute. So she's 71 today. Steven Weber of Wings fame. Yes.

We've had him on the show a number of times. Always really good. I liked what he did with The Shining. He played the Torrance character. You saw the miniseries, right? Yeah, I liked it. And it's apparently closer to the book. And he also narrates the book itself.

Stephen King. And he is fantastic as a narrator. I just absolutely was so impressed with him. 64 years old today. McKelty Williamson, who played Bubba in Forrest Gump, is 68 years old today. So he's, you know, shrimp, shrimp creole, shrimp kebab.

Did he do anything promotionally with Bubba Gump's shrimp, the chain? Not that I know of. I mean, because that's his character, right? I've never been to one of those either. So, but he's 68 years old today. Let's see. Three more to mention. Uh.

Paul Anderson, the director, Mortal Kombat, Resident Evil. He is 60 years old today. Chaz Bono has a birthday today. Sonny and Cher's son, 56 years old, born Chastity, and then transitioned into Chaz Bono and turns 56 today. And then the last birthday is Nick Castillo.

Hey! Of your Philadelphia Phillies. He's 33. I don't know. Will we see him at spring training? Yeah, that'd be really cool. He's an interesting dude. He does not suffer fools. And so I put in an interview request with Nick, and we'll see where it goes. He's like, I think that he's funny. I think he also can be a bit abrasive. I find him to be slightly intimidating. A little intimidating, yeah. Yeah.

I've seen interviews with him and he doesn't give you much. No. Yeah. So I don't know if that's good for radio or spring training or not. We'll see. Does he know about our deep and abiding friendship with David Pastino? I don't think that he does. Maybe we'll use that to pitch it. We probably should, yeah. Happy 33rd to Nick Cassiano. All right, let's see. Let's go via Zoom to see if we can get a winner. We're looking at a...

ceiling right now. There we go. Oh, there we go. Hi, good morning. Who are you? Hi, my name's Crystal. Hey, Crystal. Thanks for joining us this morning via Zoom. Where are you off to work this morning? I teach at high school. Fair enough. We will keep it at that, a New Jersey high school. All right, well, we need to find out if you know the answer to this. What did the Wicked Witch of the West spell out with a broomstick in the sky in The Wizard of Oz?

Uh-oh, she's frozen. She's completely frozen. And herein lies an issue with Zoom. It happens from time to time. We've got to let kind of the bit rate catch up. But I'm assuming she'll... All right, and now we've got you again. We can hear. What did she write in the sky, please? I don't know.

Surrender Dorothy. That is correct. Well done. I want you to hang on the line because we're going to give you those movie tickets to see Mickey 17 from the Academy Award winning writer 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 employer who demands the ultimate commitment to the job to die for a living. Mickey 17 in theaters

and IMAX nationwide, and that is on Friday. So hang on. We'll get your info, and we'll set you up. So this was sad news. Carl Dean, Dolly Parton's devoted husband of nearly 60 years, who avoided the spotlight and inspired her timeless hit, Jolene,

Passed away yesterday. He was 82 years old. He died in Nashville, Tennessee. Will be laid to rest in a private ceremony with immediate family attending. Dolly wrote in the statement, excuse me, Carl and I spent many wonderful years together. Words can't do justice to the love we shared for over 60 years. Thank you for your prayers and sympathy. The family has asked for respect and privacy.

No cause of death was announced. They met outside of the wishy-washy laundromat. Oh, my gosh. The day she moved to Nashville at 18. Get out. So the day she gets into Musictown, USA. She meets her husband of decades. 18 years old and meets this man. She says, I was surprised, and I love this quote. She says, I was surprised and delighted that while he talked to me, he looked at my face. A rare thing for me.

Parton described the meeting. She said he seemed to be genuinely interested in finding out who I was and what I was about. 60 years. By the way, you're talking about one of the most famous celebrities in the world. And the fact that he was able to, by design, maintain his anonymity for the most part is miraculous.

They married two years later on Memorial Day, 1966, in a small ceremony in Ringle, Georgia. Dean was a businessman, having owned an asphalt paving business in Nashville. His parents, Virginia Bates Dean and Edgar Henry Dean, had three children. Parton referred to his mother as Mama Dean. Dean is survived by Parton and his two siblings, Sandra and Donnie. Donnie Dean? Do they not have any kids? No, I don't think so.

I never knew that. So Dolly has no kids. I've never heard her mention any. I know she's Miley Cyrus' godmother. I just assumed. Wow. So he inspired Parton's classic, Jolene. She told NPR in 2008 that

that she wrote the song about a flirty bank teller who seemed to take an interest in Dean. She said, she got this terrible crush on my husband and he just loved going to the bank because she paid him so much attention. And it was kind of like a running joke between us. And when I was saying, hell, you're spending a lot of time at the bank. I don't believe we've got that kind of money.

So it's really an innocent song all around, she said, but it sounds like a dreadful one. It does. I love that song. And Dean kept strict privacy around their relationship for decades. She told the Associated Press in 1984, a lot of people say that there's no Carl Dean. He's just somebody I made up to keep other people off me. She joked that she'd like to pose with him on the cover of a magazine so that people

could at least know that I'm not married to a wart or something. It's almost the same sort of situation with Loretta Lynn and her husband for many years. Mooney, that was his name, I guess. And he also stayed out of the public eye

you know, I. In 2023, Parton told the AP, Dean helped to inspire her 2023 rock star album. She said, he's a big old rock and roller. And the song, My Blue Tears, which was written when Parton was with the Porter Wagner show in the late 1960s and early 70s, she said, is one of my husband's favorite songs that I ever wrote. And I thought, well, I better put that one, one of Carl's favorites of mine in here, meaning that album. So,

By the way, Nick pulled this up. Yeah, while she never had any children, she and Dean helped raise several of her younger siblings in Nashville, leading her nieces and nephews to refer to them as Uncle Peepaw and Aunt Granny. Uncle Peepaw. Oh, that's sad news. Sad news. Well, I have some other things that are not quite as sad, but this is a nice story. Timothy Chalamet.

May not have come away a winner of the Academy Awards, but he's still a winner in the eyes of someone from his past. When the actor appeared on the Academy Awards on the red carpet on Sunday, Access Hollywood showed him a video from Harry Schiffman, Chalamet's drama teacher at Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music and Art Performing Arts in New York City.

And in the video, he says, well, pal, you've earned your keep and the recognition of your artistry in bringing humanity to life with wit and passion and grace. Take it all in, feel it, and bring us more. And always remember, as Bob Dylan once said, keep a good head and always carry a light bulb.

Blessings, pal. And Chalamet was visibly moved by that. He said, amazing, thank you. That means the world. Thank you for organizing that. If there was a teacher that would do the same for you, reach out. What teacher would mean the most from your past? You know, if you were to get a message like that now with your career. Because I remember when Casey was at your school, I guess it was... Mr. Becker. Was that him? Would that be the one? I'd probably have to say so because I spent several years. If you're in the band program...

You know, mostly you get filtered through teachers through different subjects. You'll go through several different teachers. But if you're in the band program, you usually have the same teacher for like four straight years. Right, right. So they make a stronger impact with you. So, yeah, probably Mr. Becker. And that was pretty cool. And he did...

offer up congratulations like that to me on on where i am in life so that was really that was pretty special that is cool yeah i i never had a teacher that long yeah that's the thing most people don't have a you know you may have a coach yeah for that long and that might mean something to you i was uh yeah i i was yeah i mean i had some teachers that i like but none that will you forge a relationship like you would over the course of a couple of years yeah

And Access Hollywood has done that over the years. That's a really cool thing that they'll do. Bring somebody important from their past on a special night like that. And they've hit it a couple of times. They've never, I hated the red bastard. Right. All right. Speaking of the Oscars, Conan O'Brien is welcome back to host anytime. According to Walt Disney TV's executive VP of unscripted and alternative entertainment, Rob Mills, talking to Variety about the success of the former late night icons first Oscar nomination.

hosting gig brought, he shared that Conan absolutely nailed it. He described the night as a perfect blend of classic Oscar traditions, including a full orchestra mixed with O'Brien's signature humor, calling it Conan's greatest hits. As for a potential return, he said that's really up to Conan, but we'd love to have him back. Mills said that the experience was a joy and privilege. You know, if you stop and think about it, it can be a

Tough room, as they say. Letterman didn't do all that well hosting. But Conan came, and I guess he realized what he needed to bring, and I agree. He nailed it. O'Brien's sharp wit and unpredictable comedy made for a fresh take on the show, earning comparisons to Legendary's hosts like Billy Crystal.

So when Carla Sofia Gascon's old tweets resurfaced, one particular post of note targeted Selena Gomez years before the two co-starred in Amelia Perez. Uh-oh. Gascon's tweet about Gomez read, and I quote...

She's a rich rat who plays the poor bitch whenever she can and will never stop bothering her ex-boyfriend and his wife, in reference to the drama with Hailey Bieber back in 2022. And they share a number of scenes in the movie. I mean, they're, you know, she's his ex-wife. The actresses had not crossed paths since those tweets became public until the Academy Awards.

Prior to the ceremony, Gascon approached Gomez and fiance Benny Blanco with Gomez rising to meet her and give her a kiss on the cheek. Though some seem to think the exchange was understandably tense. So don't really know about all that. But they said such flattering. She said such flattering things. Right.

Michelle Trachtenberg may prove to still be a hot commodity in Hollywood after her passing. The actress had reportedly finished a screenplay before her untimely death and was inches from closing a deal when she died. Director, producer Casey Tebow told TMZ that Trachtenberg had written one of the best screenplays that he had ever read, Toy Monster, based on the book of the same name. And they had been close to landing studio support in the weeks before she passed away.

The story follows the life of Jack Ryan, who left a job designing missiles for the Pentagon during the Cold War to become chief engineer for Mattel during the creation of the Barbie doll, Chatty Cathy and Hot Wheels.

Sounds a little bit like Small Soldiers. Yeah. Tebow says that he hopes to still get the film made while things are on pause for obvious reasons. But Jack Ryan? Yeah. That Jack Ryan? That seems weird. That does. Yeah. Just even switch it around and you're better off. Ryan and Jack. Ryan and Jack might work. Yeah. So, wow.

So, here's a follow-up to you. We make mistakes. Meghan Markle owned up to hers in an interview with People Magazine yesterday, specifically regarding the problematic launch of her As Ever brand. As Ever. There are her mistakes. Sometimes when I'm around the house, I say to myself...

As ever. Join me, won't you? She said yesterday, as ever brand, there are tons of... Hey, Vin Diesel and I make popovers. She said, there are tons of twists and turns, even with the name. I was figuring it out in real time, she said. Last March, Markle announced their new project, American Riviera Orchard, only to have to rename the brand to as ever...

Due to trademark setbacks. Come on. Despite the bumps in the road, Markle plans to sell her signature jam, homewares, and other products on her new website, which is set to launch this spring. And she said, I appreciate everyone who gave me the grace to make mistakes and figure it out, and also to be forgiving with myself through that.

And she said it's a learning curve. I want to phrase this carefully. I don't feel bad for Meghan Markle because she has the world by the balls. But it does have to be a bit challenging to find a path and have everything be completely scrutinized. Dead-ended. Every time. I think she's just trying to do something with her time and her life and away from the royal family and all that kind of stuff.

Yes, she has it easier than 99% of the people on the planet. But it's got to be an interesting and sometimes challenging world to navigate. I agree. What I think she needs to do is stop trying to reset on the heels of the last failure. Take a longer pause. Yeah. Let it breathe. Just fail for a bit? And then come back. Okay.

So, five months after it was reported that Valerie Bertinelli and boyfriend Mike Goodnaw had split, the actress is making her first public comments about the relationship while not going into specifics about what caused the breakup. Bertinelli had nothing but kind words. He's a jagalaw for Goodnaw. No, she didn't say that.

In an Instagram post, alongside a pic of the two, she wrote, I met him in person a year ago today, and I am irreversibly changed by him for the better. It was outside the tasty freeze. She said, I know I am becoming a much stronger and more benevolent human for having met him and spent time with him. And she concluded the post with, thank you, Mike, who may no longer be a couple, but you'll always hold a very special place in my heart. Love you. I hate you all the time. I hate you.

I hate you. I hate you. I hate you more than anything in this damn world. I do like when things can end amicably. Yeah. Yeah, I've been able throughout my life to keep exes as friends to some level, you know. I mean, it's...

Let it go. Yeah, but it's cool that after a fairly short amount of time that they're able to reach that point. On Sunday's episode of Alec Baldwin's reality show, The Baldwins, the actor reflected on how his bitter divorce from Kim Basinger negatively impacted his relationship with their daughter. I hate her. I hate her. I hate you. I hate... The actor...

You little pig. Called the public custody battle just insanity and admitted one of my most regrettable things about the whole thing was how it affected Ireland. You mean when you called her a little pig? Yeah, you were thinking that through? You're a little pig. Did you clean your room, you little pig? Alec, uh, did... This little piggy went to market. This little piggy's you. Uh...

Yeah, that was... When I first heard that, that was an abrasive thing for a kid. For your own parent to call you a pig, especially as a young lady, that's especially stinging, the word pig.

Alec did note that he does have a good relationship now, however. Because she could kick his ass. Despite their past, Baldwin and Basinger have since mended their relationship. Basinger is saying that they now share a genuinely cordial bond. So at least that's good. Baldwin also shared that Ireland has been a loving older sister to his seven children.

children with Hilaria. In the annals of Hollywood splits, the Kim Basinger-Alec Baldwin split was one of the worst ever. Yeah. I mean, unbelievable. It was very ugly. And she leaked that audio, didn't she, Kim? She did. The Ireland... The daughter did, yeah. No, I thought Kim did. Oh, Kim did. Yeah. Oh, okay. You're both pigs. Maybe.

Sammy and Lola Sheen. They are the children of Denise Richards and Charlie Sheen. Duh. Apparently, they may have seen their fair share of sibling fights, but at the end of the day, they've always had each other's backs. And things are now okay, Sammy, the older sisters told Us Weekly. Duh. Reveal...

Revealing that after nearly a year of not following each other on social media, they've reconnected. Freaking amazing. Right? Yeah. Lola admitted it was terrible, but credited their new reality show, Denise Richards and Her Wild Things. Ever since mommy started showing her beaver to OnlyFans, things have really gotten better. Ha ha ha. Nuh. Ha ha ha.

That's really it. Yeah. Yeah. No, that's well, not only the beef on. Yeah. Only to beaver. But the right. Their reality show is bringing them closer together. Denise Richards sees the show as a great bonding experience, adding that they have each other. And I mean, what's not to love? Zippity doodah.

Sometimes I forget what a jag off that guy is. Let's go down there. Hey, Charlie Sheen. Rapid hole for a moment because I've forgotten. Are these still on? You're having to pull them up. It was radical. Can you get the Mercury surfboard? That was one of my favorites. Torpedo and truth tour. So she said that they have each other. I'm not bitching a total freaking rock star from Mars.

Come on. What the hell? Come on. That's somebody who's so drugged up. And just so full of himself. Freaking full of myself. Yeah. I've been riding it on a Mercury surfboard. Absolutely. Mercury surfboard. Mercury surfboard. Mm-hmm. Uh-huh. Yep. Like a silver freaking surfboard. If you do the crime, you got to do the time. She said they're doing all this press together for the first time. Stitching time saves nine. I think that's... Buggie bumpers. Don't remember. Don't care. Just do it. Little Jack Horner sat in the corner. Yeah.

And then he moves on to ad slogans. Just do it. You borrow my brain for five seconds and just be like, dude, can't handle it. Unplug this bastard. I'm loving it. Finger looking good. Finger looking good. The good hands, people. Could you do safe light repair? Safe light repair. Freeze. Safe light repair.

No, I'm stupid. They're inside watching their daughter's recital and they replace the windshield. Freaking amazing. That took me a minute. You're just in the house? That's a commercial. There's some sort of family obligation and Safe Flight comes and repairs the windshield of the parking lot. That's a kid's recital. Get this straight. The family's inside watching their daughter's recital while Safe Flight replaces the windshield. Freaking amazing. Oh my God.

All right, anyhow, the kids are doing well. All right, yeah. That's good stuff. What is his physical... I always think of him as like a Petri dish of... Well, he was diagnosed with AIDS, right? I think he actually also had gonorrhea. Yeah. Dude, he's had to have gone through the whole laundry list. The whole list. I mean, he was banging everything that moved. That's ridiculous. Freaking awesome.

What happened was is that my AIDS killed my gonorrhea. And then what happened was the syphilis took the gonorrhea's coat off for the fight. Oh, my God. My AIDS killed my gonorrhea. Freaking amazing. Gross. All right. I have a couple other things to mention. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah.

Fresh off of scoring. Play that one more time. I have something else. Okay. Okay. Rack ball. Okay. Rack them. Rack them. Rack ball. Rack them. Frickin' rack balls.

Fresh off of scoring five Academy Awards on Sunday, Hulu has announced that Anora will be coming to the platform starting March 17th. The movie debuted in theaters last October, making $16 million and $41 million globally. 16 was in the U.S. Anora is a dramedy about a young sex worker who meets and impulsively marries the son of a Russian oligarch.

And once the news reaches Russia, his parents set out to New York to get the marriage annulled. And of course, won Best Actress, Best Picture, Best Director, Best Editing, and Original Screenplay. I've heard it likened to Pretty Woman. Okay. In a way. I can see that. And so I remember, I think it was the highlighted film at the Philadelphia Film Festival.

Film Festival. Okay. Yeah. Has Hulu acknowledged at all their F up on Sunday night? Yes. I sent Preston an article about their explanation of what happened. It was a scheduling problem. Oh, yeah. The award show went long. The login stuff, it didn't really explain what the problem was at was, but it ended before several of the major awards were announced. Right. Because they had it set up for a certain scheduled time. Yeah.

You know the history of the Oscars. You know that it always will run long. Leave a buffer. Why set that at all? Leave it wide open. For me, it ended at 1032. That's when it cut out. Let it run at least until 11. Do you remember years ago, there was TiVo before there were built-in DVRs in your cable box and so on and so on. Standard practice would be to set a recording for the show

in the schedule after the Oscars. Because it was always going to go over. Even my DVR does that. Because I DVR all of the Eagles games and I always go a half hour beyond the scheduled time.

All right, so listen to this. A whole new generation will get to experience the love and heartbreak of A Walk to Remember. That's one that rips your heart out. That is a good one. Yeah. The Nicholas Sparks novel and 2002 film starring Mandy Moore and Shane West is getting a reboot treatment.

No word on casting or a director yet as the film is in the early stages of development. The movie starred West as Landon Carter, a troubled teen who falls for a shy, overachieving classmate, Jamie Sullivan, played by Moore. The movie follows their relationship as Landon learns that Jamie is living with leukemia and her time is running out. So what does more damage to you, that or The Notebook? Man, that's a tough one. They're both...

I mean, that's what Nicholas Sparks does. Especially the reveal of the notebook. Yeah, that's hard. But, man. I don't know the walk to remember one. Oh, my gosh. Oh, man. It's another tug of the heartstrings. Yeah. I won't give away what the walk is, but it's, ugh. I'm getting choked up thinking about it. Moving on. All right. A Crazy Rich Asians series is officially in the works at Mac's.

Adele Lim, who co-wrote the 2018 hit film, will serve as showrunner, with John M. Chu back as the executive producer. Crazy Rich Asians author Kevin Kwan is also on board, continuing his role as executive producer for the show, like he did for the film adaptation. No word yet on whether the original cast will return, but fans are hoping for familiar faces. I just watched that again. That's great. I forget the guy's name. He's great. One of the...

Kim Yo-Yang? Yeah, that's it. Yeah, Nick, thanks. And he was talking about how low the budget was and how they made it look so opulent. What? Yeah, because they did smoke and mirrors. They did everything they could to pull out all the stops. Wow. But the budget was actually pretty low. But you watch that movie and it looks as opulent as can be. The series will be based on Kwan's bestselling book trilogy, which includes China Rich Girlfriend and Rich People Problems.

Lim, who also directed Joyride and wrote Raya and the Last Dragon, is currently working on Anne Hathaway's return to Disney in Princess Diaries 3. A lot of stuff going on there. All right, so... Trying to see if we have time for any more. Now, we may as well get right to the clip. Okay. So, the new film, No Address...

or no address, I don't know how you want to pronounce it, shines a light on the homeless epidemic happening in Sacramento. And in this clip, Lucas Jade emphasizes the importance of this particular topic. The whole point of making a fiction piece about it is to bring awareness to the issue and hopefully reach an audience that normally wouldn't have any business understanding or relating to these characters. Ah!

No address is now in theaters. All right, here's our next clip. Six years after Daredevil ended, the story is revisited with Marvel's new series Daredevil Born Again. And in this clip, Charlie Cox jokes about life after this role. When I'm walking off as Daredevil, I'm walking much slower. I'm creaky. My body is making more noises. And I'm needing more anti-inflammatories. Daredevil!

Daredevil Born Again premieres tonight. You'll find it on Disney+. So excited. Didn't know that he was British. I didn't either. I had no clue. I did. And it makes it, when you watch his Matt Murdock American accent, that much more impressive. But you would have no hint whatsoever. Yeah.

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Thank you very much, Kat. So there was a, we just had the story of Dolly Parton's husband passing away. And she shared with that that he helped inspired the hit song, huge song, Jolene.

which is, of course, about a woman who's trying to seduce a man and take him away from the wife and everything. But it turned out the story behind that was there was a bank teller, an attractive bank teller, and Dolly's husband, apparently she...

would flirt with him, and he thought that was kind of fun and would go in there all the time. And so she was seeing this little flirtatious interaction. It was nothing serious. No. But it was enough to motivate her to write a song. Yeah. But she was the beautiful woman that works at that place that you go to regularly and you're going to encounter. And it's an interesting scenario, and one that we might want to... Now, we don't have phone capabilities, but we still have Zoom, and if you want to chime in on this...

You can text the word ZOOM to 39333. We'll send you a link, and then Marissa, we'll see if we can get you on the air to talk about this. But there was this Threads post that Nick came across yesterday, and it's local. And I'm going to read this to you. It is from, the user's name is ML Glenn, and I don't know who that is. But she says, and just posted on here, Yeah.

If you work at the Trader Joe's in Wayne, Pennsylvania, and are tall with dark kind of wavy curly hair, and we're working today wearing all black, please know that you're so hot, and I had to flee the store because I got so nervous looking at you. Oh my God, that's hilarious. Hope you have a wonderful life being that gorgeous. Oh my God. And if that wasn't enough...

She did her own sketch of what the guy looks like. Kathy, look on Nick's monitor. It's like a stick figure. And it says over the top, it says, welcome to Trader Joe's. And it's like a stick figure of the guy wearing all black, though she did put clothes on him. And she points an arrow to the face and it just says, hot face.

And then next to it, it has a measuring stick of sorts that says tall. So he's tall, dark, kind of wavy, curly hair. I want to go. Super hot. I want to see how hot this guy is. Same. So Casey, I came across my feed on threads because my friend Tina was at the Trader Joe's

Also, on the other day when this person, Megan Glenn, was there, and Tina said, I saw him too, and he was striking, and it led to this entire conversation about this dude. Wow. Apparently, he's a little toxic. Some women noted that they had dated him over the years. Might not be best boyfriend material, but still very hot. Still hot. Yeah. So, it leads to the conversation of, is there a place that you go...

Because there's a hot person that works there. And listen, places like Hooters and things like that. Of course. That's too easy. An anomaly. I can tell you one. There's a place called the Juice Room on Germantown Avenue near where I live.

They had the hottest staff there. And maybe I went for more juices. For an extra juice? Yeah, but they were just healthy and wonderful. And everyone looked tremendous in the place. Again, it's one of those things that it may influence your decision to go. It's not like you're...

you know, conducting. Yeah, you're really trying. No, it's like, oh, this is pleasant to look at. But it may steer you in that direction because of that. So text word, zoom to 39333. I used to go to, when I drove an Audi, there was a, just like a service center. It wasn't, you know, you couldn't buy a car there. You would just go to get your car serviced there. And I went a couple times and this guy that worked there, he was so good looking. And much, you know, much younger than me. But I was like,

It's not like you're like, oh, here we go. But you want to go. It's not doesn't hurt to go look at something wonderful. No. And like, but I would get like a little flustered. And I think I definitely told you guys this before. He was dropping my car off and he was like, oh, your registration, you know, whatever. And he's like, is it in the glove compartment? I can grab it. And he was on that side. And I was I was on the driver's. I was getting it. And I was like, oh, yeah. He opened it up and my tampon came. Oh.

On to the ground. Is that when you look through and go, I don't need that currently. I pretended like I didn't see it. He had to bend down to the ground, pick up my tampon, put it back in my glove compartment. I just turned my back and pretended like I didn't see it. When you think someone's attractive, I'm going to be so bad for you. It's okay. It's natural. I eat these for breakfast. Oh, jeez. Oh, my God. It was awesome.

That was awesome. Oh, wow. That's the most embarrassing. I would have died. Hey, listen, it's great when you know where the person works and you can guarantee that they're going to be there. It's a little bonus. Listen, I used to go to, I think at the time it was called Cali. It's now R.P. McMurphy's or whatever, but

We went there every Wednesday night. Now, it didn't hurt that it was five bucks to get in 25 cent drinks, but I went there almost specifically because there was a girl who would go there. She didn't work there or anything like that. And I've told the story. I tried to buy her a 25 cent drink a couple times. She said, no, thank you.

Dude, I haven't died. I'll buy you four drinks. Oh, that's great. But yeah, but I went there pretty much every Wednesday night in hopes that she would be there. So yeah, I mean, and then it can be something as innocuous as, again, like somebody at the Whole Foods where it's not a pickup place or it's not like, you know, and it's just something that is, I can understand this woman's

admiration for this man at the Whole Foods. It's just, it makes your shopping experience or whatever experience a little bit more, a little brighter. I remember so much brighter. I remember when my kids had their braces and

And we would go by the orthodontist's office. Dude. The orthodontist had stalked that staff. Oh, really? We're getting so many texts from people about orthodontist and dentist's office. What is it? I don't know. Well, it's great teeth, first of all. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's usually like, you know, you're going to take care of your smile. No, but I remember walking in and just like my head was on a swivel. I'm like, oh, and her, and her, and her. And I was like, wow. Well, you guys are talking about the women. Jace's orthodontist is a man. And he's like, so.

like he looks like he should be a bodybuilder. Oh, yeah. And he wears like he doesn't wear like the dentist scrubs. He wears like, you know, like T-shirts. Like Vin Diesel. It's about your molars. I swear.

Where are the guys? It's about molars. He is. He's like so good looking and extremely fit. Here's a text that says, I'm a teacher and I have some eye candy that works at my school. He is our security officer as well as a cop in the town. He is absolutely gorgeous. And I purposely go down into the high school, which is where his desk is located. I'm in the middle school and

Just so that I can come up with an excuse to go see him. And needless to say, he looks good in and out of uniform. You know what I hear this also with a lot? It's kind of the classic thing is the UPS delivery. The UPS guys. You know, that used to be part of the thing. That was the fantasy. In their shorts. Yeah. Yeah.

All right, we're going to go via Zoom. Marissa is going to pull up an individual. We are looking for Sabrina. Hi there, Sabrina. Good morning. Good morning, bitches. Good morning, bitch. Thanks for joining us. I hope you say that and be called a bitch by you guys. All right, so is this about you or a friend of yours?

It's about me. So I'm happily married woman of two years again. And I have, I always have a crush. This is my thing. I always have like some crush going on. And right now I have a crush with a friend of a friend. So like we always get together in groups.

Wow. Yeah.

I just, I find my intentions of, like, getting together with friends. I'm like, oh, so-and-so's going to be there. I'm in. Yeah, and your husband has fun with it? Well, he does. I mean, he doesn't always know, like, oh, we're getting together with this group of people because the guy's going to be there. But if he's there, yeah, he has fun with it. He's just like, there's your boyfriend. You get so nervous, like, your tongue hangs out, you know? And we just laugh about it because, like, he's the least jealous person I've ever met. I'm totally jealous, but...

It's just fun. I mean, you got to have, there's always, I always say you can look, you just don't like stare. It is a little, again, I think it's a little spice of life and it's something that is fun. Thanks, Sabrina. I know, but is it bad? I mean, like, oh, I'm going to get together for dinner with this girl.

because so-and-so's there. It makes you feel good. Thank you, Sabrina. We appreciate it. That's like Rochelle and Dr. Palmer. Dr. Palmer. I've heard of this name. He loves Dr. Palmer. He's so nice. He's a super nice guy. What is he? He's a gynecologist. No, no, no. ENT. There's a really big, long name for it. Otolaryngology. Otolaryngology. I think that's it. So Rochelle loves him.

And I joke about it just like her husband does, just like Sabrina's husband does. I'm like, oh, you're going to see Dr. Palmer today? He's great. I love the guy. But that's her little crush, her little crush.

Nick, there was another text that you had isolated, or is that gone? It's all right. Don't worry about it. We got another caller, or we got another Zoomer. We're going to bring Marie up, Marissa, if you could, please. So we'll go to Marie next, too. We lost our monitors. What the? Yeah. So now we've lost our monitors. Perfect. It's going to be like a sit-around with us. Let me see. Marie, can you hear me?

If you know where we work, just come to the parking lot. Yeah, you know what? Just stop by. We'll hang a microphone down from the window.

We've got long cords. Yeah, that works. We'll just swing a microphone out by the street and let you jump in that way. We've been ballsy doing phone-driven segments on Zoom, and actually I've been really liking the patch. Obviously we want to... Wait, wait, wait. We have something back up on the screen. Well, they're working on it until I see a human being up there. Preston, we just launched a missile. I doubt it.

I wouldn't doubt it. So Megan, who posted this, Preston, she texted in. I'm going to give this number to Marissa. No, no, you can't. I know. But we can try to call her off air. The person's name is Megan Glenn. So maybe we can Zoom with her. Oh, she's the one from the thread. She's the one that talked about the hot guy at Trader Joe's. Megan, Zoom us. No, you can't even do that right now. Okay.

All right, take a Super 8 film of what happened. Put it in a sass and Salvador Stamper. Steve pointed out one when we were bringing up this conversation, the Gallup montage mountain. Oh, my gosh. If that were in proximity to me, montage regularly. I didn't see her.

We were all the way up top. We were at the top. We missed everything. We got you at the bottom of the hill. She was like a California blonde. She was wearing all black. She worked for the Mountain. She was in charge of something. She was in charge of something. In charge of boners. She was really nice too. I like her. Duh.

I turn into Charlie Sheen. When I was at one of the Fish concerts in Atlantic City, I was sitting on the boardwalk waiting for people to arrive. There was this police officer from Atlantic City. She was...

I think I just might have to come back to Atlantic City and get arrested just so I can see you again. I have drugs in my trunk. Oh, I think we're up and running. Yeah, we got to zoom up again. So is this Maria? Is this Maria or somebody else? No, it's someone else. Okay, so it's Melissa that we are going to go to. Hi, Melissa, you're on with us. Good morning.

Hey, good morning. Sorry to bother you guys at work. We are happy to have you. Okay, so what's your, you know, you saw this attractive person and you couldn't help just returning just to see them.

Yeah, so this was actually years ago when I was a teenager and we used to vacation on Long Beach Island. And I would walk 30 blocks every night down to Mr. T's mini golf because there was a cute boy that worked at the counter. Mr. T's mini golf. That's hilarious. Yeah.

And I would take my cousin with me. He was about three, so he was my excuse. Oh, I'll take Brian for a walk. And we would walk 30. And then I'd have to piggyback him home because, of course, his little legs were tired. And my family, of course, my brothers found out, you know, well, that's why I was going. And they used to refer to this boy as Little Tee.

But I never talked to him. I would go and moon over him and then walk home every night. Yeah. There's many times during your life where this happens, and you can still fondly remember. Did you get calluses on your hands from all the mini golf? I never played. I would just go and stand and watch. Wow. It's a great spectator sport, miniature golf. Sure. They had the longest hole.

hole in the world. I love it. 30 blocks, dude. That's a long walk. Come on, three-year-old. We're going 30 blocks. I've never been to LBI. Some beach towns' blocks are longer than others. So if it's anything like Ocean City, 30 blocks is a long way. Thank you. Thank you, Melissa. We appreciate it. Have a great day, guys. You too. I like the term she used, to moon over them.

Immunity is exactly right. It has that, which it is, an innocuous sort of, you get a little doughy eyes. Yeah, and you know what? There is something, and studies have proven this before. When you see a person that is attractive to you. You get a boner. Well, you can get a boner, but your heart rate goes up a little bit. And there's something chemically that happens inside of you, and it makes you feel good. It does. It does.

I'm trying to think. I haven't had anything like that in a long time as far as

knowing that, you know, a person that I find attractive works there and regularly go by. There was one woman one time when I went to go get a picture frame made at like Michael's or something like that. And this girl was just stunning. Yeah. And I'm like, well, maybe I should get some other themes framed around the house. I would like 500 pieces of styrofoam. And I went back and of course, I never saw her again. I saw her one time. Well, you...

And when you were heading back, in your mind, you're like, yes, I'm going to go get something, but it'll be nice if this person's here. Yes. Yeah. And part of me was like, this is stupid. What are you doing? You're just going to look at somebody who's good looking. I think everybody... Listen, if you have an option of going to, say, there's two Dunkin' Donuts that you go to, and there's a very attractive cashier at one Dunkin' Donuts. Yeah. Yeah.

I think you're probably more inclined to go to that one. Yes. Right? I wonder if you are the person... What if you're the person who is the attractive draw? Yeah, you guys are creepy. Oh, okay. All right. That's true, too. Yeah, we'd like to hear from you if you are that person and you think... So here's an example. And this is a... This is a...

way over the top example. Okay. Lauren Harris. Right. Multiple calendar girl for Preston and Steve. Actually, every single calendar did. Lauren was in, I believe.

Remember there was a guy that drove from like, I don't know, the Midwest to show up and get his hair cut by her? That's right, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And that freaked her out a little bit. Well, it should. Yeah. But you probably know if you've got regulars that come around and linger a bit. A respectful...

Mooney, how was it described? Mooning. Mooning. Right. Adoration is fine. A respectful mooning is okay. Yes, yeah. So we have... Like Kathy throwing tampons at an Audi dealership. We have Megan now who posted this original story on threads about the attractive guy at Trader Joe's. We lost her. Wait, no, there we go. Trader Joe's. So we have Megan now. Hi, Megan. Hi, Megan.

Can you hear me? It's getting all calibrated. Okay, so we just had our monitors crash and go blank. We had her up. We saw her for a moment there. We're right on top of this. It'll be okay.

It's new. It's not new tech, but it's new for us using it in this way. That's right. We're repurposing old technology for the purpose of your entertainment. Nick, I recall you telling a story about going maybe to an ice cream shop all the time. Oh, my God, yeah. Okay. Baskin-Robbins on Route 30 in Paoli. And I don't know what it was, but it must have been like the orthodontist or the dentist or whatever. But they just hired...

hot girls to work there. Steve, to your point earlier, you could get ice cream anywhere. You would always go to that Baskin Robbins. I don't know. Looking back on it, maybe the owner was a little creepy, but it was all attractive high school girls. When you are a

A lonely high school boy. Oh, my God. You know, of course, of course, I would walk the dog over there because the girls would pay attention to the golden retriever. I really try talking to Megan again. Hi, Megan. Can you hear me now? Yes, I can hear you. All right. First of all, thanks for joining us. We appreciate it. And so so tell us about posting this. How long ago did you post this on threads?

This was Saturday morning. And was this your first time at that particular Trader Joe's or just your first time seeing this guy? First time seeing this guy. It's like my third time there. Okay. And so it was in your post. You said, I had to flee the store because I got so nervous looking at you. So it was one of those, your heart was just pumping, right? Yeah.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, I literally saw him when I was standing in the checkout line and I said, oh, my God, out loud. Oh, my God. I can't believe I just said that out loud. Was he rocking sort of a was it you mentioned him being all in black? Was he rocking sort of a goth vibe or what? What was it?

No, he just had black cargo pants and a black shirt. He was literally just standing there minding his own business. I was just trying to get cookie butter and shortbread cookies and had to run. How old would you place him, Megan?

Mid-20s, maybe. You seem younger yourself. Are you in that range? I'm going to be 30. Okay. So has anybody, any word of if, I don't know how you would know this if he's received this information? Yeah.

He actually has. I was contacted by a friend of his and also his sister. Oh, my gosh. And so, yeah, he's been located. He is in a relationship. Oh, man. There we go. It was funny, though, Megan, because I was following along on threads over the weekend. My friend Tina was actually at the same store as you were on Saturday. She saw him as well. Our friend, Fit Dad CEO Dave, he commented on it. He told me you guys were talking.

Okay, so when these things take off, they sort of take on a life of their own. And you also, it's weird like when these things get shared publicly because then you got a lot of information about this guy, some of which wasn't the most flattering information.

Yeah. Yeah. So, well, there was a rumor that he was kind of an unpleasant gentleman. But turns out that that was another tall, dark, handsome man. A competing tall, dark, handsome man. Yeah. Yeah. So apparently there's two tall, dark, handsome men in the Wayne Trader Joe's location. One of them is insane.

Is a douche. Oh, all right. Well, listen, and it's all hearsay. People can write anything they want on social media. This guy could be the most loyal, wonderful person and, in fact, has met the love of his life in a supermarket or a market. So were you at any point entertaining in your flustered situation where you're entertaining the notion at all of approaching him or anything? Or was that absolutely an alien concept?

Oh, that's a new, yeah. For me, that's an alien concept just in general. I just flee the scene. That's your move. That's how you react. Fight or flight. She likes me. No, listen, hey, when I see, in my single days, if I saw someone who was clearly out of my league, forget it, dude. There's no way. I just couldn't handle... Was that empowering? The absolute...

pre-ordained rejection I was going to get. Nature is taking care of this one. I don't need that. Once you hit that certain point, like I found my person and so you can just, again, like you're going to a

to a museum. Oh, that's gorgeous. That's amazing. But I have my wife. I'm completely thrilled. So on that level, it's just, again, it's that little flutter. But yeah, and you know what is great, though, is if you, and even though you are in a committed relationship and you're going to stay that way no matter what, just knowing that someone finds you attractive. It's always nice. Is pretty awesome. Yeah. You know? Yeah.

It's a nice thing to have happen. Is it? I wish him and his girlfriend nothing but the best. They both did a great job. Would you ever approach him with the notion of a throuple?

I can't even approach him with the notion of a double. Yeah, getting the balls. I hear you. I think I align exactly with where you are. Yeah, it was a moment in time, but look at what it's become. So let me ask you this, Megan. Does this happen to you from time to time? Or is this like the rare occasion that you're like really struck by someone, a stranger that you don't know? I mean, I think...

I moved back up here recently from Alabama and it was never happening down there. So it's the first time in a while that I've been like, oh,

But the fact that you were moved to actually post, that says something. But I think a lot of people have those chance encounters that used to occur. What was it? Was it in the City Paper? Yeah, city encounters. And literally, it was like, I saw you on the R5. Misconnections. Misconnections. I used to read them. Missing in action. I post on misconnections, which I didn't know still existed. But I used to read them.

You didn't need it. You found him. Megan, we hope you find someone just as handsome. With cookie butter. Who is into you and cookie butter. Thanks for joining us this morning. We appreciate it. Have a good day. You too. See you later.

That's wild. That is. But it can definitely... I mean, I wrote down the song. Casey started to play a little bit of it. But I remember when you have that moment, you see someone and you're like, freeze for a moment. Yeah. Oh, my God. And you're like... We're all... She's beautiful. We're all susceptible to it. Oh. I mean, this is a case of a woman finding a man...

gobsmackingly handsome.

It's the way we react. We're visual. I had it actually with Rochelle because we were at... And I already knew who she was. We had met and it was a couple of years later that we finally got together. But I was at a nightclub. I was at Rivers Nightclub. I was working. I was the DJ. I was in the bar. And she was on the dance floor and like a light, like the actual light in the room. She was lit up. And I saw her on the floor and I was like,

Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Oh, my God! Ah! Boner! Oh, my God. But it was like the scene from Wayne's World when he sees Cassandra. Dream weaver. Yes, yes. It's funny when I... When I... With...

Claire, my wife, she was rocking sort of an alt look and she had a number of earrings in. And I remember she came in to do some stuff with promotions. She was an intern at the radio station I was working at.

And I looked back and I went, huh. And that switch flicked. And I was like, oh, okay. I'm enjoying this. You know what's interesting about this story? I just told you guys about seeing her on the dance floor and her being lit up. And she was highlighted and she was almost angelic. I remember sharing that story with her the first time. And she was like, oh, that's kind of... I was like...

I am pouring my heart out to you. Oh, I remember getting a restraining order against you. This was years. We had already been married for years. I'm like, you know, the night I saw you. Oh, my God. It was like you were highlighted. You were an angel. It was like, is this story over? Smell this. Smell this. Does this smell like cat crap? You were in the same room as me, wasn't I? My earth shmuck.

shifted on its axis. How about you, honey? I don't remember that. Remember, I didn't want to date you. The angels came down with trumpets. What about you? Oh, I was trying to remember my car was parked. No, that was the night we finally solidified things. No, not hooked up, but I got her number. Was she not working? I got her number. How do you like them apples? Um,

Was she working at a club you were DJing at? That was years before. That was like two years before. And that was a failed swing. It was a swing and a miss. I asked her out and she lied to me and told me she had a boyfriend. You know what's funny, Preston, is that my brother and his wife met two years ago.

prior to them actually getting together as well. And he saw, it's funny, man, like a lot of similarities. He saw her from across the room. I can't, I'm dating Suge Knight. No, they thought that he was, you know, they both were attracted to one another and then they just didn't have space in their lives at that point to get together. And then two years later, the stars aligned and now they're married.

All right, we have time to go to one more person with this. Just to reset, the girl Megan who we were just talking to had posted on threads that she saw this guy at Trader Joe's who was incredibly handsome, and she just posted, you are so hot. Who are you? And it connected with a lot of people who've had similar experiences. Yeah, and the fact that Dolly Parton's husband just died yesterday, and he was the motivation for the song Jolene because of this song.

Woman he found attractive at the bank that she worked at. So one more call. It's Charlie who we're going to go to. Yo, Charlie. Rack him. Rack him, buddy. All right. What's up? You got a story to share. Yeah, so I spent a lot of years tending bar and placed Nick's Roast Beef in Springfield. I'm sure Casey's been there on more than one occasion. Yeah, a couple times. A couple of servers in their late 30s.

They noticed this young man come in, and the kid was stunning. He was a good-looking kid in his mid-20s, and they would just gawk at him. So they would come in once in a while, and whenever they did, whenever he came in, they would stop what they were doing and just swoon. So one day he comes in, gets his takeout. I give him his change, and a quarter drops out of his hand. Before it hits the ground, he sticks his foot out.

It lands on the top of his shoe. Oh, my God. He flips it up in the air. I knew it. Catches it, says thanks, and walks out the door. And the waitress is just about fell over. Did you see that? Oh, my God, he's Superman. The kid was so smooth. Of course, I go home.

I tried about 10, 12. There's no way in the world. You figure if that's what the ladies like, but you couldn't do it. Charlie's like, I'm going to master this, man. Oh, that's so funny, dude. I love that. Did he ever come back in again?

Yeah, once in a while he would come back in and like I said, the servers, they would just freeze and watch him. Nobody was getting served when he was in the room. Wow. Okay. Yeah. All right. Thanks, Charlie. Appreciate it, buddy. Some people just got the thing. Yeah. Yeah. I never had it. They have it. Yeah. You have it.

All right. Well, thank you so much for the Zooms. We appreciate that. That is the way we communicate now. Yes. Our phone lines are still down. We're perfecting our cave drawing game just in case we need to fall back on that. Well, we have, yeah, we need a variety of things. Can and string. Right. Megaphone. Well,

We'll get it all together and find a way to have you on our program. We're going to take a break. When we get back, some bizarre file stories, if you don't mind. We'll share those. And then our good buddy, Derek Pitch, chief astronomer of the Franklin Institute, is stopping by. We will be right back.

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Always a great feeling when you get a brand new job. When you start a new gig. Good for you, man. Hi, Mike. I wonder if they're actually on trains or if they're in corporate or what, you know, because it's something romantic to riding the rails for a living. Agreed. All right, so we're going to send a shout out to you, sir. Congratulations. All right, I do have some beat file stories, so let's get them. Now, WMMR presents Kristen and Steve's Bizarre Fun.

Brought to you by Camelback Mountain. You can join Marissa, Casey, and Nick at Camelback Mountain's 20th annual Pond Skim. It's going to be Saturday, March 22nd. It'll be the wildest end of season party on the slopes. Go to Camelback Resort. Yeah, CamelbackResort.com and you'll get all of the details. A dog in the Los Angeles area is recovering from extensive surgery after her veterinarian pulled 24 socks. What?

Whoa! And a half dozen other items from her stomach. Were there feet in the socks? There were not, according to an Instagram post from the Corona Animal Emergency Center. God, man, they eat, they eat stuff. A seven-month-old Bernese Mountain dog named Luna was rushed to the hospital after her owners noticed she was vomiting and had a firm, distended abdomen.

The hospital wrote, what we found was jaw dropping. They had photos of x-rays of her stomach and full of clothing. And there was like more than socks in there. Yeah, photos of her in recovery and a picture of the veterinarian, Dr. Jenny, posing with everything that was found in her stomach. They're beautiful animals. Including 24 socks, one scrunchie, two hair ties, one shoe insert, one small onesie from her intestines. Oh, my God.

And miscellaneous cloth pieces. Oh, my God. Yeah. The veterinary clinic confirmed that Luna had undergone a gastrotomy to clear her stomach and an enterotomy to remove the onesie, which was causing an intestinal obstruction. We're looking at the picture of the items. There appears to be a small European car in there as well. That's crazy.

Photos of Luna in recovery show the puppy relaxing on a couch with a cone over her head to prevent her from licking her stitches, but she's going to be okay. Maybe this is where my spoons went. We were talking about my spoons went missing in my house. Reggie? Reggie's been eating spoons. Well, you guys remember just recently, my friend Megan had to take her dog and they found 12 binkies in her dog's stomach. Yep, they do it. And it's a chihuahua. A North Carolina llama.

Yeah! They don't drink or smoke. Yeah.

was officially named the oldest living llama in captivity and oldest llama in captivity ever by Guinness World Records. That's pretty amazing. So it's kind of a support animal? Yeah. Billy Joe Davis, the barn director, said he's so good with our campers.

that as soon as our camp days start, he just lays down and he doesn't get up until lunch. He'll just lay there and lets kids run up to him and love on him. She said he treats it like a job, and it is definitely his job. White Top spends his days surrounded by children at the year-round camp.

As well as nine horses, two goats, two rabbits, two miniature donkeys, a miniature highland cow, four hamsters, six rabbits. And the cow named Gus Gus. Gus Gus. White top's closest companion, by the way. They say when he passes, they're going to eat him. Okay. What does life expect to see of the llama? Did you mention that? No, they didn't say, but 27 and 250 days is the world record. Do they eat llama?

Llamas actually are cannibals. They eat each other. No, no. I mean, can you eat llama is the question. You can, but I've never heard of people eating llama or alpaca. Damn, that's good llama. Yeah. Don't know. I would guess that somewhere in the world, yes. Yep. Here we go. As well as being eaten grilled, llama is also cooked in several traditional dishes in northern Argentina, such as...

different types of stew. They're often served with six gerbils, two cats, a hamster, and a rabbit. All right, the son of Bucky's co-founder, Don Wessick, if you're not familiar with Bucky's, it's a convenience store chain, very, very popular. Um,

facing serious legal trouble after he was arrested and charged with possessing child pornography. Mitchell Wasek, 29 years old, was officially charged with third degree felony possession of child pornography in Travis County, Texas on Friday. The charges stem from an incident dating back to September of 2023. A convicted he could face between two and ten years in prison and a fine of up

to $10,000 under Texas law. The latest indictment only adds to his growing legal troubles. In May 2024, he was indicted on 21 federal felony counts of invasive visual recording after authorities uncovered hidden cameras, secretly recording 13 unsuspecting victims at multiple properties owned by his family. Wow. And included footage allegedly shot in the bathrooms and bedrooms of a luxurious Lake Travis estate, a high-rise Austin apartment, a

a penthouse in Dallas, and a vacation home in Telluride, Colorado. So he had stuff wired everywhere. The disturbing case came to light when a group of friends who were visiting the Lake Travis home noticed an unusual charging port in the bathroom. One of them, an employee in cybersecurity for the Department of Defense,

inspect the device, and found a hidden camera embedded inside. That's why when I go to the bathroom outside of the house in another location, I wear a hoop skirt. The group removed the camera and upon inspecting the memory card, found dozens of videos of themselves and others in compromising situations, using the bathroom, showering, changing clothes, engaging in sexual activity as well.

Wow. Realizing the gravity of the situation, they turned the camera over to authorities. Investigators then discovered a total of 68 video files, many of which had been recorded without consent over a period of at least two years.

Amazon records showed Wasek had ordered spy cameras. And it was as investigators combed through the digital evidence, they uncovered even more disturbing material, images of children who appeared to be prepubescent. Detectives sent the files to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, where a comparison with existing database revealed...

that at least one victim, a seven-year-old girl, had been previously exploited and her images had been circulated online. It's just repulsive. Further forensic investigations led to the conviction of another suspect as well. Before these latest charges, Wasek had already dealt with personal fallout from his previous arrests.

And it didn't indicate in the story what those were, by the way. So these Buc-ees are kind of sprawling, right? They're huge. They're big. And they're, yeah, popular convenience store. Right. And the swag that you get from Buc-ees is kind of a kitschy thing to pick up. Yep. Yep, exactly. So dudes. Oh, boy. All right. We can't end on that. We're going to do one more story and wrap with this. A pair of underwear.

worn by President John F. Kennedy long before his time in the Oval Office, has sold at auction in Los Angeles for $9,100. These are my favorite underwear. The Phillies gave it to me. They are my favorite. Which, by the way, I have an update on those. So the ivory cotton snap fly boxer shorts featuring a hand-sewn label embroidered with the late leader of the free world's nickname Jack reportedly date back to his stint in the Navy during the 1940s.

The presidential pants were featured at Julian's auctions. Spotlight history and technology earlier this week. Look at that. Those are Maryland's bite marks. The auction also included a black alternative brand hoodie worn on numerous occasions by Mark Zuckerberg.

back in 2010. I thought Kennedy had a hoodie. No, he didn't have any hoodies. Hey, it's my favorite hoodie. When the tech titan was named person of the year by Time Magazine, while only estimated around $1,000, a modest bidding war drove the price up to a whopping $15,000. Weren't there a pair of Hager slacks from LBJ? The crotch down where he had notes hanging is always a little too tight. Meanwhile, one of the signature bow ties worn by Steve Jobs snagged an eye-popping $35,000. Uh,

which is well above the estimate of $1,000. So some of these items go for a hefty sum. And that is what I have in the bizarre file for you this morning. All right, we're going to take a break. And Mr. Derek Pitts is scheduled to arrive. He is with the Franklin Institute, the chief astronomer. We're going to talk about a number of things when he gets in here. So we'll come back with him. Make sure you stay with us.

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The official supermarket of the Preston and Steve Show. Podcast. Thanks, Kath. We are always delighted to have this next guest in our studio. He is from the Franklin Institute, of course, and he's here to talk about several different things, especially the return of body worlds. Very cool. We would like to welcome the man, the myth, the legend, the one and only...

Our friend Derek Pitts. Yes. He's an astronomer. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Good to see you again, sir. Good to be here. Yeah, thanks for having me. This is fortuitous because last night we knew you were coming. What's on Turner Classic Movies? 2001 A Space Odyssey. Perfect. I arranged it that way just for today. You're good like that. We love that. You're well-rounded. You have the full package. So I was actually kind of surprised when Nick said that you were coming in and I know we're going to talk later.

about several things, but Body Worlds, you know, you're known as an astronomer, but obviously you know everything that's going on at the Franklin Institute. Body Worlds is a wild exhibit. I've seen it, I've seen ones before and it's incredible. Wait till you see this one. Okay. You talk about wild. This is really wild. The reason why this particular exhibit is wild is because it combines so many different plastinets in like this new way of thinking about the human body in terms of

What's the body's structure like? The skeletal structure, the musculature structure, when it's doing different things. So if you're talking about what's the body look like when it's on a skateboard? What's the body look like when it's playing a guitar? What's the body structure look like when you're surfing? These different kinds of things that help you better understand how your body is put together. And the really cool thing about this is that our

Our visitors can see themselves actually doing those things. And then when they go back and do those things at home, they can think about how they saw what their body structure is based on what they saw. The mechanics of how the body works and the miracle that is all of it. I have seen body works and I love it. This is a newer iteration of it. Yeah, this is a new iteration. It has 20 different plastinates in it and 150 other plastinates.

specimens of the organs of the body and things like that that are all plastinated so that you can see what they look like like plastinated and separate from the body so you can see what they look like individually and it's not gruesome but people are wondering it is it's really enlightening to see it you know the way i say this steve is that you go into the exhibit if you've never seen this yeah before you go into the exhibit and you go oh that's

really interesting. Let me see some more. Right. And that's what you end up doing. Yeah. And what happens now is you're fascinated because you're seeing what you look like. I am. Yeah. So that's a really cool thing. And it also goes really well with our brand new exhibit, Body Odyssey. Yeah.

So that we have like two ends of the spectrum of how the body functions and what it does during a regular day and then what the body looks like on the interior when it's doing that. That's awesome. So, Derek, for those who are not familiar with Body Worlds, I mean, this is real human tissue, right?

Yes, this is real human tissue. Yeah, absolutely. What's happened in this, what they do with this is they take a human body, a deceased person, who's given permission for this, of course, and they plastinate the body. Essentially, they replace all of the liquids in the body with silicon rubber. And then what can be done is the folks that build these exhibits then can pose the body in different positions.

And then they cure the silicon rubber to make it...

odorless, and posed. And it works out really, really, really well. I bet your job one is the odorless part. Yeah. First plus first. We're watching someone who appears to be shredding a guitar, bent back, and yeah, just the way the body works. I wanted to ask you, because if you're talking about the body and you're talking about Fantastic Voyage is a great movie, and Isaac Asimov, I believe, was the idea. Yes, that's right. And that...

They go into the universe of the body in a small craft and that becomes a universe to them. So the macro and the micro sort of meet in the body in a way, to understand it. Yeah, they really do. They definitely do. And when you look at this exhibit...

The backstory behind the different organs of the body really helps to tell that story of the macro versus the micro because it tells you about how do these body parts work in these instances where they're doing these different things. And you begin to learn some of the minutia of what happens in the body. So here's one thing, for example. I didn't realize this. I should have known.

But in your stomach, there are acids in your stomach. And most people think that those acids are there just to begin the process of decomposition and digestion. But the other thing that those body acids do is they kill off...

any other bacteria that has come in with what you've eaten. And that, of course, is critically important. So this is how kids can eat dirt. Right, yes. Because your stomach acids will kill this stuff off. So when you think about kids eating gross stuff, well, your body has already figured out that you're going to do that and it's prepared itself for that. So that's just one example of that kind of thing. It's fascinating. I was reading, I mentioned it on the air a while ago about how when you're in the final stages of life that the body...

The body knows to release chemicals that help you transition into death. It is an actual function of the body to make death approachable and less impactful to you if you're not hit by a train. Yeah, right. But those are fascinating aspects. Do you see the universe as operating –

In many ways, like a body? Are there elements that translate? You know, it's really very similar. We're so much like the universe ourselves in that it's taken billions of years for the universe to get to the stage it is. After so many iterations of building stars and building planets and creating the elements that make up...

you know, everything that's part of our bodies and our bodies have been doing the same thing when we've, as we've been on this planet is that we have been developing, our bodies have been developing to fit into this niche on this planet with this environment under this star with these chemicals in this atmosphere. And it's been able to do that.

for its entire existence as an individual from birth all the way through death. So all of those things that you speak of, of the body figuring out how to shut itself down at the end of life, that's all part of how it's developed over time to do that in a really smooth and cool way. It's almost incomprehensible. Again, you think about the universe going on forever, but you think about how here just within our own bodies, as you just described it,

What happenstance involved with all of this that makes it work the way it does? You know, and it is something and it's well represented with that. Well, you know, here's the thing, though. It's trial and error. Yeah. Trial and error over billions of years. Yeah. Yeah. You know, so my wife is going to give me a few billion years of trial and error to get everything right. And then you're out. And then I'm out. Right.

Is the exhibit up and running now? Yeah, the exhibit's up and running now. It'll be around until September 1st. Okay. So you guys can come over and see it. This is one of the most popular exhibits ever at Franklin Institute, the Body Worlds, yes. The first time we ran a Body Worlds exhibit in 2006, 600,000 people came to see it. I believe it. 600,000. We were one of them, my wife and I. I mean, it was one of those where you're like, you can't...

Again, what you're anticipating exceeds it because it is you've never seen anything like it. Derek, do you happen to know offhand? Because I would imagine I can't even I can't imagine how meticulous it is. You have to be to recreate this to be able to create these things.

human bodies from all this tissue that they've taken out and treated and now have to put back together. Any idea how many hours it might take to create one of these structures? It takes 1,500 hours. Whoa. About 1,500 hours to do this. Wow. Right. And that's the whole process of...

you know, getting the body prepared and changing out all the fluids and, you know, posing and all that sort of stuff. And then the curing also is part of this. I remember seeing one because I saw Body Worlds decades ago in Chicago. And I thought if it wasn't there, then maybe I've seen renderings online or pictures. But I saw one of...

Just the nervous system. Amazing. Just nerves. Oh, yes. Like... Yes, the nervous system, the circulatory system on its own by itself. It is insane. It's incredible. On two levels, though. The first level is, oh, my gosh, you mean that's what's inside my body making all this stuff happen? Yep. And then number two is...

How did they manage to get that out like that? Intact. It's amazing. You have to see it for that reason alone to appreciate the very fine work that's been done by Gunther von Hagens and his team to bring this into existence. In fact, bringing this into existence like this has...

how we go about looking at the human body and understanding it because you can look at these plastinets rather than having to, I mean, dissection is great and everything, but this is a different kind of reality of understanding how it all goes together. This is probably an unfair question, but are you more fascinated by the micro, micro, micro or macro, macro, macro, like going way, way out into outer space or way, way into inner space? Yeah, that's a great question. And I'm fascinated with both because,

what you begin to see when you dig really deeply into, oh, like the deepest physics of astronomy, is that there's so much happening at the quantum level of everything that it's almost like it's a snake that's coming back around on itself. So the macro on the one side, the deepest macro on the one side is meeting the micro on the other side. Yeah.

Derek, can you do me a favor and define quantum? Because I hear that word thrown around a lot and I have an idea of what it means and I'm sure that I'm way off on that. What is an easy way for me to digest what that means? So what you can do with it is that you can think about – so we typically think of –

Atoms and molecules as being the basic building blocks of the universe, right? But you can break those particles down to other particles like quarks and leptons and things like that. And that's typically where people stop. But you can actually break those particles down further and further and further. And at the very...

The tiniest level that we can get to right now is this quantum level where the most basic interactions are creating what we can now think of as these upper level particles of leptons and quarks and atoms and molecules and things. So quantum is like very bottom, bottom level, the simplest kinds of interactions.

energy, most elemental particles and energy there is. And those things build up to make the particles that we then think is the material of the universe. It's mind-boggling. You mentioned a concept that actually is in The Incredible Shrinking Man. Richard Matheson wrote this book, which became a great science fiction movie. At the end, this guy is shrinking and shrinking and shrinking. And he has a revelation. He's standing...

in one square of a screen door that is the size of like an airplane hanger at that point. And he says a speech at the end where he says, it is, he describes as you describes, it's a big circle. The biggest and the smallest meet

You know, in terms. And he was not afraid anymore because he realized he was entering a different realm. And to think in terms of that, my brother's perpetually terrified by the notion that the universe goes on forever. And I said, yeah, but Tom, you still have to pay your visa bill. Of course, right? Yeah. It brings it all back into mind. Yeah, that's true. And when you talk about quantum stuff, you're talking about...

an elemental level that is as far beyond, you know, small, as far beyond the atomic level as, you know, the galactic structure of the universe is for us. Yeah. Going the other way. And, you know, this is where the most elemental stuff of the universe happens. It's amazing. Scientific discovery is just incredible because when I was a kid, I mean, I'm sure it was

We were taught that atoms were the smallest thing. Yes. And then we learned that there are subatomic particles. Yes. And now you're telling me we're going even smaller than that.

We're going smaller. Are we going to keep finding out that we can keep going smaller and smaller and smaller and smaller? You know, it would be great if we could. The problem is that we have to develop new means of measuring that small. And then from being able to measure that small, we might be able to build new tools that allow us to see better.

or detect that next level down. And the other thing that gets done is we use what we've learned about this level of the next level down to illuminate the next level down. So we use that as a tool to understand what's happening down below at the next level. So yeah, those...

protons, neutrons, and electrons that make up all the atoms and the particles, they are nowhere near the smallest things out there. Again, that is just the stuff of science fiction and fascination that becomes hopefully science fact at some point.

I was just going to say something that would tweak your brother's mind. I'm sure he's seen it before. There's a presentation called The Power of Ten, which takes you from the smallest known to the largest known. And it's amazing. It is amazing. Yeah, it really is amazing because, you know, the world we live in is this world of material that we're so used to. But...

What you really don't get is that for the most part, any solid material we see is mostly space. It's mostly empty space. It's the space between, yes. Right. So we think of it as solid, but it isn't really solid. If you get down small enough, then you see, as you say, standing on that screen that's so much larger than you are, then you see how much space there is in the universe. And there really is a tremendous amount of space. But there's also this tremendous amount of quantum activity.

that's happening down at these really low levels. And, you know, there's this, you've all heard of the string theory idea that there are these vibrating strings that vibrate in different ways that resonate with each other that then create the particles that create the rest of the universe. But the question, of course, is where do they come from?

What makes them vibrate? What's the energy that makes them do what they do? And so there's still further elementally that we have to try to get to. How much of science is motivated by fear? And the reason I ask that question is like there might be an asteroid that's going to hit us in seven years. And so, you know, how much is like...

what we do as far as NASA goes or SpaceX or whatever, motivated by the fact that we might need to prevent that from happening versus a new disease, you know, the combat against COVID from, you know, five years ago, like the way that world governments united and able to hopefully help to eradicate stuff like that. Like how much, when something, when a headline comes across, does that motivate the scientific community?

It's really way more about curiosity than it is about fear. I'm glad you hear that. It's just far more about curiosity. It's like, oh, why is that? Oh, look, it looks like it could be doing this. And then you might say, oh, well, that's not a good thing. Let's see if we can fix that. And then there's the curiosity about how do I fix it, right? Because coming up with a solution...

For a scientist, coming up with a solution is so satisfying. It's just so satisfying on two levels. First level is, I understand this. And then the next level is, I can do something about it. Yeah. Right? So there's all that. And then, of course, doing something about it leads to, oh, now I have to build a really cool thing. Hmm. How about a laser-guided missile with blah, blah, blah. Yeah. That's cool. I'd like to have one of those at my house.

Well, I have a question. If you're just tuning in, Derek Pitts, Chief Astronomer of the Franklin Institute, and he's talking about Body Worlds, the latest exhibition, which is available now. It's going to go through September. You can go to fi.edu to get your tickets, and you want to go to this because it's incredibly popular and for a very good reason. But I want to ask a question about the planets and the stars real quick. And speaking of fear, because Nick had mentioned that a moment ago, several months ago there was concern about –

These drones that were in the area, that were flying around the area. Oh, yes. And the word came down that many of the people that reported seeing these were actually seeing standard features that are in the night sky. And I saw this while my wife and I were out on the back deck, and she pointed up, and we were talking about the drones. She's like, there's one right now. I took a good look at it for a moment. I'm like, honey?

That's Mars. And then I pulled up my little app and I showed her. There it is. There it is right there. But this past weekend, I was outside in the evening and I saw a twinkling in the sky. It was fairly bright. And I saw some red and blue type things.

I thought. And I'm looking at this and I'm like, well, maybe that is a drone hovering up there. And I stayed outside for, it was a couple hours. It was a nice night out. I was just sitting outside. I thought, anyway. And I watched it and I noticed it had moved along with the rest of the night sky up. And I'm like, that's a star. That is not a drone. But I saw this twinkling and stars twinkle. They do. But it was, I thought I saw red and blue twinkling. Is that?

An anomaly? Or was I just seeing a star? What causes that? I would say that you're among a rare group of probably...

800 billion people who have seen that thing. That same thing. You do tell. So what you're seeing, that's the standard twinkle that you would see with stars. Here's the difference, though. The difference is that you were looking through a thicker portion of the Earth's atmosphere. Okay. You wouldn't even realize this. But when you stand outside and you look straight up,

you're looking through the thinnest portion of the Earth's atmosphere from where you're standing. If you look out to the right or out to the left, you're looking through a thicker amount of the atmosphere because you're going... The angle. Correct. You're going right along the surface of the planet. Well, all that air, all of those air molecules...

cause the light to bend as it's coming through. From that object out in space, the light rays come through that thicker atmosphere and the different temperature layers in the atmosphere cause the light to bend around and that yields the colors. Okay.

Because I've heard of red shift and blue shift before. That's way out in the distant universe. That's way out. Because I didn't think you can have either or, red or blue, from what I understand. Right. And I was seeing red and blue. And I was like, that doesn't make any sense. All this is just how the Earth's atmosphere affects the light that comes from stars and planets. Now, typically, the thing is that you would tell the difference between stars and planets in the sky. And you would say that planets don't matter.

twinkle. Right. And they don't because they're closer, they have more light. But if they get down low enough in the atmosphere, they will twinkle. But high up, no twinkle. Yeah, that's usually I can tell. If it's not twinkling, that's a planet and then you figure out which one. I have to jump in with my questions. Yeah. Because I jotted it down. And I remember, I saw this pop up and I wanted to hold it onto it. Wasp

127b uh it has been found i took this down to have extreme supersonic winds reaching speeds of up to 33 000 kilometers per hour making it the fastest planetary jet stream ever recorded on any planet now how do they determine that so the detectors that we use to analyze planets uh the the

I should say it this way. The basic tool that astronomers use to gather information about the universe is a spectroscope. And a spectroscope will allow you to look at the spectrum of an object, right? And, you know, just think of it as a rainbow. So it looks like you can think about this rainbow of information that comes from any object that's giving you light. Wow! Depending upon the motion of that object, the spectrum can be shifted in one way or another...

Like redshift and blueshift. And so you can actually use this tool to determine if there are winds on another planet. And you can see by the shift in the spectrum how fast the winds are moving. The bending of the light? It's not the bending of the light. It is that...

If we take a... Let's do it this way. My fingerprints are unique to me alone. Right. Chemical fingerprints anywhere else are unique to that particular chemical. And so you can think of that as a standard. Okay. Okay? If the standard observing someplace else is shifted away, or if your observation is shifted away from the standard...

then there's some activity happening. Right. Because it should match one right on top of the other. But if it's shifted a little bit, depending on which way it's going, if it's moving towards you, it's shifted toward the blue. If it's moving away from you, it's shifted toward the red. You can see this in the spectroscopic analysis of the atmosphere itself. To me, it's fascinating that that can be determined. I mean, not that I'm not terrified by 33,000 kilometer...

Well, here's the really interesting thing about it is that that planet is at an extreme distance from Earth. Yeah. Yet we have a detector that can pick up that difference in spectral shift that...

At that distance. So imagine how big this planet must actually look like in a telescope. Yeah, yeah. It's 10,000 times smaller than a pinprick. Right? So wait a minute. You mean we have instrumentation that can do this?

Right, so now we know for sure that spy satellites can read the label in your underwear from 200 miles up. That's never a question. That's never a question. We are under surveillance. Alright, so I'm going to hit you with another topic. We've got a conga line of asteroids. Everyone's talking about asteroids and asteroids potentially striking the Earth. I think, what was it? DJ22 and DV5. Yeah, so these asteroids...

I've heard the concept of rogue planets. Yes. As this untethered planets, which kind of blew my mind. The difference between an asteroid and a planet, I always assume that all planets are in orbit of some...

Most of them are. Almost all of them are. But there are some rogue planets that are sort of wandering around without a tether to some larger gravitational object, some larger mass. Right. So this is very, very rare. In fact, there are planets that are escaping the galaxy because they aren't tethered to a star.

What? That's very, very rare. They're just like wandering off? Yeah, just wandering off. The way an asteroid might travel, are they even more rogue than an asteroid? They're even more rogue than an asteroid. But there aren't many of them. They're very, very, very, very rare. So are they eventually slingshot out of an orbit? They're slingshot out of an orbit. They're captured by some other passing bot.

captured by a passing body. All kinds of interesting and odd things like that. Yeah, right. Now, again, there are not many of them. There are many, many, many more asteroids that are captured in the gravitational pull of the sun. And

I've got to tell you, there are a lot of asteroids out there. A lot of them. But the good thing is that NASA and other space agencies around the world have been working really hard to identify the big ones and now working on the medium-sized ones and eventually the smaller ones so that we don't have to worry about being smacked by an asteroid. Yeah, I like that. Keep at that. Derek, I know we recently had a celestial event in the Planetary Parade.

Yes. And can you explain a little bit about that? Yeah, it's really simple. Okay. Yeah, planets. Planets orbiting around the sun as we see them in our sky are all along a line. And that line actually is if you draw it out,

is a curve over our heads from horizon to horizon, and then it goes down around behind the planet. Okay? So it's a circle. It looks like it's a circle around us. It's really a circle around the sun, but as we view it from Earth, it looks like it's a circle across the sky. So what has happened recently is that seven planets were all in the evening sky between sunset and sunrise. Mm-hmm.

Just happened to be that way. We also have to count our motion around the sun in this because that's what makes the planets, for the most part, seem as if they're sliding across this path across the sky. All right. Well.

Recently, we had these seven planets all together in a line. The word parade came up from someplace. Everybody glommed on to that. And I think some people were expecting that it was going to look like, you know, what we saw for the Eagles. You can actually see the planets moving.

And you actually can't see anything moving if you step outside for an hour a night. But if you watch over the course of a number of weeks, what you'll begin to see is that the fastest moving planets are sliding around the sky.

And so that means you're looking for Mercury, you're looking for Venus. Then comes our emotion that makes it seem as if the other planets are moving. But this takes months to happen. Now, what's rare about this? They said this is the last time this is going to happen until 2040. The last time it's going to happen between now and 2040 for the planets, all of them, to be between the setting sun and the rising sun in the morning. So up all night.

But that doesn't mean I can't see these planets at any other time. Of course I can see these planets at another time. I can see them in the morning before sunrise. I can see them really late at night. They're going to slide around the sky to the point where I won't be able to see them for a while because the sun's glare is going to be too intense. But they're always there. And for all intents and purposes...

They're almost always in a line. It's just a question of how close together are they? It's true, yeah. That's the rare thing is when they're close together. Right.

So, you know, it's happening. Yeah. It's going on. It's happening as we speak. Right now. And of course, there's no need to worry about this because this is a cycle that's been happening for billions of years. Yeah. One of the things you point out as far as the times go of being able to witness these events. And I didn't realize until I got to know a guy who was in work in astronomy department that astronomers are night owls.

It is. I guess you have to be, right? That's when your show is on. Used to be. It used to be. Okay. Used to be. Do tell. So nowadays, what I can do as an astronomer is, let's say I win some time on a telescope in South America in Chile. Okay.

So what I'm going to do is I have an instrument package that I've built at my lab here in Philly. I'm going to take it down to Chile. I'm going to work with the technician at the telescope. We're going to mount this on the telescope. And then...

they're going to run it for me. Okay. Right? And I can sit at home with my laptop in my den, and I can read from the detector on the telescope what my observation is. Wow. So you can... I can do it remotely. Are you getting an actual long distance as if your eye was to the eyepiece feed? Yeah, exactly. Okay. Wow. That's right. That's

That's right. I can do it that way. Yes, we still spend time at the telescope and it is still at night. Yeah, that's true. But if I have a package that I'm going to have doing a long-term series of observations whenever there is extra time available on the telescope, I'm going to send the package down there, let them put it on, we'll test it out, and then I can do it from home. It's amazing. You don't even think of that progression that's made it obviously that much. No, we don't think about that at all. Yeah, that makes it more accessible. Because we still have the romantic idea of...

astronomer at the eyepiece of the telescope smoking a pipe, observing the universe and seeing all this stuff in the eyepiece when in fact

And actually, these big research telescopes, there is no optical observing going on. There's no eyepiece for the telescope. Wow. That is not what's happening. Okay. That is not what's happening. What is the largest one that still retains an eyepiece that one could, you know, does that come to mind? What is the largest telescope with an eyepiece? You're a monkey in the wrench. I know the 100-inch Hooker reflector at NASA.

Mount Wilson Observatory. This is the one that we used to call our 100-inch hooker. Yeah. This is the one with Liv Stigman. I knew I shouldn't have said that. I knew I shouldn't have said that. Eric, you remember which show you're on? Yeah. There is the cheap slut in Russia, right? There is that one, right. Yeah, yeah. No, so that has an IP. So, yeah. But it does make sense. Remotely, you have access around, I assume now more than ever, you have access to all of the great telescopes around the world. Yeah, yeah. But he...

But the thing about it is, is that if you're using a telescope that's of that kind of size...

You're gathering photons, but your eye can't retain the photons that you're gathering long enough to build an image while you're there. Right. So what do you do? You put a camera on it and let the camera collect the photons for you. So if you're going to use a camera to collect photons, well, then I better put a spectroscope on this too so I can capture the spectra of all these different objects. Right.

And that's really what astronomers are doing is they're putting detectors on the back end of a big light gathering instrument so that they can get some data they can use. It's not so much about the image. I can do that with a camera on a telescope. Derek at the Franklin Institute, you guys do have viewing events. How do people find out what's going on? It's been a little while since we've done a viewing event at Franklin. I'm thinking about what the viewing events are going to be.

be for this year, in fact. But you can always come to our website and find out information about what we're doing about these events. And how much would it cost for you to come over and read me a bedtime story? Because the way you speak, your delivery, it

I am so relaxed by the time you leave here. I'm so glad to hear that. Yes. I mean that as a compliment. Thank you. I appreciate that. You're an ASMR dream. Oh, big time. Big time. Body World's Vital is...

is now available for you to access at the Franklin Institute. I highly recommend that you do it. 20 new... 20 new plastinettes, 150 separate organs, all plastinated that you can see. Amazing. It's fabulous. You can go to fi.edu and get the information and go see this amazing...

Not only exhibit, but facility that we have access to here in Philadelphia. And let's not forget the new Body Odyssey exhibit that goes along with it. I mean, if you haven't seen the new heart exhibit yet. That I haven't seen. Oh, my God. What is it?

You know, of course, our heart exhibit. Oh, heart. Yes. Well, we have completely redone all of the surrounding supporting exhibitry around it. It's a totally new approach that incorporates the heart. So when you come to see Body Worlds, you need to see Body Odyssey also. And they complement each other. One looks at the body this way. The other looks at the body this way. That's awesome. You can't miss it.

Great combination. Thank you for being here, Derek. Thanks for having me. Love having you here. Chief Astronomer of the Franklin Institute, Derek Pitts. Thank you. And the Body Worlds exhibit, by the way. All right. We are going to take a quick break. We'll come back in just a sec. Stay put, please. MMRBQ 2025. Saturday, May 10th at Freedom Mortgage Pavilion. Somebody check me.

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Guys, I might have to run for a second. I just got a text that says that I have a toll road notice of toll evasion. Oh, my God. Hang it. Click the link. Put all your information in. Make sure you don't forget to put your social security number. You have an unpaid toll bill on your account to avoid late fees. Pay within 12 hours or the late fees will be increased and reported to the DMV. Listen, the only way to really bypass all that nonsense is to just put cash in an envelope and mail it.

You could do that. God, these scam artists. God, unbelievable. And that one's been going on for a while now. Yeah, you get those a lot now. That's crazy. All right. You know what? In fact, I have something that kind of touches on that, but it's going to follow a lot of other things. I think we need to stream our mind here. My mind is a raging torrent of...

flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives. The stream of consciousness nerds. Yeah, I saw this. Actually, it was funny that literally that text came up as Kathy was doing the traffic. But more changes are coming to drivers on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, including toll plaza demolition and new text-based traffic tools.

So the Turnpike obviously launched the open road tolling in January, and now they're paid at the big overhead gantries, which, by the way, driving up the Northeast Extension to Montage, went through several of them. Yes, absolutely. I go through one on the way to work and on the way home every single day. They really make things much faster. But the tolls now paid at overhead gantries east of Redding.

And along the Northeast Extension. And that made toll plazas there obsolete. And they are being demolished. And so I have a schedule for that. There's a bizarre interest in just seeing the tunnels under the toll booths and stuff like that. And seeing, you know, because there is this little subterranean setup that they've had. Yeah. Not anymore. Not anymore. First this spring on the upper end of the Northeast Extension. And then in our area, according to Craig Shuey, who's the Turnpike's...

Chief Operating Officer. He said in June, the Philadelphia area will begin seeing the demolition. All right. Norristown to Mid-County and Street Road. See, Ewan, you had just asked about the Mid-County tolls. So those are going to be gone. So we just went through yesterday, and Jay said to me as we're going through, and he goes, do people work in there?

And so I explained the whole situation. And then same thing. He had the same question. Well, are they staying there or are they leaving? And yesterday I didn't know the answer. Now I do. I have to imagine that's going to speed things up tremendously. I would think so. Just travel through. Yeah. Because there will be no need to merge anymore. Unless...

Unless they leave all those lanes, like unless you're going from, you know, a smaller amount of lanes wider and then back down. So like they're going to have to keep the traffic flowing. Yeah, that way. Yes, that's that's true. My question is this.

How long has it actually been 15 miles an hour if you're traveling through with your easy path? I see people go through at 40 miles an hour. I've gone through. I've never gotten a ticket. I at least slow down some. I think you can fly through those things. Yeah, those people. Shut up, is that you? I actually see how fast I can go through. No, I'm joking. I'm going to take off the side views, hon. Watch this. But I think.

Like if you're still going through the toll booths, but if you are just going under, like at Mid-County, you can stay to the left. Stay to the left. Like if you're heading home, right? And you just stay at the same speed. Yeah. Yeah.

So the Ben Salem will be the last of the interchanges to get reconstructed. That's going to occur next year, 2026. So this June, this summer, you're going to start seeing things like Mid-County and these other toll plazas. And I assume not just the ones that, you know, like Mid-County,

the flow of a major... You're not exiting. Technically, you are, but the blue route ends there, and then you get on the turnpike of the Northeast Extension. But I guess the little ones, when you exit off of the turnpike...

And go through, those are all going to be gone too, right? Right, yes. I'm assuming there's not a lot of work to do if you're just simply going to demo the toll booths out and repave that area? I think there's way more than that. I think it's way more than that. I don't know, but I think... Petting zoo? Well, no, where the mid-county is, like Kathy was saying, it's a massive exchange. They won't need it anymore at all. They're going to have to close it off and put...

Grass down, maybe. I don't know. How long will that take? How many lanes are coming from different roads? Bless you. And then how many lanes are they going to? Because essentially that's

You can't go from like eight lanes to three, two lanes to three lanes. You know what I mean? I know what you mean. So they're going to figure that out. So it's going to start in June. Also coming later this month, the Turnpike is launching a text service that's going to let drivers stuck in backups know why the traffic isn't moving. That's one of the great disappointments or frustrations is when you sit in traffic and you're just like...

What's going on? Yeah. What is actually happening? Is it an accident? Is there construction? So you will be able to do this. According to the

The Turnpike chief, he said, it's always frustrating when you're sitting in traffic in line and wondering, why is this stopped? I see nothing up ahead. We will tie them to our incident management system and provide real-time information about what is happening at that particular location. I think it should be a live feed on a large screen showing the accident. He said when the service is set up, drivers who text the word PASS

backlog will get an explanation as to why they see all the brake lights in front of them. So that will at least indicate

offer you some peace of mind. If you're traveling on the Northeast extension of the Pennsylvania turnpike at that interchange, Preston, and you're coming down through mid, mid County tolls, uh, and you're heading South, uh, heading South on the Northeast extension. Yes. Uh, can you easily transition to the East bound turnpike or do you have to get off at Norristown and then get back on to, uh, hang on. I very rarely do it. Uh,

Get on the eastbound turnpike. Yeah, I know you can, but you do have to get off at the mid-county toll booth, and then there's immediately an exit right after you get through the toll booth. So you leave the turnpike and the highway, and then you merge back on?

Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. There's an exit before the tolls that you can get on Turnpike east or west. It's very seamless. East or west? Yeah. Okay. On the north and east. I'd have to show you. Are you looking at it right now? Because I don't think that you can, but I'm confused. No, no, you definitely can. Okay. Yeah, you absolutely can. Oh, is it here? Yeah, here, Nick. You definitely can. It's right here. Okay. And that's eastbound. Sorry, I'm pointing the sound to him. And then this is the westbound lane right there. So can you do...

You can do all of those? Yep. Okay, all right. Yep, absolutely. So, yeah, it should be done by 2026, as Ben Salem will be the last. Does that mean the rumble strips are going to go away, too? No, no, because you'll still have to technically still need, well, no. You know what, Casey, you're right. Why would you need them? Yeah, you don't need them because under those gantries, you don't have to slow down at all.

At all. You're going full speed. And at the ones at the mid-county right now, they do have you slow down, but I think eventually that's going to go away. And I'm just thinking now, it's going to be way bigger than what we think as far as just pulling them down, right? Because Nick is asking questions about this. Like, there's probably a way at interchanges like the mid-county tolls to just...

To keep the traffic flowing, to say it easily. So I wonder if there is going to be some sort of reconstruction of the roadway where it'll bend or turn or go straight in different parts. There's enough space to do it in...

in segments so that you could still have traffic flowing and then just do one part and you could manage that no problem. In that general area, since we're talking May County tolls, when you're going Blue Route, Northbound, I see traffic all the time getting on to the Turnpike East. It's backed way up. Always jammed. And so if they could open that up

that merge onto the turnpike. That should be two lanes. Yeah. That merge from, from Northeast, uh, or heading North on 476 to 276 East. Yeah. Should be because it is two lanes and then it merges down to one. Yeah. And that's, that stops everything. They need to make that two. They need to make that two the whole way. So anyhow, it's coming. They're working on it. All right. Let me get to another thing. The stream of consciousness. I'm all over the place. Uh,

Parades. Today, by the way, Kathy and I had the epiphany. It's Fat Tuesday today. Yeah. We had no idea. Totally forgot. And parades have been canceled in parts of Louisiana, possibly in New Orleans.

Because of dangerous winds that could reach up to 60 miles per hour in the area today. So they can't have people up on the floats and things like that. Getting strangled by their own beads. The chance to be blown off. Well, I didn't realize it was Fat Tuesday. Does that mean today's the day you got to go get your fuzz knocked? Yes, exactly.

It is. It is. The Fosnacht. Yeah. All right, because the bakery around the corner from my house, they only do it. Franny's Fosnacht? Franny's Fosnacht. They only serve it on Fat Tuesday. Just one day? Yeah. That's today. You may have even missed out already. And it's kind of like a donut, right? Fosnacht? I've never had one. I don't know what it is. Yeah, it's a donut. Like in between a donut and a beignet. Okay. Yeah, I think beignets could be just a smidge sweeter. So maybe that's what a Fosnacht is.

What about Shazbot? That's a greeting on Melmac. Actually, it's Orc. Orc. Orc. So these... Did they ever visit the planet? Yes, they did. Did they? Yeah, they did. Oh, okay. These are not conditions for people to be elevated on floats, they said. The wind also brings danger of flying debris like tents and chairs.

In the city of New Orleans, police said the timing of the parades have been adjusted and police warned that they'll cancel the events if wind gusts become even higher than anticipated. That last wind thing that we had a couple of weeks ago, there was one of my neighbor's bushes was in my front yard. The bush got torn out of the ground? The bush got torn out of the ground, was in my front yard. And I was like, well, at some point it's going to be in somebody else's yard, so I'm just going to let it go.

This last Saturday, it was crazy gusty windy. I had to lay my patio chairs and stuff sideways and bunch them up because then they usually don't move, but everything was moving. My patio furniture was off of my patio. I have walls around my patio, so it got lifted up over the wall and was in the yard. Damn. It's pretty heavy duty. Like where I live, my

backyard is like our parking lot here. Super windy? For whatever reason, the way the wind, it's like a wind tunnel. And so my backyard gets so windy. God, man, I've never even considered the wind being an issue for Cardboard Classic because that would be a problem. That would be very bad. Rain is always an issue if that's going to happen. But I never thought about like, you know, 50, 60 mile an hour gusts. That just, mm-mm. I mean, we've had every other issue.

Well, I know. If you combine it with a raging snowstorm, that's what we had that one year with the nor'easter. Yeah. All right. Anyhow, they might cancel Mardi Gras today. All right. I'm going to tell you about a place in Jenkintown. It's called Bucket's Tavern.

The long-standing dive bar. You ever been there? Wait a minute. I have heard of this. No, I've never been there. It's one of the areas that few remaining smoking bars. Yes, definitely never been there. Until this weekend. It is no longer the case. They're finally ending the long-standing tradition for the first time in the 54-year tenure.

And 17 years after the institution of Pennsylvania's Clean Indoor Air Act. I don't know how they got away with it. How did they elude that? Yeah, because there are very few places that are still getting away with it somehow. Buckets has gone smoke free. The West Avenue Bar closed last week to install a new ceiling and spruce up the place with the fresh paint, tables and chairs. Reopen on March 1st. Kathy,

In the midst of that huge fire, the SPS Technologies, they're like the only place it didn't close.

Because they don't care about the smoke. They were like, no biggie. Everyone come in here and breathe. I think some of the rules were grandfathered in. Like if you had and you were allowed to smoking before the rule passed. And then I think, Steve, some of it had to do with percentage of food versus percentage of alcohol. I heard about that. Yeah. And we talked to a press in a while ago about that place. John's on the corner. It was a John's. I keep forgetting the name of it on the corner of Egypt Road and audible in Audubon. I forgot the name of it.

But yeah, I know what you're talking about. Part of the problem there was that the owner wanted to maintain smoking in that restaurant. And they were not allowed to do that. That would make it a classy place. So the owner, Joe Brauman, said it's just that time. He said, we have people come into our bar, turn right around, walk out. Yeah. I mean, honestly, I'm not...

Go outside. I think that's what they say, right? Go outside and smoke if you need to. Real quick. So the act that passed in 2008 prohibits smoking in public places and workplaces, though it allows for exceptions, private social clubs like veterans or foreign wars posts and parts of casino gambling floors. So I wonder if maybe they were able to like

categorize themselves as that. That's a private club. And it also says tobacco bars, sorry, tobacco shops and bars where food makes up less than 20% of their sales can also apply for exemptions to act to the act. So they had to apply for it. So the managing partner, Matthew Martin said that while the tavern's employees were excited for the switch, uh,

They approached the move pragmatically with their most loyal customers. He said, we care about our regulars, and we discussed it with them, but we let them know it's time for us to make the change. And he said, we feel that they'll be back. They'll just go outside and smoke like they do everywhere else. So there is a cigar bar in media called Pairings. Obviously, you can smoke there. Yeah. Yeah.

But I think that they serve food there, too. Well, maybe it has to make up less than 20% of their income. Okay. They hand you a cigar and a lobster. So it's ultimately a business decision. Barman said there's more non-smokers than smokers. It's a percentage. Kids today, they didn't grow up with smoke. Their parents didn't even smoke. As of last year, just 11% of U.S. adults smoke, according to a Gallup poll. Wow.

The lowest since the firm began surveying cigarette use in 1944 for adults 18 to 29. That number drops to only 6%. Yeah, it's substantial. So the business that they might get is going to offset what they might lose, or at least that's the idea. Here's a random...

Post from someone that says, if you're a young person, it might be hard to really understand this, but the whole world used to smell like cigarettes. I literally saw this yesterday. I saw that same post yesterday. But what's crazy is that it was posted in August.

So why did that show up in my feed yesterday? And then Sam must have seen it too. Don't know. It's so true though. Like, I mean, it was, you just, you would go out and you would come home and everything, your hair, your purse, your jacket. That's why in college we used to go out in, you know, 12 degree weather with no jackets because nobody wanted their jacket to smell like smoke when they got home. There's a great, uh, short sequence in the movie, the help where she goes and applies at the, um,

newspaper to work and everybody's smoking and the guy who manages it does not smoke. He's like, someday they're going to find out them things kill you. That's right. Kath, I'm watching Landman and Billy Bob Thornton's character smokes all the time. All the time. And so he's smoking in his car, which is not, you know, I smoked in the car as well, but what was funny, Press, is he was smoking with his right hand in the car and I was like, that is a commitment. You know, I don't think his window was down at all. He was actually using the ashtray.

It's a cash-only bar at Buckets, by the way. Still cash-only, yeah. What decade are these guys in? Cash and cigarettes? I bet you for some that's sort of quaint and they like that. They were briefly featured on the Goldbergs.

Adam Goldberg grew up in Changstown and at some point or another he tried sneaking in. Into buckets? Into buckets. That's funny. So he wrote that into one of the shows. It's wild, man. I like the way a cigarette smells. I do. Do you? A burning cigarette. I'm not a fan. Yeah. So I can kind of relate. I don't like a smoky room. Right. But if I'm outside and I walk somebody, buy someone and they're having a cigarette, I'm

The smell can be somewhat pleasant for a moment. If you're surrounded by it, I don't want anything to do with it. Sometimes, I remember one time we were at an event at Club Risqué and they have professional level air skimmers, but everyone was smoking. It gave me acid reflux. I literally was on stage. We were doing one of our contests and I was holding Kathy a carton of milk

Like a quart of milk that I was drinking out of. When smoking went away in bars and restaurants, it was like the greatest day of my life. I was like, is this real? Did you ever try it?

Uh, yeah. I mean, as a kid, yeah, I tried a cigarette. Never liked it. Never got addicted. Never was even like a smoker when I was drinking. Nothing. I was, uh, I'm having my house painted right now and I was cleaning some stuff out just to make room. And I found a small, I found pictures of me smoking and it's so weird to see me just casually holding a cigarette. Like it's, you know, just natural. And I, and I like, I haven't, I haven't smoked in how old's Carter? 22. 22 years. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, I saw a video just last week of me in college. It was, I don't even know, it was like the TV production. They just made like a little reel of all the students. And at one point, you see me standing by the window. I'm in a building at school smoking a cigarette.

Looking really cool, by the way. You look very cool. Yeah, man. I was a world-class, uh, smoke ring, uh, guy too. Yeah. I can still do it because I still smoke cigars from time to time. All right. So I still got my chops. Yeah. Okay. You can still do that. Oh yeah. Um,

You mentioned you quit smoking when your second child was born. That is for me or was. You don't really find it that much anymore. But the worst when the baby or the baby's hair or the baby's clothes smelled like smoke. And you're like, they're just smoking in the car with the windows up or inside the house or whatever. We definitely had that growing up. My parents, we'd be in the Ford Falcon. I remember going all the way back. Windows rolled up, winter. They both of them. Estranged in every room.

room. I remember one time we were taking a long drive, like a 10-hour drive with my family and my uncle Tony was in the car with us and he fell asleep sitting straight up with a cigarette in his mouth and it burned all

the way down to the filter and a long ass ash on the end of it. I just remember looking over and seeing that. I will never forget that. In elementary school, that's what we made in art class. You made ashtrays for your parents. Exactly.

Exactly. Here we go. You're right. Here you go. Yeah, there were ashtrays in the armrests in airplanes. Yeah, that's right. I remember one year my best friend's sister bought their father a super huge Zippo lighter. You know, the top comes... A giant novelty looking one. Because you're smoking so much.

Here's... All right. Completely different observation, but it has to do with antiquated stuff. You mentioned the ashtrays and cars and stuff. Believe it or not, over the weekend, I watched On Golden Pond. Oh, it's great. Yeah. It was on near the beginning. I'm like, I'm going to watch it, see if it's still great. It's still great. I loved it. But there's a scene where Katharine Hepburn is in a hurry because Norman and the kid are missing. Come on, you crazy bitch. And she...

She gets out. She's driving a station wagon. She pulls up and she gets out and she doesn't take the keys out of the car. She puts it in park. Gets out. And I hear from inside the car. Because the keys were still on? The keys were still in the ignition. Do you remember that, Steve? I absolutely remember that, yeah. So you wouldn't accidentally lock your keys in your car. Right, yeah. Some of them would make a noise if you had the door open and the keys were in the ignition. You dumb bitch. You dumb bitch. You left that keys in the car. Screw you. No, I'm not.

Out of these days while you're sleeping, I'm going to slit your throat. Do it. I beg you, you old crazy bitch. Do it tonight. We'll go to bed early. Oh, happy day. Take you out of your misery? Just do it. You're all talking, no action, you stick. Shove a loon down your throat. Choke you to death. I'll gladly do that. Yeah.

Walter was the bass, right? Walter, yep. It was a trout. A trout. Beat me with it. Crafty old son of a bitch. I do have another thing I noticed. No, wait, I'm not noticing. I'm streaming. What the hell's going on? All right, so settling an age-old debate once and for all about whether or not you can wash and reuse plastic zip-top storage bags.

Ziploc says, yes, you can. Wait, but so like in the sink, you're going to wash it out? The disposable bags, yes. So if you can safely wash and reuse their storage bags and presumably other similar products as well. I can see this...

Initially, I bristled at it, but there's very big ones with a solid mechanism on it, and you put something in it, and it's like, am I going to throw this away? It's a perfectly good plastic bag. So I wash it, and then I iron it. Good for you. You know what else you can do is you can just put a little bit of water and a little bit of dish soap in the plastic bag, seal it, shake it, rinse it out. It's nice and clean and ready to be used again. It's a good idea. I was thinking about this actually not that long ago, and it wasn't out of a...

saving money respect. It was like, I'm just using this one time and throwing it away. It seems like a waste. Environmental thing. Go down to the park and feed it to animals. Yeah. I'd save the, like the plastic grocery bags. I try not to use them every time, but when I do, I save them, I bring them home, I use them for other things like bringing...

Whatever. If I got to bring some extra stuff into work and it can't fit my briefcase, I'll put it in there. I found an Acme bag that I really like. And that's why I usually don't. I usually just get the paper bags. Yeah. But I'm like, I've been remembering this bag because it looks sort of stealthy. It looks black. Wow. It looks almost malevolent. So you have to be sure to clean them properly with warm, soapy water and then dry them completely. There is one caveat, though.

Bags used to store raw meat, fish, eggs, or allergenic foods should be tossed out. What about deadly medical waste? That's okay. Dry goods are the best for reuse. Where's my anthrax bag? Sticky or greasy foods make the bag difficult or impossible to clean. We bought silicone bags, which are just more durable than plastic. No, they're not fun bags. Okay.

They do use those in fun bags. But no, they're silicone bags and essentially they're reusable plastic bags. They're just a little more durable. I have enough to wash. I don't want to wash anything else. I know, I know. I mean, it's a good idea instead of putting all this plastic into the landfill. Did you guys do a cardboard classic? I threw a couple of toiletries into one of those large Ziploc bags.

bags because it's just one night oh i do that when i travel in my suitcase so if anything like breaks open it's in the zip it's in that sealed plastic bag yeah it's a glass containers calf uh yeah i use glass containers how do you pack your your bong kathy we know oh my god i had a dream that i was smoking a bong and i had oh my god wait and and it was like filling up and i was like i don't want this yes and preston you were there and i was like here take it you're the pothead

Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. You dreamed about me? Oh, no.

All right, so here, Preston's the pothead here. Give it to him. I feel so relaxed. You want to hear it? Ziploc, for more sustainable options, Ziploc suggests using silicone zip-top bags. Of course, they recommend Ziploc brand Endurables silicone bags. I have no idea what brand we use, which are dishwasher and often safe up to 425 degrees. Wow. Okay.

Okay. So we, over the holidays, we did something called favorite things and it was- Like Oprah. I mean, kind of, but it was a group of girls instead of doing a Pollyanna, we did favorite things and you brought three of your favorite things for everyone in the group. So everybody got like my three favorite things and then, you know, I got whatever. That's pretty cool. One of them, and I had no idea, didn't know anything about this. One of the girls gave us Ikea Ziploc bags.

Apparently, it's a thing. Yeah. And everyone likes them. And so, yeah, we got a bag of high-key. What differentiates them between... Are they disposable? Yeah. Yeah, they are disposable bags. Yeah. I mean, just normal. Steve, I think it's the top, like how it actually closes. So it doesn't have the little zip that you would move. It's just the one that you squeeze, which normally,

right? Like the other one is better, but these, I don't know. Not bad, huh? How many people were at this party? It had a, look, this is it. And it had like a fall print on it with leaves. Yeah. But how many people were at this? Five. All right. And so how much money are you spending if you're buying 15 items for five? It's cheap crap like this. Well, okay. So it was, yeah, it was stuff like this. So how much is- But was there a dollar limit? Sorry to interrupt. Yeah, I forget what

the dollar limit? Because I love this idea. Yeah, I think it was maybe like, I don't know, like $25 or something like that, you know, per whatever. Can you invite Casey to the next one? Yeah, sure. All right. Somebody takes in and said Plymouth Township is banning single-use plastic bags in April. Okay. Yeah, they are. And they also banned like the straws and stuff like that. So if you go to any coffee shop, you're not getting the straw. I keep, I do keep, Rochelle got these great, you know, reasonable bags and they, uh,

They have a little pocket where you can scrunch it all up into a little thing. They're very small. So I keep like four or five of those in my car. They're like ball bags. Yeah, they're like ball bags. It's just like that. And fun bags. I love the Target bags. The one over here on City Line, if you go to that Target and you get a drive-up order, they give it to you for free. I think normally that you have to pay for them like a couple cents, I don't know, 10 cents or something like that. But if you get a to-go order, they bring it out and you...

Could you go in and buy it and then say, can you walk this out to my car? Now I have an overabundance of reusable bags because I never remember to bring them. I need to get more. I have about 200 red Wawa bags. Yeah, we have a ton of reusable bags. I need to donate some of them. Throw them out. No, I will not throw them out. Didn't we have Preston and Steve once?

We did. We did. Those are great. And in fact, that's something we should take. Did we do that at Kenan's? Because Jersey doesn't allow it. I thought we did it at Kenan's. They've been on that for a while. I could be mistaken. I don't know, but we need to take some of those down to Jersey. We were going to do beach syringes, but we realized that might be an issue. You can just find those on the beach. All right, let me stream something else here. So Daylight Savings Time kicks in this weekend. It starts 2 a.m. on Sunday. We spring forward. We lose an hour.

hour, which usually sucks. Yep, and it'll last until November. The change can significantly impact their sleep-wake cycle and potentially raise the risk of serious health conditions like heart attacks and stroke. Do you feel yourself getting a little whomped with that? Yeah. Yeah, definitely. Occasionally I do. Mostly I don't because I don't sleep much anyway. I also notice a difference in fall. I feel...

Refreshed. Better. Yeah. Yeah, when we get to gain an hour. But losing the hour, yeah, it does kick me in the ass for about a week or so. It takes a couple days before it starts kicking me in the ass, and then it lasts for about a week, and then I come around. So the time change can affect when we feel hungry, how tired we feel. Now be tight. How we tie, and even our concentration levels as a result of disruptions in the body's natural circadian rhythm.

Which is kind of like our internal clock. Fortunately, there are some steps that we can take to minimize the impact on our schedules and bodies. Oh, I want to hear this. This is according to Dr. Alcibendiz Rodriguez, the director of sleep medicine at Grossman School of Medicine. Quack, quack. Here are the tips to ease into daylight savings time. Number one, make sure you get morning light.

That bright morning light helps boost cortisol production, signaling that it's time to rise and shine, boosting alertness, and even setting us up for a better night's sleep. Don't you love that when you wake up at 3.30 and the morning light is peeking through the windows? It's basking on your face. It's warming you up. What a lovely way to get up and start the day. Big glass of Postum. Oh, my God. Preston, time to wake up. You're needed in the Shire.

It's funny watching my family when they do have to rise super duper early and I see them later in the day. I'm like, welcome to the party. I remember Claire was driving me someplace. Maybe it was to work. My car was getting worked on in the morning. And she goes, wow, there's no one out on the street. There's no cars parked on the. Yeah, it's like, yeah, this is my world. Yeah. Stop signs. They're just a suggestion. 3.30 in the morning.

So you... Now, these are dumb suggestions. They're ones you know already. Adjust your sleep schedule. How? Start getting used to the time change. But now by hitting the sack 15 to 20 minutes earlier... Yeah, you're going to do that. And waking up 15 to 20 minutes earlier every day this week until Sunday. Drink more alcohol. Maintain your bedtime rituals. Sticking to a consistent nighttime routine helps the body adjust to daylight savings time more smoothly. Healthy evening habits include...

avoiding caffeine and alcohol late in the day, stopping screen time an hour before bed, not exercising or eating two or three hours before bedtime, and make sure you have a dark sleep environment as well. This is all kind of standard. Yeah. So anyhow, that's kind of a waste of time.

The stream of consciousness, nerd. Let me give you something else that may not be a waste of time for you. Something that's not a waste of time. This is a TikTok thingy thing.

It's a waste of time. Yeah, these are for people with babies and who want them to get a full evening sleep. Oh, yeah, which is always the thing. Parents always consider, obviously you guys have all, a blessing when a kid will sleep through the night, correct? Yeah. And there's just, listen, it doesn't happen sometimes. Yeah. So you got to mail it. Tired moms and dads are giving their babies a spoonful of butter.

before bed. In a new trend that some claim... Go to sleep, you big fat baby. ...help their kids sleep through the night. So it originated on TikTok, and those who tried it say that it helped their toddler get a full night's sleep. They call it a genius parenting hack.

It's simple. You give them a small square or spoonful of butter before putting them down at night. Here, eat this stick of butter. Plenty of parents who have had success with the technique are sharing it on social media. What are the medical ramifications of spoon feeding your baby butter? Didn't you have a, was it your fraternity that made people eat a whole stick of butter? Yeah, we had to make cake in our stomachs. Make cake in your stomachs? Yeah.

But I didn't actually have to eat. And for as much as I love butter, I don't like the idea of eating butter. Yeah, just butter. Yeah. Well, I'm researching this because I don't believe this TikTok challenge. Yeah, the experts are saying it's about garbage. Oh, yeah, okay. And they're saying that you can get the same effect if you cook it into the baby's food instead of giving them a slab of butter. But it also says that it's not true. Why don't you give them a shot glass full of A1? Right.

You know what's actually pretty good? Speaking of butter, bare bones butter, obviously butter on bread is good. But do you ever put butter on like a saltine cracker? Oh, yeah. Of course. Really yummy, right? So my dad would do the, make a snack, saltine cracker, butter and garlic salt. Yeah. And then put it in the oven for just like a...

minute or two yeah it's excellent it's actually my mom uh he still eats that today like i'll go down to her little area in her kitchen and she'll be sitting there yeah nice yeah and in fact i did that one time because she taught that to me my dad was like what the hell are you eating boy cut me a switch you little cracker eater oh i could go over some things that my dad eats it's

I've told you guys our snack around our house for ages was you take a sleeve of, well not a full sleeve, but like a half sleeve of saltines, crunch them up into a cup and then pour milk in it and eat it with a spoon. That one eluded me. I ate it like crazy as a kid and I told you like,

I don't know, maybe seven, eight years ago, I tried it. I'm like, this is disgusting. What the hell did I see? Most recently, we had, it was someone's birthday. So my mom got a birthday cake and my dad was eating a piece of cake and we looked over and he was pouring his red wine on the cake. What?

I love you, Dad. It's better this way. No one says anything. We just look over and watch. Red wine? There's nothing appealing about that at all. These cocoa puffs taste so much better in wine. What kind of cake? Chocolate? I forget. I do forget because I didn't have any, so I'm not sure what it was, Nick. I can't remember. I would do it with chocolate cake.

Pour a red wine and chocolate cake. That's a baller move. Well, chocolate, like a dark chocolate and wine pairing would work. Yeah. But do you actually mix it together on the same plate? I'm just wondering how I would do it. Like, would I prefer dunking my cake in the wine or pouring the wine over the cake? Almost like an Oreo and milk. Yeah. Come on to school. You will often find a wine glass filled with fruit. No matter what wine he's drinking, he puts fruit in it. I got to hang out with him. Really? Yeah.

We should try that some morning. We should try these things. We should try wine and cake. We should try milk and crackers. I love it. And then also, let me ask, because I was just talking to my friend Vince, who his dad makes wine all the time, and I was trying to ask him how cost-effective that is. When you make your own wine, how much does that end up costing you per bottle? Yeah, what's the end result? It's a good question. I know a lot of people that do it, so I assume...

It might just be a hobby thing. You're not saving money doing it. You're doing it for the hobby aspect of it, like creating something at home. I have 10 gallons of wine. Yeah.

I can see that. But it's a bad hobby. I'm so sorry to interrupt. It's a bad hobby if it's going to end up costing you $20 a bottle. Well, I liken it to the story when I got the juicer. Claire and I are like, oh, we're going to have the healthy option here is we're going to make our own juices. It took Preston for one eight-ounce glass of juice. It was about $40. Okay, so defend your friend, though, if he's not doing it to save money. I mean, your hobby costs you money.

No, you're right. You know what I mean? But he's probably seeing if he can make great wine or not. I had a friend who... And most people can't. I'm sure. Who was fermenting beer and he had the whole rig and he was actually pretty good at it. He had this set up in a large closet in his living room. Something happened and I don't know if this is a thing, but it over fermented and it detonated. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And it blew beer and yeast all over the inside of the closet. Yeah. Okay. Okay.

So, back to the giving kids a little pat of butter before bed. Eat your butter. Here, eat this salt. Experts aren't buying it as a sleep aid and warn that butter could do more harm than good in some cases. Nutritional therapist Hannah Love says,

says that it's a waste of time and baby nutritionist Charlotte Sterling Reed reminds parents that social media is full of misinformation and that butter isn't recommended to help babies sleep. Reed points out that butter could even be a choking hazard. Yes. So little kids, giving it to them on a spoon is not good.

Did your mother ever give you a teething pork chop? No. Yeah. No, she was not in that camp. We got really lucky. I mean, we had three kids under four, right? Like, we had three kids in four years. And the youngest...

was like the best sleeper. Like she would sleep till like 10. That's awesome. One of my nieces had, her kids routinely sleep like an adult. Like go to bed and then sleep a full night's sleep. My neighbor, she said to us that if she could guarantee that her next child would sleep like any of ours, she's like, I'd have one in a heartbeat because like her only child, she literally had to put into a car seat

and drive around the block in order to foster a single night. I mean, it just robs you. I've seen parents that are putting up what they call a colicky. Is that what it is? Colicky. Colicky, yeah. Colicky, yeah. So that... And they're just... There's no energy. They're just getting killed. You drive...

You go crazy. Come on, guys. Go drive. Yeah. All right. We got to wrap this up. That's all I have time for. The stream of consciousness there. Good stuff there. All right. We're going to take a quick break. We will come back and we'll share Bizarro File stories, which is what we do around this time of day. So stay put. We'll return in a moment.

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 they go! Yeah, with great speed, it's coming down and... It's falling apart. And falling apart. Yeah!

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. All right, we will now share some stories of the bizarre. Now, WMMR presents Kristen and Steve's Bizarre Final Date.

We'll start with this one out of Japan. There is a bounty that has been placed on anyone who dares to leave a negative review of a ramen restaurant. A bounty? Yes. The owner of Toyojiro in...

in Kyoto has placed a cash bounty on the heads of those who rip his restaurant online. I will kill you. The cash reportedly will be paid to anyone who successfully identifies those who complain about the restaurant or the customer service it provides. And on Instagram, the owner said straight up,

If you write a stupid review, we will find you. We'll beat you up. Wow. Yeah. Is it you who is lipping up about that ramen? By the way, I love ramen. And there's loads of ramen restaurants in Japan. I've never been to a ramen restaurant ever. It's one of my desired goals of getting to Japan and trying all their ramen. Yeah, and for as much ramen as I've eaten in my life and for as much as I love it. I want to try, like, cuisine ramen. Just don't give this guy a bad review. Yeah. Yeah.

In addition, those who blow in the unhappy customer with personal information location are willing to take action against them will be paid.

about 650 bucks to beat up somebody who gives a bad review no to uh it says who blow in the i guess you just tell them about it give them a hummer it says those who blow in the unhappy customer with personal information location oh okay i got it so if they give you the doxing information yep exactly

So there was some coitus interruptus of the violent kind at a sex party inside a London mansion. Three men were stabbed at the Merrill Bone Mansion, which incidentally is the same place that Bonnie Blue shot her 1057-man gangbang earlier this year. So somebody was stabbed there? Yeah, at this latest sex party. Drug dealers were suspected of operating on the premises.

Around 7 in the morning, a group of men allegedly stabbed horny partygoers after a fight broke out. That sucks. Yeah, you go there for an orgy. It's the worst orgy ever. I got stabbed. Four men in total were taken to a local hospital to have their injuries tended to. None of those injuries were reported to be life-threatening. I'm giving them a bad Yelp review.

A New Jersey woman is charged with running a prostitution ring out of her massage parlor in Morris County. That's weird. An interesting name. Her name is Soon Baskin.

Soon Bang. Yes. Yeah, I like that. She's charged with second degree. Wink, wink. Money laundering, third degree promotion, promoting prostitution and engaging in prostitution. Soon Bang, also known as Cindy. This is my assistant, Julie Jerkoff. Offered special illicit services. Cindy!

The Oasis Spa. Ah. They found a large stash of cash that investigators believe was made through prostitution. That's cash, cash. Yashun Li of Flushing, New York, was also charged with engaging in prostitution. In 2023, New York Governor Kathy Hochul said Flushing was the epicenter of trafficking for the entire country. One of the great names of a town, Flushing. Flushing.

It found that women were transported sometimes weekly from flushing and massage parlors throughout New Jersey. That's horrible. Yeah, it is.

Tourists behaving badly season seems to have started a little early in Rome this year with three visitors from New Zealand getting in trouble long before the summer sunshine could be blamed for giddy behavior. The trio were spotted and stopped Sunday night as they started to wade into the famous Trevi Fountain in central Rome, a frequent magnet for trouble when peak season crowds start to gather in the city.

as they were being escorted away from the area. One of the tourists, a 30-year-old man, wrestled free from the police and jumped into the fountain as the authorities gave chase. That happens fairly often, people getting into the fountain, yes? A few times a year. So alcohol was definitely involved. He was fined about 500 bucks and banned from visiting the Baroque landmark for life. Trevi Fountain, constructed in 1762 as the mouth of an aqueduct,

underwent a $330,000 cleaning in 2024, during which it was drained so workers could repair marble chip for millions of coins thrown into it each year. Isn't that interesting? I always thought that fountain was much older than 1762. Oh, really? Yeah. So taking a dip in the fountain has been an aspiration for many tourists, inspired by Federico Fellini's 1960 film La Dolce Vita, during which Anita Ekberg...

waded into the waters in an evening gown and purring to her paramour played by Marcello Mastroianni. Do you want to play with my boobies? Enjoyed it.

To join her. About a dozen tourists are fined for dipping everything from their toes to water bottles into the fountain each year. Water bottles? There was one time when I almost broke the law and jumped in some water. Steve, it was at San Simeon. Oh, God, yes. Hearst Castle. The swimming pool outside...

Looks so inviting. It looks so beautiful. You just want to jump in it. Staggeringly gorgeous. And then they have one below that is the indoor one. It's amazing. It is amazing. It's like gold plated. Yes. It's just incredible. And they said...

Yeah, there's a fine if you jump in there. It was like 500 bucks. I'm like, might be worth it. Yeah. Casey, look at the pool. This is the pool inside. Is that not stunning? It has separate areas off to the side. You can swim into? Just awestruck. Are you allowed to swim in there? No. No. No.

This is basically Citizen Kane's house. I forgot what celebrity was dating. It was a guy who was dating a member of the Hearst family. Chris Hardwick. It was Chris Hardwick. Yeah, they're married. Okay. He did swim in it. And he got to swim in it. Yeah, I remember that story and I was very jealous. All right. Last story for the Bizarre File. Pet store goldfish.

Not only surviving the harsh winter conditions of Lake Erie, but they are thriving. The United States Fish and Wildlife Service posted a statement to Facebook Tuesday warning fish owners of the potential dangers of releasing goldfish into Lake Erie. They've gotten bigger. The post included a photo of an enormous goldfish that was caught in Presque Isle, Pennsylvania during an electrofishing survey.

According to officials, goldfish have been found to be hardy and can thrive even in the cold waters of the Great Lakes. That's pretty amazing. I always thought they were kind of weak. No, they're almost like carp. Like they just can live. I want to live!

While goldfish are introduced to a body of water, it can have several consequences, which include turning the legs and waterworks into murky messes, breeding quickly, steal food from native species of fish like catfish and bluegills and

carp. Isn't it amazing though that they retain their vibrant color? Yeah. You thought that would have evolved out of them because I'm sure it makes them an easy mark but they're still as gold as ever. Can also spread disease and degrade water quality and so they said if you can't keep your fish, re-home it. Bitch. Just don't let it loose. Bitch.

And the Post has made an observance of the National Invasive Species Awareness Week. That's a great week. Which fell in the last week of February. We really focus on that week. That is what I have in the bizarre file for you. All right, we will take another break. Some music news is coming up. We'll get the lesson question and the trash on top of that. So stuff for you to win, my friend. We'll be right back with it. We'll be right back.

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of the week prize is coming up. But before then, we have other things to give away. Less in question time. And we have a pair of tickets to Zim M.R. Rocks, The Summer of Loud. Wednesday, July 23rd at Freedom Mortgage Pavilion. Tickets are on sale now. So now keep in mind, phones still don't work. So you're going to need to Zoom in.

For the Cracked Heads, you want to do the Zoom again, Marissa? Okay, so text the word ZOOM if you know the answer to this question. It was about 6.54 this morning. According to Charlie Sheen, what is mommy showing on OnlyFans? 215-263-WMMR. Don't call that number. See, it just came right out of my mouth. You can't help it. I've been doing it for 20 years. All right, so what you need to do is text the word ZOOM.

To 39333. If you know, according to Charlie Sheen, what is mommy showing to OnlyFans?

Text ZOOM to 39333. We'll send you the link and then you jump in and we'll see if we can get you on the air. All right, let's do the trash. The trash business is a gold mine. 93.3 WMMR with Preston and Steve's Hollywood Trash. While we're hooking all that up, we will get some stories from Mr. Steve Morrison. What's going on, Steve? Well, Preston, legendary porn star Janet Jameson has filed for divorce from her wife, Jessie Lawless, after a year of marriage.

Jameson says she grew sick of Lawless balling up pieces of paper and attempting to make three pointers into her vagina. Kanye West continuing his anti-goodwill tour by wearing a swastika t-shirt while out shopping in L.A. on Thursday. West was reportedly on his way to a screening of what he called his favorite comedy movie, Schindler's List. Oh, my God.

And finally, Kourtney Kardashian carrying a sign with others in protest over the dumping of Malibu fire debris in a landfill just outside city limits. Kourtney, who's never protested anything in her life, was incorrectly chanting, hey, hey, ho, ho, Santa Claus is coming to town. What?

All righty. We will attempt to speak to a person via Zoom who thinks they know the answer to the question. According to Charlie Sheen, what is mommy showing to OnlyFans? And we have a person on the line. So as of now. Oh, yeah, it's Kevin. We have. Hey, Kevin, how you doing, man? What's up? Good morning. Morning, buddy. All right. So we are going to see if you know this. According to Charlie Sheen, what's mommy going to show on OnlyFans?

Or beaver. Or beaver. Nice beaver. You got it, Kev. It's much more fun to see them say beaver. And to see his reaction as he's laughing. All right, Kev, hang on the line, bud. I don't know how you hang on the line. Just stay where you are, Marissa. We'll get your information. Don't move. We're going to stay up and we are going to give you...

A pair of tickets as MMR presents the Summer of Loud, Wednesday, July 23rd. Freedom Mortgage Pavilion 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 those tickets. Now, Preston and Steve's Music News.

On 93.3 WMMR. Brought to you by Rita's Water Ice. So nice when Rita's comes back on. Oh, yes. You know that the spring and summer. We went last night. Oh, did you? Yes, we did. Well, Rita's is now open for the season. Treat yourself to an ice custard gelati or frozen coffee. Pick me up today. So we will begin. I have a number of different things to share with you. Let's go with this. The offspring.

...has unveiled their supercharged Worldwide 25 Tour... ...set to kick off on March 5th in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

And it's not going to be a small affair. The band's inviting a lot of their friends to join them, including special guest Amel. Is that how you say that? I don't know. And the Sniffers, Sublime, Rise Against, The Damned, The Warning, Lezemia, Simple Plan, Jimmy E World, and Newfound Glory on various dates. Some dates around here.

that will be popping up over the summer. They're going to be playing Montage Mountain. Well, that's very cool. July 20th. And then just nine days after that, they will be at Freedom Mortgage Pavilion. You can see them twice. July 29th. So pretty cool, yeah. It'll be wild to see them at Montage. Yeah, in that facility. On that stage. It's not that stage. It's the stage down the hill. Yeah, the theater. Where the concerts are. Yeah.

You know, you can see the building from where we are. I can go by that, from where we are. So when you pull into where the lodge is, there's sort of that driveway. You make a right. Down below that, there's like a full-on concert stage. It's similar to like the shed in Camden. All right. They are playing the gig there at Freedom Mortgage.

Alanis Morissette is headed to Las Vegas, and she's doing her first ever residency. The Alanis Morissette Vegas 2025 residency will take place at the Coliseum at Caesars Palace. And it will feature eight performances from October 15th through November 2nd. I bet you that'd be a good show. Alanis has so much great stuff. Agreed. Tickets go on sale to the general public online.

on Friday at 10 a.m. Pacific time. I just found out she follows my wife on Instagram. Wow. Alanis Morissette. She likes her artwork. I guess, yeah. And so I was like, huh, how do I ask my wife to ask Alanis to come on our show? Yeah, reach out. Yeah, let me try it. Hey, Andrea, can you ask Alanis Morissette if she'll come on the Preston and Steve show? What I should have done was ask Preston to ask Andrea. Thank you. Hey, can you ask Preston to ask Andrea? Dear Andrea, this is Alanis. No.

I guess I was... I'm actually texting Andrea right now, so if you want, I'll ask her. Oh, great. Yeah, I was more interested in... And you can tell Kathy to stop it. ...how to figure out how to ask Andrea, or how Andrea should ask Alanis, I guess. Ah. Yeah, that's true. All right, so... Mention David Faustino. It should come as no surprise that Beck is planning a different take on a tour. He announced a series of orchestral concerts for the summer, collaborating with local symphony orchestras across North America. He did that here, didn't he? I think he did, yeah. I think he did that here. Yeah.

The tour begins July 15th in New Haven, Connecticut and includes stops in major cities such as Montreal, Toronto, and San Diego. I didn't see anything in our general area. Each performance will feature unique arrangements and Beck's extensive catalog including hits and deep cuts from albums like O'Delay, Mutation, Sea Change, and Grammy-winning Morning Phase. Tickets go on sale Friday, 10 a.m. local time. And then, finally...

Decided to bring this up. A new auction aptly titled Punks, Monsters, Smut, and Mad Men. A counter-cultural cross-section features dozens of items that live up to its name. Among them are a pair of blood-signed underwear that belong to late shock punker Gigi Allen. Wow. And strands of Kurt Cobain's hair.

Jeez. Potter and Potter Auctions. That's freaky. Is holding the sale at their headquarters in Chicago on March 6th. So it starts, is that today? No, that's the day after tomorrow. Yeah, dude, Gigi Allen was...

Yeah. Among the other standout items are a storefront awning for CBGB's. That's very cool. Nearby gift shop. So not the actual club, but I guess it was right next to it. But that'd still be pretty cool. As well as an original piece of CBGB's dressing room wall. I'd like to have that.

among other artifacts from the legendary venue. I wonder if the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame would bid on any of that. The G.G. Allen underwear is described as blood-signed and inscribed personal underwear. Underwear briefs belonging to G.G. Allen signed in blood over the fly and inscribed with, and it says, quote,

Suck my ass, it smells. Okay. All right. That's what Ralphie found the secret message was with his decoder ring, right? Suck my ass. Suck my ass, it smells. It smells.

It's on the reverse side. It's a crummy commercial. If the strands of Kurt Cobain's hair seem familiar, a similar sale took place in 2021 where six strands of his hair were sold via iconic auctions. That lot ended up selling for over $14,000. I'm next to this pair of blood-soaked underwear with the message that says, suck my ass and smell it.

Somebody's got to, you know, officiate the auction. That sounds interesting. So the... So...

Going back to the Kurt Cobain hair, there were six strands that were sold in 2021 for over $14,000. The description on the new auction matches that one of three years ago with both listing Tessa Osbourne as the person

who cut the singer's hair. However, the new lot only contains two strands of hair, indicating that the person who purchased the initial lot may be selling a portion of what they got. You'd be surprised how many... There was a guy who dealt in notable historical hair clippings. Sure. And, I mean, there's a lot more out there from, like, George Washington and going back. I mean, there's a lot of stuff out there. I wonder if Kennedy, because...

Jackie Kennedy cut some of his hair when he was in the coffin. And he says, yeah, some of Jackie's pubes. That's true, right? I wonder what ever happened to that. If she just kept it and it's in the family or...

If it's in a museum somewhere. I have no idea. Have you ever kept clippings of deceased Dita Therese? No. My dad's here. Your dad's here? Yeah. I have actually our dog Chelsea. Some of her fur, you know, with a little tribute that we have at the house. Nothing from a human though. No. Yeah. I have my baby hair. It's in my baby book. Yeah, I think I do too. Yeah. We got a bunch of teeth.

Oh, my God. I call the teeth. Well, I know we talked about this before, but what the hell am I supposed to do with these? I was doing the same thing, too. I found them not that long ago. I'm like, what are we going to do with this? Put them in a plastic egg and you can have a little egg shaker. Oh, my God. This is so weird. Yeah. I want to give them to Jace and be like, here are your teeth. Save these for you. I just don't know whose or whose teeth.

Do you know what I mean? It's like a big collection of teeth. I might have like a, you know, a couple of bags that have names on them, but for the most part, I just... Oh, I have the... Well, obviously only one, so his name is on it, but also I have how he lost the tooth. Oh, really? Yeah, so like one was, they were trick-or-treating and he tripped and fell and the tooth fell in the grass and we found it. Oh.

Oh, one was, you know, whatever. Oh, one was. Remember he ran in his Flash costume, tripped and fell face first into a wall. I remember that. Yeah. It was actually that tooth. You need a separate plaque for each tooth and then a little description underneath of what happened and then hang them up on the wall. Though, one of those charts you see in a dentist's office, you could put each tooth, you know, where we'd go.

Other items in this auction, no teeth, but they include lyric sheets, posters, CDs, and vinyl, including some signed by the Ramones and Dead Kennedys. So that is called Punk's Monsters Smut Madman, a countercultural cross-section with underwear that says, suck my ass, it smells. Suck my ass?

And that's what I have amazing news. All right, we're going to take our final break. When we return, we'll get our letter of the day for the word of the week prize. And we'll see what Pierre's got cooking for you this afternoon. Stay with us.

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Always available, like right now, on your computer or phone or whatever. And we even made a catchy little jingle so you remember it. Warning on 93.3 WMR. Sick. Sick. So sick. So sick. So sick. 1041, the Preston and Steve show coming to a close for the day. Another fun one today.

I want to thank everybody for being patient with our phone issue and zooming in if you had contributions, of which we did very much so. And thank you for that. We appreciate that. Take the time to zoom in. It's a nice way to get through this. Yeah. Yeah. I need to, you know, I should grab the theme song to the TV show Zoom. Zoom, zoom, zoom. I want to zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom. It's a great song. Yep.

I think we do. Call Boston Mass. Wait, uh... 350-Boston-Mass. 021-34... Send it to Zoom! Hey! Okay.

And then they go to the kids. I would like to thank Mr. Derek Pitts.

Chief astronomer of the Franklin Institute for coming by here this morning. We talked about all kinds of stuff. We went micro to macro. I can handle things. I'm smart. Steve, we even talked about physical stuff because Body Worlds is what they're promoting right now. Yes. The original exhibition of real human bodies, but this time they have 20 new bodies. It looks really wild, and you can get those tickets at fi.edu.

We'd like to get a winner for Tattoo's Day, by the way. Oh. Yeah, time to reveal that. We had people text in the word tattoo. That still works. You can text. It's amazing that it does. And we'd like to congratulate Simon Rosenbaum from Philadelphia. And we're going to give Simon a $350 gift certificate to go to Floating World Tattoo and Piercing.

And he can get his Preston and Steve themed tattoos, his heart's desires. You can locate them at 1729 South Street in Philadelphia. Great people. They do wonderful work. Artwork samples, by the way, at floatingworldtattoos.com or on Instagram at floatingworldtattoos. We'll do it again next week. Pierre Robert is here. Greetings. Greetings. Nice to see you, man. So, did your phones don't work again? Nope. No. Because Jackie tried the new phone number last night on a contest and it worked. Okay.

So maybe it only works during his show because he has supernatural vampires. Maybe that must be it. No, we've been told stay away from it for now. You may have a different directive. I'm not really sure. All right. So, well, I have tickets to give away, so we're probably going to do it.

Via some text way. Okay. That's what Eric had suggested yesterday, because you go to a super high number and the computer texter thing will pick it. Yeah, there you go. Yeah, that's scientific. Yeah. I think so. So I will have a pair of tickets for The Offspring and Jimmy Eat World and Newfound Glory, a show we announced yesterday on Tuesday, July 29th, which you just referenced in Music News.

But I guess we'll do it on the texter. All righty. All right. That sounds like a deal. Can we get a letter from you? Yes. Here we go. Preston and Steve on 93.3 WMMR. Now, the Daily Letter. And the Preston and Steve Show is brought to you today by the letter E as in exterminator. All right. We are going to give away on Friday 500 bucks. And that is from Marvel Television's Daredevil. Born again vigilante lawyer Matt Murdock and former mob boss Mayor Wilson Fisk.

are back in an all-TV MA series, Daredevil Born Again, now streaming, and that is only on Disney+. May I mention that there's a new episode of the Comic Book Gurus that focuses in on Daredevil Born Again, which just dropped yesterday. I'm the guy running the thing, but the Comic Book Gurus give you all the info you need to know to get up to speed on Daredevil Born Again. It's Comic Book Gurus.

YouTube channel. Fabulous. Thank you, sir. Would that be the occasion where if you hadn't watched the first season, you could check in with you? The word is you could, this would certainly help you, but the word is you could start watching the series because I loved it. I loved the three seasons were sensational, but you could pick it up and start running with it

Today, two episodes are dropping in this new series. I see. Yeah, because I get... But the primer would help. Yeah, well, I sometimes forget where episodes have been if I've been away from a show for a while. Yeah. So I wish I had like a Cliff Notes of every episode. Yeah, this kind of gives you the general direction of where the story is going. I'm going to guess there's a recap, right? Oh, I would assume, but they say technically it is...

It is in the same family, but they're not doing a direct lineage to the Netflix stuff. Totally it's the same. Maybe not. Hell, I don't know. They'll hold your hand through it, though. Sometimes I have to watch two or three shows before, even though I've seen them already, to catch up. Right, that's where they are in the story. You can pick up, they say, I have not seen it, but you can pick up and start running with this series as if you've never seen it before. All right.

That's what I needed to know. What's up on your series today? Thank you. We'll have X-Men Triumvirate. Ah, right. Wow. X-Men Triumvirate. Yeah.

I don't know where that came from. But we'll have a continuing celebration, which we started yesterday and went over really well, of Women's History Month. So more songs by lovely ladies of rock and roll. Block of Metallica for Jason Newstead's 62nd birthday. I knew what that was. Pina Colada song.

I played it on Friday for his birthday. When was his birthday? His birthday was last week. Friday, yeah. And I played it. God bless me. For Thursday, yeah. For all those who loved it. Lovely ladies. I went out and scratched my nails against a chalkboard, which was infinitely preferable. But nonetheless, and yes, we will do for Chris Squire's birthday. He would have been 77. Oh, wow, wow.

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Okay, so this is why I was giggling. It says George Wallace, phoner. Phoner. Oh, yeah. How are we going to do that? You have no phones. Zoomer. Zoomer. George Wallace, zoomer.

Tomorrow morning. Marissa, do you want to add something? Casey, we should be good. Okay. All right. Today was our non-phone day. We may have a phone tomorrow. Okay. We have one phone. That phone number. Have you tried a telegraph? We did. We were talking about that earlier. We did Morse code. Yeah. All right. That is it. We are done. Rage on. Have yourself a great day. We will see you tomorrow, friend. Bye-bye. Preston and Steve.

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